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Uh oh! Donald Trump, the great orange hope of America’s internet nazis, is facing a teensy bit of controversy, including some rather intense criticism from fellow Republicans, for his refusal to unequivocally condemn former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and all the other white supremacists who love him so dearly.
On Twitter, the assortment of nazis and trolls and nazi trolls who seem to be his most enthusiastic backers are rallying around their man. And saying “cuck” a lot.
Here are some highlights — by which I mean lowlights — from the, er, discussion so far.
https://twitter.com/ChateauEmissary/status/704403592510369792
https://twitter.com/ChateauEmissary/status/704408949223727104
https://twitter.com/ChateauEmissary/status/704405411416432640
(I’m pretty sure ChateauEmissary is none other than our old friend Heartiste.)
https://twitter.com/Yann_Perrod/status/704382226457190400
https://twitter.com/TheNeoCohen/status/704147353624707072
https://twitter.com/theothertoolbox/status/704132500864573440
https://twitter.com/PizzaPartyBen/status/704382897675841537
https://twitter.com/RecycledSpoons/status/704393042967527424
https://twitter.com/Western_Triumph/status/703675348551081984
https://twitter.com/SamBowersGW/status/704169440628191233
https://twitter.com/cuckservative/status/704088212759830528
https://twitter.com/ragingAchilles/status/704076332414562305
https://twitter.com/voxday/status/703992645291528193
These low T cuckservative types are absolutely terrified of a man like Trump. The weak always fear the strong.
— Kurisu Kitsune (@Kurisu_Kitsune) February 28, 2016
Oh yes it is, Trump is the high energy lightening rod of our rage, the avatar of the American soul incarnate. Deal. https://t.co/mxXZoYh9x9
— Kurisu Kitsune (@Kurisu_Kitsune) February 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/occdissent/status/703928769904517120
https://twitter.com/JackBurtonReflx/status/703826180806316037
https://twitter.com/Anthonylefevre3/status/703926313032155136
Classy.
https://twitter.com/paulrdube1/status/704036548984107008
Alas, Paul D is probably right.
EDIT: Or not. Trump isn’t winning them all.
Having said what I said, I’m still voting for Hillary based entirely on fear as there is pretty much nothing believable in her campaign for me (and at least one likelihood, signing off on TPP despite her “evolution”, that will hurt me indirectly). It is like I discussed with the manager at my second job: She is for Hillary, I’m for Bernie but we will both vote for either in the General as Trump scares the crap out of us.
No kidding. There are actually reams of psychological studies devoted to the ways apartheid has messed with white South Africans’ minds. There is still very much a cult of white machismo at work, too. Oscar Pistorius seems a likely outcome of that.
No. There is nothing to either of those things. She said Benghazi was a coordinated terrorist attack at first, said it was not after a preliminary intelligence briefing indicated otherwise, and said it was after a more thorough analysis shortly after investigators were finally able to reach the site indicated it probably was pre-planned. She has admitted that she did not override security decisions made below her level because she does not have extensive experience in embassy security. And personal friends could contact her more easily than subordinates who did not report to her directly. None of this is in any way scandalous.
There are various administrative reasons not to use a private server and email account for official business, but cabinet secretaries were not actually prohibited from doing so while she was in office. Some of the emails possibly should have been classified, but none carried any tagging information indicating that they were, and it would appear no one actually bothered to tell the state department that it was classified and some of it was only classified at all after she left office. None of the even remotely credible accusations would even cost someone their security clearance, much less lead to criminal charges. They are at most punishable by a lecture on proper procedures for handling classified information.
That was a fun read. I wish this guy had run for the GOP nomination and spent his time clowning all over the other candidates like in this article. It would have put a dent in Drumphy’s “tell it like it is” image since this guy, at least online, is doing the same and would have been fucking eaten alive.
That said, for anyone taking comfort in the idea of the blue wall acting as a shield: don’t. Assuming we can’t lose is a great way to get complacent and not fight when we need to. That probably goes without saying in this group since most everyone here seems on the ball about this, but I’m asking others not to take chances, so I have no excuse.
I was going to say all that anyway, but for anyone unconvinced, the guy who wrote that article also wrote these two counterpoints. (Fair warning for ableist language in at least one if not both.)
“Only Democrats Can Send Trump to the White House”
Bernie Sanders and the Blue Wall”
Now, regardless of whether you agree with these counterpoints, it’s important to not forget that they probably do exist in the minds of many GOP soft-well voters, even the ones who are condemning Drumphy Whumphy for being a shit bag. It’s ok to be confident, but we can’t be reckless.
@IP
Aww, poor little dude. 🙁 Hope he is okay.
BTW I am a Bernie supporter, but I would vote for Hillary in a heartbeat over Trump or any Republican.
The Onion made me laugh uneasily and twitch.
http://www.theonion.com/article/im-trump-all-way-says-man-who-will-die-mishandling-52449
Trump had black students removed from his event on their college campus. Not black protestors. Just people who were sitting there.
http://gawker.com/donald-trump-requested-that-a-group-of-black-students-b-1762064789
Frankly, I’m terrified that Trump could well win the election. Hillary Clinton is deeply despised by a lot of people, who would crawl through broken glass to vote against her. She doesn’t have the coalition that Obama was able to build, and would have to win over more than few working-class whites to make up for it. My fear is that a lot of Dem voters, not particularly excited about Hillary, will sit this one out, and Trump will turn out record numbers of disaffected voters.
Bernie Sanders might be leading in the polls vs. Trump now, but that’s because he’s relatively unknown. Just wait till the Republican propaganda machine gets going on the “Socialist Jew! Ooga Booga!” attack ads – his numbers would plummet. Hillary at least has the advantage of having withstood two decades of vicious attacks on everything the right wing could dig up. Pretty much everyone who could be turned against her has already done so.
Basically, we’re looking at a matchup between the #1 and #2 most hated candidates in America.
The last time we “had no difference” between the candidates, we ended up with eight years of George Bush. We do not need to go through that again.
@sebl
No offense taken. If I were you I wouldn’t consider me as an actual source of information either. Random Internet guy says stuff, and all. 🙂
It is disheartening, though, that there are people who think there’s a difference between the political parties WRT their core. All the differences they espouse are primarily aimed at getting people to give them money. Money and power are the foundation of both parties. It takes a good bit of arrogant privilege to actually say, “My party is not as evil as your party.”
This election has been a nightmare. I think Bernie Sanders winning is a best case scenario. I’m so afraid, but he’s a shining ray of hope.
I’m afraid people won’t vote for Hillary because she is a woman and past controversies, even though she will be a better leader than any Republican. (Despite her low key racisim, at least she won’t fucking deport or detain middle eastern muslims or build a wall around Mexico)
I’m also afraid people won’t vote for Bernie because they’re afraid of socialism.
This is going to suck. I’m queer, poor, and I own a uterus. A republican victory won’t be good for me. PoC will be in deep trouble, too.
When the differences between the parties include “front runner literally backed by the KKK” vs. “front runner not backed by the KKK”, I find it incredibly difficult to care about the things they have in common.
QFT
Nope. No difference at all. Unless you have a uterus. http://www.guttmacher.org/media/inthenews/2015/01/05/
But I guess we don’t matter. Our bodily autonomy is just a trivial social issue. Right?
Or unless you’re trans and just want to be able to use the correct bathroom safely. http://time.com/3734714/transgender-bathroom-bills-lgbt-discrimination/
But hey, the well being of one of the most if not the most marginalized group in the country is nothing compared to an email scandal!
Seriously. This is some brogressive bullshit right here. I am so sick of the misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, Christian supremacy, and xenophobia of the GOP being treated as trivial concerns to be swept under the rug so that privileged middle and upper class dudes can feel smug and superior. Calling people privileged because they worry about the party who wants to control their uteri getting into the White House and picking another Scalia to sit on the Supreme Court is just mind boggling to me.
No, it takes a good bit of arrogant privilege to think that just because there are negative aspects to both parties, the one that is vocally racist and misogynistic is just as bad as…well, any other political party.
J^3 (@JoeKlemmer)
I don’t think so. “Less evil than Trump and Cruz” is a pretty low bar to clear.
Not from where most of us are standing, so please take your thought experiments elsewhere. You’re obviously too pure for us.
(Is the comments system messed up or is it just me? I see a bunch of responses to Joe Klemmer’s comment, then the actual comment people were responding to. This is weird. EDIT: And now the comment has moved below mine, WTF?)
In other news, have this thing that I think of every time I hear the word “cuck” being shouted over and over again.
http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/s598/Paradoxys3DS/cuck_zpsr5ohd03t.png
Wasn’t Joe Klemmer a regular poster a year or so ago? When did he turn into a tin foil-chewing conspiracy theorist who claims to be blind to the difference between the centre-right and literal neo-Nazis and misuses SJ language like a #NotYourShield sockpuppet?
And does it have anything to do with Hillary’s gender?
I can’t wait to see what these people say about #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain
When you only consider white people as people, your perception of the world might be a teeny weeny skewed.
What constitutes as genocide to white supremacists:
1) People living their lives
2) People having babies
What does NOT constitute as genocide to white supremacists:
1) Genocide
Okay, then.
I’m hoping Bernie stays in the race, even if he ultimately can’t win the nomination. I’ll vote for him in the primary obviously, but I really need him to keep pushing Hillz in a more populist direction, because I think that’s what voters are looking for right now. With large swaths of the economy not fully recovered yet (#housingcrisisnotover) and another crash likely right around the corner, people are seeking a populist, small-d democratic brand. And like it or not, Trump presents as that brand (he’s not in actuality, but that’s the image that he’s built). Without credible populist opposition from the Left, Trump is significantly more electable now than he was in 2012.
I was just reading an article the other day–i forget where, which is a shame because it was great–showing that young voters are in real danger of voting along racially-prejudiced lines in order to seek more platforms that seem socially liberal, but that still incorporates the old-school “they took er jerbs” bigotry. That’s obviously not a slam of all young voters (of which I am one), but it is reflective of the fact that our generation, while significantly more tolerant in many ways, is not so significantly less racially-biased that this is not a real danger.
Bernie is necessary, Bernie-bros and all, because he pushes the left in that direction much more effectively than Trump, regardless of whether that’s just lip service from the party bigwigs or not. Without him, I think the populist movement typified both by Occupy and the non-astroturfed parts of the Tea Party can only find a home in Trump. Hillary is just too Wall Street to make sense for those voters unless she evidences a significant change in both rhetoric and actions.
But honestly I really love Bernie for two reasons: 1. Stephanie Kelton is his economist and she’s a key proponent of Modern Monetary Theory and also my economics crush and 2. Justice Warren (as Notorious RBG’s replacement) can persuade the other justices to overturn BofA v. Caulkett because, unlike the rest of SCOTUS, she actually understands bankruptcy. Also, postal banking.
How much cuck would a wood cuck cuck if a wood cuck could cuck wood?
If someone asks you ‘”what does this weird word ‘cuck’ mean, I saw it on the internet? “, the best answer is it means ‘not racist enough’. You can explain the background later, but simple answers are the most memorable.
Trumps mouth is an anus.
“I know words, I have the best words.”
The word “vocabulary” is not, apparently, in Trump’s vocabulary.