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Trump thread part 2 (Or anything else we want to talk about that's ridiculous in politics today)

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buzzmobile said:


If that happens to Matt it will probably boost his campaign to be the next governor in Florida.
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You know, the fact that Matt Gaetz is evem talked about let alone still in Congress is proof in my mind of how diseased right wing politics has become after being exposed to the infection that is Donald Trump. I mean this guy was and as far as I know still is heaviy implicated in a number of serious crimes, not the least of which is child sex trafficing. The republican party used to be so much about the rule of law an christian values that just the hint of being involved in such crimes would have gotten him expelled from Congress or at the very least would have him being very quiet in the background so as to not draw attention to himself. Now though he's almost as bad as Trump when it comes to outrageous positions and statements all intended to draw attention to himself no matter how bad it ultimately makes him look. If there is any redemption to be found in Florida politics this clown will be voted out of officethe next time his term is up, if he isn't removed by some other means first.
 
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Today's episode of News You Won't Get From Fox is brought to you by Jake Tapper of CNN:

John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN.

Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump made behind closed doors attacking US service members and veterans, listing a number of objectionable comments Kelly witnessed Trump make firsthand.

“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.

“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.

“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”

In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

Those details also include Trump’s inability to understand why the American public respects former prisoners of war and those shot down in combat. Then-candidate Trump of course said in front of a crowd in 2015 that former Vietnam POW Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, was “not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” But behind closed doors, sources told Goldberg, this lack of understanding went on to cause Trump to repeatedly call McCain a “loser” and to refer to former President George H. W. Bush, who was also shot down as a Navy pilot in World War II, as a “loser.”

CNN reached out to the Trump campaign Monday afternoon, telling officials there that a former administration official had confirmed, on the record, a number of details about the 2020 Atlantic story, without naming Kelly, and seeking comment. The Trump campaign responded by insulting the character and credibility of retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, who had nothing to do with this story.

The Atlantic article also described Trump’s 2018 visit to France for the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I, where, according to several senior staff members, Trump said he did not want to visit the graves of American soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris because, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.

And Kelly’s statement adds context to a story in the book “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, in which Trump, after a separate trip to France in 2017, tells Kelly he wants no wounded veterans in a military parade he’s trying to have planned in his honor. Inspired by the Bastille Day parade, except for the section of the parade featuring wounded French veterans in wheelchairs, Trump tells Kelly, “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade.”

“Those are the heroes,” Kelly said. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are – and they are buried over in Arlington.”

“I don’t want them,” Trump said. “It doesn’t look good for me.”

The story squares with another recent story from Goldberg in The Atlantic, a profile of retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, in which Trump does not react well to seeing severely wounded Army Captain Luis Avila singing “God Bless America” at a welcome event for the new chairman. “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.”

Kelly’s statement also refers to a remark Trump made in response to that same article, which describes Milley, in the closing days of the Trump presidency in 2020, receiving intelligence that the Chinese military feared Trump was about to order a military strike on it. Milley, in a call authorized by Trump administration officials, reassured his Chinese counterparts that such a strike was not going to happen.

That call was first reported in 2021 in the book “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, but Trump said this past week on his social media site that the call was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”

Asked for reaction to the suggestion that he deserves execution, Milley told Norah O’Donnell of “60 Minutes” that he wouldn’t “comment directly on those, those things. But I can tell you that this military, this soldier, me, will never turn our back on that Constitution.”

Kelly’s statement to CNN comes days after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson sat down with CNN in an interview promoting her new book, “Enough,” and warned the public that “Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.”

“Enough,” interestingly, contains a scene in which Hutchinson and then-White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin push back against Goldberg’s 2020 story. Griffin issued a statement to The Atlantic after that story posted denying the report.

Reached for comment over the weekend, Griffin said, “Despite publicly praising the military and claiming to be the most pro-military president, there’s a demonstrable record of Trump bashing the most decorated service members in our country, from Gen. Mattis to Kelly to Milley, to criticizing the wounded or deceased like John McCain. Donald Trump will fundamentally never understand service the way those who have actually served in uniform will, and it’s one of the countless reasons he’s unfit to be commander in chief.”

No other presidential candidate in history has had so many detractors from his inner circle. His former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, told CNN in November 2022, “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”

Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, told CBS in June that “he is a consummate narcissist. And he constantly engages in reckless conduct. … He will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests. Our country can’t, you know, can’t be a therapy session for you know, a troubled man like this.”
 
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Donald Trump reportedly called in a massive McDonalds order to court on Monday, with TMZ capturing staffers in dark suits carrying six large brown bags from the fast food chain into the New York courthouse where Trump is on trial. Trump’s love of the Golden Arches is well-documented, with the former president calling in an order of $5,500 worth of grub from fast food restaurants—most of which was from McDonalds—to feed the Clemson University football team in 2019 when they visited the White House. He also dined on some of the iconic chain’s food when he was recovering from COVID-19, ordering his favorite meal—a Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake. Prior to Monday’s big lunch, Trump was reportedly berated in court with accusations that he lied for decades about the value of his properties. The civil suit could cost Trump as much as $250 million after a judge ruled he was liable for fraud.
 
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GOT_BUD? said:
Sissy...

www.thedailybeast.com

Gaetz Backs Down on McCarthy Ouster—for Now

The Florida congressman said he planned to resume his campaign to oust McCarthy later this week.
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Nah, he changed his mind and did it later in the day, apparently after this story was reported. Of course at this point it's all just proecdural. From what I heard over the weekend news shows Democrats are pretty much all saying that they don't plan on helping McCarthy keep his position. They seem to all think it's hilarious because of how dysfunctional it all makes them look. I heard in one report after Gaetz announce his motion to vacate to start the process, all the democrats on the floor at that moment broke out in laughter.
 
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Nah, he changed his mind and did it later in the day, apparently after this story was reported. Of course at this point it's all just proecdural. From what I heard over the weekend news shows Democrats are pretty much all saying that they don't plan on helping McCarthy keep his position. They seem to all think it's hilarious because of how dysfunctional it all makes them look. I heard in one report after Gaetz announce his motion to vacate to start the process, all the democrats on the floor at that moment broke out in laughter.
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Aoc and the squad could be driving dem policy like this if they weren’t corporate shills.
 
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Zeez said:
NY just gagged him! 🤣
I guess he better get used to gagging.
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That reminds me of a joke about an elephant and a mouse having sex -

An elephant was walking through the jungle. She stepped on a
thorn and started to cry. "OW, OW! This hurts! Somebody help
me!" Just then, a little mouse passed by.


"Oh, please, little mouse!" the elephant pleaded. "Please take
this thorn out of my foot! It really hurts!"


"No Way!!" cried the mouse. "I know you! You stepped on my
brother last week!"


"I'm sorry about that! Just, please! Help me! I'll do anything!"
cried the elephant.


"Anything?" replied the mouse skeptically.


"Yes! I promise!" swore the elephant.


"Well, okay!" said the mouse.


So the mouse pulled the thorn out of the elephant's foot,
causing instant relief.


"Thank you little mouse!" said the elephant. "What can I do to
repay you?"


The mouse smiled and said, "Now, you have to let me have my way
with you."


The elephant was horrified. But, she did promise the mouse she'd
do anything, so she reluctantly obliged.


So the mouse climbed on top of the elephant and started fucking
her as fast as his little mouse body could.


Just then, some monkeys were sitting in a tree, watching,
disgusted at this mouse fucking an elephant. So they started
throwing coconuts at the elephant's head.


"Ow!" cried the elephant as the coconuts bashed her tender
skull. "That hurts! Stop it!"


The mouse kept going and said, "Yeah! Take it all, bitch! Take
it all!"
 
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