How did I fall Hook Line and Sinker into the MAGA Movement? I didn't know I did.

In an attempt to answer long form questions and statements on my Facebook page, I am answering here as part of my political tier (but free when I do this) as a means of answering clearly with tools to make everything more legible. Below is something posted to me by someone I know in the real world to be a hell of a nice guy and not someone I would deem combative or crazy. So, I will read this for the first time after having copied it here and answer accordingly.

Jason Appleton bro as intelligent as you are how did you fall hook line and sinker down the MAGA rabbit hole?

Hmm, I wasn't aware that I did became part of the MAGA movement. This is an assumption based solely on my disdain for the actions of the Left since Covid. I dont own any MAGA hats or bumper stickers and I certainly dont have truck nuts swinging from the back of my SUV. I've also called the Trump administration out on several things just in this current term.

Seriously. The democrats aren’t perfect but they aren’t (for the most part) lying to us and lining their own pockets at our expense. (Former Senator Menendez)

Reading this I'm forced to assume you're not aware of anything related to USAID and associated NGO's and the way the Left have been using them as a honey pot to fund an insane amount of programs across the globe at the expense of tax payers while getting kickbacks, etc.

One example: In June 2025, a USAID contracting officer (Walter Jackson "Jack" Watson) and three executives pleaded guilty in a decade-long bribery scheme involving $550+ million in contracts. Watson allegedly received over $1 million in bribes (cash, gifts) to rig awards to favored companies like Apprio and Vistant, bypassing fair bidding. This was uncovered by IRS Criminal Investigation and DOJ probes, not directly DOGE, but highlighted systemic corruption.

Or, Testimony revealed USAID grants to groups in the "Left’s dark money network," including $270 million to a Soros-linked NGO (though only $9 million was needed) and funding for anti-Israel activism via Tides-linked entities. These were portrayed as influence campaigns benefiting progressive causes.

This goes on and on and is just a fraction of how deep that all goes. How bout Pelosi being the best Stock Trader on the planet? Amazing what shes been able to do with her career. AOC? Wow, brilliant woman. A bartender that turned an $80,000 political career into tens of millions in just a handful of years. I could go on but I'll spare the endless list for time and assume I've made my point.

Trump is selling merch and making a mint off his MAGA base! Selling Sneakers, Bibles, Coins, Hats, T-shirts, flags and more mostly made in China!! He has a loyal following willing to spend money on his merchandise and he is already selling 2028 stuff.

The difference I see is, the Left takes our money through higher taxation to pay for inflated government roles bent on further controlling us in every possible way as well as the aforementioned efforts through USAID and NGOs while Trump profits from his popularity. You think Trump is bad for selling hats? He's survived a system of weaponized government agencies, a massive orchestrated Russia hoax paid for by the Clinton Foundation, a real estate case that was completely bogus, from which those that brought that bogus case on are now facing actual charges for similar things they tried to pin Trump for but with actual evidence this time. He's survived multiple assassination attempts and won a landslide re-election after years of the media and Left wing politicians defaming him, telling blatant lies, spreading out of context video and audio clips and more all meant to create an illusion that Trump is something he isn't just so you and as many people as possible hate the air he breathes. All of that, yet none of you have stopped to think to yourselves, why? Why all of this focused around a man that everyone loved until he announced he was running for President as a Republican with a mission to drain the swamp of all corruption?

He doesn’t like or respect our constitution.

Ok, this I will concede is a fair point to an extent. Though its also a very strategic and difficult position to be in for Trump and anyone that comes after him. I'm not going to defend the destruction of the Constitution but I am going to put his actions into perspective. The way I see it, the world is waking up to the Left and the Globalist Agenda perpetuated by the World Economic Forum, George Soros, Gates, and others. This is not to be confused with the term WOKE, which is entirely different. One side has been abusing the law, taxpayer money and more for decades doing anything they want without fear of any kind about accountability while the other side is starting to play from the same rule book and this is a pretty new thing the Left doesn't know how to deal with, so they just make shit up.

You have a political party losing intelligent people in droves and they need voters. They need people that are easily controlled and desperate. So, they open the borders, (not just in the US but in the UK and other places as well as its not a US thing but a Globalist thing - Order From Chaos) pretend that can't close the border and just let millions of people flood in and begin absorbing our resources, tax money and more with no limits while citizens are starving, homeless and struggling. Many who cross the border are foreign military, criminals etc. I'm not saying I'm against immigration, at all. It's how this country became what it is as this great experiment. However, we have systems in place to protect our country and its citizens against those that aim to come in and do us harm. This was all ignored in favor of collecting new voters for a corrupt party that knows no bounds.

Here are things Trump has done to support your claim and I'll add my two cents.

Attempting to end birthright citizenship via executive order - With the over abundance of people flooding in with no border, unlike a controlled immigration system, the Left have welcomed everyone, stopped Border Patrol from being able to operate and many of these people come here, have kids and further drain the system when they should have never been here to begin with without having gone through proper channels. Everyone wants background checks, credit checks etc to rent your apartment or house to a stranger to protect yourself from myriad of exposures and liability, yet, we suddenly arent concerned with illegals? I guess its ok so long as it isn't you having to deal with them directly and if you aren't employed or paying much in taxes well, then its really someone elses problem, right? Until there is a violent act on you or someone you know that could have been avoided. The point is, Trump has been having to take dramatic action against a group that isn't used to having rules at all. Who would have thought 15 years ago that the very people that fought illegal immigration tooth and nail would become those that initiated it to the tune of millions of people?

Freezing federal spending without congressional approval - I initially read this wrong. He froze spending to stop the fraud and everyone voted for this.

Invoking the Alien Enemies Act for peacetime deportations

Issuing executive orders targeting law firms and political opponents - Counter punching to the firms and corruption that committed all of the acts above and much more. I find it interesting that everyone cheers when everything is abused in the name of going after a make believe enemy, but everyone instantly becomes a victim if the tables are turned. The Left never in a million years thought everything they did to seal up the last election would fail and every attempt to make sure they did was as dastardly and evil as it gets. Where was the outrage from the Left?

Defying or ignoring court orders - Mostly fraudulent, partisan orders by Liberal judges that weren't constitutional to begin with the majority of which have since been overturned.

Misusing military for domestic political purposes - What other choice is there? In the "defund the police" dystopian globalist agenda that is the Left trying to destroy and create chaos in efforts of bringing in their form of control as a resolution, what would you do to stop the exponentially growing rates of crime and destruction in Democrat controlled cities? Fire bombing dealerships because the founder is helping uncover fraud from the Left? Riots all over, funded by Soros who is funded by NGOs funded by USAID? I mean, what do you expect?

Crackdown on free speech and press - This one just made me laugh. I myself have been silenced, censored and shadowbanned and still am. The President of the United States was deplatformed by the Left along with countless others. A father of two was just assasinated for speaking with people that disagreed with him. Since Obama cut the Smith Mundt Act that ultimately made it legal for the Media to lie and say whatever they want, the media has devolved into a Left wing propaganda arm funded by USAID, Big Pharma etc. It's all plain as day and has been proven countless times in multiple ways.

He’s been stacking the deck with judges, senators and congress members for the past 6 years so he could come back and become the authoritarian dictator he wanted to be in his first term.

The Left started the notion that Trump was going to stay in power forever to make all of you afraid and he learned by Elon how to troll you guys. Trump 2028? It's a joke and somehow everyone knows it but you. An authoritarian dictator? You mean Biden? Thats the only administration Ive seen in my lifetime that was anywhere close to an Authoritarian Dictatorship. Think about this for a minute. You're trying to tell me that the Party and Administration in favor of protecting the 2nd Amendment which is in place specifically so the people can defend themselves against a Tyrannical Government, is wanting to lock in their place as one and NOT the Adminstration that like Hitler, had control of the media, censored and shut down anyone with anything to say against the narrative and tries constantly to wither away our gun rights? Bro... packing the course? You should realize that everything you say Trump is doing is put into your head by the media you consume and you've got to break way from that. Everytime I've seen the Left try to blame Trump for something or gaslight the public, it has been an admission of guilt. I'm not even trying to argue with you and say you're right, youre this or that. I'm just saying, as someone who has been paying attention on all sides since 2014, its clear as day to me. To put things into perspective, I was an Obama fan. I hated Bush and Cheney. I would have considered myself a Democrat as a teenager (because I didn't know shit back then but also because the Left wasn't as insane then as it is today). I was a Trump fan as a kid because I wanted to be wealthy like him but the older I got the more I saw him as a pompous jerkoff. That is, until I saw how the Left, celebs, musicians, the media and everyone in between started turning on him in a big way after watching them all adore him my whole life. At first I was skeptical and thought him running was a big joke like most wealthy men before him.

One day it hit me. He's sincere. He truly wants to leave a legacy as having been one of the best Presidents we've had. Arrogant, sure. But I believed him and the more I paid attention to every way he was underminded at every turn. I knew what the future had in store. Trump has had the Left pulling all the cards, stopping at nothing and showing their hand constantly out of desperation because he wasn't playing the politics game like the rest.

Do you understand why Trump says "Make America Great Again"? It's a finger to the Globalist Agenda! It's not some racist hillbilly motto as you are lead to believe. Do you think it's a coincidence that Larry Fink of Blackrock predicted a cultural shift before it happened? Guess who initiated the ESG and DEI agenda? Larry Fink. Guess who manages controlling shares of almost every major corporation in the US? Blackrock, Larry Finks company. Guess who took over as Chairman of the World Economic Forum after Klauss Schwab resigned due to some fraud issues? Larry Fink. Is it a coincidence that any corporation wanting capital for expansion or or growth of any kind had to integrate a ESG/DEI division within the company? Because if they didnt, they were dead to Blackrock. You honestly think major corporations adopted this insane WOKE ideology because it was "the right thing to do"? Really? It's business and if they wanted to stay in business, they had to adopt the agenda. Is it a coincidence that we have our issues with the Left flooding the country with Latin Immigrants (among others), while at the same time the UK is doing the same thing with Muslim immigrants that are now taking over? None of this is by accident my friend. The UK is adopting CBDC's, Trump banned them in the US. Why? He's fighting against the Globalist Agenda and the Left has you guys thinking he IS the globalist agenda and that once hes got the world where he wants it, hes never going to leave office! Why didn't he leave the first time?

Most of the GOP are so scared of TRUMP that they just submit to his will.

Except the Rhinos that aren't, right? The Left deals in fear. Trump uses his popularity as a tool to garner support. Support him and he supports your re-election campaign. There is a huge difference here. What happens to people that go against the Left? Ever look into that? Most of them are no longer with us...seriously, a very long and prominent list. Those that are, well, I'm willing to bet you hate them for some reason. Just a hunch. Your TDS is showing brother. Its unfounded. Can you get me a list of people that opposed Trump through the years that offed themselves? I'll wait here.

The ones that resist find themselves out of a job because of lies and misinformation. (Liz Chaney, Adam Kinzinger)

So, if you were part of framing your CEO at work of doing something and then it came out that you guys in fact were complicit in framing him, would you expect a raise? I want to know where you work! Sounds awesome there. You are aware the the Jan 6 committee was a total con job right? I have to assume you're at leasy privy to everything that has come out about all of that. The destruction of records. The audio and video proof. The doctored "evidence" and such. I loved the one about Trump karate chopping his bodyguard in the car. LOL Hilarious stuff man. Notice the names you mentioned are still alive and well. Poor folks lost their jobs for playing roles in framing a President and lying through their teeth which has been of course, like everything else the Left has claimed since 2015, debunked with evidence.

Funny how the few still in power that disagree are made to look like a laughing stock. (Thomas Massie - who represents me, whom I’ve met and actually like) I mean Marjorie Taylor Green has actually begun to make sense and become a threat pushing to release the Epstein files. (That Existed, sat on Bondi’s desk, paraded on camera in white binders by right wing media influencers and is now a Democrat Hoax) Trump isn’t the one dividing the country?

You are aware that the Left screamed in public about releasing the files then voted against it when Trump tried, right? I doubt that was on CNN, but its true. Look that up. Whats more, the narrative is that Trump is holding them back because he rode the plane with Gates and Clinton (who were actually frequent flyers as I'm sure you know by now), however, nobody has been able to make sense of something I keep asking. If Trump were a complicit pedo that loved his boy Epstein, why did he kick him out and ban him for life from Mara Lago. I'd think that would be a pretty bold move to do against someone that should have had video evidence of you doing bad things to young people, don't you think? Whats more, if this new narrative were True, why didn't the Left release any of it when it was all under their control for years at a time when they were throwing everything including the kitchen sink out of desperation that something would stick? Make all that make sense for me, please.

No, if I'm totally honest, I believe the Epstien list and evidence have a lot of names on it that are soon to become Trumps best buddies. I've seen some of this already begin. I'm not saying its right, but I'm saying, there are many prominent people on that list across the globe and many of those people could prove very valuable to a change in direction from the WOKE insanity. I guess we will see how many hard core Left wing Globalists suddenly get close with Trump and help with his efforts. That will tell you who is on the list and give you an idea as to how criminal their activities were. Yes, its terrible for the victims. No, I dont agree with it. However, I believe that is far more likely than what the Left is trying to claim to protect themselves. Just, think about it for a while and pay attention.

Bro, he’s erasing MY HISTORY. No other President has tried or succeeded in erasing the history of any ethnic group in our country. Removing DEI from books, taking down pictures of people of color in government buildings, museums, government marketing materials, and blaming DEI when something goes wrong???

If I dont know something, I wont speak on it and I'm not familiar with any of this that you're referring to. To my knowledge the Left has been removing historical statues of past Presidents and pretty much anyone that ins't in line with their current narratives. I know Trump helped fund the Civil Rights Movement and was friends with all of those guys back in the day. Any one of them will tell you unless they are being fed by the Left to gaslight. Do you like Judge Joe Brown? You should check out his videos about Trump and what he did for Black businessmen back in the 80's. You might be shocked. Back then, Black folks couldn't get business loans easily, if at all so they were told to go to Trump. Trump would loan them the money they needed to start their business and when they went to pay back the loan, he told them to keep it. He wouldn't accept repayment. Look up Judge Joe Brown and watch some of his videos. The point is, I just dont think you're accurate in your claims, at least, not in the reasoning you're inferring. Trump is not a Racist. The only thing I know Trump did that would be considered racist today, just to give you something I AM aware of, is blockbusting. Back in the 80's and 90's all real estate developers would Blockbust (keep Back folks from renting or buying their properties) in order to get funding for the builds etc. Was it racist as hell? Absolutely! Was it the common practice back then? 100% and in fact it was so common there became laws against it.

Brother, you need to get your facts straight. The Liar In Chief has pulled the greatest con ever by making you believe he gives two shits about you.Wake Up!By the way, being woke isn’t a bad thing. It means you can see stuff coming because your eyes are open.

Now, I've responded to all of your points. My guess is, either A. You havent even read this far down because your programming wont allow it. or B. What I actually believe, you've read everything because I believe you do in fact care, however, you will scoff at everything I've said as it goes against the programming you have instilled in you by the media and your sense of wanting to be right because it feels right to view things the way you do.

I am not a Democrat nor a Republican. I believe the Two party system overall is one big scam on the people design for maximum control while providing an illusion of choice. I believe Trump is an arrogant businessman, aged and wanting more purpose in his life than making money. His ego wants a Legacy for having done something unique and against all odds. The Lefts biggest fears are people they cant control through fear, especially someone that isn't their to negotiate terms of positions in office. What do you do with a man in his 80's, massive self made wealth, massive popularity and an ego the size of Mount Rushmore that wants to leave behind a Legacy of having changed the world for the better? Well, you've been seeing it since 2016. They have tried it all and it all failed. Now, their people are leaving. Their pundits are being fired and the illusion of being the majority is now gone. The problem is, some of you still believe he is the Wizard in Oz...