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Swede

(40,544 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:17 AM Friday

Trump posts that he is now in a battle against Communism in the USA.

Says the Fascist.

ALL FASCIST LYING PIGS LIKE PUTIN, TRUMP, HITLER use the same fascist scapegoating, hate-mongering, name calling, false accusations, “otherness” social division tactics as RU owned traitor Trump spews daily. The daft Fox brainwashed MAGA Cult Sheep don’t know Democracy, V Communism, V Trump Fascism.

SaveDemocracy123 (@savedemocracy123.bsky.social) 2026-06-26T11:54:47.040Z
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Trump posts that he is now in a battle against Communism in the USA. (Original Post) Swede Friday OP
He wouldn't know a communist superpatriotman Friday #1
That exact scenario has probably occurred IRL EYESORE 9001 Friday #6
He Can't Even Spell The Word ProfessorGAC Friday #61
Neither do his mouth breathers, and he knows it. GoodRaisin Friday #62
Does he even know His BFF was a communist until they stole the money Historic NY Friday #2
He obviously didn't write this The Blue Flower Friday #3
Natalie Harpie probably wrote it. Prof. Toru Tanaka Friday #35
Or Steven Cheung or Dan Scavino DinahMoeHum Friday #51
That's what I thought, too. leftyladyfrommo Friday #40
epstein Whip-poor-will Friday #4
Plenty of Dictators got their start as Communist Populists. haele Friday #39
No, Putin is not a communist orthoclad Sunday #66
Ironically, his state-approved media outlets will agree with this. Torchlight Friday #5
By the time the election rolls around... kentuck Friday #7
If they are hiding under their beds, then they won't be able to vote. LisaL Friday #9
The US did this same shit throughout our hemisphere and elsewhere malaise Friday #8
These people always need a Boogieman PatSeg Friday #24
Ding di g malaise Friday #41
They are the most obvious people on the planet PatSeg Friday #63
Because it works. orthoclad Sunday #67
Same damn script over and over again PatSeg Sunday #69
It seems to run on a generational time scale orthoclad Sunday #70
Yes, especially when politicians PatSeg Sunday #71
There's at least a century of experience orthoclad Sunday #72
Can someone let him know... purr-rat beauty Friday #10
According to his definition of communism, he is one. The tariffs qualify him as a communist. OLDMDDEM Friday #11
Communism is good for people who's Turbineguy Friday #14
This is the Republican talking point! Mossfern Friday #12
It will be their main talking point. Just watch. johnnyfins Friday #17
They accused Kamala Harris of being a communist. yardwork Friday #20
Hitler took over a Socialist party, kept Socialist in the name, but wnylib Friday #57
Can we finally have a real discussion of what communism is and is not? Maeve Friday #13
Sadly they're too stupid and hateful to care about the plain meaning of words Ponietz Friday #27
First they came for the Communists ToxMarz Friday #15
What an asshole. Scrivener7 Friday #16
Good god, he is so pathetic! Initech Friday #18
This from a man who was code name by the KGB was Krasnov* as he was trying to sell out America to .... Botany Friday #19
More echoes of Roy Cohn. Cohn was "Tailgunner Joe" McCarthy's point man for hunting "commies". Midnight Writer Friday #21
Herb Fillbrick character on TV 's thomski64 Friday #25
Herb Fillbrick was a childhood hero of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald idolized him. Midnight Writer Friday #29
Reaching high and shaking the Republican trope boogie man tree. They must be reallt scared n/t Cheezoholic Friday #22
Will the Communists tell Coke they have to use sugar in their soda? SamuelAdams Friday #23
Goodness gracious! GiqueCee Friday #44
Average American reads at a fifth grade level - how many know what a communist is? In the battle of perception NoMoreRepugs Friday #26
Never fails. Every time the 1% feels threatened, they trot out the old Red Scare bullshit. sop Friday #28
Part of his Hitler delusion Blue Full Moon Friday #30
Really? What did Trump or any of his inheritance baby friends like Steve Witkoff, Ron Lauder, or Elon, or Trump's nephew ChicagoTeamster Friday #31
Release the total unredacted Epstein/Trump files, sport. nt TBF Friday #32
Republican extremists, that's what they all are, have been calling Democrats communists, socialists, marxists, etc Quiet Em Friday #33
The Muslims are to blame, no, it's the immigrants, no it's Antifa, no, it's Buddyzbuddy Friday #34
Martin Niemller bmichaelh Friday #36
Channeling his mentor, Roy Cohn. no_hypocrisy Friday #37
He can't even define communism bucolic_frolic Friday #38
I guess "socialist" turned out not to work any more. ananda Friday #42
What a tired old trope. These people have zero vision and only rely on the past, hence the dismantling of progress. chowder66 Friday #43
It's the same old fear story. Some undeserving free loader will steal from the truly deserving white MAGAts. flashman13 Friday #45
And If You're Watching FoxNews Mr.Bee Friday #46
My brother Dave Id Friday #47
The GOP always needs an enemy... Snackshack Friday #48
Yesterday he was in a battle against Dumocrats. Emile Friday #49
Quiet, Piggy orangecrush Friday #50
So will this be the 9th war he's settled? bif Friday #52
Deja Vu All Over Again! It's Like A Political MeTV!....... ColoringFool Friday #53
They are shit scared of the losses they are going to Klarkashton Friday #54
Don't Be A Sucker 2na fisherman Friday #55
Fuck off trmp. spanone Friday #56
Nixon began his career as an energetic little commie-hunter. 11 Bravo Friday #58
So obvious Piggy didn't write that MorbidButterflyTat Friday #59
1/6 of the world is communist, and growing. orthoclad Friday #60
And because civics education sucks in this country, don't even try explaining the diff between socialism and commu Betty Boom Friday #64
Desperate Deranged Pedophile Throws Shit Cha Friday #65
No. He is not in a battle against "communism"... kentuck Sunday #68
"Thousands of years..." interesting. David__77 Sunday #73

GoodRaisin

(11,206 posts)
62. Neither do his mouth breathers, and he knows it.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:16 PM
Friday

He’s throwing the communism line against the wall to see if it will stick.

Historic NY

(40,224 posts)
2. Does he even know His BFF was a communist until they stole the money
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:20 AM
Friday

His father in law was a Communist Party official. Melania Trump's father, Viktor Knavs, was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia during her childhood in the former Communist state. .

haele

(15,734 posts)
39. Plenty of Dictators got their start as Communist Populists.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:44 AM
Friday

His buddies Xi, Kim and Putin are all Card Carrying Communist Party members.
They're just also fellow hypocrites who leave their Marxist manifestos on the shelf in their libraries where all the other University text books ended up or as a doorstop or sofa shim somewhere.
To US fascists, Communist is just a replacement term for "They're Jerks who don't do what I want or say I'm selfish and mean"

kentuck

(116,141 posts)
7. By the time the election rolls around...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:39 AM
Friday

...he will have his supporters so afraid they will be hiding under their beds. He uses fear as a weapon as well as any tyrant in history.

LisaL

(48,059 posts)
9. If they are hiding under their beds, then they won't be able to vote.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:49 AM
Friday

Especially considering how Trump is fighting mail in vote.

malaise

(299,812 posts)
8. The US did this same shit throughout our hemisphere and elsewhere
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:44 AM
Friday

Now they are doing it to their own citizens.
Watch them declare that the Democratic Party is a terrorist organization.
Eff the fascists!. Eff the racists! Eff the women haterz.
Anyone challenging trickle down is a communist.
Wake the eff up people.

PatSeg

(54,138 posts)
24. These people always need a Boogieman
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:16 AM
Friday

to sell the unsuspecting public. After 9/11, it was TERRORISTS! Now they're recycling communists because they ran the whole terrorist threat into the ground.

What they lack in imagination, they make up for with redundancy. In the end, they have nothing to sell but fear.

PatSeg

(54,138 posts)
63. They are the most obvious people on the planet
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:20 PM
Friday

yet so many keep falling for their crap.

PatSeg

(54,138 posts)
69. Same damn script over and over again
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 09:58 AM
Sunday

with some minor changes. I watched an old campaign ad of Senator Charles Percy from the 1960s or 1970s and it was the SAME spiel and people are still buying it today.

Yes, it is like a movie franchise and people don't realize they're just getting more of the exact same thing, though in the end, they usually get nothing. Then they turn around and fall for it again with another candidate.

orthoclad

(5,259 posts)
70. It seems to run on a generational time scale
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:00 AM
Sunday

using a fresh politically or historically naive population.

PatSeg

(54,138 posts)
71. Yes, especially when politicians
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:09 AM
Sunday

appeal to apolitical people who are easy to trigger, but seriously uninformed.

orthoclad

(5,259 posts)
72. There's at least a century of experience
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:16 AM
Sunday

by pros about how to manipulate populations. The Reich Wing taps CIA experience with coups and thought control and subversion. Think Bush I.

purr-rat beauty

(1,686 posts)
10. Can someone let him know...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:51 AM
Friday

....that his biggest heroes are Communist dictators.

So when he proposes something that is kinda communisty (oil/gas price gov't involvement), he has to come back around to cover for it by doubling down against it.


OLDMDDEM

(3,342 posts)
11. According to his definition of communism, he is one. The tariffs qualify him as a communist.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:59 AM
Friday

Mossfern

(4,916 posts)
12. This is the Republican talking point!
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:03 AM
Friday

I've heard it several times.
This is why I don't think that we should stress the "Socialist" in 'Democratic Socialism' - because people are idiots and don't know the difference between Communism and Socialism.

I think I posted about this last night.
We must deal with this immediately before it becomes a very popular meme.

Let it be known that Hitler's party was the National Socialist German Workers' Party
Throw it back in their faces. Trump admires Hitler....a socialist.

I'm honestly panicking about this.

johnnyfins

(4,177 posts)
17. It will be their main talking point. Just watch.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:59 AM
Friday

All democrats are communists. They have nothing else. But they will hammer this home day and night. Shit, Hannity tried to for all 8 years of Obama's presidency.

yardwork

(70,055 posts)
20. They accused Kamala Harris of being a communist.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:07 AM
Friday

It worked.

From the left she was vilified for not being progressive enough, while the right painted her as a communist.

It didn't matter what she said or did. This is why our democracy is being destroyed.

wnylib

(26,879 posts)
57. Hitler took over a Socialist party, kept Socialist in the name, but
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:45 PM
Friday

made it over into a fascist party.

Associating Hitler with socialism as a put down of Trump is a stretch that most people would not get. Instead, it would work against Dem candidates because it would link Hitler with liberals, progressives, and all Dems in general.

In Bush Jr's first campaign and term, his supporters linked Nazis with liberalism and with socialism to paint Dems as Nazis. I encountered many online posters at various website discussions who believed, or at least promoted the belief, that Dems were Nazi socialists/communists. The propaganda lumped Nazi, liberal, progressive, socialist, communist, and Democrats all together as one and the same political identity.

We really don't need to say things that would end up linking Nazis with progressives and liberals in the general public's minds. Trump and MAGAs will try to do that.

Maeve

(43,557 posts)
13. Can we finally have a real discussion of what communism is and is not?
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:19 AM
Friday

Communism centers on common ownership, distribution based on need, and the end of private ownership, something that ain't gonna happen in the US (and the end of money, which they tried in Star Trek, but just didn't work)
What we have growing in America is social democracy, which supports a gradual, reformist and democratic approach to achieving social equality. Much of that is a reaction to greed running unchecked (I'm looking at you, vulture capitalists) and a rise of oligarchy

Admitted I'm simplifying to some extent, but I grew up in the shadow of the Red Scare and people conflating socialism with Stalinism and communism with totalitarianism. Different systems all around

ToxMarz

(3,200 posts)
15. First they came for the Communists
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:45 AM
Friday

Then they came for The Communards!!!

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Botany

(78,319 posts)
19. This from a man who was code name by the KGB was Krasnov* as he was trying to sell out America to ....
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:06 AM
Friday

Last edited Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:21 PM - Edit history (1)

….. the U.S.S.R. aka real Communists, he works for the Russian President Putin, who was @ one
time a KGB agent, spent time in East Germany working with Stasi the Communist’s secret police, and
repeats old Soviet Union propaganda that the Europeans weren’t paying their fare share to NATO.

* A traitor to the USSR in WW II who fought with the Nazis. He was executed by the Soviet Union
after the war for being a traitor. The KGB knew back in 1987 that Trump was a traitor to his Country.



Midnight Writer

(26,031 posts)
21. More echoes of Roy Cohn. Cohn was "Tailgunner Joe" McCarthy's point man for hunting "commies".
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:10 AM
Friday

He put the whole nation under a "Red Scare" and had citizens spotting commies on every street corner.

Trump would like nothing more than to throw the nation into an unfounded panic. Remember, only He can save us.

thomski64

(1,011 posts)
25. Herb Fillbrick character on TV 's
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:25 AM
Friday

"I Led Three Lives" was commie fighter. FBI double Agent saving us one episode at a time

Cheezoholic

(4,166 posts)
22. Reaching high and shaking the Republican trope boogie man tree. They must be reallt scared n/t
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:12 AM
Friday

SamuelAdams

(395 posts)
23. Will the Communists tell Coke they have to use sugar in their soda?
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:15 AM
Friday

Maybe they'll make Nvidia pay a special tax to allow them to sell certain chips in China. Or use the FCC to pressure TV stations to remove shows they don't like. Or force mergers and acquisitions between companies they like. Or impose high tariffs to force Americans to buy only government-approved products. Or have government take stakes in private companies. That does sound scary. Someone should put a stop to it.

GiqueCee

(5,125 posts)
44. Goodness gracious!
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:56 AM
Friday

When you put it like that, it sounds like a raging psychopath with the moral compass of a rabid hyena and really bad comb-over needs to have his lips superglued together, and dragged by his cankles out of the White House. And don't protect his head when you shove him in the back seat of the cruiser; there's nothing in it anyway.

NoMoreRepugs

(12,334 posts)
26. Average American reads at a fifth grade level - how many know what a communist is? In the battle of perception
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:27 AM
Friday

simplicity wins - TrumpenFuhrer excels at SIMPLE cuz that is what he is. He just declared WAR on every single existing social program in America IMO.

sop

(19,960 posts)
28. Never fails. Every time the 1% feels threatened, they trot out the old Red Scare bullshit.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:28 AM
Friday

ChicagoTeamster

(1,503 posts)
31. Really? What did Trump or any of his inheritance baby friends like Steve Witkoff, Ron Lauder, or Elon, or Trump's nephew
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:32 AM
Friday

Kushner ever "earn" besides global contempt for their greed and corruption.

I hope someone asks him "who are the communists"? "Your friends Putin, Xi, and Kim Jung Un"? "What have you given them now DonOld"?

Quiet Em

(3,266 posts)
33. Republican extremists, that's what they all are, have been calling Democrats communists, socialists, marxists, etc
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:38 AM
Friday

my entire life.

Any aid or benefit that helps the people is communism to them. It's pathetic and people are tired of it and they see right though this BS.

The con and the current extremist regime cut off food benefits for people. They cut out assistance for single moms and their children. They cut people out from gaining health insurance. They are kicking people out of medicare. Food and gas prices are out of control. People can't afford to buy houses and the con artist refused to sign a bi-partisan housing bill because he is hellbent on taking away our voting rights.

Buddyzbuddy

(3,071 posts)
34. The Muslims are to blame, no, it's the immigrants, no it's Antifa, no, it's
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:38 AM
Friday

the Socialists, no, it's the non-white non-Christian non "straight men", no it's the women that want equality and won't do as they're told, no it's the communists that are to blame for everything that prevents white Christian males (and Clarence Thomas and Stephen Miller) from succeeding in this Country. Yeah, that's it.

Just remember, don't blame the rapist, felon, thief, con artist, accused child predator currently occupying the Presidency for the major blunders that have resulted in the destruction of everything that was the best that America has had to offer.

250 years

bmichaelh

(1,332 posts)
36. Martin Niemller
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:41 AM
Friday

Trump does not know what communism or socialism is.
He supports socialism as long as it is for his oligarchs.

Trump has delusions that he will go down as one of the great persons of human history.
And the people he thought great were some of the top mass murderers of human history.

This is a poem to describe Trump will not just stop at Communists.

“In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left
to speak up for me.”
― Martin Niemöller

no_hypocrisy

(55,793 posts)
37. Channeling his mentor, Roy Cohn.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:42 AM
Friday

I guess we'll expect to see the return of Red Channels (watch out Robert DeNiro!) and congressional investigations and hearings, and your employers firing you for being unjustly (most of the time) as Communist.

bucolic_frolic

(56,392 posts)
38. He can't even define communism
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:44 AM
Friday

He doesn't know the difference between state communism and socialist communities, many of which in the 1800s in the US were Christian, btw.

chowder66

(12,725 posts)
43. What a tired old trope. These people have zero vision and only rely on the past, hence the dismantling of progress.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:53 AM
Friday

flashman13

(2,652 posts)
45. It's the same old fear story. Some undeserving free loader will steal from the truly deserving white MAGAts.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:00 PM
Friday

It's simply the anti DEI thing dressed in different clothes.

Dave Id

(378 posts)
47. My brother
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:06 PM
Friday

calls, referees to anyone on the left "communist". I seriously doubt he and other Republicans who use the word know the difference between socialism and communism, but they're happy to receive their monthly Social Security payments, use public road and so on. I remember Marjorie Taylor-Green used to use the word incorrectly also. She seems to have stopped.

Snackshack

(2,607 posts)
48. The GOP always needs an enemy...
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:09 PM
Friday

It used to be the 'commies'...then the immigrant or minorities until 9/11 when it became the terrorists... now we are back to communists.

Time is a flat circle.

Klarkashton

(5,527 posts)
54. They are shit scared of the losses they are going to
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:28 PM
Friday

Face in November. Billionaires didn't earn their billions.

2na fisherman

(402 posts)
55. Don't Be A Sucker
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 12:40 PM
Friday

Trump is using a tired cliche' which has been discredited and made fit for only ridicule and satire. He is such a fool he thinks this act still has relevance in a modern multicultural world. Due to demographic shifts, the Us vs Them racially divisive politics of the past will be proven to be more foolish than the noises Trump makes during his rally speeches.

11 Bravo

(24,375 posts)
58. Nixon began his career as an energetic little commie-hunter.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 01:01 PM
Friday

Let's hope things work out equally as well for the flabby felon.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,975 posts)
59. So obvious Piggy didn't write that
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 01:44 PM
Friday

Been waiting and preparing for a long time?

The game is on?

Ideology?

It's fucking stupid, but it's not Piggy.

Betty Boom

(506 posts)
64. And because civics education sucks in this country, don't even try explaining the diff between socialism and commu
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:20 PM
Friday

🙄

kentuck

(116,141 posts)
68. No. He is not in a battle against "communism"...
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 09:49 AM
Sunday

He is in a battle to stop the truth from coming out. Up to this point, he has been very effective, with the help of his Republican allies.

He is in a battle to stop the investigations of all the crimes and grifting by the Trump Family.

He is in a battle to stop the next election.

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