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!
@weirwoodtreehugger
Try linking them to The Boy who Cried Wolf as a “supporting citation”. Sure it doesn’t actually convince them but it made me feel smugly superior for a little bit.
Trump has really built a base out of the more conspiratorial fraction. Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson at least flirted with 9/11 trutherism, Trump friend and advisor Roger Stone thinks the moon landings were faked. FFS Alex Jones is prominent campaign ally! and that’s leaving out all the explicitly political CTs he and supporters have spewed.
@ WWTH: hmm. Didn’t know that, but…go, RuPaul. (I’ve heard a little bit and seen a few episodes of his Drag Race show, so I kinda-sorta know who he is.)
@ Moggie: people aren’t calling him “Trumpelthinskin” for nothing. It’d be comical, if he weren’t trying to put himself in the White House.
Well according to Huff post, Hillary currently has a 7.2% lead on Donald, wins 99% of their simulations and since there is only a few weeks left, there is very little chance of things going Donald’s way. The polls are getting more and more accurate and immobile as the election day approaches.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/donald-trump-i-will-totally-accept-election-results-if-i-win/
The first thing I notice is the word “if” not “when”, showing a lack of confidence, and the second thing is that an unrestrained Donald could be in the works in the final days of the election as he basically just implied that he won’t accept the basic tenants of how an election works. The third debate gave me the closest thing to a meltdown with Trump degenerating to toddler level speak and projection. Who knows what will happen in the next few weeks?
Not only were the debate topics rather obvious, but Fox News announced what they would be earlier this week.
I’m pretty sure Trump (or a lackey) was given a list of the topics ahead of time, then he just sat around watching TV instead of prepping.
He doesn’t love America. If he did, he wouldn’t be trying to influence his supporters to get themselves killed by bringing guns and intimidation to the voting booths, and starting riots and assassination attempts when he loses.
and having lunch that day with Republican Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson, who in the primaries supported Rubio (which Trump said meant Rubio was bought and paid for by Adelson).
https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/788854751844794368
Everyone who disagrees with me on any point is discredited! Discredited I say! You’ll never work in this town again!
Alt-Righters respond to debate with their usual idiocy
Yes, alt-righters, Daddy won bigly last night.
And yes, we know that if he doesn’t win bigly in the general election, you’ll kill everyone who’s not an alt-righter so that you can crown Daddy king.
Or maybe you’ll just moan and complain and whine a whole, whole, whole lot until the rest of us are sooooooo sick of hearing you that we crown Daddy king just to shut you up.
Third possibility: We’ll just keep laughing at the pathos that is the alt-right. Plus, a girl will be president.
@ TirAsleen
“… love America” is a dogwhistle which translates as “try to force the society to conform to my expectations.” The trumpery we’re seeing now follows a long line back through the pro-Vietnam War politics, through the KKK in the early 20th and late 19th centuries, through “Manifest Destiny”, to the tarring and feathering of anti-rebellion Americans before the Revolution…. and beyond.
Maybe it’s because I grew up during the Cold War, when “The Day After” was a thing, when good ol’ Uncle Ronnie got elected by branding the “bear in the woods” as the Evil Empire, but… for people blathering about treason here, there, and everywhere, it certainly seems ironic that they propose teaming with a foreign government to stage a coup against their own country.
Somewhere in the dark and increasingly disheveled depths of my brain is a theory about people that whine about restrictions on grotesque behaviour and want ‘daddy Trump’. While being convinced Clinton will release everyone else to do whatever they want.
It’s only ever a zero sum game to them. The goal isn’t even ‘improve America by following my ideals’, its ‘make everone else suffer, hahaha!’ And they assume their opponents want the same. Are the same.
Why are they simultaneously so entitled and so terrified?
Way too many people believe that now.
I had a student today claim that she would make a better president than either of the candidates. She thinks Hillary is a total, awful liar who lies about everything, all the time, just for fun,
So, “Canadian Lucifer” (just the kind of name my mommy would have been sooooo proud of…) twits a picture of Hillary flashing heat… and in the background are two ‘tween-looking couples, white girls with (insert racial epithet of choice) boys… this is called “White Genocide”!!! That kinda “race-mixing” always seems to be a concept in play when the alt-regurgitate talks about race. As Bruce Hornsby sang,
“And they’ve got their old white hoods and the same old orders
To keep the dark sons away (away) from their daughters”
White hegemony is critically endangered, even tho white men control 99% of everything… endangered because just a few short years ago, it was 100%. Full disclosure, my son and both of my grandbabies are multi-racial, but friends, I just don’t feel that fragile.
Got me my sticker! A 1st time voter showed up, and everybody cheered. The lady that checked my info or whatevs was pretty dead inside by 5:00. And if I never see the word ‘exception’ again, it’ll be too soon. Now, if we can just skip time ahead to January, that’d be swell
http://acasignups.net/sites/default/files/hillary_for_america_0_0.jpg
@Oogly
Oh, ffs. He somehow keeps getting worse! 1st, a dodgy yes. Then, ‘we’ll hafta see’. Next, it’s a suspense thriller. And now, as close to an outright ‘no’ as is possible without using the word ‘no’. Ugh…
Does this mean Trump is going to stop with the pussy-grabbing? Only I just had these wicked spikes installed and I’ve been positively itching to use them.
*pouts*
Bit of a derailment, but I made a pretty little cat-thing and I’d like to change my abstract artwork avatar to it, and I don’t have the faintest idea how.
(Yes, I have read the welcome package. The scented candles made me sneeze and the towels were scratchy. Whoever’s in charge of this place has to have a mammoth-like hide, I swear.)
Basically; Technology isn’t my strong-suit, so if someone could explain it to me in really tiny words, while acknowledging that my first language is not English, I’d be really grateful? Uhm, please?
So, what happens if a losing candidate doesn’t concede? In Trump’s case, he’ll look exactly the same as he does now: a big old Whiny McWhinerface.
Who would actually be surprised if he didn’t? I wouldn’t be.
@Axecalibur
Tangential, but for some reason my mind likes to parse “ffs” not as “for fuck’s sakes”, but as “fuck fuck shit”. It’s a bit more urgent in tone, I suppose.
Who the hell is this “Ricky” turd they’re all so hellbent on “freeing” (to go on spouting racist garbage, no doubt)?
And yeah, Cerno, tweet out the Gateway Pissant. Someone so laughable that his nickname is Stupidest Man on the Internet. That’ll REALLY scare the nasty wimminzes!
@Troubelle
At this point, with this muffuga, either is appropriate…
Considering there’s been a ton of Scott Adams linkage, I don’t know if any/all of you have seen these but they’re fantastic:
Scottbert comix
Yes, Trump would be a disaster, but I still can’t understand why everyone here is so excited about Hillary.
@Michelle S (and anyone else with a similar quandary)
Wassup! It should be noted that not everyone here is excited about President Clinton. It’s not good to generalize. I am excited tho, so maybe I can help you understand. Ahem:
She’s a she. She’s experienced in both executive and legislative functions. She’s qualified for the office. She supports the right to abortion. She recognizes institutional racism. She accepts the right to bear arms as a limited one. She trusts the science on global warming. She’s been pushing LGBT+ rights forward behind the scenes for years. She cares about foreign policy. She plans to increase the number of refugees allowed in this country, raise taxes on the wealthy, expand Obamacare, and lower the cost of college. And she’s a she
Not an exhaustive list, but it should hopefully get the point across 🙂
@Frigid virgin
All you need to do is make yourself a Gravatar (‘Globally Recognized AVATAR‘ if you were curious). Click “Sign In” and then “Create An Account” at the bottom of the next page. Put the email you use here in that 1st box, any username in the 2nd box, and choose a password for the last box
They’ll send you an email. Click the link in that email. That’ll take you back to the Gravatar site, so you can sign in. Fill in the boxes, and you’re in! That’ll take you to your account page. Click “Add A New Image” at the bottom, and go from there
If anything’s still not clear, let me know
@Zyvlyn,
Yeah, I know 🙁 . You think that nothing from these guys could surprise/disgust any more, and then you look at that picture and realise what they see in it, and … you are made sad, exactly.
@Handsome “Punkle Stan” Jack
That trailer landed in my inbox this morning – it’s indeed very very pretty. No idea about anything else yet, but it looks amazing 🙂