Inside Politics With Dana Bash: Biden Campaign Slams Donald Trump As ‘Convicted Criminal’ in New Ad

Posted on June 17, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ Biden Campaign Slams Donald Trump As ‘Convicted Criminal’ in New AdSourceCNN talking about the President & The Convicted Felon.

Source:The New Democrat

“The Biden campaign is rolling out a new ad in battleground states framing the election as a choice between a “convicted criminal” and a president “fighting for your family” in its latest effort to seize on Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal hush money trial in its appeal to voters.”

From CNN

I think the convicted felon issue is sort of like the Bill Clinton issue for Vice President Al Gore in 2000.

The Gore Campaign in the summer and fall of 2000 was debating whether or not to have President Clinton campaign for them or not in the swing states like Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida. And of course the Monica Lewinsky scandal was just 2 years before, President Clinton is impeached by a partisan Republican House in December, 1998, tried and acquitted in January, 1999 in a Republican Senate.

And the issue was whether or not the Gore Campaign should use President Clinton to campaign for the Vice President in those swing states, to get African-Americans and perhaps even left-wing Democrats to the polls to vote for the Vice President in the summer and fall of 2000. Vice President Gore chose not too and lost Ohio in a close race and of course barely lost Florida, but just 100s of votes.

I think 1 could assume, perhaps even an intelligent, sober, sane person, that most Americans, especially Independents are now aware that Donald J. Trump is a 34 time convicted felon. So maybe the thinking is that the Biden Campaign doesn’t need to bother with this.

But, since Donald Trump always runs 21st Century of the Richard Nixon Silent Majority campaign and wants to focus on law and order and will go further with that in 2024 and try to convince Independents that crime is up now, when it’s actually down, etc, how would the Biden Campaign not use the 34 felony convictions against a man who claims to be for law and order, when he was convicted of committing 34 felonies the same year he’s now running for President of the United States again?

I think the worst way to lose a presidential election, is by not firing all of your good shots and leaving political ammo in that could’ve been the difference between a close loss and close win. Or even a narrow win where you are not sure whose going to win on election night, and a win where you look like you could win the election in an Electoral College blowout.

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Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump’s FRAUD EVENTS Finally Get the Treatment IT DESERVES’

Posted on June 17, 2024 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch_ Donald Trump’s FRAUD EVENTS Finally Get the Treatment IT DESERVESSource:Meidas Touch talking about conaholic Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how critical it is to have rapid response efforts call out Donald Trump’s campaign built on fraudulent stunts and lies.”

From the Meidas Touch

“A judge’s ruling allows a pastor to continue holding services in a west side church while a battle over who will control the 55-year-old religious institution gets sorted out.

Wayne Circuit Judge Kathleen McCarthy Thursday granted a temporary restraining order to Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, allowing him to continue holding services at 180 Church in the 13600 block of Stansbury near Grand River. After the locks were changed earlier this month, Sewell held services in various other locations, including a methadone clinic.

McCarthy’s ruling comes after her June 12 decision to grant an emergency restraining order to Sewell, who was handcuffed during a June 7 confrontation with police outside the house of worship. Sewell, who called the incident a “church-jacking,” said he was illegally banned from his facility after the locks were changed by members of Stand with Evangel who want him out as pastor.”

From the Detroit News

All these scams that are going on under Donald J. Trump just tells me that Donald Trump knows who he is and is perfectly comfortable with that. The problem for him is that he doesn’t want anyone else to know that he’s a professional con artist. At least not anyone he thinks that he needs to vote for him. At least not while America is still a liberal democracy and before he can take over and ruin that and just centralize all power, at least governmental power, under his control.

I say all this because, 1, I believe it. 2, it’s true. But 3, he pulls these scams that someone in high school who simply doesn’t believe the rules apply to him, tries to pull:

Like bringing empty pizza boxes to Manhattan fire fighters, when he was on criminal trial in Manhattan last month. And telling everyone he bought them pizza.

Or this small church in Detroit, where he tells everyone that he’s at an African-American church, but the fact is it could’ve been a small, rural, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant church, in Mississippi or West Virginia. Maybe 100 people there, maybe 10 people there are African-American.

DJT just needs some major media player to take his spin for like a few hours and get it out there, before the facts actually get out on the story. And I think that’s one of Ben Meiselas’s points here.

But the fact that Donald Trump personally feels the needs to pull these scams, is a sign of weakness, not strength. I think he’s getting polling information from his own campaign telling him that his numbers are down with union workers of all backgrounds. And his numbers aren’t in the toilet with African-Americans. But they’ve already been flushed. And perhaps you can take the rest of that reference yourself from there. Otherwise, why pull these scams if he’s not only winning right now, but has a solid lead over Joe Biden as well?

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Dan Mitchell: “Notwithstanding My WSJ Quiz Results, I Am Not a Conservative’

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Rik Schneider

Dan Mitchell_ Notwithstanding my WSJ Quiz Results, I Am Not a ConservativeSource:CATO Institute fellow Daniel J. Mitchell.

“Some online quizzes and tests about policy and philosophy produce very accurate results.

I’m a “hard-core libertarian” according to Professor Bryan Caplan’s 130-question quiz.
I’m “not communist” on a test to determine Marxist sympathies.
I’m a “minimalist” according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s fiscal quiz.
Some tests, however, produce illogical results.

I am a “moderate” according to a social attitudes test.
Today, I’m going to share some more results that are not very logical. The Wall Street Journal posted a quiz a few days ago to ask “What Kind of Voter Are You?”

To may dismay, they decided that I’m a traditional conservative rather than a libertarian.

Here’s a breakdown of my results.

As far as I can tell, I’m as pro-free market as possible. Which makes sense since another quiz labelled me a “minarchist.”

But if you look at the second category, the quiz thinks I’m a social conservative.

Since I’m largely abstemious in my personal life (the boring kind of libertarian), I would not object if someone concluded I’m a social conservative as a person.

But I firmly believe I’m a libertarian with regards to policy and philosophy.

I don’t support laws against drug use.
I don’t support laws against prostitution
I don’t support laws against gambling
I don’t support laws against whatever consensual adults want to do in a bedroom.
So why did the WSJ decide I was a social conservative?

I would argue that some of their questions are poorly worded.

For instance, they apparently think the libertarian view is that any and all abortions should be legal. I’m sure some libertarian have that point of view, but there are also lots of pro-life libertarians.

I based my answer on the fact that I would not favor unlimited and unrestricted abortions way past the point of viability. Call me crazy, but I don’t think that makes me non-libertarian…

From Daniel J. Mitchell

Before I get into what Dan Mitchell is saying here and I agree with him on how he describes his own personal politics, but what you are about to read here gives you a pretty good idea of a what a Conservative is in the political sense.

The great conservative political humorist P.J. O’Rourke (RIP) I think when he was being interviewed by Reason Magazine, or some other right-wing publication was talking about conservatism and he gave I believe a pretty good definition of it when talking about his own personal life and this is a paraphrase:

“I’m straight,

I’ve been married with the same woman for a very long time.

I don’t gamble. I don’t use marijuana or any other illegal narcotic.

I don’t have abortions.

I don’t cheat on my wife.

I don’t watch porn.

I’ve never been a romance with a man.

I’ve never been married to a man.

I’m not a party animal.”

He just gave the interviewer a long list of things that today’s so-called social Conservatives are supposedly not just against, (even if they actually do these things in private) but what separated him from the “social Conservatives” was that he didn’t think these personal choices should be illegal, simply because he disapproves of them. I think abortion is the only exception to that because he did believe abortion should be illegal, at least in most cases.

If you go by the so-called mainstream definitions of what it’s supposed to be a Conservative and Liberal in America, the most conservative people are MAGA, or some other right-wing authoritarian. And the most liberal people, at least in a democratic sense, are the so-called Squad in the House of Representatives, or the Green Party, Democratic Socialists of America.

But the one thing that these two fringe factions have in America, is that they’re both collectivists and in some cases even authoritarians, especially if you were to look at the Communists on far, far-left and the MAGA militants, the right-wing, anti-U.S. Government radicals on the far-right. So they have a lot more in common then you would think. They’re actually not that different at all. A few differences in economic policy and some social issues.

When I think of Conservative, I think P.J. O’Rourke has an excellent definition. But I would add someone who believes in conserving what works in American society and politic:

Things like the U.S. Constitution, separation of powers, checks and balances, devolution of power, the rule of law, individual rights, strong national defense.

Government should move conservatively, meaning cautiously when it comes to reform and that the government closest to home is the best government when it comes to social and welfare policy.

Someone like a Ronald Reagan as President of the United States, other than the high deficits and debt, the expansion of the War On Drugs, the high crimes rates of the 1980s, is an excellent example of what it means to be an American Conservative, at least far as tone and rhetoric and what he got done as President.

But when I look at the Dan Mitchells’s of the world, who I’ve been following online the last 10 years or so, which is most of my blogging career, I have him down as a Libertarian, in the classical sense. Not in the antigovernment, Anarcho sense. Those folks are really just right-wing Anarchists. But he’s someone who believes in limited government, which is not no government. He’s someone whose even praised the flat tax before. Which means he’s not anti-tax all together. And he’s someone who believes in a good deal of personal and economic freedom, personal responsibility, the rule of law, etc.

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Laura Coates Tonight: ‘Milwaukee Mayor: Donald Trump’s Comments About City Could ‘Cost Him The Election’

Posted on June 14, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ Milwaukee Mayor_ Donald Trump's Comments About City Could 'Cost Him The Election'Source:CNN interviewing Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson about Donald Trump.

“CNN’s Laura Coates speaks with Milwaukee, WI, mayor Cavalier Johnson about former President Donald Trump’s comments calling the Republican National Convention host city “horrible.”

From CNN

“Trump’s win in Wisconsin by less than a percentage point broke the streak for Democratic presidential nominees — they had won the seven elections before 2016. Close races are typical in the Badger State. Al Gore and John Kerry both won by less than half a point. See 2020 primary results”

From CNN

Assuming Donald Trump loses in November, (which is The New Democrat’s best guess) he should consider writing a book (hopefully from a Federal prison) about how not to run for President of the United States. Hell, he could start a new reality TV show starring the worst, possible, presidential, major party, nominees, for President of the United States. With the winner being the worst, possible, major, party nominee, for President of the United States. ,

That link from CNN is important because Donald Trump got 29% of the vote in Milwaukee in 2020, compared with 69% for Joe Biden in that same election. And before you say 29% is not much, he can’t win Wisconsin without at least a solid minority of the vote from the cities in that state.

Milwaukee is 560,000 people, in a metro area of 1,500,000 people. Madison is 200,000, Green Bay, 150,000 people. Wisconsin is 5,600,000 people, with a 1/4 of that state living in Milwaukee. He can’t lose 80-90% of the urban, suburban, college town vote in that state, and just expect to be able to make up those votes in MAGA Farmville.

As far as whether or not Donald Trump called Milwaukee a horrible city or not: none of his allies are denying it. You are at best getting non-denial, denials, from people like Speaker Mike Johnson, who was in the meeting with House Republicans that Mr. Trump apparently made these comments and he claims he didn’t hear him say that. But he didn’t say that Trump didn’t say it. Which is important. Perhaps the Speaker fell asleep after hearing about how much Donald Trump’s life sucks. And when he got to the comments about Milwaukee, that’s when the Speaker drifted off.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: ‘Donald Trump Meetings With Congressional Republicans Shameful’

Posted on June 14, 2024 by kireschneider

C-SPAN_ House Minority Leader Jeffries (D-NY) Calls Donald Trump Meetings With CongressionalSource:C-SPAN covering House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) weekly press briefing.

Source:The New Democrat

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on former President Trump’s meetings with Congressional Republcans: “It was shameful and a complete embarrassment that my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues decided to welcome the insurrectionist and chief back to the capitol as a conquering hero not someone who lied about the 2020 presidential election and incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in order to halt the peaceful transfer of power. The Republican Party no longer exists in its traditional form. This is the Trump Party.”

From C-SPAN

“It was shameful and a complete embarrassment that my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues decided to welcome the insurrectionist-in-chief back to the Capitol as a conquering hero,” said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) during his weekly press conference when asked about former President Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill the day before. On the National Defense Authorization Act, the minority leader acknowledged the bipartisan support it had when it came out of the Armed Services Committee, but said the “extreme MAGA Republicans are not interested in governing … they have hijacked the National Defense Authorization Act in order to jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people.” When asked about Supreme Court ethics of justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, Leader Jeffries said, “it appears that Justice Alito is a right-wing insurrectionist sympathizer, joined by his right-wing buddy Clarence Thomas.”

From C-SPAN

As I pointed out yesterday: 

“I just have to start off by saying: the balls of some people. I mean here’s the guy who led the 2021 insurrection on Congress and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who was leading the Senate Republicans back in 2021 as well, welcomes him back to the U.S. Capitol to talk his conference 42 months later. Not so much on Mitch McConnell, but Donald J. Trump literally visiting the scene of his crimes at a place he hasn’t been to in perhaps 4 years, when he was still President of the United States.”

From The New Democrat 

As my colleague Fred Schneider pointed out yesterday: 

“On a day where both House and Senate Republicans were hopefully trying to get behind some unifying, Republican, national, agenda, that he and Congressional Republicans could run together on, DJT shows them his very own nationally, syndicated, daily talk show, that’s all about himself and everything that sucks in his world.” 

From The New Democrat

We covered this yesterday. But one good point that House Minority Leader Jeffries made here was that Congressional Republicans (House & Senate) are now going to have to run with Donald Trump for reelection, with reproductive rights, and American democracy literally on the ballot. And he’s saying that the Democratic Party believes in those American values and the MAGA Party doesn’t it.

If the 2024 presidential election is about whether American voters like President Joe Biden and the job that he’s doing, regardless of who his opponent is and what the next Congress could look like, if his opponent wins, President Biden probably loses.

But if this is about Donald Trump and MAGA and what they would do, if they’re ever back in power, (God help us, is that ever happens again) then Democrats will probably not just win, but you’ll see a reelected President Biden and a Democratic Congress next year. If Democrats, including left-wing Democrats, simply get out and vote and vote foe Democrats in the general elections.

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Joe Walsh: ‘The Scary Truth About Donald Trump, MAGA & House Republicans’

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Rik Schneider

White Flag With Joe Walsh_ The Scary Truth About Donald Trump, MAGA And House RepublicansSource:White Flag With Joe Walsh talking about MAGA n da House. Ight!!!

Source:The New Democrat

“All the experts say the vast majority of House Republicans are cynical and they don’t believe all this MAGA/Trump bullshit. The experts are wrong. The percentage of MAGA/Trumpy true believers in the House is way more than you think and it’s growing.”

From White Flag With Joe Walsh

I was trying to search to see how many members there are in the House Freedom Caucus in the 118th Congress. The only number that I saw was from a January, 2023 Pew Research Center report saying that they had 49 members. That seems very low in a House Republican Conference that has 217 members out of 435 total House seats and 431 U.S. Representatives.

By the way, call the House MAGA Caucus (which is what the House Freedom Caucus actually is) the House Freedom Caucus,  would be like calling Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders a Libertarian. I mean, are you trying to become a comedian or something? But they’re free to call themselves whatever they want. They can even call themselves Republicans, even though they don’t actually believe in the concept of a republic, certainly not the American Federal Republic.

My best guess is that MAGA has 90-110 seats in the House of Representatives right now. And even if House Republicans lose the House in 2024, (which I predict they will) they’ll still have around 90-110 in the next Congress as well, because you’ll see a lot of center-right, real Republicans (who are actually called RINOS) lose in New York State in California, who currently represent House districts that Joe Biden won in 2020 and is still leading in.

So the next House Republican Conference could be even crazier. Can’t wait for CPAC (Crazy People At a Convention) 2025 next year. That will definitely be a show. Maybe Ted Nugent will perform at the MAGA nuthouse next year.

I disagree with Joe Walsh on only one key point here. I don’t thing MAGA is the Republican Party right now. More like half of it. I think we were seeing with Donald Trump’s share of the Republican primary vote and are still seeing that now Nikki Haley still getting around 15-20% of the Republican vote in primaries where she’s no longer getting even running for President.

You have maybe 1/2 Republicans now who are Donald Trump MAGA loyalists and maybe 3/10 Republicans who don’t want to vote for him, but might do it anyway, because they don’t want Democrats to have complete control of the Congress and The White House next year. But they might vote for Joe Biden because they see Donald Trump as a threat to the American Republic and Constitution.

As far as who is MAGA and who are the Republicans who simply want to save their political careers?

Those hard-core MAGA Caucus members in the House are definitely MAGA. So the Marjorie T. Greene’s, the Laure Boebert’s, the Jim Jordan’s, the James Emmer’s, the Paul Goesar’s, and a lot of other far-right, whacked-out, high as a skyscraper, U.S. Representatives. But then there are people like House Republican Conference Chairman Elise Stefanik, who was one of the original Never-Trumper’s in the House in 2015-2016. But then got on board the MAGA train when Donald Trump lost reelection in 2020, to save her political career.

You go over to the upper chamber of Congress and see people like Senator J.D. Vance who wrote a very anti-Donald Trump book in 2017, but them Trump loses reelection in 2020, Ohio Senator Rob Portman decides not to run for reelection in 2022 and sees his opportunity to win a U.S. Senate seat by walking on his hands and knees and begging Donald Trump so he can could kiss DJT’s feet every time he’s out in public. And then you have people who want Donald Trump to select him as his Vice President, people like Senator Tim Scott, who at least before the 2024 election cycle, was a pragmatic, center-right Republican in Congress. Not a MAGA firebrand.

I think the modern Republican Party now consists of MAGA, who are far-right, nationalistic, cultural warriors. And then you have lets fake MAGA, people who are basically center-right Republicans, who want to keep their careers, so they sort of pretend to be MAGA. People like Senator Lindsay Graham.

And then you have what’s left of the center-right, Conservative Republicans, people like those vulnerable House Republicans who could definitely lose their Congressional carers, because they probably represent too many Joe Biden voters. People like Representative Mike Lawler and a few other Conservative Republicans in New York.

I mean this is where I disagree with Joe Walsh here. MAGA is a big enough threat to ruin the American Republic and our liberal democracy. But only if we let them do that by not voting for Democrats in 2024. But they’re not the entire Republican Party.

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Inside Politics With Manu Raju: ‘Inside Donald Trump’s Gripe-Filled Closed-Door Meeting With House GOP’

Posted on June 13, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ Inside Donald Trump’s Gripe-Filled Closed-Door Meeting With House GOPSource:CNN talking about 34 time convicted felon Donald J. Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill. Hopefully they searched him first to make sure he wasn’t packing. Even his mouth is also a dangerous weapon.

“Former President Donald Trump led House Republicans through a gripe-filled closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, airing grievances about his legal and electoral challenges, attacking his critics in the room, and only briefing addressing policy matters like abortion and taxes, according to multiple GOP lawmakers in the room.”

From CNN

“Former President Donald Trump led House Republicans through a gripe-filled closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday, airing grievances about his legal and electoral challenges, attacking his critics in the room, and only briefly addressing policy matters like abortion and taxes, according to multiple GOP lawmakers in the room.

In his first time returning to the Capitol campus area since leaving office after the January 6, 2021, riot, the former president met with lawmakers for over an hour.

In between rants about Taylor Swift and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Trump went after his detractors – those who have since lost their seats and some who were in the room – as he warned Republicans to not be afraid of the hot button issue of abortion.

In a sign that the former president is reveling in how the party has fallen in line behind him, Trump bragged that most of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him were no longer in office and singled out one of the remaining two GOP lawmakers left: GOP Rep. David Valadao of California.

“I never loved him,” Trump said of Valadao, according to a GOP member.

As a number of House Republicans find themselves in competitive primary races, the former president said he wanted to do tele-town halls, but acknowledged his help would not be welcomed by some, given that he had endorsed their primary opponents.

Trump did not shy away from acknowledging the bad blood between House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who unsuccessfully tried to oust Johnson against Trump’s wishes. The former president playfully asked Greene, a staunch ally of his who he strongly supports, to be nice to the speaker.

“He’s always so sweet, recognizing me, and he said ‘are you being nice to Speaker Johnson?’ He was joking. And I said ‘eh,’” as she gestured with her hands. “He said ‘OK be nice to him’ and I nodded my head,” she added.

Johnson, after the meeting, said the former president told him that he was doing “a very good job” and that he plans to be “fully prepared” to implement Trump’s plans if he wins in November.

The former president’s conviction also hung heavy over Thursday’s meeting.

Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill immediately sprung into action following the guilty verdict –proposing to defund the Department of Justice and even shut down the government. House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress on Wednesday. And one legislative proposal Republican leaders are now actively pursuing is a bill that would allow current and former presidents to move state-level cases to federal court. The legislation passed out of committee last September, but GOP leaders only started formally whipping the bill this week – on the eve of Trump’s Capitol Hill visit and two weeks after his conviction.

In his meeting with GOP lawmakers, Trump called the Department of Justice “dirty no good bastards,” according to another source in the room.

GOP Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma said the former president expressed he was “gravely concerned” about the federal government being weaponized.

In a news conference after the meeting, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said that the former president’s felony convictions have only energized the party that will propel them to victory in November.

“Anybody who thought that this President was going to be down after the sham trial, after that crooked trial that we saw in New York, I think, again, it’s only given him even more energy,” Emmer said. “And what he did for us upstairs just now is, he showed us that energy and he showed us that positive outlook, despite all the garbage they’ve been throwing at him with their lawfare and their nonsense.”

From CNN

“I just have to start off by saying: the balls of some people. I mean here’s the guy who led the 2021 insurrection on Congress and Senate Minority Mitch McConnell who was leading the Senate Republicans back in 2021 as well, welcomes him back to the U.S. Capitol to talk his conference 42 months later. Not so much on Mitch McConnell, but Donald J. Trump literally visiting the scene of his crimes at a place he hasn’t been to in perhaps 4 years, when he was still President of the United States.”

From The New Democrat

If you are a Gen-Xer like me, or are older, you remember the daily, syndicated talk show genre of the 1990s, when someone like a Geraldo Rivera or Jenny Jones, would bring on the strangest, craziest people that they could possibly find, (unless they were just actors) and they would just let those folks rant and tell their audience about everything that sucks in their world. That is what a Donald J. Trump speech is like right now.

A DJT speech is not just one of those self-interviews that you see on some so-called reality TV show, but he’s like a one-man, syndicated talk show, whose given a huge platform to talk about everything that sucks in his life and the world.

And before someone gives me their impression of Captain Obvious and tries to point out that Donald J. Trump is a presumptive Republican nominee for President and perhaps I shouldn’t talk about him like he’s a nationally, syndicated, daily, joke, I’m just describing the way he presents himself to the public.

On a day where both House and Senate Republicans were hopefully trying to get behind some unifying, Republican, national, agenda, that he and Congressional Republicans could run together on, DJT shows them his very own nationally, syndicated, daily talk show, that’s all about himself and everything that sucks in his world.

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C-SPAN: ‘There’s Tremendous Unity in The Republican Party’

Posted on June 13, 2024 by kireschneider

C-SPAN_ _There's Tremendous Unity In The Republican Party_Source:C-SPAN covering 34 time convicted felon Donald J. Trump’s meeting with Senate Republicans. I wonder if they searched him to make sure he wasn’t packing.

Source:The New Democrat

“Former President Trump following meetings with Congressional Republicans: “There’s tremendous unity in the Republican Party.”

From C-SPAN

“This was a great meeting; there is tremendous unity in the Republican Party,” said 2024 GOP presumptive presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump to reporters following a meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. He focused on immigration and crime in his remarks, saying, “we’re gonna have strong borders.” He also thanked Republican lawmakers who met with him, saying, “we have one thing in mind, and that’s making our country great again.”

From C-SPAN

I just have to start off by saying: the balls of some people. I mean here’s the guy who led the 2021 insurrection on Congress and Senate Minority Mitch McConnell who was leading the Senate Republicans back in 2021 as well, welcomes him back to the U.S. Capitol to talk his conference 42 months later. Not so much on Mitch McConnell, but Donald J. Trump literally visiting the scene of his crimes at a place he hasn’t been to in perhaps 4 years, when he was still President of the United States.

As far as Donald Trump saying that there’s “tremendous unity in the Republican Party right now”, he says he never jokes, but a lot of what he says sounds like it could be a comedic monologue from a straight-faced comedian.

I think what that really is, is DJT saying that there’s tremendous unity in his MAGA movement behind him right now. Because according to DJT and his MAGA members, if you are not MAGA, you are not a real Republican.

But you can also see why Donald Trump never became an investigative reporter. Because to say that MAGA support him tremendously, is like saying it’s going to get dark at night tonight. Not what you would call breaking news. Not even CNN would consider that to be breaking news.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: ‘Washington Democrats’ Prescription Drug Socialism Means Fewer Lifesaving Cures’

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Rik Schneider

Senate Republican Leader_ Washington Democrats’ Prescription Drug Socialism Means Fewer LifesavingSource:Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky) talking about Senate Democrats plan to regulate drug prices.

Source:The New Democrat

“U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding prescription drug socialism.”

From the Senate Republican Leader

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is talking about some plan that Senator Bernie Sanders (Democratic Socialist, Socialist Republic of Vermont) has to regulate drug prices as a whole in America. What I want to talk about here sort of relates to what the Senate Minority Leader is talking about, but more about how prescription drugs and drug access for women could affect the presidential election.

If you are just waking up or something, (perhaps you live in Alaska) the Supreme Court approved the sale of the abortion pill today. If you are familiar with The New Democrat, you know we’re pro-choice on practically everything, including how women control their own bodies, short of forcing others to have to pay for their personal choices. But that’s not what this post is about.

This, along with abortion as a whole, and the Supreme Court will be major political issues for American voters, if the Democratic Party simply allows them to be and makes then issues.

If The White House, House Democrats, Senate, Democrats, every Democrat whose running for governor and for state legislature in America, simply pushes these issues, and the national Democrats people with like President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Congressional Democrats, including the campaign committees, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, as well as the Democratic National Committee, all make these issues major issues and keep push ing them to get their voters to the polls.

The Republican Party in the 1990s, 2000s, last decade, were very successful in always making the Supreme Court an issue during their presidential campaigns, as well as their Congressional campaigns, at least in the Senate. That’s how they got the constitutional conservatives, as well as people who are called MAGA today, to the polls, even if they didn’t really like the individual Republican who was running for office.

Now that Democrats have completely lost the Supreme Court thanks to their weak showings in 2014 and 16, due in large part because their left-wing flank didn’t bother to vote in either election cycle, Democrats thanks to Justice Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, have a real opportunity to pull a Republican play from back in the day and use it against them, to get their left-wing flank to the polls this November and not just vote, but vote Democrats up and down the tickets.

Democrats could argue to these (let’s call call them part-time voters) people that this not just about women’s health care and reproductive health care. The winner of the 2024 presidential election will probably get 1 Supreme Court appointee and you want a Democrat in The White House for that and a Democratic Senate to approve that Democratic nominee.

You also want a Democratic Congress (Senate & House) to go along with the Democratic White House, to reform and expand the Supreme Court. This could be a great political issue for the Democratic Party, if they play it right.

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Paul Ryan On Donald Trump

Posted on June 12, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ Paul Ryan Slams Donald Trump On Fox NewsSource:CNN talking about former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s latest comments on former President Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“Political commentator David Axelrod joins Manu Raju to discuss former House speaker Paul Ryan calling former President Donald Trump unfit for office on Fox News.”

From CNN

“Paul Ryan: I wish we had a different presidential choice. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan reacts to the Hunter Biden conviction and 2024 election polling on ‘Your World.”

From FOX News

“Former President Trump attacked former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), arguing he should be removed from the board of Fox Corp.

“Rupert Murdoch should fire pathetic RINO Paul Ryan from the Board of Fox,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social early Thursday. “Ryan is a loser, always has been, and always will be. He was the WEAKEST & MOST INCOMPETENT Speaker of the House in its History. Fox will sink to the absolute bottom of the pack if Paul Ryan has anything to do with it!”

From The Hill

“Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) called former Speaker Paul Ryan (R) a “piece of garbage” after Ryan called former President Trump “unfit for office” and vowed not to vote for him in November, in an interview earlier Tuesday.

“Paul Ryan, you’re a piece of garbage. You’re a piece of garbage. And we should kick you out of the party. For Paul Ryan to say he’s not voting for Donald Trump — that’s the problem with some of our Republicans. It’s guys like that,” Nehls told CNN’s Manu Raju in an interview that aired early Wednesday.”

From The Hill

I think the Troy Nehls comments about Paul Ryan are the most interesting, perhaps even humorous (even though I’m sure he was completely serious here) when he called Paul Ryan “a piece of garbage” for not supporting Donald Trump for President. Former Speaker Ryan said that Donald Trump is unfit for office because he believes that he’s above the Constitution. And Representative Nehls basically called him a piece of garbage for that.

So according to Representative Nehls, you are a piece of garbage if you believe in the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution, and I’m sure the law and order as well. But a 34 time convicted felon, whose only running for President of the United States to stay out of prison and to lock up his political opponents, including Republicans, like Liz Cheney and I’m sure Adam Kinzinger, who knows maybe even Paul Ryan as well, is a God-like figure in the Republican Party today.

That just tells you what the MAGA movement is about and what they stand for. They’re nothing but a political cult, in the business to promote Donald Trump, regardless of the costs to them or the country.

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