Trump Presidency Tweets 3 - The Old Man and the Seethe

There needs to be a whole separate Lies Covering His Lies category

 

He needs to be treated like a Grampa who went out for a walk and came back with a story of how he just single-handedly defeated 10 ninjas that popped out of a van to attack him.

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It’s the grift, stoopid!!

Shocking no one, it's reported that Donald Trump has a personal financial interest in the French company that makes the brand-name version of the drug. https://t.co/fUQM65nYuF

— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) April 8, 2020

 

They aren't here, but they are everywhere. From growing up in Kansas, I have a lot of friends who are Kool-Aid drinking Trump supporters who I deal with on Facebook. They would watch that video and AGREE that he "never said that," even when confronted with absolute proof. It is really bizarre.

 

Add Vatican City to your list of countries. Most of my hometown friends are Catholic (I went to Catholic grade school and high school), and they demonize Pope Francis because he is not on board with Trump. I just typed that and have a hard time processing it, but it is true.

 

There is nothing remotely Christian about Trumpism. No idea how his followers are able to square that. I realize they're stupid. But there has to be something cult-like going on that fact-based humans will never understand.

 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn referred to collaborators with Stalinism as "servants of falsehoold." Trump isn't Stalin, and as damaged as our institutions are, they're still stronger than those destroyed by the soviets, but Trump does have have his willing and able collaborators, that's for sure.

 

I'll mention that "servants of falsehood" thing again

 

He has now submitted his resignation. https://t.co/PxLjTvb4MB

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 7, 2020

 

A little off topic, but for the life of me, I can’t understand why Pelosi didn’t make him one of the House managers for impeachment. He was chomping at the big to do it, and he would have bumped up the credibility of the prosecution. He also would have been a better presenter than some on the panel.

 

I get Amash is better than most Rs. But you dont push someone to the side in your party and replace them with an Amash. Maybe in the Watergate era when there was more bipartisanship.

In the end the votes weren't there and Amash would've just received more "you're a traitor!" hate from the loons in Trumplandia.

 

I will take a sane politician with bad policies anytime over a cult leader. I would walk arm in arm with Ronald Reagan. You bet I would.

 

My Washington policy guy reminded me of how different things were in 1974. The bubble impeachment voters were the Northern Republican and Southern Democrat Senators. The Northern Republicans went first. The Southern Dems were Nixon's last line of defense.

 

If she had done that, he'd be bulletproof in the general election this fall. It's not like adding him would have changed one friggin' vote, and I doubt it would change one friggin' mind. The evidence was immense and clear. Didn't matter.

 

The plan seems to be to not count the dead in Republican counties and not count the vote in Democratic ones.

— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) April 7, 2020

 

Bernie Sanders is OUT! Thank you to Elizabeth Warren. If not for her, Bernie would have won almost every state on Super Tuesday! This ended just like the Democrats & the DNC wanted, same as the Crooked Hillary fiasco. The Bernie people should come to the Republican Party, TRADE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2020

Can’t see AOC plus 3 supporting Sleepy Joe!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2020

Presumably HCQ is the malaria drug. I wonder what Modi did or said.

Extraordinary times require even closer cooperation between friends. Thank you India and the Indian people for the decision on HCQ. Will not be forgotten! Thank you Prime Minister @NarendraModi for your strong leadership in helping not just India, but humanity, in this fight!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2020

 

Sanders voters are going to support a fascist instead of a "mainstream" Democrat?

 

collaborators with Stalinism as "servants of falsehoold."

Trump isn't Stalin, Not fair, give him a chance. He now has the SCOTUS. He has Bill Barr as AGOTUS. He’s working on the IGOTUS. This National Emergency will preclude any elections this November. He will save the US but sadly at the expense of Democracy and the Constitution.

 

I know you’re correct. And I know Pelosi was correct. But for some reason a large part of me wants to believe that it would have been different (slightly) if one of their own had been heavily involved in this. It jus may have given a few more Republicans cover...

 

Do you know why African-Americans align with so many COVID-19 co-morbidities? Structural racism. Food deserts=unequal access to healthy & fresh foods= diabetes, heart disease. Enviro injustices mean dirty air, water. Greed & neglect, subpar housing=asthma

— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) April 8, 2020

 

Not sure how much it'd matter since Amash is treated as a traitor by many on the right. They'd slime him as a non-believing kook as they do to Mitt

 

First, it’s not like a starting 11 where Amash would have to take someone’s place (although I thought a few were pretty ineffective). The Republicans has more managers in the Clinton impeachment.

Second, I don’t think Amash cares about getting hate from Trump voters. He was pretty actively open to being named as a manager.

Finally, I know it would not have changed the vote, but it would have lended more credibility to the effort, particularly with moderate independents and recently former Republicans. Politically, I think that would have made a difference and would have damaged Trump more than he was.

 

Mitt is a good point. He didn’t change a thing practically, but his vote was incredibly important politically. This board is pretty far left, but there are a lot of us out there who are not that far left. We hate Trump. We want him to go down. Having moderate Republicans or libertarians like Amash stand up and do the right thing is really important. Having him actively in the prosecution would have been even better. We are failing as a country. In large part from the clear division politically. Yes, I blame Republicans far more than Democrats, but if we are to avoid circling the drain as a country, we have to get back to, as John McCain so beautifully put it, “regular order.” When was the last time a major bill went through the normal committee process?