I don’t know when being wrong on the internet became the worst thing in the world, but nothing sets off the MAGA cult more than being confronted with the truth about Donald Trump that they’ve been ducking for a decade.
One of their favorite ways to troll liberals is to say things like “prove it” when you tweet things from the Epstein Files or remind them that Trump still owes E. Jean Carroll nearly $84 million. It’s one of the many ways they move the goalposts when going after us, thinking that sending someone on a Google chase will make the truth go away, too.
Even when they’re shown things like court documents, verified statistics, and live video feeds, they’ll cry “Fake news!” They copy Trump’s bullying, attacking the messengers so that they never have to admit they were ever wrong. None of them seems to grasp that the truth is always true, no matter where it comes from, or whether anyone likes it or not. When Trump holds a press conference in the Oval Office, every camera captures him doing the same thing at the same time. CNN’s cameras aren’t any different than Fox’s, NBC’s, or the BBC’s. You get my point.
But MAGA never does. The truth is usually something we don’t like, but somewhere along the line, someone taught us to buck up and deal with it.
But not the Boss Baby playing at being the President.
Since no one loved Donald Trump enough to teach him how to accept difficult truths or accept loss like most people, he throws toddler tantrums while being a giant bully baby.
And MAGA acts just like him. It really doesn’t take much to trigger these thin-skinned self-victimizers, but they especially hate it when someone makes them confront things about Donald Trump that they don’t want to believe are true.
MAGA hates anything good, so when they see the world literally uniting against them, as they did on Saturday when they saw the videos from the global No Kings protests, they lost their collective IQ point and responded in the only way they could:
By telling us exactly how triggered they were.
Elon did what he could to suppress the No Kings posts on Twitter, and the Trump-controlled media may not have given it the coverage it merited. But the March 28th No Kings was the biggest one thus far. Over 8 million Americans were in the streets, and millions more were holding their own protests worldwide. Trump himself was shocked by the turnout, even as he mocked the protests.
I protested in Portland, Oregon, with an estimated crowd of 40,000, on a stunningly beautiful day. Thanks to Trump’s Gestapo installed at our ICE facility--which takes up all of one city block--most people think all Portland protests are violent, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. There was no ICE presence at the big downtown protest, no violence, and no arrests. But even before I walked out the door, I managed to set off the MAGA kids who were Big Mad about our big day.
Despite how suppressed my account is, that tweet has gotten a ton of engagement. If you’re inclined to peruse the comments, I need to warn you that they really embrace bodyshaming the woman holding the sign. If they can make her into the topic, they don’t have to address what her sign says. It’s so painfully obvious, and I called a couple of them out who tried it.
Shaun didn’t like it. Trump is the only reason we even began talking about the Epstein Files in the first place. MAGA doesn’t like to be reminded of how many times Trump promised to release them, and then kept changing his story about them, and now all of his excuses about the Epstein Files have come with a body count. That meme is all of MAGA, and I can tell you how much it sets them off based on how many fake accounts always reply to it.
MAGA also didn’t like this one. Sad!
It only hurts you if it’s true, Snowflakes.
This MAGA Mean Girl deployed a favorite Trumpian tactic: basic weak bullying followed by the weak semantics argument.
Oh, no, MAGA Mean Girl did a mean! I’m so not hurt at all. Astonishingly, they think any of this upsets me, when it’s just pathetic. Plus, none of them can spell. Not a single one of them.
And there’s the resurgence of the R word. All of these are fake accounts--and one of these days I should really write up a primer on how to spot them so you don’t waste your time if you’re still on Twitter. But every so often, an actual carbon-based one uses it, and my response to that is the only proper response, which is that anyone who uses the R word is immediately discredited and is barred from adult conversations.
This is all Elon’s doing, btw.
As I’ve written before, bullying is the ultimate display of weakness. It’s been Trump’s and MAGA’s default setting forever.
They can’t accept the deepest truth about Trump, which is that he thinks they’re all losers. And he’s told them repeatedly, from calling them “the Poorly Educated” to reprimanding them as “stupid’ for asking about the Epstein Files that he promised to release, but was never going to release, because he knows the truth about them.
That’s what happens when people don’t respect themselves.
None of them can cope. Just watch CNN’s smug Scott Jennings try to minimize the global protests and massive unified crowds. And quit nodding your head, Nancy Mace. You won’t even say Trump is in the Epstein Files.
TRIGGERED.
It’s just so satisfying for me on a very deep level to know just how scared they all are. That’s how we’re going to win.