Even when they get caught, they just quickly ‘return’ the money or pay smallish fines (from the campaign coffers of course).
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I believe that’s now included under “worship.”
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I was reminded of Trumans “Do nothing congress.” How can you do less than nothing?
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I predict he will go through some things:
- Diapers
- Diet Cokes
- Aspirin tablets
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These dopey shitweevils couldn’t intimidate a meadow mouse.
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Does he look like he’s from central casting? That’s what really counts.
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As Stuart Stevens said, “It was all a lie”. These pols never really believed in anything* or held any core principles. Thus, when it became clear that the MAGA movement was the new core philosophy of the GOP, they just jumped on board.
*(Other than funneling money to their wealthy donors and stifling any advances by people who were not straight White male (nominal) Christians. )
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I assume intel briefings told Johnson that the situation in Ukraine is dire. MTG’s move to vacate seemed performative. The Magats probably figured they’ve ridden this pony far enough, now step back, watch Ukraine collapse, and blame Biden for “losing Ukraine.”
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True. A good retail politician knows that you can’t win by only appealing to the base of your party, and that’s all Trump has ever done. His narcissism drives his campaign; he’s incapable of “pivoting” for a general election.
He’s just very, very lucky that the current electorate is so polarized that Republicans are willing to hold their nose and vote for him, on the basis of “anyone on our side is better than a Democrat.” He’s riding a wave of negative partisanship.
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is expected to pay his respects to Donald Trump this morning by showing up at the courthouse where the former president is on criminal trial, joining a steady line of GOP electeds who have seen it as in their own political interest to make the pilgrimage to Manhattan.
Don’t tell me, let me guess. Judge Merchan is highly conflicted and corrupt. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. His daughter is a Democrat operative. This is a Biden-ordered political prosecution of the leading candidate for president who is leading by large margins in all the battleground states according to the latest NYT/Sienna polls. Trump is being victimized by Stormy Daniels, who he never met and never stuck his unprotected 60 year old penis into momentarily, and by Michael Cohen, who barely did any work for him and is angry that he was not made Attorney General. The courtroom is a filthy New York disaster and they think by keeping the courtroom freezing cold they can inflict such mental anguish on Trump that he pulls faces and manipulate the jury into quickly convicting Trump so that they can get out of that filthy, cold, and depressing courthouse. And the gag order is a violation of Trump’s first amendment rights, and the entire New York “justice system” is a cult programmed by Biden, Ukraine, and China
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Sarcasm, it’s how we hug.
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Alternately, when they lose they can just take the cash with them.
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Sounds like Speaker Johnson drew diaper duty (dooty?) today.
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R+12
SC CD4 is Trey Gowdy’s former district.
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Cheney couldn’t help but note the irony of a devout Christian like Johnson pledging a allegiance to a man on trial for seedy hush-money coverup charges.
“Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club,” wrote Cheney. “I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
Cheney wasn’t the only prominent commentator to weigh in on Johnson’s display of fealty to Trump.
Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro also cracked a joke about a pious Christian like Johnson defending Trump’s adult film star hush-money payments.
“I prayed and the Lord said to me: ‘Modern-day Moses, go forth and support the man who paid the porn star not to reveal his adultery and then lied to the Government so as to pay less tax,’” he wrote.
“Authoritarian loyalty performance alert,” wrote historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarian political movements.
“It’s what cult members do,” commented former Trump supporter and Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL).
“A member of the Rule of Law Party is attending Trump’s criminal fraud trial today,” argued Trump biographer Tim O’Brien.
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You can distract by having all kinds of inquiries/investigations. This give Republicans a chance to flex and get TV time.
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Hit him again, Liz.
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You beat me to the punch by 1 minute!
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Fact-finding, you know.
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