hardly a cult at all really

2025.04.12
That a dumbass pin of Trump (plated in gold, reminiscent of a certain biblical golden calf...) exists is not surprising.

That members of the upper cadre would wear it is.

Well, "surprising" is the wrong word.

If our ancestors didn't feel fear, the whole species probably would have been trampled by mammoths a long time ago. But if they never examined their fears -- no delicious mammoth-burgers. And so, success lies in the tension between fear and discovery.