Donald Trump celebrated winning the New Hampshire primary in his signature style: a series of deluded ravings. But connoisseurs of the former president’s rants were treated to an unexpected dollop of irony last night, as Trump came out against the losers of elections laying claim to victory.
Trump was the victor Tuesday night, winning the Granite State’s Republican primary with 54.5 percent of the vote. Nikki Haley came second, but her 43.2 percent support was far higher than anyone initially expected—a fact she celebrated as she promised supporters she would keep pushing.
Haley’s resilience immediately infuriated Trump, who turned his victory speech into a Haley roast. “I find in life, you can’t let people get away with bullshit,” he said, flanked by the nightmare blunt rotation of Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and Eric Trump.
“And when I watched her in the fancy dress—that probably wasn’t so fancy—come up, I said, ‘What’s she doing? We won.’ And she did the same thing last week,” Trump said, referring to Haley celebrating after coming third in Iowa.
Having failed to fully purge himself of his excess emotions during his speech, Trump then took his grievances to social media, at one point writing on Truth Social, “Could somebody please explain to Nikki Haley that she lost—and lost really badly. She also lost Iowa, BIG, last week.”
It’s pretty rich for Trump to say that people who lose should just accept their loss. After all, he has been indicted twice, once at the federal level and once at the state, for failing to accept a loss so hard that he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Is there anyone else of note left in the race, I’ve not really been following? If one was the last competitor to trump, or the most popular of those left, I’d imagine it’d make a lot of sense to at least hold out to see what the supreme court says about Trump’s eligibility. I mean, given their political leanings I’d guess it’s almost certain they’ll find a way to say he’s not an insurrectionist or that it doesn’t matter, but in the event that they do rule him ineligible, the republicans would need another candidate and in her position I’d imagine she’d win the primary by default if she is still running in such a scenario
Nah, it’s just her and Trump. On the dem side there seem to be a small number of people under the illusion that Biden doesn’t have the nomination secure.
Trump will lose the election, full stop. Both Barrett and Roberts have repeatedly proven themselves to not be completely corrupted, or at least not reliably partisan.
Even if one is compromised there’s no reason that owners of certain Justices might not actually want Haley over Trump.
NOTHING stops this, because people keep mocking back. And it isn’t just one single individual, Donald Trump, but multiple families (Rupert Murdoch, etc) and millions of people who believe QAnon / “Q” without there being any person, just a constant barrage of leadership icons mocking truth, mocking sincerity, mocking the Constitution, it is a media cult of ignorance! NOTHING STOPS IT! 10 years and 10 months of this!
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Wow, Trump has double standards? I would never have imagined! 😜
He doesn’t, really. He has a simple moral code that he always follows: if it’s good for Trump, it’s good. If it’s bad for Trump, it’s bad.
Maybe Nikki Haley knows what she’s doing. Idk she should stick it out and see.
Is there anyone else of note left in the race, I’ve not really been following? If one was the last competitor to trump, or the most popular of those left, I’d imagine it’d make a lot of sense to at least hold out to see what the supreme court says about Trump’s eligibility. I mean, given their political leanings I’d guess it’s almost certain they’ll find a way to say he’s not an insurrectionist or that it doesn’t matter, but in the event that they do rule him ineligible, the republicans would need another candidate and in her position I’d imagine she’d win the primary by default if she is still running in such a scenario
Nah, it’s just her and Trump. On the dem side there seem to be a small number of people under the illusion that Biden doesn’t have the nomination secure.
Trump will lose the election, full stop. Both Barrett and Roberts have repeatedly proven themselves to not be completely corrupted, or at least not reliably partisan.
Even if one is compromised there’s no reason that owners of certain Justices might not actually want Haley over Trump.
He keeps confusing her with Nancy Pelosi.
“Donald Trump finds another way to trick media into giving him more headlines”
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Hey, just because it’s obvious and childish doesn’t mean the media moguls don’t gobble it up like so many hamberders.
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Oh no, he said something different? Now I’m impressed 🤪
PS: let’s observe his use of “negging”, aka one of the BS tricks from the PUA book.
It isn’t funny. It’s exactly how Trump got into so much society power in the first place! “Mock mock mockery” behavior!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam_curtis_on_the_contradictory_vaudeville_of_post-modern_politics.html
On The “Contradictory Vaudeville” Of Post-Modern Politics
What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia…
NOTHING stops this, because people keep mocking back. And it isn’t just one single individual, Donald Trump, but multiple families (Rupert Murdoch, etc) and millions of people who believe QAnon / “Q” without there being any person, just a constant barrage of leadership icons mocking truth, mocking sincerity, mocking the Constitution, it is a media cult of ignorance! NOTHING STOPS IT! 10 years and 10 months of this!
I’m so fed up with this shit. I want it to end so badly.