Actually no. She’s a true leader and strong ally. Grew up under communism, broke the political glass ceiling in Germany and saw her nation united and democratic. Not comprehending any of this is why you’ll never be at such a ceremony: there’s no kids’ table for cornpone grifters.
Biden = Four New Years of safety, peace, competent team, and steady normalcy.
Trump = Four more years of chaos, violence, burning cities and dangerous incompetence.
Which is better for your family?
I watched the video again last night and thought about how that was my old friend and boss John McCain’s seat and I snapped and sent Mark Kelly money. Her cowardice on Trump and reveling in her press hate did it for me. Kelly is the Patriot in this race. Doubt JSM would disagree
McSally calling a reporter a “liberal hack” for asking a question, and then taking high fives from today’s “conservatives” for doing so, tempts me to say: If it’s liberal to hold public officials in our liberal democracy accountable for doing their job, then I guess I’m liberal.
Very strange as a career Republican who’s run campaigns beating a lot of Dems for last 30 years to wake up and know beyond any doubt that Nancy Pelosi is a far, far better person, politician and patriot than Donald Trump, the Republican President of the United States...
#unfit
A gutless, draft dodging coward like Trump wouldn’t understand, but having both arms broken in an ejector seat, then being beaten and bayoneted by a crowd when he landed in Hanoi, and then tortured in prison with iron bars, yes, John McCain had fucking trouble raising his arms.
Donald Trump mocks John McCain's injury sustained while a prisoner of war. McCain was unable to lift his arms above his shoulders.
"John McCain for some reason couldn’t get his arm up that day."
Putting the likes of Rep Jim Jordan on the House Jan 6 Committee is not the act of a patriot. Kevin McCarthy should be deeply ashamed, if he could even remember what shame is.
I ran Lamar’s Presidential race in 1995. A good friend and somebody I know well and had tremendous respect for. I am so disappointed by his decision today.
Of course some combination of Mitt Romney, Chuck Grassley, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Lamar Alexander could quickly end this Banana Republic bullshit...
#JustSaying
So it’s obvious Trump did all the vile and disqualifying things the Atlantic story claims he did. Now verified by even Fox News.
So where are the resignations in protest? How can people continue to serve this horrible man? How can they rationalize it? Is there no honor?
This is a real reputation disaster for Jones Day; both with staff and with their
#Fortune500
clients, especially those with consumer brands. Do they want to be associated with key lawyers in Trump effort to destroy faith in US elections? Face boycotts?
Same here. Pulling the D lever for Biden after forty years fighting in the GOP trenches was a character building experience! My ears rang for a minute and my left eye fluttered, but after that, it felt great.
Country first! 🇺🇸
Biden speech right on message target. Well done. Biden is the candidate of safety and security and normalcy. Trump is the candidate of chaos, burning cities, and economic disaster.
Cheney purge is so awful, not just for GOP but for country. Think about it; telling the vital truth is now an unforgivable sin in the House Republican Conference. I can’t stand the Left, but these cowards disgust me.
I know Joe Scarborough. Joe is a friend of mine. I don't know T.J. Klausutis. Joe can weather vile, baseless accusations but T.J.? His heart is breaking. Enough already.
It’s an escalation, but this idea of a NATO enforced no fly zone over western Ukraine and Kyiv
@AdamKinzinger
and others are talking about is an interesting idea. Russian AirPower is no match for NATO. Taking away air support ability would really hobble Russian invasion.
Best reason for House impeachment vote — beyond fact that Ukraine offense is so outrageous — is it will put GOP Senators on the real spot and discover if they believe in rule of law or not. Time to force the issue.
36 long years on the road busting my ass to elect GOP candidates… and now I get to watch these R jerks defending Trump like this. I feel sick.
#ParliamentOfTurds
Amazing. Mitch McConnell told reporters that President Biden called him to make sure he was ok. Isn’t it nice to have a president who cares about people regardless of their party?
President Biden is a good and kind man.
You could put an angry chimp on a small barge with $400 million in gold bars stacked on deck, cruise down the Mississippi, and I still don’t think the chimp could lose as much money hurling those gold bars into the river as Donald Trump has...
NEW: The New Hampshire Union Leader, a conservative-leaning newspaper based in Manchester, has endorsed Joe Biden for president. It's the first time it has backed a Democrat in over 100 years.
Yup, stupid brainiacs who wasted all their time in low paid government jobs like war zone diplomat and US Army airborne officer when we all know the Real Patriots spend their time gulping Oxy and bullshitting for hours to old people on dying AM radio stations! You Tell ‘em Rush!
Very solid Biden speech tonight. Classy, grown-up, gracious. Took a victory lap that he absolutely earned and shared full credit with Congressional leaders from both parties. Exactly how a President should act. Such a breath of fresh air from 2016-20’s reckless WH playpen. 🇺🇸
Oh please. No ethic lectures from you, you cheap carny hustler. Mitt never begged Trump for anything. They pitched him the job. Every Romney criticism of Trump is based on Trump’s own vile actions, none of which offend you since you sold your moral compass for dimes long ago.
Know what makes me sick, Mitt? Not how disingenuous you were to take
@realDonaldTrump
$$ and then 4 yrs later jealously trash him & then love him again when you begged to be Sec of State, but makes me sick that you got GOP nomination and could have been
@POTUS
@costareports
— who is very well sourced within GOP — is on MSNBC reporting that Republicans he is talking to after debate tonight are telling him they smell a 1964 style GOP wipeout looming…
#TrumpDisaster
Also insane to me that Navy has been soft on Trump’s bending rules for criminal SEAL while now dropping huge hammer on Capt who aggressively protected his sailors.
Here it is GOP. Your gutless silence, in the House and Senate and RNC and Statehouses, is part of this. You own it too. Proud to be GOP now? Proud of your cowardice? Is silently looking the other way while Democracy is pissed upon why you joined the cause? Really?
#Shame
Outraged Georgia election official decries threatening rhetoric against election staff: "Mr. President...senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop! We need you to step up—and if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some."
Most of the GOP Senators and Members of Congress that I’ve helped elect over the years are now retired. But I’m proud to say of the few that remain, all of them voted for impeachment. 🇺🇸
The thing many don’t know: 70% of Fox cable news revenue comes from the small part of your monthly cable bill they receive, even if you don’t watch Fox. You are paying $25+ a year indirectly to Fox through affiliate fees from your cable Bill. It’s hundreds of millions a quarter,
This is the new Republican Party. This idiot is now the WH press secretary. To those of us who staffed the party in the pre-Trump era it is tragically sad and depressing. Dregs. Liars. Incompetents. I spent three decades fighting D’s for the cause, but now, I’m voting for Biden.
Not gonna repeat her name, since she is just lint on the canvas of politics, but it is a sad day in America when a deceased patriot and hero can be so blithely insulted by a person whose sole contribution to American life has been to vomit vile opinions in a cocktail dress on TV.
You are right. And 20 of you can end all this. Nobody is asking you to land on Anzio beach. Just to risk future cheap haircuts at the Senate barber shop. Step up.
I think all of us who worked closely with John McCain know who he would have voted for in this election.
Major policy differences aside, the clear choice this year is between country, character and rule of law... or blind party loyalty.
@RVAT2020
Joe Biden's cross-party friendship with the late Sen. John McCain was remembered at the DNC in a video featuring McCain's widow, Cindy McCain.
“They would just sit and joke ... It was like a comedy show, sometimes, to watch the two of them"
This is so grim. Hawley is not a fool. He’s smart. He knows it’s all a lie. But he is so ambitious and deeply cynical it reaches the point of total corruption. He wants to be President and I can imagine nothing worse for the GOP. He’s now proved that.
Utah UPDATE: Hill Research poll conducted Oct 8-11, 2022. N=500
Evan McMullin leads Mike Lee by 4 points, 46% to 42%.
Adding leaners increases McMullin’s advantage to 6 points, just outside the margin of error. Hansen, the Libertarian candidate, garners 4%.
More info soon.
Morning update: Texas just surpassed 95% of its 2016 total votes cast w/ two days of early voting & Election Day left to go. We're just headed for a massive, unprecedented turnout there (and a lot of other places).
“Tiny, tiny crowd. Sad, very sad. Such low energy. And the ratings? Terrible! Down in the polls. Very bad. So weak. A disgrace really. That’s what you have call it. People are calling him Donald the Loser. That’s what they’re saying. Donald the Loser. Sad.”
Just got on plane to LAX. Guy with a gentle zen vibe quietly sits in seat next to me. Seems very nice. I’m happy, clearly not a chatterbox with braying opinions about politics or cable tv shows. Will be nice, quiet flight. I take a second look. HOLY CRAP! It’s Dave Grohl!
Yes I am a conservative and want conservative judges. But ramming a SCOTUS nominee through on a close party line vote on election eve or in lame duck is so toxic and anti-democratic it utterly disgusts me. There is tradition of institutional respect that must be protected.
#USA
@murphymike
But Mike, as a “former” Republican, you like the judges Trump is putting forward, right? Serious question..you’d support them if McCain or Jeb had nominated them, right?
It’s a grift to try to link contempt for Trump with disrespect for our military. Trump is a coward hiding behind their greatness, scraping for slivers of reflected honor from their service since he has none of his own.
Based on the hysterical reaction to Trump’s speech, I conclude Trump’s critics haven’t learned the lessons of 2015/2016. They continue to dismiss Trump, ignoring the tens of millions who love the flag, displays of patriotism and the military. They’re blinded by hatred to Trump.
To my silent GOP Senate friends:
— A nightmare indeed
— 20 of you can make it all go away. Announce charges are worthy and v serious.
— Flush this guy by Jan
— You have a year to reset with Pence or someone new. That’s a Long time. Better odds v Warren.
Transportation Sec. Buttigieg blames the nationwide baby formula shortage on the Abbott plant shutdown:
“It’s got to be safe and it’s got to be up and running as soon as possible. This is the difference between a supply-chain problem…and a supply problem.”
Trump communicates through a word spray of clichés, sentence fragments, repetition, falsehoods, bravado, non-Sequiturs, buzzwords,and general babbling. It is astounding.
WH covering up the POTUS’s COVID-19 condition by not announcing it until they were caught, as well as the unbelievable lack of response internally on Wednesday and Thursday (NJ!), and today’s Dr Dodger briefing has turned what would have been a week of sympathy into a disaster.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm not in the Senate to play politics, especially not with liberal hacks who profit off of spin.
Fight back -->
The
@jonathanvswan
video is important; an unvarnished look at the very limited capacity of the POTUS. This is what the WH staff sees everyday. This is what the cabinet sees. They know. Yet they prop him up. Their patriotic duty is to either resign or work against his re-elect.
So the Speaker race begins. I think selecting Jim Jordan as next Speaker would be a fantastic first move in the House Republican Conference’s brilliant 3 step plan to give the Democrats a nice House majority in 2024.
#idiotic
The men of Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7, described Chief Gallagher as “freaking evil” and “toxic” in videos not shown publicly before.
The remarks are blistering testimony about their platoon chief, who was protected by President Trump from punishment.
Thx for all the retweets! Between all the combined
@RVAT2020
twitter accounts we’ve passed 1 million view of our spot from social media alone! Keep retweeting it!🇺🇸
OK America, who do you want to hang with for the next four years? Cool Uncle Joe, who lent you his ‘67 Vette for Prom night and is a good guy you can talk to or... drunk uncle Donnie who only wants to brag about himself in the war and shout at the Garcia family across the street?
Note to Trump campaign staff:
You know it’s over.
You know COVID is surging.
You know the rallies are dangerous and are only about the Candidate’s ego, not winning this race.
Turn off the rally recruitment machine. The phones, etc. He won’t know. Protect people. It’s on you. 🇺🇸
Bevin was already in trouble but KY suburban wipeout is another strong sign that Trump is
#BoxOfficePoison
for the GOP. Just like the 2017 specials and 2018 midterms. More than a few GOP Senators will notice scary results; Majority is def at risk. Esp if D’s dump Warren...
You can tell that things at the White House have gone totally batshit when the new go to guy for sober-minded, adult foreign policy clean-up is Bolton...
Esper preparing a resignation letter for after the election his boss is losing (and not, for instance, after Lafayette Park) is too perfect. What a profile in courage.
Trump acting like this is a Fox News panel show. Biden acting like it’s a serious debate. The prep difference really shows. V good night so far for Biden. Trump lost in the wingnut bubble.
I’m on a plane west from Boston, but managed to watch Trump’s “victory” speech. So depressing, what a parade of unworthy dregs. Just raw, stupid, insecure IQ 50 bile.
What a sick, needy f
@ck
Trump is.
It’s all about re-electing Joe Biden now.
This election is now simple. If you believe in rule of law, Trump is criminal and must go. Even if you support his agenda, Trump is blisteringly incompetent, and must go. If you dislike his policies, Trump must go. There is no reason left to vote for Donald Trump.
#CrookFoolLiar
With the celebration of the lives of John McCain and George H.W. Bush, we should all be sharply reminded that American politics need not be the tawdry unpatriotic ruin it has recently become. It’s our duty as Americans (and Republicans) to change it. The choice is in front of us.
Fmr. GOP Florida Attorney General & Secretary of State Jim Smith endorses
@JoeBiden
for President.
“There are times when you have to put your country ahead of politics... I’m a Republican today, I’ll be a Republican tomorrow, but in 2020, I’m a
#BidenRepublican
.”
Obsessing on polls right now is like googling “strange pain behind my right eye”... nothing useful will come of it, just fear and panic.
Instead, Vote. Tell your friends to vote. Call anybody you know in FL, GA, OH and TX and plug your candidate nicely. But ignore the polls.
Oh let me guess... you’re just so outraged at the attack on Christian role model and true prophet Donald J Trump and fighting back. Believers should send checks ASAP to Christians Against Secular Humanism... or, CASH.
#TrumpDregs
“
@ProjectLincoln
”—a group of Never Trump losers (in every sense of the word), has released a video mocking President
@realDonaldTrump
and faith leaders like myself who support him. I’ll discuss on “
@LouDobbs
Tonight “ at 7 & 10pm ET on
@FoxBusiness
. Tune in!
I was just asked on MSNBC about Eric Swalwell and I made a crack about his orange tie. I’ve now learned it Parkland thing; so I apologize for that. As somebody who has worked hard for background checks, I feel badly I didn’t know the tie backstory.
#MeaCulpa
Tim Scott’s bootlicking endorsement of Trump earns him a place in my “Stefanik Six”
6 dreg Politicians so stunningly cynical they’ll literally do anything to worm forward with Trump even though they know better:
Stefanik
Lindsay Graham
Tim Scott
Marco Rubio
Mike Lee
Nancy Mace
Ugh. Beyond all the likeability and social media gimmickry and media savvy charm lies this: a core idea so bad and so vigorously ignorant of economic history that it’s frightening. The eternal fool’s recipe to greatly increase poverty and pain.
ROMNEY: "POTUS delayed funds for an American ally at war with Russian invaders. POTUS's purpose was personal and political. Accordingly, POTUS is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault of our electoral rights."
It appears with two weeks left in his term, Donald Trump’s total destruction of the GOP — morally, ethically, intellectually and politically — is complete. Nothing but a smoking ruin. For years a few of us tried to warn you and you scoffed.
#HelloDemocraticSenateHouseOval
Biden delivered. A. Best Biden speech I’ve ever seen. Trump criticism of Biden sharpness utterly demolished, smashed into atoms.
Now, off to record
@HacksOnTap
.
BREAKING: Former President Trump will speak at next week's Conservative Political Action Conference conference in Florida, his first public appearance since leaving office, a source with direct knowledge tells Axios.
I’m an admirer of both McArthur and Patton as brilliant fighting generals. But you’d have to be fucking nuts to put either of them in charge of a police response to a civil disturbance in an American city. Trump is so insecure and weak he fetishes strength... true fascist stuff.
Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis will never be mistaken for the late, great General Douglas McArthur or great fighter General George Patton. How come all of these places that defend so poorly are run by Liberal Democrats? Get tough and fight (and arrest the bad ones). STRENGTH!
I’m told Sec Buttigieg is obsessively gevitalout on why France + other EU countries can built infrastructure at a much lower cost than we can here in the flawless US of A. A very good sign; solving that dilemma is vital; he’s found exactly the right thing to zero in on.
#Smart
In the last 127 years, only five incumbent US Presidents running for re-election have been fired by the American people. By Friday, it’ll be six. 🇺🇸
@RVAT2020