In the real world that you and I live in, the general consensus is that Hillary Clinton won last night’s debate. In the world inhabited by the alt-right and its fellow travelers, Trump crushed the evil Hillary even though she had help from a secret video screen hidden in plain sight on her lectern, possibly installed by George Soros himself.
Here, highlights from the Twitter feeds of some of the better-known alt-right Trump fans (and their fellow travelers).
First, some dispatches from alternate universes:
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/788992551650889729
https://twitter.com/ReactionaryTree/status/789059736922648576
https://twitter.com/ConCanadian/status/789136577586876416
https://twitter.com/WhiteGenociders/status/788934321189126144
Some Red Pillers hailed Trump for allegedly being a psychopath:
https://twitter.com/Empireanalysis/status/788998872060297216
There were, of course, an assortment of conspiracy theories:
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/788967788253581312
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/788924320886185985
Look at the angle of Hillary's gaze. She is NOT looking down at her notes, she is looking AT the lit panel. pic.twitter.com/sl3eZEP5b8
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) October 20, 2016
Couldn’t possibly be light reflecting off of the polished wood of the lectern. Must be Hillary using her SECRET DEBATE LIFELINE.
https://twitter.com/darth/status/789117564920016896
Some tried to gin up new fake controversies, like Hillary’s allegedly TREASONOUS revelation that America’s nuclear response time is … very short!
No one caught that Crooked Hillary stated on LIVE TV what our NUKE RESPONSE TIME IS 4 MIN??@FoxNews @DRUDGE #debatenight #ChrisWallace pic.twitter.com/QBbbmGkmeL
— ChevelleSS (@cyvault) October 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/WDFx2EU7/status/789126925809688579
https://twitter.com/sbeckwilliams/status/789115842332073984
https://twitter.com/altrightwarfare/status/789141517378158592
TREASON! It’s not as if this was already widely known or anything oh wait never mind.
The lovely Matt Forney weighed in:
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/788924608640589824
Dude, in that pic Trump’s teeth are exactly the same shade of brown. Because the picture is dark and the colors are off. In most pics, her teeth look fine (as do Trump’s).
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/788930922448031745
Er, what? Metamucil is a fiber supplement. What relation it has to napping I have no idea.
Also, she doesn’t look tired. Just tired of Trump’s bullshit.
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/788932118801940480
But of course. How could Matt possibly discuss the debate without making at least one rape joke.
Some alt-right Trump superfans were thinking beyond the election itself:
https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/788936357234126848
https://twitter.com/thebasedviking/status/789116096670490624
Er, land?
https://twitter.com/ReactionaryTree/status/787544349064175616
https://twitter.com/DonaldjBismarck/status/788947850948284416
And finally, a thought from the biggest idiot of the bunch:
Why didn't Hillary Clinton announce that she was inappropriately given the debate questions – she secretly used them! Crooked Hillary.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2016
The debate was RIGGED, I tells ya. Rigged!
I shall drink my fill of their delicious, delicious tears on November 8th.
Ah the Four Minute Warning. A secret so precious that it’s only been a staple of popular culture since the invention of nuclear missiles (there’s even a Radiohead song for goodness sake)
Mind you, without being tipped off it would have been very hard for Hilary to have predicted there would be questions about the economy, foreign policy and immigration. Who’d a seen those coming?
Trump doesn’t really know what preparation is, does he?
I laugh and cough in their general direction. I thought my asthma was gone, why did it decide to come back right after my cold?
I’m going to enjoy voting for her and against him.
I stared for the longest time at the picture of the teenagers on the bench trying to figure out why it was in there. When I figured it out, I was made sad.
Even if Clinton was given help (she wasn’t), that doesn’t excuse Trump being unable to answer basic policy questions. I could’ve answered all the questions and I’m not even running for anything.
Well, you know, people be dumb, but, like, the first Red Dead 2 trailer came out today. It doesn’t show anything much, other than it’s possibly really, really pretty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmA6MrX81z4
It’s so pretty.
This just reminds me of that one part during the debate where Hillary brought up how, when The Apprentice didn’t get an Emmy three years in a row, Trump made the whole “this is rigged” claim. (Translation: “Any time I don’t win [prize], it’s because [name of contest] is rigged.”) He refuses to see the obvious here: he lost the debate, because Hillary did her homework and knew what she was talking about–and he didn’t.
I’m not at all surprised that his supporters have the same attitude as he does. Why blame the candidate who didn’t prepare effectively enough, when it’s so much more convenient to blame everything and everyone else?
Ya know you ain’t shit when kids sitting in a park scares and enrages you
Also, Julian Assange was kicked off the internet by the Ecuadorians. Ha, goteem! The schadenfreude fuels me
What exactly is supposed to happen in 4 minutes?
Axecalibur:
Or people peacefully praying.
rogue angel, he’s so easy to needle! He could easily have turned her crack about The Apprentice around: “with respect, we’re here to talk about more important matters than a TV show. This is reality, not reality TV”. But he can’t help himself. She holds up the hoop, and he jumps right through it, like a performing dog.
Yeah, the “revolution”. Something tells me that revolt is less likely to end with political change in their favor than when the leaders forget to unload and safety their guns when inspecting the business end.
@Axe
Indeed
@Ben
But don’t you see? Those are white kids in a mosque, clearly a sign of an impending Caliphate!
@Arctic Ape
4 minutes is the time it would take the U.S. to instigate all out nuclear war. Why this is considered positive news is frankly beyond me.
@ Arctic Ape
The four minute warning is the time that the US would have from detecting an incoming nuclear strike to the missiles actually landing on target.
It’s quite an arbitrary number.
Theoretically the early warning system at Fylingdales in the UK could give as much as 17 minutes warning if the missiles were launched from Russian territory. However Russia has the capacity for submarine launched ICBMs* and these submarines would get as close to their targets as possible. Hypothetically you’d have almost no warning if they sneaked one up the Potomac, but in practice the closest they could get without detection allows for the 4 minutes (there’s also a protocol that neither side will bring their missile submarines closer than 100 miles to each other’s mainland)
Of course the US has what is known as ‘second strike’ capability so can respond even after being hit.
* To be pedantic, if you launch from the target’s continental shelf they’re SRBMs.
I don’t even think the divide in the US is left versus right anymore.
It’s reality-based versus conspiracy-based thinking that defines our debates. I have a coworker who’s super environmentally conscious and left leaning on everything who’s a #neverhillary type and genuinely believes the James O’Keefe videos as substantive.
And that the allegations of corruption because of the Clinton foundation are warranted.
@Alan Robertshaw
Strange. I was scanning Wikipedia the other day, and happened to stumble upon a page on the concept of the four-minute warning….but the article seemed to almost exclusively focus on its usage in reference to and in your country. Silly coincidences.
In other news, I just got a good pair of leather loafers at a thrift shop.
unlikely but possible. I wear glasses and my resting face is still squinty like that too. I think it’s just a natural resting face for him.
Rogue Angel,
It must really chap his hide that Rupaul- a black, gay, Hillary supporting drag queen- got an Emmy in that same category Donald kept losing. Insert Nelson Muntz “haha!” gif here.
Ikanreed,
I had to hear two coworkers talking up James O’Keefe videos this morning. I pointed out that he doctors his videos but of course they refused to believe it. Ugh.
@ troubelle
In the days of land based missiles we got 4 minutes (hence the popularity of that image in the public consciousness here) and the US got longer because of the distance; but submarine based systems levelled the playing field as it were.
Congrats on the shoes btw.
The four-minute thing was literally a plot point in a bunch of YA books I read back in the ’90s. Hillary’s magical time machine strikes again.
You kiss your children goodbye.
@Alan
Ah, that makes sense.
It was part of some kit that I needed to get for Halloween, which also included some formal pants. I also picked up a tacky blazer, the top of what seemed to be a Japanese schoolgirl uniform (except it actually fit me), and a cozy argyle sweater.
re: Trumpf, the alt-right, all the little Trumplings…. I’m reminded of an insult we used to use in grade school…
“Nya Nu Nya Nu Nya Nyahhhh, nu uhh, THAT’S YOUUUUUUU”
@ Robertshaw
Hey, now… if The Donald didn’t see them coming, no one could have… unless they had people knowledgeable in those fields prepping them before hand…. And that’s called CONSPIRACY!!! … no, wait, that’s called PREPARATION!!!!