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Yeah I know, its Erick Erickson, but this unhinged rant is amazing to behold. No wonder so many Republicans are bailing right now.
https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/a-congressman-s-profanity-laced-tirade-in-a-safeway-grocery-store-SeHI2l5bIECGQn4gmnzGaw/?full=1
by Erick Erickson
One of the President's congressional defenders has privately decided he hates Trump and wants to unload.
"If we're going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker," said the congressman as we roamed the aisles of a Safeway grocery store together. I haven't been in a Safeway since my family moved home from Dubai in 1990. The congressman did not want to be seen with me on Capitol Hill. He needed to get some stuff anyway and decided he'd let me walk with him through the cereal and dairy selections at the Safeway near my hotel. He is not happy with President Trump. He was never a die hard Trump supporter. He supported him in the general and never expected him to win. But he did. So the congressman, whose district Trump won, has been a regular supporter on Fox News and elsewhere defending the President. He is happy to be quoted, so long as I don't name him. He says he just needs to vent. I suggest what we're doing is one of the reason's Trump won -- a congressman says nice things in public and bad things in private.
"Everybody does this sh*t," he says. It's his turn. We have known each other for years and have been promising to connect this week while I'm passing through DC. So this is it. I'm passing along his comments, not endorsing them.
"I read you writing about this, about wanting to say nice things when you can and criticize when you need to. He may be an idiot, but he's still the President and leader of my party and he is capable of doing some things right," he says before conceding it's usually other people doing the right things in the President's name. "But dammit he's taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November. Kevin [McCarthy] is already circling like a green fly circling sh*t trying to take Paul's [Ryan] job because nobody thinks he's sticking around for Nancy [Pelosi]. She's going to f**k up the cafeteria again too. [Lord's name in vain], at least I'll probably lose too and won't have to put up with that sh*t." He won't lose. His district is very Republican.
So much more at the link.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Nancy P. doesn't mess up anything, she's too busy cleaning up the mess Cons left in the aisles.
apnu
(8,759 posts)What could Pelosi have done to the House cafeteria that was so offensive, and why is it even important? If you don't like the privilege food, don't eat the privilege food, brown bag it.
What an asshole.
blaze
(6,388 posts)apnu
(8,759 posts)They wanted to eat greasy crap food and "freedom fries".
Me.
(35,454 posts)"they had tried to preserve low-cost alternatives such as pizza, sandwiches and prepared salads, which remain around the same price"
tblue37
(65,524 posts)PSPS
(13,628 posts)apnu
(8,759 posts)In Chicago, there's a group of people who refer to the Jewel grocery store as "the Jewels"
As in "I'm goin' to the Jewels, wanna come with?"
marble falls
(57,425 posts)apnu
(8,759 posts)So the main take away is, either Erickson is making up total bullshit, or Trump really is loathed on his own team.
I know a bunch of right wing people, I have to work with them, all of them loathe Trump. And these guys see themselves as captains of industry, supposedly the people Trump thinks he belongs to.
His own base isn't solid on Trump or Pence. If true, that bodes well for us in November.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)telling the truth. He's been compelled to apologize a lot over the years. He called a retiring Justice of the SCOTUS 'the first goat fucking child molester appointed to the Surpreme Court', too.
apnu
(8,759 posts)But thanks for bringing it up so we can be clear about who's saying this. Transparency is a good thing.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)"You know having Mike as President would really piss off all the right people, too. They think they hate Trump. Mike is competent,"
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marble falls
(57,425 posts)SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Thanks for posting this, tells you what they're thinking but not what they're doing.
Stand up a be counted you bastards.