Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

MAGA's Secret Fear

 
















The people who have lost their ability to empathize, their humanity, their innate sense of common decency reject what is written above and so they say things like this: 

 


“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” --Elon Musk, 2/25

"Jeffrey wins this years Darwin Award.... Another amateur agitator bites the dust... lesson - Don't bring guns to a protest and subsequently resist arrest unless you want to be shot by law enforcement."


"Your attempts at painting Jeffrey the Concealed Carry Protestor into some kind of Charlie Kirk won't be successful. All you'll reap, as with TDS, is more and more of the Erika Effect." 

 "Another amateur agitator bites the dust... lesson - Don't bring guns to a protest and subsequently resist arrest unless you want to be shot by law enforcement."






I know quite a few Americans who reject showing empathy and who think being a decent human being is "virtue signaling." 

I reject that claim. 

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Filth never sees truth or light. Those carrying the filth of division, hate, and greed in their blackened shriveled hearts, as Trump and his MAGAt supporters do, are and always have been the dregs of society. They should be rejected and disdained by decent compassionate and empathetic society. Period. Full Stop.

Dave Miller said...

Shaw... ALERT ALERT ALERT

I'm about to signal virtue...

Some of our fellow Americans, those who sail aboard the HMS Mothership, those who love speak for "real America", seems to think real America is all about spouting lies, lies and more lies around their easily debunked BS conspiracy crappola.

Here's what one posted... "Facebook [A trusted news source] posts indicate that Alex was not only actively engaged in illegal activities against police operations [denied by police and for which there is no evidence] (the kinds of things that can get a police stalker killed), but he was also around five or six bubbles off plumb in other areas. Notably, he was fired as an ICU [Never happened and is a lie] nurse over allegations of sexual misbehavior with patients and more than a few concerns about his woke transsexualism [Of course, another lie]."

Why do people, supposedly educated, honorable, morally upright God and country loving Americans, post this stuff?

Is it all projection? Or is it because the truth of Pretti's murder at the hands of an unrepentant state and administration is so bad, their puny minds simply can't comprehend it?

Anonymous said...

Those folks do not worship the divine, they worship the exact oppisite. They worship self interest, division among peoples, greed, and power. IOW they worship the ego and Maya.

Shaw Kenawe said...

I saw that slander on Facebook and on "X" today, and I immediately checked to see if it were true. None of it is true. We saw a video with our own eyes of Pretti's co-workers at the VA honoring his work. He did NOT quit his job, and he was NOT involved in illegal activities.

It's MAGA's way of slandering a dead man whose death exposed the barbarity and lawlessness of Trump's ICE thugs. They will not accept the fact that they continue to defend the indefensible, so their way of dealing with that brutality is to defame an innocent dead man.

How eagerly Mustang believed those lies. But that helped me understand why they continue to support Trump, the champion of all liars. They eagerly accept his lies; why wouldn't they accept lies found on Facebook without checking first before spreading them further?

Shaw Kenawe said...

I don't know about "worship," but it's pretty evident that they don't care about accuracy or the truth.

Anonymous said...

They choose darkness over light and they accept illusion over truth. Both supported by their egos and selfish self interests.

BB-Idaho said...

The ICU nurse shot 5-9 times in the back while on the ground while being kicked in the face and stomach was Minnesota Nice. That squirrely crew should hang their heads in shame and be banned from the i-net for always making up Trump Crap and high fiving each other.

Dave Miller said...

Correction Shaw... they accept the lies of the Trump Admin because it validates what they themselves, despite evidence to the contrarry, belive to be true.

Witness Minnesota, Jan 6, the 2020 Election, Obama never called out black fathers, Obama was born in Kenya and on and on and on.......

Anonymous said...

That "crew" of ignorance, supported by the self anointed guru of the collective MAGA ignorance, are swimming in a sea of illusions called duality and ego centered delusions.

Their high fives are the cults expression of its denial of reality. One can only recognize their detachment from reality and hope against hope they one day realize their own ignorance and decide to let go of the lies that support and feed the ignorance.

Grey One talks sass said...

My mother reminds me that those who practice kindness outnumber those who don't; it's just those who aren't kind are also very loud so kindness gets missed at first glance. But the lasting effects of empathy, compassion, and kindness cannot be missed.

It's in the acts of strangers who remained to film the murder of Alex Pretti. It's in the comments here pushing back on the words of our trolls as they try to cloak themselves with invisibility only to be revealed by their own words of hate and disparagement.

It is as it's always been, universal Love is the answer as those of us who live with Love in our hearts know too well. We will win this war of good vs. evil. How do I know?

Teaching stories from every culture and every timeline tell me that evil never serves it's own purposes and that is sows the seeds of it's own destruction.

Watching the Trump admin as they twist themselves into pretzels of logic as plan after plan fails to deliver their expected results.... yeah, watching as evil never serves it's own purposes is the best reality show ever.

Dave Miller said...

Admittedly off topic, but related.

If you look at the list of states where ICE has been heavily focused, they are mostly blue states. No spin, just facts.

If you watch demographics, most know Congressional seats are allocated based on census population. We are starting to see large blue states losing sufficient population so they, if the trend continues, will lose significant seats after the 2030 census.

We are now seeing reports that with the borders closed and the Admin taking an aggressive stance towards deporting even the peaceful illegal immigrant living next door, or doing your gardening, our population is dropping to a level that cannot sustain our economy.

Maybe in all of this, Trump IS playing three dimensional chess. Maybe the plan all along has not been the removal of illegal immigrants because they are bad for America and take jobs, but because they are counted in the census and as such, count for Congressional and Electoral College seats.

If we have already removed enough illegal immigrants AND American population is dropping, evidenced by the economic projections, primarily in blue states where ICE is focused, the Trump Admin is not focused "illegal immigration", it's focused on winning elections.

And unless and until the Dems figure out a way to appeal to rural America, after the 2030 census and Congressional reapportionment, they may never win another election for years.

Something to think about...

Shaw Kenawe said...

“I view Bovino being forced out as a tacit admission that Alex Pretti's killing wasn't self-defense, as the videos made quite clear. But that much was clear from the start, and yet Stephen Miller labeled Pretty an "assassin" and Karoline Leavitt called him a domestic terrorist. They knew those were malicious lies and ran them up the flagpole anyway, just like their disgraceful attacks on Renee Good's character.

It's small solace to have found the floor of their depravity, but that's only because it didn't poll how they hoped it would, not upon any objective analysis or sober reflection. Alex Pretti's murder didn't turn public opinion against ICE, the public was already there.

But the spectacle of defending the murder on cable TV was too much for some Fox News hosts and only twenty minutes after Brian Kilmeade suggested replacing Bovino with Homan, Trump did exactly that.”
Scot Pilutik

Shaw Kenawe said...

I find it difficult to to believe Trump is playing three dimensional chess. His mental deterioration makes that evident. To me. My bet is that the Heritage Foundation and the people who produced Project 2025 are what is behind this.

Les Carpenter said...

This insane hate and violence will continue until the filthy lying Authoritarian Trump and his incompetent lackeys are gone from office.

America's only solution is to overwhelm the ballot boxes across America with anti Trump, anti Project 2025, and pro democracy - pro liberty patriots as the as**oles now running the nation must be swept from power completely.

Or, engage in a 2'nd American revolution. Not desirable.

Those are the only choices because the hate in Trump and his MAGA scam administration and supporters is so deep and overwhelming there is zero room for compromise. The authoritarians do not want compromise. They want total dictatorial control over literally EVERYTHING. Including our personal lives and activities.

They are filth on steroids.

Dave Miller said...

Shaw... of course I was using the Imperial Trump, meaning his entire Admin.

BB-Idaho said...

Interesting phenomenon, empathy. There was a university study of it which found it occurs in humans, primates and rats. It would seem that some rats
have more human-like character than some politicians.