The Right Has Learned To Love Trolling

[Silver Pines]

The Right Has Learned To Love Trolling

By Ben Shapiro
January 4, 2017


On New Year’s Eve, our president-elect unleashed a tweet in honor of the coming year: “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!” His most ardent followers thrill to this display of full-on juvenile testosterone. They thrill at what they approvingly call “trolling” by the “madman.” They tweet pictures of Pepe the Frog jubilantly, figuratively slapping each other on the back over the audacity of their Big Man on Campus.

This is the “new conservatism”: Elicit a reaction.

There’s no follow-up. There’s no design. And truth is unimportant. The new “conservatism” promoted by Trump and his most ardent imitators is a teenage slapfight with no general purpose other than to deliberately offend, thereby making yourself appear more powerful. Remember when Trump said that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in JFK’s murder? That was trolling. And when Cruz responded, Trump’s followers laughed, called Trump a “madman,” and suggested that Cruz was a weakling for letting such things get under his skin.


Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443503/trump-and-right-love-trolling-and-tweeting-what-happened-truth

[Silver Pines]

"His most ardent followers thrill to this display of full-on juvenile testosterone. They thrill at what they approvingly call “trolling” by the “madman.” They tweet pictures of Pepe the Frog jubilantly, figuratively slapping each other on the back over the audacity of their Big Man on Campus."

Perfectly stated, IMO.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The public will turn against this. No one wants a troll as a president.

[Cripplecreek]

The candidate of cultural degeneracy has become the king of cultural degeneracy.

[Silver Pines]

@Weird Tolkienish Figure

This was one of the better articles I've read lately. 

[Silver Pines]

The candidate of cultural degeneracy has become the king of cultural degeneracy.

@Cripplecreek

Sometimes I wonder just how difficult it's going to be to elect a statesman president again. 

[Frank Cannon]

I can't decide who is more worthless. People who tweet or people who get their panties in a bunch over the tweets. They all seem to be twits.

[Cripplecreek]

The public will turn against this. No one wants a troll as a president.

Being politically incorrect should also be about telling unpopular truths, not obnoxiously calling Carly Fiorina ugly.

[Silver Pines]

Being politically incorrect should also be about telling unpopular truths, not obnoxiously calling Carly Fiorina ugly.

And those unpopular truths have nothing to do with the size of Trump's...whatever, so I sincerely hope we never hear him talk about it again.

[corbe]

   Trump definitely taught me how to troll, when I graduate, I'm told, I get to grab all the crotch I want.

[bigheadfred]

And those unpopular truths have nothing to do with the size of Trump's...whatever, so I sincerely hope we never hear him talk about it again.

My head always has been, and always will be, bigger than trump's.

[bigheadfred]

   Trump definitely taught me how to troll, when I graduate, I'm told, I get to grab all the crotch I want.

I'm sure glad I am out of the dating pool. With all the speciation going on, "gut check" seems like a necessity.

[Silver Pines]

My head always has been, and always will be, bigger than trump's.

@bigheadfred