I’d have no qualms telling him I supported him/Trump if it allowed the message to get through.
We definitely ARE seeing Trump voters start to regret their decision. Whether it will be enough to matter? I don’t know.
I do believe that Trump is going to trigger a recession. That might doom him. Maybe. Remember, a lot of Trump voters are on the economic margin.
Very unlikely; he’s in power. They can’t take back the results of their actions.
The time to step back from a cliff is before you jump off it, not after you hit ground and your bones are already breaking from the impact.
But they can do two things:
Convince their reps and senators that they need to take action to slow Trump’s roll
Vote non-MAGA in the mid terms
Or, the more likely third choice is they will go out the way of the Branch Davidians, singing his praises as they pour gas on bales of hay.
The Washington Examiner * printing this?
*Then again, why bother with italics when the Post is sliding down to their level.
I know it’s almost a house rule to presume every single person who voted for Trump in 2024 is a full-blown iron-clad MAGAt, so that all possible hope is soundly dispelled lest there be the slightest glimmer, but I’m going to out on a limb and say that the record numbers of people complaining to their GOP congressman’s office, and the people showing up at GOP congressmen’s town hall meetings, about what the Trump maladministration is doing are not the fools who’ll blame the libruls or deep state for inflation. civil service layoffs, agricultural blowback from aid cuts, etc.
I could give Trump voters back in 2016 the benefit of the doubt that they didn’t realize how dangerous he would be. Hell, even I didn’t think he would be as bad as he ended up being. But by 2024, everyone knew exactly the kind of shitbag he is and so yes, everyone who voted for him this time is a full blown MAGA and fascist. The only reason some of them are starting to turn against him is because he is hurting them as well as the people they want him to hurt.
They are still the same old deplorable assholes and will easily go back to blaming us for anything they perceive as wrong.
Agreed 100% this is “I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face” selfishness. My point is that plenty of them, and more every day, know enough to complain to the leopards.
Musk’s threat to primary anyone who disagrees with the Trump maladministration keeps heads down among the spineless GOP-but-not-MAGA members. That threat gains strength from conflating Trump 2024 voters and MAGAts. “I’ll lose if I go against Trump to the slightest degree because MAGAts brook no criticism of Trump,” The complaints to and protests of GOP congressmen counter that perception. We want to further pry open that gap between “voted for Trump in 2024” and “will vote for Trump no matter what,” not reinforce Musk by pretending in a retrospective sulk over the election results that it doesn’t exist.
This is small potatoes as schadenfreude goes, but I’ll take whatever we can get. The headline will gall the crap out of Trump (if he sees it):
Michigan Republicans Reject Trump’s Choice for State Party Chair.
The guy they did chose is pretty right-wing but he’s not the guy Trump wanted.
But he’s still Michigan Man of the Year, right?
Nope.
That was never actually a thing.
No bales of hay in Waco. Just shoddy construction and a real good wind.
“Fire survivor Graeme Craddock testifies he heard a fellow sect member yell “light the fire” and saw someone pouring fuel on hay bales in the chapel.”
okay .
This is kinda great:
According to videos and photos circulated on social media, televisions at HUD’s central office in Washington, D.C., were hijacked to play an AI-generated video of Trump making sweet, sloppy oral love to Musk’s bare feet. The words “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING” were emblazoned over the visual, likely a reference to recent posts from Trump and the White House describing the president as “the king.”
To be clear, this is an AI generated fake video and, supposedly, someone hacked in to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and put this on several monitors playing in the building (although maybe it was a disgruntled person who works there…I do not know).
Still funny (and somewhat disturbing). This article does not show the video but has links in it that show the video if you want. Or, just Google it. Lots of news sites are reporting on it.
Ivanka and Jared break from Trump over anti-Semitism claims
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who once actively supported Donald Trump, are now decidedly distancing themselves from the political arena.
In Michael Wolff’s book, “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America,” a conflict between Trump’s staff and Ivanka and Jared is detailed. Donald Trump was seeking their public support when accusations of anti-Semitism surfaced, but the couple declined. …
Kushner’s final response was unequivocal: “No, Ivanka and I aren’t going to do that. We’re not going to go and put our names on something and get in the middle of things. That’s just not what we’re going to do this time.” - Wolff quotes him. This position did not appease Trump’s staff. …
People associated with Trump’s campaign question its credibility and urge readers to disregard the publication.
Trump hit with triple whammy as 3 judges rule against him in 2 hours
First, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington, D.C. smacked down the Trump administration’s attempt to ignore his order to unfreeze foreign aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Then, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan, another D.C. jurist, issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s pause on federal funding and grants. Judge AliKhan said, ‘In the simplest terms, the freeze was ill-conceived from the beginning.’
Third, a U.S. District Judge in Washington State, Jamal Whitehead, blocked Trump’s moves to freeze refugee resettlement in the United States
I read that as “don’t drag us into your drama”, rather than active pushing back against antisemitism (if that’s even what the quote intends tosay).
A reasonable interpretation. My take is this: ‘Look, dad, you’re an anti-semite. You think, “Well, Jared’s one of the good ones.” But Ivanka and I know how you think. We are not going to say you’re not an anti-semite. Don’t drag us into your drama.’
No Schadenfreude here, but I’m not sure where else to post this.
I was in a diner today, and the news on TV (I didn’t see which channel) reported on the current budget-cutting business. One of the people in the diner was absolutely ecstatic that the US wouldn’t be paying $20 million to fund Sesame Street in Iraq. Although the US wasn’t really spending $20 million for Sesame Street:
This appears to be the prodding of Joni Ernst, as reported on Fox News: