Not directly Trump, but here is 58yo Tennessee congressman John Rose in a lovely picture with his three surprisingly young children:
https://twitter.com/JohnRoseforTN/status/1506676162105389066
Oh.. actually my mistake.. the older child is actually his wife Chelsea Doss. They met when she was 15 in high school where John Rose gave her a scholarship and "mentored" her. 😲
This is the party that claim the LGBTQ+ community are after your kids, while simultaneously trying to bring in laws to remove age restrictions on marriage.
Imagine a sitting president knowing that an armed mob was heading for his VP and not giving a shit.
Unusually this is one case where I can sort of agree with Trump given it was Pence.
I suspect quite a few presidents wouldnt have been overly fussed. The VP position is often a compromise/bribe to another faction rather than personal preference.
Cassidy Hutchinson is quite brave tbh, I imagine the Qanon/Fox News/ / Alex Jones mob will be out to absolutely destroy her now!
I suspect quite a few presidents wouldnt have been overly fussed. The VP position is often a compromise/bribe to another faction rather than personal preference.
I don't think that means you can be indifferent to their hanging, though.
Since 2016 we've become quite numb to the outbursts and tantrums from 45, it still comes as a shock that Trump was so arrogant as to try to take the wheel of the presidential limo and assault his own security detail, not to mention his attempt to nobble witnesses.
There are many Nixon parallels - not the least of which is the number of ex-Nixon acolytes who served in Trump's administration, but I can't help but wonder if Trump will be pardoned or exiled.
The problem is there's a vocal minority who will still think Trump was robbed and the mob should have stormed the Capitol and lynched people, they just don't see any of it as wrong
Since 2016 we’ve become quite numb to the outbursts and tantrums from 45, it still comes as a shock that Trump was so arrogant as to try to take the wheel of the presidential limo and assault his own security detail, not to mention his attempt to nobble witnesses.
I don't get this, was Trump riding shotgun in the Limo, seems a strange scenario. Obviously I expect him to throw a tantrum and try to verbally force the driver to do what he is told rather than what he should, but I can't help think that some "figurative" storytelling is being taken out of context somewhere along the line. And we have to be careful that the bulshit from allsides isn't examined otherwise that is where the cracks will appear that allow Trump to get away with it.
It'll be a long and slow process before people accept that they were duped and used - lets not forget where this started - Bannon, Mercer, et al trying to push the idea amongst the disaffected that Trump will be "hurting" the very people who these "deplorables" believed were responsible for their own unfulfilled life ambitions. Libtards, "The Left", BLM, Antifa, the Deep State etc were all convenient scapegoats for the fallout from forty years of Reaganomics.
Sanctioning Trump is only part of the answer. There are a number of very, very unpleasant people who've fomented the insurrection and who have poured a lot of money into the GOP. The donors, benefactors and fixers are the villains who really need to be forced to share Trump's public shame in all this.
We might enjoy the schadenfreude from seeing people like Mike Lindell raging that no-one wants to buy his stuff anymore, but for every disgraced CEO there's a Peter Theil who believes that Capitalism and Democracy are incompatible and who'll do their utmost to ensure that the deck is stacked in their favour.
Sanctioning Trump is only part of the answer. There are a number of very, very unpleasant people who’ve fomented the insurrection and who have poured a lot of money into the GOP. The donors, benefactors and fixers are the villains who really need to be forced to share Trump’s public shame in all this.
Good point - and all other nations need to follow and be aware to try and prevent their own puppeteers pulling strings
Judging by the pictures that day, Trump wasn't in the 'Beast'(limo) but a Secret Service SUV, similar to when he was being driven around during Covid. You could easily see how he could have gone for the wheel of an SUV, just sitting in the back.
Lots of memes about the limo spec doing the rounds to discredit her.
Good point – and all other nations need to follow and be aware to try and prevent their own puppeteers pulling strings
This is a battle that we're all currently losing. From Net Zero Watch to the Tax Payers Alliance, there's an endless stream of opaquely funded organisations that are lobbying hard to push an agenda that will be disadvantageous to 99.9% of us, only benefitting people already swimming in disposable cash and power.
I would urge anyone to think very carefully about which businesses they buy stuff from.
Can't sanction Trump, Boris is riding out Biden's term in the hope he's going to save us all from the nasty EU when he regains his presidency.
There's video
https://twitter.com/jackabryan/status/1542591198610698240?t=lfI1gxzUefDXY7Sryij8hQ&s=19
"There’s video"
Waiting for that Twitter link to render, I was expecting to see a scene from a watersports event at a Russian Hotel.
FFS, where do they dredge these clowns up from?
https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1542866096537145345
Wow. Just wow
Lots of memes about the limo spec doing the rounds to discredit her.
But weirdly enough, lots of chat about this, and the plate-chucking incident, but no effort to rebut the most damning elements of her testimony. I wonder why that is?
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theres not really anything accidental about the fruit-battery of the Primary debate. Primaries are elections to elect the candidates who'll run for election. America's system of electoral checks and balances means theres just too much democracy, too many occasions when voters are asked to vote, too many things to vote on (which is why the queues at polling stations are so long) and you get a high degree of voter fatigue. So in a primary turnout is very low because it doesn't seem very important and the only people who can be bothered to vote are the people who are most highly motivated by weird and wacky causes and you can unseat a sitting candidate by motivating enough weirdos to vote that they don't make it onto the ballot paper. So the candidates with the weirdest or most extreme views tend to get selected to run. Come the actual election the only candidate to vote for, if you're a republican voter, is some nut job or someone soulless enough to play the roll of a nutjob. So thats what whole clown show is for - Trumpist republicans attempting to get the traitorous Liz Chenny off the ballot paper so moderate republicans can't vote of her and so she can't be re-elected.
The Republican Party do this at every level of democratic process from school boards to the Whitehouse they're more interested in strategies to win than with doing anything with that victory other than gum up the works - they stack the school boards, local government, local legal systems, even the Whitehouse, with stubborn idiots so that efforts to govern by anyone else, at any other level are defeated.
Thing is that candidates who lose a primary can still run as an independent. There's zero chance of a Democrat winning Cheney's seat so she should be able to run as an independent and pick up moderate Republican voters and Democrats, assuming that the Democratic Party endorses her.
There’s zero chance of a Democrat winning Cheney’s seat
Which is why there's nothing to lose from her being primary'd by loons. She can of course run as an indi but democrats certainly wouldn't vote for her - she's one of the few republican to stick her head above the parapet regarding Trump's insurrection attempt but she's by no means middle-ground in her politics herself. She's doing something pretty brave but a democrat wouldn't find anything to vote for in her.
she’s by no means middle-ground in her politics herself. She’s doing something pretty brave but a democrat wouldn’t find anything to vote for in her.
In politics, you often just have to vote for the least-worst option. Cheney is a hardcore conservative but she's not a loony supporter of insurrections. Democrats are not going to win in Wyoming but having Cheney win is much better for them than having a MAGA nutjob win.
Beau of the fifth has an angry rant regarding a 10 yr old re Roe vs Wade.
Mike Lindell announces a class action lawsuit against “all machines
https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1542900823050649603
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1500256493886578689
Mike Lindell is one of the premier election experts in the world. We need more smart people like him leading our nation.
Is he ****, he’s a douchebag who stuffs pillows
I assumed Brigitte Gabriel up there 👆 was taking the piss. Turns out she isn’t 🤪
I assumed Brigitte Gabriel up there 👆 was taking the piss. Turns out she isn’t 🤪
It's disturbing isn't it. Even though the vast bulk of replies to her post are saying she is an idiot, Twitter probably still thinks the post is good and will surface it to other people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62278002
Trump at a rally in support of a potential gop governor...
She was followed on stage by Mr Trump, who told the crowd that "the election was rigged and stolen and now our country is being systematically destroyed because of it".
Seriously - at what point does it become an arrestable crime to spout this shit to try to influence an election outcome.
This thing with the Secret Service agents "accidentally" destroying their text messages from Jan 6 is getting pretty crazy.
Interesting that Murdoch seems to have turned on him over the weekend, both the New York Post and WSJ have editorial being pretty scathing.
Interesting that Murdoch seems to have turned on him over the weekend
https://twitter.com/DavidJollyFL/status/1552115551287361537
It's not real - https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trumptower-fakebanner/fact-check-fake-video-of-vegas-trump-tower-banner-recirculates-idUSL1N2UR2C1
Doesn't mean it's not true though
It’s not real
Damn. Too good to be true. Should have checked.
It’s not real –
So what did the banner say originally?
So what did the banner say originally?
Four Seasons Landscaping, free lawn manicure with every press conference booking!
This might get messy once the rats all start abandoning ship.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1553912830230937600
He'll be dead before anything happens to him. He's enough time & money to just constantly delay everything.
Is the ivana Trump grave/tax dodge real? It appears to be true but seems bonkers if not at least in keeping.
Mar-A-Largo raided, and Fox News are going full-on “end of days” rhetoric, brilliant!.
Mar-A-Largo on CNN, I’m not linking to the hysteria on Fox News
