Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said on Sunday that he thinks former President Donald Trump should drop out of the 2024 GOP presidential race.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1466639
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1466639
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Can we call him Donald Dick?
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Seems appropriate to share this again.
Seen along the road in rural Arizona yesterday.
Some folk seem to be catching on.
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My threshold issue for someone to be the leader of my country is whether or not that person has actively sought to destroy my country.
Watching the GOP-slanted Sunday shows confirms that destroying my country is a growth business.
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Win stupid prizes.
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what he described as “almost a slam dunk” charges that Trump is facing in Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
The only reason to say, “almost a slam dunk.”
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Cassidy is from Louisiana. He must feel secure in his position to make this move. He’s too savvy not to know the futility of his words and the backlash that awaits him.
Hmmn.
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Saw this posted on a right wing site. Almost dropped my teeth
Trump had a successful Presidency marked with significant achievements. A united GOP would rally around Trump in 2024. Why haven’t they?
I’ll give you the answers. But will you be like most Trump supporters, and just ignore them outright, and choose to attack me instead? Maybe, or maybe not, since you seem to be one of the more logical ones here.
First, those achievements you mentioned while Trump was President, were not solely due to Trump. Looking back, his biggest achievement is either the tax cut, or the 3 new members of the USSC. On the tax cut, it was more Paul Ryan and Congress’s doing than Trump. Doesn’t mean I’m a supporter of Ryan, because I’m not. But his staff and other Republicans wrote that Bill, all Trump did was sign it. On the USSC appointments, any honest person knows that McConnell played a major part in that. Doesn’t mean I’m a supporter of McConnell, but Trump always wants to blame all his horrible appointments on who Mitch would allow in the Senate, but then act like Trump alone did it for the USSC appointees.
So it takes a team to accomplish things, but Trump just wants to hog all the glory for himself, when the facts don’t bear that out. At some point, the rest of the team gets sick of it, just like a football team starts allowing sacks for their selfish, mouthy, egotistical quarterback who screams at them for the tiniest mistake. At some point they leave their own teammate out to dry, to show him he can’t do it alone, and that we are supposed to be a team, not a one man show. But Trump refuses to ever be a team player, and just keeps leading the party off of one cliff after another. Eventually, you get to the point you just start letting that person go off the cliff by themselves. A point where 40 of 44 cabinet members no longer support you, and almost 0 out of 49 in the Senate.
But it didn’t start out this bad, even though you tried to claim it. Trump and his supporters want to blame Congress for them not funding his wall. But it was Trump who promised to have a plan for Mexico to pay for it! Yet he never once offered a single idea on how to do that. That’s Congress’s fault? Of course not, that’s Trump’s fault, he’s the one who promised Mexico would pay for it, not Congress.
Republicans could have CONVICTED him of impeachment, twice, if they were as against him as Trump supporters believe. The second time, for J6, they had to really withhold themselves, because most every one of them was completely furious at Trump for what he had just done. Every single Senator told him not to have that “rally,” even the ones who were going to speak in his favor that day. They knew there was nothing good that would come of it, it was a disaster waiting to happen, and that ALL Republicans would be perpetually smeared for his idiotic decision to go ahead. I’m surprised they didn’t convict him to be honest, but McConnell controlled the votes and said the vote is now officially over, and Trump is on the way out anyway, so we will spare him.
But if they really despised him the way you describe, it would have been the perfect opportunity to really stick it to him. But they didn’t. They showed mercy. Trump supporters should recognize this, and understand Republicans lack of patience, or willingness to ever trust Trump again, is because he can’t be trusted. He’ll ignore what every single one of them says, and have another J6 like screw up in a moments notice. And even when they try to be nice to him, like having mercy on his second impeachment, neither Trump or his supporters will recognize it, much less appreciate it.
So that’s why they’re not rallying around him. Trump is just a time bomb, waiting to go off again, and his supporters enable his deepest darkest desires by treating as if he’s some sort of deity, incapable of fault, no matter how obscene the situation is. Stand back, is the smart play. Else you just blow yourself up again
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GOP Senator Cassidy, in a lucid moment: "You’re just asking my opinion, but he [Trump] will lose to Joe Biden if you look at the current polls.”
He may be institutionalized for his moment of clarity, in today’s GOP.
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he described as “almost a slam dunk” charges that Trump is facing in Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
I think he’s discounting the affect of the shart cannon on the documents case. Sure, it’s a slam dunk but she’s determined to let her idol walk. Li’l donnie has a much better chance of conviction in the J6 where the judge isn’t stting on the scales of justice.
“If it’s a match-up between Biden and Trump, I know exactly where I’d go. I would go with Joe Manchin,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
She seems comfortable enough with manchin’s support of republican ‘values’ though her statement probably just means she’d rather throw her vote away than give it to the orange abomination.
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Comrade Cassidy says Chairman Mao Ze-Trump should step down…but he will still vote for him to get back in office.
Spoken like a true Communist, er, Republican Apparatchik
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Cassidy’s opposition to Trump, such as it is, is founded on the idea that Trump won’t starve grannie and the kids enough.
“My threshold issue for any person who wants to be the leader of our country is ‘Will you take care of the issue before us?’” Cassidy said. “Both Biden and Trump have the same policy on social security, which is to do nothing.”
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So DFG should drop out, not because he is wholly unfit and unqualified to be president, but because he will lose the election.
The pretty much sums up the R party.
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Sort of sounds like the Republican senators noticed how Trump treats his lawyer’s advice. He doesn’t listen, he supports anyone who supports him as long that person supports him unconditionally.
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America: “Are we there yet?”
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It’s where all of Trump’s stolen classified documents will end up.
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There’s supposed to be a debate in a couple days. One candidate has been busted for election meddling in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. He hasta turn himself in to be arraigned on multiple felony charges related to his meddling (13 for this indictment). And he’s the one bitching and whining that others are interferring. So trump’s reaction is to skip the debate cuz reasons.
The shittier the candidate, the happier republicans are to support him. It seems necessary for a candidate, among the republicans, to be indicted and arrested multiple times and have a rap sheet as long as yer arm. Then yer acceptable.
And this was the party of law & order at one time.
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Trump and Bush Jr. are two of the worst presidents in modern times. Bush took a projected trillion dollar budget surplus and eight years of peace and prosperity inherited from Clinton and gave us trillion dollar deficits and an illegal war, and then left in the middle of the worst financial and economic collapse since the Depression.
Trump inherited the longest economic recovery from Obama, antagonized our allies with divisiveness and trade wars, and left us in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century.
Under Trump we:
Withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, intrigued with their regional rivals and with Israel, and assassinated a top Iranian government official which has prompted Iran to resume enriching uranium and fueled a new arms race in the region;
Withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership, which has decimated our export markets, prompted a wave of farm bankruptcies as a result of punishing tariffs, and left us without a framework to renew strained ties with military and trade partners at a time of increasing aggression by China, and
Discontinued a vital Obama public health initiative that monitored conditions in China in an effort to prevent an outbreak of infectious disease, and then downplayed the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic that has since killed over 1,000,000 Americans.
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