At present, there are 217 Republicans in the House of Representatives.
There are 53 Republicans in the United States Senate.
Six of the Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republican administrations, including three by Trump himself. Their Republican DNA is self-evident by their actions from the bench.
There are 23 Cabinet members, including the vice president, all Republicans.
His family; a wife, two daughters, three sons, two sons-in-law, two daughters-in-law, all apparently Republicans.
And yet, after a lengthy string of bizarre behavior, particularly his latest unhinged, threatening diatribes that he recently posted on Truth Social , not a SINGLE one of them has mustered the courage to proffer; “Hey, maybe he shouldn’t have the launch codes after all.”
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But it’s also sad. Sad for him, as his sanity drains away like so much antifreeze from a punctured radiator, and sad for the 340 million Americans + 7.6 billion other citizens of this planet whose lives are increasingly endangered.
Not JUST by the madman at the helm.
But even more so by a political party of absolute COWARDS. Who, for the most selfish of reasons, won’t lift a finger to rectify the situation.
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We live in extraordinary times. A madman is in the White House. And everyone knows it. Yet an entire political party is so cowed by him, so self-serving, so lily-livered, that not ONE of them will do what’s right for the nation they profess to love.
The pressure is increasingly on the Republicans. Who will break rank? And who will go down with the USS Trump?
There are signs of discomfort -
ReplyDelete"President Donald Trump faces mounting pushback from within his own party as Republican lawmakers increasingly break with his key priorities—from a controversial Justice Department "anti-weaponization" fund to spending proposals and foreign policy decisions, including the conflict in Iran.
The disagreements, which span both chambers of Congress, underscore a growing strain between Trump’s agenda and Republican concerns about policy direction, political optics, and the party’s prospects ahead of this year's midterms. The emerging divisions raise questions about Trump’s ability to maintain unity on Capitol Hill as his administration pursues a sweeping policy agenda. Republican resistance could complicate efforts to pass legislation while also signaling broader unease within the party about the political costs of aligning too closely with Trump on controversial issues."
I, for one, am praying THEY ALL go down with the USS Trump. For that is the only fitting end for that group of lily livered enablers.
ReplyDeleteLes, even on the days where I can only read the comments I am thinking of you as all this has to be hard here/now. I know my fellow enlightened family are besides themselves because they feel everything. Serious ouch! And I know you are there with them.
DeleteThat said, I keep seeing a vision ala Paint Your Wagon where our heroes sink No Name City at the end of the movie. Think of it - Washington D.C. was carefully planned by the Masons of the day. The town has careful management as to what can or can't be built with strict weight limits which must be followed.
You know Trump's people don't care about such things as weight limits. All those people - the cage - vendors... I just see sinkholes but that might be me doing a lot of wishful thinking.
Seems like he will only have his ego driven agenda for another few months. The republicans will likely lose the house and may lose the senate. His bully tactics will not be effective if he is a lame duck because bullying is all he has. Regardless how you spin it he doesn't have that much of a loyal base in the public or with the elected elite
ReplyDeleteWhile there are many things he has accomplished, border, opportunities for all, women's rights his antics are falling short and the "war" he declared has the majority of people turning against him. Once he loses the threat of his mouth to go against them the politicians will no longer be cowed. November is the key month and I can't see the republicans wining much for one reason, trump.
Women’s rights? You mean the right for a girl or a woman who finds she is having an unviable pregnancy and that the fetus is dead in her womb, the right for that woman to be able to get a safe medical abortion and not make her bleed out as some case states are forcing women and girls to do? If you are referring to women’s sports and trans women not being allowed to participate in women’s sports, you’re talking about .001% of the population! Probably a majority of young women in sports will never encounter it! However, pregnancies go wrong all the time; fetuses die in utero more than you think, so Trump‘s administrationshut down abortions in conservative statesthrough his far right Supreme Court and that will affect far more women and girls rights than trans women in sports.
Deletetrump Managed to sow distrust in our institutions of democracy, create and foster deep division, support racism, misogyny, and white supremacy, use the office of the presidency to grift his way to greater wealth for himself and his family, fully support the capital class of fascist billionaires and trillionaires, alienate our closest allies, start a war of choice and aggression against Iran (with the help of co presnit Netanyahu), ramp up inflationary pressures on working class Americans and the working poor all tbe while his party continues destroying social safety nets. And his and his party's lunacy goes on and on and on.
ReplyDeleteAnd skud, apparently without realizing it, supports it all through his support of repubican/libertarian fascism.
The only hope for the country is to purge our government of all MAGA Republicans, or at least reduce them to a small fraction of what they are now.
ReplyDeleteI have spoken.
I second it!
DeleteOddly enough it was Trump's implementation of Project 2025 that will allow the next Democratic party the mechanism to subject each Federal employee to a test to see if they are loyal to the Constitution. And then we need to rewrite every law, every practice, every rule book that tells an employee how to do their job all with the goal of preventing what we've just been through from happening again.
DeleteYou know, the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution the way they did because they'd just been through seemingly endless religious wars in the old country. They didn't want such nonsense for their new baby country. I know how they felt as I'm feeling it again now.
Bill Pulte, an unqualified nominee for DNI.
ReplyDeleteTodd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, an otherwise unqualified nominee to be US AG.
A slush fund of $1.8 billion, unauthorized by Congress to reward people who beat cops.
An ongoing war to force a country to sign an agreement more lax and with more holes than the one theuyalready signed in 2015 and which POTUS Trump abrogated in his first term.
Are we tired of winning yet? Tired of paying for weekend golf trips on the taxpayer's dime? Even Megyn Kelly seems to be surprised at the grift and BS coming out of the White House these days.
All one has to do to understand what Trump has done to this country is to look at the grounds of the White House, the peoples house, and see what he is erecting to celebrate 250 years of one of the greatest experiments in self government. Mixed martial arts fighting is what Trump thinks is appropriate to celebrate this magnificent country. Classless, gross, and it has nothing to do with government of the people for the people, and by the people!
DeleteIt has everything to do with the huge mistake a minority of Americans, oligarchs, billionaires, and the Republican Partymade when they put a classless brute, convicted criminal, liar, cheat, and fraudster in the White House thinking somehow that would be good for America!
This July 4th I’ll be doing a lot of self reflection to try and understand why people who were blessed with self government would end up choosing a wannabe dictator to lead them.
Your falling into the Trump-Trap again Dave...
DeleteHe's "unqualified". Is Nunes "unqualified". Qualifications is spades...
Trump's 5 chess moves ahead of you.
He's emulating, in a small way, the grotesque spectacle of the Roman Empre Gladiator spectacle.
DeleteHe does fancy himself as a infallible Emperor of a great Military State.
What he, like Julius C. before him, doesn't realize is he sits atop a declining empire. A decline his and his party's agenda is rapidly accelerating.
And his MAGA cult cheers.
Trump is clever, like a thief and scoundrel is clever. If he were playing any kind of chess, he wouldn’t be in the colossal FUBAR he made in Iran. He’s the laughing stock of the planet, and you know it. He’s a jackass with diminishing power, like all tinpot dictators. Q.v. Orban.
DeleteShaw... July 4th was a no brainer. A huge picnic around the reflecting pools, and a nighttime program of the Marine Corps band playing marches by John Philip Sousa, a few readings from our founding documents and tons of fireworks.
ReplyDeleteAdd in lots of red, white and blue bunting and call it a wrap. You could have had a big fake switch for Trump to throw after a countdown as the fireworks light up the sky.
How a POTUS does not understand, or is unable to pull off a moment like this in our history, I have no idea. Any previous president in all of our history, could have done it.
In 1976, we had a commission that had been in existence for 10 years to make the bicentennial happen. Now? A political PAC/501(c)3.
Who thinks that is idea?
"Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center, judge orders 02:03
ReplyDeleteLawyers for what is currently called the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are instructing staff to immediately begin switching the name of the facility back to its original title." He owns the DOJ (but not the JFK Center) Lots of little pieces of the US to put back together and will take longer than it to took to destroy Duty, Honor and Country.
Always when the squeaky clean party supports a NAZI women beater but as long as he is a democrat the leftists will vote for him. Of course like Sunny says, I will hold my nose and vote yellow dog even if he is a vile individual who I despise.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think you have any grounds to judge whomever you’re talking about when that description sounds like the current Secy. Of Defense, Hegseth.
Delete”WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators vetting the nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary received an affidavit Tuesday from a former sister-in-law alleging that the onetime Fox News host was abusive to his second wife, to the point where she feared for her safety. Hegseth denies the allegations.
The sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth, was formerly married to the nominee's brother, and in an affidavit obtained by The Associated Press she said she believes that Pete Hegseth is "unfit" to run the Defense Department based on what she witnessed and heard. She said she first relayed her allegations to the FBI in December but was concerned that the information was not shared with Congress as senators consider Hegseth's nomination to lead the Pentagon.”
Several of Hegseth’s religious and historic tattoos are highly controversial and have been adopted by white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and far-right extremist groups.
You.never complained about these Hegseth qualities.
DeleteHegset is not running for the senate but your outrage against seems to be a diversion form the question. Like bernard when asked about about his support for platner, never answer the question but divert to trump. Good move to not provide an answer.
ReplyDeleteThe Secretary of Defense has a lot more power than ONE US Senator. You never spoke out against Hegseth being confirmed for that hugely important position in the government, so that is why I question your concern.
DeleteAS for my opinion on Slater, I do NOT support him for that position, and the Democrats should not either, after finding out about his past history of abuse of women. The same thing should have happened when Congress found out about Hegseth, but Congress are cowards.
When will Americans get back to wanting their representatives to be men and women of honor?
I looked at your previous comments on this post skud. I didn't see a question anywhere so what question are you chiding Shaw for not answering? Because to me you pivoted into a divide by zero moment.
DeleteI also second Shaws comment about Hegseth. That guy is all kinds of not ready for prime time in a military sense. He also has a very shady past with his treatment of women yet you skud, only focus on a Democratic Party candidate to disparage. Here's where I'd normally ask a rhetorical question but nah, not today. I already know the answers so why ask?
It is amusing to me when skud calls the Democratic Party the "squeaky clean" party, as if the commentators here who lean towards the Dems haven't called them out when they screw up.
ReplyDeleteSo - when skud moves the goal posts (like they do) I suggest they can't say they were talking about the country in general either as the largest voting block - Millennials through GenZ - are very good at calling out current milk toast actions from sitting Democrat congress critters. As I've read in so many places the younger folks want a Democrat who is a Constitutional junkyard dog, unlike the folks at the levers of power who are more concerned with how the deck chairs are arranged on the Titanic than doing any kind of governing.
When one's opponent abandons the norms and procedures held sacred for hundreds of years it's time to take off the gloves and do some street fighting. Rule number one in any fight is to win and if your opponent is cheating then you use all your skills and abilities to knock them down.
At least that's how the late husband taught me, or tried to teach me. I suck at face to face fighting and I usually end up harming myself more than my opponent. As least I know who I am.
From all the socials I read (and I read a lot!) the number of folks abandoning Trump, MAGA, and the Nationalist Christian movement is impressive. So many posts of MAGA pastors asking why, so many new accounts from folks deeply distressed as they learn everything they were told was a lie.
As much as I'd like to be as cruel and unkind as they were to me and mine I find I have no taste for that kind of tit for tat. While I don't trust the new conversions I look forward to the work they do on making amends. That is the true measure of a person leaving cruelty and bigotry behind.
As for the topic of the post - who will go down with the USS Trump? I hope they all get sucked in as their movement collapses under its own weight.
Shaw... what people like Skud and those who have supported GOP for decades seem to forget is their history. Thre GOP for years framed politics as a moral cause. You all remember the phrase... "You can't be trusted with public leadership if your private life is immoral". This was especially true in the Clinton era.
ReplyDeleteThen when we add the layer of the GOP as the party of God as expressed through the "pro life" movement, it became stronger.
The Dems never claimed that mantle. In fact the GOP then, and even now, says they Dems are the party of evil, the devil.
So don't get baited into the question Skud asks. Because it is asked by people, as you've pointed out, who are asking from their own immorality. It's only being asked as a gotcha question. Because as we have seen, they really don't care about morality, or they would not have supported Newt, who served his wife divorce papers as she came out of cancer surgery, or Trump with his many peccadillos.
In this case, unless and until that crowd tells us they were wrong before with their moral crusade, or whether they were lying about it, their words are just that... words.
Empty words.
Like all Trump appointees, inexperienced, incompetent, ineffective but Bobble Head Loyal.
ReplyDeleteThe fish stinks from the head down!
DeleteI never expect any politician to be a clean upstanding individual because after they are politicians. Their whole existence is to lie, cash in on their position and keep their job. Politicians will not do anything for you unless there is something in it for the.
ReplyDeleteWe elect the ones who spend the most money to get the job and expect them to be honest and work for us not themselves. Why would someone smart and hard working want to seek political office. We want to work for the people sounds good but only lasts until the take the oath then it is fill my pocket book.
As to your favorite person to hate. He has made ONE decent choice and that is Marco, other than that he is batting zero.
I question what changed Rubio’s mind about Trump..Here is Rubio in 2016 :
Delete“DALLAS — Marco Rubio on Friday unleashed a full-frontal assault against Donald Trump, blasting him as a “con artist” who is hijacking the conservative movement and mercilessly mocking Trump’s alpha-male status.
At a rally here, the U.S. senator from Florida unveiled what amounted to his most comprehensive — and scathing — critique of Trump yet, declaring it “time to pull off his mask so that people can see what we are dealing with here.”
“He is a con artist,” Rubio said. “He runs on this idea he is fighting for the little guy, but he has spent his entire career sticking it to the little guy — his entire career.”
Trump didn’t change, he’s still everything Rubio said he was in 2016. The question is, Why does Rubio serve and support and suck up to this terrible conman he warned the Republicans about?
And this failing nation's top fish is RANCID!
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