Standing up to Trump for the party’s sake.
A growing number of Republicans are learning that their party has to rise above Donald Trump if they want to defeat socialism. They’ve come to understand that voters have an innate sense of fairness. They sense that the oligarch’s retribution and self-aggrandizement have worn thin this election year. They’ve got their own skins to save in the mid-terms.
The President finally shot that man on Fifth Avenue. No longer do any but his most incurable sycophants defend his latest outrage. Real Republicans are learning their excuses only fuel greater assaults on decency.
Lying about losing the 2020 election was bad enough for some of us RINOs. More Republicans left the tent after the President aided and abetted the attempted coup at the Capitol. A few more jumped off the Crazy Train when Trump pardoned the seditionists, 1,600 of them. The more worshipful rationalized that maybe it was time to move on, perhaps the criminals had paid their dues. But this President knows no bounds because MAGA demanded none.
Now he wants to reward his Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and the easily bamboozled with proceeds from a $1.8 Billion so-called “settlement fund” paid for by taxpayers. It’s their reward for smashing windows and bashing cops on January 6, 2021.
Is RoJo a RINO?
“Somebody described it as a galactic blunder, and I think that’s probably true,” Sen. Ron Johnson said of the insurrection bounty fund. RoJo was among the senators who laid the wood to acting attorney general Todd Blanche in a closed-door meeting. Ted Cruz, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal called it:
“One of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate. Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said, adding that some senators were screaming at Blanche.
Doesn’t help that Trump endorsed the disgraced opponent to Sen. John Cornyn; the incumbent has only voted with Trump 99% of the time. Or knee capped Republicans Bill Cassidy and Thomas Massie, among others. Has any President ever made more enemies in his own party?
→ Two former police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 are suing to stop President Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded program to compensate political allies. (Video here)
There are still fools who believe that Nancy Pelosi staged January 6 to cover up the election they somehow stole — not that the premise makes any sense at all. Or that the Speaker of the House could out fox a President who had the armed services, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, & Secret Service at his fingertips.
(If Capitol police opened the doors someone should have told poor deluded Ashli Babbitt!)
Somehow this multi-state conspiracy managed to maintain radio silence all these six years! Not one tell-all book on How They Did It!
The only answer to the nuts who believe this nonsense is something along the lines of “Quiet, Dummy.”
All that glitters is not gold
Persuadable voters are turned off. Gasoline prices don’t explain it all. (Gas is cheaper than under Biden). 57% of Wisconsin voters polled by Public Sentiment said they were done with this President even before the Settlement Fund scam. Nationally, the numbers are roughly the same. Even among Republicans, only 57% “strongly approve” — down from 75% in January, according to a Wall Street Journal poll.
Senator Johnson could have rescued his party by setting convention delegates straight on the election and the insurrection. (He did vote to certify Biden’s victory.) A complaisant Congress, pandering to the lowest common denominator, enabled this latest outrage. (An entire room at the hdq of the Dane County Republican party is devoted to disproving the 2020 election. Resembles the paranoid map in the movie A Beautiful Mind.)
Mr. Trump … has become self-indulgent even by his standards. The Trump name on everything, the Beltway “arch” and other monuments to French-like grandeur. And most of all the politics of retribution and lawfare as he seeks to ruin anyone he thinks has wronged him. He seems incapable of rising above. — “Trump has lost the governing plot“
Blaska’s Bottom Line: If Democrats take the majority in the House of Representatives, as many predict, Speaker Jeffries is certain to impeach Trump. Don’t count on the next Senate to acquit.
8 responses to “Sorry, Mr. President; you can’t do that”
Dave, please stop drinking that free beer from Minocqua Brewery you are getting drunk.
Tell RoJo and Ted Cruz.
Both Ted and Ron believe there were “shenanigans” during 2020, Trump says they plain out cheated. When you look at the corruption in the bowels of Minnesota’s bureaucrats and think this couldn’t happen there and everywhere you are whistling past Bangstad’s grog shop. There is good evidence that January 6th was a grass roots riot that got out of hand and the Democrats and the RINOs turned it into a Hollywood docudrama. Just look at what Biden’s goons did to Jim Troupis.
Prove it. After 63 lost court cases you would be the first to do it. You here’s your chance to make history.
Democracy in the parking alone was enough to turn Wisconsin, not mention the fraudulent mail in ballots they can’t account for. In every attempt democrats berucrats are resisting transparency. It will come out sooner than later.
With everything going on 2020 is the thing keeping you up? Read a friggin newspaper. TACO’s entire cabinet is made up of grifters, liars, drunks and fools. Are you enjoying watching them steal and waste your tax dollars?
TACO’s money grab has so many voters mad that even the GOP is growing a spine. Give Trump the money and your midterms are in the toilet. This on top of the Iran mess will clean out many offices in DC. After that happens it will be the Supreme Court that gets a good cleaning.
Tiffany needs to ditch T and stand up for what’s right, and R voters need to swallow some pride and make him. Admit T is a crook, say sorry for supporting a crook, admit it was a poor choice, let him get impeached, and move on. Tiffany can’t turn on T until WI Rs give him permission to.
Look how great it turned out for Rs after Nixon – getting rid of that baggage ushered in decades of conservative progress starting only a few years later. Not that I want decades of conservative progress, but for the good of the country we’ll all be better off if Rs face reality. It just makes Rs look like clowns to keep going to bat for T. Cabinet members are literally walking around in comically oversized shoes just because T tells them to!
Free R politicians from this burden, they clearly can’t do it without your help. Or, don’t… and just keep clinging to your red hats into the midterms.