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"Trump's embrace of a vile extremist troll is dividing the GOP"
We can only pray that this is true and harms them at the ballot box!

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/9/13/2269895/-Trump-s-embrace-of-a-vile-extremist-troll-is-dividing-the-GOP

@DemocracyMattersALot @politics #UsPolitics #Trump #GOP #GQP

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But they are okay with him being a vile extremist troll?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Probably because she isn't part of the clique. Trump gets enough support to let him do whatever, but they don't want another wildcard.

Recent photos captured Loomer standing next to Trump on multiple occasions, a level of access that puts her even closer to Trump’s ear than new campaign chairman Corey Lewandowski.

Yup, she is getting in the way of the party's attempts to influence Trump.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It sure would be a shame if people started talking about the rumor that Laura Loomer is pregnant with Trump's love child. I don't know if there's any truth to the rumor at all. It's just a rumor I heard people are talking about.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are we even sure she's a female human and not an LLM trained on Twitter posts stuffed into a melted Japanese sex robot?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

More like a melted Russian torture bot.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give them some time, they will kiss the ring soon enough.

[–] eddeeMN@poweredbygay.social 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They almost most certainly will. "I'm a never Trump guy. I never liked him."
-#JDVance

@vegeta

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it," Graham tweeted in 2016.

This has got to be the slowest desruction of a party. Anyway to speed it up?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Seeing Graham specifically be called out by Loomer was fucking delicious.

I've been waiting for the leopards to eat his face since he said that and turned around to be Trump's toady.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

My co-workers laughed when I told them that he got called out by Loomer. This fucking clown show, would be way more entertaining if it didn't have a chance to end up running the country.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've seen this one. This is the one where a bunch of Republicans are like "I'm a never Trumper" and then a month later they're all on the floor kissing his feet.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

If I was Alred, I would run an ad with Trump making fun of Cruz's wife, then Cruz sucking up to Trump, both with dates. Then ask "Do you really think Ted Cruz will stand up for Texans? He won't even stand up for his own wife."

It should be a standard line of attack for Dems.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The GOP isn’t all that divided. There are a handful who won’t hold their nose to vote Trump this time, but that’s about it.

Wake me when the party actually splits in half.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago

I’m happy that she’s in his orbit. Having people suck up to his craziest ideas only makes him look weirder when he says them to anyone who isn’t a MAGA moron.

I want another debate. Let’s keep calling him “small-hands scaredy-cat” and hope he decides he doesn’t like looking weak.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Embrace" is sure a weird way to say "She's clearly giving him sad little mushroom handjobs." Fucking foul, but it's clear he needed a new side piece since Melania doesn't want to be fucking near his crusty old stinky ass.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Dividing them between what, which cabinet position to give her?

Edit: wrong bigot

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oops. Her. I was thinking of a DIFFERENT vile extremist troll. Sigh.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

This is who he is.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Trump is a vile extremest troll.

Not quite sure how a vile extremist troll embracing a vile extremist troll became the final straw for these idiots… but I guess I’ll take it?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dividing the GOP between those who are public vile extremists and those that keep their vial extremism more private.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

And those who let both of those camps do their thing as long as they can use it to amass political power and/or wealth.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

“This is appalling and extremely racist,”

M.T. Green

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

No it isn't

She's his Joan Quigley (Reagans Astrologer)

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
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