President Trump Triples Down, Calls For Apology (UPDATE: GOP Members Find A Backbone)
[guest post by Dana]
Yesterday, we saw President Trump unwisely step in and distract Democrats from their infighting by making himself the focus of their attention with his inaccurate and inflammatory tweets attacking members of their caucus. Last night, he doubled down on his perceived righteousness in the conflict. This morning, he is tripling down by way of calling for an apology from the same Democratic Congresswomen that he suggested go back to where they came from and then come back to govern:
When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said. So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions!
If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.
It’s ironic that, along with helping the Democrats by his reckless tweeting, President Trump has once again forced the hand of the GOP’s sitting members of Congress. Does the elected official ignore his own moral compass and remain silent in order to stay in Trump’s good graces, or is he compelled to follow his own conscience and publicly condemn the President’s bigoted comments – consequences be damned?
Sen. Pat Toomey isn’t afraid to follow his conscience:
President Trump was wrong to suggest that four left-wing congresswomen should go back to where they came from. Three of the four were born in America and the citizenship of all four is as valid as mine. I couldn’t disagree more with these congresswomen’s views on immigration, socialism, national security, and virtually every policy issue. But they are entitled to their opinions, however misguided they may be. We should defeat their ideas on the merits, not on the basis of their ancestry.
With this latest kerfuffle, Jonathan Swan revisits Trump’s assertion made during the presidential campaign that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose any voters. It was true then, and sadly, it appears to be true now:
Trump knows he can say whatever he likes and face no consequences from the party he has conquered.
The few Republicans who dared to defy him either got crushed by pro-Trump candidates in primaries (Rep. Mark Sanford), quit the party (Rep. Justin Amash) or retired (Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker). One remaining critic, Sen. Mitt Romney, mostly pushes back by issuing stern but ineffectual tweets. And Sen. Ben Sasse, who used to lambaste the president, has mostly gone silent.
No modern president, besides George W. Bush immediately after the 9/11 attacks, has enjoyed such popularity with Republican voters.
UPDATE: Via Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg and Dallas News, these are the Republicans that have joined Sen. Toomey in denouncing President Trump for his comments toward the four Democratic congresswomen: Rep. Mike Turner, Rep. Will Hurd, Rep. Pete Olson, Rep. Chip Roy, Sen. Tim Scott, Sen. Susan Collins.
And via Alison King of NBC10 Boston, comes this weak tea from Mitt Romney:
“I certainly feel a number of these new members of Congress have views that are not consistent with my experience and not consistent with building a strong America.”
“At the same time, I recognize that the Pres has a unique and noble calling to unite all Americans regardless of our creeds or race or place of our national origin and I think in that case, the Pres fell far short.”
I’ll continue to update the post with any further responses from GOP members as I see them published. If you see some that I’ve missed, please let us know in the comments.
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Lol. It’s disconcerting that this even crossed my mind: Because we are in the middle of the crazy season that is Trump, some ardent loyalists might even be rationalizing that yesterday and today’s awful comments by Trump are just part of a super smart strategery he thought of as a way to weed out those in Congress who are disloyal to him…
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:09 amHe really is big on projecting his flaws and misdeeds onto others.
He says something that’s condemned so he calls on other people to apologize.
Time123 (235fc4) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:35 amPresident Trump has once again forced the hand of the GOP’s sitting members of Congress.
He’s trying to force the hand of the sitting Democratic members of Congress. Either side with the Squad, or condemn them.
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:40 amI think all the members of the Squad are against, or unfair to, Israel, but hiw have they made Israel feel abandoned by the United States government? Not even by the Congress, not even by the Democratic Party, but by the United States? That’s what Trump is trying to sell, in a bid to force.the Demcrats to isolate them, or otherwise isolate themselves.
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:44 amI think this is another one of those Rorschach test now…
I still think these tweets is a tactical error of epic proportion, if for nothing else, it opens the barn door for criticism.
However, Ann Althouse has a more nuanced take:
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/07/lets-look-at-trumps-now-infamous.html
I don’t know if it’s fair to chaulk this up as Trump being a racists or even a bigot.
I think this is all about nationalism… not only that, but an excessive jingoistic(sp?) nationalisms.
whembly (51f28e) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:13 amAlthouse – as usual – has a very interesting take. Much less knee-jerk reaction.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:18 amTrump has no regrets about his comments:
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:19 amNow Trump called them Communists… (and conceded they are American citizens)
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150766494697107456
The following tweets are:
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:39 amThere, distilled in one sentence, is Trump’s political philosophy:
Whatever makes me popular, I’ll say and do. There are no other relevant considerations.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:44 amand then:
Althouse barely had time to start gaslighting before Agent Orange cut her off at the knees…
Dave (1bb933) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:49 amCol. Haiku,
I just read Althouse’s take.
First, it’s not about the Squad:
Then it is about the Squad:
I feel like she’s doing embarrassing contortions on his behalf.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:49 amI’m not sure she’s a big Trump fan, Dana. More often than not, she seems to play it down the middle.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:52 amI could be wrong, but that’s how I’ve read Althouse as well…
whembly (51f28e) — 7/15/2019 @ 11:59 am> “These are people that hate our country,” Trump said. “They hate our country. They hate it, I think, with a passion.”
This is what conservatives have been saying about liberals for the entirety of my adult life. Yeah, political figures have usually refrained from saying it, but their *supporters* haven’t. It’s not surprising on some level that a lot of people are thrilled to have a President openly saying things they’ve always believed.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:00 pmIs she the one who claimed some sort of “cruel neutrality” during Obama’s first election?? Anyway, do you see my point about her posing conflicting statements?
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:01 pmI am surprised no one here appears to understand the obvious: Trump is defining and pushing the Democrats to a place they mustn’t/do not want to go. They are now left supporting known anti-semites that harbor no nice feelings for America. There was a time when all good patriots said this. Even Conservative Inc. has fallen. I remain a cold warrior and will always point out the commies and given a chance, will always fulfill my promise to kill a commie for mommie.
Mark (57ef87) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:05 pm1000/24th dimensional chess!
Dave (1bb933) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:09 pm@1. ‘It’s ironic… etc., etc.,’
LOL. Rationalizing? It’s “Der Plan.” Get them GOPers on record with a vote [thank Nancy] make a ist, check it twice, fin out who is naughty or nice — and primary the disloyal accordingly.
The scent of Stephen Miller is all over this baby: ‘Ein Volk. Ein Amerika. Ein Trump…’
“I’d hate to take a bite out of you; you’re a cookie full of arsenic.” -JJ Hunsecker [Burt Lancaster] ‘The Sweet Smell Of Success’ 1957
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:15 pmDonald Trump is a moron, who tweeted something stupid, and is now disregarding the first rule of holes. Yup, pretty obvious.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:21 pmIf only it was possible to say “I don’t agree with the things they say and I still think Trump’s comments were Racist and dumb.”
I’m sure no one will try that linguistic kill shot.
Time123 (b53270) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:22 pmI just did a google search, and it doesn’t seem that this unified the Dems.
They are proposing a vote to condemn his statements, but that hasn’t happened. Did I miss something?
Patricia (3363ec) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:38 pmI’ve updated the post:
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:39 pmLove that Trump. Hopefully, all the weak-kneed “This will win me some points with the New York Times” Republicans will speak up and Condemn Trump’s words and support Nancy Pelosi. Have we heard from Mittens yet? I suppose after scolding and attacking Trump 20 times in the MSM since Jan 2017, he might have lost his enthusiasm.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:42 pmPatricia,
Pelosi sent her letter to members today, neatly tying it in with the immigration mess and ICE raids. It’s standard Pelosi-like. We’ll have to see if it rallies her troops into a unified front.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:43 pmHave we heard from Mittens yet?
See update to post.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:45 pmDang, I start typing and before I’m done, Dana provides an update on Mittens. Yes, that’s not the usual Grandstanding moralism we expect from Romney. No doubt, the charges of antisemitism against “the squad” have cooled Mittens desire to defend them from Trump.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:46 pm@22. Correlate their denouncements w/when they’re up for re-election or have retirement plans. When the caboose crowd of a McConnell, a Lee, the bearded Tedtoo and the always effervescent, deliciously refreshing- especially with a twist of lime- Lindsey Graham take the pause that refreshes, let us know.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:53 pm@25. As if anything he croons matters anymore…
“I talk to the trees; but they don’t listen to me…” – Pardner [Clint Eastwood] ‘Paint Your Wagon’ 1969
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:55 pmActually, he’s trying to give them a choice of two alternatives, neither of which they want to do: To freeze them out, or not to freeze them out.
Trump, or whoever is whispering in his ear, knows that the Democratic leadership doesn’t want to freeze them out and that’s pretty high priority. It’s not like they came out against gay marriage or abortion, which would lead to shunning. (Trump isn’t going there either – he confines himself to subjects on which the Democrats are not willing either to agree or to disagree with what he says.
Or rather, show by tehir actions or inactions that they disagree, but are not willing to stand up for it. Here, for instance, just why are these four are still members in good standing of the Democratic caucus.
Some of it may be the moral equivalent of racism (although Trump is backing off) but none of it is racist – remember PAtterico;s rule of your opponent recignizing your description of his positioon. No one will recognize that description.
And they are not so much dumb, as dumbed down. They’re bad both in logic and in fact.
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:59 pmIt’s about time someone, anyone put this into clear focus. I read it very simply as “get your America hating asses out of here if you don’t like it!” nothing racist. nothing other than voicing what is on the minds of clear thinking Americans. At least Trump has the balls to call these cretins out, political correctness and the hate from the left be damned. Major kudos!!
joetote (ca8fe2) — 7/15/2019 @ 12:59 pm(in before nk…)
Nah, it’s the matriarchy.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:01 pmAllahpundit has a amusing take, as usual (emphasis added):
(Also more on the upcoming House censure vote at the link.)
If only Trump had practiced what he preaches!
You never complained during the Obama administration – right?
Dave (1bb933) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:08 pmTrump doesn’t know how to behave with grace like Mittens. He actually believes in something.
Of course, the people Mitt felt he should be graceful to cruelly mocked him in 2012–“Russia isn’t a foe!” “Its the 21st century!” And he let them.
He slunk away to the deep carpeted, air-conditioned peace and quiet on K street, where the GOP inner-circle sipped martinis, compared Ascots, and complimented him on his grace and style.
Mitt was even gracious when Candy Crowley stopped eating long enough to correct him in a debate for the Presidency. (“Let’s not make a scene!”)
Inviting those who detest America to leave, was once celebrated among the voters the GOP needs as “Love it or Leave It!” It was a strong sentiment. Proud of the USA. Unembarrassed by patriotism. Disdainful of socialists, Eurotrash-sociologists dependent on US money, useless philosophes, tenured professors of Lenin Studies at XYZ University, and their ilk.
“Love it or leave it” was lustily disdainful of those who fashionably agonize now, from the safety of peace, about using the A bomb to help end WWII. And of country club GOP types (“”Where is the polo ground?”), that are timid in their patriotism.
Media celebrates Rapinoe; Brett Stephens wonders if immigrants aren’t better than the citizens we have; democrats know migrants are better. But the mitten-like republicans feel bad that Trump said those who dislike America should leave, then come back to tell us what they’ve done in the sinkholes they came from. Not me.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (6b1442) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:11 pm@32. Were you alive in the late ’60’s or early ’70s? Or perhaps you’ve never heard of ‘Archie Bunker’ and the famed ‘hard hat’ street chants of “AMERICA! Love it or leave it!” -complete with bumper stickers, from the halcyon days of The Big Dick– who was re-elected in a landslide in ’72.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:14 pmWondering if Trump called any of them Mother F*ckers?
Ann Althouse and Susan Hoyt both had pretty good deconstructions of his Tweets.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/07/lets-look-at-trumps-now-infamous.html
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2019/07/15/trump-points-out-the-obvious-everybody-apparently-loses-their-damned-minds-by-thomas-kendall/
Gordon Pasha (df4b57) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:16 pmYeah, brown people can’t possibly be murikins.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:17 pmNah, he’d just want to grab ’em by the p*ssy.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:19 pm(a) please note that Hoyt did *not* write the linked content, it was written by her coblogger Thomas Kendall.
(b) also, Kendall’s rant *completely ignores* the fact that Puerto Ricans are legally Americans and have been for more than a century.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:21 pmI’m a darker tint than either Chiquita Khrushchev or Rancida Tilapia.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:21 pm“a) please note that Hoyt did *not* write the linked content, it was written by her coblogger Thomas Kendall.“
Wrong.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:25 pmAt least as I read it. There’s an asterisk at the start that is noting her initials at the bottom. Plus she left some comments in that section.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:28 pmSo to sum up Trump and his fellow travelers:
If you’re unhappy, you darkies get the hell out.
But if *I’m* unhappy … you darkies get the hell out.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:30 pmIt was Lindsey Graham who called them a bunch of Communists etc – trying to switch the line of attack apparently. Trump apaprently sent four tweets this morning doing nothing except quoting Lindsey Graham.
That would explain the digression:
And the use of the third person here:
That’s all Senator Lindsey Graham.
It’s not a re-tweet and Trump doesn’t make it clear where he’s taking it from. It’s what Lindsey graham said on Fox and Friends.
The question is who actually typed that all in, or cut and pasted it from somewhere.
Here’s CNN video of Fox and Friends
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/07/15/lindsey-graham-communists-democratic-congresswomen-fox-news-intv-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:33 pmNancy Pelosi’s letter to members of the Democrats caucus in the House of Represenatatives
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016b-f67d-dfc2-a9ff-feff2fd80001
In part:
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:39 pmTeh Odd Squad to hold presser later today…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:41 pm@42. Shorter: Republicans.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:46 pmBy the way, there actually weren’t )and probably logistically can’t be) any ICE raids. There were just in a few places where they tried to trick people into going outside and “talking” to them.
They had no legal right to enter a location to make an arrest. So they eventually gave up maybe after making another try.
In Chicago there was an arrest but they were released later.
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:46 pmIf the cablers wanted to tick off Trump, they should just say:
‘John McCain could not be reached for comment.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:49 pmI said this was going to be like the slavery issue, and we were in the 1840s.
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/15/2019 @ 1:56 pmCharles c. W. Cooke has an article at national review that all should read: On Gratitude and Immigration (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/on-gratitude-and-immigration/)
Excerpts:
*emphasis mine
Now, I believe Trump made a stupid and unnecessary own goal when the left were demolishing their own. Yes, this will hang off his elbow through the election season. But, “Socialist Sisters of Mediocrity” will continue with their big mouth screeds and that will dull the impact of Trumps tweet foolishness.
Betty Lane (97c12d) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:02 pmMore from Romney:
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:04 pm@ joetote, who wrote in pertinent part (#30):
Most humans, male or female, would dispute that clear thinking comes from the testicles. But I think you have at least diagnosed the source of Trump’s thinking, and, I presume, confessed your own.
Beldar (a5097b) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:19 pmMitt also says:
whembly (51f28e) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:26 pm‘The Squad’ takes the bait; does presser; cabler feeding frenzy.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:34 pm“Solidarity”… a very Democratic word, yes?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:37 pmThey ARE commies…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:38 pmRE- Squad presser: We already have a ‘Race Bannon’ Veep– but now a ‘Hadji’ in the House of Jonny Quest fame as well?!
Hanna-Barbera is due some residuals.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:41 pmMartha Looter King?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:41 pmTrump has an unfair advantage over the four women. The demented old poofter has no hair for them to pull, and just the sight of his scalp would gross them out.
nk (dbc370) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:44 pmChiquita! Entonces!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:46 pmThe question to ask is: how does all of this benefit Trump looking ahead to 2020? He is always looking at how he can benefit from a situation and work it to his advantage. With an election on the horizon and the favorability polls not looking as robust at they once did, he’s got to make a move.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:49 pmHistory rhymes:
‘The Great Silent Majority’ is watching.
And listening.
And white.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:50 pmOh look at this from Allahpundit:
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:52 pm@61. 2016 should tell you not to trust much in the polls. There’s little advantage to copping to a pollster -for free, no less- that you’ll vote for Trump. Just as ‘nobody’ was really a ‘Nazi’ in Germany… 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:53 pmI think someone in the Trump camp is pushing for this…
IMO, Democrats loses bigly if the do move forward with articles of impeachment as it paints the Presidential Candidates in corner to support it.
whembly (4605df) — 7/15/2019 @ 2:58 pm“Drinking from toilets”… a lie. “Millions dead from no access to healthcare”, Trump’s fault… a lie…
They took the bait…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:01 pmBonkers out of Yonkers… he didn’t grab them by the pu**y, he’s grabbed the minds of the Odd Squad.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:03 pmIt’s almost like they’re using Trump’s own tactics against him, eh? Diabolical!
“Hit back twice as hard,” amirite?
Dave (1bb933) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:07 pmThey are all success stories, but their message is anti-Semitic, racist and one that usually condemns America.
If they are the best that contemporary higher education has to offer, burn that sucker down.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:11 pm@ whembly,
Not really, if you consider that more than 2/3 of Democratic voters are for impeachment, and the percentage has been increasing. The candidates will support whatever supporters want:
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:12 pmAt approximately $170K a year, they make (I won’t say earn) nearly twice what a UC prof earns per year. Where’s the justice in that?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:14 pmSanders, Hickenlooper, Booker, Buttigieg , Gillibrand, Warren, Harris, and Beto have all said that they want at least hearings on impeachment to begin. Biden hasn’t directly said, one way or the other.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:18 pmColonel Haiku:
there’s an asterisked introductory set of paragraphs, but then everything from the italicized repeat of the headline is by Kendall.
Otherwise this sentence, from the start of the paragraph after “Hell, they could all use that slogan” would make no sense:
> Which is sort of the point, really. I want legal immigration. I really do. Sarah is a good friend and a legal immigrant.
It’s a post by Kendall with an introductory comment by Sarah.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:23 pmThe Democrats seem to have zero interest in “reaching across the aisle” and fixing America’s problems. So why not have an impeachment? What else are they doing in the House? They’re just a do-nothing Congress.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:26 pmBiden will join if they pressure him. That’s his campaign strategy. Appear as moderate as possible, but move left when challenged.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:28 pmI should’ve clarified… I think it bodes well for democratic voters, but would turn off swing voters (and voters who aren’t political junkies like we are).
I also wonder if Trump is doing this to get the old guard GOPers to lash out at him to keep his “outsider bonafides” strong. There’s something to be said for creating a divisive “US vs. Them” political environment.
But, that takes some foresight… so, it’s likely he’s just Calvin Balling™ as he goes…
whembly (4605df) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:30 pmLook nobody is gong to remember this in November 2020. To the independents this is just confirm whatever they already think. Either pro-trump – or not. But if during the campaign the D’s start attacking Trump for defaming their good pals “AOC, Omar, etc.” – that won’t win them anything.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:37 pmAllah Pundit is an idiot. The D’s aren’t going to stop or start impeachment over this.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:40 pmAllah Pundit is an idiot. The D’s aren’t going to stop or start impeachment over this.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:40 pmah Murkowski, last seen voting present, and intimidating susan Collins,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/15/2019 @ 3:57 pm> Look nobody is gong to remember this in November 2020
So, in the end, if nobody remembers the bad things you’ve done, it was fine to have done them?
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 7/15/2019 @ 4:05 pm73… re-reading it, aphrael, I see what you’d meant. Thx.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 4:07 pmcigar store indian, gets out of his case,
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-biden-readies-to-sharpen-attacks-on-democratic-rivals
narciso (d1f714) — 7/15/2019 @ 4:17 pmI’ll be heading to Costco for one of those humungous red bags of popcorn, narciso… should be amusing!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/15/2019 @ 4:20 pmhe’s like the villain, in everyone of those scooby do episodes, who disguised him as a ghost or vampire,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/15/2019 @ 4:22 pm‘AOC is a commie!’ – cries The Lovely and Talented Senator from South Carolina.
Lindsey, dear, don’t be a ‘Dick’… Try to be original.
‘She’s pink, right down to her underwear.” – Dick Nixon on Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1950
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/15/2019 @ 4:56 pmWell she’s a Castro and Maduro supporter,
Narciso (7adc33) — 7/15/2019 @ 5:14 pmNot a Scandinavian social Democrat:
https://babalublog.com/2019/07/15/venezuelas-socialist-dictatorship-giving-safe-haven-to-colombian-narco-terrorist-groups/
Narciso (7adc33) — 7/15/2019 @ 5:21 pmIf Tucker Carlson is in line to be real-life Howard Beale, Miss Lindsey has earned the Stephen Joyce treatment.
urbanleftbehind (53efac) — 7/15/2019 @ 5:34 pmOcassionally goose gets it right?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-activist-lauds-trump-hardball-on-china-trade-11563217230?fbclid=IwAR2p5q48E0T5x1_dPEsOf0j5mtfA_Z-yEdy0TujrvMwkIJmUeQQyDCXdUaQ
Narciso (7adc33) — 7/15/2019 @ 5:42 pm36: Right. Sure. Compelling logic.
So, if people in the US raise a foreign flag over ICE HQ somewhere, and Mr. Trump Supporter says those people should go to the country of the foreign flag, the obvious motivation for his remark is racism. Flawless reasoning.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (6b1442) — 7/15/2019 @ 6:12 pm77. But it would have been done so gracefully!
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (6b1442) — 7/15/2019 @ 6:15 pm61. I’m a little late to the game, but allow me to take a shot at answering that question…
Trump saw what happened to his dear friend Bill Clinton, who gained legitimacy in the eyes of many Democrats for what they perceived as his “skating” on impeachment charges. I think Trump knows as well as anyone that he has virtually no chance of being convicted in the senate so it looks to me like he’s just daring the Dems to go ahead and try.
Gryph (08c844) — 7/15/2019 @ 6:30 pmTrump shows the path to victory by telling the basic truths about citizenship and loyalty that the Democrat High-Low coalition of the Privileged and the Aggrieved simply cannot abide.
Absolutely the greatest President of our lifetimes.
“LOL. Rationalizing? It’s “Der Plan.” Get them GOPers on record with a vote [thank Nancy] make a ist, check it twice, fin out who is naughty or nice — and primary the disloyal accordingly.
The scent of Stephen Miller is all over this baby: ‘Ein Volk. Ein Amerika. Ein Trump…’”
It’s pronounced “E Pluribus Unum”, you slanderous little ingrate. But I still enjoy the truths you speak non-ironically, even if you can’t speak them without immediately invoking the Third Reich on the most tangentially related subjects, like it’s a thing that occupies your mind constantly.
“It’s almost like they’re using Trump’s own tactics against him, eh? Diabolical!”
Dave is literally excusing all the latest bald-faced Democrat lies with TRUMP STARTED IT!!!
And Allah has the most hilarious take yet:
“there may have been no right-leaning celebrity/aspiring politician in the United States who spoke as harshly about America during the Obama years as Trump himself.”
And so he risked his life and fortune to get it back and fix it, as heroes do. What has Allahpundit done of any note, other than getting justly bullied by @ComfortablySmug and grandly posturing about how IT’S ALL OVER (for him!)
Every Republican who rhapsodizes about the virtues of immigrants over citizens needs to be terminated from the party with extreme and uncompromising prejudice. As the neocons showed us, some Democrat refugees simply refuse to assimilate to conservative norms no matter how often you try to correct them.
Somali Enterprise Zone (233458) — 7/15/2019 @ 8:44 pmShe lost me at Point #1, which was not honest on her part. There was no secret that Trump was talking about the “Squad”, given the context of the prior conflict between Pelosi and the four liberals who voted against the $4.6 billion aid bill.
Paul Montagu (fc91e5) — 7/15/2019 @ 8:52 pmRight like when you bought into nathan Phillip’s sideshow, or clapped for heshmats deplatforming, repeating the talking point of Iranian regime stooges
Narciso (7adc33) — 7/15/2019 @ 8:59 pmTrump risked his life? When?
Trump risked his fortune? When?
I see you’re referencing that classic American poetry, the last line of the Declaration of Independence. And I notice you left off the bit about “sacred honor.” Good on you…since Trump has no honor, sacred or otherwise, it would have been a bridge too far. I’m glad you see that.
Demosthenes (7fae81) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:12 pmPaul Montagu,
I agree. I said this upthread about Althouse’s post:
Dana (bb0678) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:26 pmI see disgust on one side, and mild amusement on the other, now the soil in queens, Detroit Minneapolis south Boston seems to be rotten.
Narciso (7adc33) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:41 pmThey volunteered themselves and defended antifa, did as much for al queda ‘some people did some things’
Narciso (7adc33) — 7/15/2019 @ 10:45 pmFor 2 of them, it’s an argument for the congressional primary to be in March or at least not at either bookend of a summer vacation.
urbanleftbehind (303ecb) — 7/16/2019 @ 5:48 amSo, this “The Squad” is a common girl thing? Because my daughter and her three friends were “The Squad” in middle school. When they were in middle school. These four “girls” in Congress, aren’t they kind of long in the tooth?
nk (dbc370) — 7/16/2019 @ 5:59 amAnd true South Boston of the busing riots fame is conspicuously left outside of the Pressley district as is downtown Boston. This is much like Chicago’s Bridgeport and Mt. Greenwood being spared from the respective Garcia and Rush/Kelly districts respectively.
urbanleftbehind (0adb4a) — 7/16/2019 @ 6:25 amWhy not call them what Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell used to call the Sex and the City crew: 4 Old H-es
urbanleftbehind (0adb4a) — 7/16/2019 @ 6:31 amCall ‘em the Jihad Squad
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/16/2019 @ 7:27 amup to my ass in
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/16/2019 @ 7:28 amAlabama methgators…
requested freebird
If telling these Congresswomen to tone it down is wrong,
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/16/2019 @ 7:29 amI don’t wanna be right
Roxbury then, or maybe Dorchester,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/16/2019 @ 7:34 amText of the House Resolution to be voted on this evening praising immigrants and immigration and condemning President Trump’s tweets:
(it reads like a United Nations Resolution with all those whereas’s
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742156445/read-heres-the-resolution-condemning-trump-s-racist-comments-about-congresswomen
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/16/2019 @ 1:27 pmIf that’s the case, Narciso, Pressley should have been the female accompaniment to a boy band (New Edition or New Kids on the Block).
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 7/16/2019 @ 1:30 pmCompletely wrong 2016 political analysis – some of it nobody should have accepted at the time.
Why Donald Trump couldn’t win even the Republican nomination in 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jtNd8BRYWE
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/16/2019 @ 3:22 pm102. urbanleftbehind (303ecb) — 7/16/2019 @ 5:48 am
I don’t follow,
In New York, in 2018, the June primary on;y applied to federal offices. It had been that way in 2016 also. The state primaries were in September.
Sammy Finkelman (dec35d) — 7/16/2019 @ 4:09 pm