Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Monique]

Watching Fuentes have a meltdown over Trump admitting he lost the 2020 election is hilarious "What was it all for then? Why did 1600 people get charged and I got put on a now fly list if your going to admit that you lost?"

It's rare to see a Trumper actually get upset at the dumb jive Trump says. Usually they just try and spin it as smart or pretend it never happened.

 

[Axaday]

I hadn't heard that Trump admitted that.

 

[KidTDragon]

Apparently he did:

Trump acknowledges losing the 2020 election 'by a whisker'

The former president admitted during a podcast appearance that he did not win the election against Biden, while saying later that it "was a fraud."

www.nbcnews.com

What's even more surprising is that no one published an opinion piece about how this proves that Trump has grown and would be a better president in a second term.

 

[Axaday]

Yeah, I'd say that is evidence that he knows the truth and accidentally said it out loud.

 

[KidTDragon]

I don't think anyone outside of his cult believed that he genuinely thought he won.

 

[Axaday]

I don't think anyone outside of his cult believed that he genuinely thought he won.

Really? I haven't been confident that he knew he lost. I know some insider said that he acknowledged it privately in December 2020, but it might have been in a weak moment and later he was publicly confident that he didn't. I'm not sure. As I said the other day, when someone is a moron and a liar, it is difficult to tell which one is in control.

 

[KidTDragon]

In Trump's case, the liar has always been front and center. Per a 1991 article in Spy magazine: "A mobster who knew Trump socially said of him once, 'He’d lie to you about what time of day it is—just for the practice.'"

 

[wonko the sane?]

These days I doubt he has the cognizance to acknowledge he lost. Four years ago though: he was told, he saw it, he knew it, and then he lied about it. Because the second he conceded the loss, the likes of nick fuentes would call him a loser and the chunks of the cult would have dropped him.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Without followers, Jim Jones would have been nothing more than a weirdo who shot himself in the jungle. Without followers, Hitler would have been nothing more than a failed artist with odious racial beliefs. Without followers, Trump would be nothing more than a sleazy con-man.

I understand the political strategy behind saying we should insult Trump without insulting his followers, but make no mistake: the followers are the problem.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Trump is a figurehead. Getting rid of him will help (and so many of us will just be glad to never have to see his ugly mug ever again), but there's still a lot of work to go afterwards, too.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Mostly because without changing the social and individual conditions: those cultists will just go and latch onto ANOTHER figurehead whom enables them to be hateful, angry and fearful.

 

[Pocket]

The trope of cultists summoning an evil god into existence exists for a reason.

 

[Teufel]

The Atlantic tried to make Trump scary but just made him look metal.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1833130369945641467

 

[Paladin]

is he now trying to WIN BACK the "childless cat ladies" ???

JD Vance spreads racist rumor that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Ohio

Republican vice presidential candidate posted a video of himself peddling the rumor and saying immigrants were ‘causing chaos’ in the city of Springfield

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Rhinox]

is he now trying to WIN BACK the "childless cat ladies" ???

JD Vance spreads racist rumor that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Ohio

Republican vice presidential candidate posted a video of himself peddling the rumor and saying immigrants were ‘causing chaos’ in the city of Springfield

www.independent.co.uk

Remember, it doesn't matter how transparent, racist, or easily disproven the lie is. What matters is how much traction it gets on social media so Trump can reference it. We live in a post-truth society.

 

[Anonymous X]

The Atlantic tried to make Trump scary but just made him look metal.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1833130369945641467

Reminds me of the cover of Kiss’s Psycho Circus album, sort of. Thematically. You’re right though, I mean, without context I’d have no idea if that was a pro or anti Trump image. Could just as easily be something that some groyper edgelord cooked up with generative AI.

 

[Paladin]

Doesn't exactly inspire confidence when the person running to be second most powerful in the nation admits out loud he wouldn't have certified the results of the last election.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1833498995965956191

 

[KidTDragon]

How did you think he got the job? His charisma?

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

I'm increasingly wondering if some of Trump's lackeys are deliberately sabotaging his campaign in order to get out of their job contracts, and talking him into picking Vance was a big part of it.

 

[Axaday]

Doesn't exactly inspire confidence when the person running to be second most powerful in the nation admits out loud he wouldn't have certified the results of the last election.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1833498995965956191

I thought the alternate slates were already sent and that was how they were able to generate the crisis about certification. Congress cannot just ASK for some choices.