Trump’s golf course photo with Philadelphia mob boss raises questions
Spokesman won’t say if ex-president knows Joseph ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino, saying he ‘takes countless photos with people’
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Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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I've just realized how often this sort of thing happens. Trump is seen associating with this or that problematic person, gets called on it, denies he knows who the person even is... and he's just dumb enough that he always has plausible deniability. We could put the classified-documents incident in this folder too; a lot of people even on this board were saying it's just as likely he didn't realize (at the time, at least) that he wasn't allowed to take those.
But that in itself is a problem. Anyone who has a consistent pattern of unknowingly doing things he's not supposed to be doing isn't really any more trustworthy than someone who does it on purpose. And in Trump's case, it's hard to say which has been a bigger problem so far.
But that in itself is a problem. Anyone who has a consistent pattern of unknowingly doing things he's not supposed to be doing isn't really any more trustworthy than someone who does it on purpose. And in Trump's case, it's hard to say which has been a bigger problem so far.
Yeah, but the human brain is wired such that malice and outright incompetence trigger two different responses. When we think that person not only doesn't know better, but CAN'T know better, it triggers empathy. It quells the rage you should be feeling at such a gross overstep that apparently no one caught until too late.
Proud Boys plotted 'firing squads' ahead of Jan. 6 riot: 'War if they steal this'
Members of the Proud Boys militant group plotted on social media for months ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection to take action against what they believed to be an election stolen from Donald Trump.Prosecutors presented a trove of posts from the far-right platform Parler this week in the trial of...
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call Donald a eunuch, because he's lost the Kochs.
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Koch network will oppose Trump in 2024
The web of conservative activist groups and donors informally known as the "Koch network" plans to oppose former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential primaries, reported The Washington Post on Sunday — breaking a years-long silence as the network has sat out "overt" politics for a few...
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Oh the Kochs have always hated that they were forced to back this man. But in 2016, he had waaaaaaaaaaaay to much sway over the party to even think of opposing him. But they've been building a network to move the GOP away from Trump since the disaster that was 2018. Now they're turning that network on and hoping to reap the benafits.
Ironbite-too bad they don't really understand the Cult's mentality.
Ironbite-too bad they don't really understand the Cult's mentality.
If it were only themselves they were likely to slaughter, I wouldn't care much. It's the collateral damage that concerns me.
It'll never happen. The system cannot tolerate more than two active parties. What'll probably happen is that we'll see a handful (probably the same ones who kept voting against McCarthy) break off and try to run independently, lose, and become a quickly-forgotten footnote in history. Everyone else will stubbornly grit their teeth and keep working together because the party, as a whole, cares more about winning by any means necessary than any aspect of their actual policy.
Don't get me wrong, they will re-coalesce into a new conservative party, but I could see a cycle or two where the conservative side is in total chaos as the MAGAT's try and do their own thing. It's essentially the same thing that happened when the Whigs collapsed. the Republican's emerged from their ashes a few years later.
Donald Trump, Longtime Friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Suggests Ron DeSantis Groomed High School Girls
As a reminder, the ex-president has literally been described as Epstein’s wingman, and he once called the deceased predator a “terrific guy” who was “a lot of fun to be with.”
GOP operative sentenced to 18 months for funneling Russian money to Trump
Judge finds a "pattern of deception" by a longtime Republican consultant.
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Thou shall not worship false idols.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made.....