#the personality cult of trump

[tomorrowusa]

The Pledge of Obsequiousness to the MAGA flag.

It really is a cult. Seriously.

Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Jonestown Survivor: Trump Has “All the Trappings” of Being the Next Jim Jones

This is the sort of stuff that was typical of Stalin's USSR.

First the oceans, now the money…Republicans want to see Trump’s face on the $500 bill Arizona Representative Paul Gosar pushed treasury to start printing $500 bill again after 79 years

[deadpresidents]

"I think a lot of people in this country are out of touch with reality and will accept anything Donald Trump tells them. You had a jury that said that Donald Trump raped a woman. And that doesn't seem to be moving the needle. There's a lot of things about today's electorate that I have a hard time understanding." -- Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), January 17, 2024.

Mitt Romney was the most recent Republican Presidential nominee not named Donald Trump, yet he might as well be Rutherford B. Hayes or Charles Evans Hughes because that's how far away the Republican Party of 2012 seems to be from the GOP of 2024.

[cometrose]

the supreme court is so comically evil like you really have to vote blue across the board they made it legal to criminalize homelessness, overturned chevron which means the extremely conservative courts get to override health officials and environmental regulations

like infant mortality has increased by 8% in some states post roe, they will avoid the trump immunity case as long as possible, they essentially shielded all the jan 6 rioters

if biden loses we could be stuck with 6-3 or 7-2 extremely conservative judges for decades!!! that could mean 40 years of social rights regulations and health codes thrown out the door!!! look how much we’ve lost in 8 years?

and what about pack the courts? you can’t pack the courts with this split congress you can’t pass roe laws with this split congress you really have to vote blue all the way

[tilbageidanmark]

[appalachiananarchist]

One of my college acquaintances is genuinely devastated that Trump is winning in Kentucky. I am just wondering how on earth she has lived her life in KY up to this point and still hasn't realized that there was never any other possible outcome. KY is always red. She keeps saying she's "holding out hope." Find a better home for your hope, my friend.

[beskad]

i'm not gonna hold your hand when I say this

if you still think Donald Trump is a good candidate for US president (much less the best possible candidate), you are either unbelievably ignorant and have been living under a fucking rock, or you simply have chosen not to care about the batshit insane shit he says and harm he does.

I've seen it said before and I wholeheartedly agree:

maybe individual Trump voters aren't all, themselves, raging white supremacists, misogynists, and queerphobic bigots.

but they've all decided that those things aren't a dealbreaker for them, and that's just as bad

and I don't want to hear "well, both sides are bad"

that's like saying "well, both of those things are a weapon" when one person is pointing a bb gun at you and the other person has a fucking nuke

[cult-princess]

reblog if ur voting for kai anderson 🦅🇺🇸

ignore to cast one illegal vote for biden 😒

[andythecorsair]

This is me coming to you all again to ask that you please tag your posts about the US election. Literally most of the world has no input on the outcome. Many of us a bored of it. Those who aren't can search the tags.

Signed,

The Rest of the World.

P.S. I'd be more forgiving if you posted about policies, but it's all sofa-fucking, dementia, racism, and cult-of-personality stuff. It's the most mind-numbingly stupid 'political commentary' I've ever seen.

[third-doctor]

I feel like I'm going insane. That episode read to me as a lot more tragic than other people are reading it. Yeah they were racist and rich and spoiled and awful but they were just kids. They were all just kids. Lindy was absolutely terrified throughout the whole thing and clinging desperately to what she knew, which was terrible. They could've had the chance to learn and become better but they chose to go die and it's infuriating and tragic because nobody deserves that. Nobody deserves to be eaten by slugs or die of exposure in the woods. Nobody deserves to suffer like that. But they chose it rather than let the Doctor help them because they'd rather stay in their rich white supremacist bubble and he just wants to help and there's nothing he can do.

Maybe it's because one of my core beliefs is that nobody deserves death and suffering. Nobody. Even the worst person on earth can learn from their mistakes and come back and change and everyone deserves that chance. There's no such thing as too late. But they're never going to get that chance because they actively rejected it and to me that's still very, very sad.

[hooligananthony]

These dump supporters are already testing me and I’m worried I won’t survive the next 4 yrs without catching a case. Being called a “fag” 1st thing in the morning because Im standing with the basic human rights of women, the lgtbq+ and people of color then sure im the biggest fag there is! Hope them trying to feed their fragile male masculinity are worth catching some fucking hands

[isawthismeme]

[ohyeslawd]

Man look, ol boy is not well!

[deadpresidents]

This shit is just insane. And the response of the followers of Trump's personality cult on social media to this is fucking bonkers.

Can we go back to living in a somewhat normal country now?

[tomorrowusa]

J.D. Vance has sold his soul to those "fringe lunatics".

JD Vance not long ago described conspiracy theories as the feverish imaginings produced by “fringe lunatics writing about all manner of idiocy.” That was before he became a rising star in Republican politics. The Ohio senator and GOP's vice presidential nominee has in recent years declared that the federal government deliberately allowed fentanyl into the United States to kill conservative and rural voters. He has praised Alex Jones, a well-known conspiracy theorist who claimed the deaths of 20 young children in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. And he’s echoed — contrary to all evidence — former President Donald Trump's assertion that the 2020 election was unfairly won by Democrats and that those charged in the subsequent Capitol insurrection are “political prisoners.” More recently, he gave credence to the debunked idea that Haitian immigrants were abducting and devouring pets in Ohio. Longtime Republican strategists and academics say Vance's evolution on the conspiracy theories can be traced to the Ohio politician's desire to advance in Trump's Republican Party.

If you wish to be successful in the Republican Party these days, you need to join the Trump conspiracy cult. J.D. previously scorned the type pf conspiracy theories he now spews.

Vance, 40, found early success and fame as the writer of “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling 2016 memoir that examined the plight of rural America. Besides labeling conspiracy theorists as “fringe lunatics” in the book, Vance wrote that their beliefs were popular, in part, because people had lost faith in the media. “With little trust in the press, there’s no check on the Internet conspiracy theories that rule the digital world.”

At the vice presidential debate a week from Wednesday, Tim Walz should ask J.D. if he really believes all those conspiracy theories or if he repeats them just to further his personal ambition.

[sumarmz]

I fucking hate performative activists because what the fuck do you mean you hope gaza becomes a parking lot and you're gonna stop boycotting just bc one Palestinian woman said don't support Kamala Harris

[werewolfsquadron]

also: all that nice stuff about being good and kind, yes, but I hope that piece of shit has a fucking heart attack. I'm not even religious but I'm praying he fucking dies.