Going MAGA turns your mind into mush
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Bill Ackman, who has only been a full-on Trump fanboy for a year or so, is having days-long meltdown over Daddy Trump getting his ass kicked in the debate:
Personally, before the Southeastern Conference looks into these Very Serious and Credible allegations that the moderators who gave Donald Trump a bonus rebuttal to every question were ACTUALLY rigging the debate for Harris it should pay attention to the allegations I have received from a whistleblower that Bill Ackman routinely has sex with farm animals. His refusal to address these allegations makes them even more likely to be true!
what universe are we living in that a supposed captain of finance is publicly falling down his 10th rabbit hole with an obvious hoax document like this https://t.co/RIYXumCGSf— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 17, 2024
While this conspiracy theory is stupid, it’s worth noting that it is also extremely racist:
Before Tuesday’s debate, Donald Trump and his supporters insisted that Kamala Harris was a lightweight who was barely able to speak coherently. Trump has called Harris “dumb as a rock,” “low-IQ,” “unable to put two sentences together,” and “unable to put two sentences together without a teleprompter.” Republicans have said that Harris was chosen “because of her ethnic background,” that she’s a “DEI hire” who “gets more favorable treatment because of her race and gender.”
After all that, focus groups, public polling, Trump’s advisers, and the conservative-media figures who maintain his cult of personality all concluded that the Republican lost the debate, despite his protestations otherwise, and his refusal to try again confirms this. “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”Trump posted. “You want to know who won? Find out who refuses to” debate again, Mike Collins, a Republican representative from Georgia, posted on X. I guess we know!
Conservatives have fixated on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in recent years as, in their view, a kind of reverse discrimination against white people, white men in particular, that elevates people to jobs they are unqualified to do. Inadvertently, their reactions to Harris, and her subsequent thrashing of Trump, illustrate why diversity outreach is important and necessary in a world where people still face discriminatory assumptions because of their race and gender.
Ackman’s argument boils down to “it is impossible for a Black women to have beaten Trump, so the debate mist have been fixed.” It’s grotesque, but it also tells you that Trump is attractive to various wealthy Elon Musk lickspittles not just for his support for upper-class tax increases.