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Hey republicans: you know that idiot that everyone said was an idiot and that we all warned you was an idiot? Turns out he’s an idiot.
And a liar. And a diddler.
Mostly a diddler. Lock him up.
Because he’s dumb as fucking dirt. Seriously! He is not a smart man in any way.
The blunder was getting involved at all. This MOU is about as "good" a deal as possible, under the circumstances.
And it really isn't even a "deal." The MOU is just a promise to talk about specific things during the actual negotiations later on. And a lot of those things are non-starters for either Trump or Iran.
And Israel can come along and fark the whole thing up at any time.
GOOD HE SHOULD FUCKING BE ABANDONED AND DIE (politically) ALONE
What if it's not a blunder. What if Trump is purposefully trying to destroy the country?
If you look at every action he's taken in that light, it all makes sense.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
So if you view the trump presidency as a system, then yes its purpose was to destroy the American political system and impoverish the working class.
You voted for it.
People pointed out that Trump had tried to deny his own nephew health care. That he had ties to the New York Mafia. That he had boasted of perving on young women. That he had a history of catastrophic business failures. That he had a history of lying so bad his own lawyers had to double team him to get the facts...
Not only that, but he was president already for four years and it was catastrophic
... and they'll do it again!
MTG picked the perfect moment to leave Congress.
At this point, I have her as the front runner for the 2028 GOP nomination.
I guess we'll see. On the one hand she's a blithering idiot, which is a feature for the smoothbrains that vote Republican.
But on the other hand, she doesn't have a penis, which might make it really hard for the Nat-C types in her base to overcome. I mean, their own text prohibits women having dominion over men.
I mean, we've already seen them vote for and otherwise support women (including MTG herself) for political office, so it seems this "principle" is pretty flexible/unimportant compared to all the hateful shit they'd like to get up to.
I've never spoken to her, or met anyone who has. But let's look at the facts.
She didn't just leave Congress. She waited until a point in the news cycle where she'd get a lot of notice. She gave up her office before being placed in a position to go against Trump in a realistic way [e.g. voting for impeachment.]
She's in a great position to be a TV pundit for the midterms, which means more money and more exposure.
For a nitwit, she's played some pretty cunning moves.
For a nitwit, she’s played some pretty cunning moves.
I agree, assuming she's making a play here.
I think a lot of these people might be incredibly stupid at some things [1] and incredibly crafty and cunning at manipulation and scheming.
[1] Or great at acting like they are fucking morons to get the base to like them because the base confuses being smart with being "elitist".
For one of the most extreme examples of this acting like a dumbshit act, see ol' Foghorn Leghorn himself, Senator John Kennedy, is a Rhodes Scholar, who has a motherfuckin' degree from Oxford. From his public persona, you'd probably never know this, since he sounds like a blend of Foghorn Leghorn and Hee Haw in his ridiculous folksy persona. For someone that now feigns to be so confused about things like gender, he sure has had quite the transition himself...
I always admired the way George W. Bush could be a Yale graduate with a vast fortune and a simple cowboy at the same time.
100%. I was going to bring him up, too, but my post was getting overly long as-is. 😀
I think some blogger had put up earlier W being quite sharp in some debate he had then contrasted that with some derpy thing he was saying during one of his two terms.
They were not necessarily politicians, but you'd see the same kind of thing (I think some people called it "redneck drag") in the Duck Dynasty guys. There were plenty of people pointing out that these guys all looks like typical upper-class types, then at some point before the show, were sporting mountain man beards and plenty of camo.
She is just insane enough to make it work. Then again she is a woman. And shes fetal alcohol syndrome or whatever that is. That's the redeeming quality.
I don't think she'll ever make a serious bid at the presidency. She might throw her hat into the ring to grift and raise money but MAGA will never accept a woman as a leader and even the majority of conservatives think any white man is better than a competent woman or non-white individual.
Look, all I'm saying is let's give the leopard a few more chomps at it.
You voted for it.
I mean, half the joke is that they didn't vote for it. Trump has been outspokenly in opposition to wars abroad, in direct refutation to members of his own party (during the primary) and the opposition (during the general). American national politics is a sucking void of anti-war candidates, such that even a serial liar and shameless two-faced shit can fill it.
Incidentally, taking an anti-war tact is how Obama beat Hillary in 2008. And how he obliterated McCain several months later. And "Double Gitmo" Mitt Romney four years after that. It's also how Clinton beat Bush Sr in '92 (people hating Operation Desert Storm). And it was a long-forgotten part of the Bush Jr campaign against Gore (criticizing US involvement in East Africa and the Baltic States). Hell, Kennedy and LBJ both campaigned as anti-war candidates. They beat Nixon by promising to de-escalate the Cold War (and avoid any future Korean Wars). And then Nixon ran the same playbook eight years later. Reagan beat Carter on similar grounds (peaceful extraction from Iran).
Candidates regularly run - and win - on anti-war positions, only to enter office and reverse course, generating a backlash as a result. Trump's just the latest and most glaring example.
He bankrupted a casino. That should be everything you need to know
*multiple times*
He got caught saying 'grab them by the pussy.' That wasn't enough.
A conservative woman went on the TV show The View to defend him.
Another panelist kept repeating 'pussy' over and over.
Finally the conservative lady had to demand that the other panelist stop using that offensive word.
Decades? No, this is the worst blunder ever. This is worse than Vietnam and Iraq because it's more stupid and incompetent.
What? How? Cutting and running makes this much less of a blunder than either of those cases.
Then impeach and remove him from office. You have the power to do this. Until you put rubber to road and actually do this then this is just lip service to try and help midterm turnout for republicans.
lol
It's all for show. They'll bend the knee.
They’ve turned on Trump so many times now they could be generating electricity.
Invariably these articles about Republicans/magas turning on trump use headlines that make it sound like it's some kind of sea change, and then you get into the article and it's one or two people.
But did it distract from the epstein files?
Turned on him?
Is he in shackles?
Bill Cassidy (primaried by trump), Nikki Hayley (ousted by trump), and some fox news sewer rat.
That’s the “members of trumps own party!”
Ronnie Raygun's "legacy" is far overblown (how quickly people want to brush aside Iran/Contra, which was worse than Watergate), most especially by the "liberal media" and the conservatives, but yeah, PEDOnald's debacle here managed to look even stupider than Vietnam, Ronnie Raygun and W.
Hopefully this keeps him from doing stupid shit with Panama, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and ___ and even more stupid shit with Venezuela...
Then maybe they should have done something about it.
Republicans have turned on Donald Trump over his plan to ~~end~~ start the war with Iran, accusing him of making the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades”.
Fixed it for them.
“Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” said Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy
You’ll never get the orange paint off ya, Bill
worst foreign policy deal in the history of foreign policy deals maybe ever.
Worst foreign policy blunder so far.
Why not just say it? The USA lost a war with Iran.