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Trump: ‘I’m so angry at

artappraiser — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:39:44 +0000

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The president says his fellow Republicans have let him it down when it comes to investigating Obama and the Bidens.

@ Politico.com, Sept. 21

President Donald Trump said Monday he was furious with Republicans in Washington for not doing enough to take up his unsubstantiated claims about former Obama administration officials and Hunter Biden.

“Does anything happen? Nothing happens,” Trump said at an event in Dayton, Ohio. “I’m so angry at Republicans. I am. I’m so angry. I am so angry, but a lot of things are happening.” [....]

Trump lashed out at Comey, a frequent target of his, accusing him and “all the sleazebags” of “treason.”

“They spied on my campaign, and we caught ‘em,” Trump said in Dayton during an event billed as being about jobs and fighting for American workers. “Let‘s now see what happens.”

The president claimed that he is “trying like hell to stay out of” investigating his political enemies ahead of a highly contentious election. Emotions are likely to be ratcheted up further in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday. Republican operatives have credited a high court vacancy with partially fueling his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton.

“I don’t have to actually, but it’s better if I do, I think,” Trump said of investigations. “I’m trying to stay out of it, but it’s a disgrace that it’s taken this long.”[....]

The North Carolina

artappraiser — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 06:02:44 +0000

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The North Carolina Republicans Who Are Defecting from Trump

"Dispatch" at length, by Peter Slevin @ NewYorker.com, Aug. 24

W. David Guice, Page Ives Lemel, and Mike Hawkins, all members of the Transylvania County Board of Commissioners, have left the North Carolina Republican Party and say they will not support Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

This shows how trying it is

artappraiser — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:47:01 +0000

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This shows how trying it is to be a Republican running in a purple (let's just all agree AZ is purple) state: Trump loyalist are skeptical of you and Independents are turned off by you.

Great reporting by @jjcooper https://t.co/Tr4AMCWPSC
— Lauren Gambino (@laurenegambino) August 18, 2020

There is definitely something

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 16:53:48 +0000

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There is definitely something to this:

This fits very well with what @ezraklein and @mattyglesias we’re saying on their pod, and what @drvox said on Twitter. Even the “normal” Republicans are just trying to be Charlie Kirk. Their entire focus is on culture war crap, and they have no capacity to solve actual problems. https://t.co/XD0JCSofME
— Ben Yelin (@byelin) August 15, 2020

But I think it defines how some of them went into politics to be a celebrity at it. Those who did that always do culture wars and always did them, but they have seen Trump is a intuitive master at exactly that (maybe, like Rubio they learned that the hard way by being a target) and that is why they defend him, they are the ones that defend him most strongly. Because he has the technique down, a celeb going way back doing it.

Others that went into politics for other reasons either keep their head down or get pissed or got pissed and quit the party.

Depends on what you define as normal. Was John McCain or is Romney or Ben Sasse a "normal" Republican? After all, the first two ran for president representing the Republican party.

CNN calls out Trump lies

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:29:11 +0000

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CNN calls out Trump lies

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/08/11/trump-coronavirus-mai...

And why Russia, guys?

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 04:26:05 +0000

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And why Russia, guys? Elephant in room

Check out my latest column,

artappraiser — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 04:18:43 +0000

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Check out my latest column, up now: @realDonaldTrump and the @SenateGOP aren't Republicans or conservative. https://t.co/ZLe9UIZ3KZ via @NBCNewsTHINK
— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) August 12, 2020

GOP Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.)

artappraiser — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 02:02:47 +0000

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GOP Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) says Trump is violating the Constitution:

“President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law. Under the Constitution, that power belongs to the American people acting through their members of Congress.” pic.twitter.com/6voOJSMNzs
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 9, 2020

Description of the fans/cult

artappraiser — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 01:16:20 +0000

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Description of the fans/cult that I find useful:

Excerpt from "Justice in a Post-Trump World."

The Carnival Barker Who Would Be King:
The United States of American certainly isn’t the first country to see its government succumb to rampant corruption. We Americans tend to look back at Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 9, 2020

and say to ourselves, “that could never happen here.” And perhaps that’s true, at least partially. We have not rounded up, confined and exterminated millions of people. We have not wholly deprived people of their civil or human rights based on their race, ethnicity or religion
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 9, 2020

(at least not recently). No, ours is a uniquely American atrocity.
Our atrocity involves an all-consuming quest to acquire and retain power. It started with an unflinchingly amoral, failed businessman turned successful political conman. The carnival barker who would be king.
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 9, 2020

Millions voted for and stood by Trump even as it became apparent that he cared only about his own wealth, power and status and not at all about the welfare of America or its people.
It’s not surprising that people can be duped into following a charlatan. It’s even less
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 9, 2020

surprising that once they signed on to Team Trump, they were reluctant to disengage. Human beings like to be part of something, they like to belong. Belonging is why troubled kids often gravitate toward criminal gangs or street crews. If they can’t get a feeling of belonging at
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 9, 2020

home, they may turn to the streets for “positive” reinforcement, for attention, for inclusion.

More to follow soon . . .
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 9, 2020

Congressman Scott DesJarlais

artappraiser — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 03:22:48 +0000

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Congressman Scott DesJarlais has been a tremendous advocate for family values in between his six admitted affairs, three with staffers. He's also fought for the pro-life cause in between encouraging women he's impregnated to get abortions. In sum, he's a Trump Republican. https://t.co/CKBdnmCqb6
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 5, 2020