I guess I don’t see the strategy, here. I mean, alienating members of your own party can only reduce your number of supporters. Are the GOP going to welcome these RINOs back, pull them out from under the bus and expect their vote? It seems to me this thing is just unraveling.
I see what you mean. As the number of folks who support Dear Leader Trump without reservation gets smaller and smaller, and as Trump becomes more and more unhinged, I wonder if there will come a tipping point, where it dawns on people that Trump simply does not have enough supporters, and the (R) politicians will just abandon him en masse. as a group.
IMO: nope, not really: most of Trump’s supporters are not operating with anything more than a tenuous grasp on reality and the politicians that support them can’t afford to lose their base or they’ll have nothing. Some may do as you say, but they will be a small minority until Trump’s second loss.
If people were purely rational, that might be true. But we’re not. Casting one person out of the tribe may decrease its number, but it generates even greater devotion among the chosen who remain. And the one who was cast out may beg to be allowed to work twice as hard as before to atone for his sin so that he be allowed back in.
I’m sure that has the Republican senator from South Dakota who is up for reelection in 2026 shaking in his boots.
Steve Bannon still carries a torch for Trump, even though he still has permanent tire tread patterns on his face from the bus Trump threw him under. I think at this point, it becomes a badge of honor to go to jail or go broke on behalf of Trump, even if that badge is made from a discarded beer can.
Heh–power of the subconscious mind. I didn’t remember that quite-classic ep when writing (even though Truman was voiced by my fave Maurice LaMarche).
Whatever it said, it’s been disappeared. It must have been pretty bad if someone who is still kissing his ass took it down.
No, it’s still there….they just changed the link. He doesn’t run a blog any better than he ran the country. Here’s the new one.
Whoever runs his pathetic little loser blog is horrifically incompetent - and they sometimes randomly change the url of an article. Or maybe they do it on purpose, as a way to kill all social media links if they are trending negative. I’ve had this happen to his links before. We’ll see how long this one works.
I also posted this in the P&E thread about the aftermath of the insurrection:
There were folks in court:
My favorite part of the article:
Especially since they’re on a sort of downward path towards Trump’s coup. A ramp, if you will.
Does he forget Giuliani saying “it’s time for trial by combat?”
Giuliani is better equipped for that than a battle of wits.
That declaration, that "there’s simply no way you can construe the statements that were made by any of the speakers to be an invitation to join a conspiracy to go to the Capitol and commit crimes”, is typical for conservatives nowadays: just declare something to be true and inarguable, and hope that nobody calls you on it.
And it helps to be in control of the conversation, like by being the host of a talk show where you can simply turn the offending party’s mic off or simply out-shout them.
But when you are before a judge, you don’t have that same power, that same control. They forgot that and the fleeting moment was delicious.
The Darth Vader school of personnel management.
He forgot to mention —
When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules.
If only it were true…………
With Rudy, everything is relative.
You mean like how he married his cousin?
With Rudy, everything is negative. He is the counterexample to every Law of Conservation.
Law of Conservativism