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Betty Boom

(361 posts)
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 08:15 PM Aug 2024

Even the Freepers are getting frustrated

I force myself to check into that cesspool once in a while. Today there was a post about this lunacy from Trump claiming that Kamala is faking crowd pics. There were more than a few people who expressed frustration, saying he should leave this to his staff, or he should be talking about policy and Biden‘s record.

Love it. Cracks in the wall. Tiny cracks, but tiny cracks grow large.

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Even the Freepers are getting frustrated (Original Post) Betty Boom Aug 2024 OP
they are soooooo close to getting it Skittles Aug 2024 #1
i was on the hannity board tonight. moonshinegnomie Aug 2024 #17
they are well aware they can lose Skittles Aug 2024 #18
Talking policy? Trump wouldn't be any more coherent or focused on that front either. Beartracks Aug 2024 #2
His policies: Himself n/t hibbing Aug 2024 #12
Well said, Betty Boom! wordstroken Aug 2024 #3
Some of the Trumpsters at my BF's work are being won over. kerry-is-my-prez Aug 2024 #4
tell the story! how do you know? barbtries Aug 2024 #30
Needing fonts with serifs and better eyeglasses kiri Aug 2024 #47
Since when does Maga care about policy/ EastBayGuy Aug 2024 #5
Have you taken a look at Project 2025? nt TBF Aug 2024 #7
Well, that's the point. Those poor little billionaires just don't have enough money, and the little fellows PatrickforB Aug 2024 #20
It's bizarre that they built a whole website around their Project 2025 and TBF Aug 2024 #34
Totally! But all these billionaires seem to have a fatal flaw, and that is hubris. PatrickforB Aug 2024 #36
Congress must be Blue and willing to do away with the damn filibuster... Justice matters. Aug 2024 #44
Maybe if we taxed billionaires more, they'd have less $$ for mischief ArkansasDemocrat1 Aug 2024 #46
Well said. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2024 #39
Better question then. Since when do Grown2Hate Aug 2024 #24
Yes, that's the better question. Still trying to figure out why they let that out - TBF Aug 2024 #35
And Trump can't help himself PatSeg Aug 2024 #6
Cracks in the dam. usonian Aug 2024 #8
Are you sure you didn't mean a billionth of a kilowatt? NBachers Aug 2024 #9
Let's ask the Chairman of the Board usonian Aug 2024 #21
Thank you. I had never heard the "Kennedy" version. niyad Aug 2024 #28
Cracks in the damned. Efilroft Sul Aug 2024 #37
Oh, that's adorable. They think he has policies. Chellee Aug 2024 #10
Spot On ProfessorGAC Aug 2024 #38
I want to see bootlicker Vance explain that Klarkashton Aug 2024 #11
I saw some of that too COL Mustard Aug 2024 #13
Republicans in disarray IronLionZion Aug 2024 #14
Policy? sheshe2 Aug 2024 #15
Freeperville is the base of the base of the base. So that means lindysalsagal Aug 2024 #16
So, they don't have a problem with his character, criminality, lies, lack of intelligence, policies, etc... LudwigPastorius Aug 2024 #19
Any speech by BattleRow Aug 2024 #23
They don't like that they are going to lose sanatanadharma Aug 2024 #42
Wow BrianTheEVGuy Aug 2024 #22
Back in 2018, I overheard a conservative friend say about former guy, SouthBayDem Aug 2024 #25
Faking? keithbvadu2 Aug 2024 #26
Those four guys must be brothers, amazing. Arne Aug 2024 #29
He can't talk policy because he doesn't know policy. The most policy anyone is going GoodRaisin Aug 2024 #27
Frustrated by the potential of losing again, not frustrated by actually being RockRaven Aug 2024 #31
This is literally the same shit he's done since 2015. D23MIURG23 Aug 2024 #32
Tiny cracks. Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #33
Thank you! Betty Boom Aug 2024 #49
I wondered about the origin of the word "freepers" so I looked it up. RussellCattle Aug 2024 #40
Thanks--I had no idea what that meant! birdographer Aug 2024 #41
How could birdbrain Trumpy talk about policy when he doesn't really have any? NoMoreRepugs Aug 2024 #43
All in all, it's another crack in the wall. MiHale Aug 2024 #45
We're definitely witnessing the beginning of the MAGA bubble bursting! Initech Aug 2024 #48
I'm certainly hopeful Betty Boom Aug 2024 #50
God I hope so. These people are pretty weird. Emile Aug 2024 #51

Beartracks

(14,308 posts)
2. Talking policy? Trump wouldn't be any more coherent or focused on that front either.
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 08:20 PM
Aug 2024

Not that their rightwing policies are any great shakes.

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barbtries

(31,093 posts)
30. tell the story! how do you know?
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 11:13 PM
Aug 2024

i think the magats in my world may come to their senses but don't expect them to announce it to me when they do?

on the premise that coming to their senses means acknowledging that they have been had, which is hard and probably harder when you have to eat crow in front of people who didn't get had.

kiri

(965 posts)
47. Needing fonts with serifs and better eyeglasses
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 05:35 PM
Aug 2024

I first misread "in front of people who didn't get had" as in front of people who didn't get laid.

I suspect there are a lot of MAGAs who don't get laid, and it accounts for their ugly disposition.

PatrickforB

(15,329 posts)
20. Well, that's the point. Those poor little billionaires just don't have enough money, and the little fellows
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 10:06 PM
Aug 2024

just won't be happy until they have our Social Security trust fund, have ended Medicare, and essentially stripped the government of all ability to protect us.

Charlie Koch and his Heritage Foundation greed lizards don't WANT the MAGAts to even be aware of any policies. Because their policies will actually HURT the MAGATs and Charlie just doesn't want them to be 'woke' to this at all. This is why they rail so much against 'wokeness.'

Of course, the opposite of 'woke' is asleep, and that is JUST what the billionaires want - their useful idiots who vote in people who will give them tax cuts, strip our treasury to line their pockets must remain ignorant until it is too late.

The MAGATs have been heavily propagandized. It really IS a cult, but the puppet masters are NOT Trump and Vance. They are just symptoms. It is the billionaires and Wall Street who are pulling the republic down around our feet.

TBF

(35,443 posts)
34. It's bizarre that they built a whole website around their Project 2025 and
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 12:36 PM
Aug 2024

were ready to release the book. I do agree that capital is in charge, it's just interesting that they let it out. I guess they were arrogant enough to think that the masses wouldn't believe it even if they read it.

PatrickforB

(15,329 posts)
36. Totally! But all these billionaires seem to have a fatal flaw, and that is hubris.
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 01:17 PM
Aug 2024

We are incredibly fortunate that this is so, because if they hadn't released it in writing, they could just sit back and lie like they always have.

But they really thought Trump would win over Biden, and they had to recruit thousands of true believers to fill all those schedule F positions right away when Trump won.

Then Biden stepped down as the nominee and endorsed Harris - now, I think he had this worked out in advance with Pelosi, Schumer and Jeffries, because I have NEVER seen the Democratic party coalesce this fast. And then Harris chose Walz, which has turned her campaign into a juggernaut.

Now, the billionaires are freaking out, Trump is deteriorating into a mass of delusional anger, and the fake electors are working feverishly to be in position to contest the votes. That is the billionaires' only hope, but if we show up at the polls in a giant blue tsunami like I think will happen, that won't even work.

It is so amazing watching these forces play out right in front of our eyes. Our species might actually be raising our consciousness enough to grow up, stop systematically destroying the earth for the sake of billionaire and Wall Street greed.

For the first time in years, I am hopeful. In fact, I might even say that I am joyfully optimistic.

Feels GREAT, doesn't it?

I don't know if you have ever read Power vs Force by David Hawkins, but he developed a logarithmic scale of human consciousness. The higher level begins with reason, then advances to love, then peace, then pure joy.

That is why I say I am joyfully optimistic, because this joy is literally parting the clouds of MAGA darkness and shining light throughout the republic.

Justice matters.

(9,281 posts)
44. Congress must be Blue and willing to do away with the damn filibuster...
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 05:17 PM
Aug 2024

To keep the joyful optimism going with real progress, otherwise the repukes will block all progress (with the help of the "centrist" dems?).

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)
46. Maybe if we taxed billionaires more, they'd have less $$ for mischief
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 05:31 PM
Aug 2024

If you tax a billionaire 90%, how much does he have left? 100 million. Not much sympathy from me.

Grown2Hate

(2,203 posts)
24. Better question then. Since when do
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 10:25 PM
Aug 2024

MAGAts want their unpopular policies broadcast to the public? ("See Project 2025", also works as a response here, except that they figured out it's electoral poison).

TBF

(35,443 posts)
35. Yes, that's the better question. Still trying to figure out why they let that out -
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 12:38 PM
Aug 2024

they had to know what the response would be even if someone accidentally found it. eta - and they didn't just put it out there in general terms - the pdf of the book is still on the website!

PatSeg

(51,962 posts)
6. And Trump can't help himself
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 08:43 PM
Aug 2024

He'll do and say things to encourage the cracks to grow. What a strange bird.

Chellee

(2,280 posts)
10. Oh, that's adorable. They think he has policies.
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 09:16 PM
Aug 2024

Sometimes he's able to remember the last thing some rich guy said to him. That's it. That's all he's got. There's no policies. Have they not noticed how he can contradict himself, sometimes in the exact same interview?

ProfessorGAC

(75,682 posts)
38. Spot On
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 03:24 PM
Aug 2024

There haven't been any policies since 2015, aside from those tax cuts, which were never his idea.
"The Border!" is not a policy. It's a hot button.
"I hate NATO!" is not a policy. It's a display of ignorance.
They still think there are/were policies?

IronLionZion

(50,728 posts)
14. Republicans in disarray
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 09:29 PM
Aug 2024


Republicans don't have much on policy. Trump's record is awful. Kamala would happily put her record against Trump's.

sheshe2

(95,556 posts)
15. Policy?
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 09:29 PM
Aug 2024

He should be talking about policy? His policy is to stay out of jail and when that is done he will rape America for every last cent and leave the rest of us behind.

When are they going to get that!
.

LudwigPastorius

(14,042 posts)
19. So, they don't have a problem with his character, criminality, lies, lack of intelligence, policies, etc...
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 10:06 PM
Aug 2024

It's his way he's campaigning they don't like.

That's like complaining that Hitler's speeches are too long.

sanatanadharma

(4,075 posts)
42. They don't like that they are going to lose
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 03:53 PM
Aug 2024

With Trump, the underclass was riding high over those they see and dislike as the uber-class.
And the freedom Trump's world allowed for their public displays of personal affliction.

SouthBayDem

(33,096 posts)
25. Back in 2018, I overheard a conservative friend say about former guy,
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 10:26 PM
Aug 2024

"stop TWEETING and start LEADING!"

There are plenty of conservatives out there who support the policies but dislike the man.

GoodRaisin

(10,696 posts)
27. He can't talk policy because he doesn't know policy. The most policy anyone is going
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 10:31 PM
Aug 2024

to ever get out of him is nonsensical bluster like “drill baby drill”. Or “mass deportations”. Or just pivot away to made up personal attacks. He really can’t answer questions pertaining to how he would solve issues except to give very simplistic replies, like “build a wall” or “dig a moat stocked with snakes and alligators”. He has no critical thinking ability at all. He’s stupid.

RockRaven

(18,621 posts)
31. Frustrated by the potential of losing again, not frustrated by actually being
Sun Aug 11, 2024, 11:16 PM
Aug 2024

embarrassed by associating with and worshipping a traitorous psycho clown.

D23MIURG23

(3,136 posts)
32. This is literally the same shit he's done since 2015.
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 07:58 AM
Aug 2024

Accusing someone else of lying about crowd sizes is about as classically Trump as you get. It's something so fucking stupid that only this moron would ever lie about it, and now that he's clearly losing at the stupid thing he's obsessed with, it's clearly the other guy who is cheating.

He's like a fucking toddler without any of the cuteness.

Kid Berwyn

(22,712 posts)
33. Tiny cracks.
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 08:20 AM
Aug 2024

“Tiny cracks, but tiny cracks grow large.”

Well said. And a hearty welcome to DU, Betty Boom!

 

RussellCattle

(1,928 posts)
40. I wondered about the origin of the word "freepers" so I looked it up.
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 03:29 PM
Aug 2024

Freeper (plural Freepers)

(Internet slang, derogatory) A person who frequents Free Republic, a right-wing website and forum.
(slang, derogatory, by extension) Any person, especially a US citizen, who puts forth right-wing ideals.

Betty Boom

(361 posts)
50. I'm certainly hopeful
Mon Aug 12, 2024, 07:17 PM
Aug 2024

For one thing, it would be nice to see a lot of families come back together and heal. So many fractured, families and friendships caused by this horrible man and his brainwashing. It will be our job to forgive them for being taken in. I’m not going to say that will be easy, because I think it reveals a lot about peoples character if they followed him.

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