The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

After four years of President Trump's consistent personnel miscalculations, does this surprise anyone? Poor choices are no longer an aberration...it is part of who he is. My guess is that he has been the CEO for so long, with the attendant authority to fire people at will, that he simply assumes that people will do what they are told. But politics is a strange and awful beast, and our current political structure is subsumed inside a convoluted deep state that controls far more than he expected, including some of his seemingly excellent choices.

And betrayal is the coin of the realm inside the beltway, so it is no surprise that he is being undermined even before he has announced his candidacy.

Trump's 'Think Tank' Prepares to Betray Him

Yes, it is important for President Trump to have a well-credentialed stable of policy experts capable of both building a 2024 platform and finding solid MAGA talent to populate a new Trump Administration. But the AFPI Trojan Horse—whose leadership is now bragging about how it will staff Trump’s “shadow cabinet”—is decidedly not that.
Most comically, the AFPI roster features the author of a poison pen White House memoir who sued the president; a Communist China-trained accountant who criticized the president for “ineffective drug price policies”; a former Cabinet secretary who almost got Trump impeached; a former top advisor to Dick “Endless War” Cheney; and John “Book Deal” Bolton’s former chief of staff. What could go wrong there?
Most perniciously, the AFPI economics team is peppered with free trade ideologues on record opposing Trump’s tariffs—the most important and transformational component of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement. The most famous offender here is Trump’s former National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, who is now vice chairman of the AFPI board.

"Free trade ideologues!" Yeah...that is a recipe for American ascendance! On what planet do these people live? The total repudiation of a rigid free trade stance has been exhaustively demonstrated, yet they cling to their sophomoric political philosophy that has failed. Emerson said it best: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

But the issue is more profound than the stupidity of free traders. It is President Trump's inability to recognize disloyalty, and his naive assumption that people will do what they are told and follow the overarching goals of his administration.

No, they won't. They will need to be made to behave, and if they can't or won't they need to be discarded. Unfortunately I do not believe that President Trump is capable of that sort of management, nor does he have sufficient perspective to decide who is loyal to him and his political philosophy, and who is a grifting snake.

What Donald Trump does better than anyone is something else entirely. He has been able to articulate a vision of America in terms that resonate with the silent and so far quiescent majority who have been left behind and marginalized by smug elite. It is my hope that Donald Trump understands this and becomes the elder statesman of a resurgent, conservative-controlled Republican party, guiding its philosophy and keeping it focused on what must be the single issue of our time: America First.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip's phone at July 26, 2022 11:02 AM (gtAB/)

2 Rant!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:02 AM (gbzeC)

3 Biden first!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at July 26, 2022 11:02 AM (ARwXL)

4 Dutifully called nood

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 26, 2022 11:03 AM (gtAB/)

5 I culled the otters.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (2urLC)

6 "Free trade ideologues" = bought and paid for by China

Posted by: brak at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (j5Tg0)

7 If Bobby Jindal is in it, it's a recipe for failure.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (Y5qcH)

8 Hola

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (HYtSy)

9 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (T4tVD)

10 Man, that's one nasty bout of monkeypox.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (XG2Fi)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

12 It's true that Trump is not ruthless enough. He has a soft heart.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (gbzeC)

13 Finally, the Biblical art thread is over and I can go back to being my bawdy self!

Snizz, y’all!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (2urLC)

14 Good rant.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (VJsqe)

15 I think Dick Morris is working for Trump, too....yes that Dick Morris.

Posted by: BignJames at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

16 Dammit, CBD, this is disturbingly accurate, seems to me. I still have to support him though. Where else can I go? This is like a La Brea Tar Pit situation.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (Vr12I)

17 The only free traders I know are hookers and drug dealers

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (sRUs0)

18 Free trade only works if everyone is onboard and the Chinese are never going to be.

Heck the Canadians have a 110% tariff on milk products coming in from the US to protect their dairy farmers.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (bVYXr)

19 It's true that Trump is not ruthless enough. He has a soft heart.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (gbzeC)

Yet his reputation in NYC real estate was that of a cutthroat hard-ass.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (XIJ/X)

20 15 I think Dick Morris is working for Trump, too....yes that Dick Morris.
Posted by: BignJames at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

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Is Jeff Sessions still breathing, perchance?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (XG2Fi)

21 It seems all this is going to shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (HYtSy)

22 I think Dick Morris is working for Trump, too....yes that Dick Morris.
Posted by: BignJames at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

The one who just said Hillary is waiting in the wings??

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (mR6Gs)

23 CBD - are you of the position that Trump should forgo the '24 election and just take the role of the elder statesmen at the helm of the GOP now or is that the goal after his second term?

Just curious as to that paragraph you wrote.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (PY/t0)

24 Switching from the "spoils system" to a "civil service" model has proven to be a horrific mistake. A complete housecleaning is long overdue, though sadly impossible in the current legal/administrative environment...which just makes the tragic alternative all the more a probability.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (OUMaO)

25 Is Jeff Sessions still breathing, perchance?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (XG2Fi)

He tried to get back into the Senate.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (Y5qcH)

26 Heck the Canadians have a 110% tariff on milk products coming in from the US to protect their dairy farmers.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (bVYXr)

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Canadians drink their milk out of bags.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (VJsqe)

27 Heck the Canadians have a 110% tariff on milk products coming in from the US to protect their dairy farmers.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM

My bad, it is a 270% tariff on milk products.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (bVYXr)

28 My guess is that he has been the CEO for so long, with the attendant authority to fire people at will, that he simply assumes that people will do what they are told.

When I left the military and joined the civilian workforce, I had the same eyeopening experience.

Posted by: Archer at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (gmo/4)

29 Trump is incapable of learning. I think it happens to everyone at a certain age. Seems to happen to bosses quicker.

Posted by: Bandana Dee at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (GVDNJ)

30 Another tale: the point of that amgreatness.com article is to sow discord within the Trump politcal machine.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (Wg1SU)

31 5 I culled the otters.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:04 AM (2urLC)

Nurse won't be happy about that at all.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (PY/t0)

32 I still have to support him though.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:05 AM (Vr12I)

You and me both. If he runs I will support him 100% and do my damnedest to get him elected.

But I would prefer another direction...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (XIJ/X)

33 Yet his reputation in NYC real estate was that of a cutthroat hard-ass.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (XIJ/X)

Because he's dealing with other cutthroat hard asses.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (mR6Gs)

34 Not included in the excerpt, the AFPI and Jindal et al are supposedly pushing for "Trumpism without Trump". Sounds... familiar...

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (J/RyQ)

35 i volunteer to be the club/taser hand for Trump's staff. bitches better get 'murica 1st right damned quick or they'll get the rough side of an a$$ whipping from the Bif discipline department.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at July 26, 2022 11:08 AM (MrZQl)

36 32 You and me both. If he runs I will support him 100% and do my damnedest to get him elected.

But I would prefer another direction...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (XIJ/X)

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I see the primary as already over. It's Trump v Democrats.

If Trump somehow loses the primary, I'll reconsider the position. He's not going to lose the primary, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:08 AM (LvTSG)

37 I meant to say, "take" not "tale," but I guess that works too.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2022 11:08 AM (Wg1SU)

38 Trump is incapable of learning. I think it happens to everyone at a certain age. Seems to happen to bosses quicker.
Posted by: Bandana Dee at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (GVDNJ)

Yup
He 's going to go with what worked in the past....even if it hasn't worked in awhile.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:08 AM (mR6Gs)

39 I do think no one knew how destructive the Deep State could be, maybe except Shummy but we all do now.

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (gtAB/)

40 There is a sweet spot between the complete free trade ideologues and using tariffs as your main trade tool to 'equalize' trade.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (5I3bD)

41 FYI, Dave in Texas's service has begun for those of you who want to join in online:

https://tinyurl.com/yzkzbkne

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (wtvvX)

42 CBD - are you of the position that Trump should forgo the '24 election and just take the role of the elder statesmen at the helm of the GOP now or is that the goal after his second term?

Just curious as to that paragraph you wrote.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

If he is I'm in agreement. Trump showed how it SHOULD be, and created as a result a contrast with how bad the reality truly is. I'm not convinced he can achieve any more than he already has--not that what he's done to date isn't a major accomplishment! Just that the task needs to be carried forward by other hands better fitted to the task revealed.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (OUMaO)

43 Not included in the excerpt, the AFPI and Jindal et al are supposedly pushing for "Trumpism without Trump". Sounds... familiar...
Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (J/RyQ)

It's bullshit, but still a tacit admission that Trump was right

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:10 AM (mR6Gs)

44 Nobody is perfect. You can fire all of these assholes but then there'll be nobody left. You have to use the swamp to drain the swamp.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 11:10 AM (0ocXn)

45 i volunteer to be the club/taser hand for Trump's staff. bitches better get 'murica 1st right damned quick or they'll get the rough side of an a$$ whipping from the Bif discipline department.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at July 26, 2022 11:08 AM (MrZQl)

That's hot.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 11:10 AM (DRSnL)

46 Second look at me?

Posted by: Zombie Pat Paulsen at July 26, 2022 11:10 AM (PiwSw)

47 The people who were saying Trump is stupid for not partnering up with Elon Musk, or running back to Twitter the moment "Elon" said he was allowed back on, are among the same group who say Trump trusts too easily and is led around by the nose by smarter people because of his ego and blind spots. I would call that curvaceous.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:11 AM (J/RyQ)

48 Is Jeff Sessions still breathing, perchance?
Posted by: Cicero
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He tried to get back into the Senate.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

eff that particular political turd specifically and in detail.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at July 26, 2022 11:11 AM (MrZQl)

49 Nobody is perfect. You can fire all of these assholes but then there'll be nobody left.

Uh...yeah...that's kinda the point...

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 11:11 AM (OUMaO)

50 Dick "Endless War" Cheney????? Wtf. Ace was still cheerleading that clusterfuck in Afghanistan until the 2nd year of Trump
It was the left who opposed those misadventures of Bush/Cheney. Please don't embarrassed yourselves by trying to pretend otherwise
Posted by: Paul at July 26, 2022 11:10 AM (mSHP1)

This.....is not true.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

51 Trump couldn't have possibly had people in any private company working against him and not being able to do anything about it.

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 26, 2022 11:11 AM (gtAB/)

52 A little early to start burning Trump or our own hair.

Yeah, Trump's past picks have sucked ass with monkeypoxed tongues. But he ain't in office yet, if ever, so I'm not going to rev my drama machine yet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:11 AM (XvPQV)

53 51 This.....is not true.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

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So...Biden's vote to invade Iraq doesn't exist anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

54 24 Switching from the "spoils system" to a "civil service" model has proven to be a horrific mistake

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I agree - bring back the spoils system!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:12 AM (gbzeC)

55 So...Biden's vote to invade Iraq doesn't exist anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

Neither did Hillary's or her arms dealing out of Libya.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (Y5qcH)

56
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So...Biden's vote to invade Iraq doesn't exist anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

Revisionist history. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

57 47 Second look at me?
Posted by: Zombie Pat Paulsen at July 26, 2022 11:10 AM (PiwSw)

No thanks, Zombie Joe Biden has already proven that it won't work.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (Wg1SU)

58 55 24 Switching from the "spoils system" to a "civil service" model has proven to be a horrific mistake

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I agree - bring back the spoils system!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:12 AM (gbzeC)

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The spoils system had its problems. I think we'd be better off with those problems than the problems we have now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

59 Canadians drink their milk out of bags.

Got to admit, I've tried it.
Hard to get her to sit still for it though.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (x61Im)

60 The Left opposed the Iraq War for reasons having nothing to do with why some of us now think it was a bad idea.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (mR6Gs)

61 Desantis 2024

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (XvOwQ)

62 47 Second look at me?
Posted by: Zombie Pat Paulsen at July 26, 2022 11:10 AM (PiwSw)

I'd prefer Rachel Ward
https://youtu.be/SWSQS06i7-w

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (XvPQV)

63 56 So...Biden's vote to invade Iraq doesn't exist anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

Neither did Hillary's or her arms dealing out of Libya.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (Y5qcH)

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"Democrats love peace! They'd never go to war!"
*all the votes to go to war*
"That's the previous generation! We must support Biden and Hillary for the future!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (LvTSG)

64 Trump needs to be quicker at pulling the rug out from under appointees. Comey, Fauci, Sessions... the list of people he should have fired as soon as he could is long.

If he wins, Trump will be impeached again. Multiple times, probably. There's no point in playing nice and hoping to get along. He needs to clean house ASAP no matter the cost.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (VJsqe)

65 bring back the spoils system!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:12 AM (gbzeC)

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The spoils system had its problems. I think we'd be better off with those problems than the problems we have now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

Moved and seconded

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (XvPQV)

66 "Trumpism without Trump".

so it will go the way of the Tea Party and we can get back to our globalism uniparty mission statement

Posted by: GOP at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (j5Tg0)

67 I still support our action in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (5I3bD)

68 Maybe Washington DC is too far gone. Maybe it's such the leviathan of corruption that it's doesn't matter who is in office, people will always be out for themselves and their own grift. Maybe that's politics now.

I don't see DeSantis having any more of an easy time if he becomes President. I'm sure the same two-faced grifters who infect this country today will be lining up to get positions at the trough of DC.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:15 AM (PY/t0)

69 Yup
He 's going to go with what worked in the past....even if it DIDN''T.

FIFY

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 26, 2022 11:15 AM (peWy1)

70 Trump is incapable of learning. I think it happens to everyone at a certain age. Seems to happen to bosses quicker.

You don't climb to the top of any bureaucracy by telling those above you what they don't want to hear. I don't think its an age thing. Its an echo chamber thing.

You think Trump seeks out contrarians whom he respects, to hear a counter point of view ? I sure as Hell don't.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:15 AM (ZMYfe)

71 Be rid of all these fuckers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 11:15 AM (HYtSy)

72 65 The spoils system had its problems. I think we'd be better off with those problems than the problems we have now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

Moved and seconded
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (XvPQV)

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It was corrupt. Our current system is corrupt. It's a question of how to address it for the people's concerns. Our current system doesn't allow for any redress of the administrative state by the people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

73 I don't think Trump is really a cutthroat hardass. I agree that he is too soft hearted. He needs to be ruthless, as his enemies are ruthless.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (QSjkU)

74 The spoils system had its problems. I think we'd be better off with those problems than the problems we have now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven

Especially since we seem to still be having some of those problems regardless...

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (OUMaO)

75 Hey! Who do I gotta blow in this swamp to get a eight ball or two?

Posted by: Larry Kudlow, in relapse at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (LyKqt)

76 There's the Axios story about Trump's inner circle and their plans to circumvent the deep state.

Then there's this story about Trump's "think tank" and their plans to stab him in the back.

The media is shit.

I get it... they're talking about two different entities in the Trump universe, but still. This is stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (BFigT)

77
Antifa picked a fight with Oregon motorcycle clubs?

If the FBI does not act fast antifa could get hurt

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (n17F0)

78 It is my hope that Donald Trump understands this and becomes the elder statesman of a resurgent, conservative-controlled Republican party, guiding its philosophy and keeping it focused on what must be the single issue of our time: America First.
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He doesn't strike me as the elder statesman type, or the book-writing visionary sort. He's clearly not a "party man", who will reorganize and energize the party infrastructure.

So, I wonder (other than "not a candidate") what you mean?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (dYygG)

79 I'm agnostic on 2024. Be it DeSantis, Trump, or somebody else. But no matter who ends up running in the primaries, they're going to have to show that they're committed to an America first agenda, AND have a plan for dealing with the intransigent permanent bureaucracy in our government who serve only their own interest and those of the CCP.

I would LOVE for Trump to get rid of the Deep Staters surrounding him and have a Trump / Desantis ticket teed up for 12 years of pissing in the faces of Democrats. Alas... I can dream.

Posted by: SMFH at July 26, 2022 11:17 AM (CEh/e)

80 I don't see DeSantis having any more of an easy time if he becomes President. I'm sure the same two-faced grifters who infect this country today will be lining up to get positions at the trough of DC.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:15 AM (PY/t0)
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DeSantis won't have it easy, but he can stay on-message better than Trump. He wouldn't have gotten bogged down with the whole 'drinking bleach' thing, for example. Trump riffed about introducing disinfectants, and the left ran with it. DeSantis is more disciplined about message.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:17 AM (VJsqe)

81 ===================
He doesn't strike me as the elder statesman type, or the book-writing visionary sort. He's clearly not a "party man", who will reorganize and energize the party infrastructure.

So, I wonder (other than "not a candidate") what you mean?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (dYygG)

Maybe he's a titty man.

https://youtu.be/f8yK83atR3w

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

82 I'm going to vote , advocate and defend Trump just like I did in 2016 but when you think everyone is asshoe you may just be that asshoe. Even Trump's best pick and loyal cabinet member Pompeo has hinted that he had issues with Trump.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:17 AM (5I3bD)

83 Antifa taking on a motorcycle club...

I would pay good money to see that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2022 11:17 AM (1n+EO)

84 It was corrupt. Our current system is corrupt. It's a question of how to address it for the people's concerns. Our current system doesn't allow for any redress of the administrative state by the people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

Barring an outside agency (a Roman-style censor perhaps) that can weed out corruption, I don't think you're going to get a fair system.
At least the spoils system makes turn over more constant and removing entrenched power is more valuable than handing out jobs to unqualified monkeys.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:18 AM (XvPQV)

85 I'm no fan of most of Trump's personnel choices, but as I've asked before and got no answer: who else should he have picked? Some of his picks were almost universally praised by conservatives at the time (Mad Dog, etc) and others were sort of "well, OK." I don't remember much screaming and gnashing at the picks at the time. It was only later that we learned, after the fact, that the picks were shite.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

86 They don't believe in God so a body count of millions is just a number.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (pvM5r)

87 FYI, Dave in Texas's service has begun for those of you who want to join in online:

https://tinyurl.com/yzkzbkne
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (wtvvX)

Thank you!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (gbzeC)

88 No, they won't. They will need to be made to behave, and if they can't or won't they need to be discarded. Unfortunately I do not believe that President Trump is capable of that sort of management, nor does he have sufficient perspective to decide who is loyal to him and his political philosophy, and who is a grifting snake.

I've said before that, if I had a chance to speak to Teh Donald, I would say, "Mr President, after four years of your own party betraying you, your appointees refusing your orders, your military lying to you and the MFM doing its best to destroy you, have you learned your fucking lesson?" If this story is true, then sadly, he has not.

I'll still 'vote' for him if he's the nominee, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (AW0uW)

89 84 Barring an outside agency (a Roman-style censor perhaps) that can weed out corruption, I don't think you're going to get a fair system.
At least the spoils system makes turn over more constant and removing entrenched power is more valuable than handing out jobs to unqualified monkeys.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:18 AM (XvPQV)

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The idea that presidents can put unqualified donors into diplomatic positions but not local post office positions is silly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

90 Trump's spoils system was Jared and Ivanka.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (5I3bD)

91 I don't remember much screaming and gnashing at the picks at the time. It was only later that we learned, after the fact, that the picks were shite.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

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I was pumped when he picked Barr. What a mistake.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

92 41 FYI, Dave in Texas's service has begun for those of you who want to join in online:

https://tinyurl.com/yzkzbkne
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (wtvvX)

Stoaty had a nice shout out to Dave:

http://sweasel.com/archives/24523

Posted by: Tiny Bob Costas at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (BgMrQ)

93
DeSantis won't have it easy, but he can stay on-message better than Trump. He wouldn't have gotten bogged down with the whole 'drinking bleach' thing, for example. Trump riffed about introducing disinfectants, and the left ran with it. DeSantis is more disciplined about message.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:17 AM (VJsqe)

DeSantis is currently a governor in a friendly state with a Republican congress. He's not getting the long knives from all over DC. The FIB is not dreaming up pee tapes with three letter agencies.

I'd hold off on what is or isn't DeSantis' capabilities at the National level until he gets in the hot seat.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (PY/t0)

94
Insty has video of bikers women chasing antifa away

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (n17F0)

95 I want Antifa to take on motorcycle GANGS, not clubs. There is a big difference. The gangs are thugs, and they will beat you, shoot you, bomb you, kill you. I am a life long motorcyclist. I do not join clubs, and I loath gangs.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (QSjkU)

96 Whether anyone likes it or not, DeSantis's best path to the WH is as VP for Trump.

DeSantis is still a relative unknown and they haven't even started on him yet. They haven't started on analyzing every single word and phrase he has ever said or will say, they haven't started with the dozen fake scandals all unleashed at once as global headlines until something sticks, they haven't started with endless investigations, and Lord knows what other intimidation tactics.

Branding a relative unknown who *will* make mistakes, against, say, a Michelle Obama, is a recipe for potential disaster. Trump has done the hard work, he is widely known, and if by some miracle he gets back in, he carries DeSantis on his back to a campaign in 2028 as practically the incumbent. It's not fair, but life isn't fair.

And let's not pretend letting Trump go into the sunset is about anything other than Ron DeSantis.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (J/RyQ)

97 /off tiny, pink eyed, little shit sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (BgMrQ)

98 >>>It is my hope that Donald Trump understands this and becomes the elder statesman

PDT could support De Santis with a resounding, "This is a young man's game." Pointing to Biden to illustrate the contrast.

Posted by: m at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (0ixKl)

99 when you think everyone is asshoe you may just be that asshoe.

When we're talking DC ? Everybody really is asshoe.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (ZMYfe)

100 I was pumped when he picked Barr. What a mistake.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

Barr was picked to resolve one issue which he did post haste.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (5I3bD)

101 CBD - are you of the position that Trump should forgo the '24 election and just take the role of the elder statesmen...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:06 AM (PY/t0)

Yes. Exactly. I think he will be marvelous at that, and will have a chance at reshaping the political landscape for a generation.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (XIJ/X)

102 93 DeSantis is currently a governor in a friendly state with a Republican congress. He's not getting the long knives from all over DC. The FIB is not dreaming up pee tapes with three letter agencies.

I'd hold off on what is or isn't DeSantis' capabilities at the National level until he gets in the hot seat.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (PY/t0)

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Any real conservative Republican president is still going to need to get Mitch McConnell to play ball on appointments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (LvTSG)

103 Trump needs to be quicker at pulling the rug out from under appointees. Comey, Fauci, Sessions... the list of people he should have fired as soon as he could is long.

If he wins, Trump will be impeached again. Multiple times, probably. There's no point in playing nice and hoping to get along. He needs to clean house ASAP no matter the cost.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM

Concur. trump should have fired comey the minute he tried to blackmail him but he waited for weeks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (bVYXr)

104 Heartwarming to come here and see the overwhelming optimism displayed.

Before y'all indulge in the witty comments let it be noted I see nothing wrong with acknowledging the gravity of the situation.

But the constant drumbeat of doom gets wearing. Despair is a pervasive thing.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (KATBx)

105 Antifa taking on a motorcycle club...

I would pay good money to see that.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2022 11:17 AM (1n+EO

( opening chords of Gimme Shelter begin to play)

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (mR6Gs)

106 I'd hold off on what is or isn't DeSantis' capabilities at the National level until he gets in the hot seat.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (PY/t0)

I doubt he has any more support in DC than Trump would.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (UuD2k)

107 I'd hold off on what is or isn't DeSantis' capabilities at the National level until he gets in the hot seat.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (PY/t0)

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Understood. My post is about his ability to stay on message. He does that better than Trump, regardless of the forum.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (VJsqe)

108 91 I don't remember much screaming and gnashing at the picks at the time. It was only later that we learned, after the fact, that the picks were shite.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

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I was pumped when he picked Barr. What a mistake.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

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Yes, Barr too -- and he was good and effective for a while. It took a while for him to show his true colors, but that was true of most of the failed picks. They seemed at least OK at the time, seemed at least OK for a time, but then when it came time to shit or get off the pot, they . . . got off the pot.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

109 I keep saying it...his economic team were rock stars. And what do you think is the most important issue of this election?

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (5HBd1)

110 Trump engendered no loyalty among those he brought into his administration in large part due to his habit of trashing them in public.

Loyalty cuts both ways.

Picking Jeff Sessions as an example (you may have your own), all Trump had to do was ask for his resignation. Instead, Trump belittled & attacked the man for months in every public forum he could then couldn't fathom why people either didn't want to work for him or used their position to advance themselves & not Trump's agenda.

Posted by: aelfheld at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (Zy9Yy)

111 FYI, Dave in Texas's service has begun for those of you who want to join in online:
https://tinyurl.com/yzkzbkne
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Thanks. Tuned in amid Dave's sister's eulogy. So moving.

In recent weeks, I'd wondered whatever happened to Dave. Shock to find out.

Posted by: mindful webworker - always attend the funeral at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (2HXFy)

112 What ever happened to the "China is asshoe" guy in Hong Kong?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (Wg1SU)

113 I'd love a Republican Party modeled on Trumpian lines, Constitutionalist, activist and antagonistic towards progressives, promoting the middle-class over the wealthy, and America First internationally (respected AND restrained).

Sadly, the Republican politicians themselves don't agree with any of that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (bT14l)

114 A Civil Service system that is effective and neutral would demand a workforce of high integrity, honor, sense of duty. I think I see the problem.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (Vr12I)

115 As Cruz pointed out, every potential candidate is waiting to see what Trump is going to do before they decide to run. If Trump runs he will be unopposed as a Republican.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (5I3bD)

116 Concur. trump should have fired comey the minute he tried to blackmail him but he waited for weeks.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (bVYXr)

Then he should have held a press conference revealing the attempted blackmail

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (mR6Gs)

117 Dems Fume as Hulu Refuses to Stream Ads on Abortion, Guns, and Jan. 6

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

118 At least none of Trump's picks drank urine . . . or at least that we know of . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (iFTx/)

119 Doubt DJT comes back as President he will go back to Mr nice guy

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (gtAB/)

120 Thank you for this, CBD. It was Trump's failure to recognize the threat Anthony Fauci posted that essentially destroyed our economy. I just can't get past that.

Then he endorses Dr. Oz, demonstrating perfectly that he has learned nothing.

For all his fight, we lost the war. Absent an acknowledgement of and full-throated for that, Donald Trump has lost my vote.

Posted by: creeper at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (cTCuP)

121 >>> Even Trump's best pick and loyal cabinet member Pompeo has hinted that he had issues with Trump.

>This is what happens when you're the boss. Be the boss. I tell my bosses to get fucked all of the time because they make demands. Everything is negotiable, that's the way it works.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (0ocXn)

122 It's very possible all your choices are bad when it comes to appointments in DC. Or the majority of them.

The people we judge from home as 'good ones' are turning out to be backstabbing shitheals over and over.

Pence. Great example. Who would have thought he'd be a backstabbing prick? A man of God (supposedly).

I don't think there are good choices any more.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (PY/t0)

123 114 A Civil Service system that is effective and neutral would demand a workforce of high integrity, honor, sense of duty. I think I see the problem.
Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (Vr12I)

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We'll never get it. Might as well let the people and the 50 states have a direct say in how the civil service is populated through their decisions on the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

124 104 Heartwarming to come here and see the overwhelming optimism displayed.

Before y'all indulge in the witty comments let it be noted I see nothing wrong with acknowledging the gravity of the situation.

But the constant drumbeat of doom gets wearing. Despair is a pervasive thing.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (KATBx)

put another way " that shit rubs off".

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (Vr12I)

125 Trump needs to realize that DC isn't a corporation, it's a whore house. The people working there do & say whatever pleases the richest john.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (BJKQV)

126 117 Dems Fume as Hulu Refuses to Stream Ads on Abortion, Guns, and Jan. 6

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (RHGPo)
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Republicans pounce!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (Wg1SU)

127 Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (bT14l)

Need to adjust the Trumpian line to eliminate the spending and debt part.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (5I3bD)

128 What’s the connection between Nurse and the otters? Whenever I apostle that I’ve “culled the otters,” I get some reply that Nurse won’t like that. Why is that?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (2urLC)

129 Yes, Barr too -- and he was good and effective for a while. It took a while for him to show his true colors, but that was true of most of the failed picks.

The passionate defense of Lon Horiuchi didn't ring any bells for you, I see.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (ZMYfe)

130 But the issue is more profound than the stupidity of free traders. It is President Trump's inability to recognize disloyalty, and his naive assumption that people will do what they are told and follow the overarching goals of his administration.

Permit me to offer an alternate hypothesis. Generally speaking, the people who go into government/politics (including "think" tanks) are looking out for number one. Maybe that is something new, maybe it's always been that way.

No matter what Trump does, if he hires people willing to be involved in that shit full-time, the instant that he stops funding them someone else will and he who pays the piper calls the tune.

What we need to understand is that any permanent, organized group is, or soon will be, antithetical to our desires. Frankly, at this point, I don't give much of a damn what anyone not on Ace has to say about anything...and half the time even the people here are full of shit, although I think that's more innocent than these ass-wipes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (zhLdt)

131 Hulu, the Disney-backed streaming service, will not run political ads related to abortion, guns, and the Jan. 6 riot, all of which are crucial to Democrats’ midterm election messaging. Party leaders are, as The Washington Post reported, irate. Unlike television networks, Hulu is not limited by the 1934 Communications Act, which demands that broadcast networks give politicians the same level of access to airwaves. “Hulu’s censorship of the truth is outrageous, offensive, and another step down a dangerous path for our country,” executive directors of three Democratic committees said in a statement.

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 11:25 AM (RHGPo)

132 What’s the connection between Nurse and the otters? Whenever I apostle that I’ve “culled the otters,” I get some reply that Nurse won’t like that. Why is that?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (2urLC)

She loves otters.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

133 It is tough to find a non globalists to staff entire departments. I guess it is time to get rid of departments.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 26, 2022 11:25 AM (eC4Tv)

134 Then he should have held a press conference revealing the attempted blackmail

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:22 AM (mR6Gs)

Did you note the calm and considered three month global reaction when Trump tweeted that he was spied on?

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:25 AM (J/RyQ)

135 Dave's co-worker gave a really nice remembrance of him. Funny story about the Hawaiian shirts he loved to wear.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:26 AM (wtvvX)

136 I would call that curvaceous.
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Morons know all about the curvaceous!

And maybe decide what to do in November 2022 after we've seen how that goes?

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 26, 2022 11:26 AM (yikp0)

137 Dave's co-worker gave a really nice remembrance of him. Funny story about the Hawaiian shirts he loved to wear.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:26 AM (wtvvX)

There's one on stage, I think I saw.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

138 Need to adjust the Trumpian line to eliminate the spending and debt part.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (5I3bD)
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Good point

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2022 11:26 AM (bT14l)

139 Doubt DJT comes back as President he will go back to Mr nice guy
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (gtAB/)

If I had influence over Trump, I'd ask him to be Mr. Nice Guy on the campaign trail....then once he wins, then no more....

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:26 AM (mR6Gs)

140 Corporate tax breaks and enterprise zones for the win.

Posted by: Larry the K at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

141 Wonder what ever happened to Toilet Seat Licker Girl?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (pvM5r)

142 -------
Understood. My post is about his ability to stay on message. He does that better than Trump, regardless of the forum.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (VJsqe

I'll agree he seems to have good intuition when it comes to deal with the spotlight. Trump came from a different place though. All that Hollywood, TV stuff made him think he was the shizz anywhere he went.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (PY/t0)

143 When I left the military and joined the civilian workforce, I had the same eyeopening experience.

Posted by: Archer at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (gmo/4)

You mean that no one seems to give a damn about doing anything well, or on time?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (zhLdt)

144 You have to use ~~the swamp~~ dynamite to drain the swamp.

Suggested edit.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (nfrXX)

145 She loves otters.

And we love you, Nurse.

*makes "call me" gesture*

Posted by: The Otters at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (ZMYfe)

146 As soon as bogus "charges" are filed, NT and GOPe will announce he is not allowed to run in R primaries and anyone supporting him is an insurrectionist too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2022 10:15 AM (7bRMQ)

The end of the uni-party starts with the end of one party. And I don't much care which one it is.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (44ww/)

147 Geez CBD, HOW DARE YOU?! .

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (5gyQ/)

148 Wonder what ever happened to Toilet Seat Licker Girl?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 26, 2022 11:27 AM (pvM5r)

Died from dysentery.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

149 I identify as "First!" and will no longer tolerate being referred to as a "TransFirst!." Being First! is a vibe, not an ordinal number.

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (zSyrn)

150 But the constant drumbeat of doom gets wearing. Despair is a pervasive thing.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (KATBx)

I think there is a huge upside for America, and I think I made it clear how we can achieve that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (XIJ/X)

151 Even the good hires get swallowed up in DC if only from the last resort "eight ways to Sunday" they very openly have of getting to you.

So in the end every single person looks like a bad pick and a lying backstabber.

Trump needs to find people with integrity who agree with us, who are as clean and tidy as he apparently is. Should be easy.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (J/RyQ)

152 We'll never get it. Might as well let the people and the 50 states have a direct say in how the civil service is populated through their decisions on the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

Maybe each state should get equal appointments to all positions in the government. At least then we'd have a fighting chance.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (PY/t0)

153 150 But the constant drumbeat of doom gets wearing. Despair is a pervasive thing.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (KATBx)

I think there is a huge upside for America, and I think I made it clear how we can achieve that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (XIJ/X)

You did, clearly.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (Vr12I)

154 Democrats have a long history of using scare tactics to get uninformed people to vote for them, but this recent round is on steroids. On top of starting far earlier than any previous campaign, the narrative is way over the top. "MAGA Gop" candidates are going to end social security, medicare, kick seniors out of their homes, starve children and all sorts of mean, nasty, ugly things. And the only way to avoid total disaster is vote democrat.

I've never seen such total panic.

Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (/BlEx)

155 Trumps plan to move offices out of DC was a good one.
Better would be to just close them, but I'll take what I can get.

Posted by: Inogame at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (53oGX)

156 Geez CBD, HOW DARE YOU?! .

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (5gyQ/)

And during Pride Month no less!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (XIJ/X)

157 156 Geez CBD, HOW DARE YOU?! .

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (5gyQ/)

And during Pride Month no less!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (XIJ/X)

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It's Pride Year when you think about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

158
I think there is a huge upside for America, and I think I made it clear how we can achieve that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (XIJ/X)

You did, clearly.
Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:29 AM (Vr12I)

To ensure clarity, one must be clearly clear. If you achieve clarity, then you're cleared to be clear. After that, you clearly have clarity in the clear skies.

Posted by: Kumswala Harris at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

159 The Left is busy taking us back to the 1970s; plenty here, with their aching for things like Smoot-Hawley, want to take us back to the 1930s.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (CdZ4i)

160 I smell dead monopolies.

Ha ha lol ha hooo.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (pvM5r)

161 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:24 AM (2urLC)

She adores sea otters. If you specify that it's river otters you're after she'll probably offer to help since she loathes those.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (nC+QA)

162 135 Dave's co-worker gave a really nice remembrance of him. Funny story about the Hawaiian shirts he loved to wear.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:26 AM (wtvvX

Dave was a Boogaloo Boy?

Posted by: Emmie at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (t62xj)

163 You don't drain the swamp by hiring people from within the swamp. That was mistake one.

Mistake two - the GOP is not your friend. They, too, are of the swamp.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (ZMYfe)

164 But the constant drumbeat of doom gets wearing. Despair is a pervasive thing.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (KATBx)

I think there is a huge upside for America, and I think I made it clear how we can achieve that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:28 AM (XIJ/X)

I'll repeat my current optimism. We just had two favorable landmark SC decisions and an apparent change in voter patterns. The Left are wounded animals and lashing out.

HOLD FAST

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (5I3bD)

165 How soon before entering the woods should one apply bear spray?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (1n+EO)

166 DeSantis is currently a governor in a friendly state with a Republican congress.
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I suspect the FL civil service isn't as left-wing as the Feds' as well.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (yikp0)

167 I see the primary as already over. It's Trump v Democrats.

If Trump somehow loses the primary, I'll reconsider the position. He's not going to lose the primary, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:08 AM (LvTSG)

The GOP has a strong bench. Trump has a clear advantage but the nomination isn't a foregone conclusion, especially if he keeps making these godawful staffing picks.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (ogIek)

168 CBD, you pointed out a way forward, even though there will be many who don't agree. So, not negative, just objectionable to some. Big difference.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (Vr12I)

169 My guess is that he has been the CEO for so long, with the attendant authority to fire people at will, that he simply assumes that people will do what they are told.
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Or perhaps he is unaccustomed to people whose motivation is personal gain and maintaining the beneficial political status quo above all other considerations, like the good of the country.

Posted by: Weasel at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (0IeYL)

170 Trump was best operating outside the constraints of the bureaucracy and the Uniparty obstacles. His efforts negotiating trade and immigration agreements and handling the European weenies and even the chicoms were commendable but were short lived. On an institutional level, Supreme Court aside, very little changed, as to be expected, after the coup. He had some good help and a couple of good appointments. Peter Navarro comes to mind. It may be impossible to “populate” his policy appointments with others devoted to the cause of MAGA to clean house in virtually every department. In that regard there are 100 Pences for every Desantis.

Posted by: 7man at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (qwO6y)

171 I don't blame Trump for thinking the GOP wanted to win. He figured he'd show them winning and they'd jump on board.
Trump didn't have the time we've had to learn that the GOP doesn't want to win.

Posted by: Inogame at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (53oGX)

172 What is so prideful about being a turd tamping, dick sucking pervert? What is next? Pride in being a chicken fucker? Pride is being a child molester? No get it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (QSjkU)

173 She adores sea otters. If you specify that it's river otters you're after she'll probably offer to help since she loathes those.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2022 11:31 AM (nC+QA)

Giant River Otters are outright evil.
Sea otters are cute.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:33 AM (XvPQV)

174 "If I had influence over Trump..."

If I had influence over Trump, I would ask him to move from Florida then while running for the Presidency, state that he would be resigning on his 80th birthday in favor of Vice President De Santis, who would then have a shot at an almost ten-year Presidency.

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at July 26, 2022 11:33 AM (zSyrn)

175 161 Thanks. I love sea otters, too. Fun to watch in Monterey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:33 AM (2urLC)

176 Maybe we need to reduce the number of federal employees by 80%

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 26, 2022 11:33 AM (eC4Tv)

177 Trumps second term should be permanent solidifying America's energy independence, permanently solidifying American's independence on manufacturing, permanently de-politicizing all government agencies, and permanently creating term limits with strikingly painful punishments for abuse of office.

That's the first year.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:33 AM (PY/t0)

178 Canadians drink their milk out of bags.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (VJsqe)

Only the damfool Easterners.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2022 11:33 AM (dxQq+)

179 Democrats have a long history of using scare tactics to get uninformed people to vote for them, but this recent round is on steroids. On top of starting far earlier than any previous campaign, the narrative is way over the top. "MAGA Gop" candidates are going to end social security, medicare, kick seniors out of their homes, starve children and all sorts of mean, nasty, ugly things. And the only way to avoid total disaster is vote democrat.

They may have overplayed this particular song, especially if Biden, Pelosi and Schumer are the front men of the band playing it

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (mR6Gs)

180 133 It is tough to find a non globalists to staff entire departments. I guess it is time to get rid of departments.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 26, 2022 11:25 AM (eC4Tv)

Easy. Just find every one that holds a valid passport, and fire them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (CdZ4i)

181
The GOP has a strong bench. Trump has a clear advantage but the nomination isn't a foregone conclusion, especially if he keeps making these godawful staffing picks.
Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (ogIek)

I'm trying to think of a single primary that hinged on potential staff picks... has this ever happened?

Posted by: Inogame at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (53oGX)

182 172 What is so prideful about being a turd tamping, dick sucking pervert? What is next? Pride in being a chicken fucker? Pride is being a child molester? No get it.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (QSjkU)

Sexual perverts of all stripes HATE being condemned for their chosen way of nutting. They want to be able to fuck anyone or anything they choose while we cheer them on. That's their other kink, for most of them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (XvPQV)

183 So if I've got this right, Trump not endorsing Kemp is bad but Larry Kudlow is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (mLvsV)

184 I think Trump, DeSantis, et al are avatars for us. Imperfect? Sure. Make personnel mistakes- inevitable in a DC swamp where everyone is really in it for themselves. Strong counter voices instead of yes men? Sure, but doesn't that describe both Bolton and Mattis, neither of whom could stand being overruled? Strongly encouraged by Matt Gaetz's latest- this is what we are pulling them all to- and the ability to once again call fat, ugly girls fat and ugly is huge, as it represents a return to the truth.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (RyWKP)

185 Canadians drink their milk out of bags.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:07 AM (VJsqe)

Directly from the cow's tits??!!

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (mR6Gs)

186 Best thing that Trump could do in a hypothetical 2024 administration is delegate his firing powers to a hard assed chief of staff. Hiring and talent seeking delegated to another. But, I don't think Trump would go for it.

Ike, for example, had two--Bedell Smith and later Sherman Adams.
Nixon had Haldeman and Erhlich. Reagan had a trio for his first term which did not always work well. GHWB had Sununu. GWB did not have an identifiable hardass chief of staff and it showed. Clinton, ditto. Obama had Rahm Emmanuel until the wheels came off in 2010 but retained Axelrod.

Someone has to be the disciplinarian and Trump is too soft hearted to do it.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (CXr4y)

187 174 "If I had influence over Trump..."

I'd ask him to please not announce his candidacy till after the mid-terms

Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 11:35 AM (bs+z0)

188 So, not negative, just objectionable to some. Big difference.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (Vr12I)

When Ace made me a coblogger he promised that everyone would agree with everything I wrote and it would be all unicorns and fairy dust and wondrous things.

He lied to me!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:35 AM (XIJ/X)

189 5 I think Dick Morris is working for Trump, too....yes that Dick Morris.

Morris JUST came out and said Trump should never be President again because he’s guilty of Jan6, kid you not. Saw it on NewsMax

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 26, 2022 11:35 AM (t4poC)

190 The GOP has a strong bench. Trump has a clear advantage but the nomination isn't a foregone conclusion, especially if he keeps making these godawful staffing picks.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 11:32 AM (ogIek)

Not seeing it. Pretty sure I thought the same about 2012 and later at one time. Bachmann, Rubio, Ryan, Walker, Jindal, Perry... what a "bench"... the lists went on and on.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:35 AM (J/RyQ)

191 Kudlow btw, already served in the Trump admin.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:35 AM (mLvsV)

192 If Trump should decide to run again there are several entities in the capitol city that have a say in whether he'll be successfully on any ballot or not. And Trump doesn't have a say in that little issue.

Personally I'd like him to run and win. But I'd also prefer 4 years of retribution rather than the clusterfuck that his administration ended up on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 11:36 AM (BFigT)

193 Trumpism without Trump = establishment is back in charge.

Anyone claiming otherwise is fooling themselves.

Bad hires are due to the fact the GOP hiring pool is full is scumbags.

For the love of God, DeSantis hired Ron Filipkowski. For that reason alone (although there are plenty of other bad hires/appointments by DeSantis), I don't take anything a DeSantis supporter says about Trump's hires seriously.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 26, 2022 11:36 AM (YVBLw)

194 131 Hulu, the Disney-backed streaming service, will not run political ads related to abortion, guns, and the Jan. 6 riot, all of which are crucial to Democrats’ midterm election messaging. Party leaders are, as The Washington Post reported, irate. Unlike television networks, Hulu is not limited by the 1934 Communications Act, which demands that broadcast networks give politicians the same level of access to airwaves. “Hulu’s censorship of the truth is outrageous, offensive, and another step down a dangerous path for our country,” executive directors of three Democratic committees said in a statement.
Posted by: SMOD
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Sucks, doesnt it, Dems. Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2022 11:36 AM (sAmhv)

195 I'd prefer Rachel Ward
https://youtu.be/SWSQS06i7-w
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:14 AM (XvPQV)

A woman who has aged well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 11:36 AM (zhLdt)

196 As far as firing Sessions, he had to do it immediately. After a few weeks they kept threatening to impeach him if he didn’t.

Well we know how that went

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (t4poC)

197 The GOP has a strong bench. Trump has a clear advantage but the nomination isn't a foregone conclusion, especially if he keeps making these godawful staffing picks.

Who is on this bench that can defeat Trump?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (mR6Gs)

198 I think a lot of Trump hires were good people and America first but they had different opinions on Trump's decisions or implementation of his plans. Their vice was not accepting Trump had final say no matter how much they thought he was wrong. Seeing what were good people suddenly turn on their boss where there was no history of this in their past raises questions for me.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (5I3bD)

199 Any real conservative Republican president is still going to need to get Mitch McConnell to play ball on appointments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven

This right here illustrates a big part of the problem. There are big players on the national stage elected solely by constituents in their state/district who have no problem with what they do. You can screw over 49 states and even most of yours if you have a lock on your district so you can stay in the House for 50 years. This isn't even a term limits issue, it's a scope problem.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (OUMaO)

200 But the constant drumbeat of doom gets wearing. Despair is a pervasive thing.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (KATBx)

Sorry about that. It really is all I know.

I should just comment on the frivolous threads and keep my political cynicism to myself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (AW0uW)

201 CBD

Here is the problem with what you are saying. Finding MAGA-loyal people to staff an administration isn't just a hard, nearly impossible, task for Trump - it will be just as difficult for any MAGA president (a la Ron Desantis).

there simply are very few people who have the "credentials" to be accepted by DC as cabinet members or even a level or two lower at executive agencies. The vast majority of republicans who have the kind of "legitimacy" that would enable them to be accepted and confirmed in those positions are globalist-elite people.

And, unfortunately, the second part of your analysis that I don't think works is that I don't really think Trump's popularity with the base will translate in that way or that he has the time left in his life to make it work. What you are asking of Trump as the non-candidate leader of a movement would take decades to accomplish.

I'm not saying Trump is the only choice for 2024 - just that I don't think his personnel failures are something any MAGA aligned President would not have the same trouble with. And, I don't think Trump has it in him to lead a MAGA movement beyond his own presidency or potential presidency.

Posted by: Mehive at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (ky+MF)

202 Unlike television networks, Hulu is not limited by the 1934 Communications Act, which demands that broadcast networks give politicians the same level of access to airwaves. “Hulu’s censorship of the truth is outrageous, offensive, and another step down a dangerous path for our country,” executive directors of three Democratic committees said in a statement.
Posted by: SMOD
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Sucks, doesnt it, Dems. Thoughts and prayers.

The Dems will just pass a new law
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2022 11:36 AM (sAmhv)

Posted by: JoeF. at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (mR6Gs)

203 "He lied to me!"

The Ewok lied?

I can not abide this scureous insult!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (1n+EO)

204 FYI, Dave in Texas's service has begun for those of you who want to join in online:

https://tinyurl.com/yzkzbkne
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (wtvvX)

Thanks!

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (ZGrMX)

205 He lied to me!
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Pull my hoof!

Posted by: magical unicorn at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (yikp0)

206 So the DeSantis camp is pro-Kemp and Trump has his former director Kudlow. Kudlow or Kemp, I guess it's pretty revealing.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (mLvsV)

207 should just comment on the frivolous threads and keep my political cynicism to myself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (AW0uW)

No

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (J/RyQ)

208 Any real conservative Republican president is still going to need to get Mitch McConnell to play ball on appointments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:21 AM (LvTSG)

Any real conservative Republican will step on Mitch the Bitch or force him out. You cannot affect change if your legislature stabs you in the back. Trump's first term proved that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (XvPQV)

209 Picking Jeff Sessions as an example (you may have your own), all Trump had to do was ask for his resignation. Instead, Trump belittled & attacked the man for months in every public forum he could then couldn't fathom why people either didn't want to work for him or used their position to advance themselves & not Trump's agenda.
Posted by: aelfheld

Sessions was particularly heartbreaking because he, pretty much single handedly, shut down the Bush amnesty bill. He was the first federal elected official to endorse Trump, was very hardcore on immigration. But I don't think he ever truly realized how bad the deep state was, he was manipulated by the swamp (DoJ basically told him he had to recuse himself when he walked in the door) I think he just couldn't wrap his head around how corrupt fed. govt is. Sessions took a risk when he was the first out of the gate to endorse Trump, but he just wasn't up to the task of cleaning up DoJ -- too much of an old school gentleman from a time long past.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (rWFyW)

210 Trump just needs a trusted, stone cold SOB second in command.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 11:39 AM (gbzeC)

211 Trumpism without Trump = establishment is back in charge.

Anyone claiming otherwise is fooling themselves.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 26, 2022 11:36 AM (YVBLw)

^ this

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 11:39 AM (DRSnL)

212 I should just comment on the frivolous threads and keep my political cynicism to myself.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (AW0uW)''

I'm guilty of negativity too.. The mid-terms are probably the most important in my lifetime.. If the Dems retain control not sure what can be done.

Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 11:39 AM (bs+z0)

213 Whomever we have in 2022 and 2024 need to realize that we are out of time for the future of this country. It's dire and it has to change now.

We have finally run out of road to kick the can down on all fronts. Either we become a socialist, bankrupt hellhole, puppets of a global cabal of socialists or we revert.

Its shit or get off the pot time.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:39 AM (PY/t0)

214 Sorry about that. It really is all I know.

Never apologize for calling a shit sandwich a shit sandwich. Just because it was made in America doesn't make it peanut butter.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:39 AM (ZMYfe)

215 177 Trumps second term should be permanent solidifying America's energy independence, permanently solidifying American's independence on manufacturing, permanently de-politicizing all government agencies, and permanently creating term limits with strikingly painful punishments for abuse of office.

That's the first year.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:33 AM (PY/t0)

WRONG. THE ONLY JOBS THAT MATTER ARE IN MANUFACTURING. Therefore energy independence must take a back seat as that takes away people away from manufacturing jobs, as they are THE ONLY JOBS THAT MATTER.

The American economy must look like this: 80% manufacturing, 20% government. Want to do anything else? Too bad. You can explain yourself to a police officer who will, between beatings, tell you he runs the economy and you will go into manufacturing. You want to be a doctor, lawyer or farmer? That's just too damn bad.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (CdZ4i)

216 200

Sorry about that. It really is all I know.

I should just comment on the frivolous threads and keep my political cynicism to myself.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (AW0uW)

Nah, MP4. State your mind like the rest of us do. No cancel culture litmus test bullshit here. This is AoS, not some Leftie garbage site.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (Vr12I)

217 He lied to me!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:35 AM (XIJ/X)

Yeah, but you are the guy who posted Nekkid Lardass on Ottoman, so small sympathy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (QSjkU)

218 I'm trying to think of a single primary that hinged on potential staff picks... has this ever happened?
Posted by: Inogame at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (53oGX)

Trump picked Pence as VP, who betrayed him. He also picked Mike Esper as his Secretary of Defense, who betrayed him (and who also lied under oath). Trump picked Bill Barr, who...you get the picture.

So yes, surrounding yourself with Machiavellian backstabbers can have a major backstabby effect.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (ogIek)

219 Never apologize for calling a shit sandwich a shit sandwich. Just because it was made in America doesn't make it peanut butter.
Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:39 AM (ZMYfe)

TREASON!!!

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (CdZ4i)

220 208 Any real conservative Republican will step on Mitch the Bitch or force him out. You cannot affect change if your legislature stabs you in the back. Trump's first term proved that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:38 AM (XvPQV)

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I honestly don't think it's possible. Mitch isn't up for re-election until 2026, so voting him out of his seat isn't happening. The only remaining effort is to deny him his leadership position. Trump is obviously making efforts towards that (his backing of Rick Scott), but it's a longshot at best.

McConnell has too many loyal underlings in the Senate, and he controls too much money that the rest need.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (LvTSG)

221 So if I've got this right, Trump not endorsing Kemp is bad but Larry Kudlow is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Someguy's

Part of the problem is his endorsements are...erratic. The whole Mo Brooks - Katie Britt swap here in Alabama still gives me massive migraines.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (OUMaO)

222 Seeing what were good people suddenly turn on their boss where there was no history of this in their past raises questions for me.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (5I3bD)

Even when you know how they harass, threaten, spy, intimidate and blackmail? And that that's just what they've admitted to openly?

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (J/RyQ)

223 So, Trumpism without Trump is bad (agreed) but your solution is, Trump should stand aside? You seem to be arguing with yourself.

Navarros position much better: pick better people!

Posted by: Niki Haley at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (YTBIQ)

224 So which kind of otter is into…you know?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 11:41 AM (2urLC)

225 Trymp has a problem hiring the best people, in spite of his own claims of being really awesome at it. He will never be able to get good, loyal staff. I strongly suspect that he is not a great manager or leader, unreliable and flippant. I allowed myself to ignore A LOT when he ran. Others need to put themselves forward and try this time around. It is true he sort of started to shape a new alternative version of a Republican politician. But there r others who will be able to get the job done much better.

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 11:41 AM (5gyQ/)

226 Democrats know they are going to slaughtered in the midterms. The press is on board now with getting rid of Biden far sooner than 2024 in order to clean the slate and have a chance at nominating someone who won't be associated with Biden's failures. Pelosi knows that her only chance to control who is president for the next few years is to act within the next few months.

She can pressure Harris to resign and arrange for the appointment of some dark horse to become VP, then go with either the 25th amendment or (and this is what I believe she will do) impeachment. By having the democrats impeach their own president, it will absolve them of all the bad narrative about Biden. They would be the heroic, good-government party by exposing his double dealing and bribe fueled family, while making the new president the symbol of anti-corruption.

Oddly, the only defense is for enough of the republican senate to vote to keep him.

Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 11:41 AM (/BlEx)

227 DeSantis is currently a governor in a friendly state with a Republican congress. He's not getting the long knives from all over DC. The FIB is not dreaming up pee tapes with three letter agencies.

I'd hold off on what is or isn't DeSantis' capabilities at the National level until he gets in the hot seat.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:20 AM (PY/t0)
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Florida was solidly purple, with a vote fraud machine in Broward and Dade counties as good as anything we've seen in Philly or Detroit or Milwaukee. DeSantis barely won in that environment. Since then, he has turned the legislature solidly red, and he just tangled with and pretty much politically destroyed Disney, with nary a scratch.

He's been in a hot seat. It was one of a few hotly contested nationalized states - with tons of money and national support flowing in. It is now solidly red, the dems having essentially retreated. And they are increasingly afraid to even try and box with him.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 26, 2022 11:41 AM (xWZcb)

228
Trump picked Pence as VP, who betrayed him. He also picked Mike Esper as his Secretary of Defense, who betrayed him (and who also lied under oath). Trump picked Bill Barr, who...you get the picture.

So yes, surrounding yourself with Machiavellian backstabbers can have a major backstabby effect.
Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (ogIek)

He didn't select the Republican legislatures or governors and they betrayed him, or us rather, too.

Maybe, just maybe, most Republican leadership are traitors?

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (mLvsV)

229 212 I should just comment on the frivolous threads and keep my political cynicism to myself.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (AW0uW)''

I'm guilty of negativity too.. The mid-terms are probably the most important in my lifetime.. If the Dems retain control not sure what can be done.
Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 11:39 AM (bs+z0)

Hell's Bells!! If anyone does not get a bout of negativity in these times, they ain't paying attention!

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (Vr12I)

230 So if I've got this right, Trump not endorsing Kemp is bad but Larry Kudlow is beyond the pale.
Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (mLvsV)

But Larry Kudow what?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (5I3bD)

231 Trump just needs a trusted, stone cold SOB second in command.

*glass shatters*

Posted by: Stone Cold Steve Austin at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (j5Tg0)

232 "Hard Times Create Strong Men, Strong Men Create Good Times, Good Times Create Weak Men, Weak Men Create Hard Times " -- G. Michael Hopf

We're at stage 4. I'm beginning to doubt that it even matters which personnel you pick. Almost to a person they turn into backstabbing snakes.

And it's not like the Dems are all in harmonious tune either. It's just that THEY stick together for votes. Then they get back to backstabbing and endless squabbling.

What is SMOD? It's shorthand for hard times arriving.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (JOtiF)

233 Hurry to ebay for this super deal!

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Posted by: Volodymyr Zelenskyy at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (AMIL/)

234 See and if I threaten to stop commenting, it'll probably be echoed by deafening applause. We all have our shtick.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:43 AM (J/RyQ)

235 221 So if I've got this right, Trump not endorsing Kemp is bad but Larry Kudlow is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Someguy's

Part of the problem is his endorsements are...erratic. The whole Mo Brooks - Katie Britt swap here in Alabama still gives me massive migraines.
Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (OUMaO)

I'm not saying Trump's endorsements are consistently ideological, I think they're cynically political. But I had people here yesterday telling me that not supporting Kemp is disqualifying and why DeSantis should be the nominee. Today I learn Larry Kudlow is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:43 AM (mLvsV)

236 He didn't select the Republican legislatures or governors and they betrayed him, or us rather, too.

Maybe, just maybe, most Republican leadership are traitors?
Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (mLvsV)

The State's followed the Feds and CDCs recommendations.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:43 AM (5I3bD)

237 Wasn't Pence supposed to be the hatchetman, but ended up being the pussy?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (0ocXn)

238 "The consumer confidence index for July slipped to 95.7 from June's revised reading of 98.4, which was adjusted downward by 0.3 points."

I can't believe this headline avoided the obligatiry "unexpectedly". Maybe they really are out to destroy 'ole Joe.

Posted by: Media Analyst at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (B1ASM)

239
Hell's Bells!! If anyone does not get a bout of negativity in these times, they ain't paying attention!
Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (Vr12I)

Well, I feel better now.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

240 236 The State's followed the Feds and CDCs recommendations.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:43 AM (5I3bD)

=========

Not all of them. Remember when Kristi Noem was the It Girl?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

241 230 So if I've got this right, Trump not endorsing Kemp is bad but Larry Kudlow is beyond the pale.
Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:34 AM (mLvsV)

But Larry Kudow what?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (5I3bD)

You support Kemp but find Kudlow unacceptable? It's an interesting position.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (mLvsV)

242 The liberals are going to suddenly be infatuated with the Constitution in a Trump / DeSantis ticket, claiming they are both from FL and the Constitution forbids it.

Not that it matters, because Trump can easily with a stroke of a pen change his residency to NJ prior to electors being chosen.

I just think it's hilarious and hypocritical.
In other words, typical liberals.

Posted by: aerofanatic at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (8g4bJ)

243 Antifa taking on a motorcycle club...

I would pay good money to see that.

According to the story Insty posted earlier, Antifa got bear sprayed by some of the MC members and ran away shrieking that the police weren't helping them. I guess ACAB is conditional.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)

244
He's been in a hot seat. It was one of a few hotly contested nationalized states - with tons of money and national support flowing in. It is now solidly red, the dems having essentially retreated. And they are increasingly afraid to even try and box with him.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 26, 2022 11:41 AM (xWZcb

I don't disagree. But he hasn't had the entire weight of the government, including the five eyes and the entire DNC out to get him yet.

Lest we forget, Trump was up against the entire US government and leaders in the military. The FBI, the CIA. Generals. The DNC. Foreign spies. China and likely Russia.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (PY/t0)

245 228
Trump picked Pence as VP, who betrayed him. He also picked Mike Esper as his Secretary of Defense, who betrayed him (and who also lied under oath). Trump picked Bill Barr, who...you get the picture.
So yes, surrounding yourself with Machiavellian backstabbers can have a major backstabby effect.
Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (ogIek)

He didn't select the Republican legislatures or governors and they betrayed him, or us rather, too.

Maybe, just maybe, most Republican leadership are traitors?

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:42 AM (mLvsV)

'Republican leadership' is a self-contradicting term

Posted by: Gref at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (AMIL/)

246 Trump's attacks on... DeSantis. Not exactly edifying are they. What kind if moron would do that anyway? He just can't help himself. There isn't even a contest yet, and he already tried to tarnish the guy.

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (5gyQ/)

247 The State's followed the Feds and CDCs recommendations.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:43 AM (5I3bD)

Not all states locked down. So you view the states as subordinate to the bureaucracy. Certainly an interesting perspective. I'd see why you dislike Trump's federalism.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (mLvsV)

248 Just that the task needs to be carried forward by other hands better fitted to the task revealed.
==
Jesus is not available.

there isn't anyone else who is proven.

Desantis has promise, but its still just promise.

If not Trump, then I'm looking at other options. But if Trump is an option, there is no other option.

Posted by: He earned it at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (/dH5Q)

249
You support Kemp but find Kudlow unacceptable? It's an interesting position.
Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (mLvsV)

Kemp is better than Stacy Abrams...That's all I have to say on the subject

Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (bs+z0)

250
According to the story Insty posted earlier, Antifa got bear sprayed by some of the MC members and ran away shrieking that the police weren't helping them. I guess ACAB is conditional.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)

LMFAO.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

251 239

Well, I feel better now.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

Did not mean it in a bad way, Sponge.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (Vr12I)

252 >>>Trump just needs a trusted, stone cold SOB second in command.

*glass shatters*
Posted by: Stone Cold Steve Austin

Find someone who is very bitter towards Democrats. Someone like Mike Flynn or someone equally ready to go to the mats for the president.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (VWp7G)

253 249
You support Kemp but find Kudlow unacceptable? It's an interesting position.
Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (mLvsV)

Kemp is better than Stacy Abrams...That's all I have to say on the subject
Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (bs+z0)

=========

Go Team Red!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:46 AM (LvTSG)

254 Kudlow may be deserving of criticism, however, he understands and oversaw the lifting of regulations from the shoulders of industry.

He knows it’s the regulatory bureaucrats that hold down American business. I think he is to be credited with much of the economic success Trump’s administration enjoyed and earned.

Posted by: Jake Speed at July 26, 2022 11:46 AM (Vu1jV)

255 What you are asking of Trump as the non-candidate leader of a movement would take decades to accomplish.

Posted by: Mehive at July 26, 2022 11:37 AM (ky+MF)

I disagree. I think he has already achieved it. He is the head of the conservative/populist movement in America, and he singlehandedly built it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:46 AM (XIJ/X)

256 I guess ACAB is conditional.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)

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Of course it is. They're real brave - standing up to the junkyard dog from behind a fence. Remove that fence and they'll cry like little girls. I'd sign up for a pay-per-view streaming event like that.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:46 AM (VJsqe)

257 I honestly don't think it's possible. Mitch isn't up for re-election until 2026, so voting him out of his seat isn't happening. The only remaining effort is to deny him his leadership position. Trump is obviously making efforts towards that (his backing of Rick Scott), but it's a longshot at best.

McConnell has too many loyal underlings in the Senate, and he controls too much money that the rest need.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:40 AM (LvTSG)

Then they need to find other ways. It's not like there aren't pressure points Mitch has that can be tried. He also probably can't take a private beating any better than Harry Reid can, if it comes to that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (XvPQV)

258 I'm expecting that if we do revert from the planned global homogeny we will be attacked.
Globalists cannot allow the US to succeed, the US structure designed to give the People power is not what they want.

I do want to revert to constitutionalism, that's why I no longer describe myself as conservative.
I pray we can, and I pray we are ready for the repercussions.

Posted by: Inogame at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (53oGX)

259
Did not mean it in a bad way, Sponge.
Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (Vr12I)

Didn't take it that way. I'm negative more than I should be. You said it's Ok.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Well, I feel better now.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

So the penicillin worked?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (XIJ/X)

261 Find someone who is very bitter towards Democrats. Someone like Mike Flynn or someone equally ready to go to the mats for the president.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (VWp

Flynn got railroaded but he's not the guy you want. He's a grifter willing to work for the highest bidder.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (5I3bD)

262 254 Kudlow may be deserving of criticism, however, he understands and oversaw the lifting of regulations from the shoulders of industry.

He knows it’s the regulatory bureaucrats that hold down American business. I think he is to be credited with much of the economic success Trump’s administration enjoyed and earned.
Posted by: Jake Speed at July 26, 2022 11:46 AM (Vu1jV)

It is surprising to see him turned upon so harshly, when his most objectionable views are those that had long been conventional.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (mLvsV)

263 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

Hey Madison, did you mention that the movie was actually called "The Final Nightmare"? Which itself is hilarious. I guess one could a kind of argue it was the last one.

Someone pointed out to me a long time ago that through five movies, the Nightmares seemed to be ordered in reverse of the Star Treks. Like how 2 was considered the worst nightmare but the best Star Trek. And 1 the opposite. I dunno. It was kind of interesting. Nightmare had good odd movies and bad even ones.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:48 AM (J/RyQ)

264 The Leftards completely misunderstand Trump. They think Trumpism is a cult of personality. It is a movement, of which Trump is a symbol.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:48 AM (QSjkU)

265 I don't disagree. But he hasn't had the entire weight of the government, including the five eyes and the entire DNC out to get him yet.

Its either elect an outsider, or a swamp creature. Any outsider not already defeated once by the swamp, per Trump, will have to face them for the first time. Just like Reagan.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:48 AM (ZMYfe)

266
So the penicillin worked?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (XIJ/X)

It's truly amazing stuff, that penicillin.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

267 In making his picks for his administration Trump should have ventured farther west than Indiana.

Posted by: creeper at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (cTCuP)

268 Someone like Mike Flynn or someone equally ready to go to the mats for the president.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (VWp7G)

Flynn is not overly bright. he got fooled by the FBI.

Ron DeSantis would be a marvelous chief of staff for President Trump.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (XIJ/X)

269 They will need to be made to behave, and if they can't or won't they need to be discarded. Unfortunately I do not believe that President Trump is capable of that sort of management ...

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Where have you gone Jeffrey Epstein --
Extortion turns its crony eyes to you ... woo hoo hoo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (QbCrG)

270 So the penicillin worked?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (XIJ/X)

tetracycline

Posted by: BignJames at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (AwYPR)

271 She can pressure Harris to resign and arrange for the appointment of some dark horse to become VP, then go with either the 25th amendment or (and this is what I believe she will do) impeachment. By having the democrats impeach their own president, it will absolve them of all the bad narrative about Biden. They would be the heroic, good-government party by exposing his double dealing and bribe fueled family, while making the new president the symbol of anti-corruption.

Oddly, the only defense is for enough of the republican senate to vote to keep him.

Posted by: jwest
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Ain't gonna happen. Best way to look at the Dems (and even Republicans) is the Mafia organization--there are different tribes that cooperate (and sometimes fight) over money and power. Pelosi is the head of the California family, Schumer, New York, and so on. These families have different donors, different soldiers, and so on.

Ditto for the Republicans--you have Boss McConnell for the Senate thieves and the Fredo House leadership contingent, the nat sec intel crowd, and so on.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (CXr4y)

272 263 Hey Madison, did you mention that the movie was actually called "The Final Nightmare"? Which itself is hilarious. I guess one could a kind of argue it was the last one.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:48 AM (J/RyQ)

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The sixth one is titled "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare." There are three more movies after it.

New Line wanted to move on. It's actually part of the discussion between characters in New Nightmare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (LvTSG)

273 Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (mLvsV)

I'm a Kudlow fan.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (5I3bD)

274 264 The Leftards completely misunderstand Trump. They think Trumpism is a cult of personality. It is a movement, of which Trump is a symbol.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:48 AM (QSjkU)

This is an important point. America First is how I would boil it down, if forced to.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (Vr12I)

275 Trump could probably find some very unhappy people from the military who'd like a shot at cleaning up DC.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (PY/t0)

276 Find someone who is very bitter towards Democrats. Someone like Mike Flynn or someone equally ready to go to the mats for the president.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (VWp

Mike Pompeo.

(Let the poo-flinging begin!)

Posted by: Gref at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (AMIL/)

277 So, not only will people working for Trump NOT do what they're told, they'll also lie, cheat and steal to get a job working for Trump JUST SO they can undermine him.

And he's supposed to see through all that because....

Reasons ?

See, the problem is that he seems to be the first to actually try and put America first, so there have been no others before him to model or whose bonafide conservative underlings you can trust. Every one of them FAILED to advance the conservative agenda. I don't know how you assemble a reliably loyal team, but I suspect not one person commenting or posting here knows either.

Posted by: deadrody at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (/jrmI)

278 >>>Ron DeSantis would be a marvelous chief of staff for President Trump.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

True, and he gets to learn everything he can when it comes time for him to run.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (VWp7G)

279 My position on our situation is one I've mentioned before--the resolution here is contained in the Declaration of Independence.

It needs to be read and emulated. The ultimate goal is the return to our system of a representational republic, as designed.

So let the shit fly where it will implementing that solution.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (KATBx)

280 I'm not saying Trump's endorsements are consistently ideological, I think they're cynically political. But I had people here yesterday telling me that not supporting Kemp is disqualifying and why DeSantis should be the nominee. Today I learn Larry Kudlow is beyond the pale.
Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:43 AM (mLvsV)

We will eventually fond out how dirty and compromised Kemp is.
I predict.

Posted by: Inogame at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (53oGX)

281
Mike Pompeo.

(Let the poo-flinging begin!)
Posted by: Gref at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (AMIL/)

I still like him

Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (bs+z0)

282 >>>Trump's attacks on... DeSantis. Not exactly edifying are they.

>That's tough love. Toughen him up, NY/NJ style. Once you enter the game, everything is fair game.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (0ocXn)

283 @JackPosobiec

The DC mayor just announced that a child visiting the nation's capitol now has monkeypox.

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Hmmm. Which congresscritter could have infected a little kid with monkeypox?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (ptqGC)

284 Trump could probably find some very unhappy people from the military who'd like a shot at cleaning up DC.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (PY/t0)

Mike Flynn?

Posted by: BignJames at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (AwYPR)

285 Trump picked Pence as VP, who betrayed him. He also picked Mike Esper as his Secretary of Defense, who betrayed him (and who also lied under oath). Trump picked Bill Barr, who...you get the picture.
So yes, surrounding yourself with Machiavellian backstabbers can have a major backstabby effect.
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And your thesis is that some other candidate would have made better choices? When the pool of candidates is chock full of sociopaths, you are going to wind up with a lot of sociopaths working for you, even if your name isn't Trump. If sweet meteor of death aimed at the swamp was on the ballot, then I'd choose him over Trump. But that's the only Non Trump option that beats Trump - for me YMMV. I understand that "class" considerations cause the vapors for some who would otherwise strongly oppose the democrats push toward socialism. I for one, don't care if the president who defeats the socialist globalist push shows up on the podium with butt crack showing. I literally don't give ONE FCUK about propriety any more. They want us dead and our kids sterilized. FCUK YOU WAR!

Posted by: He earned it at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (T8tFz)

286 The Leftards completely misunderstand Trump. They think Trumpism is a cult of personality. It is a movement, of which Trump is a symbol.

I think they know, or at least the ones at the top do, but it's easier to sell as literally Hitler if it's a cult of personality. Also there's some projection there, because Obama really was a cult of personality.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (ZGrMX)

287 The liberals are going to suddenly be infatuated with the Constitution in a Trump / DeSantis ticket, claiming they are both from FL and the Constitution forbids it.
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That's awful!!!

Posted by: hillary clinton, lifelong yankees fan and senator of NYS (-)(,) at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (yikp0)

288 You can count the number of reliable Republicans on one hand,
1-DJT
2-DiSantis
3-???
That’s the core issue. Nearly all of them are snakes and backstabbers.

Posted by: Niki Haley at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (YTBIQ)

289 >>>Hmmm. Which congresscritter could have infected a little kid with monkeypox?
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Was probably Hunter going after another underage kid.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (VWp7G)

290 FYI, Dave in Texas's service has begun for those of you who want to join in online:

https://tinyurl.com/yzkzbkne
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 26, 2022 11:09 AM (wtvvX)

He looks exactly as iHeart looks in my mind!

Posted by: Chillin the most at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (6+U8M)

291 >>>Trump just needs a trusted, stone cold SOB second in command.

Yo-hooo!

Posted by: Newt Gingrich at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (B1ASM)

292
I disagree. I think he has already achieved it. He is the head of the conservative/populist movement in America, and he singlehandedly built it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:46 AM (XIJ/X)

Nice to hear you say this. I mean it's not to eliminate us from the equation entirely but Trump gave us and America as we know it a platform to become resurgent and relevant. And also to have a fun which is something "we" had little of in politics after about 1986.

It may seem twee when staring into the abyss but the fact is being demoralized every day has an effect, politically and personally. Which is why they do it.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (J/RyQ)

293 I'd be curious what the opinions would be assuming it was DeSantis in 2024, and he won, and he was trying to replicate the Trump agenda 100% - How do you think HE would avoid this exact same predicament ?

This should be illuminating.

Posted by: deadrody at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (/jrmI)

294
Hmmm. Which congresscritter could have infected a little kid with monkeypox?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (ptqGC)

Don't look at me

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (bs+z0)

295 273 Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:47 AM (mLvsV)

I'm a Kudlow fan.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (5I3bD)

Well that means your position can be consistent if you don't bash Trump for employing, or in this case, looking to reemploy him. Although I view some actions as disqualifying even if not voting for a candidate means a D win.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (mLvsV)

296 Flynn is not overly bright. he got fooled by the FBI.

Ron DeSantis would be a marvelous chief of staff for President Trump.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (XIJ/X)

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1. Flynn hired Eric Holder's law firm initially to represent him. Your assertion: CORRECT.

2. As done when you first suggested that, it would be brilliant. Your assertion: PLEASE GOD!

Previously, we floated the idea of DeSantis as both VP and Chief of Staff (and I threw in Speaker of the House for good measure). The exploding heads alone would be worth it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (QbCrG)

297 Hmmm. Which congresscritter could have infected a little kid with monkeypox?
Posted by: Jane D'oh

They'll point at "child sex trafficker" Gaetz, I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

298
See, the problem is that he seems to be the first to actually try and put America first, so there have been no others before him to model or whose bonafide conservative underlings you can trust. Every one of them FAILED to advance the conservative agenda. I don't know how you assemble a reliably loyal team, but I suspect not one person commenting or posting here knows either.
Posted by: deadrody at July 26, 2022 11:50 AM (/jrmI)

I'd start by hiring people who hate Washington as is. People from outside politics. Bob the lawn care guy who runs a business. Jane the hairdresser.

Go get normal Americans who are fed up with the feds.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:53 AM (PY/t0)

299 Then they need to find other ways. It's not like there aren't pressure points Mitch has that can be tried. He also probably can't take a private beating any better than Harry Reid can, if it comes to that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Start by investigating the Senate Intel committee using the US Marshal and Homeland Security which seem to be less compromised than the Feebs. The grounds would be that they are bought and sold by China. That is how you get McConnell to retire due to his health. None of those guys on the Gang of 8 (now absent Nunes) or the Senate Intel committee can stand the spotlight of what they are doing with the information they collect.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:53 AM (CXr4y)

300 >>>Trump just needs a trusted, stone cold SOB second in command.

Picking Sarah Palin would drive the left (and GOPe) 140% crazy, and would he funny as shit.

Posted by: Moron Philosopher at July 26, 2022 11:53 AM (B1ASM)

301 All those rallies are for putting America First.
He's out there stumping for candidates harder than
any other single person or entity.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (Wj/z9)

302 If your milk comes in bags, how do you sneak a quick pull from the carton?

C'mon, man. You know you do it.

Posted by: creeper at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (cTCuP)

303 > Flynn got railroaded but he's not the guy you want. He's a grifter willing to work for the highest bidder.
____________

That's pretty much everyone in the capitol city. But a thick wallet and revenge might do the trick.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (BFigT)

304 Partial list of Hollywood libs who've donated $$$$$ to Stacey Abrams:

Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Helms, Chuck Lorre, Bryan Cranston, Lance Bass, Barbara Streisand, Melinda Gates, and her biggest donor, George Soros.

Ugh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (ptqGC)

305
Mike Flynn?
Posted by: BignJames at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (AwYPR

I'd start with captains, lieutenants, people from spec ops community. You know, actual soldiers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (PY/t0)

306 379 Another victim of the Bidenonomy.

People@people
Klondike's Choco Taco Discontinued After Almost 40 Years
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 26, 2022 09:06 AM (FVME7)

Discontinued chaco tacos!!!???? Not on my watch. Tear down trumps wall now!

Posted by: Dr Jill! at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (ncm4j)

307 "Ain't gonna happen. Best way to look at the Dems (and even Republicans) is the Mafia organization..."
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (CXr4y)

In normal times I would agree, but this cycle is different. Pelosi has the ability to pull an impeachment off which (she hopes) will turn the tide in the House races possibly keeping her in the Speaker's chair. She has nothing to lose, as Biden doesn't have any power and the democrats are going to lose big anyway. It would certainly be seen in the history of politics as the boldest self-preservation move ever attempted.

Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (/BlEx)

308 This should be illuminating.
Posted by: deadrody at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (/jrmI)

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Well... he won't hire Scaramucci for press secretary for one.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (VJsqe)

309 Start by investigating the Senate Intel committee using the US Marshal and Homeland Security which seem to be less compromised than the Feebs. The grounds would be that they are bought and sold by China. That is how you get McConnell to retire due to his health. None of those guys on the Gang of 8 (now absent Nunes) or the Senate Intel committee can stand the spotlight of what they are doing with the information they collect.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:53 AM (CXr4y)

Exactly. Mitch is FAR from clean.
What is needed is someone with the WILL exert themselves on behalf of the nation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:55 AM (XvPQV)

310 McConnell is responsible for the current SC makeup . Whether that was his intention ( I believe that was his hope) it was his procedural expertise and balls to go nuclear that blocked Garland. As with Trump no matter what he does I will alway be grateful for denying Hillary the Presidency. I will always be grateful that McConnell denied Obama his pick.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:55 AM (5I3bD)

311 "Antifa taking on a motorcycle club...

I would pay good money to see that."

Ditto. BTW, Hells Angels are officially an MC, not a "gang" as such. However, if you don't show them respect or screw around with them, they are eminently capable of taking care of business.

Pass the popcorn.

Posted by: RM at July 26, 2022 11:55 AM (U3LtS)

312 I don't think Ric Grennell betrayed Trump. Maybe he could be trusted in a Trump Administration.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (Vr12I)

313 Start by investigating the Senate Intel committee using the US Marshal and Homeland Security which seem to be less compromised than the Feebs. The grounds would be that they are bought and sold by China. That is how you get McConnell to retire due to his health. None of those guys on the Gang of 8 (now absent Nunes) or the Senate Intel committee can stand the spotlight of what they are doing with the information they collect.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:53 AM (CXr4y)

Which is why a Rubio candidacy must be laughed off the stage.

Posted by: 7man at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (qwO6y)

314 Hmmm. Which congresscritter could have infected a little kid with monkeypox?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (ptqGC)

Don't look at me
Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (bs+z0)

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It's hard not to imagine Adam Schitt and his BFF Ed Buck diddling little boys and burying their used bodes under some garden gnomes somewhere.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (QbCrG)

315 I don't know how you assemble a reliably loyal team, but I suspect not one person commenting or posting here knows either.
Posted by: deadrody
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Don't pick party faithful for starters. If you think of parties as simply criminal organizations out to screw the citizens, you would be correct. So, you go outside. Essentially, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is correct in that the Senate is the keystone to Washington corruption far more than the House. So, you have to engage in logrolling and constant attention including government shutdowns to get what you want.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (CXr4y)

316 Something I admire about Trump is that powerful communists in DC have gone after him with every tool in their kit for 6+ years and have come up with exactly nothing. So they have to lie about everything. And now people know they are lying.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (QSjkU)

317 310 McConnell is responsible for the current SC makeup . Whether that was his intention ( I believe that was his hope) it was his procedural expertise and balls to go nuclear that blocked Garland. As with Trump no matter what he does I will alway be grateful for denying Hillary the Presidency. I will always be grateful that McConnell denied Obama his pick.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:55 AM (5I3bD)

=======

I do give McConnell some of this credit (not Garland, he was convinced Trump was going to lose, so the blocking of Garland was a risk-free gambit to appease the base he didn't think would work).

However, he still didn't recess to allow Trump recess appointments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (LvTSG)

318 I'd be curious what the opinions would be assuming it was DeSantis in 2024, and he won, and he was trying to replicate the Trump agenda 100% - How do you think HE would avoid this exact same predicament ?

At a minimum, publicly acknowledge that McConnell is blocking your recess appointments by keeping the Senate in session. That alone would have cost McConnell his seat.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (ZMYfe)

319 Peter Navarro says Trump shouldn't talk at America First _Washington Times

Trump Returns to D.C. and His Minions Can’t Wait to -Knife Each Other _Yahoo
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Well, the cat's out of the bag.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (Wj/z9)

320 Klondike's Choco Taco Discontinued After Almost 40 Years

For old-timers who remember the non-HQ origins of the BEN ROTHLISBERGER EXPLAINS THE JOKE meme, he's definitely hardest hit by this news.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (ZGrMX)

321 I will always be grateful that McConnell denied Obama his pick.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 11:55 AM (5I3bD)

But, we are a 'what have you done for me lately' society, so where he's done good things, he's a back stabbing chinese cock sucking bitchtoad that can go fuck himself.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

322 I'd start with captains, lieutenants, people from spec ops community. You know, actual soldiers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (PY/t0)

Better keep it to people below the rank of Major.

I'd rather trust random NCOs than anyone on a career track to get stars on their shoulders.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (XvPQV)

323 In a perfect country, the head health honcho would have a word with the populace. "Lisren up, gay guys. I'm talking to you. Lay off the buttsex for awhile, and the oral stuff too. There's something going around, and if you just give it up for a month or two it'll burn out. Think Rosy Palm, as if you guys never heard of her. That is all".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2022 11:57 AM (lz5hY)

324 It's hard not to imagine Adam Schitt and his BFF Ed Buck diddling little boys and burying their used bodes under some garden gnomes somewhere.

Posted by: ShainS
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And the Feebs know all about it. Essentially the Feebs are the political police now and use that to keep their autonomy and rotten apples from scrutiny.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 11:57 AM (CXr4y)

325 I don't disagree. But he hasn't had the entire weight of the government, including the five eyes and the entire DNC out to get him yet.

Lest we forget, Trump was up against the entire US government and leaders in the military. The FBI, the CIA. Generals. The DNC. Foreign spies. China and likely Russia.
==
True. Though the entire DNC has been after him. they have retreated. How he will fare when the intelligence agencies start going after him is a fair complaint. Trump failed miserably at that, and perhaps none could succeed.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 26, 2022 11:57 AM (xWZcb)

326 AFPI, maybe he'll talk to them about themselves and their horse.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 11:57 AM (Wj/z9)

327 300 >>>Trump just needs a trusted, stone cold SOB second in command.

*gets out of hot tub and towels off*

honey, bring me another martini, I think I found a job !!

Posted by: REDACTED at July 26, 2022 11:58 AM (us2H3)

328 And fuck Peter Navarro

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 11:58 AM (XvPQV)

329 Hmmm. Which congresscritter could have infected a little kid with monkeypox?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (ptqGC)

You can get it from toilet seats and doorknobs! It's totally not an STD!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 11:58 AM (DRSnL)

330 Part of the problem is that to make deals, Trump had to deal with people that held the power. Most power is in the hands of the bad guys.

But if personnel is policy, he should have only picked full blown MAGA for personnel. Can't see that he got any of the regular uni-party apparatchiks to be loyal to him (as he tried to request from Comey). Somehow Trump allowed the machine to remove all the men that helped him win.

But Trump has the momentum to win (not counting the BigCheat) so ... two years is a long time for more Bad Thangs (or good) to happen.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 26, 2022 11:58 AM (Cus5s)

331 Ron DeSantis would be a marvelous chief of staff for President Trump.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (XIJ/X)

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Too bad R. Lee Ermey isn't available.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 11:58 AM (VJsqe)

332 320 Klondike's Choco Taco Discontinued After Almost 40 Years

For old-timers who remember the non-HQ origins of the BEN ROTHLISBERGER EXPLAINS THE JOKE meme, he's definitely hardest hit by this news.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (ZGrMX

ITS FUNNY CAUSE THERE IS AN ANNE HATHAWAY JOKE IN HERE SOMEWHERE!

Posted by: Hope solo's brown eye at July 26, 2022 11:58 AM (ncm4j)

333 Oddly, the only defense is for enough of the republican senate to vote to keep him.
Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 11:41 AM (/BlEx)

In your scenario, if the GOP Senators were to maintain a united front against confirming Pelosi's dark horse VP nominee...it would de-rail the entire plan. She could try and 25th Biden, or impeach him but, with no VP, she would become acting Prez until the new Congress is seated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (zhLdt)

334 But, we are a 'what have you done for me lately' society, so where he's done good things, he's a back stabbing chinese cock sucking bitchtoad that can go fuck himself.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

You really shouldn't bottle things up, Sponge. It's not good for you.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (DRSnL)

335 At least Trump knows a lot more this go around.

He's not walking in blind.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (PY/t0)

336 The liberals are going to suddenly be infatuated with the Constitution in a Trump / DeSantis ticket, claiming they are both from FL and the Constitution forbids it.

Which of course it doesn't. It forbids the electors from a state from voting for both P and VP from their state. If there were enough electoral votes for DeSantis without FL's, then the FL delegation could just not cast a vote for VP. Otherwise I suppose the VP election would go to the House.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (nfrXX)

337
Does anyone know of a good website that summarizes the J6 crap and lists all the people held without bail?

Posted by: Sphynx at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (rXie1)

338 True. Though the entire DNC has been after him. they have retreated. How he will fare when the intelligence agencies start going after him is a fair complaint. Trump failed miserably at that, and perhaps none could succeed.

Posted by: Black JEM
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You disassemble it by investigations just like Trump was frozen out in his first term. You make it where the conspirators are afraid to get together or communicate because of procedural charges. Best to relocate all decision makers out of DC too so that they will be tried in less friendly jurisdictions than DC or NY SD.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (CXr4y)

339
You really shouldn't bottle things up, Sponge. It's not good for you.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (DRSnL)

I try, but it just won't come out.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

340 Yeah so I think pushing CHAOS in Trump's campaign is one of the best lines for the media to run with. Just saying.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (J/RyQ)

341 > Trump just needs a trusted, stone cold SOB second in command.
_______________

Right after Trump announced his candidacy wasn't there speculation on who his running mate should/would be that included a woman? I can't remember who it was at the time.

Point being, a SOB in a dress (a real woman) with hard as nails MAGA leanings would really fuck with the establishment like the left does with their "women" (who aren't really women.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (BFigT)

342 335 At least Trump knows a lot more this go around.

He's not walking in blind.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (PY/t0)

I think you might be closing in on the problem. I give you Oz as a starter.

Posted by: 7man at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (qwO6y)

343 Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (mLvsV)

I would hire Kudlow again. Again there is a sweet spot between their positions in my admittedly non expert opinion.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (5I3bD)

344 If enough Trumpers are elected to the House it is possible that McCarthy will be voted out.
The same thing is possible in the Senate but talk is we won't have that big of a margin and the Senate if full of RepoPussies.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (Wj/z9)

345
Which of course it doesn't. It forbids the electors from a state from voting for both P and VP from their state. If there were enough electoral votes for DeSantis without FL's, then the FL delegation could just not cast a vote for VP. Otherwise I suppose the VP election would go to the House.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (nfrXX)

Or, Trump just submits a change of address form back to Trump Tower in NYC.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

346 Dr. Simone Gold reported to prison today.

She was an invited speaker by Trump on J6. The judge who sentenced her was someone she knew in law school. She considered him a friend, and was surprised when he didn't recuse himself.

Welp.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (ptqGC)

347 Does anyone know of a good website that summarizes the J6 crap and lists all the people held without bail?

Posted by: Sphynx
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Closest to summaries that I have seen come from Gateway Pundit. They may have links in their stories to better accounting of the victims.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (CXr4y)

348 When Ace made me a coblogger he promised that everyone would agree with everything I wrote and it would be all unicorns and fairy dust and wondrous things.

Actually, CBD, everyone does agree with you.

It's just the horders, wreckers, kulaks and general malcontents who don't.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (AW0uW)

349 Antifa picked a fight with Oregon motorcycle clubs?

If the FBI does not act fast antifa could get hurt
Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at July 26, 2022 11:16 AM (n17F0)

That was fun towatch.Those gals are fierce

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 12:02 PM (gbzeC)

350 Does anyone know of a good website that summarizes the J6 crap and lists all the people held without bail?

Posted by: Sphynx at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (rXie1)

Julie Kelly posted a complete list on Twitter a while back.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:02 PM (ptqGC)

351 If DeSantis has so much as one bone in an otherwise tidy closet, that could be the whole kit and kaboodle right there. Thinking strategically, Trump brings a LOT to the table that we don't have to worry about.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:02 PM (J/RyQ)

352 There is a Trump interview from 1980, where he talk about his role, what he sees himself as , in the Republican party. Exactly like CBD ( and others) outlined- somebody in the background , part of a group that helps define policy and identify candidates.

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 12:02 PM (5gyQ/)

353 Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (ptqGC)

Jeebus
Fking Maoists

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 12:02 PM (gbzeC)

354 346 Dr. Simone Gold reported to prison today.

She was an invited speaker by Trump on J6. The judge who sentenced her was someone she knew in law school. She considered him a friend, and was surprised when he didn't recuse himself.

Welp.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (ptqGC)

What was her crime? - Not that it matters to them.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (Vr12I)

355 344 If enough Trumpers are elected to the House it is possible that McCarthy will be voted out.
The same thing is possible in the Senate but talk is we won't have that big of a margin and the Senate if full of RepoPussies.

Posted by: Braenyard
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McCarthy is Fredo. He can be dealt with. McConnell is the nut to crack and the easiest executive hammer is an investigation of China money in politics and you go after McConnell's wife and her family as conduits for China money.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (CXr4y)

356 Point being, a SOB in a dress (a real woman) with hard as nails MAGA leanings would really fuck with the establishment like the left does with their "women" (who aren't really women.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (BFigT)

Janice McGeachin.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (DRSnL)

357 343 Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 11:52 AM (mLvsV)

I would hire Kudlow again. Again there is a sweet spot between their positions in my admittedly non expert opinion.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (5I3bD)

It's fine and normal for us to disagree with what level of purity is acceptable. Was just pointing out earlier that casting out Kudlow in the name of very high purity was inconsistent with accepting Kemp. You don't seem to have that issue of inconsistency.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (mLvsV)

358 Kudlow understood his job. Even though he opposes tariffs he supported Trumps tariffs because Trump was President and Kudlow was not. He may have given himself rhetorical cover by saying words like limited or targeted on the tariffs but he never argued against them or worse worked behind the scenes to ensure they were not enacted.

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (6TxNR)

359 >>I'd start with captains, lieutenants, people from spec ops community. You know, actual soldiers.

No Eyepatch McCains please.

Posted by: bed head at July 26, 2022 12:04 PM (Y1sOo)

360 What was her crime? - Not that it matters to them.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (Vr12I)

"The government charged be as a criminal defendant due to being present at the Capitol on January 6, 2021."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:04 PM (ptqGC)

361 342 335 At least Trump knows a lot more this go around.

He's not walking in blind.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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See him dropkick Milley's and the rest of the Pentagram's ass out.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:04 PM (Wj/z9)

362 Be a shame if them antifa boys got hurt... lol

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (53oGX)

363 I think it's possible that a new GOP Congress could deny McCarthy his leadership position. I don't think it's likely, perhaps there will be horsetrading before the vote that gets some key committee assignments or something, but it could happen.

Mitch is just too entrenched.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (LvTSG)

364 Trump's attacks on... DeSantis. Not exactly edifying are they. What kind if moron would do that anyway? He just can't help himself. There isn't even a contest yet, and he already tried to tarnish the guy.
Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 11:45 AM (5gyQ/)

Have there been actual Trump attacks on DeSantis, or have there been media reports of Trump attacks on DeSantis?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (zhLdt)

365 >>>I don't think Ric Grennell betrayed Trump. Maybe he could be trusted in a Trump Administration.
Posted by: kraken

He stood up for Alyssa Farah when she stuck a knife in Trump's back. Maybe an overseas diplomat, but never in the White House.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (VWp7G)

366 What was her crime? - Not that it matters to them.
Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (Vr12I). Standing in the Capitol steps with a bullhorn.

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (6TxNR)

367 Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (mLvsV)

Rodger that

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (5I3bD)

368
Janice McGeachin.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (DRSnL)

She hot? Cuz that matters.....

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

369 "...but, with no VP, she would become acting Prez until the new Congress is seated."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (zhLdt)

The republican senate would be in a tight spot, trying to decide between the dark horse or a Pelosi presidency. But Pelosi wouldn't care. By having the aura of impeaching their own president, the uniformed electorate might be persuaded that the democrats are the "reform" party and choice for good government.

Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (/BlEx)

370 315 I don't know how you assemble a reliably loyal team, but I suspect not one person commenting or posting here knows either.
Posted by: deadrody
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Don't pick party faithful for starters. If you think of parties as simply criminal organizations out to screw the citizens, you would be correct. So, you go outside. Essentially, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is correct in that the Senate is the keystone to Washington corruption far more than the House. So, you have to engage in logrolling and constant attention including government shutdowns to get what you want.
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I don't disagree, but that's 100% easier said than done, especially when it comes to Senate confirmations of non-party outsiders. McConnell already screwed Trump last time by not allowing him to make recess appointments

Posted by: deadrody at July 26, 2022 12:06 PM (/jrmI)

371 What was her crime? - Not that it matters to them.
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Seditious Double-Parking.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 26, 2022 12:06 PM (yikp0)

372 315 I don't know how you assemble a reliably loyal team, but I suspect not one person commenting or posting here knows either.
Posted by: deadrody

Chose American-born, self made businessmen for starters. Stop picking women for the sake of picking women.

Pick people who are loyal to God and their family above all else, and who actually don't want to serve in the government. They see their service as a need-to instead of a career.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at July 26, 2022 12:06 PM (sI15f)

373 360 What was her crime? - Not that it matters to them.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 12:03 PM (Vr12I)

"The government charged be as a criminal defendant due to being present at the Capitol on January 6, 2021."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:04 PM (ptqGC)

So, in the vicinity. What a Monster!!! Soviet Union, folks.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 12:06 PM (Vr12I)

374 I literally don't give ONE FCUK about propriety any more. They want us dead and our kids sterilized. FCUK YOU WAR!
Posted by: He earned it at July 26, 2022 11:51 AM (T8tFz)

I didn't support Trump in the 2016 primaries. I was a Cruz guy, regrettably. But I voted for Trump in the general and enthusiastically voted for him again in 2020. That said, I like Rand Paul and I like Ron DeSantis. As the saying goes from that otherwise terrible Godzilla movie, 'Let them fight.'

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (ogIek)

375 If you need your blood pressure raised, read "A Few Bad Men: The True Story of U. S. Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America."

One of the biggest betrayers? "Mad Dog" Mattis.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (ptqGC)

376 Too bad R. Lee Ermey isn't available.

Posted by: 496
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He reportedly voted for Obama in his first term. Shows he wasn't that smart, just loud.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (CXr4y)

377 Chose American-born, self made businessmen for starters. Stop picking women for the sake of picking women.

Pick people who are loyal to God and their family above all else, and who actually don't want to serve in the government. They see their service as a need-to instead of a career.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at July 26, 2022 12:06 PM (sI15f

Bingo.

Ace should get a letter inviting him to DC.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (PY/t0)

378 >>>She was an invited speaker by Trump on J6. The judge who sentenced her was someone she knew in law school. She considered him a friend, and was surprised when he didn't recuse himself.

Welp.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

And no one in the GOP will reciprocate when they have the power. Uniparty forever!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (VWp7G)

379 He had some good help and a couple of good appointments. Peter Navarro comes to mind.
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Pompeo, Betsy Devos, Ben Carson - good.

Steven Miller was able and loyal.

McEnerny was good. Huckabee's dtr was reasonably effective.

Gorsuch Barrett and Keg stand Kav - aren't Clarence Thomas, but they aren't John Roberts either.

Posted by: He earned it at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (keqKK)

380 Or, Trump just submits a change of address form back to Trump Tower in NYC.

The state of New York needs him to reside there to throw him in jail, or so the libs all seem to believe.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (ZGrMX)

381 365 >>>I don't think Ric Grennell betrayed Trump. Maybe he could be trusted in a Trump Administration.
Posted by: kraken

He stood up for Alyssa Farah when she stuck a knife in Trump's back. Maybe an overseas diplomat, but never in the White House.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (VWp7G)

Did not know that. Thanks Wyatt.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (Vr12I)

382 She hot? Cuz that matters.....
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

https://is.gd/YHuKUA

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 12:08 PM (DRSnL)

383
Bingo.

Ace should get a letter inviting him to DC.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (PY/t0)

But then he'd never have time for us! We're too needy.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

384 Have there been actual Trump attacks on DeSantis, or have there been media reports of Trump attacks on DeSantis?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (zhLdt)

Normal Trump stuff after DeSantis questioned some Trump's Covid positions. Some of it was implied.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:08 PM (5I3bD)

385 Yeah, "Pumped Up Kicks." I remember that one... An unfortunate song. Guy was a marketeer, and it shows. And I know what he was going for. Not trying to promote mass murder. The opposite. But that's the net effect.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2022 12:08 PM (Zhwz2)

386 Flynn is not overly bright. he got fooled by the FBI.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 11:49 AM (XIJ/X)

IIRC, lots of folks here thought the FBI was on the up-and-up back in 2016.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:09 PM (zhLdt)

387 The One who walks between the rolls of cuck awaken from farn porn?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 26, 2022 12:09 PM (pvM5r)

388
https://is.gd/YHuKUA
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 12:08 PM (DRSnL)

Twatter is all chinese now......wtf?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

389 First part of the team - those who were, with certainty, loyal the first go 'round.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:09 PM (Wj/z9)

390 Twatter is all chinese now......wtf?
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Probably something I did wrong.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 12:10 PM (DRSnL)

391 >>>Did not know that. Thanks Wyatt.
Posted by: kraken

His actual words were, "She's one of us," as she shanked Trump. We could also remove Jenna Ellis, because she was pretty feckless toward the end of Trump's presidency.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 12:10 PM (VWp7G)

392 377 "Chose American-born, self made businessmen for starters."

I offered (in this comment section) to take a position as a Cabinet Secretary when Trump was first elected. He never responded, so if he wants my services this time, he better ask nice.

Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 12:10 PM (/BlEx)

393 The same media that hyped Trump vs DeSantis tried to make it seem like Musk slept with the wife of a friend. Which they immediately destroyed by positing pics of them laughing at the headlines together.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 12:10 PM (PY/t0)

394 I still don't think we realize the powerful forces that were and are set against Trump. The same forces that would be aligned against DeSantis.

As I've said, DC is a lost cause. Look closer to home for solutions because they ain't going to be coming from that pustulant shithole that's called the national capital.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2022 12:10 PM (Qhnrt)

395 ===
Pompeo, Betsy Devos, Ben Carson - good.

Steven Miller was able and loyal.

McEnerny was good. Huckabee's dtr was reasonably effective.

Gorsuch Barrett and Keg stand Kav - aren't Clarence Thomas, but they aren't John Roberts either.

Posted by: He earned it at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (keqKK)

What about that guy that ripped that woman's arm off? Nothing says loyalty like dismemberment.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

396 Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (ogIek)

Why regrettably?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (5I3bD)

397 Oh, the judge "friend" who sentenced Dr. Simone Gold:

"...the Judge stated a factually untrue but flagrantly revealing prejudicial comment. He stated that I 'showed no remorse for the five people who died that day.' ....It was bizarre."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (ptqGC)

398 364

Have there been actual Trump attacks on DeSantis, or have there been media reports of Trump attacks on DeSantis?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:05 PM (zhLdt)

This is the thing to watch out for. We on the Right are still 110% way too willing to believe that the media accurately reports our candidates' statements.

It's as though we're just salivating for opportunities to be disappointed, and the Left is eager and willing to twist any minor criticism into an "attack" to stoke "Republican in-fighting" and "RW disarray".

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (q6jjE)

399 The way one could pick a team might be selecting those who have paid a price for their loyalty.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (Vr12I)

400 >>>IIRC, lots of folks here thought the FBI was on the up-and-up back in 2016.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I laughed out loud when I saw the story about the FBI "whistleblowers" whining about Hunter... years after the fact.

Ham and eggers, my friends.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (VWp7G)

401 287 The liberals are going to suddenly be infatuated with the Constitution in a Trump / DeSantis ticket, claiming they are both from FL and the Constitution forbids it.
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2000 election, Cheney was CEO of Halliburton prior to the election and lived in Texas as did Bush. Cheney changed his residence to WY prior to election--easy peasey. Trump has a number of Trump golf resorts in states besides Florida such as NJ to claim as residence for constitutional purposes.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (CXr4y)

402 342 335 At least Trump knows a lot more this go around.

He's not walking in blind.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:59 AM (PY/t0)

I think you might be closing in on the problem. I give you Oz as a starter.
Posted by: 7man at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (qwO6y)
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Nonsense. Trump endorsed Oz for one reason - he's an insider in what was a 2 man race and the other one was a deeply infested GOP establishment swamp dweller. Better to have a Democrat stab you in your gut than an alleged Republican stabbing you in the back.

Posted by: deadrody at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (/jrmI)

403 He reportedly voted for Obama in his first term. Shows he wasn't that smart, just loud.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:07 PM (CXr4y)

Concur. You have had to be a pinheaded dim witted nincompoop to have ever voted for Barack Mugabe.

Hope and Change! was a slogan for 8 year olds and fools.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (qZQHw)

404
Probably something I did wrong.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 12:10 PM (DRSnL)

You?!? During PRIDE month!??!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

405 I try, but it just won't come out.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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https://tinyurl.com/yytv3zyy

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (iZDOl)

406 The total repudiation of a rigid free trade stance has been exhaustively demonstrated, yet they cling to their sophomoric political philosophy that has failed.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (yQpMk)

407 Moses' burning bus:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6r5xtn

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (yikp0)

408 Anyone who opposes meeting punitive tariffs with punitive tariffs is NOT for free trade in any sense. If its not free on both sides, then its just not free.

I remember well when Trump announced the increased tariffs against China several people here freaked out like he kicked over the Statue of Liberty or something. But if a nation (especially an evil, hostile nation) is charging you huge sums to buy your products and paying almost nothing to send you their products, that's a trade imbalance that needs to be addressed.

Raising your tariffs is one way to do so: lower your fees or we'll keep raising ours on your cheap crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (Ivdso)

409
Concur. You have had to be a pinheaded dim witted nincompoop to have ever voted for Barack Mugabe.

Hope and Change! was a slogan for 8 year olds and fools.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (qZQHw)

SEE SAY PWADWAY!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

410 Not included in the excerpt, the AFPI and Jindal et al are supposedly pushing for "Trumpism without Trump". Sounds... familiar...

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It would almost make one wonder why they didn't push the ideology surrounding "Trumpism" before Trump.

I don't entirely fault the man for making bad personnel decisions. How can you assess someone's utter betrayal quotient when they say and do what they're supposed to initially? I also think it's true that there's a vast difference between his old business life vs. the scoundrels and vipers that are in and around gov't. How do you trust anybody??

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (sVtYq)

411 America's Back Baby ...

America to #1 in Monkeypox Cases

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (RHGPo)

412 His ink in pen makes the wicked to rub cheese graders upon their own eyeballs.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (pvM5r)

413 Moses' burning bus:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6r5xtn
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (yikp0)

Look at all that global warmening.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

414 I'd start with captains, lieutenants, people from spec ops community. You know, actual soldiers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (PY/t0)

So, Crenshaw?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (zhLdt)

415 Many people voted for JugEars to prove to all the right people that they weren't racist.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (PY/t0)

416 I think you might be closing in on the problem. I give you Oz as a starter.
Posted by: 7man at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (qwO6y)
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Nonsense. Trump endorsed Oz for one reason - he's an insider in what was a 2 man race and the other one was a deeply infested GOP establishment swamp dweller. Better to have a Democrat stab you in your gut than an alleged Republican stabbing you in the back.

Posted by: deadrody
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Trump is reportedly recruiting people that explicitly pledge not to vote for McConnell as majority leader for senate. Not sure if Britt did that or not or whether Mo Brooks dragged his feet on it in Alabama though. It could simply be that Brooks is a lousy politician and Britt was going to win anyway.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (CXr4y)

417 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (Ivdso)

Problem is Trump ignored Chinese cultural aspects when implementing his plan. He should have done it in a different manner.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (5I3bD)

418 If Trump picks guys with Viking Axes he will be successful. There's a lot of family business to sort out in DC and Manhattan.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (Iv+w0)

419 America to #1 in Monkeypox Cases
Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 12:12 PM (RHGPo)

"Thank you! Please drive through."

-BabeThePigBoi

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (Zhwz2)

420 >>> Which they immediately destroyed by positing pics of them laughing at the headlines together.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Musk is another one that punches back.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (Wj/z9)

421
So, Crenshaw?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (zhLdt)

No. I'm taking about people who don't want the job.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (PY/t0)

422 He reportedly voted for Obama in his first term. Shows he wasn't that smart, just loud.

I am willing to give low info non political junkies a pass on voting for Obama ONCE.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (Ivdso)

423 Gus Grissom: Wait a minute, wait a minute!
[turns Glenn toward him]
Gus Grissom: You’ve got it all wrong, the issue here ain’t pussy. The issue here is monkey.
John Glenn: What?

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (RHGPo)

424 Excellent Dave in Texas Twitter remembrance from his nephew in the sidebar. What a man.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (U3uv2)

425 So, Crenshaw?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (zhLdt)

He has an eye on other things.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (89T5c)

426 Why regrettably?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (5I3bD)

Ted Cruz' comments on the J6 protest revealed him as a phony.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (ogIek)

427 415 Many people voted for JugEars to prove to all the right people that they weren't racist.

Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Only problem was that the package included commies, Muzzies, and dog eating. Those people voting for TFG had to swallow that as well.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (CXr4y)

428 Problem is Trump ignored Chinese cultural aspects when implementing his plan.

It pissed off the Chinese but they started lowering their tariffs, what exactly went wrong here?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (Ivdso)

429 425 So, Crenshaw?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (zhLdt)

He has an eye on other things.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (89T5c)

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He's pissed off too many conservatives. Impossible to patch things over now.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (VJsqe)

430
Ted Cruz' comments on the J6 protest revealed him as a phony.
Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (ogIek

Yuppers

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (PY/t0)

431 Musk is another one that punches back.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (Wj/z9)

His tweets are funny and witty but sting. I think Musk and Cruz are best at that form of Twitter counter punching.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (5I3bD)

432 Ted Cruz' comments on the J6 protest revealed him as a phony.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (ogIek)

He revealed himself as a phony in 2016.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (J/RyQ)

433 I didn't support Trump in the 2016 primaries. I was a Cruz guy, regrettably.
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I was Cruz for a bit in the primaries, but it became obvious that he is unelectable. Not because of anything he did, its just that the media had too much success in labeling him in the minds of the general public. He's going to be a regional politician forever or a supreme court justice. It was, at that time, a choice between proven liars who would not even try to do what they claimed they believed in, or Trump. I decided to go with Trump, even though I personally disliked his style. I KNEW the other choices sucked, and there was at least a chance Trump would try to do what he said he believed in. He did. And, despite the constant organized treachery, he accomplished more than most GOPe presidents have in my lifetime.

I want an ASSKICKER not an ASSKISSER. There is certainly hope that Desantis will continue to develop. Trump is a fully operational death star. He has no political future, and his tank is FULL of animus. It will of course, send the enemy into apoplexy. Excellent.

Posted by: He earned it at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (20OQ3)

434 Gus Grissom: You’ve got it all wrong, the issue here ain’t pussy. The issue here is monkey.
John Glenn: What?
Gus Grissom: Us. We are the monkey.
Deke Slayton: What Gus is saying is that we’re missing the point. What Gus is saying is that we all heard the rumors that they want to send a monkey up first. Well, none of us wants to think that they’re gonna send a monkey up to do a man’s work. But what Gus is saying is that what they’re trying to do to us is send a man up to do a monkey’s work. Us, a bunch of college-trained chimpanzees!

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (RHGPo)

435 These same scumbags will stab Desantis in the back as well. The person at the top does not matter. Protecting the swamp is all that matters

Posted by: Eli Cash at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (qTEBZ)

436 418 If Trump picks guys with Viking Axes he will be successful. There's a lot of family business to sort out in DC and Manhattan.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (Iv+w0)

Do you mean tossing viking axes at people as a selection process or people who own them?

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (mLvsV)

437 He revealed himself as a phony in 2016.
Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (J/RyQ)

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This was my take. The J6 stuff just solidified it.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 12:17 PM (VJsqe)

438 IIRC, lots of folks here thought the FBI was on the up-and-up back in 2016.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:09 PM (zhLdt)

Guilty as charged.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:17 PM (U3uv2)

439 In a perfect country, the head health honcho would have a word with the populace. "Lisren up, gay guys. I'm talking to you. Lay off the buttsex for awhile, and the oral stuff too. There's something going around, and if you just give it up for a month or two it'll burn out. Think Rosy Palm, as if you guys never heard of her. That is all".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2022 11:57 AM (lz5hY)

Remember that you're talking to a group of people, some of whom deliberately sought out unprotected sex with people who had HIV so that they could have it too.

Telling them to lay off sex because there's a disease is probably a non-starter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:17 PM (zhLdt)

440 Ted Cruz' comments on the J6 protest revealed him as a phony.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (ogIek)

Ted Cruz' comments on the DNC-astroturfed Trump Chicago rally protest revealed him as a phony.

At least he is consistent.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (U3uv2)

441 He's pissed off too many conservatives. Impossible to patch things over now.

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Impossible like, what... Five years ago, now? Voting for red flag laws is an automatic political death sentence, AFAIC. He got scratched off my dance card long ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (Zhwz2)

442 436 418 If Trump picks guys with Viking Axes he will be successful. There's a lot of family business to sort out in DC and Manhattan.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:14 PM (Iv+w0)

Do you mean tossing viking axes at people as a selection process or people who own them?
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I'm talking about guys that axe you in the front so they get to watch you die.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (Iv+w0)

443 434 Gus Grissom: You’ve got it all wrong, the issue here ain’t pussy. The issue here is monkey.
John Glenn: What?
Gus Grissom: Us. We are the monkey.
Deke Slayton: What Gus is saying is that we’re missing the point. What Gus is saying is that we all heard the rumors that they want to send a monkey up first. Well, none of us wants to think that they’re gonna send a monkey up to do a man’s work. But what Gus is saying is that what they’re trying to do to us is send a man up to do a monkey’s work. Us, a bunch of college-trained chimpanzees!

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (RHGPo)

Fvuckin' A, Bubba.

Posted by: Gus Grissom at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (AMIL/)

444 John Glenn

That fucking traitor sold his soul for a ride in the space shuttle. I idolized him as a kid and it broke my heart when he covered for Clinton in the Loral hearings.

Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (/BlEx)

445 Ted Cruz' comments on the J6 protest revealed him as a phony.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (ogIek)

He revealed himself as a phony in 2016.
Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:16 PM (J/RyQ)

He was at the Capitol ready to present his position to the Country why he voted not to certify the electoral vote. Instead he had to be evacuated. At the time I'm sure it felt more than just simple trespassing. But you guys excuse every thing Trump has said or done with the lamest of excuses. I guess it is what it is.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:19 PM (5I3bD)

446 So, Crenshaw?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (zhLdt)

He has an eye on other things.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (89T5c)

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He's pissed off too many conservatives. Impossible to patch things over now.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (VJsqe)

He's blind to how bad his reputation is now

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:19 PM (XvPQV)

447 Ted Cruz' comments on the DNC-astroturfed Trump Chicago rally protest revealed him as a phony.

If you want to drain the swamp, don't pick people that live in the swamp. This is not complicated.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (ZMYfe)

448 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (Zhwz2)

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We're both of the same mind, but my primary goal was an eyepatch joke.

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (VJsqe)

449 Have there been actual Trump attacks on DeSantis, or have there been media reports of Trump attacks on DeSantis?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at Ju

Since it came out of Trump's own mouth in a televised interview I would say it is an "actual".

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (5gyQ/)

450

Remember that you're talking to a group of people, some of whom deliberately sought out unprotected sex with people who had HIV so that they could have it too.

Telling them to lay off sex because there's a disease is probably a non-starter.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:17 PM (zhLdt)

They called it "The Gift."

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

451 >>> an investigation of China money in politics and you go after McConnell's wife and her family as conduits for China money.
Posted by: whig
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Agreed.
Personally, I think, because of his familial associations with the CCP, he should not be allowed to serve in government in any capacity.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (Wj/z9)

452 You know what would be great? If the wise latina dropped dead a week before the mid term elections. Spicy Sauce.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (Iv+w0)

453 438 IIRC, lots of folks here thought the FBI was on the up-and-up back in 2016.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:09 PM (zhLdt)

Guilty as charged.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:17 PM (U3uv2)

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You can go wrong thinking the worse of DC minions

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (hTDTQ)

454 He earned it @ 433-
I rate this comment as 100% accurate and 150% rightly divined.

Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2022 12:21 PM (0OP+5)

455 Cruz would be perfect on a Supreme Court, no?

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 12:21 PM (5gyQ/)

456 Tony Dow, Beaver Cleaver's older brother dies of cancer at 77. So long, Wally and RIP.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at July 26, 2022 12:21 PM (CVx5A)

457 How do you trust anybody??

Posted by: Lady in Black
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You don't. FDR was a stone cold SOB that could turn off and on his folksy persona at will. FDR was best at wielding the shiv to stab your back while embracing you. Harry Truman, was once asked long after retiring from politics, about his personal opinion of FDR. It was that FDR was the coldest human devoid of consideration for others that Truman ever knew. FDR essentially created new agencies to get around roadblocks in old agencies, he made messes of jurisdictional lines between agencies, and so on. He used LandSeaAir battle techniques against a hostile bureaucracy and Congress to some extent and won. Essentially, you have to view all as potential traitors than a few made men because in the establishment's eyes, you are the coup against the legitimate regime and must be thwarted.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:21 PM (CXr4y)

458 One of the great gaslighting campaigns, to make the FBI seem virtuous. (*starring Efram Zimbalist Jr.)

Remember how virtuous J Edgar Hoover was? JFK and MLK didn't think so.

The FBI has been corrupt since its' founding.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 26, 2022 12:21 PM (w9Wax)

459 This is an admirable young man.

https://qr.ae/pvMgpI

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 12:22 PM (QSjkU)

460 But you guys excuse every thing Trump has said or done with the lamest of excuses. I guess it is what it is.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:19 PM (5I3bD)

Cruz is a POS. Trump has put it on the line and got it done when no one else would. Of *course* he gets leeway. There is no comparison between a phony baloney grandstanding career politician cocksucker like Cruz and Donald blessed Trump. None.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:22 PM (J/RyQ)

461 452 You know what would be great? If the wise latina dropped dead a week before the mid term elections. Spicy Sauce.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (Iv+w0)

Regardless of mid term results Biden would then get to replace her. Don't see the Rs holding out for 2 years.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:22 PM (mLvsV)

462 Shocker.

@nypost - 14h

Film Academy member Jeff Cooper sentenced to 8 years in prison for molesting a child.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (ptqGC)

463 He's blind to how bad his reputation is now

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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He cannot look at life from both sides now.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (CXr4y)

464 John Glenn

That fucking traitor sold his soul for a ride in the space shuttle. I idolized him as a kid and it broke my heart when he covered for Clinton in the Loral hearings.
Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (/BlEx)

His ass should have been in PMITA prison next to McStain for the Keating Five scandal.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (AW0uW)

465 350 Does anyone know of a good website that summarizes the J6 crap and lists all the people held without bail?

Posted by: Sphynx at July 26, 2022 12:00 PM (rXie1)

Julie Kelly posted a complete list on Twitter a while back.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 12:02 PM

That's way too much. There's a very brief summary on YouTube for the whole J6 hearings that's much more succinct.
https://youtu.be/pDmGhethEoQ

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (NCgXW)

466 When Ace made me a coblogger he promised that everyone would agree with everything I wrote and it would be all unicorns and fairy dust and wondrous things.

Actually, CBD, everyone does agree with you.

It's just the horders, wreckers, kulaks and general malcontents who don't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 12:01 PM (AW0uW)

Everyone ... that matters.

*polishes AoSHQ Party pin*

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (yQpMk)

467 I wonder if Ace went to Dave in Texas’ funeral.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (2urLC)

468 287 The liberals are going to suddenly be infatuated with the Constitution in a Trump / DeSantis ticket, claiming they are both from FL and the Constitution forbids it.
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2000 election, Cheney was CEO of Halliburton prior to the election and lived in Texas as did Bush. Cheney changed his residence to WY prior to election--easy peasey. Trump has a number of Trump golf resorts in states besides Florida such as NJ to claim as residence for constitutional purposes.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:11 PM (CXr4y)

What the Constitution forbids is the electoral college electors of a state where both the President and Vice President candidates reside in the same state, voting for both candidates. The electors can for for one, but not the other.

E.G. the Florida electors could vote for Trump as Pres but could not also vote for DeSantis as VP.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (4I/2K)

469 One of the great gaslighting campaigns, to make the FBI seem virtuous. (*starring Efram Zimbalist Jr.)

Remember how virtuous J Edgar Hoover was? JFK and MLK didn't think so.

The FBI has been corrupt since its' founding.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 26, 2022 12:21 PM (w9Wax)

JFK was a shitter and got in power via blatant vote fraud.
But yeah, the FBI killed MLK and let a patsy do the time for the crime.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (XvPQV)

470 I don't see much mention here of Marjorie Taylor Greene. She seems to be doing all the right things. Am I missing something?

Posted by: creeper at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (cTCuP)

471 Stephanie Zimbalist > Efram Zimbalist Jr.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

472 He's blind to how bad his reputation is now
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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He cannot look at life from both sides now.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (CXr4y)

His vision simply lacks depth.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (ZMYfe)

473 Ted Cruz' comments on the DNC-astroturfed Trump Chicago rally protest revealed him as a phony.

At least he is consistent.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (U3uv2)

Trump was suggesting meeting violence with violence. He wasn't President at the time. It was a campaign and candidates seize on stupid things said by other candidates.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (5I3bD)

474 You know what would be great? If the wise latina dropped dead a week before the mid term elections. Spicy Sauce.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:20 PM (Iv+w0)

If the Wide Latina croaks, there will be no repeat of the Garland fiasco. McConnell & Co. wave through Biden or Harris' leftoid replacement, no questions asked. He's learned his lesson.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (Zhwz2)

475 He's blind to how bad his reputation is now
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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He cannot look at life from both sides now.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (CXr4y)

His vision simply lacks depth.
Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (ZMYfe)
Oooh, good ones

#CrenchawBurns

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:25 PM (XvPQV)

476 His ass should have been in PMITA prison next to McStain for the Keating Five scandal.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (AW0uW)

Yes! GD criminals and they got off scot free.

Great memory MPPPP!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 26, 2022 12:25 PM (qZQHw)

477 Oh and Happy Birthday to Alex The Chick!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (XvPQV)

478 Now the newly covid positive are mad when they get the virus because nobody gives a shit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (eC4Tv)

479 Problem is Trump ignored Chinese cultural aspects when implementing his plan.

It pissed off the Chinese but they started lowering their tariffs, what exactly went wrong here?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Agree. Why do we always play their game? When you start worrying about the other fellow's culture and feelings, you've lost the game. He needs to understand that you don't GAS. He needs to respect our feelings and our ways.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (/NCI4)

480 Trump was suggesting meeting violence with violence. He wasn't President at the time. It was a campaign and candidates seize on stupid things said by other candidates.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (5I3bD)

I'm on board with meeting violence with violence. Good preventative imo.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (mLvsV)

481 He's blind to how bad his reputation is now

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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He cannot look at life from both sides now.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (CXr4y)

He lacks perspective. Vision.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (U3uv2)

482 444 John Glenn

That fucking traitor sold his soul for a ride in the space shuttle. I idolized him as a kid and it broke my heart when he covered for Clinton in the Loral hearings.
Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 12:18 PM (/BlEx)

Wasn't he involved with the Keating Five...if even tangentially.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2022 12:27 PM (BgMrQ)

483

“President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he’s a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day,” Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. “President Biden shows what American greatness looks like.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2022 12:27 PM (63Dwl)

484 What about that guy that ripped that woman's arm off? Nothing says loyalty like dismemberment.

Posted by: Sponge
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Cory allegedly was also plugging the Gov of SD, Noem in his spare time around 2020. He was obviously taking one for MAGA there.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:27 PM (CXr4y)

485 He lacks perspective. Vision.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (U3uv2)

He has no perception of the depth of the issues.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 12:27 PM (UuD2k)

486 477 Oh and Happy Birthday to Alex The Chick!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (XvPQV)

AtC shares a birthday with JJ? What are the odds?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 26, 2022 12:27 PM (906pl)

487 Agree. Why do we always play their game? When you start worrying about the other fellow's culture and feelings, you've lost the game. He needs to understand that you don't GAS. He needs to respect our feelings and our ways.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (/NCI4)

Main argument for understanding their culture is to predict their reaction. Trump won that fight though so it seems like he understood them well enough.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (mLvsV)

488 477 Oh and Happy Birthday to Alex The Chick!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (XvPQV)

Wow...

She shares a birthday with JJ ?!?! Lucky her...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (BgMrQ)

489 @CBD America and the American mind is not consistence with the "elder stateman" who retains a guiding force of the movement. Our concept of political leadership is more like Highlander - "There can be only one".

I think another of Trumps proven qualities is his ability to adjust, adapt and overcome.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (RaWcF)

490 But you guys excuse every thing Trump has said or done with the lamest of excuses. I guess it is what it is.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:19 PM (5I3bD)

Pound sand. Trump didn't do anything on J6 except tell protesters to go home peacefully.

The 2020 election was blatantly stolen. Had Trump been the awful tyrant the Left and NeverTrump (but I repeat myself) claim him to be, he would've been urging them on. He would've been telling those of us at home to grab our fucking guns and make a clean sweep of the country. Many would've done it. But he didn't. Fuck off.

Posted by: troyriser at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (ogIek)

491 I don't see much mention here of Marjorie Taylor Greene. She seems to be doing all the right things. Am I missing something?

More people than you'd think are still put off by her being "not who we are". But fuck that.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (ZGrMX)

492 2024 had better be the "retribution tour" regardless who runs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (BFigT)

493
“President Biden shows what American greatness looks like.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Befuddled, malleable and shitting our pants?

No, thanks, lackwit!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (pNxlR)

494 HA!!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (906pl)

495 Trump was suggesting meeting violence with violence. He wasn't President at the time. It was a campaign and candidates seize on stupid things said by other candidates.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (5I3bD)

Oh yeah Super True Never Compromise Conservative Cruz shilling for the ***Phony Democrat Narrative*** of Trump SUPPORTERS (not Trump himself) as violent nazis while the reality was that it was DNC people enacting the violence and anyone with a brain knew it at the time? And you talk about making "stupid excuses"? It's 2022 now. You can feel free to wake up any time.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (J/RyQ)

496 477 Oh and Happy Birthday to Alex The Chick!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (XvPQV

Happy Birthday ! My B-Day is Saturday

Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (bs+z0)

497 He said with a grin, as he wiped off his chin:

“President Biden shows what American greatness looks like.”

Posted by: Lincoln Project Cofounder at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (869DH)

498 Dan Crenshaw lacks depth, perception.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

499
He has no perception of the depth of the issues.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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But, as Confucius did not say "In the world of the blind, the one eyed man is king."

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (CXr4y)

500 Oh and Happy Birthday to Alex The Chick!

Ironically on one of the longest days of the year *ducks*.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (ZGrMX)

501 “President Biden shows what American greatness looks like.”
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Only a fag would say something so stupid.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (NsE9F)

502 I love MTG so far. And that's about it. She certainly says the right things.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (J/RyQ)

503 Oh and Happy Birthday to Alex The Chick!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (XvPQV

VICTORY TITS FTW!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

504 494 HA!!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (906pl)

I really did laugh out loud...

***fistbump***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (BgMrQ)

505 I bet if you Swiftboated Crenshaw, you'd find out he lost that eye in a tragic dicksucking accident.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (Zhwz2)

506 Wasn't he involved with the Keating Five...if even tangentially.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2022 12:27 PM (BgMrQ)

Nothing tangential about it...he was one of them...and corrupt.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (XIJ/X)

507 Representative Crenshaw's office has issued a statement that he is blindsided by the Horde's cruel comments today.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (w9Wax)

508 Agree. Why do we always play their game? When you start worrying about the other fellow's culture and feelings, you've lost the game. He needs to understand that you don't GAS. He needs to respect our feelings and our ways.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (/NCI4)

Main argument for understanding their culture is to predict their reaction. Trump won that fight though so it seems like he understood them well enough.

It's one thing to understand your opponent, because it helps you win. It's another to say "oh, no, we can't do that, because it might hurt their feelings or make them mad." Their anger doesn't interest me.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (/NCI4)

509 Everyone ... that matters.

*polishes AoSHQ Party pin*

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (yQpMk)

I'd like you to meet . . . Mohammet . . . Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton. Grab a seat and make yourselves at home. Don't be shy about helping yourselves to punch and cookies.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (U3uv2)

510 Trump was suggesting meeting violence with violence. He wasn't President at the time. It was a campaign and candidates seize on stupid things said by other candidates.

Yeah I don't hold that against him any more than I do Trump's ridiculous "Cruz' dad shot Kennedy" thing (actually it was that his dad was with Lee Harvey Oswald shorty before he shot Kennedy but that's how it was reported).

But Cruz lost everything with three moves: rushing to the border to give out toys to kids, and then calling protesters "terrorists" and voting to give the assassin of an unarmed patriot woman a FREAKING MEDAL.

That put him in a political hole its not possible to dig out of.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (Ivdso)

511 I'm on board with meeting violence with violence. Good preventative imo.
Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (mLvsV)

Me too when it comes to that. But when you are still working within the political system and laws (Presidential campaign) you don't try to start a civil war. As much as you want to blow them all away you let the system take care of it until there is no longer the system.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (5I3bD)

512 >>> Cruz is a POS. Trump has put it on the line and got it done when no one else would. Of *course* he gets leeway. There is no comparison between a phony baloney grandstanding career politician cocksucker like Cruz and Donald blessed Trump. None.
Posted by: ... at July
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;Trump has put it on the line and got it done when no one else would. Of *course* he gets leeway. There is no comparison between a phony baloney grandstanding career politician cocksucker

That's poetry

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (Wj/z9)

513 Trump is reportedly recruiting people that explicitly pledge not to vote for McConnell as majority leader for senate. Not sure if Britt did that or not or whether Mo Brooks dragged his feet on it in Alabama though. It could simply be that Brooks is a lousy politician and Britt was going to win anyway.

Posted by: whig

Britt owes her Primary win to McConnell-funded "third party" ads. She worked for Shelby and ran the same playbook vs. Durant her boss did against Denton back in the day. She's swamp AF. Mo Brooks dropped the ball, but damn, endorsing her makes zero sense whatsoever.

Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (OUMaO)

514
Wow...

She shares a birthday with JJ ?!?! Lucky her...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (BgMrQ)j

Don't we all?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

515 How does everyone fell about Don jr. getting into politics on his own? First a Senate seat, maybe?

Posted by: Paladin at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (KX5Wh)

516 It's one thing to understand your opponent, because it helps you win. It's another to say "oh, no, we can't do that, because it might hurt their feelings or make them mad." Their anger doesn't interest me.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (/NCI4)

Which is why Gaetz' "Be offended" is really powerful.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (ZGrMX)

517 505 I bet if you Swiftboated Crenshaw, you'd find out he lost that eye in a tragic dicksucking accident.
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He's a sailor. Someone gave him a fork and he put his eye out.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:31 PM (NsE9F)

518 “President Biden shows what American greatness looks like.”
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Only a fag would say something so stupid.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 26, 2022 12:29 PM (NsE9F)

Hey!! A little respect please.

Posted by: Fags Everywhere at July 26, 2022 12:31 PM (Ed8Zd)

519 515 How does everyone fell about Don jr. getting into politics on his own? First a Senate seat, maybe?
Posted by: Paladin at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (KX5Wh)

No Dynasties...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 12:31 PM (bs+z0)

520 “President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he’s a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day,” Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. “President Biden shows what American greatness looks like.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2022 12:27 PM (63Dwl)

-------

He unwittingly speaks the truth.

Delusion is not just a river in Egypt ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 12:31 PM (QbCrG)

521 513 Britt owes her Primary win to McConnell-funded "third party" ads. She worked for Shelby and ran the same playbook vs. Durant her boss did against Denton back in the day. She's swamp AF. Mo Brooks dropped the ball, but damn, endorsing her makes zero sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (OUMaO)

==========

Endorsing a winner makes more sense than endorsing a loser.

It may be as simple as that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

522 514
Wow...

She shares a birthday with JJ ?!?! Lucky her...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (BgMrQ)j

Don't we all?
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

I AM JJ...

Posted by: Spartacus at July 26, 2022 12:31 PM (BgMrQ)

523 Dan Crenshaw lacks depth, perception.

"Dan Crenshaw lacks depth, perception."
--Carlos Mencia, in a Mexican accent

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (Ivdso)

524 How does everyone fell about Don jr. getting into politics on his own? First a Senate seat, maybe?

I love Don Jr. in a strictly hetero way, but no dynasties.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (ZGrMX)

525 491 I don't see much mention here of Marjorie Taylor Greene. She seems to be doing all the right things. Am I missing something?

More people than you'd think are still put off by her being "not who we are". But fuck that.

Posted by: Ian S.
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It turns out that only a few GOP members from the House actually have any balls. Boebert, MTG, Gohmert, and Gaetz. The rest are busy insider trading like Crenshaw, licking up the Dems spittle like Cheney and Kinzinger, or asking please sir may I have another like McCarthy and Scalise.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (CXr4y)

526 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (Ivdso)

He didn't hand out toys . He went there to show what Obama's policies had resulted in. Cruz haters created that meme.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (5I3bD)

527 492 2024 had better be the "retribution tour" regardless who runs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (BFigT)

Only if there are leg irons involved.

No more of those Congressional hearings. All that is doing is creating sound bites for reelection campaigns. Stop wasting our time with those damn things. And stick those poster board presentations where the sun doesn't shine.

Scores need to be settled. Settle them. Old Testament style if need be.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (N39Ws)

528 Trump was suggesting meeting violence with violence. He wasn't President at the time. It was a campaign and candidates seize on stupid things said by other candidates.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:24 PM (5I3bD)

By throwing other people's rights to peaceable assembly? He seems nice.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (U3uv2)

529 What the Constitution forbids is the electoral college electors of a state where both the President and Vice President candidates reside in the same state, voting for both candidates. The electors can for for one, but not the other.

E.G. the Florida electors could vote for Trump as Pres but could not also vote for DeSantis as VP.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 26, 2022 12:23 PM (4I/2K)

Yeah, Article 2.1.3 is cruft left over from when the 2nd highest vote-getter was named as the VP.

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (yQpMk)

530 How does everyone fell about Don jr. getting into politics on his own? First a Senate seat, maybe?

Based on his incredibly sleazy lawyer rich boy appearance I don't trust that guy at all. Its probably unfair but he looks like the bad guy in every college movie ever made.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:33 PM (Ivdso)

531 513 Trump is reportedly recruiting people that explicitly pledge not to vote for McConnell as majority leader for senate. Not sure if Britt did that or not or whether Mo Brooks dragged his feet on it in Alabama though. It could simply be that Brooks is a lousy politician and Britt was going to win anyway.

Posted by: whig

Britt owes her Primary win to McConnell-funded "third party" ads. She worked for Shelby and ran the same playbook vs. Durant her boss did against Denton back in the day. She's swamp AF. Mo Brooks dropped the ball, but damn, endorsing her makes zero sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Brother Tim, actually a random opossum with a VPN at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (OUMaO)

If Trump is gunning for McConnell that's more than I expected after he stuck with the Rs. Still pessimistic about his odds of reforming the party.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 12:33 PM (mLvsV)

532 Cruz attacked Trump's *supporters*, ie the conservative base, as unhinged. Feel free to revise history all you want. I can't believe this still needs to be explained to anyone.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:33 PM (J/RyQ)

533 >>> endorsing her makes zero sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Brother Tim,
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So, piss on her leg?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:34 PM (Wj/z9)

534 Eric is the one to watch. And I like Lara a great deal.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:34 PM (J/RyQ)

535 How does everyone fell about Don jr. getting into politics on his own? First a Senate seat, maybe?
==
he is very unseasoned. He may get there in a few decades. His brother Eric seems more likely to be ready sooner.

Posted by: my opinion at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (hLTGd)

536 I'd vote for Don Jr. If he wasn't a Republican. And if he replaced "Lock Her Up" with "String Them Up," and meant it.

Bottom line is... No more GOP monkeyshines. Weak sauce.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (Zhwz2)

537 Nood Ace.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (U3uv2)

538 I don't see much mention here of Marjorie Taylor Greene. She seems to be doing all the right things. Am I missing something?

She pisses off all the right people on both the left and the right. She's my kind of crazy.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (ZMYfe)

539 I don't see much mention here of Marjorie Taylor Greene

I like what I see in her so far but I'm an unreconstructed cave man sexist who doesn't like women being put in positions of high power.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (Ivdso)

540 NOOD

Posted by: Spartacus at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (BgMrQ)

541 I love Don Jr. in a strictly hetero way, but no dynasties.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (ZGrMX)

I will accept First Citizen Barron Trump on the throne of blood.

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

542 Trump has put it on the line and got it done when no one else would. Of *course* he gets leeway. There is no comparison between a phony baloney grandstanding career politician cocksucker

That's poetry
Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:30 PM (Wj/z9)

Post deleted,

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (5I3bD)

543 Remind me again - In the Lincoln Project, is Reed Galen the gay one, or the gay one?

Posted by: Wally at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (FJYfm)

544 Post deleted by me

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (5I3bD)

545 Cruz is just a time server. He doesn't even have the uniparty support. He makes some good sound bites or tweets to placate the rubes, but he'll never go higher than Senator.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 12:35 PM (UuD2k)

546 I give Crenshaw the credit due any guy gets through Seal training, and gratitude for his service and sacrifice. Past that I got nothing. I rate Marjory T Greene a better Congressperson.

Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2022 12:36 PM (0OP+5)

547 Aw, Jill Biden fires press sec after Taco Speech. Failed to position Jill from being an idiot.

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 12:37 PM (5gyQ/)

548 Cruz attacked Trump's *supporters*, ie the conservative base, as unhinged. Feel free to revise history all you want. I can't believe this still needs to be explained to anyone.
Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 12:33 PM (J/RyQ)

You aren't explaining anything to me. Get over yourself.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 26, 2022 12:37 PM (5I3bD)

549 Only if there are leg irons involved.

No more of those Congressional hearings. All that is doing is creating sound bites for reelection campaigns. Stop wasting our time with those damn things. And stick those poster board presentations where the sun doesn't shine.

Scores need to be settled. Settle them. Old Testament style if need be.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 26, 2022 12:32 PM (N39Ws)

A little suspension of habeas corpus ala Lincoln and 3am no-knock raids to whisk certain parties away to Gitmo under cover of night. A decapitation strike against the Deep State.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 26, 2022 12:37 PM (4I/2K)

550 He didn't hand out toys . He went there to show what Obama's policies had resulted in. Cruz haters created that meme.
==
Blen Gleck handed out the teddy bears. Cruz was Blen Gleck adjacent.

Posted by: my opinion at July 26, 2022 12:38 PM (V3Fo2)

551 Britt owes her Primary win to McConnell-funded "third party" ads. She worked for Shelby and ran the same playbook vs. Durant her boss did against Denton back in the day. She's swamp AF. Mo Brooks dropped the ball, but damn, endorsing her makes zero sense whatsoever. Posted by: Brother Tim
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There are certain people that simply are not good politicians--Brooks seems to be one of them losing two consecutive state races that by all rights he should have won. When Tommy Tuberville beats you, it says something about your political acumen. And on Britt, with no paper trail, might surprise in a first term because she wants a second one whereas a Doug Jones as a Dem certainly would not.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 12:38 PM (CXr4y)

552 545 Cruz is just a time server. He doesn't even have the uniparty support. He makes some good sound bites or tweets to placate the rubes, but he'll never go higher than Senator.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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That sounds like he's a man who has his own mind.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 12:40 PM (Wj/z9)

553 Seriously, we elect an outsider to the swamp, and you are shocked that he has to work within the confines of the swamp. What a crying little beyotch. Did it ever occur to you that "President Trump's consistent personnel miscalculations" might have something to do with the pool he has to choose from? He is a good man, but he is not God. Whiny little beyotches think that he came into office with a magic wand or something. What his presidency exposed, more than anything, was just how deep the swamp had crept into those who were supposed to be on our side.

Posted by: Scotty L Uhrich at July 26, 2022 12:40 PM (HqnpV)

554 Count de Monet @ 549-
That would take bawlz.

Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2022 12:40 PM (0OP+5)

555 (Nancy Pelosi, standing at the podium, flanked by Adam Schiff and some other democrat sleazeball)

"I am shocked and saddened to learn this morning that President Biden, through his son Hunter, accepted bribes from foreign sources. No one could have known or predicted this, but I have met with the President and asked him to resign effective immediately".

"Thank God the democrat caucus has supported me in this decision, as it was the only thing we could have done to promote good-government and transparency in politics."

"Of course, the public should help us expose other corruption by voting to retain our democrat members in the House and Senate."

Posted by: jwest at July 26, 2022 12:40 PM (/BlEx)

556 Post deleted by me
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter
==
Wut?

You seem kinda weird. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: my opinion at July 26, 2022 12:41 PM (ui9uc)

557 I'd start with captains, lieutenants, people from spec ops community. You know, actual soldiers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 26, 2022 11:54 AM (PY/t0)

So, Crenshaw?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (zhLdt)

Spec ops seem to me to a bit like astronauts. They are great at their jobs, but their jobs are supported by extremely high levels of taxpayer spending. So if you make them a politician they are probably going support an expansive government.

Posted by: Sjg at July 26, 2022 12:41 PM (gDSJf)

558 What YOU said!

It is my hope that Donald Trump understands this and becomes the elder statesman of a resurgent, conservative-controlled Republican party, guiding its philosophy and keeping it focused on what must be the single issue of our time: America First.

YES THIS

Posted by: Oh look! Robot Squirrel. Boing. Boom Chock. at July 26, 2022 12:43 PM (64PZ4)

559 446 So, Crenshaw?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 12:13 PM (zhLdt)

He has an eye on other things.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (89T5c)

He's pissed off too many conservatives. Impossible to patch things over now.
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 12:15 PM (VJsqe)

He's blind to how bad his reputation is now
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:19 PM (XvPQV)

Dan has regulated himself to the periphery...

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at July 26, 2022 12:46 PM (53oGX)

560 Oh and Happy Birthday to Alex The Chick!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 12:26 PM (XvPQV

Happy Birthday ! My B-Day is Saturday

Posted by: It's me donna at July 26, 2022 12:28 PM (bs+z0)

That's Odd, mine is Friday.

Posted by: Paladin at July 26, 2022 12:56 PM (KX5Wh)

561 Kudlow was a coke fiend. Laffner and Canto helped to dry him out and get him back on his feet.

Posted by: Pepper Brooks at July 26, 2022 01:12 PM (ts6Zs)

562 Agree 1000%. Trump was able to get some good stuff done, in spite of the 24/7 war against him by the Deep State, but his Achilles heel seems to be ego and personnel choices. IMHO, he'd be better as kingmaker than running again. That, and I have an issue with electing folks in their late 70s to be POTUS. We should not be a gerontocracy.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 26, 2022 01:16 PM (bx+f8)

563 Trump has become such a polarizing figure that he’s much like Hillary Clinton. Both start with about 45% hardcore support and 45% hardcore opposition. At this point, I’d prefer DeSantis.

My biggest concern is if Trump and DeSantis face off, Trump will go scorched earth to win and salt the ground for DeSantis in the future. Trump left the other 2016 primary candidates as smoking ruins. Does anyone think Beta O’Rourke could have gotten close to Cruz otherwise?

If Trump is on the ballot, he’s an easy choice, but I agree with CBD there’s a better way.

Posted by: Advo at July 26, 2022 01:24 PM (9RnX/)

564 Trump IS the WAY

After all he has done for us at such a incredible cost it amazes me that you are ungrateful cowards

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 26, 2022 01:36 PM (t4poC)

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Posted by: Sarah at July 26, 2022 01:55 PM (S7xkE)

566 Take it from a dummy, this rant is a very stupid take.

President Trump did not hire the people who staff the AFPI, he is simply going to headline - to speak - during one of their events.

The level of ignorance of those who gone on acting as if President Trump actual hired all the people who staffed the White House and Intelligence Agencies during his Presidency; and who claim he chooses all officials and staff of every Republican and conservative political committee and think tank are beyond naive and beyond ignorant.

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