So last night the eminently classy Donald J Trump — the “J” stands for “Jesus H Christ what the hell is wrong with you, dude?” — reposted this lovely meme below contrasting his SUPER HOTTTT wife Melania with Heidi Cruz, wife of Ted, a woman who once committed the terrible crime of making a weird face in public.
"@Don_Vito_08: "A picture is worth a thousand words" @realDonaldTrump #LyingTed #NeverCruz @MELANIATRUMP pic.twitter.com/5bvVEwMVF8"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2016
You might think that Trump — an orange-faced self-tanner with, you know, that hair — would stay away from looks-based insults, but then again Trump actually thinks he looks good — nay, great! And also he’s a giant baby.
The Tweet got mixed reviews, by which I mean that most normal human beings thought Trump was being a giant ass. That is, even more so than he usually is.
But the Donald had his defenders. Here are a few of the more, well, I would say “colorful ones,” but they tend to be a bit monochrome, if you know what I mean, and what I mean is that a lot of them are white supremacists.
MAKEUP ARTIST: So, Heidi, how do you want to look today?
HEIDI CRUZ: Oh, you know, the usual.
MAKEUP ARTIST: That George Soros globalist look?
HEIDI CRUZ: You got it. And make it just a teensy bit ragged.
MAKEUP ARTIST: I always do!
HEIDI CRUZ: You’re the best!
Transphobia turns out to be a major theme in these Tweets, for some reason.
#PureClass indeed.
Some, apparently referring to reports that Heidi Cruz has suffered from depression, decided to denounce her as “crazy” as well as ugly:
A gun to what, Randy? A gun to what!? Finish the sentence, Randy!
And now on to boogers:
By the way, people are still using the #TedCruzAteABooger hashtag. Not very many people, admittedly, but more than zero.
One Donald Trump parody account — run by someone who also seems to be a Trump supporter — jumped aboard the Let’s Call Heidi Cruz Crazy Train.
This fellow was one of Trump’s most, er, outspoken defenders:
Meanwhile, the artist formerly known as DJ Pop A Titty Out had this to say:
You knew we weren’t going to make it through this without that word popping up at least once, right?
Meanwhile, on the other side of this peculiar debate, not all of the anti-Trumpites were above taking potshots at Melania Trump’s looks.
This is definitely the most screwed-up presidential campaign I’ve ever seen.
@peaches- my apologies. I’m a poor country person myself, and my understanding of the term was that it referred to a certain type of trashiness that was independent of income level. But if it implies something problematic, then I will amend my insult to just “trashy”.
@GenJones, thanks. I know it’s an insult that Trump seems to be begging for, but I don’t find it appropriate.
Thanks, GenJones for being cool about it instead of doubling down.
White trash has been kind of a tough insult to excise for me. It’s just so pervasive. I also didn’t realize it was problematic for a very long time. I still occasionally slip up 🙁 I think it’s been a while though.
“Garbage person/people” seems to be a adequate substitute that avoids the classist biz.
Manospherians and assorted people-who-tweet-from-beneath-rocks seem particularly susceptible to the Assortative Mating Fallacy:
1. All people have a fixed “sexual market value”
2. Women’s sexual market value is determined by looks, men’s by money and power
3. People in a relationship always have exactly equivalent sexual market value. Hot woman = rich/powerful man; super hot woman = super rich/powerful man.
4. Being with a hot woman automatically grants lifetime validation and equal Sexual Market Points for the man. Hot women are all selfish bitches for not dating fedora’d gentlesirs and conferring instant alphahood on them.
5. If couples violate this law in the other direction, in a manner that benefits the female half (wealthy woman + hunky man; wealthy man + average woman), it is an abomination of nature and should be ranted about at great length on the intertubes.
Then there’s the corollary, “Whoever Has The Hottest Wife Is Right”. Vox Day and his followers like to resort to this argument, and apparently so do Trump’s fans. It’s pretty much all they have. Regarding Trump, it’s a trivial argument: of course the billionaire’s wife is going to look amazing, with a fortune at her disposal, more leisure time, and access to all the best designer clothing, cosmetics, tools, salon products, assistants, procedures, personal chefs and trainers, and Photoshop experts. But it doesn’t mean that Trump himself is smarter, better, or more worthwhile. I doubt she’s attracted to him for his scintillating personality and grasp of foreign policy.
I remember hearing that Jerry Sandusky (or one of his associates), when interviewing potential new assistant football coaches, always insisted on checking out the candidate’s wife. If she was hot, then he knew the candidate must be a bona fide leader and a powerful alpha to attract such a bodacious wife, so he’d hire them. It was all kinds of gross and creepy. Same fallacy.
‘Cause everyone knows the way to pick a candidate is to base it on how their wives/they look. Because that has everything to do with how good a president they will be. Not their policies or anything. It’s how they or their wives/kids/relatives look. Isn’t it obvious?
Not that it matters anyway with Trump or Cruz. Their policies are both absolutely horrible.
God, this is turning out to be a bigger shitshow than I thought. What a bunch of fucking babies.
Maybe we “SJWs” should have a similar thing going. Except it should be “Whoever Has The Cutest Cat Is Right.” Because obviously feminists are all cat ladies.
It wouldn’t be a real competition. Just an excuse for kitty pics.
@weirdwoodtreehugger
I guess I’m not a feminist, then. I’m allergic to cats! 😉
Why is the “she looks like a man” thing still used as an insult? Is it shameful to be a man?
@Dodom
Honestly I’d be ashamed if I were a man like Trump, or a man like any of his fervent manospherian/mgtow/pua/asshole supporters.
Otherwise, being male isn’t a shameful thing. Give me a while and I might even decide that being a man such as I described above isn’t inherently shameful but the rhetoric and crap they do/say/believe IS.
Hello.
If the campain is going to physical comparison, do you think they are also going to compare their manhood ? Maybe they should invoke Walter to get insightful informations about their pole size and its ability to led them to the presidency, and then do comparison, yelling “no more caucus, more coïtus !” ? Then they could tweet and send a picture of their wiener, you know, like the ones gamers and online PUA send to their “targets”, but there to win the part of the electorate who is attracted by this part of the anatomy ?
Ah, but here, we can not really laught at these kind of campaign. After all, we had an ex-president who was so eager to exhibit his top-model wife as a trophy and a proof of his superiority, so…
Have a nice day.
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@occasional reader – Oh, no.
We’ve already gotten to that point.
Norah:
Honestly, I don’t know why you even bother with an election. Just have all the candidates publish their accounts, and the richest one automatically becomes president. Or just put the presidency on ebay every four years, with a reserve price of $1bn, and have people bid for it.
Don’t want or need any more of that arglebargley about dick size from the remaining Republican nominee hopefuls – didn’t need the first round definitely don’t need more.
P.S. Trump looks like the only person he impresses in bed is himself.
Trump does not have a penis. He’s smooth down there, like a Ken doll./selfprotectingdenial
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I’m gonna slip this in and note that Cruz is total scum. But I don’t think it is a hu– sorry, yuuuuuuuge surprise to anyone.
@Bina- I believe this is an occasion for an old adage: “The man who marries his mistress has a job opening”
This gets, um, even better:
“Neo-Nazi Trump supporter calls for execution of Ted Cruz’s ‘sl*t wife’ over links to ‘Jew banksters’”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/neo-nazi-trump-supporter-calls-for-execution-of-ted-cruzs-slt-wife-over-links-to-jew-banksters/
@Dodom
To a person making that insult, the shame comes from being a woman they wouldn’t have sex with. After all, it’s the ultimate insult a woman can ever receive as women derive all value from who will have sex with them and nothing else.
Similarly, we can take any compliments about Melania from these people to be, at their core, “I would have sex with her.” Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were tweets or chats or message board posts or even face to face conversations that say it that blatantly. And I’m not sure if that’s more or less twisted than knowing that, if Drumpf were to find out about ones saying it that way, he’d most likely smirk smugly about how great he is for “landing the hot chick.”
Given the ‘globalist’ slur, probably ‘North American’. As in these are people who seriously believe there’s a conspiracy to dissolve the U.S. and create a North American Union with its own currency (the ‘Amero’). They’re probably also the sorts who believe the U.N. Agenda 21 is some sort of attempt at a regulatory takeover of the U.S., despite the fact that said Agenda is a purely voluntary set of recommendations.
Jenora Feuer: Hell, I always thought that unification with Mexico and Canada wouldn’t be a bad idea, if we could do it in a reasonable fashion (no annexation, only popular votes in the countries joining the greater union). Get the Gulf island nations and various lower Central American countries in, too, over time.
Done right, it would raise the standard of living in the poorest areas, increase our labor pool, actually address the problems that ride along with illegal immigration by eliminating a vast amount of it, and encourage diversity.
Sadly, it’s just a pipe-dream, rather than a conspiracy. I’ve got a better shot of sprouting wings than of seeing that sort of thing in my lifetime. Also, I’m not sure the Canadians would accept us.
thanks
Watch that insult. Sexless/neutrois people exist.
Also, the small dick jokes are a bit dyadist and maybe transphobic, so we should probably stop that, even if you are making fun of complete assclowns.