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Is There A GOP Internal War Brewing?

Little by little the news is that there is trouble brewing within the GOP….some say it is for the soul of the party….there also seems to be cracks forming in the undying support for Donny and his brand stupid.

GOP Townhalls are becoming contentious….the people are staring to fight back against the policies of the party….

Shouts of “Vote him out!” echoed through a packed Nebraska town hall on Monday as Rep. Mike Flood struggled to defend President Trump’s policy and tax bill—and faced an audience ready to challenge every word. About 750 attendees made their dissatisfaction clear during the event at Kimball Hall in Lincoln, descending into heckling and loud boos as the Republican attempted to explain provisions of the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” particularly its changes to health care and Medicaid. As audience members questioned how the Republican could vote to take health care away from Nebraskans, Flood sought to address what he described as misinformation about the bill, per ABC News.

He tried to walk through health care aspects, emphasizing that the bill’s Medicaid changes wouldn’t affect disabled individuals, seniors, pregnant people, or anyone considered vulnerable. A key flashpoint was the bill’s stance on Medicaid coverage for working-age adults. “If you are able to work, and you’re 28 years old and you choose not to work, you don’t get free health care in America. If you are in this country illegally, you do not get free health care in America,” Flood said, drawing a vocal negative reaction.

Discussion turned heated again as tax policy came up. While Flood highlighted provisions like no tax on tips or overtime and pitched the law as a middle-class tax cut, audience members instead called for higher taxes on the wealthy and repeatedly chanted, “Tax the Rich!” Flood pushed back, contending that taxing high earners, as proposed by Democrats, would not fill budget gaps and would hurt job and business growth. But he “was continuously drowned out by the raucous crowd,” per ABC. “How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” one attendee asked, per CNN, drawing cheers from the crowd. Another said Flood was complicit in a “fascist machine.”

Well that guy was about as popular as a turd in a punchbowl.

All that does not mean the MAGA idiots will disappear just that is some sort of tug of war going on with the young Republicans…..

Young Republicans are split over the future of the party, with two warring factions seeking to position themselves as the true MAGA warriors ahead of a weekend vote for control of the party’s youth arm.

On Saturday, young party members will converge in Nashville, where they’ll decide between two slates to lead the Young Republican National Federation: Grow YR, led by current YRNF Chair Hayden Padgett, and the insurgent Restore YR campaign, led by New York State Young Republicans Chair Peter Giunta.

The brawl between the two slates is both personal — including interpersonal clashes and squabbles over hotel loyalty points and committee assignments — and ideological, with both sides looking to prove their loyalty to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. But the fight is also a microcosm of a schism ready to burst in the party at large, which is already delicately trying to chart a course for its post-Trump future.

Restore YR, which is seeking to unseat the current leadership in an effort to “restore trust, opportunity, and unity,” has won the endorsements of hardcore MAGA firebrands like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), longtime Trump ally and convicted felon Roger Stone, Florida GOP Chair Evan Power, and Turning Point Action Chief Operating Officer Tyler Bowyer, who was one of several “fake electors” in Arizona in 2020.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/02/maga-future-young-republican-national-convention-00488361

I feel it should go further than the ‘young’ Repubs…..thinking conservatives need to redraw the lines of the party…..this MAGA crap is killing the nation and its people.

What do you think should be the focus?

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MAGA: A What If Story

There have been many writers/analysts that have said that this chaotic time will end and the political pendulum will swing back….but for the sake of debate ‘what if’ it does not?

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate Silver have all invoked it to some degree. Presidential biographer Jon Meacham recently predicted that the pendulum would swing from a Donald Trump presidency to “the presidency of AOC.” The phrase conjures history, the past as prologue. The “pendulum”—the vagaries of change, the slow pace of history—will shift back to Democrats soon. Americans will tire of the status quo that Trump built. The MAGA movement will fall.

Talk of history, particularly American political history, in such ways returns us to the life and career of historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. For it was Schlesinger Jr.’s 1986 book, The Cycles of American History, that popularized the idea that American politics shifts from liberalism to conservatism, and back again, within every generation. Schlesinger also used the term “pendulum” to describe this shift. But whereas pendulums can only move back and forth, Schlesinger Jr. argued that history moves within itself, its phases interacting in ways that blur the origins of the present—hence a “cycle.” American history, he wrote, has circulated between “public action and private interest” since the early 1800s. “War, depression, inflations, may heighten or complicate moods,” he wrote in his second chapter, “but the cycle itself rolls on, self-contained, self-sufficient, and autonomous.”

Schlesinger Jr. wrote these words in another era of conservative dominance. President Ronald Reagan had trounced former Vice President Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election, winning every state but Minnesota and capturing the largest number of Electoral College votes in American history. Since coming to office in 1981, Reagan had attracted the traditional constituents of the Democratic Party (blue-collar, working-class, union voters, as well as Blacks and Hispanics)—into the GOP, in what commentators at the time referred to as the “Reagan revolution.” The Democrats floundered for relevance and a strategic path over the next eight years, lost in incredulity at their collapse and the quest for a new coalition.

Sound familiar?

https://newrepublic.com/article/197515/political-pendulum-doesnt-swing-back-cycles-of-american-history-schlesinger

If it does not swing back what will that mean for us peons that keep this country together?

It is easy and lazy to state that it will all work out in the wash….a prediction that is a safe beat because the statement has a 50/50 chance of being right…that is nothing more than a cop-out and a safe bet.

I am sure someone has something to say about this…..so let it fly.

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Why MAGA?

Another in my series of trying to find some plausible explanation for MAGA….

That has become the universal question….how can conservatives, of both parties, support a movement that assaults their lives on so many levels?

There has been a wealth of explanations/excuses for this devotion….and yet so far it has been an elusive answer.

But the people keep trying to make sense out of the chaos.

Below is an interesting take….

Why “Make America Great Again?” Don’t get my question wrong. I put “MAGA” and “Make America Great Again” in quotation marks because by them I refer to the movement, not the general hope of most Americans. Why the specific contemporary movement with Donald Trump at is head? Why are so many Americans passionate about it and so invested in it?

I have read and watched/listened to many attempted explanations. Most of them have part of the truth. Few capture all of it.

Of course, intelligent, reasonable MAGA partners, people associated with the movement, would say the reason for it is the general left-leaning drive of Democrats and others to make America weak, vulnerable, too inclusive, morally relative, and “woke.”

I think there is more to it than that.

As I study the MAGA mentality and movement I see people who are afraid of losing their status. What status? Privileged status in society. They hark back to a time when white men and women (mostly men) enjoyed a special privileged status in America. They fear they are losing that status; it is being taken away from them. Is that fear justified? Well, yes, to a certain extent. What I question is whether that fear justifies the reactions of MAGA and Trumpism. What reactions? Well, for one, hatred of “Mexicans,” especially Spanish-speaking undocumented immigrants from south of the border, especially Central America and Venezuela. Much MAGA fear and hate is focused on them. Not so much because disposing of them is believed to restore white, male (and female) privilege and status but because MAGA people are just angry and fed up and need a scapegoat. Drawing any kind of line from illegal immigrants to loss of status and privilege by white, lower and middle class men (and women) is extremely difficult.

Another reason for MAGA rage, however, is the sense of loss of American supremacy in the world. I believe it stems all the way back/from the dismal end of the Vietnam War. Up through the failure of America’s occupation and combination of Afghanistan. And our seeming helplessness to stop North Korea and other countries who call themselves our enemies and acquire or almost acquire weapons of mass destruction. America’s role as the world’s policeman and its role as the leader of a Pax Americana deeply discourages MAGA people. Who is to blame for it? Who stabbed America in the back? Liberals, of course.

Why “MAGA?”

Regardless of the damage that is done…..parts of the country have clung to MAGA for dear life…..this is another question that begs a descent answer….why does rural American cling to this chaos?

Tom Gish, the crusading editor of The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Ky., — always insisted that if people had the right information, they would make rational decisions in their own best interests. Such optimism, we agreed, needs to be tempered in these times. But how do we explain the reasons for this behavior, such as how much of Appalachia went from heavily Democratic to MAGA-supporting in just a few decades? In fact, the question can also be asked of much of rural America. It takes some digging.

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For generations, Appalachia existed as a kind of social and economic commons for the country, where promises of help — federal investment, job training, flood protection, health care access — were offered as communal sustenance. Each wave of politicians, agencies and even well-intentioned outsiders acted, in their own short-term interest, to make these promises — while securing votes, funding or moral satisfaction. But like herders adding one more cow, these promises were often poorly implemented, underfunded, quickly abandoned or designed more for political optics than lasting change. Over decades, this relentless “grazing” of pledges, without consistent, effective follow-through, degraded the shared resource of trust down to bare earth.

Why believe this promise of help, when the last dozen withered? The MAGA vote isn’t necessarily an endorsement of specific policies; it’s a desperate lunge toward any alternative, a grazing of the last bitter stubble of hope left in a field systematically exhausted by decades of unfulfilled commitments from both traditional political parties.

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/12/why-appalachia-and-rural-america-clings-to-trump/

Right information?

That is harder to find than hen’s teeth thanks to social media that spreads crap like a spreader.

I believe that Social media can be blamed for the chaos of the day….people too lazy to look for answers or use AI to reinforce their biases….until that is eliminated then we are in for a long period of continuing chaos.

Thoughts?

+++More doctors today starting at 0800 and continuing for god knows how long….I will try to get back once this ordeal is over…..thanx for your understanding and I apologize for the thin posting for today.+++

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The Epstein Bullsh*t

The news and the internet has lost its mind over this Epstein file thingy….

To be honest I have not cared one iota about this crap along the Epstein Line….I have had my attention elsewhere and this did not interest make at all….but that was about a week or more ago….now it is getting out of hand.

The MAGA infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files continues to escalate, and now Democrats are piling on. Axios reports that Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna introduced a resolution requiring the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein, forcing House Republicans to shoot it down Monday night. Khanna, however, promised to reintroduce the measure “again and again and again.” As NBC News explains, Khanna’s move comes as President Trump is facing a near revolt among MAGA allies who are livid with his administration, particularly Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Bondi has reneged on a pledge to release the Epstein files, instead saying the Justice Department has concluded that he had no “client list” of the rich and powerful and that the sex offender took his own life in prison. While Tucker Carlson, Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon, and others have been going after the Trump administration’s about-face, Democrats are now joining the attacks. “Trump administration officials are either lying about the file and keeping it covered up to protect themselves, or they lied about its existence in a shameless political ploy to get elected,” says Democratic National Committee adviser Tim Hogan. “Either way, it is disgusting, and they have to be held accountable.”

  • In MAGA: Confused about the infighting among Trump allies? Will Sommer of the Bulwark writes that five distinct factions have emerged, and he breaks them down in an analysis. One is the “get over it” crowd, with figures such as Charlie Kirk getting in line behind Trump and urging people to drop the matter. Opposite them are the “Epstein dead-enders” such as Carlson. For them, “Epstein has come to stand for everyone and everything that screws the little guy: mass immigration to depress wages, housing unaffordability, and much more. If the elites can keep abusing girls with impunity, what else can they get away with?”
  • Exit strategies: An Axios analysis suggests three ways that Trump can get out of this mess, starting with the appointment of a special counsel to review the entire Epstein case.
  • Analysis: Shawn McCreesh provides an overview of all this in the New York Times. “It is entirely too soon to know what the revolt will mean or if and when it might sputter out, but the nature of it was stunning to behold,” he writes. “It was like a Mobius strip of paranoia and distrust: a political movement that galvanized and exploded around a conspiracy theory—lies about Barack Obama’s birthplace were central to Mr. Trump’s political rise—cannibalizing itself over the mother of all modern conspiracy theories.” The latter refers to the idea that Epstein had dirt on powerful people and was murdered to make sure he stayed silent.

Everybody is looking for a way to use the saga to some advantage….Dems hoping to cash in on the possibility of something hidden in the files….MAGA looking to discredit anyone who wants to believe that Donny has somehow done something nefarious….

And me I do not give a sh*t!

There is more important stuff than this drama that this country needs to focus on….and yet the simple minds pick this POS.

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What The Hell Does MAGA Really Mean?

Still searching for why.

WE all know what the acronym stands for, Make America Great Again, that is just a bunch of letters thrown together to sell a con on the voter….but what do those idiots really see when they see the MAGA?

MAGA is also closely related among Republicans with an “America First” policy. This is partly about having a strong military – a common theme among Republican respondents – and “making America the superpower” again, one respondent wrote.

Republicans also wrote that putting America first means emphasizing strict enforcement of immigration laws against “illegals” and cutting off foreign aid. For example, one Republican respondent said that MAGA meant “stopping illegals at the border, ending freebies for illegals, adding more police and building a strong military.”

Finally, Republicans see the slogan as calling for a return to “traditional” values. They expressed a strong desire to reverse cultural shifts that Republican respondents perceive as a threat.

As one Republican put it, MAGA “means going back to where men would join the military, women were home raising healthy minded children and it was easy to be successful, the crime rate was extremely low and it used to be safe for kids to hang out on the streets with other kids and even walk themselves places.”

In other words step back into the 1950s….

What about Democrats?

Democrats have a very different understanding of the MAGA slogan. Many Democrats view MAGA as a white supremacist movement designed to protect the status of white people and undermine the civil rights of marginalized groups.

One Democrat argued that “‘Make America Great Again’ is a standard borne by people who’ve seen a decrease in the potency of their privilege (see: cisgendered white men) and wish to see their privilege restored or strengthened. In essence, it’s a chant for all racist, fascist and otherwise bigoted actors to unite under.”

Another Democrat wrote that MAGA was a call to “take us backwards as a society in regards to women’s, minority’s, and LGBTQ people’s rights … It would take us to a time when only White men ruled.”

Democrats also view MAGA as a form of nostalgia for a heavily mythologized past. Many Democratic respondents described the past longed for by Republicans as a “myth” or “fairytale.” Others argued that this mythologized past, though appealing on the surface, was repressive for many Americans.

https://theconversation.com/what-maga-means-to-americans-259241

Read the article and see if you agree.

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The H-1B Debate Erupts.

Today is National Bacon Day and what better time to post on the pigs that will be running this country?

A minor buckle in the MAGA loyalists over a special visa for those ‘elite workers’…..it seems some of Trumpies picks for high position are not natural Americans and got where they are by this special visa and this set off a heated debate.

A “civil war” of sorts broke out over the weekend in MAGA world, pitting far-right Trump supporters against the billionaire tech-bro contingent. The fight started Sunday when President-elect Trump announced he’d chosen venture capitalist and India native Sriram Krishnan as a senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence. That “triggered an anti-Indian backlash,” per Axios, which notes that part of the pushback against Krishnan has centered on his advocacy for lifting caps on H-1B visas. More:

  • H-1B: CNN notes that this specific visa program allows 65,000 “highly skilled” workers into the US annually, with another 20,000 granted the paperwork if they obtained an advanced degree in the US. The tech sector especially makes use of this visa—including Trump ally Elon Musk, who first came to the US as a foreign student and then worked here on an H-1B visa.
  • Ready, set, fight: Newsweek has a timeline, starting with a series of disparaging tweets from Trump loyalist Laura Loomer. On Monday, she called the selection of Krishnan “deeply disturbing,” adding that his views are “in direct opposition” to Trump’s “America First” agenda. In a follow-up tweet on Christmas Eve, she noted “our country was built by white Europeans, actually. Not third world invaders from India.”
  • Musk: The new Trump BFF weighed in next in support of drawing highly skilled workers from other countries, writing on Christmas: “The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low. Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.”
  • Ramaswamy: Vivek Ramaswamy’s comments came Thursday, spurring accusations of “elitist rhetoric,” per the Times of India. In a lengthy tweet, Ramaswamy accused American culture of fostering “mediocrity.” “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” he wrote. “More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of Friends. More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons.”
  • More reaction: Other big names in the GOP sphere pushed back at Musk and Ramaswamy. “There is nothing wrong with American workers or American culture,” posted former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. “We should be investing and prioritizing in Americans, not foreign workers.” Ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz weighed in on the “tech bros”: “We did not ask them to engineer an immigration policy.”
  • Musk turns on Loomer: When Loomer insinuated that a rift was growing between Trump and his Silicon Valley pals, and that DOGE is a “vanity project,” Musk called her a “troll,” per the New Republic. Loomer also insisted Friday that Musk was retaliating by taking away her blue check and subscriptions on X, the social media platform he owns.
  • Trump’s take: The former and future commander in chief slammed restricted H-1B visas somewhat during his first term. However, in a podcast this past June, Trump appeared to have softened his stance, noting that he believed any foreign national who graduated from an American college should be eligible for permanent residency.
  • What’s next? Per Axios, this “tense MAGA vs. DOGE moment” will “potentially settle a looming conflict over who has the most influence in Trump 2.0—his historic base or his newfound techno-libertarian allies.” “It’s a sign of future conflicts,” warns Samuel Hammond, senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, per the Washington Post. “This is like the pregame.”

Damn foreigners!

This minor ‘civil war’ will be fascinating to watch and see how dear Donald handles this….

Damn I love this stuff!

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The Pet Killing Brigade

As a person who has a canine companion I am appalled at the treatment pets get from some GOPers…I am sure that my friends that have feline companions feel as I do.

I bring this up because of an article I read about the Uber GOPer that leads the NRA and others

We expect October surprises in an election year, but this time out the GOP has also offered up some serious Halloween jump scares. In a season when Donald Trump and JD Vance continue to lie about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, a genuine Republican Pet Sematary has emerged to haunt Trumpworld. As with so many Trump accusations, this one doubles as an admission, involving several of MAGA’s guiding lights and tales of grotesque animal cruelty. Let’s start with the NRA’s new president, Douglas Hamlin.

Hamlin took the NRA post this summer, and against all odds managed to tarnish the legacy of the scandal-plagued, financially strapped gun lobby even further. In 1979, Hamlin and four other fraternity brothers decided to rid their University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s Alpha Phi Delta fraternity of a house cat that did not care to use its litterbox. At the time, Hamlin served as president of the house; he and his frat brothers proceeded to burn and dismember the cat, then publicly displayed it by stringing it up. The grislier details can be found here.

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If Hamlin’s was an isolated instance, maybe you could dismiss it as one man’s youthful mistake. Unfortunately, the story broke less than a month after Heritage Foundation President Kenneth Roberts’s own pet-slaying saga surfaced. Roberts also serves as the intellectual engine behind Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump administration that’s so politically toxic that Trump has denied knowing what’s in it or even ever meeting Roberts—despite sharing private flights with Roberts and employing well over half of Project 2025’s 307 authors in his first administration, past campaigns, and transition teams.

(There is more….Read On)

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-republican-pet-killing-brigade/

These acts and others precludes me from ever considering a Repub for anything in public office.

If they are this cruel to animals think how they feel about us mere peasants.

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Those “Brain Flaws”

As we move closer to the actual day of our vote the media is still struggling with ways to report Trump and his minions….there have been many excuses for the acts and words of his adoring throngs…….the worse aggravation has been the media and all those damn polls.

The American people are being smothered by public opinion polls. Every day there seems to be some new poll expected to give precious insight into the presidential horse race that the news media is so obsessed with. As I try to decipher what these polls mean, I often find myself muttering, “Will someone please save me from this troublesome priest?”

In the aggregate, the polls now show that Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump nationally in the popular vote. However, she and Trump are basically tied in the key battleground states. Focus groups and other data also show a very close race. This is because the American people are politically unsophisticated and are easily manipulated to believe things that are not true. Democracy, by design, is messy and the politically ill-informed have the same number of votes (one) as the politically savvy and engaged.

Contributing to the confusion is how the mainstream news media’s unhealthy obsession with polling has created a type of tunnel vision and myopia where other lenses — that would likely provide better insights — for understanding the Age of Trump and the larger democracy crisis have been mostly ignored. The Washington Post’s Jen Rubin recently summarized “five major media fails”: 

1. Ignoring Trump’s mental decline (until the last few weeks of the election). 2. Excess focus on meaningless polls. 3. Failure to engage historians and psychiatrists to provide context for Trump’s fascism and narcissism 4. Fixation on more details from Harris, demanding none from Trump 5. Consistent negative/inaccurate portrayal of the economy 6. Fueling Trump’s constant lies by asking Harris and others to respond.

In a recent essay at The American Prospect, Rick Perlstein echoes Rubin: “Even as the resources devoted to every other kind of journalism atrophied, poll-based political culture has overwhelmed us, crowding out all other ways of thinking about public life….The Washington Post’s polling director once said, ‘There’s something addictive about polls and poll numbers.’ He’s right. When we refer to ‘political junkies,’ polls are pretty much the junk.” 

There is also the empirical fact — a very inconvenient one for the news media and the political consultants and polling firms — that presidential public opinion polls have been wrong for many decades.

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/15/brain-flaws-understanding-maga-as-an-epidemic-disease/

The last sentence is the most compelling…..polls have been wrong for decades….and they are probably wrong this time around.

And that is the name of that tune!

Please make your decision from knowledge not some made up stats that is used to sell papers.

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They Eat Their Own

Cracks are forming!

One of the more interesting stories last week was that of two of Trump’s minions in the House that are sniping at each.

MTG and Laura Loomer are at each other’s throat…..

An online war of words—including accusations of racism and antisemitism—has broken out in Donald Trump’s inner circle, sparked by a post mocking Vice President Kamala Harris’ heritage. After Harris posted a photo of herself visiting her grandparents in India as a child on Sunday, Laura Loomer—a right-wing conspiracy theorist with a history of saying such things—wrote that the election of Harris would mean the White House will smell like curry and other unamusing references to India and its people, the Hill reports. “This is appalling and extremely racist,” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X in response. Loomer called Greene a “raging antisemite.”

There was more. Loomer brought up Greene’s divorce, saying she’s “a poor excuse for a Christian.” The lawmaker said the post about Harris, which Loomer defended as a “funny joke,” doesn’t reflect “who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump. This type of behavior should not be tolerated ever.” Greene later said that when Loomer puts up posts that are “flat out racist, hateful, and make President Trump look bad, she needs to be responsible and delete them.” Loomer declined.

While the back-and-forth was proceeding, Loomer was visible at the side of Trump, flying with him to New York and Pennsylvania to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday. She also was on Trump’s plane when he traveled to Philadelphia for his debate against Harris on Tuesday night. Another Trump ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, suggested the presidential candidate put more distance between himself and Loomer, per the Wall Street Journal. “The history of this person is just really toxic,” Graham told the Huffington Post. He said Trump “would serve himself well to make sure this doesn’t become a bigger story.”

Is this a good sign?

If only more Trumpian toadies would start attacking each other…..maybe then some of the low intellect supports would see just how ridiculous their support truly is.

But I will not hold my breath!

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Win Or Lose–Violence Will Ensue

So close to poetic.

Recently our boy Donnie made the statement that he has every right to interfere in an election….

Donald Trump’s remarks Sunday on the updated election interference indictment contained what sounded to some critics like a confession. The former president told Mark Levin on Fox News’ Life, Liberty and Levin that he had “every right” to interfere in the 2020 election, the Hill reports. “It’s so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it,” Trump said in the interview, per Reuters. “You get indicted and your poll numbers go up.”

Poll numbers go up?  How pathetic is that?  But sadly apparently true.

2024 will be an election like no other in memory….the outcome could bring upon us a chance for violence. I am not talking about if Trump loses but even if he wins the chance for violence is there…..

There’s an argument to be made that the defining moment of Donald Trump’s presidency, if not the past decade of politics at large, was Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob of MAGA protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol building to disrupt Congress’ certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. The images from that day — lawmakers cowering behind security forces with their guns drawn, a mock gallows erected outside the Capitol rotunda, a braying “QAnon Shaman” stalking the Senate chambers — have become an indelible reminder that America is just as susceptible to political violence as anywhere else. It is perhaps even more so, given Trump’s penchant for actively stoking the flames of resentment and frustration across his already fervent base. 

Now, as the 2024 presidential election kicks into high gear with just three months to go before polls close in November, the specter of violence once again looms large over an electorate still grappling with the legal and political fallout of Jan. 6. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken this spring, more than two-thirds of respondents — Democrats and Republicans alike — said they were “concerned that extremists will resort to violence if they are unhappy with the election outcome.” A more recent Deseret News/HarrisX poll saw three-fourths of the country “concerned about more political violence occurring before Election Day.”

https://theweek.com/politics/election-2024-violence-trump-harris-result