#nick j fuentes

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Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Real Person Fiction, Nick Fuentes - Fandom, Jaden McNeil, America First, KiwiFarms, Kino Casino, The Majority Report, Turning Point USA, us politics

It is the middle of covid shutdown and former student activist Jaden McNeil finds himself living with his new friend and colleague, right wing Internet provocateur Nick Fuentes, after being expelled from Kansas State over online statements considered inflammatory. Overtaken with the isolation, the two begin a physical relationship. While Jaden is convinced it is just a temporary dalliance to fill the void and means nothing, as the next two years roll on, he finds that Nick became a bit more attached than he had hoped.

The Nick Fuentes X Jaden McNeil fanfiction is up. May the lord have mercy on my soul for what I have done.

I hope you all appreciate the frog motif and the foreshadowing that I put way too much effort into.

[a682539]

<3 <3

F/O: Mandark

IF I CAN SEE YOU, SO CAN FASCISTS

ABOUT MY BOYSONA

"Ferie dearest, was it loe soothfast or a façade A serenade siren'd to lure Zounds! not to court me?"

"Lorelai" by Theatre of Tragedy

🍭 Similar to Denzel but even before he lost his fairies he seemed morbid and cheerfully negative

🍭 Bully magnet

🍭 Lesboys with Mandark

🍭 Willfully lets Mandark push him around, take his stuff, hit him, ect.

🍭 Cruel to small animals

🍭 Aspiring cannibal

🍭 Enjoys carnivals more than anything

🍭 Spends most of his time in Retroville

[theprincesmachiavelli]

[nazalieee]

Hi! I'm Nazaline, or you can just call me Naz!

BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING! NO, I do not agree with what Nick says, or does, he's just my weird autistic hyperfixation at the moment.

He's so odd, and his lore goes so deep that he just keeps me interested.

This blog is for posting about things I find or observe about Nick, or interesting things I find about his life, not gonna post a lot about actual political stuff.

This blog is just for fun for me, so go easy... please.

Check out my Rumble & Odysee channel for Nick archives, clips and edits I post, they will all go there.

[nando161mando]

Since people are becoming aware of Nick Fuentes, they should be aware of Destiny too

[skelpiescool]

woah woah woah what the fuck will wood thats not very i/me/myself of you

[kuiperoid]

My "Nickstorian" (people neurodivergently fascinated by Nick Fuentes, but not for shared ideology reasons) entry point

It started in late winter/early spring of 2023. I was dealing with a mix of stress from my second semester of graduate school and not being able to pin down a thesis topic, plus devastation from the ending of a relationship, my shortest romantic relationship at just over a month, but she'd been my friend for around fifteen years, back when we were awkward young nerds that gave our classmates "school shooters vibes" (perhaps foreshadowing, as we were exactly the kind of kids who could have gone down the groyper path if things had gone a bit differently) and who hadn't transed our genders yet, so I was dealing with a lot of stuff emotionally. I was watching a video upload of one of Shark3ozero's streams when he started discussing one of Nick Fuentes's tweets. I had heard of Nick Fuentes and his "groypers" before, but didn't really know what made him unique among the far right Internet personalities. Some of Shark's chatters remarked about Nick, "isn't he gay?" and Shark responded with something along the lines of, "yeah, he searched his friend's room for cum who he tried to make watch Euphoria with him and went on a date with a Nazi catboy." Now, I'd heard of plenty of rightwing talking heads being called called gay before, but that particular statement was so incredibly specific and strange that I had to verify what it meant. Surely this was some kind of terminally online joke that I wasn't getting? Alas, Shark did put some images on screen in reference to the latter claim. I was intrigued by this odd claim, so I did some Internet searching, initially just for "Nick Fuentes catboy" and found YouTube videos by CreationistCat, Vaush (despite the fact that I hate him), and more (several rightwing critics, I found, which added to the intrigue; as a leftist, we often lament how unified the right is and here was an exception). I got to a point where I was watching the entire ten hour stream in pieces between my classes as I ate in the grad student lounge. The catboy question was answered, but there was more. KiwiFarms and similar platforms kept on talking about his "friend Jaden," who he'd incidentally referenced during the "date" multiple times, and I figured there was some equally bizarre story there and I went down that rabbit hole as well. I was wrong about it being equally bizarre; it was more bizarre. Needless to say, over the next few months, I ended up learning his entire life story for which I wrote a thirty page essay for a project about rightwing Latinos in the US that ended up being abandoned in favor of another subject, though I keep that up for anyone else who shares my bile curiosity (most everyone who follows me has read that madness, so I won't bother linking it again). I have more or less followed him and his ex-associates, namely Jaden McNeil (who I find just as ideologically repulsive, though I do have slightly more sympathy for him for other reasons), from a distance ever since. It is a bit funny, at the time I was learning about him, I truly thought that Nick's relevance was waning. He was in deep trouble after an ex-associate of his, Ali Alexander, was exposed for sexually abusing teenage boys in his organization and a lot of people on the right found him to be a contrarian grifter, while leftists viewed him as more of a joke than a threat. It was a pretty big surprise when he managed to thrust himself back into the spotlight with the whole "your body, my choice" thing after the election, a bit ironic given he had spent almost all of the election season criticizing Trump for supporting Israel and issues with JD Vance. It's interesting watching someone, especially one I've had this bile curiosity about for almost two years, so successfully regain relevance he'd lost, maybe even become more relevant, from what was essentially a publicity stunt that ended up being weaponized beyond him. At the moment, it seems like his previous reputation as a joke and possibly gay is returning, what with the Destiny leaks (which probably weren't even him, but the Internet doesn't care) and then his arrest, but we'll see.

[patriottruth]

Every male trump voter in the United States is about to learn the truth about the deeply-rooted genetic rage that all living American women and girls of all ages have toward any and every male who voted, or who even would vote, for donald j. trump...

Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.

Every generation of American women have been victimized by trash like donald j. trump, nick fuentes, and every worthless piece of shit like them. It's like in Kamala Harris' presidential campaign vs. donald trump's presidential campaign:

Is her laugh perfect? Are her hair, clothes, and makeup flawless and has she avoided wearing a similar-looking outfit and/or fashion accessory more than once? Is she physically fit and pretty? Is she perfectly spoken at all times while being simultaneously pleasant and non-offensive? Is she enunciating perfectly at all times? Is she presenting herself in a refined, sophisticated, and high-class manner at all times, while simultaneously coming across as a lady of the common folks, without sounding fake, forced, condescending, or patronizing?

But donald trump? Lazy, fat slob with caked and greasy spray-on fecal application, wearing the same thing every time, and then there's all of that no-class, low-class, low-IQ, no-IQ, uneducated, boorish, word-slurring, mindnumbingly boring, retarded screaming-at-clouds, hateful Nazi grandpa routine showcasing extreme cognitive decline...and he and everyone like him in the United States gets a free pass, patted on the back, congratulated, awarded, rewarded, glorified, and celebrated as the living avatar of "American Exceptionalism" and genetic perfection while calling any women they work with their "work-wives" and expecting them to dress and act as a 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's wife should for her "loving" husband (whom she's entirely dependent on and thankful for).

Kamala Harris is being brutalized and treated as if she's the worst failure in American history, yet, if we can actually trust the swing state results, it's possible that trump may have only won each of the swing states by tens of thousands to less than 150,000 in most cases; and at this time, donald trump only has around 3,000,000 more popular votes than Kamala Harris nationwide (Hillary Clinton beat donald trump by 3,000,000 popular votes in 2016 with 5,000,000 less votes than Kamala Harris received in 2024). Why wasn't donald trump brutalized in all the same ways for losing to Hillary Clinton by 3,000,000 votes in 2016?

And then there's the lie that no one showed up to vote for Kamala Harris because of a whole host of reasons you normally hear coming out of the mouths of male domestic abusers; but it's coming from men and women talking heads at the main media outlets. And let's not forget about how those domestic abuser insults include being incapable of managing money (a man's job, a breadwinner's job, but never a woman's job or entitlement). Kamala Harris is receiving massive 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's misogynistic abuse from every possible outlet that was cordial to her until the last poll closed on November 5, 2024.

American Women Have Only Had a Legal/Constitutional Right to Vote to Advance the Human and Civil Rights of All American Women and Girls Since August 26, 1920 (104 years).

American Women and Girls Have Only Had Access to Real Financial Independence Since October 28, 1974 (50 years).

American Women and Girls Have Only Had Access to Real Business Ownership Since October 25, 1988 (36 years).

The entire American story of real human and civil rights for American women and girls is only as old as most living American grandmothers and their daughters, granddaughters, and great granddaughters.

American males of all ages are about to be tested for their character, qualities, truth, and honor; and the ones who fail the tests they'll never realize they're taking won't be reproducing more donald trumps, nick fuentes', and trump voters.

There are stories all over Reddit about American Thanksgiving and Christmas get-togethers being cancelled and people cutting trump-voting family members and former friends out of their lives for voting to end their human and civil rights, freedoms, privileges, and entitlements that American women and girls of all ages have only started to really enjoy for the last 50 years.

American women in their 90's and 80's placed all their hopes and dreams in their daughters who are now in their 60's and 50's; and those daughters placed all of their and their mother's hopes and dreams into their daughters who are now in their 30's and 20's; and those daughters placed all of their hopes and dreams into their daughters; but because of every last trump-voting male in the United States, all of those American women and girls' hopes and dreams are in the process of being completely and permanently destroyed; and all of those pre-K and K-12 daughters now have less rights than their great grandmothers.

You can't treat other human beings that way and think they're not gonig to feel certain ways about it.

I really wouldn't want to be a male trump voter right about now...

After nick fuentes made his little "Your Body, My Choice," "Men Win," and "There Will Never Be a Female President...NEVER" speech, women doxxed him, showed up at his house, he pepper-sprayed one and kicked her down a flight of brick stairs, police and EMS showed up to care for the woman, and now little nick fuentes is hiding in his mommy's basement so she can protect his "Alpha Male" self.

Fool around and find out is definitely the phrase of the day.

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[leprosycock]

just went down a rabbit hole bc you brought the nick fuentes and destiny thing to my attention. i’m manifesting it happen to jlud or just j in general. j is losing his mind, he’d do it bc he’s pathetic and loves attention.

i can legitimately see him leaking a sex tape because he wants to be wanted again, but then immediately deleting it out of shame and fear that he’ll be Observed. and due to his rotten luck, someone would find it right away out of pure coincidence and save it and start circulating it first on reddit and then on twitter and it would get out everywhere and j wouldn’t say anything on purpose because if you ignore EVERYTHING, it ALWAYS goes away no matter WHAT. and lud would make some passive joke in vague reference to it. after that it would fall to obscurity and anyone who brought it up again from that point would be a toxic fan engaging in toxic parasocial behavior. and the circle of life rolls on

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[nazalieee]

He was just kidding guys, he's not violent!

[nando161mando]

Nick Fuentes charged with battery after allegedly macing woman at his home

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

GOP Convention:: Mike Luckovich

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

July 16, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUL 17, 2024

The Republican National Convention is a moment to reintroduce Trump and MAGA Republicans to voters who have not seen them up close since at least 2021. So far, the convention has proved that the Republican Party is now the MAGA Party. It has not been a smooth unveiling. 

Yesterday, just after House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that delegates were formally nominating Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, the teleprompter failed. Unable to continue without it, Johnson quickly left the stage. This was awkward, since two weeks ago, Johnson said on the Fox News Channel of President Joe Biden: “Unless the president is reading off the teleprompter, I don’t think he’s capable of making these big decisions and that is something that should alarm all of us….” 

The teleprompter having been fixed, Johnson returned forty-five minutes later to introduce Iowa’s attorney general, Brenna Bird, who in turn began the process of nominating Ohio senator J. D. Vance for vice president. The last time a Republican vice presidential nominee has been named so late was 1988, and while announcing at the convention has the benefit of generating enthusiasm for the novel story, it has the downside of bringing an avalanche of opposition. Vance brought the latter.

He is very young—just 39—and has held an elected office for just 18 months, making him notably inexperienced for someone in contention for the vice presidential slot, especially behind a 78-year-old presidential nominee. In the past, he was a never-Trumper, saying that Trump “might be America’s Hitler,” “might be a cynical a**hole,” and is “cultural heroin,” “noxious,” and “reprehensible,” but he came around to embrace the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen and to say that if he had been vice president on January 6, 2021, he would have done what former vice president Mike Pence would not: he would have refused to count the certified electoral ballots for President Joe Biden. 

Former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, who was drummed out of the party for standing against Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, wrote: “JD Vance has pledged he would do what Mike Pence wouldn’t—overturn an election and illegally seize power. He says the president can ignore the rulings of our courts. He would capitulate to Russia and sacrifice the freedom of our allies in Ukraine. The Trump GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln, Reagan or the Constitution.”

Both ends of the Republican spectrum have also expressed concerns about Vance. The far right has been vocal today about their disdain for Vance’s wife, who is the American-born daughter of Indian immigrants. “Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?” Nick Fuentes asked. 

On the other side of the Republican spectrum, those who opposed Trump because of his extremism, especially on abortion, are unlikely to have their fears relieved by Vance, who has advocated no-exceptions abortion bans, that people stay in violent marriages, and said: “We are effectively run in this country…by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made. And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”

But for all the talk of unifying the country since last weekend’s shooting, Trump did not pick Vance to bring Republicans together. His selection of Vance reinforces that the MAGAs have taken over the Republican Party with an ideology that rejects democracy in favor of Christian nationalism. Vance has repeatedly elevated Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s destruction of democracy in favor of a strong leader imposing Christian family structures, ending abortion rights, enforcing anti-LGBTQ+ policies and encouraging attacks on immigrants, and seizing universities. Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, who is also aligned with Orbán and was key to the production of Project 2025, which echoes Orbán’s co-called “illiberal democracy,” cheered Vance’s selection. 

On Monday the convention approved a platform, the document that outlines the party’s position for the administration they hope to put into power. The evolution of Republican platforms since 2016 shows the evolution of the Republican Party. The 2016 platform fell pretty much within the norms of the genre, celebrating the nation and attacking the opposition before calling first for tax cuts—standard fare for Republicans since 1980—open markets, and deregulation of business and finance, as well as a smaller government. It called as well for an end to gay marriage, protection of gun ownership, and opposition to abortion. 

In 2020 the Republican Party did not write a platform, simply saying “[t]hat the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda.”

In 2024 the Republican Party platform reiterates the points of a Trump rally. Its capitalization is erratic, as his is, and it is full of sweeping and often incorrect statements. Rather than celebrating the country, it warns that “we are a Nation in SERIOUS DECLINE. Our future, our identity, and our very way of life are under threat like never before.” It promises that, under Trump, “We will be a Nation based on Truth, Justice, and Common Sense.”

The only real sign of the old party is the platform’s promise to make the Trump tax cuts, which have already added $2.5 trillion to the national debt, permanent. Otherwise, the platform is a MAGA document. It portrays a world that reflects Trump’s dystopian vision rather than reality, then promises to fix that dystopia either with vague promises or with culture war victories. In odd passages, it promises to do what Biden has already done: conquer inflation, bring supply chains home, revive manufacturing, and save the auto industry. 

The speakers at the convention have largely been MAGA extremists, and the picture they painted of the United States echoed Trump’s. They portrayed a country in decline from the heady days of the Trump presidency, but their image was not based in reality. Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, for example, claimed that “Women, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans all saw record low employment under Donald J. Trump,” when in fact those record lows have come under Biden. Former CEO of Yammer, South African David Sacks, echoed Russian talking points when he blamed Biden for provoking Russia to invade Ukraine. Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn attacked “racist DEI requirements.”

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale has been kept busy correcting the Republicans’ repeated lie that there is a violent crime wave in the U.S. under Biden; the opposite is true. Both violent crimes and property crimes have plummeted since the Trump administration. Republicans are also saying that Democrats “have eroded the American energy dominance that President Trump delivered.” In reality, while Biden is trying to shift the U.S. to renewables, Dale noted that “the U.S. under Biden is producing more crude oil than any country ever has… the U.S. is setting fossil fuel world records under this administration. The U.S. produced a global record 12.9 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2023, easily beating the Trump-era high of 12.3 million barrels.”  

Today’s speakers included Nikki Haley, a last-minute addition to the program after the events of the weekend in an apparent attempt to create a sense of unity. She made a good pitch but didn’t convince everyone: there were scattered boos at her appearance. Her speech was the high-water mark of the unity effort tonight; the rest of the speakers hammered the idea that the country is divided in two and that Trump’s opponents are persecuting him. They singled out the media as a key enemy.  

The bitter rift between establishment and MAGA Republicans has been evident in other ways, as well. Attendees booed Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) when he pledged Kentucky’s votes to Trump, from whom he has kept his distance. MAGA congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) interrupted CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins when she was interviewing former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to taunt McCarthy by pointing out that he had not been asked to speak, adding that if he had been, “You would get booed off the stage.” Gaetz was behind the move to throw McCarthy out of his office, and he resigned from Congress shortly thereafter. McCarthy reacted by noting that there is an ethics complaint against Gaetz for sleeping with a minor.   

Trump has appeared at the convention with a large bandage on the ear he says was pierced by a bullet on Saturday. Journalists have begun to note that there has been no medical report of Trump’s injuries, an odd omission after the intense recent scrutiny of President Biden’s health. 

Trump seemed oddly subdued on Monday and appeared to fall asleep during the proceedings. His wife Melania has not yet appeared at the convention. 

Today, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son Bobby Kennedy III posted a video of a call Trump made to his father in which Trump appeared to try to win Kennedy’s support first by appearing to support Kennedy’s opposition to vaccines and then by suggesting that he could get Kennedy a job. “I would love you to do something,” Trump said. “And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you. And we’re going to win.” He also noted that Biden had called him after the shooting, saying “it was very nice, actually,” and that the cause of the injury he sustained on Saturday felt like “the world’s largest mosquito.” 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON