Miscellaneous Political Stuff - Part 18…

Will MGT and/or Boebert behave tonight? House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) privately told Republicans to behave at President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech on Thursday, The Hill reported. The request comes after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) made a spectacle of herself at last year's address.


And then I just saw this on X:  Some House Republicans are dismissing Speaker Johnson's calls for decorum during the State of the Union tonight.



Rep. Lauren Boebert told me: “I don’t even promise my pastor I’m going to hold back in church.



And MTG says: "Decorum broke a long time ago."

and we should show the videos of all those who stood up and  denounced TFG and Jan 6th in their own words!!




Jan 6th in their own words!!

The ads are out. They are not good .. they are vicious. .
It's going to be a v.e.r.y. long 8 months!!

Have we discussed this yet?

Rep Ronny Jackson is no longer an Admiral, he got demoted by the Navy!!!!
Although TFG could change that if he gets reelected.
They should have done the same thing to Flynn also!!


Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), the former White House physician, was demoted by the U.S. Navy following an inspector general's report that found he acted inappropriately while serving under then-president Donald Trump.

The Navy demoted the two-term congressman from a retired admiral to captain, which carries serious financial implications and a social stigma among military circles, after the Pentagon inspector general faulted him for creating a hostile work environment and drinking and taking drugs while on duty as the president's doctor, reported the Washington Post.
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"While it is possible that others will mistakenly refer to him as ‘Admiral’ in perpetuity, he himself should not make that mistake,” said Katherine L. Kuzminski, a military policy expert at Center for a New American Security.

Navy official confirmed the service branch took unspecified action against Jackson in response to the 2021 inspector general report, which found that he berated subordinates, “made sexual and denigrating statements” toward a woman who served under him, and took the sleep drug Ambien and drank alcohol with subordinates while on duty.

The annual pension payment for a retired one-star admiral, as Jackson was when he retired in December 2019, is more than $15,000 higher than what a retired captain would draw, according to Kuzminski, and that gap will likely widen over time with periodic rate increases.

www.rawstory.com/admiral-ronny-jackson/

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/07/donald-trump-voter-liberals

Trump voters. Who are they?

“Donald Trump is certain to be the Republican candidate in this year’s election for US president. He is also currently favourite to win. To most readers of the Guardian, I am sure this prospect is appalling, as it is to most Britons. The nation to which they gave birth and language, that has been their friend and protector down the ages, seems to be going mad.

Britons who know the US are amazed that, however reluctantly, enough of its voters might again choose Trump to rule over them after the experience of 2017 to 2021. Who are these Americans? How can they be so blind to his faults, with the law hounding him, gossip ridiculing him and commentators pouring scorn and derision on his every word?

The answer is that the Americans who support Trump are not those whom most Britons know. They are elderly and rural: they are often, but by no means solely, working class and/or non-graduates. But, above all, they love Trump because they, too, are hostile to the Americans that he purports to hate.

These hated Americans – the language of Trump’s rallies is visceral – mostly live in big cities down the east and west coasts. They favour federal government, identity politics, social liberalism and free trade. They are led by a college-educated, liberal establishment. Of course, these are generalisations – but that is what Trump trades in.

His claim is that over the past two decades this establishment has corrupted the nation’s identity and bruised its essence. Using the rhetoric of a mafia boss, he declares he will smash these enemies of America. He will stop Mexicans crossing the border, with guns if need be. He will execute drug dealers, protect American families from gender politics, leave idiot Europeans to their petty wars and end Biden’s crazy foreign interventions.

Trump is the braggart of every bar-room brawl. Most democratic leaders come to power with their rough edges softened through climbing the ladder of party politics. Not so Trump. The only experience he brought to the White House was that of New York’s property jungle, a world of rivalry, double-dealing and revenge; his favourite motto is the phrase he used in January towards his now fallen rival Nikki Haley: “I don’t get too angry, I get even.”

A large amount of the abuse that Trump attracts from his critics disappointingly relies on raw snobbery. It comprises attacks on his dress, his manners, his vulgar houses and his coarse turn of phrase – and echoes the remarks of English toffs on the arrival of the first Labour government in Downing Street. They do him no harm in the eyes of his fans. Early comparisons with Mussolini played to his self-image as a warrior taking on an entrenched elite.

See it through their eyes: the US did not collapse into dictatorship under Trump. Enemies were not arrested nor hostile media shut down. Since leaving office, though, his own enemies have not stopped trying to convict and imprison him, even as the trials merely aid his cause. Colorado’s attempt to stop him running for office was as legally wrongheaded as it was counterproductive.

The US economy did well under Trump, better than Britain’s. He made a genuine if futile attempt to find peace in Korea. Vladimir Putin, with whom his relations remain obscure, did not invade Ukraine while he was in the White House. His recent demand that Nato and Europe reassess both their strategy and their forces was hardly unreasonable, if poorly expressed. His fixation with immigration is hardly confined to the American continent.

That is why Trump’s enemies would do well to look to the causes of their own unpopularity. Democracy gives no quarter. It is one person, one vote, and its believers cannot complain when the arithmetic goes against them. Trump complains that the US ruling class and its media – apart from the bits he controls – are governed by new ideologies based on gender and race. He claims they want to ban conservatism from campuses, “defund” the police and flood the country with Mexican labour and Chinese goods. There is just enough truth in these accusations to have his supporters cheering him on.

A prominent US senator recently assured a private gathering in London that Americans would never return Trump to the White House. It was inconceivable. Those declaring for him were just “just trying to give us a fright”.

I can only hope he is right. With the present state of things in the world, the erratic Trump should never be in a position to lead what is still, tenuously, the free world. But those who oppose him should study what makes him so popular in the eyes of most Americans – and makes them less so.”

What would another Donald Trump presidency mean for the planet?

The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried.
A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even more extreme for the environment than his first.
But, before he does any of that, Trump needs to win in November.

Kris Kobach was the one who was supposed to find election issues, I think, and never called a committee meeting and found nothing...

Lara trump has already told the world that TFG gets all the monies! He is now their candidate! May they have fun spending. Hopefully they will have to answer to their bankrupt supporters...

Conservatives leaving of RNC....

For many Republicans, the party's recent decision to make Donald Trump's family member one of its leaders was a step too far.

Trump has encouraged the addition of his daughter-in-law, Lara, to the leadership team at the Republican National Committee. For her part, Lara Trump has stood beside her claims that Republicans want to fund her father-in-law's vast legal bills.

But for certain rank and file GOPers just trying to hold on to the party they've always associated with, the decision smacks of nepotism. Some of them are choosing to leave the party, just as many longtime members did when Trump won the primary this week.

U.S. Army Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein vowed to withhold future donations in light of the installation of Lara Trump.

"Lara Trump is now Co-Chair of the RNC. After a lifetime of donating to every GOP nominee and multiple down ballot candidates every cycle….I’m out," he said Friday. "I donated to help win elections, not to maintain the lifestyle of a billionaire. No point donating now."

Conservative Navy veteran Dan Stilwell concurred: "I will not donate another penny to the GOP as long as she is involved in its leadership."

@noaharkmoney had a similar thought: "MAGA [GOP] not getting a dime from me ever again. Good luck trying to raise money for Trump's legal issues."

www.rawstory.com/gop-exodus-lara-trump/

I like Brian Taylor Cohen's response to this

Republicans are straight up defending lead pipes now. Talk about losing the plot.

She should have had her ass hauled out of there.  Why did the Sergeant of Arms back down and let her break the rules?  It really pisses me off that she got away with what she did.

Hummm.... The chair of the RNC is Michael Whatley, a longtime GOP operative.

The new head of the Republican National Committee appears to have something to hide from the MAGA base, and maybe from Donald Trump himself.

Both!!!!!!!! Tell me again how this is not deplorable!!!!!