In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

JFK and Camelot was as much of a con job as Trump being a brilliant businessman. That said, I’d take JFK every day and twice on Sunday over Trump.

 

In a poli sci class I took in college, we studied how JFK handled the Bay of Pigs vs. the Cuban missile crisis. The potential for greatness was there.

 

Maybe we do deserve that meteor.

 

There are Republican politicians (Like Romney) I'd take over Trump and that's saying something.

I've said before if I had to vote between W Bush and Trump, I'd buy the W merch and knock on doors for him if it means Trump won't take office.

 

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Is that with or without Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?

Does it really matter?

 

I would take them, full stop. Especially if it was between them and Trump. Dick Cheney supported Harris. And as awful and idiotic as the Bush admin was, they could at least govern. I could at least not worry about waking up wondering, "What dumb thing did Trump do this time?" I don't have to hear Bush ramble about water pressure in showers, try and commit a coup in the Capitol, or wanting to be friends with Putin.

Part of it was me being a kid (13-21) but at least under Bush I could go about my life. Trump? I find myself checking news to see what dumb thing he did. And after having lived through a pandemic under him, I realized that Bush would've been better because he actually realized that there needed to be a plan.

 

Imagine if GWB pushed 9/11 under the rug, called it a hoax and said it was fake leftist news.

That's basically where we are now with DJT and COVID.

 

This comment is about Suarez but could also be about a dog with rabies.

 

Yeah, certainly most of the men were entitled & slimy. But JFK & Jackie were the glamor prez and first lady and Americans were very hopeful at that time. The 60s changed for many when Fidel & Sam Giancana whacked him.

 

So if Trump tries to run for a third term, I’d love to see W and Obama run against him.

 

Speaking of rabies, I learned over the weekend that about a third of dog owners are not vaccinating their dogs because they're afraid they (the dogs) will develop autism, and it is allowing rabies to spread.


What a time to be ...alive?

 

Imagine if he used it as an excuse to create an intrusive surveillance state, institutionalized federal policing habits that mandated discrimination based on ethnicity religion and national origin and started two wars with over a million civilian casualties, and, along with his Congress, created the conditions for one of the worst financial and economic crises of the 21st century.

Good help us all, but I think I think I might still take him.

 

Which should show you just how debased the Republican brand has become in our lifetimes. Taking a dopey, nepo baby, Middle East destroyer over the always-lying, insane, Orange fascist.

So blaming Woke is misplaced, dontcha think?

 

Well, the litmus test is how they react to electoral defeat. Politicians are allowed to pursue bad policies if this is what the electorate votes for. However, Bush did not try any third term bullshit and when the Republican candidate lost in 2008, the Republican administration packed its bags and left without making a scene. As long as that happens, the damage can be fixed.

However, once you step into the territory of "if my opponent won, it was rigged" and, worse, take real actions to prevent a peaceful transition of power, that is a red line after which there is no going back - and that is the line that Trump and MAGA crossed. In a Republic, elections are the only alternative to coups, revolutions and civil wars. If you are undermining the public trust in the integrity of elections, you are pretty much undermining the foundations of a democratic Republic.

 

I think it's arguable that none of that damage has been fixed, just as very little of the damage of the first Trump term was fixed and probably none from the second will be, if it passes court muster.

 

The answer is simple. Any of us would vote for a tree stump, or any living, breathing human being over Trump. Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, or any other garden-variety Republican would be preferable, even though their policies would be awful.

 

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If, say, Greece murdered some Americans in international waters, well, we'd be at war with Greece.

 

Almost like TrumpCo is goading Venezuela into a reaction

 

And yet Trump pardoned the guy who ran Silk Road -- and who was, without a doubt, actually responsible for poisoning our fellow citizens.

 

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Wow, we're at the point where this is too much for Rand Paul.

Sorry, Rand, you're too late. Should have been a Dem if you wanted to help.

 

Agreeing with Rand Paul makes me very uncomfortable. I suppose what they say is true - politics makes for strange bedfellows (not that I would literally want to be in bed with Rand Paul!).