Source:CNN anchor Laura Coates interviewing Texas Trey.

“Texas Trey, a lifelong Republican voter, speaks with CNN’s Laura Coates about why he plans to leave the party before the 2024 election.”

From CNN

“Hillary Clinton on Thursday blitzed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump with a barrage of pointed and sarcastic attacks, casting him as dangerous with a petulant streak that could threaten U.S. national and global security.

Here are 34 of her most fiery charges:

1. “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”

2. “He’s not just unprepared – he’s temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.”

3. “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

4. “We cannot put the safety of our children and grandchildren in Donald Trump’s hands. We cannot let him roll the dice with America.”

5. “He has no ideas on education. No ideas on innovation. He has lots of ideas about who to blame but no clue about what to do.”

6. “This is a man who said that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia.”

7. “This is someone who has threatened to abandon our allies in NATO – the countries that work with us to root out terrorists abroad before they strike us at home.”

8. “He believes we can treat the U.S. economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008.”

9. “He has said that he would order our military to carry out torture and the murder of civilians who are related to suspected terrorists – even though those are war crimes.”

10. “He says he doesn’t have to listen to our generals or ambassadors because he has – quote – ‘a very good brain.’ He also said, ‘I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me.’ You know what? I don’t believe him.”

11. “He says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese, and has the gall to say that prisoners of war like John McCain aren’t heroes. (Pauses for boos) Exactly.”

12. “He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends – including the British prime minister, the mayor of London, the German chancellor, the president of Mexico and the Pope.”

13. “We are not a country that cowers behind walls. We lead with purpose and we prevail.”

14. “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.”

15. “If Donald gets his way they’ll be celebrating in the Kremlin.”

16. “And to top it off, he believes America is weak. An embarrassment. He called our military a disaster. He said we are – quote – a ‘third-world country.’ And he’s been saying things like that for decades. These are the words of someone who doesn’t understand America or the world.”

17. “If you really believe America is weak – with our military, our values, our capabilities that no other country comes close to matching – then you don’t know America. And you certainly don’t deserve to lead it.”

18. “What’s Trump’s (ISIS plan)? Well, he won’t say. He is literally keeping it a secret. The secret, of course, is he has no idea how to stop ISIS.”

19. “Through all his loose talk there’s one constant theme: demonizing Muslims and playing right into the hands of ISIS.”

20. “Donald Trump doesn’t know the first thing about Iran or its nuclear program. Ask him – it will become very clear very quickly.”

21. “There’s no risk of people losing their lives if you blow up a golf course deal. But it doesn’t work like that in world affairs. Just like being interviewed on the same episode of ’60 Minutes’ as Putin was is not the same as actually dealing with Putin.”

22. “We cannot put the lives of our young men and women in uniform in Donald Trump’s hands.”

23. “The stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels.”

24. “We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table – bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets. I am willing to bet he is writing a few right now.”

25. “I don’t understand Donald’s bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.”

26. “He praised China for the Tiananmen Square massacre – he said it showed strength. He said, ‘You’ve got to give Kim Jong Un credit’ for taking over North Korea – something he did by murdering everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie.”

27. “I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants.”

28. “I just wonder how anyone could be so wrong about who America’s real friends are. Because it matters. Because if you don’t know exactly who you’re dealing with, men like Putin will eat your lunch.”

29. “Every president faces hard choices every day, with imperfect information and conflicting imperatives. … Making the right call takes a cool head and respect for the facts. It takes a willingness to listen to other people’s points of view with a truly open mind. It also takes humility – knowing you don’t know everything – because if you’re convinced you’re always right, you’ll never ask yourself the hard questions.”

30. “Now imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the United States.”

31. “Imagine him deciding whether to send your spouses or children into battle.”

32. “Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal when he’s angry, but America’s entire arsenal.”

33. “Do we want him making those calls – someone thin-skinned and quick to anger, who lashes out at the smallest criticism? Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?”

34. “Making Donald Trump our commander-in-chief would be a historic mistake.”

Clinton was right about Trump tweeting during her remarks.”

From CNN

The title of this CNN video was: “‘Hillary was right’: Lifelong GOP voter on why he is leaving the party”. I don’t know which exact quote from Hillary Clinton that the man who goes by Texas Trey was referring to. So I just gave you 34 of them from one of her 2016 speeches on Donald J. Trump. Happy reading.

I’m in a similar political ballpark as Texas Trey. (It’s baseball season) I’m officially a Democrat, because I like my members of Congress in Maryland, my representative Jamie Raskin and my two senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen. And I at least before he was elected President, I was a fan of Joe Biden as well. And I think he’s doing a good job now, but he’s not a political hero of mine.

I’m not a Democrat because I think Alexandria O. Cortez, Bernie Sanders and other Socialist Democrats in Congress, are like “totally awesome rockstars” or something. I’m a Thomas Jefferson/JFK, Classical Liberal (meaning real Liberal) Democrat ideologically. And I’m still officially a Democrat, again, not because I’m some left-wing, hipster, or something, that wants to convert America into Scandinavia. But because Democrats tend to believe in progress and making things better for the country, empowering more people to be able to take control of their lives.

Whereas when Republicans are in power, they tend to just argue with each other and not just about whose the most loyal to the MAGA cult leader Donald Trump, but also what to do when it comes to policy. The 2017 ObamaCare repeal debate, where they failed both to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, is just on example of that. And now when they just barely control of the House of Representatives and have no other elected power in Washington, they’re debating whether they should vacate Speaker Mike Johnson, because he wouldn’t shut down the government for them.

I would probably check myself into a mental hospital, voluntarily, my idea only, before I would ever become a Republican today. Because that’s what the modern Republican Party (which is really just Donald Trump’s MAGA party) is, a political asylum.

So I see where Texas Trey is coming from. He’s basically voting for President Joe Biden in November, because the current President isn’t a dictator and doesn’t want to be a dictator. And even if Democrats hold The White House and win back complete control of Congress this year, as Texas Trey said, Republicans and the country as a whole would live to fight another day politically. And there would be elections again in 2025 and 2026 to hold Democrats accountable.

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