Showing posts with label Nick Fuentes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Fuentes. Show all posts

Sunday, January 05, 2025

A Groyper War

 

White supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes briefly pulled his support from Donald Trump in August, according to The New Republic, writing on X that he was declaring a “groyper war” on the Republican nominee because his 2024 campaign was being “hijacked” by lobbyists, consultants, and donors who had clouded histories. Most of them had aided Trump’s 2016 Republican opponents. At the time, Fuentes believed that Trump was “blowing it” by employing that crowd of weak cucks.

Just this past Thursday, Fuentes was harshly criticizing Capitol Hill Republican leadership for courting the Right Wing before any election and then dissing them on policy and influence after that election. “Sorry. Thank you for your vote, now go fuck yourself,” Fuentes said. “That’s the message from the Republican Party for the next four, eight, 16, 100, 1,000 years. Thank you for your vote, now go fuck off until the next election.” 

Hard to discern whether Fuentes meant to include Trump himself under that blanket condemnation, but logic would sort of demand it. Trump has, after all, actively endorsed Mike Johnson as Speaker, and Johnson is a notorious weakling willing to bargain with the Democrats.

But "groyper war"? That's an expression I had to research.

"Groyper" is the name of a dumpy cartoon amphibian, a toad a.k.a. "Pepe the Frog," which has become an accepted meme and mascot for a "Groyper Army," a loosely defined group of followers and fans of Nick Fuentes, who will on orders from Fuentes rain down hellish harassment on various weak people picked out by Fuentes for punishment. Thank you, Wikipedia:

Pepe the Frog is a comic character and Internet meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie .... Pepe originated in Furie's 2005 comic Boy's Club. The character became an Internet meme when his popularity steadily grew across websites such as Myspace, Gaia Online, and the white nationalist site 4chan. By 2015, Pepe had been completely hijacked as one of the most popular memes for white nationalism used on 4chan and Tumblr.

I dunno what Fuentes' Groyper War accomplished back in August, nor how much distraction and/or consternation it caused the Trump campaign at the time -- perhaps it was simply shrugged off as a minor  inconvenience -- but there are certainly lower level Republican conservatives who might worry about getting fingered by the likes of Nick Fuentes and his team of Internet trolls.