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I Suppose That I Missed the Gloating
Reports are that Trump-backed candidates were 15-0 in the Senate. Now not all of them were the right sort of people, but we assume that a Trump-backed reprobate may be less ruined than a Trump-opposed and soon-to-be tarred and feathered reprobate. Welllll, it’s a process, not a moment.
Red Wave inbound! (May be slow to load — stick with it)
I was looking for some more numbers I saw earlier today on the phone, and, well — we did well. In particular, Trump-backed candidates performed well. So much for round three of “Trump is the kiss of death”. Yeah, he can’t win, he should stay away, he’s poll-box-office poison… heard it before. As I said a while back, the utilitarian Trump-Nopers with their “Trump is simply *bad* for the party’s prospects!” may be misjudging the American mood once again.
I’ll take a moment from my victory lap here to admit that I am not sanguine, but I think I’ve been keeping my doom pill under wraps pretty well these days, as the future is wide open, and we never know whether’s tomorrow’s harvest is more fertility or more fertilizer. We do have excellent prospects, yet the GOP hosers are more than capable of hosing this up. Maybe even by accident, although not necessarily. Prophecy, prediction, warning, threat — there’s a spectrum. Watch for the usual suspects (no, not people here on-site) to begin proving with geometric logic how this just means worse performance in the mid-terms, because now the cat is out of the bag or something. My my my, the Democrats might wake. We should hurry up and lose all of our elections so that never happens!
There may not be many reasons to be giddy, but we deserve a Mimosa to start the day this morning, and By Gum, two on Saturday morning. Sunday? Kari bar the door.
Oh, these are just primaries, or minor elections. Yeah? Where you at, NeverTrump? Thought you were going to put us down once and for all, especially after the walls closed in on Trump what with the bombshell show trials, produced by real show people and everything.
I have a bottle of champagne which has gone unused since its purchase in November of 2020. Might bust that out this weekend. So now after the news has broken, but before the stunned Trump-Nopers regain their mathematical faculties (such as they are), I’m just savoring the sound of a pin dropping. Tinnnng!
Thanks, Trump!
Published in General
It is interesting to me how goal posts can move. I have read some anti Trump types say they would vote for anyone who was not Trump later say they won’t vote for Trump approved candidates.
I fully expect, if at some point DeSantis was running and Trump supported him whole hog, that suddenly he would be unacceptable. They might deny it now, but it will happen.
Seems like Gary has already stated, at least by implication, that he would not vote for DeSantis if Trump supports him.
If Trump endorsed all the Democrats, we would be an unstoppable force. Apparently.
That would really only work on a few reverse-kneejerk people like Gary.
I’ve needed that one for a LONG time!
It’s almost as good as an “ignore” feature!
Hey, I resemble that meme.
Sounds like you have delusions of relevance.
You’re incorrugible. I’m certainly not going to argue. That would not be productive. Thanks for stopping by.
I noticed that as well and reached the same conclusion.
There does seem to be an unbridled, destructive rapaciousness to the NTers. It seems as if people who were already predisposed to do so were given permission to focus all their jealousies, frustrations, anger and destructiveness on one thing. And it grows the more it is allowed and encouraged.
But it also now seems that not having been able to humiliate and destroy Trump, they are casting about wider to find symbolic substitutions for him which are weaker and more vulnerable.
I’m referring to the followers, not the paid professionals. They’re irrational and destructive. I mean, they’re saying that they would rather have Biden, who is leaving nothing left undestroyed, than the object of their monomaniacal hatred.
So, yes, if Trump were ever to endorse DeSantis, even if DeSantis didn’t utter a word of encouragement or thanks, DeSantis would have to be destroyed as well.
Gary, I’ll just say that you are really inviting the unpleasant remarks that you are likely to receive. I would be hard-pressed to make my usual “uh, hey guys…” shirt-tugs about piling onto you under posts of mine, based on what you have written plainly, and plainly implied here. This one’s on you to a degree that few others are.
I will assume that you are just mildly unhinged by your mild grief at the unwelcome results this time around.
You may be interested in the comments (the whole six pages) mentioned by Franco accompanying the post I linked with “not necessarily” up in my OP. That was 2015, I believe. Fascinating to me anyway.
I think things are getting unknown. It seems a shake up is going on.
DeSantis made an interesting move today: DeSantis Suspends Woke, Soros-Backed State Attorney (townhall.com)
Should make him more popular.
Excuse me. Trump filed 61 lawsuits. About half were dismissed due to lack of standing. About a sixth were dismissed by a motion by the Trump folks. About a third went to trial and were dismissed by the Court.
But that was not enough. The January 6th Select Committee has provided clear and convincing evidence that Trump was (a) the Creator of the Big Lie, (b) the Co-creator (or worse) of the Insurrection before it started and (c) then a Traitor to the nation as he disobeyed his oath of office to faithfully exercise the duties of this office during the 187 minutes of the riot at the Capitol (i) where officers were beaten by armed rioters to an inch of their lives, (ii) Congress had to flee for their safety, and (iii) Vice President Pence’s protective detail called their families due to the strong possibility that they could die.
If Trump had won, then Trump would have won. But he didn’t.
Someday soon I hope we have the restoration of the Party of Reagan.
This reminds of of the reliably (but not always) awful CJSCOTUS Roberts who laid the Constitution in a puddle to preserve the dignity of the court’s garment.
Or Bridge Over the River MAGA.
Biden is destroying the economy. But the economy can recover. See how Reagan rescued us from Jimmy Carter’s destruction of the economy.
Trump is seeking to usurp the Constitution. That last happened in 1861. Let’s not do that again.
If you are going to quote the Bulwark, then quote the Bulwark, not somebody else talking about the Bulwark. Here is the Bulwark article, https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/what-are-you-doing-to-protect-good
Oh Bryan. I have repeatedly said that I would support DeSantis for President. I have even given him money. Have you?
Oh kedavis! I have repeatedly said that I would support DeSantis. I have even given the Committee seeking to draft him money. Have you?
Popular enough for this rousing show of unequivocal support. I will quote the speech in it’s entirety. “Good for DeSantis.”
It already happened with Glen Youngkin. The entire Bulwark turned on him for not denouncing Trump.
Great, now you can go back to quoting what Liz Cheney and others claim Trump said and did, rather than what he actually said and did.
I have already dealt with this in my review of “LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election.”
I said,
The eight authors include three former federal judges, a former Solicitor General, and two former Senators. All are very well known conservatives. They undertook to examine every claim of fraud or misconduct put forward by former President Trump. They flatly state “Our conclusion is unequivocal: Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors, who themselves were the choice of the majority of voters in their states.” Aside from the pandemic and economic downturn, they note that there was “a small but statistically significant number [Edit. of Republicans] willing to vote for other Republican candidates on the ballot but not for President Trump” which is why Trump “fell short, not a fraudulent election.” This point was made by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson who was not aware that he was been tape recorded, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
I would vote for DeSantis. I have given money to the Committee seeking to draft him. Have you?
What an obnoxious justification. “Destroying the economy” is a nice abstraction to take the focus away from what’s really happening: Biden is destroying THE CITIZENS. The WORKING CLASS. The MIDDLE CLASS. The POOR. But you have never given a crap about the people harmed by Biden’s policies.
I think that that is great. Go Ron DeSantis!
While I read The Bulwark, I am not as “pure” as they are. I am happy that Glen Youngkin won.
I doubt they parse your financial support that closely.
Who cares? If the country is stupid enough to vote for Biden, it will get what it deserves, and is getting it now. If you want to take a large share the blame, so be it. If you are treated with contempt by those with the brains not to have voted for Biden, you earned it.