I think we all do!

 

kingdragonfly:  NewsWeek: DONALD TRUMP JR.: Trump Was Right About Everything

Now that's what I call "alternative reality" ...   🙂

quickymart:

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/19/brian-kemp-david-perdue-donald-trump-2020-00018601

 

Interesting read about how Trump tried to pressure the Governor of Georgia to overturn the election results in his favour, and how the Governor told him to get stuffed.

 

Thanks for the link. I already knew Trump was a crazy festering a-hole, but now I realize he's a actually a moronic crazy diseased festering a-hole with high-level Putinic delusions.

I wonder if anyone calls him Dave (his real name).

gzt: In case anyone somehow missed that Madison Cawthorn is a crazed psycho:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/27/making-madison-cawthorn-how-falsehoods-helped-propel-career-new-pro-trump-star-far-right/

 

neb: Whaddya mean "crazed psycho", he's a serial liar and sexual predator just like his former boss, that makes him an ideal Republican.

 

The perfect Republican

The Washington Post - Opinion: Madison Cawthorn is in trouble. And it’s entirely his own fault.

18 March

Madison Cawthorn’s pugnacious, in-your-face persona has earned the Republican congressman national attention, even though he is only 26 years old. 

 

That brash aggressiveness might pay off online, but it might not be playing well with voters back in his North Carolina district.

 

Cawthorn came to Congress with a clear objective: write tweets, not laws.

 

“I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation,” he wrote to colleagues in January 2021. He hasn’t deviated from his strategy since. ...

 

But there are signs that Cawthorn’s chutzpah is catching up with him. ...

 

A video of him calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” and decrying Ukraine’s democratic government as “evil” has earned Cawthorn rebukes from his state’s Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. 

 

Tillis’s comments referenced the fact that Russian state media have been playing Cawthorn’s remarks to whip up support for Vladimir Putin’s war. ...

 

Most Republicans disagree with Cawthorn. 

 

Sixty-eight percent of Republicans think it’s a good idea to send Ukraine weapons, and 80 percent say Ukraine is either an ally or a friend of the United States.

 

I don't know how any female could be attracted to him in any way at all - this is the a'hole that goes around saying things like "mothers, raise your sons to be monsters". Yeah, like you're a real catch, buddy 🙄

quickymart:

this is the a'hole that goes around saying things like "mothers, raise your sons to be monsters". Yeah, like you're a real catch, buddy 🙄

Eine gewalttätige, herrische, unerschrockene, grausame Jugend will ich

Could Trump be losing his grip on the Republican party?

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/21/politics/trump-mcconnell-removal-senate-influence/index.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/599091-republicans-ramp-up-support-for-candidates-snubbed-by-trump

We can only hope.

 

quickymart:  Could Trump be losing his grip on the Republican party?

 

The Washington Post - Opinion: Donald Trump has gone from cult leader to weather vane

today

Defeated former president Donald Trump might nominally enjoy the support of a large majority of Republicans, but rather than set the direction for the party on policies and campaign messaging, he has become a follower - racing to get in line with right-wing trends and conform to the preferences set by others.

 

This is remarkable for a man who transformed his once-Cold Warrior party into a band of Russian apologists and appeasers. ...

 

For a time, Trump continued his praise of Putin as “savvy” and “a genius,” but eventually he managed to get in sync with bipartisan consensus. ...

 

Trump is now reduced to the role of a delinquent follower in a party that is straining to run in the midterms on something other than his grievances about 2020. 

 

No longer the trendsetter or the kingmaker, Trump is now simply another GOP opportunist with a fragile ego.

 

Maybe ... but he still has plenty of followers  😶

Yes, I think Trump's (personal) popularity barometer is how many people turn out to see him at his rallies. But that doesn't mean anything at the ballot box - something else he has complained about before too.

The NY Times - Trump Is Guilty of ‘Numerous’ Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says

23 March

One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it was “a grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter.

 

The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment of Mr. Trump.

 

Mr. Pomerantz, 70, a prominent former federal prosecutor and white-collar defense lawyer who came out of retirement to work on the Trump investigation, resigned on the same day as Carey R. Dunne, another senior prosecutor leading the inquiry. *

 

[From his resignation letter]  

 

"I believe that Donald Trump is guilty of numerous felony violations of the Penal Law in connection with the preparation and use of his annual Statements of Financial Condition.

"His financial statements were false, and he has a long history of fabricating information relating to his personal finances and lying about his assets to banks, the national media, counterparties, and many others, including the American people.

 

"The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes - he did."

 

* Pomerantz and Dunne planned to charge Trump with falsifying business records, specifically his annual financial statements - a felony in New York State.