I’m glad you brought up Mitt, Michael. What the fuck is up with him anyhow? While he’s rich beyond measure he’s been paying 5K a day for personal security for himself and his family. He knows that the threat he feels isn’t coming from democrats but is located in the maggot base of the repugnantkin party that ran him for president. While …
I’m glad you brought up Mitt, Michael. What the fuck is up with him anyhow? While he’s rich beyond measure he’s been paying 5K a day for personal security for himself and his family. He knows that the threat he feels isn’t coming from democrats but is located in the maggot base of the repugnantkin party that ran him for president. While to me any Mormon is a strange duck, Mitt did pretty good in Massachusetts and rescuing the Salt Lake City Olympics, unlike the orange turd he’s not a traitor, even flybait says he won’t vote for him and he’s close to spineless.
I think people tend to forget that in 2012, political experts--real ones--said he ran the most dishonest presidential campaign they had ever seen. And the photo of him dining with Pol Potbelly while sucking up in hopes of getting secretary of state is a classic.
Another thing about him that struck me. I loved The West Wing. When Bartlet won reelection, he asked Toby, who had just given him his victory speech, for "the other speech." Toby said he didn't write one. Bartlet said he knew better, and Toby gave it to him. Well, in 2012, Rmoney supposedly didn't prepare a concession speech because he couldn't conceive of losing to Obama. I have the funny feeling I know what colored his judgment on that one.
I guess there is less there there than I had thought. He seemed to be the last sane member of the repugnantkin party. He did vote to impeach the orange turd, twice, which is why I thought he had a backbone in there somewhere. He can’t possibly think he’s going to live forever, so why not live his life with dignity, instead of just keeping quiet and keeping his head down when half or more of the country feels that we are in a battle for our souls. I was a republican in the John McCain vein, there is absolutely nothing that the repugnantkin party espouses that I in any way agree with, I’m happy to vote with the democrats, they care about the nation like I do, and I’m not alone.
When Rove and the other GOP tricksters started their whisper campaign against McCain in SC because he'd beaten their guy Bush in Iowa and NH, I knew then that the GOP was on the moral and ethical skids. And it's been plummeting to new lows ever since then.
2012 was when they decided to go totally rogue. The Rove crew had revived the onslaught of dirty tricks, and the tea party had stymied Obama but they decided that the end justified the means. It has been deliberate and calculated. Putin may have courted chump, but so did repubs.
The timing coincides with what Jane Mayer documents in DARK MONEY: the plutocrats and the fascist wannabes were shocked into action in 2009 by Obama's election and 2010 brought the Tea Party wave. Crashing the economy during the Bush II administration, not to mention screwing up the Middle East worse than it already was screwed up by going after Saddam Hussein, wasn't enough for them.
Frankly, I am willing to trace it to 1964, and I'm willing to go back to Herbert Hoover demanding after the 1932 election that FDR renounce anything he intended to change when he became president.
Don’t forget the Coup of 1933. Rich dudes (including Prescott Bush) planned to kick FDR to the curb. Guess a review of our history is necessary. Wait, there is an historian on substack…
I’m glad you brought up Mitt, Michael. What the fuck is up with him anyhow? While he’s rich beyond measure he’s been paying 5K a day for personal security for himself and his family. He knows that the threat he feels isn’t coming from democrats but is located in the maggot base of the repugnantkin party that ran him for president. While to me any Mormon is a strange duck, Mitt did pretty good in Massachusetts and rescuing the Salt Lake City Olympics, unlike the orange turd he’s not a traitor, even flybait says he won’t vote for him and he’s close to spineless.
I think people tend to forget that in 2012, political experts--real ones--said he ran the most dishonest presidential campaign they had ever seen. And the photo of him dining with Pol Potbelly while sucking up in hopes of getting secretary of state is a classic.
Another thing about him that struck me. I loved The West Wing. When Bartlet won reelection, he asked Toby, who had just given him his victory speech, for "the other speech." Toby said he didn't write one. Bartlet said he knew better, and Toby gave it to him. Well, in 2012, Rmoney supposedly didn't prepare a concession speech because he couldn't conceive of losing to Obama. I have the funny feeling I know what colored his judgment on that one.
I guess there is less there there than I had thought. He seemed to be the last sane member of the repugnantkin party. He did vote to impeach the orange turd, twice, which is why I thought he had a backbone in there somewhere. He can’t possibly think he’s going to live forever, so why not live his life with dignity, instead of just keeping quiet and keeping his head down when half or more of the country feels that we are in a battle for our souls. I was a republican in the John McCain vein, there is absolutely nothing that the repugnantkin party espouses that I in any way agree with, I’m happy to vote with the democrats, they care about the nation like I do, and I’m not alone.
When Rove and the other GOP tricksters started their whisper campaign against McCain in SC because he'd beaten their guy Bush in Iowa and NH, I knew then that the GOP was on the moral and ethical skids. And it's been plummeting to new lows ever since then.
2012 was when they decided to go totally rogue. The Rove crew had revived the onslaught of dirty tricks, and the tea party had stymied Obama but they decided that the end justified the means. It has been deliberate and calculated. Putin may have courted chump, but so did repubs.
The timing coincides with what Jane Mayer documents in DARK MONEY: the plutocrats and the fascist wannabes were shocked into action in 2009 by Obama's election and 2010 brought the Tea Party wave. Crashing the economy during the Bush II administration, not to mention screwing up the Middle East worse than it already was screwed up by going after Saddam Hussein, wasn't enough for them.
Glad she remembers it as I do. Wonder how Rupert managed to pull a fast one on the whole country. Money, money, money
Frankly, I am willing to trace it to 1964, and I'm willing to go back to Herbert Hoover demanding after the 1932 election that FDR renounce anything he intended to change when he became president.
Don’t forget the Coup of 1933. Rich dudes (including Prescott Bush) planned to kick FDR to the curb. Guess a review of our history is necessary. Wait, there is an historian on substack…
Another non-substack type, Sally Denton, did a book on FDR, The Plots Against the President.
Thank you. Hope she mentioned the Coup. I had never heard of it til a few years ago.