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Post by SSHoya on Aug 1, 2024 8:44:17 GMT -5
So has Putin decided his good buddy Don the Con is not going to win re-election now that an apparent complicated prisoner swap is now underway courtesy of the Biden Administration? This must be very depressing news for the MAGA GOPers. The only thing Don the Con can run is his vile mouth. Gershkovich? Whelan? Perhaps. EDIT: Kara-Murza also released. BONUS! Damn good job by the 46 Administration who some here claim without evidence is incompetent. But they are ignorant cultists. CNN — A large-scale prisoner swap between the US and Russia is under way, according to a source familiar, and it is expected to include Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and a number of Americans www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/russia-us-prisoner-swap/index.html
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 1, 2024 11:36:40 GMT -5
Yup, clearly unqualified. /sarcasm
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 1, 2024 11:40:44 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 1, 2024 16:19:14 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 1, 2024 18:35:30 GMT -5
Don the Con was born White. Now he has turned Orange. Someone should look into this.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 1, 2024 19:08:06 GMT -5
My father the neurologist would be more qualified to judge. Alas he’s retired and 91.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 1, 2024 19:08:24 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 1, 2024 19:42:08 GMT -5
He’s spinning around like a top
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 1, 2024 20:28:18 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Aug 1, 2024 21:03:46 GMT -5
He’s spinning around like a top Sounds a lot like an Elvado post, no? But, parroting is sort of the point, I suppose.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 2, 2024 7:04:38 GMT -5
For the last year, we’ve been hearing about the “disciplined,” “competent” and “professional” campaign Donald Trump is running. After his chaotic 2016 and 2020 campaigns, he brought in longtime Republican operatives Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita to lead a “low-drama” operation. Well, the cat lady is out of the bag. The trauma caused by the broadly panned choice of Sen. JD Vance as a running mate, combined with President Biden’s withdrawal from the race and the massive outpouring of support for Vice President Harris, have had a terrible effect on Trump: They have caused him to revert to being himself. Discipline has broken down, and the out-of-control Trump — suppressed in recent months with varying degrees of success — is back on full display. “Christians, get out and vote just this time,” he told an evangelical audience a week ago. “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” Trump, that paragon of self-control, was on Truth Social this week posting or reposting messages declaring Nancy Pelosi “BAT S--- CRAZY” and an “evil witch”; calling the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol an “inside job” and Election Day 2020 “the real insurrection”; proclaiming himself to be what “God has ordained”; railing against Fox News (running ads from “perverts”); repeating a common QAnon slogan; and lamenting that low fuel prices could help “CRAZY KAMALA HARRIS WIN.” Later in the week, he shared a conspiracy theorist’s bogus claim that “Harris’s own birth certificate [proves] she is lying about being Black” and disparaging the deal that secured the release from Russia of Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza and others: “Our ‘negotiators’ are always an embarrassment to us!” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/02/trump-reverts-unchanged-harris-vance-nabj/
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 2, 2024 9:06:23 GMT -5
The fact that Republicans are always worried about fact-checkers should be a pretty good indication of their honesty or complete lack thereof.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 3, 2024 9:46:03 GMT -5
Senate Republicans forgot Trump’s recklessness. It’s back to haunt them. For weeks, Senate Republicans delighted in the misery of their Democratic counterparts. The political story of the summer — whether President Biden would back down from his run at a second term — left GOP senators smiling and away from the media’s glaring spotlight on their foibles. But the tables quickly turned. Their party’s presidential nominee recently returned to his natural form and lashed out against Vice President Harris in divisive terms that had little basis in truth. Republicans went right back into the political PTSD of the Donald Trump era, mouthing the same platitudes that they grasped onto during his presidency. “He needs to focus on the policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) told reporters Thursday morning. Was she comfortable with Trump’s rhetoric? “He needs to focus on the Biden-Harris policies. That’s the successful pathway to November,” Capito said. If that’s the path to success, why does Trump instead dive right into attacks on race instead of policy? After Harris locked up the support to replace Biden on the top of the ticket, House and Senate GOP leaders even cautioned their rank-and-file to drop any mentions of Harris as a “DEI” candidate. Trump wanted to focus on policy issues such as inflation and border security. By 3 p.m. Wednesday, all those hopes for a unity-and-policy-centric campaign came undone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/03/trump-senate-republicans-race/
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 3, 2024 10:08:59 GMT -5
Senate Republicans forgot Trump’s recklessness. It’s back to haunt them. For weeks, Senate Republicans delighted in the misery of their Democratic counterparts. The political story of the summer — whether President Biden would back down from his run at a second term — left GOP senators smiling and away from the media’s glaring spotlight on their foibles. But the tables quickly turned. Their party’s presidential nominee recently returned to his natural form and lashed out against Vice President Harris in divisive terms that had little basis in truth. Republicans went right back into the political PTSD of the Donald Trump era, mouthing the same platitudes that they grasped onto during his presidency. “He needs to focus on the policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) told reporters Thursday morning. Was she comfortable with Trump’s rhetoric? “He needs to focus on the Biden-Harris policies. That’s the successful pathway to November,” Capito said. If that’s the path to success, why does Trump instead dive right into attacks on race instead of policy? After Harris locked up the support to replace Biden on the top of the ticket, House and Senate GOP leaders even cautioned their rank-and-file to drop any mentions of Harris as a “DEI” candidate. Trump wanted to focus on policy issues such as inflation and border security. By 3 p.m. Wednesday, all those hopes for a unity-and-policy-centric campaign came undone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/03/trump-senate-republicans-race/According to Trump’s team, this was an intentional line of attack that they plan to play up to woo black voters. I don’t see how this “inauthentically black” line of attack works to the benefit of the Trump campaign, especially as black sororities and fraternities are mobilizing for Harris. I have a feeling that the sorority/fraternity alliance wins out here, and these attacks only serve to put off swing voters. Not sure this is great politics and hopefully it blows up in his face. www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kamala-harris-racist-attacks-larger-plan-1235073171/
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