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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOK, this is from Red State, but they nail the top 5 Trump sycophants of 2017
I enjoy seeing conservatives nail Trump's most idiotic supporters:
https://www.redstate.com/arbogast/2017/12/30/top-five-trumpaloopa-sycophants-2017/
Then there are the Trumpaloopas. The Trumpkins. The Trumpelestiltkins. The Trumpaholics.
The Trump fans who use photos of Trump as their Twitter avatars and have #MAGA in their profiles. The super-duper Trump fans who believe he can do no wrong, will defend everything he says, and will never waiver in their support. These are the people who if Donald Trump tweeted, I pooted, would quote-tweet, Nobody farts like Trump! #MAGA!
The list is in no particular order since you really cant rank sycophants:
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Sean Hannity Have we ever witnessed a person who walked the establishment conservative line for so long go down the path of Trumpism so fast? Hannity didnt just get on board The Trump Train. He was ready to lie down in front of it, shouting, I LOVE YOU DONALD!!! as the train plowed over him and turned him into a corpse. Even in death, Hannity would be yelling, MAGA! Hannity ditched conservatism to gain favoritism in the eyes of Cheeto Jesus. He bought into the Seth Rich conspiracy and blathers on about fake news and the deep state like hes trying to emulate Alex Jones.
Jack Posobiec If there were ever a more pathetic Trumper than Posobiec, youd be hard-pressed to find one. Posobiec is like that kid in school who always said he had something better than another person. You can picture him in class today. Some kid says, I got the iPhone 8! Posobiec would respond, Well I got the iPhone X with 512GB of memory and the FULL SCREEN! Everybody knows hes lying, but theyd say nothing so he wouldnt drone on about it anymore. Posobiec made his bones playing footsie with the alt-right like his knuckle-dragging Gorilla Mindset lisping goon, Mike Cernovich. Posobiec was happy to play kissy with white nationalists such as Richard Spencer. He, like Cernovich, built their large following catering to the Pepe the Frog crowd with talk of white genocide and adhering to kook conspiracy theories such as Seth Rich and Pizzagate. Posobiec then wanted to gain some credibility and hilariously tried to distance himself from his past. It didnt work. But he still humps Trumps leg.
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Sebastian Gorka Hes such a douche that he blocks anybody on Twitter critical of him or Donald Trump. It is hard to keep track of all the idiotic statements hes made and lies hes told in defending Donald Trump or attempting to cast blame for every Trump failure on Barack Obama. Whether hes misquoting Jake Tapper over terrorist attacks, saying Hillary Clinton should be tried for treason, or lying about his credentials, Gorka generally goes on rabid pro-Trump shows, kisses the butt of Trump, and hopes that one day he will be allowed back into the White House.
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I left out two of the top 5. Jacob Wohl is someone you aren't likely to hear about except on Twitter, where you'll "find Wohl replying to nearly every Trump tweet, usually within minutes, with a statement of support no matter what Trump says." And Matt Boyle, who's a fake journalist from the Breitbart sewer.
The article also gives "honorable" mentions to Mike Cernovich, Laura Loomer, and John Cardillo, but dismisses them as "boring but will defend Trump to the death."
Editing to add that I found this thanks to a retweet by John Schindler.
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)a large proportion of those trump can do no wrong twitter accounts are bots. Whether they are Russian bots, or Trump bots, or evangelical group bots, I'm not sure. But it's not normal behavior.
I adored Obama, but never put his pic up as my avatar or header graphic while he was president. A lot of the graphics are abnormal hero worship and a high level of cheesiness that is not equivalent to american-like behavior.
WhiteTara
(29,719 posts)The entire town is engaged in fake news. We support them with their click bait stories...you know, the ones that are so incendiary and you just can't believe. In fact they aren't to be believed, but each time some one clicks, they make money. Americans are such fools that you can fool them again and again and again.
http://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/27/meet-woman-fighting-fake-news-macedonia/98469522/
Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)even here on DU. I see quite a few links that I don't bother with, especially those quizzes and lists.
Don't feed the trolls is my motto, generally.
WhiteTara
(29,719 posts)delight in the feeding of the trolls. Facebook is just one big clickbait after another. So much of it comes in the feed and not just the ads.
I forgot about that Macedonia story. I never click on links from sites other than MSM. If someone follows me on twitter that is exclusively posting links to stories on their own site, I just block them. Trumpsters on the other hand...they fall for that bigly.
WhiteTara
(29,719 posts)personality tests. Then they get angry when you tell them they are feeding the trolls and making them fat.
underpants
(182,848 posts)Very funny and a good read - that it's from Redstate that's saying something