Young Republican group wants “total war”; well, okay, bring it on.

Bring it on but wait a couple of days — I need to clean my guns, get more ammo, load magazines, and sharpen my Ka-Bar.

While Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) promised that if she were in charge of Jan. 6, people would have been more armed and dangerous, other speakers at the Young Republicans gala in New York City talked about the next civil war.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremism throughout the United States, cited the speech from the Young republican president Gavin Wax, who told the Upper East side gala, “We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets.”

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“This is the only language the left understands. The language of pure and unadulterated power,” Wax also said.

Hatewatch reporters were on hand to observe as white nationalists Peter and Lyndia Brimelow of VDARE met with Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Jr., where they took selfies.

“Republicans publicly lauded members of an Austrian political party founded by World War II-era German Nazi party members,” said the SPLC observers. Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer joked with “racist political operative Jack Posobiec,” the site said. Posobiec was the one who spread the false Pizzagate conspiracy. Newsweek has grown increasingly friendly to extremists over the past several years as Hammer invited Posobiec onto his podcast. Though lately, he’s been more supportive of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) over Donald Trump.

“Republican speakers repeatedly voiced an anti-democracy, authoritarian ideology, and extremists in the audience cheered wildly,” wrote the SPLC. “White nationalists such as the Brimelows of VDARE and leaders from extreme far-right European parties like Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), whom German officials placed under surveillance for their ties to extremism, and Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ), ate and drank in the same room as newly elected Republican congresspeople, such as Long Island and Queens-based George Santos, Georgia-based Mike Collins and Florida-based Cory Mills.”

Read the full report from the gala here.

Someone needs to tell these Young Republican fools that war is not a video game.  Oh, wait, don’t tell them . . . let them find out for themselves.

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Donald Trump NEVER attempted to free US citizen Paul Whelan

On Thursday morning, the world got some huge news as WNBA star Brittney Griner was finally released from a Russian penal colony after nearly 10 months in Russian custody. The United States secured Griner’s release with a prisoner swap that sent Griner home in return for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was sent back to Russia. It was a huge move, but not everyone agreed with the decision, including former United States president Donald Trump, who absolutely blasted the trade.

In a post on his conservative social media website Truth Social, Donald Trump absolutely blasted Brittney Griner as well as Joe Biden‘s decision to have her released. Trump claimed that Griner “openly hates our Country” and that the trade was “a ‘stupid’ and unpatriotic embarrassment” for the country, suggesting that the United States should have secured the release of former United States marine Paul Whelan instead.

With these comments, however, Donald Trump exposed himself as a bit of a hypocrite, according to Andrew Feinberg of The Independent. Paul Whelan was imprisoned during Trump’s presidency, and Trump did nothing to secure his release, not even mentioning his name.

“Mr. Trump did not mention Mr. Whelan’s name a single time during the two years he was held in Russia on his watch, nor did he bring up the former US Marine during a 2019 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Feinberg wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/horrible-donald-trump-detail-revealed-in-brittney-griner-decision/ar-AA156gWt

Trump’s 2024 “candidacy” is already a bust and will not get any better

Tn an analysis on how things are going for Donald Trump since his overly-hyped 2024 presidential campaign launch at Mar-a-Lago weeks ago, Guardian political analyst David Smith claims the former president has lost the “sizzle” that made him such a hot property in 2016 as he skips the type of political rallies in front of supporters that have kept him in the eyes of voters.

As Smith notes, what has followed is Trump being involved in controversies like meeting with notorious anti-Semites at his Mar-a-Lago resort as well as a major criminal conviction in a Manhattan courtroom and multiple criminal and civil lawsuit investigations closing in.

As Smith wrote, “The swagger of 2016 has given way to somnolence in 2022. Opinion polls are grim. Legal setbacks are piling up. A run of dismal results in the midterm elections, culminating in another Republican loss in Georgia this week, have punctured his aura of invincibility within the party.”

Adding, “Trump has performed astonishing acts of self-sabotage, from dining with antisemites to calling for the constitution to be shredded. He has eschewed a widely-anticipated spree of public rallies, instead remaining largely out of the public gaze,” Smith suggested, in most cases, this would be the beginning of the end of any other politician’s political career.

According to American University history professor Alan Lichtman, the former president is off to a brutal start if he hopes to be re-elected again in 2024.

“It couldn’t be going any worse,” he explained. “And it’s not because Donald Trump is making mistakes. It’s because Donald Trump is being Donald Trump.”

Having said that, Lichtman elaborated, “He was something new and fresh and interesting back in 2016. He has presided over three disastrous election cycles for Republicans in 2018, 2020 and 2022 and he’s the same old Donald Trump, caring only about himself, wrapped up in his own grievances and his own whining. It’s just not playing anymore for the American people.”

According to the Guardian’s Smith, “So it was that Trump’s Mar-a-Lago speech was widely derided as a damp squib, lacking his usual bombast and brio and even his daughter, Ivanka, has decided to sit this one out. Since then, the campaign has been running on autopilot and little has been seen of the former president hunkered down in Florida, venturing out only to play golf.”

More importantly, he observed that the Trump rallies that should have followed the 2024 announcement are nowhere to be seen.

“Trump’s rambunctious campaign rallies, expected to give early momentum to his third consecutive run for president, have mysteriously failed to materialize. In June 2015, by contrast, he declared his candidacy after riding down an escalator in New York and held his first rally in Iowa just 10 hours later, moving on to New Hampshire a day later,” he wrote.

YES, you MAGAts, Trump did release 5,000 Taliban prisoners

MAGAts have their panties in a knot because of the prisoner swap that freed American Britney Griner.  Someone needs to remind this idiot children that Trump agreed to release 5,000 Taliban in exchange for 1,000 Afghan government supporters.

Critics of the deal that saw basketball star Brittney Griner released from a Russian prison camp in exchange for a notorious arms dealer are being reminded how the Donald Trump administration negotiated the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.

Griner, who was jailed after being found in possession of a vape containing cannabis oil cartridges at Moscow Airport in February, was freed on Thursday as part of a prisoner swap with Viktor Bout.

Bout, 55, known as the “merchant of death,” was serving 25 years in U.S. custody after being convicted in 2011 of numerous charges, including conspiring to kill American citizens.

Bout was jailed for selling weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and is said to have provided arms to other terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, rebel forces in Rwanda, and to military conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

In a Truth Social Post, the former president asked why a swap wasn’t considered for Paul Whelan, an ex-marine who is serving a 16-year jail sentence after being arrested in Moscow on suspicion of spying in 2018.

“What kind of a deal is it to swap Brittney Griner, a basketball player who openly hates our Country, for the man known as ‘the Merchant of Death,’ who is one of the biggest arms dealers anywhere in the World, and responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and horrific injuries,” Trump said.

“Why wasn’t former Marine Paul Whelan included in this totally one-sided transaction? He would have been let out for the asking. What a ‘stupid’ and unpatriotic embarrassment for the USA!!!”

A number of social media users pointed out how in 2020, the Trump administration negotiated a deal which saw 5,000 Taliban fighters freed in exchange for up to 1,000 Afghan government captives as part of a peace deal between the U.S. and Islamist militants.

After originally rejecting the proposal, then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani eventually went on to free the thousands of Taliban members by August 2020.

In a statement at the time, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision to release the prisoners was “unpopular,” but would ultimately pave the way for the war in Afghanistan to end.

Writing on Twitter, Omar Rivero, founder of Occupy Democrats, said: “The same Trumpers who are losing their minds right now because Biden freed a single Russian arms dealer in exchange for the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner didn’t say a peep when Trump freed over 5,000 Taliban prisoners. You really can’t make this shit up…”

Human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid said: Republicans completely ignored it when Trump released 5,000 Taliban terrorists into Afghanistan—but are now outraged that Biden helped return Brittney Griner to the United States. I can’t quite figure out why.

“If you’re upset that Biden exchanged an arms dealer for Brittany Griner—but approved Trump releasing 5,000 Taliban terrorists who then took over Afghanistan—stop pretending it’s national security you care about,” Rashid added.

Lawyer Tristan Snell tweeted: “In late 2018, Trump released Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the top leaders of the Taliban, along with 5000 other Taliban fighters, in exchange for… *checks notes*… nobody.”

One year after the Taliban members were freed, U.S. troops left Afghanistan ahead of the takeover of the country by the Jihadist group.

During the evacuation, a suicide bombing at Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, killed more than 180 people, including 13 U.S. service members.

ISIS-K, a Central Asia affiliate of the Islamic State group (ISIS), claimed responsibility for the attack.

In a briefing on Thursday, Biden said Griner was on her way back to the U.S. following “painstaking and intense negotiations,” while promising the administration has “not forgotten about” Whelan.

Open Letter to My Republican Friends

This is an open letter to my Republican friends.  I do not want to see you and your party go down the drain — which is where you are headed.

This nation needs at least two functioning political parties each of which can present policy proposals to the voters, debate those proposals, and let the voters decide.

We do not have a two-party system any longer.  We have one party — the Democratic Party — and a cult — the cult of Donald Trump.

You need to drop Trump.  Run away from him.  Put away the Trump flags, the MAGA hats, scrape off the bumper stickers, and purge Trump from your memory.

Donald Trump is a piece of dog shit on your shoe that you cannot scrape off.  Scrape him off.

Under Trump, the Republican Party has suffered the rare humiliation of failing to win a second term in the Oval Office, and has lost a majority in the Senate three times.

Today, despicable people are the rule, not the exception, in the Republican party: Trump, Pence, McConnell, McCarthy, Taylor-Greene, Boebert, Gaetz, Biggs ,Gosar, Jordan, Gohmert, Miller, Cruz, Cotton, Paul, Graham, Kennedy, Rubio, DeSantis, Abbot, Noem ———–. We all could add dozens to that list, but the point is that these radical soulless extremists ARE the GOP now.

The Democratic Party is a traditional major political party trying to better govern this nation for the benefit of all its citizens. Currently, there is no other traditional major political party in this country. The GOP has devolved into a neurotic blustering personality cult led by a mentally unstable child.

It is time for you to drop Trump and become a rational, reasonable political party again.

Doing this will not be easy.  Trump still controls a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth 30% of the Party.  If you drop him, this mob will shriek and howl, disrupt your meetings, call you names — but you need to drop Trump, face the howling mob — they will go away

Fox writes Trump’s political obituary

new editorial published on FoxNews.com is declaring former President Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions to be officially dead.

In an opinion piece titled “Herschel Walker just wrote Donald Trump’s political obituary,” columnist Liz Peek declared that the defeat of Trump’s handpicked Georgia Senate candidate should signal to the party that it’s time to move on.

“Having suffered the rare humiliation of failing to win a second term in the Oval Office, and having cost his party a majority in the senate – three times – it is time for Donald Trump to step away from politics,” she wrote. “It is the right thing to do for his party, for the country, and for himself.”

Of course, Trump is not stepping away from politics, as he has already announced his candidacy for the presidency in the 2024 election.

Nonetheless, Peek argues that Trump is a bigger asset for Democrats, whose donors churned out significant sums of money to beat Trump-endorsed candidates this past election cycle and who remain incredibly motivated to see him remain out of the Oval Office.

Peek believes that all of this shows that Trump is a fading power who is ripe to be picked off by a younger challenger.

“Ultimately, Trump may compete against rivals like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis or Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin who are not only more popular than Mr. Trump, but will also be better funded,” she concludes. “Already, he has attacked both those Republicans, further alienating those who want to win future elections. It’s time for former President Trump to realize that staying in the 2024 contest will only further erode his legacy. He must move aside, and let Republicans win the next round.”

“. . . further erode his legacy.”  WTF???  What legacy would that be?