Donald Trump: Yuge loser?
Donald Trump’s supporters, like the man himself, are not what you’d call gracious losers, so it comes as no surprise that they’re taking The Donald’s second-place finish in Iowa hard. And given Trump’s own forays into conspiracy theory (all that birther stuff), it’s also not exactly a shock to see his fans claiming that the Iowa caucuses were rigged.
What is a little surprising is who they’ve picked as the supervillain in the alleged plot against Trump. Not the winner of the Iowa caucuses, Ted Cruz, but Marco Rubio — the guy who came in third, after Trump. With a little help from the dastardly computer whizzes at Microsoft.
Their peculiar theory, first spread on 8chan and then picked up by such highly reputable publications as Breitbart and Infowars and Return of Kings, is that Microsoft, which provided free software used to count the votes in the caucuses, rigged the vote to make sure that Trump came in second and that Rubio won.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. Rubio didn’t win. He came in third place. After Trump.
But hey, the conspiracy theorists claim, he got more votes than people thought he would! And Trump didn’t win. Therefore skullduggery.
The “proof?” First, Trump lost, which his fans can’t imagine could have happened without vote rigging behind the scenes. Second, Microsoft was the second biggest donor in Rubio’s last Senate campaign. CHECKMATE.
But as Philip Bump of the Washington Post points out, Microsoft is only “sort of Rubio’s second-biggest donor.” The $33,000 that the Center for Responsive Politics reported as coming from Microsoft did not all or even mostly come from the company itself. As Bump explains, “most of that money came from various people working at Microsoft.”
Naturally, Trump’s fans — including a number of people familiar to readers of this blog — aren’t buying this debunking. On the Twitter hashtag #MicrosoftRubioFraud, the accusations are flying. As is the racism and homophobia.
#MicrosoftRubioFraud I'm in Iowa. I went to Rubio, Trump, Cruz events. Rubio's had barely any attendance. Polls reflected this. Vote fraud.
— Matt Forney (@basedmattforney) February 2, 2016
#MicrosoftRubioFraud
It's simply unbelievable that open-borders anti-white Rubio could do that well. It was obviously rigged.— End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) February 2, 2016
#MicrosoftRubioFraud
Microsoft is Rubio's #2 donor and, like Rubio, is vehemently in favor of open-borders.— End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) February 2, 2016
What else is open-borders Cuban #MarcoRubio hiding?#MicrosoftRubioFraud pic.twitter.com/hlclM2K9NU
— End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) February 2, 2016
Did Microsoft Commit Voter Fraud for Marco Rubio? @realDonaldTrump #MicrosoftRubioFraud https://t.co/KbgQwWRJ6T pic.twitter.com/K6HDfmjrTQ
— Cryptoknight (@brelly1978) February 2, 2016
@VincentLombar13 @ihatethemedia #MicrosoftRubioFraud pic.twitter.com/uFKIukpkth
— Ford Girl (@thpuzzler2) February 2, 2016
There is no chance in hell 2 beaners won more than 50% of the Iowan Republican (white working male) vote. #MicrosoftRubioFraud #IowaCaucus
— Aidan T. Tierian (@AidanTierian) February 2, 2016
Marco Rubio is an open borders homosexual cheating fraud#MicrosoftRubioFraud
— Ibn al-Khattab (@JihadTheJews) February 2, 2016
@deutsche_physik @Ricky_Vaughn99 I am against Rubio but Microsoft isnt doing this to protect illegal Mexian programmers. its #WhiteGenocide
— Down With AntiWhites (@prowhitesunite) February 2, 2016
If the #MicrosoftRubioFraud is true, elites are coming ever closer to declaring civil war on millions of armed patriots. Won't end well.
— Nick Krauser (@Krauserpua) February 2, 2016
But a few managed to find a silver lining:
@realDonaldTrump not winning the #IowaCuckus is good news 4 Whites. Trump has a better chance to win as a 3rd party candidate #WhiteGenocide
— Hase (@arierhase) February 2, 2016
And yes, he did refer to the Iowa caucuses as the Iowa CUCKus.
One Tweeter managed to find some humor in it all:
CURSE YOU CLIPPY!#MicrosoftRubioFraud pic.twitter.com/ZLF1sXwF7n
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) February 2, 2016
Clippy is one sneaky bastard, huh?