American Politics

[CheckMate1]

Yep. They really know how to govern! Just asinine. This "Senator" is a clown just like the guy called him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXp...ab_channel=CNN. What a disgrace to the institution.

As long as MAGA continues, and I think they will in the next two elections, the clowns will be front and center. Partly because they're (Republicans) too afraid of losing their seats (incumbents), or they're in a safe districts which allows them to continue with whatever the flavor of the day is with regards to "important issues". Meanwhile, they can't or don't want to govern and actually put forth legislations to help their constituents, and the nation as a whole.

Example: Putting up a bill to reduce a salary of current administration heads does nothing for her constituents, nor will it pass by the senate. It demonstrates pettiness reserved for 11 year olds.

Until spines are grown and party rejects the MAGA faction, I won't look at the party seriously, let alone consider it a viable governing option.

[Elvis 2008]

I think Axelrod is so upset because even they know they cannot pull off the size of the voter fraud needed to repeat 2020 in 2024.

The spread is just too large to cover.

And this starts at the primary level. One of the great untold political stories is how Hiliary rigged the 2016 primaries against Bernie. She then tried to do the same thing in 2016 with Trump and lost.

I was talking to someone about why the swamp likes Dems more, and the answer was not Dems are more in line with the views of the CIA and FBI. It is just that the Democratic primaries are easier to rig than Republican ones.

There was this great book by John Grisham called the Brethren. It was a light and fun read. Here is the description:

The "Brethren" are three former judges who are incarcerated at a fictional federal minimum security prison. The trio embark on a scam to deceive and exploit wealthy closeted gay men. None of them are gay, but they write convincingly as two young vulnerable gay men, developing friendships and then asking for financial help. In some cases, they also try blackmail.

Meanwhile, Teddy Maynard, the ruthless and soon-to-retire director of the CIA, is orchestrating a scheme to tip the United States presidential election in the favor of Aaron Lake, a hawkish congressman supported by arms manufacturers. However, Lake, who is closeted, is hooked by the unwitting Brethren in their scam.

End of link.

Grisham is a popular author, and it was never mentioned or controversial that the CIA was busy picking presidents, and you wonder how many times they have.

That is the thing the Dems here do not get. Why do people love Trump so much? Well maybe because we know that it is obvious the CIA did not pick him. We did.

Hell, Chuck "seven ways to Sunday" Schumer even admitted the CIA controls most the pols.

[Elvis 2008]

OK, here it is; an election stunt "is" NOT "rigging". It "is" NOT even "cheating. ".

Again, with the Clintonian defense and what the definition of what is is?

Man, you are Mr. Pretzel all over again. I think salt is not enough. I think you need to be dipped in nacho cheese.

[The Cane]

Yep. They really know how to govern! Just asinine. This "Senator" is a clown just like the guy called him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXp...ab_channel=CNN. What a disgrace to the institution.

[Spidy]

In the wake of 2023 Elections, where Americas loudly proclaim "NO, NO, NO", to QAnon/MAGA Repub extremist politics, we get the yet another bunch of Republican losers, brought to you, courtesy of the 3rd, 2024 Republican Presidential Primary Debate (Wednesday Nov 8th).

The "no policies" and "no governing", Repub party, apparently, just wants to war monger, bomb stuff and control women's bodily autonomy.

Let's RECAP, shall we:

• -Ron de Santis, "...he [Trump] should explain why he racked-up so much debt." {Hey EihTooms, it looks like Ron de Santis, agrees with you!}
  -Ron de Santis, "...he [Trump] should explain why didn't get Mexico to pay for the border wall."
  -Ron de Santis, "...he [Trump] should explain why he didn't drain the swamp?" {Yes but he did drain the swamp! It's just that it was "moderate" Repubs that were being "drained" (...kkkk!)}
  -Ron de Santis, "...he [Trump] said Repubs would get tried of "winning"...we saw last night, I'm sick of Repubs LOOSING" {I'm not, I'm rather enjoying it (...kkkk!)}

• -Nikki Haley, "...he [Trump] put us 8 trillion dollars in debt and our kids are never going to forgive us for that." {Hey EihTooms, and Nikki Haley too! (...kkkk!)}

• -Tim Scott, "...I invite Nikki Haley and Ron de Santis to join me in a nation wide 15-week abortion ban ..." What a dumb ass, did he not see, the 2023 Elections the previous night, where the Repubs LOSE BIG-TIME, on the very same 15-weeks abortion ban/limit in Virginia, in the "Youngkin Belly Flop"? Talk about tone-deaf!

• -Vivek Ramaswamy, "...we've become a Party of Losers" {(....kkkk!) couldn't have said it better myself!}
  -Vivek Ramaswamy, "Zelinski is a NAZI..." {REALLY dude...as he ignores the real Nazis and Neo-Nazi white supremacist terrorist groups, marching through Florida/America.}

• -Chris Christie, "He's shown himself to be completely self-centered, completely self-consumed," Christie said of Trump. "He doesn't give a damn about the American people." {Well better late than never to the party, Chris?}

I only caught the highlights, so feel free to interject.

Conclusion:
The Republican Presidential Candidates admit, Trump ran up the debt, to unrepresented levels. Exactly what EihTooms, has been telling the so called ISG Repub economists all along (...kkkk!)

From the highlight, I don't know if there's a real winner, but Yes, according to Vivek, who's absolutely right, the Republicans have become "...a Party of Losers" and looking more like clowns, everyday!

[Spidy]

More infighting, as Repubs clash with one another and come very close to fisticuffs! As the debt default looms large...it is indeed a Repub clown show!

'Stand your butt up': GOP senator challenges union boss to fist fight and Bernie Sanders is forced to break it up
https://www.theblaze.com/news/markwa...n-obrien-fight
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarador...ittee-meeting/

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. I was one of eight that voted him out, Burchett told reporters Tuesday morning, calling McCarthy a bully.

House GOP member accuses Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the back
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...w/71579969007/

Once again, it very much looks like, the Dems don't have to do a damn thing to bring the Repubs to heel. Just give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves, beat each other to a pulp or just simply implode!

Which would be on Brand (imploding that is), for QAnon\MAGA Repubs!

[EihTooms]

Had It not been for the drama of his 91 count Felony indictments and trials simmering in the background his venture likely would have attracted even less attention and lost more money:

Trump's Truth Social has lost $73 million since its launch

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/trum...ndroidappshare

Truth Social, the brain child of former President Donald Trump, is hemorrhaging cash.

The alternative social media platform has lost $73 million in the less than two years since it launched, according to a new filing from Digital World Acquisition Corporation, or DWAC, the special purpose acquisition company aiming to take Trump Media and Technology Group, or TMTG, public.

As ChristoFacist Mike Johnson will tell you with a pious smile, that's because "Trump's policies WORKED"!

[EihTooms]

ChristoFacist Mike Johnson endorsed Trump on CNBC's Squawk Box and you will probably only see and read only some of what he said in the printed reports of it.

This important tidbit from the Squeaker of the Pink Tinkle Repub House Majority on his reasons to endorse him is not generally included in those printed quotes. You have to actually watch the video clip to hear him say this astonishingly ignorant and / or stupid thing about the very recent history of the USA economy and Trump's participation or not in it:

"Those first two years, as you all know, we brought about the best economic numbers in the history of the WORLD, not just the country, because his (Trump's) policies WORKED"!

Watch the video here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/spea...ndroidappshare

Uh.

1. It is not clear when ChristoFacist Mike already endorsed Trump before this announcement as he claimed here. Publicly, that is. So it is likely he committed a Mortal Sin by his standards by lying about that.

2. Trump did not have ANY of his policies in place for the entirety of his first year in office. He played golf and thought up insulting nicknames for his critics. That's it. Otherwise, he simply coasted on the remarkably positive economic trajectory handed to him by the Obama-Biden Administration.

3. His one and only economic legislation prior to the emergency relief legislation he had to rush into the system before the 2020 election due to his historically disastrous numbers his historically disastrous policies and stewardship produced in his last year in office wasn't even signed and passed until the last business day of his first year in office and that one was projected by the CBO to add at least $1. 5 Trillion to the deficit every 10 years into infinity and was producing fewer jobs with it than without it.

4. Trump's so-called presidency last 4 miserable years, not just two years including that first year where he was only coasting on what he inherited and not passing any economic legislation. Why doesn't ChristoFacist Mike and every other Trump policy defenders mention the end result of all four years of his wonderful policies and stewardship? Lolol. You know, the numbers President Biden inherited from Trump thanks to Trump's terrific economic and national security decisions in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

5. Naturally, the typically pro Repub Mainstream Media hacks on that show didn't bother to challenge ChristoFacist Mike on his ridiculous assessment of Donald Trump's true and verifiable policy and stewardship numbers for his entire 4 year term. And that show is supposed to be all about economic and financial matters! LOL.

6. If you can stomach watching and listening to ChristoFacist Mike for the full 6 minute clip, you should see flashing red warning signs that the house of Congress charged with holding the purse strings is headed by such a pathetic simpleton regarding the economy and easily available economic data.

[EihTooms]

Yeah, you did.

Well, if you pull out the Clintonian defense, what is your definition of is, I guess you could claim that pulling a stunt and rigging are different, but IMO they are the same. You are saying people voted for Trump not because they liked him but that they were manipulated.

Back to Obama now? Man, it is hard being a Democrat these days and keeping the narratives straight. Tooms, you have twisted yourself into so much of a pretzel you need salt.

It was so much easier in 2012 when the Dems won without cheating. It reminds me of the end of Shane, "Barack, come back. ".

BTW, it is Trump who has Barack Obama on his mind so much he thinks Obama is still POTUS. Did you not understand what happened and who called who "Obama" and not "Biden" multiple times?

My God, virtually every campaign ad is designed to "manipulate" the audience into voting a certain way.

"rigging" would at least require some deception or lies. The Repub FBI Director didn't lie to give his beloved fellow Repub a last minute boost. He just pulled a last minute political stunt contrary to the standard protocol of the situation.

Nobody has accused his political opponents of "rigging" an election more than Donald Trump. Do you think he has only meant his opponents were "manipulating" voters into believing he is not fit for office? I'm quite sure he meant illegally tampering with the votes. Ask Fux why they had to jump on a $787 Millon settlement and fire Carlson because they knowingly repeated Trump's lies about what he meant about "rigging" the election.

[EihTooms]

Yeah, you did.

Well, if you pull out the Clintonian defense, what is your definition of is, I guess you could claim that pulling a stunt and rigging are different, but IMO they are the same. You are saying people voted for Trump not because they liked him but that they were manipulated.

Back to Obama now? Man, it is hard being a Democrat these days and keeping the narratives straight. Tooms, you have twisted yourself into so much of a pretzel you need salt.

It was so much easier in 2012 when the Dems won without cheating. It reminds me of the end of Shane, "Barack, come back. ".

OK, here it is; an election stunt "is" NOT "rigging". It "is" NOT even "cheating. ".

When someone begins the sentence with, "Who needs rigging when", then follows it with an example of something that "is" NOT rigging but merely a break in protocol in order to give his side a last minute advantage, that "is" NOT asserting that something was "rigged" by them. Election season stunts are commonplace.

By contrast, the Electoral College system "is" NOT a "stunt". It "is" a system rigged to favor a candidate who the American electorate would rather not be POTUS as sometimes evidenced in their votes. As was the case for the Repub candidate in 7 of the 8 most recent presidential elections.

So you believe as Trump does that Obama is the current POTUS, that Trump was busy being potus during 2021, that Trump's guidance will avert WWII, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, etc, etc and all those other loony lies or astonishingly stupid assertions Trump has made lately? I mean, without even twisting yourself into a pretzel you agree with Trump on those loony conclusions?

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Yeah, you did.

Well, if you pull out the Clintonian defense, what is your definition of is, I guess you could claim that pulling a stunt and rigging are different, but IMO they are the same. You are saying people voted for Trump not because they liked him but that they were manipulated.

Back to Obama now? Man, it is hard being a Democrat these days and keeping the narratives straight. Tooms, you have twisted yourself into so much of a pretzel you need salt.

It was so much easier in 2012 when the Dems won without cheating. It reminds me of the end of Shane, "Barack, come back. ". ".

https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/b...gn=android_nyp

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...ying-ceremony/

I think Axelrod is so upset because even they know they cannot pull off the size of the voter fraud needed to repeat 2020 in 2024.

The spread is just too large to cover.

[Elvis 2008]

Hmm. We'll, of course, I didn't say the Repub Director of the FBI "rigged" the 2016 election for his beloved fellow Repub Trump, did I?

Yeah, you did.

Actually, what I said was quite contrary to the idea that anyone needed to "rig" it for him.

Well, if you pull out the Clintonian defense, what is your definition of is, I guess you could claim that pulling a stunt and rigging are different, but IMO they are the same. You are saying people voted for Trump not because they liked him but that they were manipulated.

Maybe we should do a quick check up; like Trump, do you also believe Barack Obama is the current President

Back to Obama now? Man, it is hard being a Democrat these days and keeping the narratives straight. Tooms, you have twisted yourself into so much of a pretzel you need salt.

It was so much easier in 2012 when the Dems won without cheating. It reminds me of the end of Shane, "Barack, come back. ".

[EihTooms]

if Obama is really the current POTUS pulling the strings and making the decisions for Joe Biden, how does a 15 years younger than Trump, highly accomplished half African- American fit the $Billion of free Trump Campaign donations from Mainstream Media harping on Joe Biden's age and reduced support in the polls from African-Americans?

Well, anyway, that seems like the logical followup question Brian could and should have asked Trump when he gave him that lame excuse for why he keeps referring to Biden as Obama.

Oh, and what about the part where Trump thinks he was busy being potus all through 2021, that thingy about WWII, etc, etc, etc.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/11/l...rian-kilmeades

[EihTooms]

So 2016 election was rigged by the FBI and the 2020 election was the most secure in history? I feel so much better now.

Hmm. We'll, of course, I didn't say the Repub Director of the FBI "rigged" the 2016 election for his beloved fellow Repub Trump, did I? Actually, what I said was quite contrary to the idea that anyone needed to "rig" it for him.

Maybe we should do a quick check up; like Trump, do you also believe Barack Obama is the current President, that Trump defeated GW Bush in some election somewhere at some point, that Trump was busy being president all through 2021, that he kept us out of WWII, that we and the rest of the world had the best economy in history in 2020 and so on?

[EihTooms]

Trump is now in full agreement with fellow wannabe authoritarian dictator Viktor Orban, "the head of Turkey, Hungary" or whatever that President Obama should resign and they should "replace" him with Trump so he can make the world trouble-free and safe again like it was in 2020 when Trump's Pandemic gave all of us the "best economy in history" and apparently bothered no one because, you know, China "feared" him:

https://youtu.be/2_TUTI4wMvs?si=8KuYbnZ_ub5ALNT9

Cue the typically pro Repub Mainstream Media to largely ignore this latest in an almost 9 year endless series of confused, incoherent blathering by Trump demonstrating his dangerously serious cognitive impairment, for which there is no Joe Biden counterpart, none, and continue to mention Biden's age twice as often and they mention Trump's. LOL.