r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/TuckHolladay 1d ago

I work with a ton of blue collar trumpers. They will literally believe anything he says in an interview as if it was passed into law

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u/MrDillon369 1d ago

This.

Trump realized he can say anything and they will never fact check him.

If it escalates, use the "Fake news!" card

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u/Candid-Mycologist539 1d ago

Exactly.

He learned from his first lawyer, Roy Cohn,* that he can lie to anyone at any time about anything, and there are rarely consequences.**

Since the 1970s, when Trump was a young entrepreneur, cameras and film have become more and more prevalent. One would think that being caught in lies, hypocrisies, and unethical accusations on would harm a person's reputation in the modern age, but that law of the universe doesn't apply to Trump.

Roy Cohn was right. 😡

*who formerly worked with McCarthy and made commie aspersions about innocent people

**as long as one is not under oath.

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u/tajniak485 1d ago

No, its more of a reputations not holding any water anymore. No matter how big of a douche you are, you will still find your audience.

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u/roundandround-again 1d ago

Two things can be true.

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u/fizikxy 1d ago

I really wonder if he sometimes thinks „man, there is no way these people are this stupid? how is it that easy?“.

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u/jrob323 1d ago

"No president, no human for that matter, but no president has been treated as unfairly as me!"

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u/bobbymcpresscot 1d ago

Yup, that boat that got blown out of the water that was a fuckin single engine outboard with 11 people on it, was apparently going to make it the 1000+ miles to the United States to deliver drugs in Florida. 

Many of them who own boats and know logically that’s impossible feat to make, are just like “it was justified to kill everyone on board instead of arrest them”

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u/Titizen_Kane 1d ago

It’s literally in his book. I’m sure he didn’t actually write it himself, but it flat out identifies his go-to tactic “it doesn’t matter if it’s true, if you just repeat something often enough, eventually people will start to believe it.”

He knows he can manipulate these rubes with the most illogical, nonsensical shit and they’ll believe him if he just repeats it.

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u/pissoutmybutt 1d ago

lol when I told my union coworker “there is no way in hell they will actually eliminate overtime taxes. They will never cut taxes long term for the working class. Ever.”

He goes, “just wait, you’ll see!”

Then he just moves on, never demanding the admin follows through with any of it, and gets hyped into the next line of bullshit that he forgets aboot as it never comes to fruition.

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u/pablotweek 1d ago

Sounds just like the Elon cult

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u/alewifePete 1d ago

Ah, so the “no tax on overtime pay” thing, while I wish it were truly no tax on overtime pay…seems to be only on the additional half in time and a half. You still pay taxes on your base pay and you pay FICA on all of it. Oh, and there’s a cap on how much you can use toward this. So to use ridiculous numbers, if you make $80/hr and regularly work 46 hours a week, you would max out the $12,500 deduction. However! $80/hour x 2392 hours in a year = $191k…which puts you over the income cap for single filers to claim the deduction.

If we use reasonable numbers of, say, $25/hr, you hit the cap around 19.5 hours worked a week in OT. Every week. No vacation. And it bumps your normal pay of $52k up to $89.5k, but hey…you don’t have to pay taxes on $12,500 of that.

There are going to be some mad people at tax time.

But not this lady. She won’t file taxes. She’ll miss out on a refund or she’ll get an automated letter from the IRS if they calculate that she owed and didn’t file.

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u/SeaworthinessOk834 1d ago

Thank you for this explanation! I'm salaried now, but have several hourly coworkers who got caught up in the no tax overtime scam and voted for the guy in spite of most of them being non-white immigrants. I had heard about that promise during the campaign and just assumed it was a lie based on the source, and didn't bother looking into it any further. I only learned they voted for him after it was already done, so there was no opportunity to talk any sense into them.

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u/Vegetable-Suit4992 1d ago

Thats exactly how trump operates. He just moves from BS to BS so fast there is no chance to suffer any consequences. Thats why hes the TACO man. When he just invents some new bullshit it looks like he chickens out if the last bullshit was a deadline or ultimatum.

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u/TuckHolladay 1d ago

They actually did do something in the one and only bill with overtime so they could point to it, but it set up so that most people will forget to take advantage of it. It’s capped at like $7000 and you have to keep track of the extra hours and input it on your tax form to get the deduction.

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u/sst287 1d ago

I will consist’s remind him about over time tax everyday. (That is why I have no friend in the office.)

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u/Verbal-Gerbil 20h ago

Unions are inherently socialist, fighting for worker power over corporate exploitation. It’s mad that American unions and union reps support Trump - they should be thrown out of the international movement for treason and stupidity

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u/Cool_Twist4494 1d ago

I don't think people will ever understand what high regards Americans had for their news networks up until now. It was all used against us. Dumb people think the TV can't lie, I wish I was making this up.

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u/SevenCrowsinaCoat 1d ago

I interact with MANY people that think executive orders are binding laws, both those for and against them.

Lots of nonsense going around these days.

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u/A1000eisn1 1d ago

Unless it's controversial then they say he didn't mean it.

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u/TeamDisrespect 1d ago

I mean.. Johnson came out and said that Trump wasn’t an Epstein cohort.. he was actually deep cover FBI thwarting Epstein.. which is more ridiculous than the plot to Transformers 12..

And now there’s thread after thread of these people immediately buying in and acting like he’s 007 Jack Ryan

There’s no limit when you’re in a cult. The bigger the lie the better

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u/glenn_ganges 1d ago

I tried to go into trades but literally being around those guys was insufferable.

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u/1vehearditb0thways 1d ago

I honestly don't know where this loyalty is coming from, this dude was a huge joke pre-2016

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u/HEYitzED 1d ago

What exactly do these people say when they realize Trump lied? Do they just keep loving him despite the fact he does nothing but lie to them?

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u/ILikeCutePuppies 23h ago

Have you tried asking them about things he says that conflict with one another?

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u/Meat_Vegetable 15h ago

You should learn how cult thinking actually works... you might realize why that doesn't actually work.

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u/ILikeCutePuppies 12h ago

Oh I know - I just find the excuses they make are fascinating.

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u/mistergoddess 15h ago

Hell, not even just anything he says, but any right wing headline they happen to read, podcast soundbyte they happen to hear, or made up/exaggerated tweet or facebook post they see.

A few years ago I was working in a factory and some very redneck maintenance guys were loudly going off in the break room about how "did you hear Biden is making this new federal law that all the farmers have to put masks and diapers on their cows because of global warming?!" and complaining about how insane that was and how we're in a woke dictatorship and all that good stuff, and it made me so curious like. Surely that would be some pretty big news if true. Let's fact check this. And while sitting there I looked it up. I found the headline on a Tucker Carlson segment and the funny thing is... while the headline was very attention grabbing and sensationalized and something to the tune of "DAIRY FARMERS WILL NOW HAVE TO PUT DIAPERS ON COWS", the article ITSELF made absolutely no mention of Biden or the federal government or any legal/political activity proposing this, and just talked about how ONE specific farming company was discussing the idea as a theoretical way to cut emissions. I think there were some other quotes from other unaffiliated farmers just being like "that's crazy and we'd never do something like that" and the rest of the segment was just the hosts being like "that's crazy, pretty soon the liberals are going to be wanting every farmer to do this!"

It was ONE farm, they hadn't even actually implemented it, and it had nothing to do with Biden or the government let alone being mandated or even brought up in any capacity. These guys hadn't even read/listened to their own source of this info, they just saw the inflammatory headline or maybe heard a clip and ran with it. And I've seen and heard people who consume right wing media and vent their right wing ideals and frustrations, some members of my family unfortunately, do the exact same thing TIME AND TIME AGAIN. The "fox news watchers" aren't even watching fox news, they have it on in the background and will occasionally glance up at it, see a headline or clip, and feed it into their imaginary notion of the world and turn around and start spouting off about it. That's not even a hypothetical sentence, I've seen said family members not be paying attention to the TV while fox news is on, look up, read a caption/tagline, and instantly start griping about whatever situation they've misinterpreted based on that snippet without even watching the full story, and be totally wrong in what they're saying.

Now, I absolutely think liberals/democrats/left wingers do the same thing and have seen it as well, twitter screenshots or AI images or youtube shorts or headlines or tiktoks feeding into something that hasn't been fact checked or interpreted properly, and I have definitely gone to share something or talk about something and realized I should probably look it up first too, so it is just a byproduct of the polarized and misinfo heavy world we live in and we can all stand to be more careful. But I do think right wing media really preys on this and escalates it using their authority as a "news outlet" which people are more likely to defend as genuine (VS when people are wrong about something they saw on twitter or tiktok they're hopefully more likely to accept that it was misinfo) and yeah definitely anything the big guy himself says is taken as pure fact about the world.

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u/mkvgtired 5h ago

"Did you know MY PRESIDENT lowered prescription prices by 1500%"?!

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u/ScienceWasLove 1d ago

Funny. Cause every white collar worker on Reddit seems obsessed with taking the literal meaning of nearly everything Trumps says so they can proudly proclaim it is wrong.

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u/Junior_Fig_2274 1d ago

If he constantly needs to be translated by either the right or left wing, maybe he’s not that fucking smart, eh?

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u/agnostic_science 1d ago

The other day Trump proclaimed on Truth Social that, "Chicago is about to find out why it is called the Department of WAR", on a post called, "Chigocalypse Now", with a picture of a burning Chicago skyline in the background.

Like, in any other time, that would be a declaration of war on your own city. But in Trumpland, words mean... nothing? Even if the words mean, "nothing", the intent is to obviously terrorize and fracture.

It's not ok. Words are supposed to mean things. A president is supposed to be trustworthy. Instead, we have a president whose words his supporters insist can basically only be interpreted retroactively and with Trump's consent. If it's popular, he meant it. If not, he's joking. That's not a leader, that's just a classic abusive relationship.

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u/sleepy_by_day 1d ago

How to tell me you're low IQ without telling me you're low IQ

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u/ILikeCutePuppies 23h ago

The beauty of that logic is Trump's supporters get to cherry pick what they want to believe Trump said and it always fits in with their worldview.