Discussion: Flake Says GOP Can't Stand By Trump After Comments On Jailing Clinton

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damn. that’s how insane this friggin campaign is – i have to give props to jeff flake.

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Note to Jeff …

Apply BB-que sauce liberally BEFORE going to the picnic ----

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I don’t believe him, unless he changes parties. Otherwise it’s AZ hot air.

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“That is not who we are.”

Senator, this ain’t no ‘noble Republican’ episode of The West Wing. This is your Republican Party, and It. Is. Who. You. Are.

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I know lots of people here don’t like Flake, but at least he will call his party out and is one of the very few Republicans to appear on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. So give him a few kudos at least.

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To be honest, Jeff is one of the most sane Republican politicians out there.

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Remember how, right after the Republic convention where the crowd was yelling “Lock her up” as they were egged-on by speaker after speaker, and remember how all those Republican politicians came out and said that it’s un-democratic to suggest that and that there is not even enough evidence to go there and it’s un-American to boot?

Yeah, I thought so.

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Republican Senator doesn’t understand that 75% of Republican base are Conservative Authoritarians who would hate the Constitution if they’d ever read or understood it, and think due process should be for white conservatives only.

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If so, then he ought to be sane enough to realize the GOP has cultivated its base to be angry, divisive, fearful, and bigoted since the Nixon years.

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I seem to remember you being a staunch Trumpian defender - what changed?

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TRUMP (privately on open mic): I’m just attracted to other people’s money. I can set up an entirely fake university, defraud rubes out of millions of dollars; if you’re a real estate tycoon you can do anything you want. I just start stealing their money; I don’t even wait. Grab 'em by the wallet. Then I pay off any AG with campaign contributions and never get sued or indicted.

TRUMP (after tape airs): It’s just entrepreneurial, board room talk.

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Well Jeff has the courage to stand up since he isn’t running for reelection, but what is record on other travesties that the R Party has pulled, like oh IDK holding hearings for Garland?

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The sanest patient in the asylum is still insane enough to be in an asylum.

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Senator, it’s not who we are to cripple the court system either, but here you are.

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Made me remember this one:

“Flakes”

Flakes! Flakes!
Flakes! Flakes!

They don’t do no good
They never be workin’
When they oughta should
They waste your time
They’re wastin’ mine
California’s got the most of them
Boy, they got a host of them
Swear t’God they got the most
At every business on the coast
Swear t’God they got the most
At every business on the coast
They got the Flakes

Flakes! Flakes!

They can’t fix yer brakes
You ask ‘em, “Where’s my motor?”
"Well it was eaten by snakes . . ."
You can stab ‘n’ shoot ‘n’ spit
But they won’t be fixin’ it
They’re lyin’ an’ lazy
They can be drivin’ you crazy
Swear t’God they got the most
At every business on the coast
Swear t’God they got the most
At every business on the coast
(Take it away, Bob. . .)

I asked as nice as I could
If my job would
Somehow be finished by Friday
Well, the whole damn weekend
Came ‘n’ went, Frankie
(Wanna buy some mandies, Bob?)
‘N’they didn’t do nothin’
But they charged me double for Sunday
You know, no matter what you do
They gonna cheat ‘n’ rob you
Then they’ll send you a bill
That’ll get your senses reelin’
And if you do not pay
They got computer collectors
That’ll get you so crazy
‘Til your head’ll go through th’ ceilin’
Yes it will!

I’m a moron ‘n’ this is my wife
She’s frosting a cake
With a paper knife
All what we got here’s
American made
It’s a little bit cheesey,
But it’s nicely displayed
Well we don’t get excited when it
Crumbles ‘n’ breaks
We just get on the phone
And call up some Flakes
They rush on over
‘N’ wreck it some more
‘N’ we are so dumb
They’re linin’ up at our door
Well, the toilet went crazy
Yesterday afternoon
The plumber he says
“Never flush a tampoon!”
This great information
Cost me half a week’s pay
And the toilet blew up
Later on the next day ay-eee-ay
Blew up the next day WOO-OOO

We are millions ‘n’ millions
We’re coming to get you
We’re protected by unions
So don’t let it upset you
Can’t escape the conclusion
It’s probably God’s Will
That civilization
Will grind to a standstill
And we are the people
Who will make it all happen
While yer children is sleepin’,
Yer puppy is crappin’
You might call us Flakes
Or something else you might coin us
But we know you’re so greedy
That you’ll probably join us
We’re comin’ to get you, we’re comin’ to get you
We’re comin’ to get you, we’re comin’ to get you
We’re comin’ to get you, we’re comin’ to get you
We’re comin’ to get you, we’re comin’ to get you

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If he was running for reelection, I’m sure he would have a different take on it.

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I think you have hit on something. Get this to SNL so Alec Baldwin can throw this out there.

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“Republicans should not be Ok with Donald Trump threatening to jail his
opponent after the election,” Flake said. “That is not who we are.”

No, you’re the party that has tried for years to jail her before the election. After she is elected, any estimates on the number of sham investigations and talks of impeachment? You ain’t foolin’ anybody.

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“That is not who we are.”

Oh don’t be ridiculous Flake–that’s exactly what the Republican party is!

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