#trumpcult

[jonostroveart]

Profit of Doom

[renegadeurbanmediasource]

Yep, and he continues to make fools out of his non-critical thinking, gullible followers. He tells them who their enemies are and what their reality should be. They never question him.

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

Her lame protest to support the one man crime spree named Trump was drowned out by counter-protesters using whistles. NY was having none of her bullshit.

[donaldjohntrump]

During a Republican Party fundraising event in New Hampshire, two women disrupted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' speech by shouting and attempting to unravel a sign, citing his neglect of pressing social issues in Broward County while focusing on political fundraising. DeSantis is expected to announce his 2024 presidential campaign, but faces tough competition from former President Donald Trump, who continues to lead in polls for the Republican nomination. Trump has received numerous endorsements from Republican lawmakers, while DeSantis has seen only a few from Florida House Republicans. Recent polls show Trump with a significant lead over DeSantis among Republican voters.

[qqueenofhades]

As someone whose country went through a brutal dictatorship, we still see the bleeding wounds it's left- even 50 years later. The idea of not exercising the right to vote is absolutely unthinkable to most citizens. Granted, voting is obligatory, but everyone I know does it voluntarily and enthusiastically. The discourse I hear around it in the US evidences a narrow perspective, which is so upsetting to see, especially within leftist spaces.

The right to vote is something every citizen must, sadly, defend. Most Latin American countries know all too well what happens when fascism and treason disguised as conservatism take centre stage. I hope it won't be too late when the people peddling anti voting crap to younger generations realise the harm it causes.

All around the world, the reason fascist authoritarian dictatorships of whatever ideology stay in power is precisely either because citizens aren't allowed to vote, the vote is outrageously rigged (think of the 99% margins routinely racked up in places like Russia and Venezuela) or they rely on repressing the vote through intentionally disheartening liberal, left-wing, progressive, or other similarly oriented voters, who often do much of the work themselves with constant internal attacks and purity tests and adopting the rhetoric of anti-voting propaganda in the name of purity. Despite all their populist claims to enact a monolithic Will of the People, all these anti-democratic authoritarian movements are terrified of a genuinely representative popular vote and will do anything to stop it, because it turns out that if you give them the choice, people anywhere in the world don't super like being repressed, extorted, and terrorized in the name of Ideology, and will give your tiresome fascist ass Das Boot.

In the American context, the Republicans have gone full masks-off illiberal authoritarianism and they desperately hate the idea of people voting, which is why they have filed endless lawsuits, passed endless restrictive laws, disenfranchised even their own voters, shrieked election fraud, and everything else to try to jerry-rig their position as extremist minority oligarchic rulers for life. Which is why it is befuddling, to say the least, to see people insist that voting doesn't work, it doesn't matter that much, it isn't an effective tool against fascism, it's Morally Wrong, or all the other idiot "justifications" they come up with. All you have to do is look at how fucking terrified the bad guys are of a minimally equitable electoral system (such as getting rid of the Electoral College, which would pretty much ensure a Republican never won the presidency again if it had to be selected by -- gasp! -- an actual nationwide popular vote). That's why I don't even buy into the "voting sucks and is the bare minimum" rhetoric that gets peddled as a sort of tempting carrot to get the recalcitrants to do it -- don't worry, you can still post your mean tweets about Biden and that totally is more effective! Voting is A BIG DEAL. Voting works. Americans don't realize this because they are lucky enough to never have lived in a country where it wasn't available to be taken for granted and therefore scoffed off.

Voting, having the right to vote, and the large-scale ability that it confers to change the structures of society, is a MASSIVELY powerful tool that has largely not been available to most people throughout history (and is still unavailable to a large chunk of the world today). That's why there were bitter and protracted battles to get women and African Americans the right to vote in America. That is why the GOP still particularly targets those voters today, because the simple act of exercising your civic franchise in your best interests (and therefore not in the MAGA TrumpCult's interests) is so terrifying to them. If it was meaningless, none of this would matter. But it does.

Here, Imma make it real easy for you. If you have any reason to think your voter registration is lapsed, inactive, or nonexistent, if you have recently moved and don't know your status or your polling place or whether you get a mail ballot or whether your evil DeSantis governor has recently taken you off the rolls, or if you have never done it before, or if you want to do one basic thing to oppose fascism today, click this simple link. Do it.

[idlejet]

“You’re evil baby...” An anti-Trump song from a few years back.

[stillwithhernothim]

🍷✨💁🏼‍♀️ #Repost @justmary97 ・・・ Bwahahahaha #ivankatrump #ivanka #lockherup #lockthemallup #trumpcrimefamily #trumpcult #fucktrump #trumpisaloser #hillary #hillaryclinton #shetoldus https://www.instagram.com/p/CPUwrrng03y/?utm_medium=tumblr

[donaldjohntrump]

This passionate Trump supporter is the epitome of a hardcore fan. They have dedicated themselves to championing the former president's cause and have become a vocal advocate for the MAGA movement. Their support knows no bounds, as they proudly wear their Trump cap and t-shirt to rallies, events, and even in their everyday life. Their social media accounts are filled with pro-Trump content, and they are never shy about engaging in political discussions with those who oppose their views. Despite facing criticism and backlash from those who don't share their beliefs, this hardcore Trump supporter remains unapologetic in their unwavering support for the 45th president.

[qqueenofhades]

Am I crazy for thinking DeSantis is overextending on the cartoonish conservative evil in preparation for his presidential run? I feel like he might have drunk his own kool-aid as far as thinking “things that make you popular on Fox News also make you electable across the US”.

Book bans are not popular. They’re being shot down all over the US even in deep red areas. Taking away the liquor licenses of national chain hotels because they hosted a drag show seems like a good way to make big businesses wary of you, thus putting rifts in the evangelical/big business base of the GOP. People keep forgetting that Trump was a cipher when he ran. He had no record politically so both sides could think he’ll be the worst or the best, but there was no pinning him down. A lot of liberals entertained the possibility that Trump as a former democrat might not be so bad and he definitely caught the wave of people who wanted to try ANYTHING new rather than another Clinton.

Point is, even if DeSantis plays the Trump playbook but in a way more palatable to establishment GOP, that to me seems like a losing strategy rather than a winning one. Trump does not suffer competition and won’t endorse him. DeSantis lacks the decades of buildup of celebrity image and cult of personality. He’s got a an extremist GOP political record with lots of bold moves in a culture war that has NOT been fully litigated yet at the polls and might be less popular than the GOP realizes. I think the GOP is desperate to make him their guy since he’s a governor of a valuable state and he’s “reasonable” unlike Trump but at this point, is it possible they’re overestimating his appeal entirely and he’ll completely crash and burn when actually tested? Here’s hoping, but I’d love your thoughts.

Welp. Honestly, the media's relentless push to crown DeSantis "a more moderate version of Trump" is completely and demonstrably bullshit, since he is already a full-blown fascist and the only reason they think he's moderate is because he went to Harvard and can sometimes speak in complete sentences. Except every other one of those words is "woke," which the GOP can't define as literally anything apart from "something I don't like," and yeah.

The thing about DeSantis is that he's managed to curate an extremely hermetic personal bubble in Florida. He's staffed the state government with toadies and only gives interviews to hand-picked fawning conservative outlets. We're already seeing stories come out (and it's been noted before) that when you take him out of his personal comfort zone and make him answer actual questions from non-Fox reporters, he really struggles. He isn't smart or clever or original. He's just a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist Christofascist who is willing to be "bold" (read: wildly extreme) and that makes him popular with the establishment GOP, who loved all of Trump's cruel policies but didn't like his personal demeanor. They think they can sell DeSantis to the suburban Republicans who really don't want to vote for Democrats (too liberal! Too brown! Too woke!) but were turned off by Trump's vulgar and criminal antics, and unfortunately, because white Republicans are the worst people in the world, they're probably right.

The problem for the GOP (hahahahhahahahahahaha thoughts and prayers motherfuckers!!!!!) is that Trump's base is still fanatically attached to his nasty orange backside and won't vote for DeSantis under any circumstances, as long as Trump is a factor in the race, because they think "respectability" is a dirty word and Trump's total derangement is what they like about him. He is their personal power fantasy and the living embodiment of their worst and most racist/sexist/xenophobic fantasies, and any hint of becoming acceptable to The Establishment would make them mad. So you've got the establishment GOP who wants to get back into power and thinks DeSantis is more likely to get them there, vs. the TrumpCult who will only ever vote for Trump, even as the establishment GOP is increasingly turning on him and treating him as the electoral liability that he is. (Don't forget the big Dominion lawsuit going on at Fox, which brutally exposed their hypocrisy for EVERYONE, even their own viewers, to see. Welp.)

And yes: America as a whole is not a nakedly fascist, deranged, extreme-right-wing white-supremacist Handmaid's Tale theocracy, despite the best efforts of a despicable minority. The GOP has not won one single meaningful election or federal office since Trump himself sneaked into the presidency thanks to the Electoral College in 2016 (barely squeaking out the House in 2022 and then watching Kevin McCarthy lose fifteen speakership elections in a row doesn't count). A recent poll showed that almost 60% of Americans thought "woke" was a good thing, meaning awareness of social and historical injustices rather than political correctness gone mad. The Democrats have continued to vastly overperform in special and state-level elections alike, including the much-hyped "Red Wave" in the 2022 midterms that turned out to be a Big Lol. Even this year, local Democrats are winning by bigger margins than Biden carried their districts. As I say, the reason Republicans try so hard to suppress, outlaw, and discredit the vote is because their policies/candidates will never win in any fair and legitimate election. They just won't. The only way they can bully their way into power is through fraud, fear, and lies. Of course, they're helped at every stage by the American media and its addiction to the "Both Sides Bad/Horse Race!!!" narrative, but even in this climate, Democrats are still winning.

Anyway: DeSantis is an empty suit who can reliably parrot fascist talking points and use his personal fiefdom of Florida to put them into action, but that doesn't translate to any kind of viable national candidate, especially since he implodes the instant you take him out of that bubble. I don't want to make anyone too overconfident or insist that it will clearly be fine, because the 2024 presidential election will be just as consequential as 2020 and there are way too many people in this country willing to vote for white supremacist fascism Because Gas Prices, but the overall sociocultural and political trends are not moving in DeSantis' direction and we need to work our asses off to make sure it stays that way.

[nateaz]

It really really #BlowsMyMind: the #hypocrisy of the #TrumpCult. They had the audacity to wail about the #CancelCulture of the left of the left at the #GOPConvention and they are all guilty of the exact same behavior on their side as well. I’m not going to lump these guys in with #Republicans because they aren’t the same camp. I’m a former #Trump voter and supporter here but he has become the Divider In Chief engaging in the same old #Colonialism of his predecessors. For the record, I am not supporting the left agenda either and I’m NOT VOTING in their system any more because this America is broken and unfixable and was spawned from Human Genocide committed by my ancestors against America’s First Nations - the Original Americans. I pledge allegiance to America’s Indigenous Original Nations because that is where my strongest friendships reside and where my affinity has become very strong. I learned real history from spending years on these reservations and indigenous communities all over the American Southwest. I really don’t care who becomes president but it’s impossible to argue or reason with the politically insane on either side of their system because they don’t realize they are becoming the New Natives. Both the left and the right are being divided and conquered by their slave masters who continue to prop up the same old Settler Colonial Regime.... https://www.instagram.com/p/CEdGFXIlK4O/?igshid=k2npblzyy58o

[geezerwench]

#VanillaISIS #trumpsTerrorists. There's really no difference, except the #MAGAts haven't beheaded anyone. Yet. . . . #TrumpIsNotWell #TrumpIsWeak #TrumpPlague #TrumpVirus #TrumpCult #TrumpLiesAmericansDie #StochasticTerrorism https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDOI5vg4Ji/?igshid=85vrqxcmy459

[bohemiancostarica]

#oregonfederalbuilding #michigancapital #washingtondc Why isn't there a law in the US against followers of 45 doing armed takeovers of federal buildings? #democratsabroad #trumptraitor America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #bohemiancostarica #trumplost2020 #trumpisaracist #trumpcrimefamily #trumpcult #2021 #failedcoup #trumpcoup #traitors #terrorists #insurrection #farright #thisisamerikkka #thisisamerica #trumpterrorism #trumpsupporters (at America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJvtfjHBwNl/?igshid=1ll7ti5bu0g1i

[alcar-ancalime]

#election2020 #dumptrump #trumpcult #politics #gop #republican https://www.instagram.com/p/CH8kX5th-BD/?igshid=1vd8tlzwfc1o7

[dragoni]

Merry Christmas Republicans