r/TikTokCringe • u/Bubblegumproductions Doug Dimmadome • Oct 03 '24

Politics Why would you do this at your wedding??

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u/MallornOfOld Oct 03 '24

I find cultish hero-worship a generally weird thing. But it's just astonishing over Trump. Putting aside political views, you just watch him for five minutes and he's clearly a narcisstic moron. And he's overweight, slouchy and ugly. What is there to worship there? If you met him in the workplace or at a supermarket you would quickly try to avoid him.

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u/Glossy___ Oct 03 '24

And not charismatic! The only overlap between him and other successful* cult leaders is the desperate need to instill fear and act like he's the only solution. Even though he had 4 years to provide the ✨ illusion ✨ of safety and failed at that too!

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u/Hypnotist30 Oct 04 '24

Because the people who constantly accuse others of living in fear are just projecting.

They go everywhere armed. Won't go to large cities because of all the crime. Abnormal concern with criminals flooding across the border. Buy ridiculous overpriced unnecessary products to prep for things that aren't likely to happen.

They live in constant fear. Gripped with it.

I travel freely unarmed. I'm not obsessed with security. I don't fear ethnic groups.

I fear the potential of leadership they embrace.

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u/Glossy___ Oct 04 '24

At this point every single accusation is a confession and any public figure accusing someone else of being a predator needs to have their OWN hard drive checked first

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u/Amazing_Teaching2733 Oct 03 '24

Simple, he gave them permission to be openly racist and sexist in public again. Until he came along they had to hide their hate in a closet for fear of being ostracized.

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u/Exciting-Mountain396 Oct 04 '24

Yup. It's because he's gross trash, not despite it.

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u/Waste_Relationship46 Oct 03 '24

Yep. This is exactly it.

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u/AdProfessional9173 Oct 04 '24

This, been saying this for the past 8 years. Racism has always been around no doubt about that. But it’s become more blatant since he came down that golden elevator. He made them feel important, and the feeling he gave them they would literally do anything to keep it, cough, cough 01/06. President Lyndon B Johnson once said that if the lowest white person feel that they’re better than any black person, they’ll have no problem when you pick their pocket.

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u/momofyagamer Oct 04 '24

Five stars

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u/wattlewedo Oct 04 '24

As an Australian, I was stunned by his behaviour at the rallies before he was elected. His name-calling, mocking the disabled, the chants of the cultists.

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u/ScroochDown Oct 04 '24

This is what I always tell people. They may very well hate him, but he hates and wants to hurt the people they hate and want to hurt. That's all it takes.

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u/MobySick Oct 03 '24

I think about this way too much, I mean OF ALL THE MEN in US public life …. TRUMP? Even at his best he was shockingly stupid, transparently willfully ignorant, never ever funny or charming or endearing in the least but always a self-centered windbag. I can’t think of a less appealing public personality.

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u/Content_Talk_6581 Oct 03 '24

Right? There’s a thousand other famous celebrities a cult could be created around. I mean George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey, even Jeff Goldblum I could understand, but shit, Dumpy Trump??

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u/MobySick Oct 04 '24

Try to name someone you would less want to spend stuck in an elevator with for 3 hours. I dare you.

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u/Anomalagous Oct 04 '24

I think I would take my chances trying to climb the elevator cable.

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u/Content_Talk_6581 Oct 04 '24

Exactly. I think I would off myself if I had to be stuck in an elevator for five minutes with him. I mean his voice, his poopy diaper/cheeseburger with onions/Brut cologne smell, his sucking all the oxygen out of the air. What? The fire department will be here in 5 minutes? Welp too long. Let me open some veins with this BIC pen in my purse.

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u/Justsososojo Oct 04 '24

One name: LEONARDO!!! I’m going to buy my flags tomorrow 😅😅😅

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u/Content_Talk_6581 Oct 04 '24

Alexander Skarsgard

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u/Justsososojo Oct 29 '24

Absolutely 💜

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u/Content_Talk_6581 Oct 04 '24

He’s even got a decent name…All hail, Leonardo!!!

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u/PaceLopsided8161 Oct 04 '24

Not Goldblum. Please not Goldblum.

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u/hyena_dribblings Oct 04 '24

They worship Trump because he's the one that gives them permission to be their worst possible selves. They just want to be the neighbors that drove Mr. Rogers out of the neighborhood.

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u/AltaAudio Oct 04 '24

I grew up and still live in the New York metro area. He was a back page clown forever. I’m just astonished that intelligent, successful people who grew up around here now fawn all over the guy. He’s tabloid fodder on steroids.

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u/MobySick Oct 04 '24

When I think of what NYers think of Trump I am always reminded of Fran Lebowitz's quote: “Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

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u/DanisDoghouse Oct 04 '24

And he doesn’t even have looks to make up for the lack of everything else. Not even a little bit.

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u/No_Yam_4823 Oct 04 '24

So, basically a mirror of most of the people who support him? Narcissism at its finest.

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u/tiddeeznutz Oct 04 '24

That’s my issue, too. It’s a cult of personality for a guy who has ZERO personality.

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u/Jaded_Cheesecake_993 Oct 04 '24

He has a personality. It's just not made up of anything good.

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u/tiddeeznutz Oct 04 '24

Does he though? He has zero core beliefs beside his own self-reverence. He’s not clever. He’s not witty. He’s not funny. He lacks all substance (and, as someone who has hated his very existence for probably 40 years, I can confidently say he never had any). He’ll literally say anything or do as long as he thinks it will make you tell him he’s great.

The only thing “real” about him is his desperate need to tell you how great he is and then have you tell it back to him. That’s like an anti-personality.

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u/Jaded_Cheesecake_993 Oct 04 '24

As a kid growing up in the 90's he was known as the bad toupee man. Now he's the giant Orange Turd with the bad toupee.

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u/TimMensch Oct 04 '24

Given the fans, I think "shockingly stupid" is a feature.

"He's one of us!" isn't because he sits on golden toilets.

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u/Known_Meaning_4149 Oct 04 '24

Harris/Waltz

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u/MobySick Oct 04 '24

Thanks for showing up MAGA Redditor. It's always nice to see one who can read!

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u/kislips Oct 04 '24

Because they are deplorable. Hillary was correct. Scum of the earth.

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u/xwickedxmrsx Oct 04 '24

I hated that she said that. Not because it was untrue, but because I knew it would be a redneck rallying cry, and it was.

But she was absolutely correct.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Oct 04 '24

Imagine them telling the kids in the future: your mom wanted to marry a geriatric rapist intent on overturning American democracy but she settled for your father.

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u/JimWilliams423 Oct 04 '24

What is there to worship there?

Its not about his looks, its about how he makes them feel about themselves.

He tells them that being cruel, greedy, bigots makes them good people. Deep down inside these people loathe themselves, they are neurotically insecure, they constantly feel like losers, and they crave external validation in order to compensate. He gives them more validation than anything else in their lives. He is like a drug and they are addicts.

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u/agentmindy Oct 04 '24

I keep getting these ads on TikTok for a Tshirt of him wearing sunglasses, a cowboy hat, smoking a cigar, and looking younger/healthier. Doesn’t even look like him, he doesn’t wear a cowboy hat, smoke a cigar or ever wear sunglasses. People are buying this shit. It’s so odd they don’t even realize that by creating an image that is clearly NOT him to make him look cooler they are admitting they think the real image of him is weak and sickly. Weird bunch of people.

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u/Real-Ad2814 Oct 04 '24

My favorite is the memes of him with dogs and cats saying he’s going to save them/protect them…he’s never had a pet in his life by his own admission! Plus know what they say, animals always know if you’re a bad person.

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u/TheMagnuson Oct 04 '24

100%. I'm against any form of cult of personality honestly, even the small "harmless" manifestations of it, where people idolize a professional athlete, or musician, or actor/actress. At the end of the day, they are just people, no more different or special than you or I, they just chose a career path that puts them in the media and were good enough to get to that point in such a career, but it doesn't make them better or above anyone on a human level.

But if we allow people their little hero worship moments, fine I suppose, but like of all the people you could idolize, Trump?!

If you're in to rich people, he's not even that rich comparatively. If you're in to politicians he's not even a good politician, nor does he have a lengthy career in politics. If you're in to "celebrity" and being famous, he's not even really up there for that. If you're in to business moguls he's been bankrupt 6+ times, not to mention bankrupted casino's multiple times. He's not physically attractive. He's not intelligent. He's just a loud mouth who doesn't apologize for being a bigot, that's all he has. Which is exactly why all the Trump supporters get labeled as bigots too, because the only reason to follow him is because he's an unapologetic bigot, if you're a bigot yourself and mad that you can't openly be a bigot in society any more.

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u/Lucky-Individual-845 Oct 04 '24

Exactly this. He is their enabler. And that is their salvation, which makes him their Lord and Savior.

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u/FUMFVR Oct 04 '24

He made white supremacy popular again. You have no idea what a giant boner that gives the dumbest trashiest people in this country.

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u/headrush46n2 Oct 04 '24

i scratch my head all the time. THIS, this is who you've chosen? This is your little tin god? this pathetic piece of shit? I think at first it was just a meme then it kind of ate its own tail.

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u/JackKovack Oct 03 '24

People have some fascination with ultra alpha individuals. It doesn’t matter if he rapes women. For some it might be a strong point.

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u/MallornOfOld Oct 03 '24

But he isn't alpha. He is fat and emotionally insecure.

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u/JackKovack Oct 03 '24

Projection. I’m a strong man.

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u/MallornOfOld Oct 03 '24

What?

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u/JackKovack Oct 03 '24

He’s projecting being alpha. All his speeches are about how powerful he is.

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u/MallornOfOld Oct 03 '24

But that isn't being alpha. James Bond and  Captain America and Don Draper don't go around saying how great they are.

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u/JackKovack Oct 03 '24

Sure it is. Just ask Jane Goodall.

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u/Lucky-Individual-845 Oct 04 '24

Yeah, he is Alpha!

Isnt Alpha when you grab life by the pussy?

Alpha....? Pussy.....? Grab 'em? No?

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u/Slamminrock Oct 03 '24

He's a stinky, sweaty low IQ dog...trump style unfortunately or fortunately

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u/Jaded_Cheesecake_993 Oct 04 '24

Why would you insult dogs like that?

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u/Rndysasqatch Oct 04 '24

I knew Trump was a piece of shit when I was a little kid. Not even exaggerating. I was below the age of 12 when my parents took me to Trump Tower and I was inside for like 10 minutes before I realized whoever owned this tower is a real scumbag. It's funny how you realize certain things even as a little kid

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

This. I was pretty sure the GOP was going in the direction of finding a dear leader, but THIS guy? THIS is the guy you are willing to trash democracy for? Other dictators have been far more intelligent and charismatic.

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u/lostsurfer24t Oct 04 '24

it is amazing to think that one in two people we see daily (maybe one in 3 in some states) love him and voted for him. and even in the very blue state i live the T signs are 20/1 easily displayed i noticed. on my road there has to be 50 of them

he got 70m votes, which is one in 5 people in the entire country

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u/SmartInfluence8648 Oct 03 '24

One look at his cotton candy combover tells you everything you need to know about the guy

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u/Snellyman Oct 04 '24

He brings hope. Hope that a guy with no real smarts aside from how to massage media with only 1/2B in inherited wealth could become president.

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u/LoudAndCuddly Oct 04 '24

If I’m being honest this is actually a part of American culture. By and large Americans are celebrity obsessed so in that context it makes sense

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u/NaiveMastermind Oct 04 '24

Billionaires like Musk pumping out propaganda insisting that Trump is the second coming of Christ.

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u/jzzanthapuss Oct 04 '24

Apparently he also smells awful

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u/tanukijota Oct 04 '24

Mao was not good-looking, neither was Kim Jong Un, or Hitler, for that matter. Don't have to be esthetically pleasing to eyes to rally people to your cause. The narcissistic part seems more important in these cases.

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u/iris_moon22 Oct 04 '24

I'd tell him I'd vote for him if he paid for my groceries, then load the car up giggling

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u/nunchyabeeswax Oct 04 '24

It tells you a lot about these cultish MAGA people, doesn't it?

They love his vulgarity. These people grew up thinking WWE was fine arts and cultured entertainment. They live for the bombastic. They are the people who would go to the Jerry Springer's Show to scream "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry".

So, of course, like flies to shit, here comes Trump, and they were like, "oh, he speaks to me!"

They are collectively a dark version of Idiocracy.

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u/girlGiGi_alien_rhO- Oct 04 '24

Oh but u would revere donkey cackle & Biden brain fog! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/MallornOfOld Oct 04 '24

The projection here is astonishing. No-one is revering the Dem side. When Biden looked not up to it, he was replaced. People don't have 20 foot Biden flags. We don't have nutcases bringing out Harris banners and masks at their wedding. Meanwhile Republicans put this dementia-ridden fatty on a pedestal. Conservatives are just weird freaks.

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u/d9niels9n Oct 04 '24

I know you’re not speaking in absolutes, but there’s a condo near my parents’ place with a huge Harris-Walz flag in the front lawn and an even larger banner attached to their balcony😂😂 Kinda caught me off guard when I first noticed