Proof that the Cult of Trump and the GOP are not the same thing

By artappraiser on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 10:51pm |

This shit is hilarious-

.. the Trump cartel is refusing to let the RNC provide any real money for House Republican reelection campaigns, even though House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is begging for money.
— concretejungle (@NYCjungle2016) July 26, 2020

parent tweet after the jump

Oh, that is a shame.

I mean, what could happen if someone tossed a boat anchor to some of their drowning candidates?

I mean, just pour encourager les autres?

I wonder.https://t.co/VuAMnLLkb3
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 26, 2020

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by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 3:52pm

Trump scandals in 1 tweet

TRUMP-UKRAINE. Putin allies in Ukraine launder Trump campaign donations via shady Trump associates and provide fake dirt on Biden in exchange for Trump's help returning Ukraine's energy industry to Kremlin control. Side deals to keep Manafort quiet, aid Putin's war in Ukraine.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 26, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 3:53pm

yes, a reminder that John McCain continues to roll in grave. On that same front, ran across this Jennifer Rubin column from five days ago How to avoid a repeat of 2016 and the Ukraine extortion plot

A Russian flunky in the Ukraine parliament has bragged about sending information seeking to incriminate former vice president Joe Biden to the Trump campaign and to a Senate committee headed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), neither of which will even comment on the matter. If this sounds like deja vu all over again, that’s because it is — unless Democrats put an end to it.

The New York Times reports: [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 5:47pm

Senility or Incompetence? Unreal. pic.twitter.com/p0m4sUOr5P
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 1, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 9:14am

Mr. Painter and the Reagan Foundation chimes in:

Ronald Reagan was an archconservative, but not a fascist.
There is a difference.https://t.co/ejzMp4zlCS
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) July 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 8:52pm

BREAKING -- Guess what I found? I found a clip of Trump and his good friend Billy Bush from 2004.

This is Trump **TRYING** to vote in the Presidential election.

Watch it carefully. I've never seen this before.

And wait for the end. pic.twitter.com/7sh3SL6nLd
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 27, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 4:45pm

Neato.

Another thing--reminds me of how much his vocal delivery has changed. He used to be so confident and relaxed (the more to fool us New Yorkers that as obnoxious as his acts might be, he seemed to have it all together.)

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 6:01pm

Ben Sasse whacks Mnuchin as a “big-government Democrat” and says “Democrats and Trumpers” are trying to outspend each other in stimulus talks pic.twitter.com/icVsxcnZ54
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 8:32pm

So now Trump is a Democrat? Of course, no Republican could be so irresponsible. History begins the rewrite.

Sasse: "Democrats have done everything they can to ensure Trump could get away with it."

by NCD on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 6:02pm

He's a Stable Genuis, doesn't need a party.

I just heard him explain to a reporter at his press conference how China is not just going to sell TicToc to Microsoft and other American companies, they are also going to pay the U.S. a commission on the sale directly into the Treasury.

All these foreign companies, they are like renting the U.S., and they got to pay something for that. He explained how it's only him that thinks like that, nobody else does this, nobody else thinks about it. (Like Trump wine, Trump hotels, Trump ties. I think he thinks he invented licensing of products?)

It's the Trump Party is what it is. Comes to mind it is where Ivanka has made most of the money she makes herself, licensing.There's not a lot of members of the Trump party, but they work on behalf of Making America Great Again. And of course, along those lines, you all know how Mexico paid for the wall.

On the libertarian and Federalism front, I heard him talk about how he's going to help cities struggling with crime. He didn't say how exactly, but he said Chicago is open to help. He talked about ICE getting criminal gangs out of Chicago. They bring in guns and drugs. And he's open to helping New York. But he said he won't help mismanaged cities with money, they gotta clean up their act on that front.

That he wants to help Americans not get evicted. He doesn't want to see anyone evicted. But the delay is that Nancy Pelosi and the Dems are holding the relief bill up by demanding money to help cities that are struggling not because of coronavirus, but because of mismanagement.

I learned all that about the Trump Party platform in just a few minutes of listening!

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 6:30pm

Nobody loves the DACA youth more than Trump! They're great kids!

In two weeks he will sign a great healthcare program, better than Obama, because he loves the ones with pre-existing conditions. Loves the troops, but could care less if Putin has some knocked off.

by NCD on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 7:13pm

Dang I missed that part. It's a complex platform, changing all the time.

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 8:53pm

Where's our 2016 voter today?
Priorities were elsewhere - have they returned?

That reminded me of this parodyhttps://t.co/px2I2SxYxQ
— gigabear (@2170cell) August 3, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 1:51am

MCCONNELL throws the White House under the bus: says he’s opposed to fbi money in this covid bill.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 9:34pm

Question of the day: Real libertarian state's rights Republicans or a fake ones for cult club reasons?

Tyranny check! Deploying federal agents in 2020 vs. 2014 pic.twitter.com/2nku27Tq78
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 29, 2020

They are lucky Janet Reno is no longer still alive, she'd come and wrassle them over Waco, the Gonzales boy and the like.

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/29/2020 - 10:49pm

Devin got an oppo package

https://t.co/XhRyMRIHjt https://t.co/dumUrAxz1B
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 31, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 4:29pm

A cartoon view of what Republican voters want:

“They’re against religion, they’re against the Bible,” Trump says of Democrats and Texas. Here’s my piece on Trump’s NY cartoon view of what Republican voters view as priorities. https://t.co/tajGoVOnoN
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 4, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 5:13pm

The song in Trump's video is a curious choice. His followers may not know it's about hacking up a Christian. It was whistled repeatedly by a man who kills children in "M the Murderer." The metal band Savatage updated its lyrics: "madness reigns in the Hall of the Mountain King." https://t.co/GglbvZ1WNl
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 5, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 9:48pm

BREAKING NEWS: Trump Adviser and Far-Right Radical Kris Kobach Loses GOP Primary in Rare and Resounding Intra-Party Rebuke of Trump https://t.co/VlpoxFwJKI
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 5, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 11:40pm

DevinCow had no farm - ee ay ee ay oh

https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/devin-nunes-cant-sue-esquire-over-report...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 8:58pm

Ah, DevinCow, Trump Cult Wannabe Consigliere.

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 9:21pm

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

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/05/2020 - 11:22pm

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

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 9:16pm

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

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 10:02pm

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

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 12:18am

And why Russia, guys? Elephant in room

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 12:26am

CNN calls out Trump lies

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

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 4:29am

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.

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 12:53pm

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

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 8:47pm

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.

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/25/2020 - 2:02am

Trump: ‘I’m so angry at Republicans’

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.”[....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 3:39am

Proof that the Cult of Trump and the GOP are not the same thing

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