Author: clearandpresentdanger
Rudy Giuliani: Broke, in deep legal trouble, alcoholic — and now:
Rudy Giuliani is now hawking vitamin pills on TV.
Remember: This is the man who was:
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- The US Attorney who brought down the NY Mafia
- Mayor of New York
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And now this is the only job he can find.
He is broke with huge legal bills and alimony payments, none of which he can pay.
This is what happens to people who get close to Donald Trump — they end up broke, lying in the gutter, while Trump walks away and no longer recognizes them.
There are no “moderates” in the Republican Party
There are no “moderates” in today’s Republican Party.
We must stop referring to the Republicans who keep quiet as their party is dismantling our Republic as “moderates”.
The issue is that those who we refer to as “moderates”, in fact, agree with and support the extremists. They just want to keep this fact quiet so they can get enough of the uninformed to vote for their “moderate” stance, then they will do the same thing as their extremist brethren.
We should no longer call the MTGs and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) “extremists”. An extremist is a person who holds beliefs and supports actions that are not consistent with mainstream beliefs. The Republicans we refer to as “moderates” are quite representative of the current state of Republican politics. There is nothing “moderate” about them. The Republican Party is the part of extremists who seek to dismantle our Republic.
Today’s images carry a lot of truth
Why is the Governor of Arkansas wearing a dress made from the family room curtains?
Rep. Mike “God Chose Me to be Speaker” Johnson represents the mainstream of the GOP . . . which is why the Republican Party must go away
The mainstream Republicans
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Harry Enten argues that Mike Johnson is well within the mainstream of the contemporary Republican party on issues like did Joe Biden win the 2020 election (no), and should essentially all abortions be banned (yes).
This is obviously true, but Enten doesn’t state the obvious conclusion to draw from this, which is that the mainstream of the Republican party now consists of authoritarian theocratic reactionaries, which seems like a bit of a problem in a liberal democracy, given that the Constitution only allows us to have two parties, and that’s one of them.
As to why the Republican party has been taken over by authoritarian theocratic reactionaries, this Gallup poll finds that the percentage of Americans who believe in the literal truth of the Bible, as new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson very much does, has fallen by 50% in the last 40 years. White evangelical Protestantism is in massive retreat as a demographic matter, which means that the choice for these people is between America as a Christian — this means white evangelical Protestant — nation, and some form of democracy.This includes even the very weak form that democracy exists in America, given the sacred Constitution, the filibuster, gerrymandering, the severely anti-democratic consequences of judicial review wielded by life tenured judges confirmed by the Senate and nominated by presidents who don’t even win a plurality of votes, etc. But even this watered down version of democracy is bad for authoritarian theocratic nationalism, so it too has to go.
That’s what the Republican “mainstream” stands for today, which is why Mike Johnson is now Speaker of the House, and Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
I can’t decide of Trump supporters are (1) very, very stupid, or, (2) certifiably insane, or, (3) aliens from another planet,
Watch and listen to this MAGAt.
The people he’s talking about with bullhorns, directing the crowd and pushing barricades out of the way — were Proud Boys. They planned the attack in advance based on a document called “1776 Returns” and showed up incognito in order to operate without being recognized.
But they were, and they’ve been prosecuted and convicted for Seditious Conspiracy. As they should have been.
But this brain donor thinks it was really “Antifa” and “Nancy Pelosi” and whoever. He lives in a swirling pool of delusions. Some of whom I’m convinced are being generated by Russian Propaganda, but many of these ridiculous tropes are repeated by the Robber Baron-media, paid for by billionaires like the Kochs, the Murdochs, the Mercers, the Wilks, Sheldon Adelson, Peter Thiel, and Patrick Byrne. These are the globalists out there behind the scenes funding think tanks like Heritage, and legislation mills like Alec, manipulating everything they see and hear through Fox, OAN, Newsmax and Daily Wire — and they’re pretty obvious about it.
And then there’s these bigoted ignorant people.
This “the immigrants are all guys of fighting age” is nonsense. Biden has refused entry and expelled 3.5 Million migrants, mostly due to Title 42 but he also doesn’t allow single adults to enter, only families and single children. It’s exactly the opposite of what these people claim.
“I don’t trust Biden at all, I only trust Trump.”
Trump has successfully manufactured a cult, a deluded death cult.
Meet the new Fuhrer . . . oops!! Meant to say, meet the new Speaker of the House.
How do we know Trump is finished?
Because these are the only two people in Congress who give a shit about Trump.
No doubt about it — when Gaetz and Jordan are all you have . . . you are done for.
Trump’s co-conspirators are cutting deals and ratting him out . . .
As soon as Chesebro cuts a deal, Georgia DA Willis will set a trial date for Trump – – – and he will not have been able to see one piece of the evidence against him!!!
Attorney Sidney Powell reached a plea deal with Fulton County prosecutors on Thursday, a day before jury selection was set to begin for her election interference trial.
During an appearance in Fulton County Superior Court, Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties. She had originally been charged with felony racketeering and six other felony conspiracy counts for her alleged role in breaching the voting system in rural Coffee County after the 2020 election.
As part of the deal, Powell agreed to testify truthfully in the case and on Wednesday recorded a video statement with prosecutors. She will receive six years probation and pay a $6,000 fine. She also agreed to pay $2,700 in restitution to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office to replace election equipment in Coffee County. And Powell wrote a letter of apology to the citizens of Georgia.
It’s a major development in a case that also has seen charges against former President Donald Trump and 17 other defendants. They are accused of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn Biden’s victory in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.
Powell’s plea deal is a significant win for Fulton prosecutors. Powell can speak to closed-door Oval Office meetings she had with Trump, Rudy Giuliani and several other co-defendants.
The fact that Trump won’t ever be able to pardon anybody for criminal convictions under Georgia law seems like it might be a problem for him.