Calling Trump your daddy?

[@juliewoodcock4655]

My answer to “Trump’s your daddy” is no, my Mother didn’t run with trash.

[@MelissaWickersham-k4o]

My answer to “Trump’s your daddy” is that nobody wants a failed casino owner for a father. And I wouldn’t want his DNA in MY genetic makeup.

[@BellaBarossa]

Trump is an absent father. I can't imagine wanting him to be your daddy.

[@valivali8104]

​@@BellaBarossa he interacts with his favorite daughter in so disgusting way that I wouldn’t be suprised if he s€xually abused her 🤢😰

[@ПаніПончик]

Where's my mom's child support? Trump is such a deadbeat.

[@kailimagdalena]

💯👏 say it louder!

[@kimslone5185]

Familial language at work is an indicator of a toxic job situation.

[@misspat7555]

Actual biological families can also be cults. The whole “respect” (obey) your elders thing? Cults basically just take advantage of what has been trained into us since toddlerhood in our actual families. 😕

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Considering how much SA Trump has committed, he could be the father of a LOT of children.

[@audreytwo]

I saw some young women in my town wearing shirts with a photo of trump at the white house captioned "Daddy's Home". Politics aside, that's just plain weird.

[@shadow1961]

yup. we heard the words family and culture all the time at work. it didn't stop the ceo from giving us the boot so he could stay in his big house. love the hat!

[@kamisakura568]

I keep returning to Orwell's 1984, in this instance the figure of Big Brother and the reminders that "Big Brother is watching you". I read that Orwell was punished for joining the Spanish Civil War by giving him work in spreading propaganda in WW2. Seems like he learnt something from that.

[@iatemyphonegaming]

This is also how gangs work. Found family is real, but these organizations use forced family to encourage obedience.

[@ellied618]

Thank you for bringing light to the cults that are all around us. I’m thankful you made it out of Children of God, AND the Military🙏🏾 Cults were a main reason why I got a degree in psychology. I learned so much studying cults while in school, and I believe it has helped me stay away from various cult-like systems throughout life. When you can understand manipulation, you’re able to see the bs so much clearer.

[@valivali8104]

But it’s good to remember that everyone can be tricked, nobody is immune to manipulation. Thinking that "I can’t be tricked, scammed or manipulated" makes perfect victim.

[@Cointelpronoun]

I wonder if my career as a teacher was a bit of a cult. There's so much propaganda in teacher preparation calling us heroes and showing us examples of hero teachers who set no boundaries and practically light themselves to keep the kids warm. It doesn't meet all the criteria of a cult but I do feel used and abused. I'm never going back. Doesn't need to meet all the criteria for me to realize I was in an exploitative relationship with my job.

[@kobaltkween]

She did address service and mission focused careers, explicitly mentioning teaching, in at least one of her videos, and reading from here book, IIRC.

[@LeeWinters99]

Not a teacher, but as an outsider, yall are systematically being brainwashed and made the scapegoat when yall have no real power in the hierarchy. The stories I’ve been told by educators…

[@emilysnyder4857]

@@Cointelpronoun I think it's a problem with the work that is associated with "women's work." Anyone in a profession that takes care of others getting hazed by the system to light themselves on fire to keep others warm. Socializing women to be a living sacrifice in some structures...creating "Burn out" in some reality where the objective is the cremation of care.

[@Crow9396]

They want you to do all that self sacrificing for the children but won't pay you the wage worthy of that demand. Uplifting children is a beautiful thing! But the people who do so deserve a comfortable life.

[@emilysnyder4857]

Wow, this is so deep. You have to face your trauma to start to see it. I think many of us were born into toxic families and yearn for a family that treats you differently and organizations prey upon that desire... If you do all the work God will bless you with a good family. Then you end up more alienated than you were before.

[@m0L3ify]

Oh that's really interesting. I was in a cult that wasn't overt about it, but the leaders they were giving that vibe by the rules they set and I'd mention it now and then when the behavior of a member was being shamed because it was never openly discussed yet it was blatantly obvious. Everyone fell neatly into parent/child roles where everyone had to ask "mother/father may I?" in order to do anything. It's a pretty easy power dynamic to get people to quickly fall into because it's the most familiar way to get people to give up their freedoms and independence, especially if members have attachment issues and are super quick to glom on to the promise of a close, loving family.

[@deeannlett-neal3325]

Wise words.

[@Ayyylien51]

Seen a few shorts/tiktoks where they referred to their fellow constituents as "Trump Family" while proceeding to break ties with their actual families for the illusion of community.

[@tinkergnomad]

Calling them Daddy: Cult or Queer Relationship?

[@ПаніПончик]

When I see them talking like that I just can't help but think it isn't the "own" they think it is. More like a self own 😬

[@carlyar5281]

As a veteran with over 20 years of service this hit me! I can see how this type of thinking makes it so hard, and in some case, almost impossible to transition out of the military. Especially when it’s a medical release and not the member’s choice.

[@lethercreate]

Corporate America

[@coolchameleon21]

lol that’s so creepy

[@kailimagdalena]

Your videos are always recommended for me, but I didn't realize I wasn't subscribed yet. Fixed that✅ Just came from your video on blondeness & have to say I'm loving the vibrant purple💜 purple never sticks in my hair! Thanks for making this video. Your content helps me see through culty "brainwashing" tactics that filter in through everyday media & happenings. Knowledge is power

[@RichardLemke-c9n]

Incredible interesting view points

[@LunaJones-sn6bo]

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the term "mother" is used a lot in the queer community as a compliment, and trans women especially refer to eachother as "sisters". This is obviously more common with queer individuals who have experienced rejection from their family or were abused for being queer, but would you say that the culture and terms are still toxic?

[@beatrix1120]

The context of the words matters a lot. When she called those terms toxic I think she was referring to situations where people are coerced or manipulated into using them

[@dragoncatoverload]

If you want another example In Japanese people will often refer to strangers with familial terms. For example if you’re watching a Japanese movie and the subtitle says old man/geezer chances are the most literal translation would be grandpa. I think it’s really down to an amount thing? This phenomenon on its own doesn’t auto mean you’re in a cult. It’s part of a collection of things that indicate you’re in a cult. Calling someone who is not your mom mom is only harmful under the specific circumstance that someone is trying to manipulate you. That’s why it’s such a good cult tactic. It seems harmless on its own.

[@wormisjunkd]

my 2¢: the history of this is deeeeply tied to hauses and drag families. these were essential points of community for (overwhelmingly racialised) queer folk who were estranged from family (and broader community due to life threatening bigotry and violence) due to these immutable facets of their lives, who then took to shared living as a means of literal survival. yes the language is intense and personal. but so is the relationship. these were communities of individuals who were severed from the critical network of family attempting to rebuild it for each other. mothers were called so because they took the role of mothers, of literally nurturing and raising and protecting and educating and guiding others, of putting food on the table and helping navigate the hate around them and being sources of unconditional love and direct lived experience wisdom that otherwise did not exist. the intensity is directly proportional to the intensity of need of these relationships - interdependently, not just hierarchically. they assumed these roles out of necessity, and the moniker served as both a stand in for the loss of blood family and as a point of pride and respect to those leading the way and assuming these crucial and laborious roles. nowadays it’s more just a fun way to say you respect someone and that they look like they have the whole world figured out - it’s used like diva or queen faaarrrrr more often than with any degree of original connotation. I would say the main difference in the evolution of these terms is that one is more like that of an adoptive parent - personal and earned and mutual - while the other is more like that of a boss or celebrity (possibly even deity) - impersonal, reverent or otherwise assuming a degree of faultlessness or lack of desire or means of challenge to faults, and disproportionate in power. (that being said there is certainly a big discussion to be had around the hierarchical structure of family itself in the modern age and how this ties into our use of and perspective on parental terms and their connotations.)

[@LunaJones-sn6bo]

@ thank you that was rly informative 🫶

[@audreydoyle5268]

Basically, it has to come along with other indicators of a cult, like clothing and appearance control, rigid dotrine, an "unclean", "unholy" or "unworthy other", stuff like that.

[@zxys001]

Excellant, thank you.🤟

[@dr.graves5541]

Awesome post! Thanks!

[@TheDespoiler-l8l]

I love your style

[@whitecrow1949]

Sharing this on Pinterest. Thanks.

[@aussie_mozzie]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but do cults also use labour to make people too tired to think critically about the cult and what's going on in there or am I just making a connection that has no basis?

[@KnittingCultLady]

@@aussie_mozzie oh yes! This is one of the points of busy work. They do this big time in the military. Move this pile of rocks from here to there.

[@lukeo.6410]

Side note…. Can we see the plant? I’m intrigued by the big light and the leaves in the background.

[@1cpascal]

They also refer to each other as brothers and sisters in the Jehovah's Witnesses.

[@ninefingerjack]

The uneducated need someone to look up to. Why do you think so many are religious?

[@WizardKitty723]

❤

[@BrentDavis75]

🖖

[@Babysescape]

Gross. It's gross when someone else says that someone else is your daddy.

[@maryjohartwell5580]

Great Video.

[@Palmtop_User]

also i think freud may have some words about that

[@wildshepherd5918]

Many suffer from the orange complex

[@AnnaRobertson-f1h]

I dont know who my father is for real. Its all cults unfortunately everything is a cult

[@chey7691]

No not everything is. It has a list to check off to meet criteria. Just because you don't know it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Maybe read some books on the matter?

[@AnnaRobertson-f1h]

@chey7691 maybe

[@francopalombo]

Daddys are our Trumps

[@thefoolhasitsuses]

Something up , "like" button not working?!

[@articrafthandmade6284]

That's been happening to me lately too. And comments disappearing or even more weird, can comment on some but not others!??

[@audreydoyle5268]

​@@articrafthandmade6284 occasionally, YT has a freak out and glitches. This problem has been going on for me for about a year. As for missing comments, started about 6 months ago. It's a kind of shadow ban/moderation review. Sometimes I'll come back to a video and my missing comment will be there, sometimes it's gone. Usually, I'll write a banger reply, I'll click out and when I re-enter to edit, it's gone. YT is glitching, and I think it's the new management. Although, a lot of SM sites have been glitching like this too, so maybe the internet is dying? Or struggling with storage? Idk, not a tech nerd.

[@f4rnsworth138]

You are dead on every time. It's almost as though you've lived that life and know what you're talking about. It's always sad to see people get sucked into cult. I hope they realize what's going

[@31minutesago]

As a non Trump voter, I'm still glad Kamala lost

[@therongjr]

I am no fan of Trump--and no, I did not (and would never) vote for him--but where was this video for "Kamala Momala"?

[@Teajay21]

Because a) this was an affectionate term coined by her actual family and b) I never saw it gain the traction that Trump as the father/daddy has. Like people didn't go on stage and describe her as the father punishing the country like naughty children like Trump's sycophants. Maybe if ahe had won it would have gained more traction and she would have talked about it.

[@audreytwo]

It was super cringe when Drew Berrymore said it and she was visibly uncomfortable. But her stepdaughter calls her that so at least it has a basis. Calling someone daddy also has a bit of a sexual connotation nowadays especially if it's an older wealthy man you're not related to. So it kinda sounds like they're calling trump a sugar daddy which is just...weird.

[@KnittingCultLady]

@@therongjr I made several videos about this at the time 🫡

[@Lmao_TseTung]

You speak mildly ill of the army but still your profile is you in the regalia of global suppressor of progress #1. Just curious, how do you reconcile your apparently progressive views on social relations and group thought with your misplaced pride in being a tool of western imperialism. Or am I extrapolating too far, you do seem elated at the idea you revived a medal from Obama (known imperialist hegemon) on your website. Someone regretful of having harmed or helped harm the third world and global south wouldn’t do such things. You seem critical of capitalism yet have never stated the solution; I'm sure you can tell what my thoughts are on the matter.

[@jmas43]

You use an awful lot of spoon-fed talking points. Are you able to re-write this post in your own words?

[@Lmao_TseTung]

@I’ll slow it down for ya, WHY PRIDE IN IMPERIALISM… spoon fed by who exactly? lol

[@Lmao_TseTung]

@@jmas43 love that instead of answering the questions or not defending the person aiding horrors you use racialized “bot” accusations thrown at us since the 50s.

[@ABBCoffical]

@@jmas43you really take no issue with being pro-America?

[@grunwald1]

August Landmesser- now imagine that You are that guy. Try to explain to people who surround You who they are, what they, their country and their leader actually represent. Once You are done- You can get to the part where You provide the solution- but it would not be necessary I think. It wasn’t just Germany btw, Spain, Italy and many other countries as well. Epidemics of “masked singers” shows that critical thinking is as absent as it ever was. Irrational obedience reached new heights

[@michaelhiles5350]

We don't call him daddy, more leftist lies

[@DarkFleurofIra]

Nah, I’ve seen it; ya magaminions really need to keep ya fantasies to yourselves

[@ABBCoffical]

Calling this person a leftist is a stretch. Liberal yes, but not left

[@davishropshire5361]

There was a picture of a literal post over her head where someone did just that. Maybe YOU don’t, but that doesn’t mean others haven’t. And she’s not a leftist.

[@patrickhale2087]

The purple hair says it all.

[@juliewoodcock4655]

Sure, buddy.

[@Q.Q.Kachoo]

Big strong man is shook by a color. 😂

[@coolchameleon21]

your fragility says it all

[@amysaidit]

Bro is so triggered this is his hobby. Projecting at women online. Pathetic. 😄

[@sarav2209]

I have never heard hair speak. You may wish to consult a physician.

[@matmorris8194]

No lady, theyre calling him YOUR daddy.

[@coolchameleon21]

i wouldn’t ever allow him near my children

[@sandpiperr]

He definitely isn't my daddy!

[@argyle5906]

And all the Trumpers wearing shirts that say 'Daddy's home?'

[@HonorAction-888]

It does read as a projection tho in many ways & is still a weird attempt to assert a kind of dominence over another person. It doesnt just go 4 unsound military actions overseas, often times every 'accusation' or targeted claim is a sort of confession on the part of the 'accuser' or the one making the claim. Ppl are elevating Tr&mp to be some savior, which im sorry to report, is a very cult mentality. 'Dont worry abt thinking, Mr. T will fix everything 4 u.' I lost my faith in presidents a long time ago when i realized they were just a poster child to placate our sense of limited control over what our country does in the name of our alleged 'well-being.'

[@ariaflame-au]

So you think he is a terrible father too?