Today's WTF Report- "Hot as a pistol" and "The only place real news happens"...hahahahahaha
I want to know what these folks are smoking...'cuz I don't want ANY of it
There’s very little ‘truth’ happening on TruthSocial, but at least now it’ll be a little fun.
I joined Truth Social about 18 months ago for “shits and giggles,” as the kids say. Now and again, I go on because I feel the need to troll people. I have to be in the right frame of mind, but it can be fun (in a sick, perverse way) to piss off poorly informed, self-righteous Conservatives who think The Former Guy is The Shit.
I don’t do it as much anymore, mainly because the fun has gone out of it for me, but there’s very little “truth” in Truth Social. It’s just a Right-wing echo chamber where Trumpbots can go for validation and verbal handjobs.
Now, because they want to meet voters where they are, the Biden campaign has joined Truth Social to troll The Former Guy. It’s also a sincere effort to win over voters who might be open-minded and willing to listen to Biden's message. It’s unlikely anyone would find open-minded voters on Truth Social, but the entertainment value is pretty high.
Sure, it seems rather odd, but why not? Campaigns can be long, dreary, and drawn-out affairs. Why pass up an opportunity to have some fun along the way?
Officials with President Biden’s re-election campaign have long pledged to meet voters where they are. On Monday the campaign began a project to meet former President Donald J. Trump’s voters where they are — on his social media platform.
“Let’s see how this goes,” the campaign’s account wrote on Monday in its first post on Truth Social. “Converts welcome!”
The Biden campaign painted its debut on Mr. Trump’s outlet as a cheeky opportunity to troll the president’s likely general election opponent. Mr. Trump launched Truth Social in April 2022 in response to being blocked from mainstream social media platforms a day after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Their actions came after he published inaccurate and inflammatory messages during that day of violence.
With The Former Guy being a 24/7/365 lie factory, just as he was during his Reign of Error ©, why not seize an opportunity to try and set the record straight, even if that opportunity is, digitally speaking, behind enemy lines?
Well, y’all, the Biden campaign regime has done something very significant, and it’s done it for three reasons: 1) to be a dick; 2) just because; 3) refer to 1 and 2.
That’s right, they joined Truth Social, the website nobody uses except the Trumpiest diehard losers, and even then ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It’s really just a place for Trump to scream and probably violate that latest gag order at his earliest convenience.
They signed up using the “Dark Brandon” meme as their profile pic, and their first “truth” was “Well. Let’s see how this goes. Converts welcome!”
They typed “Well.” for their first word. Just like that.
There’s no rule on Truth Social barring Liberals/Democrats from signing. There’s no ideological purity test, so people like me…or the Biden campaign…can sign up and toy with the trolls all we want. It can be fun initially, but it doesn’t change much.
Folks on Truth Social are looking for validation, not debate. They want to be told how incredibly brilliant they are because they’re not looking to learn anything…not with The Former Guy as their North Star.
The best part of this for the Biden campaign is that it’s free. They didn’t have to put a dime into The Former Guy’s campaign coffers. They get to troll him for nothing.
Sweet….
There is no part of this that isn’t trolling. This didn’t cost them money. There is not one inbred moron on Truth Social the Biden campaign is truly seeking out as a voter. But sure, converts welcome!….
Let’s look at the self-loathing comment from Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung. And yes, we know his literal job description is to put out statements that are so embarrassing that if it was one of us, we’d never show our faces in public ever again and we’d cry every morning when we woke up. He has to defend Donald Trump and try to pretend that guy isn’t a disgusting loser piece of actual catshit. But even considering that, this is pathetic:
"Crooked Joe Biden and his team are finally acknowledging that Truth Social is hot as a pistol and the only place where real news happens," Cheung said.
"Unfortunately for Biden, his continuation of spreading misinformation to gaslight the American people in order to distract from his disastrous record won’t work and they’ll be ratioed to oblivion."
Bless their hearts.
Isn’t that just the most pathetically self-loathing thing uttered by a pompous, self-righteous Trumper EVER? Just think; after this campaign, poor Mr. Cheung will have to enter the job market with an entry on his resume that says he issued the most cringe-inducing press releases imaginable. Worse, he did it for a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, serial-pussy-grabbing-sex-offender, compulsive-lying, orange shitgibbon.
Someone’s going to have some ‘splainin’ to do, eh??
“Hot as a pistol?” “The only place where real news happens?” I don’t know what Steven Cheung has been smoking, but I want to make sure I steer clear of it, knowhutimean??
And then, as deputy Biden campaign manager Rob Flaherty says, sometimes you have to do it for the lolz.
I could get used to this kind of malarkey, primarily because The Former Guy and his Skid Mark Kommandoz uniformly lack a functional sense of humor. I don’t know, maybe that’s what happens at Nazi Re-education Camp.
The Biden campaign did join X (formerly known as Twitter) mainly because they thought it would be funny. Truth Social should provide a few giggles as well. Still, the Biden folks are willing to interact with Conservative voters in a way The Former Guy’s campaign has been unwilling or unable to duplicate. That’s probably because Liberals and Democrats would mercilessly mock any effort by the Trump campaign to enter more Left-wing spaces…and deservedly so.
Voters who consume conservative media have long been considered a rich target for Democratic candidates. During the 2020 campaign, Democrats were split on engaging with Fox News, which party officials at the time said had more persuadable voters among its viewers than any other cable network had.
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called Fox News a “hate for profit” operation and refused its invitations for a town hall, while Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent, and Pete Buttigieg, then a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., accepted. Mr. Buttigieg, now Mr. Biden’s transportation secretary, is often dispatched to explain the administration’s positions on Fox News.
Sec. Buttigieg, who’s quite possibly one of the most intelligent people on the planet, takes no shit- intellectually speaking- from anyone, and he can mop the floors with anyone at Fox News. So if one of their talking heads makes the mistake of trying to correct him, he can, will, and usually does put them in their place.
The Right-wing media echo chamber is not known for being stocked with rapier wits and/or stellar intellects, so it’s usually pretty easy work for Sec. Buttigieg to take down anyone at Fox News. And it’s not difficult for anyone in the Biden campaign to slap down any challenges on Truth Social, where the level of intellectual discourse usually runs at about the 5th-grade level…on a good day.
Sometimes being a dick just for the sake of being a dick can be fun…especially when your adversary is an especially YUUUUGE dick. When it comes to The Former Guy, at least metaphorically speaking, he is Biggus Dickus; of that, there can be no doubt.
So, for the Biden Campaign to throw shade in his opponent’s direction is well-deserved.
But…”Hot as a pistol?” And “The only place real news happens?” Somebody get me a bucket; I may lose my breakfast.
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The phrase as my dad always used it was, "Hotter than a two-dollar pistol."
Glad to hear that the Biden people are beginning to take the gloves off.