Why are they always saying this privately?
Why don’t any of these assholes have the balls to say this publicly?
Courtesy of CNN:
Former Republican congressman Charlie Dent said Thursday some of his former colleagues in the House of Representatives have privately told him they are “absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the President’s behavior.”
Dent told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on “Newsroom” that House Republicans are standing with the President at the moment because of base pressure, but said “they resent being put in this position all the time.”
Dent, who is a CNN political commentator, cited the Trump administration trying to “pivot from the Ukraine scandal” by announcing the 2020 G7 summit at the Trump National Doral resort. The decision was later reversed.
“Moving from one corrupt act to another,” Dent said. “I mean those types of head-exploding moments are just I think infuriating these members and I think they’d like to step out but they just can’t because of their base at the moment.”
“I think a lot of members have to take a hard look at this,” Dent said. “They can be more concerned about their election, or their legacies. And I would argue to many of them: your legacy is more important than the next election.”
But sadly they are more concerned about their reelection than about doing the right thing.
As I have said the only way that we will see these cowardly Republicans standing up for the Constitution is if they are convinced that by not doing so they are doomed politically.
At this point I would not vote for a Republican at gunpoint, but they could at least try to be somebody worthy of our votes.
“They didn’t want to do a cease-fire, but now they do want to do a cease-fire,” Trump said of the militants. “It will probably work out that way. . . . We’ve made tremendous progress,”
~IT~ was all a lie.
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/11/30/afghanistan-cease-fire.html
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/malicious-stupid-and-destructive-donald-trump-doesnt-understand-the-damage-hes-causing-to-the-military/
~IT~$ too bad he can’t be impeached for pardoning war criminals, because these are among the greatest crimes he has committed since taking office.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-bloomberg-2020-billionaires_n_5ddee266e4b00149f728d60d
“net worth of $54.1 billion, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is the richest man ever to run for president of the United States. He plans to act like it. ”
“Trump, also a billionaire, spent $66 million of his own money in the 2016 election.”<NO WAY!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_(organization)
Just patiently awaiting dementia dumb@ss to mention “jew” in a rally.
Think he won’t?
Paul Ryan started it. He and his whore wife. They started it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум) on February 2, 1905, to a Russian-Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg.
SHE (The Collective”) included future Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, <MADE IT HAPPEN.
decommodified and democratized
A Socialist Plan to Fix the Internet
What should we do about Google, Facebook, and Amazon? Here’s a democratic-socialist blueprint to decommodify and democratize the internet.
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/11/tech-companies-antitrust-monopolies-socialist/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
In a piece for The Atlantic, columnist Peter Nicholas took a hard look at Donald Trump’s continuing propagation of ludicrous conspiracy theories, and said the embattled president uses them as both a defense mechanism when confronted with his crimes as well as a way to feed his ego.
Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University, telling Nicholas, “We’ve never had a president who trades in conspiracy theories, who prefers lies instead of fact,” the columnist attempted to cut through the mystery of Trump’s actions. “These baseless theories are a way for Trump to explain away his problems and undercut opponents,” he wrote. “Beyond that, though, they seem to serve distinct emotional needs, feeding a narcissistic ego that cold reality won’t satisfy.
According to Nancy Rosenblum, a government professor emerita at Harvard, we have never seen a president like Trump before.
“There’s no answer for it,” she explained, “which is why it is so seriously disorienting to people. We’ve never seen anything like it. We don’t know how to meet it. It’s an attempt to construct a reality, and when it comes from the president, he has the capacity to impose that reality on the nation.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/11/trump-conspiracy-theories-ukraine/602728/
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/trump-will-likely-pardon-his-felonious-pals-the-only-question-is-when-columnist/
According to King, Trump simply doesn’t care about lOOking unethical, only the exercise of power.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/matthew-shepards-parents-on-grief-his-national-cathedral-plaque-lgbtq-rightsand-their-disgust-with-trump
Matthew Shepard would turn 43 on Sunday.
On Monday, his parents Judy and Dennis will help unveil the Matthew Shepard Memorial Plaque at a special ceremony in his honor at Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral. It is inscribed, in English and Braille, with his birth and death dates, and a quote from the Right Rev. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
They wanted no part of what they saw as a PR stunt, intended to conceal what they see as the deliberate damage Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and their colleagues are doing to LGBTQ people and LGBTQ rights. Dennis told The Daily Beast: “It’s so hypocritical. That’s why we had to write what we did. For them to come in for basically a photo op and talk about how great the Shepard-Byrd Act was while taking rights away from not just LGBTQ people but all marginalized communities, including women, was just disgusting.”
“Everything is horrifying, frightening, maddening, and frustrating—all those things,”
(You can watch the ceremony, live, here on Monday, from 7 p.m. ET.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/matthew-shepard-parents-trump.html
The constitution stipulates that the southern African nation is Christian, and laws dating back to Britain’s colonial rule of the country that ended in 1964 forbid gay sex.
“This is the will of the Zambian people, we have to be with the people by abiding by the law,” Chanda Kasolo, permanent secretary in the ministry of information, said by phone.
“We respect the opinion of the American ambassador. We have to do things the way the people want.”
The U.S. ambassador to Zambia said a high court ruling sentencing two men to 15 years in prison for homosexuality was horrifying.
https://news.yahoo.com/u-rebukes-zambia-jailing-two-153214214.html
Bunch of cowards.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/30/781374759/we-wanted-our-patrons-back-public-libraries-scrap-late-fines-to-alleviate-inequi?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2I98A5CJ2umGUDtyKfE6SnoYEorK1bQiQ9B9HWQUU5GplmEwkT1Yi9_YE&fbclid=IwAR1b-mR_ioKhRDpUBqDv871IZaGyl01KWa62k8QcAXF_yPB41uk5Pqmor_s
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?
“If the story is accurate, it would appear to be either a case of tax or accounting fraud. And keep in mind that cooking the books like this has been a key feature of the Trump family accumulating its fortune for generations, according to an investigation conducted last year by The New York Times. “By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8,” reported The Times, with much of that wealth coming from tax fraud.”
“We don’t have much good news to share with you this week, but on our podcast, We’ve Got Issues, political scientist Lee Drutman argues that Trump has energized an entire generation in ways that have historically led to periods of reform and renewal when our democracy seemed imperiled in the past.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/during-a-quiet-holiday-week-new-evidence-of-trumps-financial-crimes-emerge/
So what? They’ll still protect him, support him, defend him. They’ll still vote for whatever Deplorable, despicable, disgusting plan he puts forth. What they say or think in private is meaningless when they continue to vote to undermine our Constitution and endanger our national security. Allowing Trump to continue in office unchallenged does both.
Meanwhile one of Kamala Harris’ campaign aides resigned and didn’t have much nice to say.
Obviously they’re lying to try and save face. If they were genuinely disgusted- like all decent people are- they wouldn’t be jumping to do his bidding, they’d be defending moral standards instead.
No decent person would want to represent Trumpers, so saying behind his back that he’s a creep is only empty words in the vain hope of straddling the line between decency and Trumpism.
My policy is not to believe anything that comes out of a Republican’s mouth. And that goes for almost every former Republican, too- because here’s the thing, even if they’re good people now they had something inside them for a long time that gave them Republican values and that makes me suspect them even now. Seeing the light only because of Trump doesn’t cut much ice with me.
I would like to see the numbers of Republicans secretly slamming Trump’s lack of moral standards *before* they lost control of the House. Ha.
I think they’d like to step out but they just can’t because of their base at the moment.”
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What a bunch of B.S
their base is in the minority, trump barely won the election and that was with help from putin, there was no landslide, mandate.
This is just another excuse from the cowards, better they lose an election than have a corrupt, mentally ill president in the WH, but no always party over country when it comes to the republicans