The Republicans, I feel, don’t get nearly enough vitriol for the way they’ve not only fallen in line behind their emperor, but also for how they’ve been enthusiastically polishing his knob every chance they get. He could kick them square in the balls, and they’d simply say “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
Anyway, what really got me going was this story from the New York Times about the ways Trump keeps his minions in line.
They described an approach in which Mr. Trump, who has spent years showing Republicans that he can either be their greatest champion or their worst political enemy, focuses intently on wooing and socializing with G.O.P. lawmakers, relying on the implicit but rarely stated threat of ruining them to get his way when they stray from his demands.
And they said Mr. Trump’s tactics were more carrot than stick. He relies on the trappings of the presidency — rides on Air Force One; visits with their spouses to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.; White House tchotchkes; and seemingly endless Sharpie signatures on Trump-branded merchandise — to make Republicans members of Congress feel special and indebted to him.
That’s right, these assholes are selling out their country for, among other things, a bunch of autographed Trump-branded crap.
But, at least they can show off the pictures of themselves at Mar-A-Lago as their congressional powers get neutered and this country careens off a cliff.
And, these are just the people who are explicit in their love for the Orange One. What pisses me off almost as much are the folks like Susan Collins who profess to be “concerned” about Trump, but will acquiesce to him 99 times out of 100.
I kind of wonder if they hang photos of themselves shaking hands with Trump near photos of themselves shaking hands with Ronald Reagan, or any other mainstream Republicans.
None. We just have spineless, gutless Republicans in the state house who want to stick it the city, especially after it rejected the opportunity to host the RNC.
Mr. Rubio and Mr. Musk clashed during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House last Thursday, in which the world’s richest man jeered the secretary of state for failing to make more sweeping staffing cuts to the agencies under his purview. In the same meeting, Mr. Rubio bristled at how Mr. Musk had undercut his leadership to flatten the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government’s lead agency for distributing foreign aid.
On Monday, Mr. Rubio thanked Mr. Musk’s team at the Department of Government Efficiency for aiding in making the drastic cuts he had resisted, and announced that the agency’s remaining work would be subsumed under the State Department.
”If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and [ride in their Air Force Ones] then vote against them you’ve got no business being up here.”
— Jesse M. Unruh
(The bit about Air Force One was not in the original)
I could support this on the condition that it’s understood that you don’t name things after living people (because it’s just tacky), and steps were taken to immediately make the tackiness moot.
What’s Republican politicians polishing Trump’s knob has been somewhat amusing. I forget the House member, from Texas I think, who said something about it being their responsibility to push Trump’s agenda through no matter what. Not our agenda or the GOP’s agenda but specifically Trump’s agenda. They’re cowards.
The MAGA movement is just the 4th incarnation of the KKK.
Anytime marginalized groups and minorities grow in number and power, white supremacists grow in power to put them back in their place.
The first incarnation was after the civil war when black people grew in power.
The second incarnation was in the 1920s with mass immigration from europe and womens suffrage
The third incarnation was in the 60s with civil rights, second wave feminism
Now we’re in a fourth wave as a pushback against American becoming more brown, feminist, secular, LGBT friendly and full of immigrants.
In the long run, Trump will be seen as a response to Obama and a way to reestablish white supremacy/patriarchy/christian dominionism, and the MAGA movement will just be seen as a new brand name for the KKK.
Another Republican coward who has bent the knee to Trump, this time Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The New Yorker recently conducted a Q&A with him.
Do you still think President Trump is an embarrassment?
Now when you say those words, you are going back to 2016?
2020. You said that to me.
O.K., I need context here. I supported President Trump’s election in 2020.
I know you did, but when we talked you said, “President Trump is a huge embarrassment, and it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many people who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing.”
Yeah, I mean, I said that in a context. I mean, frankly, many of the particulars of the story of Donald Trump are embarrassing to evangelicals. But, at the same time, I unapologetically supported him in 2020, and I supported him in 2024. And, by the way, I supported him as President once he was elected to his first term. I don’t think it’s fair to have that statement as an isolated statement. Donald Trump’s not the only politician that has embarrassed me that I have supported.