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[TooOlfForThisIsh]

You just know behind the scenes these racist old *’s are just seething at the unseemliness of it all.

 

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[whywesteppin]

love the truck and what you wrote on your door. but I think you should write "white lives matter" above it in even bigger letters.

 

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[gry60]

You just know behind the scenes these racist old *’s are just seething at the unseemliness of it all.

You just gotta laugh at the ********.

 

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[AEA18]

Qanon trumpers looking for pedo politcians

 

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[dreamer23]

I'm ignorant on the topic, but is it THAT easy to get the supreme court involved..?

 

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[gry60]

Sen. Rand Paul does not show up to scheduled debate with Charles Booker in U.S. Senate race

Five weeks from Tuesday, Kentuckians will vote and decide whether to send Senator Rand Paul back to Washington or to replace him with his Democratic challenger, Charles Booker.

www.lex18.com

 

[gry60]

A GOP insider on the Republicans who knew Trump was dangerous — and went MAGA anyway

A conversation with ex-GOP operative Tim Miller about how Trumpism swallowed the Republican Party whole.

www.vox.com

Sean Illing​

Of all the characters in the book, all the operator types, some of them you know personally, some of them you don’t — which of them sticks out to you the most in terms of just like abject nihilism or cynicism?

Tim Miller​

It’s Elise for me. Elise Stefanik.

Sean Illing​

Can you say who she is?

Tim Miller​

Yeah, sure.

So just going all the way back, I worked with her on the Republican “autopsy.” People might remember, after Mitt Romney lost, we put together this document that basically had a bunch of blocking and tackling recommendations for how the party can catch up to Obama’s data nerds, but also said that we should soften our rhetoric around immigration and other issues.

Elise was the editor of that document. And I was the spokesperson at the time. So I was working with her very closely.

So Elise then runs for Congress as a very moderate Republican — climate change is a problem, gay marriage, immigration reform. You know, as moderate of a Republican as you have in Congress when she wins in 2014. 2016, she runs for reelection with Trump on the ballot, won’t say his name. Literally can’t even spit out his name.

In 2018, something happens. Trump comes to campaign in her district, huge crowd. She gets this huge applause on the stage. She starts to reassess her power trajectory. Paul Ryan, who was kind of her mentor, retires. So her little path up through the normal establishment ranks in Congress started to seem not as likely.

And she flips on a dime. And in the first impeachment becomes Trump’s most rabid defender with the most absurd defenses. She was like a foreign policy neocon Republican who would’ve been very much “arm the Ukrainians against the Russians,” flips on it, sides with Trump against Zelenskyy. And is now literally indistinguishable from a MAGA troll.

And there was no policy anything about this. I interviewed tons of mutual friends. She wouldn’t talk to me. She emailed me saying that she sees my tweets and is not interested in participating in the book. And didn’t reply to any other of my entreaties.

So to me, she is the worst because it’s just the most brazen. It also is the worst at some level because it’s paying off for her. I truly think she’ll be on a VP shortlist for Trump, ’cause he’ll want a woman if he runs in 2024. And if not that, I think she’s on a speaker of the house trajectory.

The Memo: Trump’s death wish attack on McConnell sets alarm bells ringing

Former President Trump’s penchant for violent language has bubbled to the fore again in his feud with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Trump’s latest salvo was the ominous assertion …

thehill.com

Trump’s latest salvo was the ominous assertion that McConnell must have a “DEATH WISH” merely for supporting some legislation that was backed by Democrats.

The remark, posted on the Truth Social platform Friday, has drawn some degree of condemnation beyond the ranks of liberals and Democrats.

The comment will also deepen the toxicity of a political atmosphere in which many lawmakers are already taking security measures in response to increased threats of violence.

The editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal, which are reliably conservative, condemned the “DEATH WISH” comment as “ugly even by Mr. Trump’s standards.”

Trump, the Journal’s editors wrote, “always puts himself first, and with this rhetoric, he may put others at genuine risk of harm.”

That's what fascists do: everybody is expendable, and sooner or later, even their closest allies find out as they get put in front of the firing squad.

 

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[RustyShackleford]

PAC money might put the nail in the coffin for Dems in Nevada.



GOP candidates running trash campaigns are just getting rescued with dark money

 

[Nike Jordan]

It's almost like the "pro-life" crowd never cared about being "pro-life".

 

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It's almost like the "pro-life" crowd never cared about being "pro-life".

dwalk31 surprisingly not here to comment

 

[elpablo21]

I'm just ready for the midterms to be here and be done with

 

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