American Politics

[EihTooms]

Trump and his GOP are the most dangerous threat to America, by far:

Tom Emmer drops out of contention for House speaker, hours after winning GOP nomination.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/24/hous...ndroidappshare

Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota ended his bid for House speaker just hours after securing the nomination.

Emmers nomination quickly ran into trouble with dozens of Republican lawmakers and former President Donald Trump opposing him.

Emmer is the third GOP nominee for speaker whose candidacy has failed in recent weeks.
......
Emmers nomination suffered a serious blow Tuesday afternoon when former President Donald Trump derided him as a globalist and not a true Republican.

See, as confirmed by the most beloved, iconic, perfect Republican Party Leader of All Time, Donald J. Trump, a "true Republican" does not merely spread and repeat lies about the outcome of a repeatedly proven free and fair democratic American election, he must also vote against the confirmation of the outcome of a repeatedly proven free and fair democratic American election.

Any doubts about the mindset, philosophy and obvious anti-democratic domestic and geopolitical agenda of the Repub Party that, overall, is inevitably elevated, strengthened and electorally advantaged by every Bothsider / Neithersider argument, every third party vote, every potential Dem voter who takes a pass on voting, every voter who does not vote Dem straight down their ballot in every election and, naturally, every direct vote for a Repub out there?

If so, you might need to have your own cognitive capabilites and mental acuity tested ASAP.

[Spidy]

False, at least for 2020. I don't know about 1960. Biden got 74 more electoral votes and 7 million more popular votes. Please use common sense. It would have required massive voting fraud on the part of Democrats in multiple states to have pulled that off. Many would have been caught, prosecuted and convicted if they participated in that. And what kind of idiot would risk going to jail to help elect Joe Biden? Take a look at the Heritage database of election faud.

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

Definite Republican Hallmark moment right there folks. My heart is warmed to see a "good Republican", FACT teaching moment.

Perhaps MDS1, will soon have his, Sidney "Kracken Lady" Powell, John "Cheese Puff" Chesebro, and Jenna "Kracken-Karen' sidekick Princess" Ellis, coming to Jesus, moment...one can only live in HOPE!

The last time I looked at it, yes, the majority of the egregious violations, where I could identify the party of the violator, were committed by Democrats. But they were doing it to help themselves or their buddies in local election. They weren't doing it for Joe Biden.

For a minute there, I was thinking you might make the "Good Republicans of the week list (GROTWL)", and then you blew it with this statement....oh well!

BTW, how did you figure that? Is there a breakdown of Dem vs. Repub who make these infractions? If by state, then REDs definitely have more infractions, at a brief glance?

[Spidy]

Jenna Ellis, pleads GUILTY!

Full 23 minute plea: District Attorney of Fulton County, entire hearing of MAGA lawyer pleading guilty with deep remorse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l4vxkZUyRM

In her statement of allocution, she sheds a few "crocodile tears", as the MAGA lackey, lapdog princess and MAGA "flunky" lawyer, Jenna Ellis, pleads a tearfully, "GUILTY".

"As an attorney who is also a Christian, I take my responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously, and I endeavor to be a person of sound moral and ethical and character in all of my dealings...blah, blah, blah" {Translation: now that I'm caught, I better do the good Christian thing and 'CONFESS' }

Here is Jenna Ellis's bullshit tears and "come to Jesus moment":
https://youtu.be/2l4vxkZUyRM?t=890

With all that blubbering at confession, she sounds like "a Christian Right priest, caught with his pants down having committed unsavory acts and confessing, at a diocese sexual abuse herring".

Yet, I have hope for the beleaguered princess. She just might make the "Good Republicans of the week" list...stay tuned!

[Tiny 12]

"Trump and his merry band of election-denying RINOS can't control the Presidency, House or Senate on their own. They're only 1/3rd of the voting population. You cast people like me into the wilderness and you're looking at one party rule at the federal level. By increasingly progressive Democrats. It won't be a pretty picture.

Mitt Romney kicks ass, except he's a neocon. So does Jeff Flake. Justin Amash kicks double ass. Donald Trump should be kicked the hell out of the Republican Party. I liked some of his policies a lot, and I've given him credit for them, here and elsewhere. But he tried to overturn over 200 years of American democracy. ".

They did it in 1960 and 2020 both Catholic Democrats.

False, at least for 2020. I don't know about 1960. Biden got 74 more electoral votes and 7 million more popular votes. Please use common sense. It would have required massive voting fraud on the part of Democrats in multiple states to have pulled that off. Many would have been caught, prosecuted and convicted if they participated in that. And what kind of idiot would risk going to jail to help elect Joe Biden? Take a look at the Heritage database of election faud.

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

The last time I looked at it, yes, the majority of the egregious violations, where I could identify the party of the violator, were committed by Democrats. But they were doing it to help themselves or their buddies in local election. They weren't doing it for Joe Biden.

You're in favor of that.

False.

Mitt Romney licks HIV dripping ass.

So does Jeff Flake.

Justin Amash loves sticking his tongue in and out sooper sooper deep.

Probably false. Links please?

they are anti American like you and ET.

False.

So the American people booted them out like they did ET, you're next bro.

False. Nobody booted Tooms. Nobody's going to boot me. If I leave, it will be of my own accord, because America became a one party state at the federal level, dominated by Democrats. Trump and his enablers are doing their best to make this happen.

You are anti democracy, if you are a Libertarian you are anti American people.

False. The majority of the founders of the USA were libertarian in outlook. Anti-libertarians are the way they are because they suck from the government tit and / or want government to tell people what they can and can't do in their private lives. Anti-libertarians support criminalization of prostitution.

You prefer oligarchs select the president.

False.

You only say he tried? Bullshit.

Thats projection, plain and simple and you know it.

Incomprehensible.

You want to set up the same line of Democratic lies for Nov 2024.

Because you don't like Trumps anti slave labor policies.

So you don't want him to win a 3rd time.

False. And ridiculous. I'm better off under a Trump presidency than a Biden presidency, especially if Democrats control the House and Senate. I have no problem with decent minimum wages provided they're set by states and cities instead of the federal government. Trump has hired undocumented workers and paid them slave wages.

You're going to try to overthrow democracy again.

I'm going to try to overthrow democracy? By doing what? Voting for a libertarian? False and doubly ridiculous. Please direct your vitriol at politicians and others who actually have some kind of influence.

Where was democracy in 1960?

Every liberal Professor I ever had conceded Kennedy cheated.

Possibly True. I don't know enough to really comment. I do know the election was close, and think Richard Daley, and possibly George Parr and others cheated on Kennedy's behalf.

Every one knows they cheated Trump and the American people.

False.

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendm...ore-shot-dead/

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Oh, so Biden and the Dems DIDN'T legalize murder or robbery or shoplifting after all and are actually trying to prevent and arrest criminals in the crazy neighborhood you choose to live in.

Shh. Don't tell Bill Maher about this. He won't have anything to talk about on his weekly Republican Campaign Rally except Joe Biden's age and how apparently Biden and the "lib / Dems" overreacted to the threat of Trump's Pandemic and forced him and everyone else to get vaccinated, which, of course, they didn't do either. LOL. ".

I believe more of the black vote will go for Our Lord and Savior or they will stay home.

Blacks are getting pissed with all the illegal aliens being pumped in to replace them.

We have DACA teachers stealing jobs from the teachers unions.

https://www.police1.com/police-recru...S1dEkK3Ax5lYP/

Wait until they take the post office jobs.

They are already taking many of the public transportation jobs.

The black mayors are building concentration camps in Chicago and NYC w / tent cities for all the illegal aliens that have been brought to replace / displace them.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...ant-tent-site/

Its about to get mighty damn cold here!

[Spidy]

At one point just last week more than 200 House Republicans voted for an anti-American, America-hating Insurrectionist to be Speaker of the House, 2nd in line for the President of the United States of America.

No Repub can be trusted to be Speaker of the House of Representatives. There aren't even 6 Repubs in the entire House who would rather vote for Hakeem Jefferies to actually get positive things done for America and our allies against authotitarian / dictator rule and Global Terrorist attacks than a Trumpian Cultist who is 100% in favor of overthrowing democracies at home and abroad as is their Trump Cult lord and savior leader.

Yes, it would actually be better for America to have no Speaker of the House if it is going to be a Repub and let Joe Biden make all House decisions by Executive Order along with the Senate Dems backing it up and let it sit in the blithering Repub-controlled SCOTUS for a ruling on it while America is at least not driven directly to total economic and National Security destruction with Repubs controlling anything, much less the House of Representatives.

Besides, so what if some relatively "normal" seeming Repub is put in place as Speaker of the House thanks to a few Dem votes? Then what? Within 10 minutes either Matt Getzakidpregnant, Marjorie Taylor Greenjewishlazerbeams or some other Repub Loon will stand up, challenge it and throw him out unless he does commit himself to the singular Trump Cult mission of destroying America and glorifying, emboldening and empowering anti-America authoritarian dictatorships around the world.

I think Republican convicts who rat on their fellow inmates, last longer than 10 minutes.

[Spidy]

How about the 77 year old offspring of an Orangutan?

And we know that by every measure Biden is a smarter, better informed, better prepared, more lucid, more cognitively capable and competent and a better POTUS than the 77 year old offspring of Orangutans former so-called potus.

I would give the 77 yr old guy on the right, a slight edge in the looks department. Just a slight one (...given the better hair styling)!

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Oh, so Biden and the Dems DIDN'T legalize murder or robbery or shoplifting after all and are actually trying to prevent and arrest criminals in the crazy neighborhood you choose to live in.

Shh. Don't tell Bill Maher about this. He won't have anything to talk about on his weekly Republican Campaign Rally except Joe Biden's age and how apparently Biden and the "lib / Dems" overreacted to the threat of Trump's Pandemic and forced him and everyone else to get vaccinated, which, of course, they didn't do either. LOL. ".

https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/...ins-mayor-race

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-justice.html

They can chase whitey out, white flight is kicking into high gear.

They can destroy Chicago like they did Detroit and so many other great cities.

Biden cucks for Soros.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-house-so-far/

Biden only sends border patrol because they are bored and there is an election coming up.

Murder and mayhem in every corner of the nation make for bad optics.

They say Biden won by only 44000 votes, less than a back pack full.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/94068...the-presidency

I'm guessing they have many more on standby.

If Trump wins a 3rd time they can still stuff the ballot boxes in black cities in swing states and we have a repeat of 2020.

I call for Civil War Part 2.

I sure hope so.

The red team has all the guns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...arm-ownership/

I pray to God its much bloodier than the 1st one.

[EihTooms]

"Trump and his merry band of election-denying RINOS can't control the Presidency, House or Senate on their own. They're only 1/3rd of the voting population. You cast people like me into the wilderness and you're looking at one party rule at the federal level. By increasingly progressive Democrats. It won't be a pretty picture.

Mitt Romney kicks ass, except he's a neocon. So does Jeff Flake. Justin Amash kicks double ass. Donald Trump should be kicked the hell out of the Republican Party. I liked some of his policies a lot, and I've given him credit for them, here and elsewhere. But he tried to overturn over 200 years of American democracy. ".

Then you had a lot of ignorant boobs for professors. Which shouldn't surprise anyone. That bit about poor widdle Tricky Dicky being cheated out of the opportunity to start his Failed, Humiliating and Crooked Presidential Term in 1961 instead of 1969 has been roundly debunked for decades.

Meanwhile, you can relax about whether or not your beloved Repubs have been given enough chances to destroy the very concept of America and democracy.

They have.

At this point no sane, intelligent democratic ally of America would dare engage in a meaningful economic / peace treaty or agreement with America since your beloved Repubs have made it abundantly clear that due to the probable fatal circumstances of the pro Repub-rigged Electoral College system, extreme gerrymandering House districts, the existence of POTUS term limits and that each state gets 2 Senators regardless of its population, there is a very good chance that every 2-4 years America's economy, which ultimately means the Global Economy really, national security and foreign policy will be controlled by at least a 33%, 66% or 100% degree, all potentially disastrous, degrees anyway, by a cult of total America-hating, democracy-hating, economic growth and jobs creation-hating Repub numbskulls who would just as soon blab any and every top secret detail of national security intel and international security intel that any of our allies was foolish enough to share with us to any tinpot dictator or wannabe worldwide dictator or terrorist organization who walks into their office as they'd offer them an orangutan hand-picked banana.

No serious nation can afford to take that chance with America anymore. Trump, his fellow Repubs and anyone who has not voted Dem straight down every legit ballot in every election since, oh, 1996 but most certainly since 2000, has seen to it and made it so.

Thank you for your vote.

The most Biden and the Dems can do about it now is try to salvage whatever is left of America and democracy that Trump, his Repubs and non Dem-voters have not yet taken a huge, wet, diarrhea crap all over yet. Which isn't much. But at least it is something.

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Trump and his merry band of election-denying RINOS can't control the Presidency, House or Senate on their own. They're only 1/3rd of the voting population. You cast people like me into the wilderness and you're looking at one party rule at the federal level. By increasingly progressive Democrats. It won't be a pretty picture.

Mitt Romney kicks ass, except he's a neocon. So does Jeff Flake. Justin Amash kicks double ass. Donald Trump should be kicked the hell out of the Republican Party. I liked some of his policies a lot, and I've given him credit for them, here and elsewhere. But he tried to overturn over 200 years of American democracy. ".

They did it in 1960 and 2020 both Catholic Democrats.

You're in favor of that.

Mitt Romney licks HIV dripping ass.

So does Jeff Flake.

Justin Amash loves sticking his tongue in and out sooper sooper deep.

BTW where are they know, they are anti American like you and ET.

So the American people booted them out like they did ET, you're next bro.

You are anti democracy, if you are a Libertarian you are anti American people.

You prefer oligarchs select the president.

You only say he tried? Bullshit.

Thats projection, plain and simple and you know it.

You want to set up the same line of Democratic lies for Nov 2024.

Because you don't like Trumps anti slave labor policies.

So you don't want him to win a 3rd time.

And when he does.

You're going to try to overthrow democracy again.

Where was democracy in 1960?

Every liberal Professor I ever had conceded Kennedy cheated.

Every one knows they cheated Trump and the American people.

And I'm guessing they will try to repeat the same thing in 2024.

Thats why Dirty Joe doesn't want to leave.

He probably thinks he can lock himself in his basement and be "declared" winner again.

Easy peasy rinse and repeat 2020.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/31/h...on-was-rigged/

[EihTooms]

You want to make Joe Biden dictator? You're better than that Tooms. I know you don't really mean it.

What exactly are the "positive" things that Biden and Hakeem Jeffries want to do to protect "America and our allies against authoritarian / dictator rule and Global Terrorist attacks?" What's their biggest complaint about not having a speaker? Well, they want to fork over $10 billion in military aid to Israel, and another $60 billion to Ukraine. While a majority of Americans support Israel and Ukraine, they don't support giving them that much more money. Israel's a developed nation for goodness sake. It has a per capita GDP higher than Italy, Spain or Japan. And $10 billion is only 2% of their annual GDP. And why are we continually throwing money to Ukraine without pushing them and the Russians to stop killing each other? Is that going to be another endless war we have go pay for? Can't we find a better use for some of that money here? Like applying it to the national debt? Or helping poor children?

Democratic politicians just throw money around mindlessly. Republican politicians do too, although they're not as bad.

Well, maybe having a dysfunctional House isn't ideal, but it's not the end of the world either. The bastards can't spend as much of our money on a wasteful and inefficient federal government.

Getting off my soapbox, I actually do believe we'd be better off with a Speaker. And if Democrats want to do what's best for America, they'll support a reasonable Republican, instead of leaving the House leaderless or with a bomb thrower and election denier like Jordan. Do you really want Jim Jordan leading the House when it comes time to tally electoral votes in 2024?

If you had bipartisan support for a Speaker who had a majority of House Members behind him, practically speaking, Im not sure one person like Gaetz could get him thrown out.

The most positive thing Biden, Hakeem and the Dems should and can do for America now is to help prevent any Repubs anywhere from controlling anything important.

The vast majority of House Repubs up for the job of Speaker is on record as an election denier. And the rest are very, very likely just lying about their denial of it.

Gee, why doesn't Israel help elect a member of Hamas to lead the Knesset? You know, from a list of candidates who are most violently opposed to Israel even existing as a state?

You've got me rooting for MDS re your previous post. LOL.

I wouldn't even want Liz Cheney or MittWitt Romney to control the House of Representatives. They are still Repubs!

America as it is today would not be a dictatorship even if there were no political parties at all. Political Parties have nothing to do with free and fair elections and the "Separation of Powers" established in our government system.

But it has a damn good chance of becoming a dictatorship if the only Party that has actually provided and still chooses to provide the only so-called potus since Jefferson Davis to attempt to violently overturn a free and fair election and overthrow American democracy is handed a key or lever of control over anything that matters.

And that is in addition to Biden and Hakeem being the most significant forces, along with Chuck, at work at this moment to prevent the next Great Repub Depression, Great Repub Recession, Massive Repub Jobs Destruction and Great Repub Wild Coincidence To Produce and Preside Over Whatever The Hell Is The Next Once in 100 Years Disaster.

[EihTooms]

"And we know that by every measure Biden is a smarter, better informed, better prepared, more lucid, more cognitively capable and competent and a better POTUS than the 77 year old offspring of Orangutans former so-called potus. ".

Youll never be as rich successful beautiful intelligent powerful.

He went to Wharton, where did you go? Where did Dirty Joe go?

https://www.google.com/search?sca_es...72&q=trump%27s+penthouse&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2 ahUKEwiOtbLHm42 CAxUHjIkEHYZRBFcQ0 pQJegQICxAB&biw=1920&bih=956&dpr=1.

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Here are just a couple of his properties.

LOL. Yes, and neither Joe Biden nor I wiped out millions upon millions of jobs, mass murdered at least a million Americans, praised and sided with our enemies, insulted America and alienated our allies, incited and emboldened America-hating Terrorists at home and abroad to attack and overthrow democracies.

Is that what Trump learned to do at Wharton while he was blowing through dad's money until it was all gone and then he had to steal from American taxpayers and con dumb hillbillies out of their entitlement checks just to stay afloat long enough to take a few more dumps on the gold toilet he bought with the money he stole from American taxpayers?

Do they really have graduate courses in Disastrous Economic and National Security Policies and Stewardship over there at Wharton?

[EihTooms]

"Per ETs characterizations of Dirty Joes mayhem and murderous crime wave sweeping every corner of the country 24/7.

https://www.aol.com/news/senate-warn...080049392.html

https://www.aol.com/news/son-nashvil...2tR4j1cf1iXLYq".

By all means send them to Chicago.

They fly past my windows a few hundred times every night.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...icago-arrests/

Oh, so Biden and the Dems DIDN'T legalize murder or robbery or shoplifting after all and are actually trying to prevent and arrest criminals in the crazy neighborhood you choose to live in.

Shh. Don't tell Bill Maher about this. He won't have anything to talk about on his weekly Republican Campaign Rally except Joe Biden's age and how apparently Biden and the "lib / Dems" overreacted to the threat of Trump's Pandemic and forced him and everyone else to get vaccinated, which, of course, they didn't do either. LOL.

[Tiny 12]

At one point just last week more than 200 House Republicans voted for an anti-American, America-hating Insurrectionist to be Speaker of the House, 2nd in line for the President of the United States of America.

No Repub can be trusted to be Speaker of the House of Representatives. There aren't even 6 Repubs in the entire House who would rather vote for Hakeem Jefferies to actually get positive things done for America and our allies against authotitarian / dictator rule and Global Terrorist attacks than a Trumpian Cultist who is 100% in favor of overthrowing democracies at home and abroad as is their Trump Cult lord and savior leader.

Yes, it would actually be better for America to have no Speaker of the House if it is going to be a Repub and let Joe Biden make all House decisions by Executive Order along with the Senate Dems backing it up and let it sit in the blithering Repub-controlled SCOTUS for a ruling on it while America is at least not driven directly to total economic and National Security destruction with Repubs controlling anything, much less the House of Representatives.

Besides, so what if some relatively "normal" seeming Repub is put in place as Speaker of the House thanks to a few Dem votes? Then what? Within 10 minutes either Matt Getzakidpregnant, Marjorie Taylor Greenjewishlazerbeams or some other Repub Loon will stand up, challenge it and throw him out unless he does commit himself to the singular Trump Cult mission of destroying America and glorifying, emboldening and empowering anti-America authoritarian dictatorships around the world.

You want to make Joe Biden dictator? You're better than that Tooms. I know you don't really mean it.

What exactly are the "positive" things that Biden and Hakeem Jeffries want to do to protect "America and our allies against authoritarian / dictator rule and Global Terrorist attacks?" What's their biggest complaint about not having a speaker? Well, they want to fork over $10 billion in military aid to Israel, and another $60 billion to Ukraine. While a majority of Americans support Israel and Ukraine, they don't support giving them that much more money. Israel's a developed nation for goodness sake. It has a per capita GDP higher than Italy, Spain or Japan. And $10 billion is only 2% of their annual GDP. And why are we continually throwing money to Ukraine without pushing them and the Russians to stop killing each other? Is that going to be another endless war we have go pay for? Can't we find a better use for some of that money here? Like applying it to the national debt? Or helping poor children?

Democratic politicians just throw money around mindlessly. Republican politicians do too, although they're not as bad.

Well, maybe having a dysfunctional House isn't ideal, but it's not the end of the world either. The bastards can't spend as much of our money on a wasteful and inefficient federal government.

Getting off my soapbox, I actually do believe we'd be better off with a Speaker. And if Democrats want to do what's best for America, they'll support a reasonable Republican, instead of leaving the House leaderless or with a bomb thrower and election denier like Jordan. Do you really want Jim Jordan leading the House when it comes time to tally electoral votes in 2024?

If you had bipartisan support for a Speaker who had a majority of House Members behind him, practically speaking, I’m not sure one person like Gaetz could get him thrown out.