“If Trump was putting his name behind it, it must be a legitimate investment,” one woman told the news organization.

“This is a woman who spoke to Reuters,” Bash said. “She put $2,000 of her savings into the $TRUMP meme at the end of May. Her $TRUMP holding was worth less than $120, she now thinks it was just a pump-and-dump scheme. The second investor, Matt, a 45-year-old machinist in Indiana, put $40,000 into $TRUMP family tokens … Matt’s shares have dropped 79% in value since he bought them for a loss of about $32,700. He does not blame the Trump family.”

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      How do you deprogram millions of people? Seriously, it’s hard for cult members to re-integrate back into society without support.

      I worry about what happens when their 80-year-old leader dies (to be clear, that’s an inevitability, not a specific wish) and they leave the Republican party but have nowhere to turn for community.

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        It’s been a cult for long before Trump came along, it was a cult looking for a leader. I googled “how to break people free from a cult” back in 2011. What i got out of it was you have to let people figure it out themselves. Confronting them makes them dig in deeper. Best thing to do is not make them fear an “I told you so” moment. We all have our pride

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        they will latch-on to whoever spews the same lies and hate the loudest.

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        to be clear, that’s an inevitability, not a specific wish

        Why not? I’m actively rooting for it.

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        that’s an inevitability

        My fear is that when he dies, they’ll just replace him with a body double. My even bigger fear is that they’ve already done that.

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        No Trump -no idol, no power, no motivation, no movement. One day, bro, one day.

        how do you reprogram Christians?

        You don’t, you just tell them Jesus would’ve been socialist and give them proof.