2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHey guys - I would appreciate your help here - building a "wall" of Trump-supporters names:
I would like to start compiling a list of all the CONS who decided to stick with Trump (and get it all over themselves). It would be pretty cool to be able to target "he/she stood with Trump", looking ahead to future elections including the 2018 midterms.
I'd like to see him hung around their necks like a cheap-ass made-in-china Donald Trump necktie.
And thank you in advance.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Christie
Guiliani
Pence
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)GP6971
(31,159 posts)Jeff Sessions
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Of course you may have to drop a few that have since recanted.
calimary
(81,267 posts)And I wanna remember this guy, too:
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/trumps-va-campaign-chair-fired-for-organizing-protest/333375607
And Corey Lewandowski, too. I want to know who ALL OF THEM are.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)global1
(25,248 posts)declare their allegience to Trump by listing their name on the site. Then we have them on record and could embarass the en masse.
I think they would be stupid enough to list their name on such a site.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Not just politicians.
calimary
(81,267 posts)Abouttime
(675 posts)After the election all those that supported trump should be singled out by all Federal LEO's
And the IRS.
I'm sure there are MANY tax and firearm violators amongst his rabid supporters.
If a few of these sickos are prosecuted and jailed and lose everything maybe in the future people will think long and hard about nominating another FASCIST!!
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)It's not a crime to support Trump.
But they should be publicly exposed for who they are.
Abouttime
(675 posts)Exposed and prosecuted as examples
You don't think Reagan and Co. did that to us in the 80's??
We need to politically and lawfully kick these fascists when they're down, finish em off.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)They would probably be upset to be left off of a list of Trump's biggest supporters. And they certainly don't seem to be abandoning him due to the GTBTP tape.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)People who participate there should be ashamed of themselves. Especially if they're lying to themselves and calling themselves "progressive."
retrowire
(10,345 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)It wasn't "Righties" who gave the go-ahead to refer to Hillary Clinton with the C-word. It was former DUers who couldn't get away with it here.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)not all of them. I'm certain of that.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)It's a hate site to anyone with the basic humanity to see it. It was founded by supposed progressives so they could libel and verbally assault a woman running for president and all of her supporters.
The opposite of progressive values, in other words.
Who they named themselves after matters less than their actions and words, which are often disgusting, misogynist, and racist. They ran with calling black Americans "low-information voters" for supporting Clinton. They negatively brought vaginas into this election months before Trump's tape leaked.
I honestly can't fathom how you can defend them. It's literally incomprehensible.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)I, along with many other good Bernie supporters started that site for a good reason. Then, it got out of hand. I was a mere moderator at first, then dropped that position and as time went on, I realized how nuts it was getting there.
People that were my friends seemed to turn against me because I took Bernie's direction of being with her. Then all sorts of people started talking about how Trump was somehow better?
I have since lowered my participation there immensely. Last I checked it hasn't gotten better. But the original intent was good. It's just twisted into something bad.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)An endless primary battle that they could never lose because they were the ones running the site, instead of just participating like at DU. It was that very behavior that opened them up to infiltration, because their content was already close enough to alt-right garbage that they couldn't spot where their bullshit ended and the Trump support began.
They were warned here about their reliance on right-wing sources, but they thought they knew better. Turns out that they didn't.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)"It was that very behavior that opened them up to infiltration, because their content was already close enough to alt-right garbage that they couldn't spot where their bullshit ended and the Trump support began."
Very correct.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)I was back and forth for a while. It was so manically anti-Bernie in here, and so gestapo with her more rabid supporters alerting on anything with even a hint of questioning the party line, and because most Bernie supporters either left, or were taking a break from DU because of the harassment, most juries almost always hid those posts. I was hidden 3 times during the primaries, unjustly IMO, and never had been before that.
So many good people fled to JPR. Many caught in the middle. They did not feel welcome on DU but some posters on JPR were/are flat out unhinged. Some there think Trump would be better because it would finally cause the real revolution, and out of the ashes a new socialist utopia will rise. Sorry, I can't buy that. IMO, a Trump presidency would only give more power to the idiocracy, more cons on the SCOTUS for decades, and a normalization of extremism on the right. And they have most of the guns. It would take decades to recover...if we ever did.
But that doesn't mean there were and still are, many good intelligent and caring old DUers there that just wanted to be able to question the Democrat nominee more closely, and the shenanigans that went on with Debbie and the DNC for instance. Most do not want a Trump presidency. They just want a free space to be able to be allowed to express their concerns about things like Hillary's corporate pull strings. That kind of honest open talk was banned from DU, and I guess still is. I really miss posters like Sabrina, who always wrote deadly searing rebukes to right wing trolls in here. I wish DU admin were not so afraid to allow engagement like this. Maybe after the election we can expand our pool again.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)ANY place, reason, person, group, etc where they can throw shit on Hillary in particular and on Democrats and liberals/progressives in general, they'll be certain to glom onto. They do like to pile on, and I'm sure some of them are paid to do so.
Wouldn't surprise me at all.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Bobby, the correct name is JACKASS RADICALS.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)And don't deny it.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)Don't join them though. Jackpine was a good DUer.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)Those CONS who've FINALLY pulled away... only quite a few HOURS ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gary-herbert-trump-women_us_57f85540e4b0e655eab48044
Raster
(20,998 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)Six days ago, third-ranking Senate Republican John Thune called for Trump to step aside and let Mike Pence become the GOP standard-bearer. Nebraska senator Deb Fischer said the same. Long-shot Republican Senate candidate in Colorado Darryl Glenn declared that Trumps remarks to Billy Bush had rendered him simply disqualified from being commander-in-chief.
Now Thune and Fischer have reaffirmed their support for Trump, while Glenn has invited the mogul to give him an excuse to get back onboard.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/gop-donors-want-the-rnc-to-disavow-trump-gop-voters-dont.html
Oh yeah - and also, Corey Lewandowski, too. Let's not forget him.
And the surrogates, of course.
Rudy Giuliani
Chris Christie
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Newt Gingrich
Jeff Sessions
Scott Baio (!!!!!! - and that's just the beginning of the HollywoodenHeads for Trump (I just made that name up!)
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.)
Sean Spicer (GOP mouthpiece)
Ben Carson
Faith and Freedom Coalition Chairman Ralph Reed
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins
Katrina Pierson
Kellyanne Conway
Scottie Nell Hughes
Kayleigh McEnany
Omarosa Manigault
A.J. Delgado
Babbling Boris Epshteyn
Steve Cortes
Pastor Mark Burns
Andre Bauer
Stacy Washington
Hugh Hewitt
Jeffrey Lord
Andy Dean
Ann Coulter
Eric Bolling
Jeanine Pirro
Andrea Tantaros
Jesse Watters
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sean Hannity
Sarah Palin
Ari Fleischer
And the fancy-looking blonde (Trump-bait) "Dr." Gina Loudon, who's recently come onboard.
And yes, even some "civilians" - who, when they stick their necks out and go public, no longer qualify for being "non-combatants"
John Barry - cousin of Trump accuser Summer Zervos
And of course the professional nogoodniks:
Steve Bannon
David Bossie
Dinesh D'Souza
Brietbart Inc.
Matt Drudge
Rush Limbaugh and his many, many wannabes and clones - too numerous to mention here but we AND they know who they are.
James O'Keefe and his "Project Veritas" cabal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas_Project
Judicial Watch - Tom Fitton, Larry Klayman, Chris Fedeli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Watch
American Center for Law and Justice - Jay Sekulow and Pat Roberton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Center_for_Law_%26_Justice
Here's one link, anyway...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/surrogates-explaining-away-trumps-sexual-behavior-only-seem-to-make-it-worse/2016/10/13/138a0006-9093-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/08/the-trump-surrogates-who-will-stand-by-their-man-to-the-bitter-end.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/23/meet-the-trumpkins-the-donald-s-army-of-media-hungry-cable-news-boosters.html
mainer
(12,022 posts)our miserable jerk of a governor in Maine
BootinUp
(47,151 posts)They started a thorough list a couple or so months ago.
The more resources we have available to us, the better.
There MUST be a big price to pay for this. Especially considering all the discussion I'm hearing just this morning - regarding a look down the road after the election - and how much damage Trump & Comp have done to our democracy, our institutions, and our politics.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Fiorina said last week Trump needs to step aside for the good of the party and let his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence be the presidential candidate.
replace a sex pervert with another misogynist.
calimary
(81,267 posts)You have a war breaking out between Obama and Russia, and youre fussing about somebodys improper actions with a female? Tamara Scott, Republican National Committeeperson from Iowa, told Politico. The future of this country is at stake. I get that hes not a Boy Scout. Im looking for a bulldog.
Ohios Lake County GOP chairperson Dale Fellows told the outlet, Not one person has called me from our central committee or elected officials or anybody else and said anything about it other than lets get him elected because she cant be president.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/gop-donors-want-the-rnc-to-disavow-trump-gop-voters-dont.html
And of course, we must not forget dear Reince! RNC Chair Reince Priebus!!! The man whose very name, if you remove the vowels, confirms what the CONS are all about:
RNC PR BS
AND MIKE PENCE!!!!!!!!! He needs to have Donald Trump LAMINATED onto him so he's completely toxic for 2020. Because THAT'S all he's still in this for, at this late date. He's looking ahead to 2020, and desperately hoping that none of us have 20/20 vision!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)and Pat Robertson
James Dobson
I feel like adding Jill Stein to the list, given that she recently said Hillary Clinton is more dangerous than Trump, but to be fair she didn't actually endorse him.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)aka Ruiner.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)wouldn't that be great! We could let them pay to be listed.
Most would. We could fund raise for the rest.
calimary
(81,267 posts)The party aims to hang this GOP nominee around Republican necks for years.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/democrats-donald-trump-record-229021
calimary
(81,267 posts)Lovingly titled: "People who can go fuck themselves."
Drunken Irishman!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512585112#post90