Told to leave the party
More on the inspiring theme of Republicans declaring war on the criminal justice system:
Almost no Republican official has stood up to suggest Trump should not be the party’s presidential candidate for the November election — in fact, some have sought to hasten his nomination. Few others dared to defend the legitimacy of the New York state court that heard the hush money case against the former president or the 12 jurors who unanimously rendered their verdict.
In fact, any Republicans who expressed doubts about Trump’s innocence or political viability, including his former hawkish national security adviser John Bolton or top-tier Senate candidate Larry Hogan of Maryland, were instantly bullied by the former president’s enforcers and told to “leave the party.”
They might as well all be jumping into a swimming pool filled with pig shit. It would make just as much sense.
Rather than shunning Trump’s escalating authoritarian language or ensuring they will provide checks and balances for a second Trump term, the Republican senators and representatives are upturning longstanding faith in U.S. governance and setting the stage for what they plan to do if Trump regains power.
That longstanding faith in U.S. governance bit is what makes it so baffling and hard to believe. How does anyone get from longstanding faith in U.S. governance to unconditional support of a trashy mean vulgar stupid greedy lying pig of a convicted felon?
On Friday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, demanded the prosecutors Alvin Bragg and Matthew Colangelo appear for a June hearing on the “weaponization of the federal government” and “the unprecedented political prosecution” of Trump — despite the fact that Biden, as president, has no authority over the state courts in New York.
Jordan is weaponizing Congress to accuse Biden of doing something he has no power to do.
Where did all the grownups go? Why did they leave us alone with these lunatics?
The whole thing makes me think of Leslie Nielson’s line from one of his movies: I love swimming in raw sewage. That seems to be what the GOP is saying.
I bet Jim Jordan is relying on the fact that few Americans actually know what powers the president has; too many see him as a king-like figure.
Perhaps seduced by the idea that “Winning isn’t everything: it’s the only thing”?
From the Constitutional Convention of September 1787, which established the government of the United States, to the swimming pool full of pig shit of 2024, is by my calculations some 237 years.
Ah well, it was good while it lasted, and definitely a lighthouse to the world in its time, but nothing lasts forever.
I was surprised and impressed to read the words of a conservative religious woman I know. She was elated that Trump was found guilty, and angry that the Republican Party couldn’t manage to find someone else to nominate. She suggested half a dozen people that I thought were terrible, but it’s not difficult to be a less bad candidate than Trump.
Not only is winning everything; winning with the worst possible hand is the only thing. Might work too, but there’s half a dozen candidates that *would* have beaten Biden but instead they absolutely had to choose the one that only *might*.
More proof free will ain’t a thing…
It scares me that the alternative to this is whatever the dems will do to further entrench Transgenderism if they win. Just like Labour in the UK I think they’ll spin any sort of victory as a sign that “the people” support their policies on Transgenderism, even if they only squeak out a majority and post election polling shows that they lost support because of the Trans issue.