They don’t… it’s the rich keeping it close for ratings as well as to put Joe on notice that they can toss the election, and will, if the words “wealth tax” part Joe’s lips.
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Lindsay Graham never misses an opportunity to consolidate his position as least relevant office holder with yet another mindless public statement.
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“Christina Pushaw, who now runs his campaign’s rapid response team”
I first read that as rabid response team… maybe that’s more accurate anyway.
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Even absent from the debate, he will be the center of attention. The national media can’t quit him.
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Graham means that as an indictment of the DC jury pool. I read it as an acknowledgement that all Republicans in DC are guilty of something, the only question being is it a minor misdemeanor or major felony.
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Go hard to the fringe in the primary and tack back to the middle for the general has been the classic paybook for generations. If the Republicans go any harder to the fringe they are going to appeal only to neo nazis, anti-vaxers and people who are dropping off the grid because they hate their neighbors, all of them.
DeSantis has discovered something Trump has known forever. The racist ladies in the white evangelical Christian movement are still pretending to care about people including blacks and gays as long as they don’t have to bake them cookies. Even some of the ministers in that same white evangelical Christian movement think open racism and miscogyny isn’t a good look for the collection plate. That is what has happened to DeSantis.
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How many indictments are enough?
How many despicable comments are enough?
How many arrests are enough
I mean… what does it take to show how unfit trump is for any elective office?
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Ummm, it will be a highly manipulated election with a huge advanatage built in for the Rs which they do not deserve and haven’t, in total, anywhere near the voting numbers needed. Ditto for small-donor money support. The amount of dark money on The Right will be staggering, but mostly unseen and unreported.
Whatever ‘24 is, it won’t be a "fair’ verdict on the Rule of Law. If we win it, it will have been done over huge obstacles and outsized influence from the Rule of Law opponents.
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I agree, completely. Once again, I’ve mentally depended on this quote (I came across it in Ron Chernow’s book Grant) too many times recently, but I hope it still holds and feel it is appropriate. President Lincoln’s Secretary of State Seward once told him before Lincoln’s second election, which too appeared touch and go during the end of the Civil War, “that there was always just enough virtue in the republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency”.
The second part of my response to to point out that we have real intelligent adults in the President’s Office. They can, and do, multitask. They also realize that it is too early to start campaigning - that time will come, and the polls will move as a consequence. They will bring out their successes and show how real leadership deals with issues. There will be mistakes and they will take hits, but it will be because they are doing the right thing and will stay the course. This will infuriate FOX and other controlled networks, but it will work. The noise may appear deafening at times as that is the Republican’s only response right now, but I recall Seward’s quote and work to make it so. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
Trump’s control over the Republican Party will make a fascinating retrospective analysis in the near future, and hopefully will cause the Republican’s to split between rational (minority) and non-rational camps (I can wish, can’t I? As long as I don’t count on it, I think that’s OK).
Trump wants to make it appear that his victory is inevitable. That’s all he’s got. So let’s bury him in honest trials, recount his corruption and illegal acts, and force the voters to ask themselves if this is really what they want. Trump’s actions were/are not in the best interests of this country. That will come out shortly. Let the legal issues play out, and then let’s all disseminate the truth.
Hang in there - we’ve got a long way to go. But I don’t think it’s looking good for Trump. Let’s work to make people think about reality by framing, with facts, the real situation.
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“I’ll be a pro-life president and I’ll come down on the side of life.”
– Ron DeSantis, 2023
“Oh, and Big Oil.”
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There’s always his Truths, and other will tweet his Truths. Or would that be excrete his Truths for all to see.
No, she won’t put on the jacket - it’s far too hot outside for that. She will probably be wearing her I Don’t Care tube top.
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When I was growing up in SoCal. There was a pizza parlour, Shakey’s. They had a sign on the wall:
“Shakey’s made a deal with the bank. The Bank doesn’t make pizza and Shakey’s doesn’t cash checks.”
(They made very good Pizza as I recall, but perhaps I’d had a lot of beer by the time the order came out.)
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For the major donors, I think it’s probably more “wait and see” than sitting it out, because nobody knows the impact of indictments on the primary. Right now it’s boosting Trump’s polling numbers but that could change by the time the primary elections begin next January.
The big donors will eventually support whoever the winner is, even if it’s Trump. They want Biden out of office. They don’t care who the GOP candidate is.
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The media are learning what every heroin addict knows all too well
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Christian Scientist medical insurance, where the devil is in the details.
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“I’ll be a pro-life President, and I’ll come down on you leading the life of the gender God intended, when it was noted on your birth certificate.”
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That was the ONE worthwhile lesson they could have learned from Trump, even if he himself didn’t learn it:
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