It’s definitely a cult.

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[February 20, 2025]
[….] Kash Patel is CONFIRMED as FBI Director.
As a new member of the House Appropriations’ Commerce, Science, Justice, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, I look forward to working with Director Patel to root out the deep state and END the two-tiered system of justice.
[….]

Some of the responses:

The fact you have no issues with Patel taking money from a filmmaking company who was directly funded by Putin/Kremlin speaks volumes about who you are. YOU ARE the deep state.

Congressman Mark Alford You’re a little clown! Root out the “Deep State” says the college dropout lol! [….]

BREAKING: The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as FBI Director in a narrow 51-47 majority.
trump nominee Chris Wray passed 92-5.
Only Rand Paul voted against James Comey.
Robert Mueller was confirmed 98-0.
Patel is historically UNFIT.

Congressman Mark Alford. you’re a disgrace to the office. Kash Patel is unfit to serve. You are unfit to serve.

[….] Supporting Trump isn’t about politics anymore; it’s a declaration that morality, truth, and justice are meaningless to you.

And you celebrate. You support a fascist regime.

I hope the world is as lucky as the Delta jet – everyone survives and the right wing vanishes.

“Deep state” my eye.
The people you’re talking about are career government employees who’ve sworn to uphold the US Constitution and put in years, if not decades of service. I know because I’ve worked in personnel and have sworn in Civil Service employees. Calling those workers “deep state” is a betrayal of their patriotism.
Shame.

You must forgive Congressman Mark Alford for his incompetence and stupidity. He has kissed the ring and swallowed more than just the kool aid. He only knows what to do as he is told…

We use the turn of phrase [insert brand name of artificially colored sugar-based drink mix here].

You’re as bad of a congressman as you were a news anchor! What a joke. One more clown for the circus! [….]

So sad watching politicians kiss the ring of the president. I just pray some decide to grow a pair before it’s too late.

Oh dear lord. Deep state? Lol. S stop spreading fake tin foiler crap. Trying to spread chaos and fear.

Thank you Jesus

Jesus weeps.

Stop with that Deep State garbage! Only the foolish believe you!

Terrible choice! He should never have been confirmed! You are one of them, but Trump is making Congress obsolete. Soon it will just be the, the oligarchs, and us, the people. You do realize that you’re not rich enough to be one of them.

A kapo.

he’s not rich enough…… YET!

he’ll never have hundreds of millions. That’s who will be taking over our government.

Congressman Mark Alford You’re also looking forward to increasing the $36 trillion debt to please President Trump. How much money are you planning to add to the debt just to make him comfortable?

You are such a POS Benedict Mark…traitor

“[….] With Patel at FBI, I expect and unprecedented domestic surveillance program to begin, which should not be difficult to implement with the data DOGE already has at their, willing help from large data brokers like Zuckerberg and Bezos already bending the knee, and the techbros finally able to unleash the programs they have been trying to sell and many times succeeding in selling to state and local law enforcement and already tested and in use in places like Israel (I doubt you all remember the Pegasus spyware).

We’ve already seen the regime move quickly, boldly, and overtly to declare many citizens to be “unpersons” with their broad assault on the trans community. We are reaching the point, quickly, where anyone who the regime does not like will be considered illegal. Nothing and no one is safe from the whims of the regime.

There will also be large and violent crackdowns on public protest. I expect this to happen sometime over the summer when the impact of the full on assault of the whole government starts to really impact the American public at large. Inflation and joblessness are going to increase dramatically as the cuts take place and the broligarchy consolidate their wealth, and there will be a public backlash. When people realize they are losing their healthcare so the wealthy can get another tax cut, when they learn their autistic or special needs child can no longer get care at school, or that they are going to gut their social security or tax their roth ira to fund tax cuts for Jeff Bezos and so on. There will be anger and it will be public in the form of mass protests. There will be blood this summer, and the regime is eager to spill it. Trump wanted to do it in his first term, but was restrained. No longer.

None of this will be news to members of the black community and other minority groups, who have dealt with moderated versions of this for decades (and obviously far far worse in the previous century), but it will come as quite a shock to many of the people who just couldn’t stomach a vote for a black woman from liberal California. But they will get caught up into it.

I don’t think any of this is hyperbole, unfortunately, and your level of safety for now depends on what state you live in, but soon, that will be a moot point, too, as everything is federalized. States rights are an impediment when you are the god king and hold all levers of power. It’s ugly out there right now, and it is going to get worse. [….]” – John Cole – Balloon Juice – “Let the Show Trials Begin”

It is going to get worse.