President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
The heated rhetoric marked the latest bid by Trump to portray Democrats as political extremists ahead of November’s midterms — even though portrayals of even the party’s most liberal candidates as “communists” are far from reality.
“These are hard core, godless Communists,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier on Friday, an accusation he repeated during remarks to a gathering of social conservatives. “This is the Greatest Threat to our Country since its Founding 250 years ago!”
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aarch0x40@piefed.social · 68 pts · 54d
We're finally starting to get the left we deserve instead of the one pulled center by an opposition giving cover to rapists, pedophiles, spousal abusers and murderers.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 17 pts · 54d
In a country where a huge amount of people thought Biden was a communist a party like that might go over like a lead balloon.
ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 54d
Not if they successfully rebrand communism. People that are triggered by that word don't have any clue it's definition
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 12 pts · 54d
They’ve been poisoning that well longer than America has been around.
ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 54d
Well, fuck. I can't argue that. Still, though, I applaud those still putting up a fight
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 6 pts · 53d
Yeah but now Americans are actually directly being affected by the fascist idiots that ripped the mask off early.
At this point a decent number of them are starting to wonder if the opposite side won't be as bad. And that's all that's necessary to start righting the ship, if people are actually willing to step up and not just let the same octogenarian power brokers keep running everything.
We went from Trump being elected a second time, to a dozen Democratic Socialists being elected and districts flipping 30+ points in just 2 years.
Eventually people start to wonder why the rain is yellow and tastes like piss.
usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 53d
The right has always called anything that went against their agenda communism. The word is meaningless by their context. We can’t change how they distort the truth. It’s their only game plan. We can only show them that what we’re doing helps the most people regardless of how they mischaracterize it. People are sick of platitudes they want to see results.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 50 pts · 54d
Sounds a lot better to me than 'christian capitalists' .
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 53d
Christian capitalists? You mean the people who worship the antichrist pedo-fuhrer, who is the embodiment of the seven deadly sins?
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 53d
That fucking golem is like something out of the Book of Revelation
danc4498@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
I just wish the voters thought so too. Godless should be a compliment.
grte@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 54d
Well, I happen to like the godless communist ones. I'm cool with the godded communists, too, tbh.
fizzle@quokk.au · 12 pts · 54d
Honestly even at face value a "godless communist" sounds pretty great right now.
I acknowledge that communism is not without its problems, but the US can afford to head in that direction for a few years.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 54d
I prefer an...
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 27 pts · 53d
Man I wish Democrats were as cool as Trump makes them sound
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 52d
I wish democrats were actually godless communist.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 54d
Jesus fucking christ, talk about a throwback. Now they are doing 1950's style Red Scare bullshit?
raman_klogius@ani.social · 20 pts · 53d
The Don's worldview never advanced past the 50s it seems
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 54d
It still works, so yes.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 53d
Republicans are dumb. Of course it works. Ask the average Republican to define communist
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Its a distraction from Epstein and people screaming at him that he's a pedophile.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Sideshow, or rather symptom of the wider problem of wealth disparity, a pay to play legal and political system, and the Victorian class system returning as Thomas Picketty predicted.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 54d
What is old will become new again.
manefraim@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 53d
What was shall be; what is shall be no more....
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 53d
And there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 53d
I remember he said that was peak America. So not shocked.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 53d
Guy who rapes and bombs kids calls someone godless.
Average American Christian tbh
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 54d
Nothing scares Americans like the threat of the godless, freedom hating communists coming to burn down your church and kill your family. It's effective. They wouldn't keep doing it if it didn't work.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 54d
AFAICT, it's the xtians that are closing down churches, due to lack of interest.
The nones are ~30%. Adherents to xtianity are way down. It's simple numbers not really any Grand Liberal Conspiracy, FFS.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 54d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE
rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 53d
Funny thing is Kegsbreath just cut the official list of religions for the military from like 200 down to 19 or something. Sounds like they're the ones who want to shut down churches.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 53d
Any god that favors Trump, is a shitty one that only deserves rejection.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 53d
Let's see he's got Nurgle, Tzeentch, khorne, slaanesh. So yeah
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
Mostly Nurgle and Slannesh. Those fucking Mar-A-Lago faces and hollow Ozempic eyes are Druchii as fuck.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 54d
McCarthyism, so hot right now!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 54d
"JD" "Vance" is trying to bring back Nixon, too. The conservatives are nothing if not big fans of the goldie oldies.
usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 53d
Funny how the right always associates Christians with capitalism. Capitalism being a system that relies on hurting and exploiting one group to enrich another. Literally what their greatest teacher Christ preached against. While Communism - a system that puts emphasis on taking care of all people over personal wealth/power is always spoke of as godless.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 53d
Mascot. Although according to their mythology, he did spend a great deal of effort on teaching, his would-be students refused to learn - a trait true of Christians to this day.
They love iconography of the guy though! ...no not that iconography - can we make him more white? Perfect. That iconography.
usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 53d
I don’t believe in god, but he was a philosopher and teacher objectively (if he did indeed exist). Honestly agree with a lot of what he preached regardless of the fairytale surrounding it.
As for Christians, nothing surprising about people not living up to ideology all the time. What gets me is the Christian right’s complete hypocrisy in how they claim an ideology with such fervor while overtly and unapologetically not following it.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 53d
That's my point though. If I deliver a lecture to a brick wall, even an insightful, logical, factual, beautifully executed lecture, am I a teacher? For one to teach, another must learn. If Christians reject the lessons of their own god, the whole production is just one giant tragedy about a man and his son-self thing fruitlessly pleading with a pile of bricks. Despite their best effort, the bricks did not, do not, and will not learn; actively denying Sky Daddy & Super J the role of 'teacher'.
usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 53d
Christians aren't a monolith. I grew up Christian and some of the best people I know are Christians. They genuinely strive to follow what they believe. Some of the worst people I know are also loudly Christians. No teacher gets through to all their students - if you’ve ever sat in a classroom you know that. As much as I dislike organized religion I’m not going to lump them all together. That’s just another “godless commy” generalization.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 53d
Christians aren't a monolith, but Christianity is. My assessment of it is as a whole, although you're correct that doing so is unfair to the individuals who manage to not be corrupted by it. Still, even if those individuals aren't actively participating in the evils perpetuated by Christianity, they are actively supporting them, which makes me question if they're sincerely good people, or if they're just wearing an outward veneer to make the evil shit easier to swallow. The Bible itself addresses these types in it's scrutiny of the Pharisees: that there's a modern version comes as no surprise.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 53d
Crossfit Jesus
usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 53d
You could argue about how these systems have been applied, but the philosophy underpinning them is pretty clear.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 53d
Jesus (presuming he existed) lived in a culture steeped in slavery, yet he never bothered saying "hey guys, maybe don't do that?"
What a great and wise teacher.
usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 53d
Good point. Though it was retranslated by kings like 12 times and the stories are all second hand accounts so it’s likely none of the bible is all that accurate if it did happen on any level.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 53d
We can't all be as godly as a 4 time divorced, cheating, criminal child rapist 😢
fox2263@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 53d
Remember that time he called mamdani and evil communist terrorist Muslim jihadist and the worst thing that can happen to New York. Then he won, met Trump and then Trump said he’ll be great for New York and is a nice guy.
Almost like the guy has no actual morals or ideals or anything really. And is in fact just evil himself.
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 54d
It’s an existential threat to him, oligarchy and the billionaire class.
Bring it the fuxk on
placebo@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 53d
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 54d
Letting the government do anything good for you and your community, is the Republicans' definition of communism and socialism. According to Republicans in Congress and the Trump admin and the Supreme Court, the role of the federal government is to subsidize billionaires and trillionaires, undertake vanity DC projects that are utter failures, start pointless wars they can't finish, make everything unaffordable, tax Americans through tariffs, pardon criminals only in exchange for
bribesgratuities, and send goon squads to harass immigrants and dissenters.Under these terms, who wouldn't want communism and socialism?
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 53d
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 9 pts · 53d
Wasn't Iran the greatest threat to the US since its founding? Or fentanyl? Or immigrants from Mexico? Or trans women in sports? Or paper straws?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 6 pts · 53d
It’s a godless commie Iranian trans woman playing sports snorting fent through a paper straw in Mexico obviously.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 2 pts · 53d
taiyang@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 53d
Man I wish more politicians were godless. As it stands, atheists and "nones" are still grossly under represented at all levels, even relative to the number that exist in the county.
Average citizens won't necessarily call themselves atheist, but even if you include agnostics and "nones" and other unaffiliated people, it's somewhere around 30%. In Congress, it's four people (which is better than last Congress when it was just mother fucking Kristen Sinema.). It's worse than pretty much every other religious categorization.
Here's an article on it: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/01/02/faith-on-the-hill-2025/
KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 54d
Well he got the godless part right
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
Is this the same “god” that demands rich people give all their wealth the poor and needy, and that their followers do everything in their power to provide for the needs and well-being of others?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 52d
I think you’re confused it’s the god that wants poor people to give everything they have to the rich people.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
I forgot. They worship Ayn Rand and Supply-Side Jesus, don’t they?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 52d
I think these days Ayn Rand is too far left and Jesus is a useless hippie long hair communist.
Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 53d
Reporters need to start asking him his favourite Bible verse since he's so devout
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 52d
“Godless” says the unrepentant walking embodiment of all seven deadly sins.
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
Hey, that's me!
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 53d
Yeah as usual we've lost the messaging. Today all the media I saw on it were reporting on how democratic socialists want to "reshape society" by "doing away with capitalism" and "defunding the police" which - I'm sorry buy that shit slaps in rural and especially the South. I doubt a single Republican in my state could accurately describe what democratic socialism is all about beyond some culture war garbage. And these were quotes BY THE FUCKING DSA.
Oyml77@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 53d
Says the godless adulterer criminal pedophile thief warmonger-in-chief. At least the godless communists care more about the people of this country than what they can squeeze out of the people of this country .
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
As the Nazi slogan said: "Gott mit uns"
fodor@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 53d
Godless commies who are not in the Epstein Files. Unlike Trump, who stars the Epstein Files.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 53d
If Democrats were godless communists they might actually help improve life for ordinary Americans. Unfortunately they're mostly neoliberals, like the Republicans were before they came out as fascist.
A generous helping of godless communism would do the USA some good.
A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 52d
They can't just call anyone they don't like a communist
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
The GOP has been doing that since the 50s and it has worked. Why should they stop now.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 52d
They sure can, and sadly the red scare made it so just uttering the word "communist" acts like a sleeper agent wake word
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 52d
The US has been doing that longer than you've been alive.
Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
"godless" isn't a negative in every person's eyes.
black0ut@pawb.social · 3 pts · 53d
One can only wish. I bet if godless communists were ruling the US, the entire world would be in a better place right now. Or at least there wouldn't be an orange pedophile at the helm of the US, licking a trillionaire's boots and listening to his nazi master.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 54d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE
Gibil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 52d
Speaking as a godless communist: 😂
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
Theres really very little difference between the policy aims of republicans and DNC centrists. They should really get along like peas and carrots.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
the last senile neurons of this stupid fascist are getting desperate and it's lovely to see.
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 52d
If only they actually were
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 53d
I guess trump's god allows for tween activity.