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Yah 2024 might be the mother of all election train wrecks. Pence was favored by some of the Christian conservatives who voted for Trump that I know who were secretly (or not so secretly) hoping Trump would get removed for one reason or another, so Pence could be president instead. But Pence seems like a no way to me, I just can't see him getting anywhere close to being the GOP candidate.
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Two or three election cycles ago, Pence would've been a decent choice for what was then the GOP. But, thanks to Trump, today's right wingers wants a candidate who brings the mouth foaming crazy like The Former Guy had done, and Mikey most definitely AIN'T that. On top of that, how many Republican voters, especially those who wear MAGA hats will remember Pence wouldn't screw up the election results back in January like Trump wanted him to? Well, if Pence runs, you can expect Trump to remind everyone of that.
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There’s some interesting allegations in today’s Daily Telegraph about some of the US top military.
One is that Bob Woodward of Watergate fame has written that General Milley told some of his staff not to obey orders from the Trump Whitehouse unless the general cleared them himself. And more damming still the general contacted Chinese military staff and assured them he would warn them if Trump gave certain orders.
The Telegraph also claimed Trump was deliberately given false info on events on Afghanistan…to deliberately stall on troop withdrawals there, in the hope that when Joe B came in, he could be persuaded to abort withdrawal.
Whatever one thinks about Trump…that adds up to treachery if the allegations are true.
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On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, that "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, who as a member of the U.S. House, voted against equal pay for women multiple times, insisting that “women don’t want it”. She’s also a co-sponsor of the “Birther Bill”, denies that Mitt Romney ever passed a healthcare program in Massachusetts, and gave an infamous interview where she falsely claimed that the Affordable Care Act (which she also was a part of the “lie of the year” at Polifiact, predicting it would lead to death panels) was a violation of HIPAA, and when asked repeatedly to explain how that’s even possible, she just kept repeating the same falsehood robotically without actually providing any logical answer. She was also a big proponent of the 2013 Government Shutdown, and on the day it began, went on FOX and Friends to optimistically predict that it would actually teach ordinary Americans about all the “big government” ideas that were being defunded that they can do without (which the opposite actually happened over the 16 day stretch). Our update on Blackburn continued covering her hyper-conservative voting record, as well as the fact that she spoke at the South Carolina Freedom Summit and claimed Christians were a persecuted minority in the United States. When reporters followed up on her remarks and asked her to name an example of such persecution, she failed to be able to cite a single one. Marsha Blackburn was also particularly awful during the GOP's witch hunt after the Center for Medical Progress released their deceitful smear of Planned Parenthood, insisting that after all investigations had been concluded that Planned Parenthood had still been caught "selling baby body parts", and during the paranoia around the affair, attempted to use the House Intelligence Committee's investigation as a means to demand a complete list of every medical students, residents, or other medical personnel around the country who have ever participated in an abortion, because there's no way that such a thing would enable domestic terrorists in the radical anti-choice movement to assassinate those people (when they already have done so).
Through 2017, continued to make the rounds on cable news and with the media, where she can do things like insinuate that James Comey is a liar to help provide cover for Donald Trump while he’s investigated for accepting help from the Russians to get elected in exchange for dropping sanctions against them, or when she can be one of the few politicians who actually defended Donald Trump’s spur of the moment decision to ban transgendered soldiers from the military before he ever consulted the Pentagon about what kind of impact that might have. Make no mistake, she’s “all-in” on the Trump administration, and with any luck, she might get swept away with it at some point. Maybe when she was caught in the middle of the NRA/Russia connection, someone should have thrown a flag.
After she started catching some serious hell at her town halls in 2017, where she’s been raucously booed and openly been accused of lying, she responded to that treatment by going on CNN a week later to claim that the people who booed her weren’t actually from her district. The usually passive Wolf Blitzer fact-checked her on that, pointing out that people had to show ID to prove they were from her district to get into the building in the first place.
Marsha Blackburn takes advantage of how red of a state Tennessee is, winning election to ther U.S. Senate to replace the retiring Sen. Bob Corker in 2018 with 55% of the vote. While of late, the majority of our CSGOPOTD updates on U.S. Senators note that they’re keeping their mouths shut, and are trying to just discreetly rubber-stamp whatever nominees the Trump administration puts in front of them, regardless of how terrible of people they are, or how wildly unqualified they are for the job (which make no mistake, Marsha Blackburn has begun doing that as a Senator)…
We’re also going to note that Marsha Blackburn unilaterally blacked a bill in the Senate that would have required any presidential campaign that receives offers of assistance from an agent of a foreign government to report it to the FBI, opening the door for Russia to assist the 2020 Trump campaign the way they did in 2016. (And at least a dozen GOP Congressional candidates also accepted help from Russian hackers, per the Mueller report). his should come as little surprise, though, because Blackburn knows exactly how deep Trump is in it with Russia… after all, she was on the Trump transition team. She deemed the bill, submitted by Mark Warner, as “over-broad” and that “it should be done in a bipartisan way” even though outside of Blackburn, it had unanimous support. And that Warner offered to allow her to suggest how to amend it to make it not “over-broad” or “more bipartisan”, however the hell she assumes to interpret those words.
For all the effort she put towards doing that, she’s been mostly twiddling her thumbs to do anything to help the country survive the economic impact of the coronavirus since passing the original stimulus bill back in March. She saves all of her energy for lashing out at the media for daring to fact-check her habitually lying ass, like the did after her fib-filled speech at the 2020 RNC.
- January 31st, 2020: Marsha Blackburn votes against witnesses being allowed in the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, effectively making it a “trial”.
- February 5th, 2020: Sen. Blackburn votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump, in spite of the mountain of evidence showing that he solicited foreign assistance in the 2020 elections.
- February 25th, 2020: Blackburn votes for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, an insane piece of anti-choice legislation that would ask abortion providers to try to admit aborted fetuses to a hospital if they were “alive” after the procedure, which is medically impossible given the age that abortions can be performed at.
- February 13th, 2021: Marsha Blackburn votes to acquit Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, feeling that he deserves no punishment for inciting an attack on the Capitol and jeopardizing the lives of the legislative branch of our government.
- March 6th, 2021: Sen. Blackburn votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he can’t be bothered to care if people need financial assistance during a pandemic.
- June 9th, 2021: Blackburn drafts a nonsensical resolution that is meant to combat “cancel culture” without explaining exactly what that’s even supposed to mean.
- July 10th, 2021: Marsha Blackburn does the important business of a U.S. Senator, specifically taking time out to do an interview with the white nationalist website Breitbart and continue a feud with pop star Taylor Swift over Swift’s relatively mild political stances, chastising her and telling her she would be one of the first “victims of socialism”.
- August 26th, 2021: Sen. Blackburn immediately politicizes the death of 11 members of the armed forces killed in an attack during the evacuation of Afghanistan, calling for President Biden to resign as a result.
And the country will be stuck with Marsha Blackburn in the Senate until 2024. Just… great. Great.
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There's a book out about that whole thing.
Sounds like a flippin' Tom Clancy novel to me.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
If anything, the Biden administration has been beating the war drums against China far louder than Trump did. With Trump you get the sense that he had a certain admiration for Xi and valued their personal relationship, and was just pandering to his base with the hawkish rhetoric. But Biden and his people seem to genuinely believe that they are making the world safe for democracy by continuing to prod the Chinese on a whole host of issues. On the flipside, while the Chinese officials seemed to have a degree of respect or fear of Trump's unpredictability, they clearly have nothing but utter contempt for Biden and have gone out of their way to snub him at every turn. So in that kind of an environment, it's really only a matter of time until someone lets their pride get the better of them and does something rash.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
Which you fail to do...
The United States provided 45 percent of the world's gold production between 1851 and 1855. The nation was thus able to export gold, which helped offset the country's negative balance of payments in the 1850s. A negative balance caused by cotton
still failing to address this.
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