Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Rhinox]

It's also greatly limiting your audience when your act is nothing but making fun of people for not being rich straight white cis Christian men.

True.
Like, in the years its operated, I think I've seen 3 times they've actually hit on something funny and that can just be chocked up to blind squirrels finally finding a nut. There's just not anything funny about the current conservative outlook. It's all punching down and that's never a good note.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Never a good note... for mentally healthy, stable people.

But they've been at it for years and still haven't gone bankrupt. And no, morally bankrupt doesn't count. They obviously have just enough of an audience to continue to make it worth their time.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Trumpers say they love America, but they hate America. The America they love is the one from 1950, where women had restricted rights, blacks had almost no rights, gays went to prison, and atheists were accused of treason.

Here's the thing: loving something in the past and hating it in the present is not a different kind of love: it's just hate. If a man says to a woman "I love you, but not present-day you: I hate present-day you and I wish you were the way you look in these old photos", she's not going to think "that's still a kind of love".

It's trippy when a guy who freely hurls accusations like "welfare queen", "living in your mom's basement", "cuck", "simp", "libtard", and "illegal" turns around and complains that it's unfair to accuse him of being stupid just because he has only a high-school education. As if he was taking pains to be fair with his own accusations up till now.

The worst part is that every time this happens, a bunch of feckless centrists will come out of the woodwork to join in their accusations that this was a totally unfair generalization. Where the hug were these centrists when the other guy was hurling accusations and insults left and right?

Trump supporter: "We are going to grind your kind into dust." (actual DM I received)

If you're a white centrist and you feel tempted to lecture me about how non-constructive it is to insult Trump supporters, maybe you should keep in mind that this is how they talk to people like me, so maybe you should shut the hug up before lecturing me about my manners.

 

[Ironbite4]

Counter to FB Friend Who Needs To Join To Give Us Some Great Debate: they don't even love the 1950s America. They love the 50s version of America that was shown on shows like Mayberry and Leave It To Beaver.

 

[Wheelimus]

Yeah, I like FB Friend but I refuse to give his posts a like because he should join and post it himself. On a bad day this subforum is a ghost town, so we need the new blood.

 

[Pocket]

I also find it more than a little self defeating for him to be posting these rants on a social network for racist uncles. Like yeah no duh he's getting pushback on them; he's doing the digital equivalent of staging a one-man protest in the middle of rural Texas.

 

[Pale Rider]

He loves to argue, so I think he prefers FB because it affords him so many opportunities.

 

[Pocket]

Welp, Trump is already threatening to withhold federal funding for New York for daring to elect Mamdani, and Congress is going further by threatening to deport him outright.

New York newspapers, you have one job. Report this story with the giant headline "TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD"

 

[Dekafox]

Government shutdowns in the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Apparently government shutdowns weren't a thing until a 1980 legal opinion!

And some math I saw(which brought the above point to my attention):

127 total days of US federal government shutdown in history - It never happened until a 1980 legal opinion.

All 8 pre-Trump government shutdowns: 53 days combined.

The 3 shutdowns under Trump: 3 days + 35 days + 36 days (& counting).

Trump has now been president during 58% of the total time the US government has ever been shut down due to lack of funding.

"But passing funding is the job of Congress."

Republicans have controlled both the House & Senate during 80% of the shutdown time.

 

[Corvus]

Welp, Trump is already threatening to withhold federal funding for New York for daring to elect Mamdani, and Congress is going further by threatening to deport him outright.

To be fair, Trump had been threatening this before Mamdani actually won. But, to be fair again, it was easily overlooked amongst his assorted threats, whining, and general bleating.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Trump treats Americans the way a stalker treats women. He makes a big show of how much he loves them ... until they reject, avoid, or simply disagree with them, at which point he switches to full stalker mode and tries to destroy their lives.