USA Politics

[SimonNZ]

My vote would be for the Jesus Christ Superstar medley as his best one so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW2SEpWWqXM

[Todd]

Here's Why Mitt Romney Thinks Donald Trump Will Win Reelection

I'm not sure Romney's electoral acumen outside Utah is the best.  What say the unprincipled members of GMG who mocked Mitt in 2012 but who have made sure to refer to his anti-Trump pronouncements more recently, is the Senator right?  (And is it Mitt or Mittens, I forget.)

[Herman]

Number one there's an advantage to being the incumbent.

But not when the whole country turned into a shitshow on your watch, for a significant part thanks to your incompetence.

El Mitt is too bashful however to mention nr. four: as the president you can mess up, with the help of governors of your party, the election process to your advantage.

[Todd]

El Mitt.  New and clever.

[arpeggio]

Here's Why Mitt Romney Thinks Donald Trump Will Win Reelection

I'm not sure Romney's electoral acumen outside Utah is the best.  What say the unprincipled members of GMG who mocked Mitt in 2012 but who have made sure to refer to his anti-Trump pronouncements more recently, is the Senator right?  (And is it Mitt or Mittens, I forget.)

Todd I can only speak for myself.

I did not vote for Romney because I disagreed with many of his policies.  I did not think he was a bad person.  He would have been a far superior President than Trump.

[drogulus]

Todd I can only speak for myself.

I did not vote for Romney because I disagreed with many of his policies.  I did not think he was a bad person.  He would have been a far superior President than Trump.

     He tried, perhaps implausibly, to run a right wing campaign based on the notion that Americans take too much. Lots of Americans do that, and it's shocking how much they are allowed to spend. The economy would be so much better off if we reduced that spending dramatically. The takers and all the businesses they support need to be more disciplined and make do with less so the economy can grow.

[Karl Henning]

A Trump-smoocher calling anyone else "unprincipled," is rich. Thanks for the chuckle.

[Karl Henning]

And: a reminder.

When Huggy Bear (mini-trump-like) calls Biden "super creepy,"  This is what he's cool with:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Mo1lDJrZKx8

[BasilValentine]

And: a reminder.

When Huggy Bear (mini-trump-like) calls Biden "super creepy,"  This is what he's cool with:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Mo1lDJrZKx8

That, along with creeping on teenage girls in dressing rooms, numerous sexual assaults, and the occasional rape.

[drogulus]

That, along with creeping on teenage girls in dressing rooms, numerous sexual assaults, and the occasional rape.

     I'm merely speculating, but what if Trump only wishes Maxwell well, not Roger Stone-like, but just the words with no follow through?

     One must assume she flips if she doesn't get something more tangible than a wish. For Trump, though, Maxwell is not easy to help going into an election. Even die hard Trumpists might have a problem with her grooming 13 year old girls to be sex toys for rich men. There's a limit, somewhere.

[SimonNZ]

A second swing at the question:


HANNITY: You are asking the American people for four more years. If you are given the four more years, what will this country look like, in your view, four years from now?

TRUMP: So it's all going to be about America first. We always put other countries before us, which is so foolish and so horrible. And it has been so destructive for us. It's about America first. We will help other countries, but we want to take care of ourselves. We are going to be building factories. We are going to be bringing in shops like you've never seen. We were all set to do it until we got hit with the virus.

Our troops will be home. The endless wars are already ending. Down to very few soldiers in — as you know, in Afghanistan. Very few in Iraq. Syria is largely out except we kept the oil. We have oil there that we kept. I didn't want to leave the oil, we kept it. We took it over.

We are going to be about jobs like you haven't seen. We are going to be respected. And we are now by other countries. They're respecting us more than they have in many, many decades. I will tell you that. We are going to have a wall that is complete. We're up to 257 miles on the new wall. And by the way, if we didn't have that wall in right now, you would have numbers in Texas and in California, in New Mexico like you wouldn't believe.

But we built 257 miles of — it's 450 but we are going to do about 537 miles altogether. And it will give a complete, beautiful wall on our southern border that has really helped.

And the other thing is, we are going to start making our product. And I have been pushing this from before this happened. We are going to make things here. We will make them here. Right now China and many other countries are doing what we are supposed to be doing. They went, they became globalists, these great geniuses became globalists. And they really hurt our country.

We are going to start making it here. As with Elon Musk, I said, Elon, build a factory in Texas. He just announced today they're building one of the biggest plants in the world, auto plant for Tesla, and it's going to be in Texas. And, you know, it's great. He called me up just a little while ago to say, I got it done. So that meeting, he got it done. But I was pushing that job very hard from Elon, because we work with him and we do a lot for him. And I said, it's time. And he was great. He's doing a good job.

But the other thing we have done is Space Force. You know, we put it in, it's the first time in 76 years we have a new force. We have — so important, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and now we have the Air Force. It's so great. And it's so important. It's going to end up being one of — at first, I didn't even talk about that on the campaign. This was after I got in office.

I realized we need it. Because China and Russia were going to dominate space. And we can't let that — and now we're going to be dominating space. They're not too happy about what we did with Air Force. But we have it. And — with Space Force.

So we have now Space Force, so important, and so many other things, Sean, regulation cuts, tax cuts, the biggest tax cuts in history, biggest regulation cuts in history. And we are going to continue that forward. There are still many things we can do. But the bottom line is we are putting America first and we are making America better than it has ever been.

You will see that. We are going to have a great year next year. We're going to have a great third quarter. And the nice thing about the third quarter is the results are going to come out before the election.

[BasilValentine]

     I'm merely speculating, but what if Trump only wishes Maxwell well, not Roger Stone-like, but just the words with no follow through?

     One must assume she flips if she doesn't get something more tangible than a wish. For Trump, though, Maxwell is not easy to help going into an election. Even die hard Trumpists might have a problem with her grooming 13 year old girls to be sex toys for rich men. There's a limit, somewhere.

I see no reason to imagine there's a limit, anywhere. But he can't pardon her or commute her sentence before a trial, and that won't be over before the end of Trump's term.

[drogulus]

I see no reason to imagine there's a limit, anywhere. But he can't pardon her or commute her sentence before a trial, and that won't be over before the end of Trump's term.

     It only seems like there's no limit to tolerance for depravity among the Trump voters. At least a few of them might object to the 13 year old sex slave thing. It wouldn't take that many (as things look right now) to turn defeat into a rout.

[SimonNZ]

But they already have Trump on record on multiple occasions openly and unashamedly lusting after his own daughter.

And that's not even a blip on the radar for the Trump supporter. It's not even a talking point.

He'll get right up in front of a rally and tell the crowd how much better those girls lives have become since they've become prostitutes, how now they get to wear pretty dresses and are treated like princesses.

[Karl Henning]

     It only seems like there's no limit to tolerance for depravity among the Trump voters. At least a few of them might object to the 13 year old sex slave thing. It wouldn't take that many (as things look right now) to turn defeat into a rout.

If they object, they do so in the privacy of their own bubble.  Can't criticize Leader where them libs might hear!

[SimonNZ]

"Democrat fake news! I hear all those girls have to do is pour tea, play the shamisen and recite haiku! It's a great life!"

[Karl Henning]

For the "what lies?" bozos:

https://www.youtube.com/v/BJy3FM_sLqM

[Daverz]

     It only seems like there's no limit to tolerance for depravity among the Trump voters. At least a few of them might object to the 13 year old sex slave thing. It wouldn't take that many (as things look right now) to turn defeat into a rout.

Trump is just a vessel used by God.  If you're pastor won't explain this to you, you should change pastors.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/5/16796892/trump-cyrus-christian-right-bible-cbn-evangelical-propaganda

[JBS]

I see no reason to imagine there's a limit, anywhere. But he can't pardon her or commute her sentence before a trial, and that won't be over before the end of Trump's term.

Commuting a sentence obviously can't happen until after trial, conviction, and sentence, but he can pardon her at anytime. A pardon can be issued to a person who hasn't yet been charged, as with Nixon or those scenarios where he pardons himself before leaving office.

[Herman]

Most likely he's busier with figuring out the pardon situation for himself and his crime family.

By the time Maxwell goes to court (if she survives) Trump is out of office.

Also I'm guessing Trump doesn't figure too big in the Epstein circus, since Trump is and was not so much into tiny teenagers but rather more into the artificially inflated type. Trump indicated as much in his encomium on Epstein, noting JE like them "more on the younger side". He meant that as praise, from one player to another.