Trumpkins Are Going to Get Cucked Just Like the Republican Party Did
If Donald Trump gets the chance in November.
FacebookEvery day, the odds that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States are going down. Trump's chances of winning the election are at 19.4 percent according to ElectionBettingOdds.com, down from 30 percent three weeks ago. The Republican National Convention was not followed by a pivot in either tone or substance by Trump, as some expected.
Last year, internet fans of Donald Trump started using the term "cuckservative" to describe conservatives who were skeptical that Trump, a life-long New Yorker with a history of donating to Democratic politicians and holding conventionally Democrat positions on issues like taxes, abortion, and guns, would be a competent standard-bearer for the Republican Party. The whole thing was ridiculous from the beginning. The "cuck" part comes from "cuckolded," a term to describe a man whose sexual partner, unbeknownst to him, produces offspring by another man. If anyone was being cuckolded it was Republicans that were supporting the one-time Democrat who displayed an ignorance of basic conservative and Republican principles.
Trump, of course, eventually became the Republican nominee, and continued to say things that weren't simply not conservative but showed a disdain for conservative principles. Talking about the minimum wage, Trump said it wasn't "very Republican" to say "you need to help people." Last week he joked that "Second Amendment people" might be able to do something about a putative President Clinton's anti-gun judicial picks, playing on a liberal trope that legal, law-abiding gun owners are all actually just one step away from exercising their right to revolt.
At the Democratic National Convention, President Obama noted that Trump was neither a conservative nor a Republican. It was not a particularly self-serving observation. Obama was re-elected in 2012 after running a campaign in which he tried to portray the moderately conservative Mitt Romney as "severely" conservative—something Romney himself pushed when seeking the nomination. Democrats have spent a lot of time demonizing Republicans and conservatives, so its noteworthy the president would point out Trump is neither. It's true. In that sense, Republicans have already been cucked. When Trump said Obama was the founder of ISIS, Republicans like Rudy Giuliani came out to defend his statement. Then he said he was being sarcastic. Trump has fucked with Republicans in this way for months, because he isn't one of them. Neither is he a conservative, constitutional or otherwise. He's barely mentioned the Constitution, for example, and his supporters like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity have taken to describing him more often as a populist than a conservatives.
Trump may not be done with the cuckolding—if he wins, he could cuckold his supporters themselves. After all, he's already taken pretty much every side of every issue, laying the groundwork to make any policy decision he pleases. Trump supporters shouldn't be surprised. He explains the strategy in Art of the Deal—writing about playing to people's fantasies and offering whatever it take to get a deal done. Trump isn't articulating policy stances, he's floating negotiating positions. If he wins the presidency, he'll pick the ones that work best. Trump's own business enterprises, like many, rely on limited barriers to trade and on immigration. These are the issues that seem to motivate a lot of core Trump supporters, and Trump used those issues to get him as far as he's gotten. But his current stances (such as they are) on those issues might not offer such a good negotiating position from the White House. He's already cuckolded the Republican Party as an institution. He may yet get the chance to cuckold the supporters who enabled that.
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I've been saying "cock hold". Boy do I feel silly.
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I still think "cuckservative" was originally influenced by "cuck" in the sense of "ca-ca", i.e. "dutyservative".
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"you hear me, trumpkins? No, YOU'RE the REAL cucks!"
Low energy attempt from Reason.
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Yea, turns out the fanatical trump supports were all projecting. You see this a lot in ideologically charged debates.
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"you hear me, trumpkins? No, YOU'RE the REAL cucks!"
Low energy attempt from Reason.
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High energy squirrels.
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Cut Ed some slack. It's nearly 7:00 AM and he hasn't had an opportunity to cry "raaaacist!" even once yet. He's probably suffering withdrawal symptoms.
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TDS! Cuck!
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MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
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All these fingers pointed at Trump.
The R's did it to themselves. Bunch of fucking spineless squishes refusing to lift a finger to stop a Democratic party that barely bothers concealing that they have been taken over by straight-up socialists.
When, after the R congress passed the last budget, the leaders of the D party are giddy and all say they cant believe they got everything they wanted, of course the R base wants someone to bring a wrecking bar to the table. A Trump supporter I know was puzzled by my lukewarm feelings towards him so he asked what my objection was.
"I don't want someone who can negotiate and work with nancy pelosi and her ilk. I want someone to go to DC and kick the shit out of them."
The same goes for the R establishment. -
I understand the sentiment. I just don't understand how millions of people concluded that Trump was the guy who was going to do that.
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His bluster and contempt for PC.
The guy who was most likely to mitigate and out of control FedGov barely got any attention at all. He just isnt flamboyant enough.
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This - and simply being something different.
I think the ears of some voters have become tuned into the bullshit of talking points. When a candidate starts speaking in campaign manager written, focus-group tested talking points, they just tune out. When a guy like Trump answers questions in plain English, they actually pay attention - no matter what he's saying.
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This, plus one other factor: the culmination of the merging of politics with the entertainment/celebrity culture, with someone known to most people only as a celebrity becoming a politician.
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Bunch of fucking spineless squishes refusing to lift a finger to stop a Democratic party that barely bothers concealing that they have been taken over by straight-up socialists.
Are you saying this is the perception of Trump's voters, or do you actually think it's true?
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No. He means Libertarians. Trump voters are much less effeminate. NTTAWWT
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Bunch of fucking spineless squishes refusing to lift a finger to stop a Democratic party that barely bothers concealing that they have been taken over by straight-up socialists.
This is an unsatisfactory explanation for the rise of Trump. Many of his positions are barely distinguishable from labor-centric socialism. He's no one's idea of a small government conservative.
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"I don't want someone who can negotiate and work with nancy pelosi and her ilk"
Then stay the hell away from Trump. He has said many many times that he'll work with everyone. -
The Trumpkins may well get cucked, but at least they won't get assassinated on the streets and in their own homes, like Bernie Sanders supporters who become a little too much of a pain in the ass to Team Hildog.
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Cool story bro.
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Blind squirrel, acorn:
" Trump isn't articulating policy stances, he's floating negotiating positions."
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Trumplings are William H Macy in Boogie Nights.
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Libertarians are Alfred Molina in Boogie Nights.
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Trumplings are William H Macy in Fargo. Think they're big wheeler dealers, even though their plans keep going to shit, but it's never their fault, the world is just against them.
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Since you're a comment-dweller, you know the word we like around here, Ed: projection.
There's a reason Milo chose the epithet Daddy. He didn't pick it out of a big red hat.
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He choose it because he knew half wits like you and Ed wouldn't get the joke. It is astounding how literal minded and stupid you people are
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I'm saying it is a joke. And the joke is on Trump and his supporters.
Idiot.
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Ed - keep telling yourself this, maybe Trump will lose. I would still bet on him since he's running against Hillary.
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Lick them Cankles, Trumpkins. Yum yum!
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Please sue the DNC, Weigel.
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So what you are saying is that the republicans shouldn't let trump come inside them?
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Ed thinks they should leave that to the Johnson.
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"Cuckservative" is a term created by (or, at least, initially promoted by) the blogger "Vox Day". It is the title of one of his books.
Last fall, Vox Day claimed that Trump was the only candidate who matters, because Trump was the only one talking about the problems of immigration. Not merely illegal immigration, but immigration itself. He asserts that immigration is a form of invasion, with the ultimate goal of conquest by the immigrants.
He also asserts that, if the established parties manage to thwart the nationalists from gaining power, then the ultranationalists will be the next group to attempt to seize control.
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Ultranationalists are as easy to beat as trump nationalists. If they want to go violent there's a suitable response for that too.
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If Europe is any indicator, ultra-nationalists are not the first lunatic fringe you should be concerned about violence from. The communist left have them beat, both metaphorically and otherwise.
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The "cuck" part comes from "cuckolded," a term to describe a man whose sexual partner, unbeknownst to him, produces offspring by another man.
I thought a cuckold was a man who knowingly allowed or is forced against his will to watch while his wife or gf fucks another man, regardless of whether actual offspring are produced. The implication being that they're not man enough to satisfy her themselves or stop her from fucking some other dude. At least that's what totally legitimate "research" on pornhub has lead me to believe...
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I used the evolutionary definition since I thought it was the better fit for the metaphor.
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Trump has no policies. As soon as his "positions"--and his supporters--become inconvenient or get in the way of his next deal, he will toss them like a used condom. It's almost sad that his supporters don't seem to realize this.
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They don't realize he's a politician and will do things like politicians have always done? Could be.
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The good news trump won't be elected this November. Bad news it looks like his crony Hillary will win in a landslide.
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It's quid pro quo. He makes sure Hillary gets in, and then she issues Executive Orders that benefit Trump's business.
He always was a crony capitalist.
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Yeah. The race is pretty boring considering the certain outcome. Which means the MSM is going to have to do something to liven it up and keep up ratings.
Fortunately for them, Trump is going to keep supplying them with red meat without having to actually rise in the polls. It's going to be an entire election season of watching Trump utter buffonish statements and debate how badly he's going to lose.
Which is exactly what I predicted. Yawn.