Today’s. Miscellaneous political news - Part 9

Can he get a bumper sticker that says “I’m a victim, vote for me”

Usually when announcing you’re running for office you tell the people what you are going to do for them so they will vote for you…

What dumpster don doesn’t understand is he can’t demand anything. No President can. Especially something like this.

From Aaron Rupar

”40 seconds from Trump's mess of a campaign launch speech that stuck with me”

“Most of this newsletter consists of a Q&A with Ari Berman about election deniers’ midterm failures, but considering all the years I’ve spent covering Trump, I feel I’d be remiss if I didn’t begin with a few words about the long, rambling speech that officially launched his third presidential bid.

There was something slightly off about it. The speech was basically the same one he’s been delivering at his rallies for years, but the response to it from the Mar-a-Lago faithful seemed oddly low energy. A reporter who was there filmed a particularly brutal scene for Trump of people trying to leave the ballroom while he was still speaking but being prevented from doing so.

CNN and Fox News initially carried Trump’s speech live — an editorial choice that reportedly “disgusted” a former CNN producer — but even Fox News bailed as he ranted and raved for more than an hour.

The whole thing felt mailed in, as though Trump didn’t put any thought into actually coming up with a coherent message beyond lying about his first term being some sort of American golden age that Biden ruined. But the fragments of a message that emerged were remarkably bleak.

The part of the speech where Trump talked hyperbolically about “the blood-soaked streets of our once-great cities" was basically American Carnage 2.0. But something Trump said shortly after that is what’s sticking with me. In an effort both to explain his terrible midterm showing and provide a rationale for why he’s running again, Trump essentially made a case that Americans just don’t understand how bad things are and how much worse they will soon get.

"The total effect of the suffering is just starting to take hold,” he said. “They don’t quite feel it yet, but they will very soon. I have no doubt that by 2024 it will sadly be much worse."

Trump 2024: It Will Get Worse (with some help from the new House GOP majority).

It’s hard to imagine a message that negative resonating with an electorate that has rejected Trumpism for three straight election cycles. But it boggles the mind that a conman like Trump ever won elected office in the first place.

Given the sorry state of the GOP, I’m more convinced than ever that Trump will face a tough battle to win the Republican primary. But that didn’t make it less disconcerting to hear him dehumanize people and talk about how he wants to execute drug dealers.“

Ain’t that something.

If a Republican claims support for something that traditionally is not considered a conservative value then don’t believe them no matter how many times they claim otherwise.  Because they are lying.  An example is below and the lying Supreme Court Justices during their confirmation hearings when it came to Roe v Wade.

Unbelievable!!