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talkpolitics‘A total failure’: The Proud Boys now mock Trump
"In a Nov. 8 post in a private channel of the messaging app Telegram, the group urged its followers to attend protests against an election that it said had been fraudulently stolen from Trump. “Hail Emperor Trump,” the Proud Boys wrote.
But by this week, the group’s attitude toward Trump had changed. “Trump will go down as a total failure,” the Proud Boys said in the same Telegram channel Monday.
As Trump departed the White House on Wednesday, the Proud Boys, once among his staunchest supporters, have also started leaving his side. In dozens of conversations on social media sites like Gab and Telegram, members of the group have begun calling Trump a “shill” and “extraordinarily weak,” according to messages reviewed by The New York Times. They have also urged supporters to stop attending rallies and protests held for Trump or the Republican Party."
How quickly the tide turns, eh? All it took was losing an election, inciting violence leading to many of his followers getting jailed, not participating himself in said insurrection, disavowing the violence and then not handing out pardons... oh! And getting banned from Twitter and Facebook and...
As much as I loathe these guys, I can't help but find it sad that it took them being thrown under a bus to wake up. They didn't mind that for the last few months of his presidency he continually lied about a healthcare plan that would come out in a couple of weeks. Then a couple of weeks more. Only to NEVER happen. This is just one example of how pathetic he was as a leader. But they disavowed him because he no longer supported them. They have no concern or care for their country and its well being. Only themselves. Just like him. Which is why they deserve exactly as much sympathy as he does - namely, zero.
"In a Nov. 8 post in a private channel of the messaging app Telegram, the group urged its followers to attend protests against an election that it said had been fraudulently stolen from Trump. “Hail Emperor Trump,” the Proud Boys wrote.
But by this week, the group’s attitude toward Trump had changed. “Trump will go down as a total failure,” the Proud Boys said in the same Telegram channel Monday.
As Trump departed the White House on Wednesday, the Proud Boys, once among his staunchest supporters, have also started leaving his side. In dozens of conversations on social media sites like Gab and Telegram, members of the group have begun calling Trump a “shill” and “extraordinarily weak,” according to messages reviewed by The New York Times. They have also urged supporters to stop attending rallies and protests held for Trump or the Republican Party."
How quickly the tide turns, eh? All it took was losing an election, inciting violence leading to many of his followers getting jailed, not participating himself in said insurrection, disavowing the violence and then not handing out pardons... oh! And getting banned from Twitter and Facebook and...
As much as I loathe these guys, I can't help but find it sad that it took them being thrown under a bus to wake up. They didn't mind that for the last few months of his presidency he continually lied about a healthcare plan that would come out in a couple of weeks. Then a couple of weeks more. Only to NEVER happen. This is just one example of how pathetic he was as a leader. But they disavowed him because he no longer supported them. They have no concern or care for their country and its well being. Only themselves. Just like him. Which is why they deserve exactly as much sympathy as he does - namely, zero.
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Date: 27/1/21 15:57 (UTC)^This.
I don't have a lot of fucks to give for able-bodied, white males from middle-class (or higher) backgrounds who feel oppressed because people in marginalized groups are starting to get civil rights and they think this is exactly the same as their own white-boy rights being taken away. The Proud Boys are predatory sociopaths incapable of feeling any empathy for suffering people, so fuck them.
I do feel sorry for working-class people who are being fed the "divide and conquer" lines about how immigrants are supposedly taking their jobs and they should blame Mexicans instead of the Republicans profiting off slave labor from undocumented immigrants... I feel sorry to a point. I come from "white trash", the same kind of people Trump tried to appeal to and I somehow managed to see through the bullshit and the "let's you and him fight" game (and that it's not just about class struggle but it's all intersectional, because this country was founded in colonial racism and on the subjugation of women etc etc etc). A lot of the Bernie Bros I know who were all like "yeah, fuck the elites! fuck the 1%!" ended up voting for Trump when their boy lost, at the end of the day they're "fuck you, I got mine" just like the Proud Boys are.