So make that 27,544. Yes, thrillingly, the "Reverend" nipped away from his MAGA celebration party for a few seconds today to post a response on Twitter to my blogpost of last night.
"I wondered how he'd handle Trump's win, and I wasn't disappointed. I'd quite like to see the half-hour head-shaking, though."
Campbell seems as pleased as punch with that riposte, so it's almost a shame to have to spoil it by pointing out the obvious logical problem, but I fear I must. You see, if he had bothered checking the time-stamp on my blogpost, he'd know that I published it at 11.14pm last night, meaning I wrote it before any exit poll had been released or any results at all had come in. In other words, nobody had a clue at that point who was going to be elected President (apart from Rory Stewart who knew it was going to be Kamala Harris), and my blogpost therefore had nothing whatever to do with how I "handled Trump's win", which didn't happen until several hours later.
It's fascinating, though, that Campbell so clearly imagines himself to be "gloating" about Trump's victory, because that removes any remaining sliver of doubt about one of the points I made last night. Yes, Campbell would have voted for Trump if he was an American citizen, and yes, he was sitting there last night willing Trump to win, which is certainly not something the vast majority of the people of Scotland were doing. What's more, his excuse for supporting Trump is something to do with "women's rights", which is curious, given that Trump's hand-picked vice-president believes that the sole function of women is to have children, and that their lives are worthless if they do not.
Give Campbell his due, though, he's on a bit of a roll in 2024. He wanted pro-independence parties in Scotland to lose at the general election, and he got what he wanted, albeit narrowly. (And that includes the Alba Party, of course - he told his readers to reject Alba and to vote for unionist parties instead.) He wanted Trump to have another four years as US President, and now he's got that too. I'm quite open that I see very little comfort in the results of either the general election or the US presidential election, but there is one small entertaining aspect to it - and that will be watching Campbell over the coming years having to own the consequences of getting the election results he wanted on both sides of the Atlantic.
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ReplyDeleteCampbell -let’s stop using his stupid Rev none-sense is clearly a British Brexit Nat. Losing the court case many years ago seemed to have impacted on his ego.
ReplyDeleteYes, his loss to Dugdale was the watershed. He hasn't been the same since then. Just as well he didn't waste anyone's money on that defeat...
DeleteIt was the feeling he had when he didn't get the support he expected from the SNP. He was left high and dry, diddums, and certain personality types will obsess about that with a burning vengeance.
DeleteIf only Nicola and company didn't then go on to betray us all. Campbell's easier to cast as an enemy, than someone who, for all his deep faults, was ultimately quite right about her.
A troll's a man for all that.
Drivel. If Campbell makes remarks against another individual then he has to face the music. Not the SNP or members who pay for the party. How did the court case go?
DeleteAnon at 12:37 PM.
DeleteIt was the other way around. Dugdale defamed him, and that was the finding of the court. But the court found as a "journalist" it was a "fair comment" so didn't award damages - andnot only that, awarded "punitive costs" TO Dugdale, of 150%.
And some in the SNP congratulated Dugdale who was the actual offender, by calling Campbell homophobic when his "joke" was just offensive (wishing the son hadn't been born).
Not surprisingly he felt - rightly - aggrieved. Accused on the wrong and SNP people supporting his wrongful accuser - who has never apologised for her defamation.
But hey, don't let reality hit you in the arse.
eh - the courts decided otherwise. Ah his homophobic "joke" was just offensive so that's ok. It is always the "have you not got a sense of humour" nonsense that give us the racist, mysoginistic, comments. Some believe it gives them the right to sound off. Dugdale is labour so what had the SNP to do about it? Campbell should have kept his "humour" to himself. He is a delicate soul mind you- cant say too much or he blocks you.
DeleteTry again Anon at 3:39 PM who got it totally wrong:
Delete"The Court of Session determined that Ms Dugdale’s article was defamatory because it stated that the pursuer had sent homophobic tweets i.e. that he was homophobic, but that the article was presented as comment rather than fact and was fair comment."
https://judiciary.scot/home/sentences-judgments/judgments/2020/05/27/summary-campbell-v-dugdale
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Stewart Campbell is a toddler.
ReplyDeleteNothing about Campbell should shock me at this stage, but I actually have been shocked by his "both sides" rhetoric on Israel-Hamas, ie. he essentially supports the genocide.
ReplyDeleteCampbell won't be truly happy until he gets Bibi Netanyahu to bomb every remaining Gaelic speaker in Scotland.
DeleteTransgender Gaelic speakers will no doubt have to be bombed TWICE to satisfy Stu
DeleteIt's true, he does seem a bit like he wants a wife. :(
ReplyDeleteHe want lady and make cook and make clean and make baby
DeleteAw, that's so nice, JD! You really are so huggable, aren't you.
DeleteHeadline: "Roads closed and public urged to avoid area after 'suspicious package' discovered "
ReplyDeleteWas this in Bath?
Campbell has had nothing but bile to bring to the independence movement for a long time. He's just another right wing crank nowadays. I understand that you have to defend yourself against his Alice in Wonderland accusations James but we don't gain anything by engaging with him any more widely.
ReplyDeleteLet him kiss fascistic posteriors to his heart's content - he's irrelevant.
I don't read Twitter, so perhaps I've a slightly better view of him, being spared that. For instance: his post "How it Happened" has the ring of truth about it.
DeleteThe virtue-signalling long turned virtue-policing on the liberal college left puts people right off when they encounter it, and it forces politicians into contortions when it's coming from their side.
Far too much "you're not good enough for us!" towards the electorate. Call people fascists or deplorable, and what do you expect?
Knock knock. Hi, we're here for the… Oh Good God, just look at you, hell no, you're not good enough for us!
On the TV networks, plenty of voters were asked why they had voted Trump, and the most common answer was "inflation". The most cynical lies always contain a grain of truth, and Campbell's claim, although ultimately ridiculous, does contain a grain of truth because Trump did run ads about trans rights. But no, that was not the decisive factor in the election. Not even close. Campbell may or may not be sincere in his belief that women with beards are the root cause of every major event in this world, but they really, really aren't.
DeleteThe Covid recovery stimulus caused a lot of inflation, as we all felt, and yes that was never addressed by the Dems, who should have grappled with The Economy, Stupid instead of letting it shoot past.
DeleteImmigration was the other one that stuck to them. As much as liberals might hate to hear it, non-whites and even immigrants are also worried about excessive immigration! It's not just simple racism. It's unwanted *competition*
Anon 10.01 "Call people fascists". and the snowflakes vote fascist!
DeleteIn my opinion Campbell is disturbed. Some of his disciples post regularly on here, and he is often quoted as the source of their lies and speculation, even those he has barred for disagreeing with him. Perhaps ignore them as well as him? We might return to respectful discussion of differing views.
ReplyDeleteI presume you're alluding to IfS and the supposed "lies and speculation" involve Nicola Sturgeon's inaction on independence? Just a guess…
DeleteSome things, fortunately, are just demonstrably true.
Well troll at 9.54am - pity you don't demonstrate it then.
DeleteAnon at 9.54. You guess wrong. IFS. Self I D’d yourself? Silly billies that you are.
DeleteIFS -Guilty as charged.
DeleteHe’s not fit to stand trial.
DeleteMore troll gibberish.
DeletePlead Insanity.
DeleteAnon at 3:33 PM "Plead Insanity."
DeleteDo you? Don't worry - doesn't make you a bad person!
Yesindyref2. Weak reading skills? :)
DeleteThe original poster at 8.58am talks about “respectful discussion of differing views.” I see nothing but people trolling ifs. Are you actually adults or still in nursery!
DeleteIts pretty simple. Sturgeon promised Indyref2 since 2017, kept getting people to vote SNP and giving the SNP money on that basis for the next 7 years and then walked away saying she was tired. A few weeks later the polis arrested her husband, arrested the SNP Treasurer and arrested Sturgeon. She had mandate after mandate for Indyref2 and broke her promises. She allowed £600k of ring fenced money to go missing.
DeleteThe SNP gave her flowers for doing the above.
If you don't believe that is actually what happened then get a tattoo saying:- " 19/10/23 I will get fooled again and again."
Mandate after mandate? Please explain IFS?
DeleteKC at 9.53pm - you could get this tattoo:- " Proud House Jock"
DeleteIFS,
DeleteSo no mandates then!
Thought so.
If winning election after election isn’t a mandate what is then?
Deletethere is a certain hilarity to Trump winning and the condescending and patronising tone of the democrats makes my protesting nature laugh.
ReplyDeleteThat said, Trump literally called into question democracy and his supreme court picks have taken abortion rights backwards. He cannot be seen as a beacon of women's rights. He is unfit for office on that alone.
However, the swing voters who decide the election, who have already baked in Trump's despotic attempts in 2020 and are still in play, are not going to vote for a party who tell children "they have been born in the wrong body". It brings democratic party into disrepute over something a vanishingly small amount of them even believe. Shooting themselves in the foot. All they needed to do was be moderately normal and ditch the loony bits and they'd have been fine.
Much like the SNP here then
Deletewhy won't poor people vote the way rich people want them to?
ReplyDeleteare they just racists
Campbell is obsessed. For the love of God, grow up, Stew, grow up.
ReplyDeleteHe's worse than you think.
DeleteAnon at 5.20 pm. Why do you have a problem with a call for respectful discussion? And reflect on the fact that if anyone is a troll it is the abusive repetitive dishonest poster you were able to identify and appear to unquestioningly support. Now go away. Tiresome.
ReplyDelete10.40pm. I don’t have a problem
ReplyDeletewith respectful discussion. You do. You misrepresent what I said and then go on to be disrespectful thereby illustrating my point. Childish stuff.
You clearly do. You accuse people of trolling and make an infantile comment about them being in nursery, all in support of an abusive dishonest poster. Read your own posts again, then have, as previously suggested, a period of reflection.
DeleteI read your posts again. You said “ go away. Tiresome “
DeleteThat is not “a period of
Reflection.”
There is only one troll here and that is you.
It’s your own posts you need to read again. Do you struggle with comprehension?. It would appear so. Now it’s past your bed time. Off you go. Silly billy boy.
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