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.
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realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 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.
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 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@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mean names like “felon” and “rapist” and “insurrectionist” and “traitor”? Those sorts of mean names.
Nunar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Appropriate names…
fox2263@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What about MSM like Fox
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 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@lemmy.world 3 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”
intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 months ago
If McCain were running, the MSM would be saying horrible shit about him.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I remember when he did run, before Palin was picked as his running mate, he tried to keep things civil.
Maybe you’re too young or too old to remember McCain going against a support of his when they called Obama an Arab. Could you ever imagine Trump doing that? Especially when his was the loudest one on the whole “birther” movement.
WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 3 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@lemmy.world 3 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@lemmy.world 3 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@lemmy.world 3 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.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 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.
zeppo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pretty absurd to say Democrats call people “mean names” given this list of “mean names” trump has used over the years: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_nicknames_used_by_Dona…
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
Not really. Trump calling people names doesn’t disprove that others have called him names.
zeppo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sure. Nobody was trying to prove that. However, whining about it in his support is hypocrisy.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
True. To be fair though, I don’t support his namecalling.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is the level of political discourse we’ve sunk to? Complaining about name calling? How pathetic.
philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s snowflake shit.