Trump and the military! Did he really see them as his personal army? Did he get the point when General Sava told him that Hitler’s generals tried to kill him three times? It’s hard to believe that he did considering his dictatorial aspirations.
He obviously sees himself as a kind of WASP Mussolini without the hanging in the square part. He could never fit that into his fantasy. He even has the jaw for it. He has neither the intellect nor the subtlety to get what Sava was saying. He really expected the military to keep Biden out of the White House based on his election result lies. That’s because he sees the army as serving him rather than the people of the United States. It’s one of those miscalculations that in the right circumstances could get a guy killed.
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Does anyone else find the Right’s attacks on the FBI hilarious? The FBI: the coven of Right Wing law and order from its inception, is suddenly being attacked by the most fascist of our gun crazies. From J. Edgar Hoover on, the FBI has always been over the top in its investigations of the Left and anyone or anything that seems to lean that way. I remember the way the FBI recruited at my alma mater, Notre Dame. They wanted all those Catholic boys who hated queers and Commies. Yeah, good luck with that. So where did the Trumpies get the idea that they have changed overnight? They got it from the criminal slob who has been trying to undermine any kind of law, just so he can benefit from it.
There used to be a saying; “Just because he said it, doesn’t mean it’s true.” That has, in the case of our sociopathic ex-President, been changed to: “Just because he said it, definitely means it’s a lie.”
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Several broadcasters have made a big thing about the fact that GOP candidates and congressmen are raising money on the news of the FBI’s seizure of classified materials from Trump’s digs at Mar-a-Lago. Is that supposed to be news? For years, Trump and his sycophants have been using any pretext they can to raise money from the fools that support them. There are a lot of GOP millionaires and even more dumb clowns who are willing to take food out of their children’s mouths to support this crook. That won’t change until Trump is in jail and doesn’t have anything on which to spend his money.
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People are amazed at how the congressional fanatics like Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan and Lindsay Graham can continue to support a crook like Donald Trump. I just don’t see any way they would not. They are just mirror images of Trump without the chutzpah. But it’s no wonder that they act as they do when even moderate Republicans like Mike Rounds of SD and Larry Hogan of Maryland won’t completely admit to Trump’s failings or to the FBI’s right to do what they are doing.
It does appear that both Rounds and Hogan are correct in their opinion that the Bureau should make this action completely transparent. This isn’t easy for an organization that has traditionally kept everything they are doing to themselves but in this case, they should open it up for their own protection. It’s too easy for the Trump nuts to accuse them of being an arm of the current President and claim that this is nothing but a political ploy. There is only one defense against this and it’s everything on the table. If they do this, they can not only move ahead with prosecuting Trump but they can stick it to all those who have been calling them nasty names through this whole action.
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Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a tough guy, especially when he’s bigger than his opponent or has a bunch of his thugs around to protect him, One of his favorite attacks was always against anyone who took the fifth, his logic being that anyone who did, was admitting his guilt because why would anyone do that if he wasn’t guilty?
Well the fat crook took the Fifth over 400 times in a deposition in NY about his finances the other day. Using his own logic, I guess he’s guilty of everything they have charged him with and more
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Liz Cheney, the great anomaly! Love her for fighting Trump; hate her for most of her issues that are anathema to any fair-minded person.
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The CDC has admitted to making a lot of mistakes in judgment and programing during the COVID pandemic. Now the question is, how do they go about fixing the problems? It has been suggested that since they recognize their mistakes and know the programs, they be allowed to fix the problems rather than passing them on to an incompetent congress. Congress must fix itself before it can come close to doing anybody else any good.
Debra Birx, who folded like a paper tent during the Trump denial period of the plague, seems to think that we should give the private sector a bigger say in what happens to our health care. Yeah, that’s worked great so far. Our pharmaceutical monsters charge us more than they do anyone in the world, and it costs $400 for a safety pin in most hospitals.
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I was watching a campaign ad by a woman name Michelle Bond, who is running on a conservative ticket and drilling home the need to lower taxes, and it occurred to me that while lowering taxes has always been a GOP platform it’s really the wrong thing to worry about. Sure, it’s always nice to look to lower taxes but what we really should look for is increasing productivity which would allow us to do a lot more with the sane tax dollar. I never hear the conservatives talk about increasing productivity in government. The Democrats don’t even consider it when they look to pass big money bills and that gives the Conservatives a legitimate bitch.
The Biden administration has passed a couple of trillion bucks worth of much needed legislation in the last year and a half, all of it attacked, not unfairly, by the GOP for being a leaky bucket. I think it’s time that both parties check out how the money in these bills will be protected from the thieves on both sides that are drooling all over them before they are even signed.
Government is by its nature a wasteful operation, but we should, at least, try to protect the hard- earned money that our taxpayers shell out to help the nation and their fellow citizens.
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Mike Turner ® of Ohio was asked this week to comment on the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago clubhouse and he showed us why the whole GOP is in the toilet when it comes to, truth, logic, and reasonable thought. Instead of answering the question about the redacted order that has been requested by the judge, he immediately launched into an attack on the process, never dealing with the fact that the only reason for this raid was that Trump, through is lawyers, had sworn falsely that he had returned the information sought even though he had not. If Trump had cooperated and returned the documents, to which he had no right, instead of acting like a spoiled child protecting a toy he had stolen from some other kid, the raid would never have happened. But Turner never deals with this basic fact. Rather, he babbles on about drug smugglers, Chinese spies and the war in Ukraine; anything in fact to get away from the question.
And on your observations go!