• @[email protected]
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    -513 months ago

    “Just run someone we won’t call mean names” is an impossible demand, because Democrats will never stop calling conservatives these things.

    Not to say that Trump is the best Republicans have, he certainly is not. But the MSM would just say the same thing about the next guy. We’re already seeing this with how JD Vance is getting treated.

    Ted Cruz, one of my favorite presidential candidates, would never survive the current left wing media landscape. Neither would Vivek Ramaswamy or Rick Santorum, some of my other favorite presidential candidates.

        • @zeppo
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          113 months ago

          Sure. Nobody was trying to prove that. However, whining about it in his support is hypocrisy.

            • @zeppo
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              43 months ago

              Okay, but they’re qualitatively different. Saying Trump is geriatric, an attempted insurrectionist, sexist etc are sober descriptions of his behavior. The nicknames he comes up with like “Liddle Adam Schiff” are befitting of a preteen on a playground.

              Trump brought us to this level of discourse - the constant juvenile practice of using demeaning nicknames for anyone he doesn’t see as on his side. It has cheapened our politics, like he has in general. What you’re complaining about is labeling. It’s not “mean names”, which seems to trivialize the serious intent in pointing out someone is racist or senile.

            • @ABCDE
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              33 months ago

              Yet you highlight this:

              Democrats will never stop calling conservatives these things.

              Which are responses to his constant barrage of insults based on looks/race/whatever else he makes up. Is no one allowed to retort now? You can’t bemoan the “MSM” and “Democrats” when he is instigating this shit.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          73 months ago

          This is the level of political discourse we’ve sunk to? Complaining about name calling? How pathetic.

    • @barsquid
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      223 months ago

      They’re not just names, unless you are deliberately ignoring reality.

      He’s not even a conservative. He just wants to shovel as much money as he can into his own pockets. He’s stealing classified documents. He’s completely unfit.

      • @[email protected]
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        -273 months ago

        They’re not just names

        They mostly are, they are mostly just mean names propped up by lies/conspiracy theories. The tactics used by the MSM against Trump and a bully or abusive parent are almost identical.

        He’s not even a conservative. He just wants to shovel as much money as he can into his own pockets. He’s stealing classified documents. He’s completely unfit.

        The one thing we agree on is that Trump is not a conservative, so I’ll take that common ground with you. He is comically farther to the left than almost anybody in the MAGA camp.

        • themeatbridge
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          213 months ago

          Mean names like “felon” and “rapist” and “insurrectionist” and “traitor”? Those sorts of mean names.

          • @Nunar
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            33 months ago

            Appropriate names…

                • @[email protected]
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                  133 months ago

                  Not at all likely, and until then, is still 100% factually accurate.

                  That still leaves “rapist” as indisputably factually accurate.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -93 months ago

                    Not indisputably, as that was a civil case and therefore does not require evidence of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. If there was stronger evidence, he likely would have been tried criminally instead.

                • @Duamerthrax
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                  73 months ago

                  He’s bragged about gropping women. The fuck do you want?

            • themeatbridge
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              53 months ago

              Those aren’t names, they are factual descriptions.

        • @fox2263
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          33 months ago

          What about MSM like Fox

    • @Duamerthrax
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      143 months ago

      So you’re just a terrible person? Got it.

      And no, this doesn’t prove your point. You could have mentioned old school McCain and I wouldn’t be thinking you’re a terrible person, but the current Republican climate only lets the loudest, most hateful people rise their ranks. There are some stinkers in the Democrat’s ranks, but I can’t think of a single Republican of note that isn’t terrible.

      • @zeppo
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        43 months ago

        It’s amazing that anyone in the world can look at gigantic losers and pricks like Jim Jordan and think “oh yeah! Definitely voting for that guy”

        • @WarlockLawyer
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          163 months ago

          Like saying he wasn’t a war hero since he got captured? Which is still better than dying since only “losers” and “suckers” get killed in war.

          • @barsquid
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            143 months ago

            What wretched asshole would say such a thing? Unimaginable.

            Still, it could be worse than the media saying it. Like it would take some of the lowest scum on the planet for someone in the context of running for or acting as president to say such a thing.

          • @zeppo
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            23 months ago

            Seriously, to paraphrase, “he’s just a hero because he got captured. Well I like the ones who weren’t captured”. And this from a giant asshole who never served after claiming to have “bone spurs” and called STDs in the 70s “his personal vietnam”. It’s unimaginable that basically anyone supports that insanely stupid windbag, but here we are.

    • @ABCDE
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      13 months ago

      Ted Cruz, one of my favorite presidential candidates, would never survive the current left wing media landscape.

      He couldn’t survive Trump insulting his wife and calling him a liar.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        Which was tame compared to what he would have gone through had he gone the distance. He would have been hit with rape allegations if he won the nomination.