It's Not A Cult (Photos)

[ItsjustMe]

[William769]

1. I have one of that type of truck down the street from me

Evertime I drive by it, I want to ram the bastard then my better angel fucks with my head and I end up driving by.

[Think. Again.]

2. I sincerely hope...

...some good psychologists somewhere are looking into whatever mind-glitch is responsible for so many otherwise functional humans to go blindly over the edge like this.

Is it something in the water?, subliminal advertising?, are they all eating the same brand of junkfood (that no one else would touch)?

What reduces a person to be so blatantly and publicly irrational?

(Edited to add: This is a serious question.)

[Lonestarblue]

3. There are hateful, nasty humans in the world. I don't know how they come to be hateful and nasty

or why the US now has so many of them, but Trump gave them all permission to be as hateful and nasty as they want. That’s why they love him. They saw him shoving a leader of another country and most likely wanted him to shove the man harder. They like his meanness and his bullying because he excuses their own meanness and bullying. They’re like kids in high school whose judgment hasn’t caught up with their age who go along with the bullies because they’re part of some “in” group that makes them part of the popular or feared kids.

[Think. Again.]

5. I guess that's it...

...and maybe I'm just still too naive in my old age, but I keep thinking that their behavior seems too outlandish and malicious to fall within the "normal" range of humans.

I realize there are always exceptions, but I'm confused by the sheer number of people that are now acting like people we used to lock away for this kind of behavior and the danger it poses to peaceful society.

[vlyons]

8. This /

Yes they love him because he makes it ok to be degenerate.

[Skittles]

4. when Obama became president

these racist fucks came out from under their rocks - Trump gave them permission to be loud and proud about their racism - I swear that's all it is.....

[Think. Again.]

6. Please see my post #5 above. and thanks for responding.

[Skittles]

10. I do agree their behavior defies explanation

but you and I, we are not racist assholes who have had to suppress our instincts (remember they used to call simply being civil as being "politically correct" ) - these people see THOSE folk (POC, women) getting more and more (you know, EQUALITY) and they don't see that as a good thing, they see it as THEIR power diminishing....a big loud unrepentant racist asshole like Trump makes them feel better about their inadequacies.....simply put, Trump's fans are as pathetic as him

[JanLip]

16. The best

Explanation I’ve read so far. Thank you!

Jan

[brakester]

25. It's uncanny!

How can so many people become so demented at around the same time without a physical vector?

It is like madness and idiocy spread like a virus! A mademic!

Up until this moment I visualized this phenomenon as similar to a brain worm or ergot poisoning. I think I have broken through a mental wall. That, just like a virus or mass poisoning, Mass media can actually mass poison minds. I guess because I've never experienced this in my lifetime (like the witch-burning era) that I couldn't compute that WORDS/lies and manipulation can poison our minds, too.

And I blame UNREGULATED SOCIAL MEDIA. Just like the contagion of greed has created UNFETTERED CAPITALISM which has befouled the unique blend of democratic socialism/regulated capitalism that we have prospered from..

[vlyons]

7. Trailer trash

How many graduated from high school? The RW Christian fundie connection doesn't surprise me. Not a big jump from believing BY FAITH ALONE in an invisible sky god, who can suspend the laws of physics and believing everything that Trump and Fox News tells them.

It's all just so much grasping at self, trying desperately to make their delusions be reality. And how many thousands of years have they been waiting for Jesus to come back to reign and rule? Meanwhile let Trump reign and rule!

Such ignorance appalls me. I live in Texas. Do you have any idea how many Southern Baptists, Church of Christers, and Jehovah Witnesses, etc there are across the south? So many of them are racist hate-mongers. They hate blacks, immigrants, LGBT, liberals, Dems, atheists, Moslems, Jews, the US federal gov, educated elitists, etc. Only their Old Testament punishing god is the real god. Only Trump is the real POTUS.

[dalton99a]

19. +1.

[Think. Again.]

26. Wow.

Some people really do think he's some kind of supernatural miracle, don't they?

These people need serious help. I'm not kidding.

[Emile]

9. Amazing how republicans are so easily conned.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. I have NEVER seen so much ugliness and stupidity in one place before. It is sickening. nt

[rdchili96]

12. Hmmmm...

For people who claim that kneeling during the national anthem is disrespectful to the American flag, they sure do love to disrespect the flag themselves

https://www.legion.org/flag/code

[captain queeg]

13. That top animation, at first I thought it was the only reasonable one

Then looking closer I realized the message was all those FU fingers were bouncing off him. At least that’s what I interpreted. As I looked at all the pickups I thought any given day you could find some of these folks at Walmart. What drives these idiots? And I noticed one PU around halfway down with a message in the back window “stop Obama”. I thought WTF are they talking about? He’s gone. Then I realized that it what drives these people. They are still pissed off that we had a black president. And, he was smarter and more articulate than they were. I really think that is the crux of the issue.

[vlyons]

21. Yes it really galls them that a black man sat in the same chair where Reagan sat,

and ate at his table, and SLEPT IN HIS BED! A BLACK MAN! What's next? A black woman? The blacks are moving into their neighborhood, going to school with their children, taking their jobs, getting hired as their bosses. Make America Great Again means Make Blacks get back in their places, preferably picking cotton, shining shoes, and picking up the trash.

[malaise]

14. The Slobfather is a cartoon character

[dalton99a]

15. More economic anxiety

[tanyev]

17. I do like the ugly rusted out van with amateurish "Trump Promises Kept" on it.

That one is more true to the spirit of what Trump did to the country.

[bluesbassman]

20. The irony sails right over their heads.

I live in Texas and travel around the state a lot. You would be amazed at the amount of dilapidated mobile homes and tumble down shacks out in the boonies with Trump flags flying. They’re clueless.

[vlyons]

22. Trailer trash

nt

[debm55]

18. Why are they always expensive trucks?

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Darn it. I can't join because I don't have a road-hog pickup. Love the broken down,

old paneled truck with "Promises Kept".

[Hekate]

24. So much blasphemy

[NowISeetheLight]

27. Saw This

When I lived in South Carolina I saw a lot of trucks like this. Between Magats and Confederate flag flying racists it was a different world. It is a cult as far as I'm concerned.

[D_Master81]

28. So many idiots

So many of these idiots are probably now crying about not having money after spending thousands of dollars putting trump decal wraps all over their truck.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. The fourth one down, the red Chevy from 2016,

wouldn’t be a bad little truck other than that paint job.

Absent the paint job, I wouldn’t mind owning that at all. It looks like something Larry Wilcox would drive in CHiPs. He was partial to blue trucks, of course. But you knew that.



The unfortunate paint job runs this one’s resale value down to near-zero.

[GPV]

30. Gee, I wish I had that kind of money

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. SICKophants

You will NEVER see Democrats acting so stupid.