Turner should screw over the twice impeached convicted felon and rapist Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson by leaving the GOP and caucusing with Democrats.
He clearly has no future in the MAGA party so why not?
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@darrtown has neighbors like that.
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Friends like that you mean. I live in central Tucson⌠well south central. My buddy who I have described lives on land west of town. His familyâs land was given to them by the King of Spain in the 1600âs. My neighbors here are mostly Mexicans with a few Anglos like me in the mix. These are multigenerational citizens and I fear there may be raids in neighborhoods like mine to look for people to deport based on the color of their skin.
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Johnson is a facile liar but this was clearly on orders from Trump â Turner himself quoted Johnson* as telling him he was fired because Mar-a-Lago had âconcernsâ â and the message to all Republicans is crystal clear: (a) if you didnât fully support Trump before you are likely screwed now and (b) doesnât matter who you are in any case because any hesitation to get in line means youâre out.
*in a phone interview with CBS reporter and âFace the Nationâ host Margaret Brennan (no link, sorry).
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This is a major fracture and will become a problem, Turner ainât the only one.
I think my squidgame coin is going up!
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Does the fat orange asshole really have to have people dragged in front of a brick wall in a back alley before people will wake the fuck up and start pushing back?
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Similar start to my American family first settled in Saugus, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the winter of 1630-31.
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My parents landed in New York aboard an immigrant ship in 1955.
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Exactly what I was thinking
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Just the other day my Congresswoman Ann Wagner posted a pix of her bending the knee down at MAL. Sheâs a Republican and has been in Congress since 2013. She really has never talked/posted that much about Trump, or what he does or says. Her post mentioned that she informed DonOLD on what her district needs, which really isnât much of anything.
Whatâs funny to me is that she was named Ambassador to Luxembourg for her work with the RNC during the Shrub administration, and yet she remains mum on DonOLDâs foreign policy positions.
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Would it help to know that on my paternal side one of my director ancestor came to the US in 1776 as a German Hessian? So I had family fighting on both sides of that conflict.
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President, former Vice President, and former Senator Joe Biden is not the richest man in the world.
But he knows more government shit and more about government operations than anyone.
Biden. World Expert.
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Speaker Johnson is just a willing lap dog. He wouldnât dare cross tRump. They fall in line. They all do or else. It wasnât Speaker Johnsonâs idea to get rid of Turner, it was an ask by tRump. Nobody is safe. Trumpâs pattern has been to escalate his âasksâ until a line is drawn which a loyalist wonât cross, and then tRump moves that loyalistâs name to his âenemies listâ
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Wow! I am always amazed at family histories - they are all so varied. I think thatâs part of what has made the US so wealthy and vibrant. We need the different viewpoints and upbringings, the cultural influences from many nations - mash all that together and new ideas can emerge in every sector of the economy and our society. Everybody has something to contribute if we just let them.
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The other thing that we found is that the reason for the first person on my maternal side that came as the British citizen, was for land. He was a minister, but didnât own any property. And the reason why my paternal great-grandfather immigrated was because he wanted to farm. But his older siblings got the land after his father died. But he also had a couple of the middle siblings already here because they too werenât going to get any land to farm.
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The laws of primogeniture. My grandfather was a furniture maker because he wasnât the eldest and didnât get the family farm. My parents immigrated because there was no housing and few jobs after WWII - they came for the opportunity to have a better life. Interestingly, in later years, my fatherâs brothers would rag on him because they had stayed put and done quite well. It never occurred to them that if close to a million Dutch people had not immigrated, the ones that stayed behind would probably not have done as well.
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My mother had a friend Nadine whose parents left Germany either before WWII or after. Nadine and her older sister, would go and visit their relatives in Germany every couple of years. First with their parents and then just the two of them. Both Nadine and her sister were born here, but they spoke German at home. Nadine used to tell stories about when she and her sister started going back to Germany they were treated like any other German citizen, but the Germans that they interacted with always thought they were from another part of Germany because of their accent.
I also remember Nadine talking about how she and her sister would go visit some of their relatives that were in East Germany. They would take an empty suitcase to Germany, and then fill it there with things that they bought in West Germany. Things the East German relatives couldnât get on their side of the wall.
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As Putin says, âOŃНиŃнО!â
Ambassador to Luxembourg is a plum gig. In some ways better than Switzerland. Low workload and most concerns the investments of rich (but not FATCA-savvy) US doctors avoiding taxes.
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