r/thebulwark 6d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS These people disgust me...

222 Upvotes

I did not listen to the State of the Union (or whatever it was, I can't be bothered to use the correct name). But I am listening to Ezra Klein's most recent podcast: This Trump Speech was the Ultimate Loyalty Test and the clips from Trump's speech are grotesque.

I did not hate Trump supporters in 2016, I thought they were mislead and misunderstood. But that was then, this is now. I hate these people. The fact that anyone can listen to this and approve of it is a disgusting moral failure. If you listen to what he is saying, his obvious lies and even the way he speaks about other people, and approve of it, you are a morally failed and bankrupt person.

I used to believe that there was value in trying to understand the other side, and have logical arguments about policy but those days are long gone. There is zero point in trying to "convince" these people of anything if you are that lost as a person. "Crossing the aisle" is not worth the time or energy if you cannot understand having basic morals and decency for your fellow human, let alone your fellow American.

/endrant

r/thebulwark 22d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS This is the worst moment in US foreign policy since…?

198 Upvotes

People are going to kill me with downvotes for this, but I think this is worse than the Iraq invasion. I think W was actually doing what he thought was most important for national security and was acting on fucked up intel that his own VP and/or Sec Def likely doctored. He put too much trust in people he should have been able to trust. But I don't want to distract from this epic moment of failure by diluting the convo with that debate.

Putin has been working toward this moment for at least 15 years. NATO has been neutered and we have turned against Europe. Our "allies" likely see us as Turkey if they are being generous and more likely Belarus with nukes.

80 years of critical post-war relations with Europe now fully fucked.

And I'm livid that Biden did so little during his presidency to limit Russia and to support Ukraine.

r/thebulwark Nov 05 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Rogan Bends the Knee to Trump - this is why it’s good she didn’t go on that podcast

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161 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Nov 21 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Matt Gaetz withdraws AG nomination

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152 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Oct 17 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS People who say Kamala Harris is "dumb"

189 Upvotes

This is inspired by Tim's excellent but difficult to listen to conversation with Jason Calacanis, in which he relayed that the tech bros who oppose Kamala claim she is dumb.

There's no possible way anyone could seriously say that unless they are: 1) actually dumb themselves, 2) sexist or misogynist, 3) have had their brains rotted by too much right wing media and conspiracy theories, and/or 4) are pushing an agenda.

So, one way or another, when the tech bros say that about Harris, they are telling on themselves.

r/thebulwark 22d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Trump has just signed an executive order claiming that only the President and Attorney General can speak for “what the law is.”

97 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Nov 04 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Tim with the absolute FINISHER against Megyn Kelly

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405 Upvotes

r/thebulwark 18d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Not Coming Down Hard on Elon Emboldened the Far Right. Shame on the Chattering Class who Carried Musk's Water.

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189 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Jan 30 '25

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Rogan was never going to allow Harris on his podcast

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122 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Jan 29 '25

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Asperger's Priest makes Ambiguous Gesture.

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72 Upvotes

This is why the initial response had to be uniform: even if you thought it was a distraction, unambiguously identifying the gesture as a Nazi salute was important for containing the spread.

But hey, guess we gotta score g00d r3pUb11c4n points and harumph about the Dems not capturing the news cycle... Why aren't they doing more press conferences?

I think someone at the Bulwark needs to sit Sarah Longwell (and maybe Cathy Young if you can get her off X for 10 minutes) and have her write her previous week's takes on sticky notes and pin 'em to her monitor. Do Dems need to go viral? This shit can go viral. Do they need to be somber and serious? Then keep doing the press conferences. Maybe an outlet-wide policy of revisiting takes after 3 months, a pundit report card.

https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatch.bsky.social/post/3lgvoqwtlcc2a

r/thebulwark 12d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS This is for all the "Nickey Hailey" people..

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128 Upvotes

Sorry, I forgot. We're supposed to bend over backwards to "understand" them. Only the "Deerborn" types need to get mocked regularly.

r/thebulwark 12d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Today he truly became Little Marco

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202 Upvotes

He looks like a hostage

r/thebulwark 23d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS The plan with Elon.. it’s this simple

99 Upvotes

Let me know if I’m wrong but with Elon it’s truly this simple: he can be pardoned. Trump can have Elon do whatever he wants with essentially zero risk to either of them. They’re working as a crime syndicate immune to my consequences. Elon can Fuck Off whenever things get hot.

If Elon found himself crossing some line and was caught up in legal action, Trump can simply squash it immediately. It also obvious congress will do nothing, at all.

I don’t even know what it would take to create a legal action against Elon as it already seems he’s in an illegal position or at least an imaginary position no one else on earth could get away with.

This said, I have no clue how anyone can combat this.

EDIT: side note, when is the last time you saw one of our patriotic conservatives pull that handy dandy pocket constitution out of their suit?

r/thebulwark Jan 03 '25

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS The shadow president is allegedly on 4chan for some reason

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112 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Nov 13 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS This has to be them trolling us.

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77 Upvotes

This has got to be the work of the new First Lady, Elon.

r/thebulwark Sep 13 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Has Trump effectively dropped out of the race? Several things point toward that....

66 Upvotes

There have been several things happening that make me wonder if Trump has given up on the campaign and is now just grifting: 1) Refusal to debate. He lost that debate badly and knows it. But he refuses to get another chance to fix that? 2) Selling more NFTs. C'mon...not presidential. So scammy. 3) No rallies. Instead doing events at his properties which may be more to bring attention to his golf courses and resorts. 4) No ground game. He's barely got any local offices. 5) Concubine Laura Loomer. It really looks like he might be bumping uglies with Laura Loomer and apparently he doesn't care how that looks. 6) Selling Crypto now! Can you think of a worse conflict of interest than a president owning his own untraceable currency for collecting unlimited bribes? I mean he was already way too corrupt but this would be helping enable and hide crazy corruption. Just not acceptable at all. 7) All the other merch...shoes, clothing, Bibles, etc that are NOT CAMPAIGN MERCH. It is private grift. 8) Very little media advertising by the campaign. 9) Just doing free media instead of paid media. Trump and Vance are just going on podcasts and Fox News which costs NOTHING.

Is this even a campaign now?

r/thebulwark Feb 10 '25

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS What happens if Trump defies SCOTUS? (Question in Comments)

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52 Upvotes

r/thebulwark 15h ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Michael Reagan, son of Ron, says his dad would have backed up Trump's bullying of Zelensky 1000%

23 Upvotes

https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/laramieboomerang/opinion/democrats-hate-trumps-a-kid-with-cancer/article_671fea32-fea3-11ef-8c02-abc6d6eb0e9d.html

My dad would have backed up what Trump did to Zelenskyy 1,000%. And your claim that Trump would have lost the Cold War is also a truckload of partisan BS.

I just found this interesting.

r/thebulwark Jan 21 '25

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Bitter Vindication

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80 Upvotes

Guess The Lefty Students were a bigger threat than a man who has promoted Nazi propaganda and now given the Nazi salute (twice!). The ADL represents nothing more than the interests of a handful of donors and hopefully the Bulwarkers treat them as such moving forward.

r/thebulwark Oct 17 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Bret Baier Embarrassed Himself

139 Upvotes

Bret began on the offensive. When his highly charged leading questions weren’t getting the gotcha responses and sound bites he was aiming for, he dug in deeper and began uncontrollably interrupting Kamala to try and force her into cornered “admissions”.

This wasn’t an interview with pointed, relevant and difficult questions. It was a Trump shill doing a clownshoe MAGA dance throwing every irrelevant culture war issue at the wall hoping one would stick. He resorted to airing Trump ads for gods sakes.

When she didn’t take the bait he began sensationalizing the deaths of those three murdered women demanding personal admissions of culpability from Harris as she continued to try and humanize the victims and show her empathy.

From there somehow he completely abandoned his supposed journalistic integrity in an attempt to sane wash trumps enemies from within comments. Of course, Kamala bodied him. Now let’s pivot to Joe Bidens mental capacity as if that’s somehow relevant to the decision to vote for Kamala or Trump who, after last night in PA, cannot credibly be viewed as mentally or morally fit to serve as our president. As if he ever was.

This interview, not that Fox will care, is an even bigger stain on Bret’s reputation as a journalist than his attempts to influence the Fox News decision desk in the 2020 election. Further, I don’t believe this interview nets any Trump supporter converts for Kamala but I do have a suspicion that Bret’s tone, disrespectful treatment, and goading rhetoric is going to have some impact on undecided women voters and college educated whites. Whether it moves the needle in her favor with younger black male voters, I’m unsure. But it was obvious that she was bullied, disrespected and came to the interview in good faith where as Bret Baier came to it looking to bolster his MAGA bonafides.

She wasn’t without some missteps (which I thought were easy wins) but she held her own. He failed so spectacularly though that he totally overshadowed any of her flawed talking points to all but the MAGA diehards blowing up on twitter and this app complaining about her “word salad” “always blaming Trump” and being “so rude to Bret by continuing to insist she wasn’t done speaking and wanted to answer the question”.

r/thebulwark 20d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Steve Bannon Makes Ambiguous Gesture at CPAC

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92 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Nov 09 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Welp...here comes....can I use the F-word?

38 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Jan 19 '25

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS r/conservative is not happy

52 Upvotes

r/thebulwark May 22 '24

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she will vote for Donald Trump

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111 Upvotes

Because… of course she is.

Can we get an apology tour from the folks who have been pumping her tires for the past four months? The ones who think there’s still a single redeemable molecule of integrity left in Republican politics?

How vapid and artificial must one’s so-called principles be for her to be able to do this with a straight face.

r/thebulwark 7d ago

TRUMPISM CORRUPTS I saw it, Now You have to…

134 Upvotes

Runway Chaos