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Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,031 posts)Indeed.
Righteous tweets.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Now, once this Trump mess blows over, he'll probably piss me off every other day, but I will at least never doubt his love of country.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They have screwed up views, but they honestly believe them and have personal integrity.
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)You may think this is strange, but I would rather see Trump survive grievously wounded than see him thrown out of office. I love his propensity for self destruction. If Trump goes we will get stuck with Pence who is a much smoother operator and whose views are much more closely aligned with those of Republican conservatives in Congress. He could get a lot more done legislatively than Trump.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)My mother would've said things like, "It's 6 of one, a half dozen of the other." Or, "Like being between a rock and a hard place". However, the Donald is so crazy who knows what he'll do (including himself). Pence is not as crazy but just as dangerous in other ways, especially with Ryan and McConnell support on one side and his 18th century wife/mother on the other side. Of course Pence is as guilty as hell too and may not make it to POTUS either, so if you go further down the line you get stuck with Ryan. We're screwed no matter how you look at it. I wish the entire election was null and void and we could have a do-over. I wish, I wish, I wish...
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... is a functional one.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Crazier, angrier and more paranoid every day.
Pence just appliedfor his own PAC. That should threaten DT too.
It may be that his cabinetand Congree try to redeem themselves by invoking the 25th Amendment.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)Ask any of the residents of Indianastan how they felt about Mike Pence last year or today....if Pence is elevated, he will be soundly whipped in 2020.
JHB
(37,163 posts)He's a fighter, I'll give him that. But he was one of the people who built Kremlin Don's voting base by saying anything to help his guy win and then leaving voters to grind their teeth from the pivot after the election.
Glad he's hammering Trump (in op-eds and on Twitter), but then, as an conservative-establishment Republican political consultant, he can afford to, and it'll be good for his post-Trrump brand.
writes3000
(4,734 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)phylny
(8,393 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Since I don't want to live in a Democratic version of a Fox "News" bubble, I like seeing sensible Republicans on MSNBC, like Rick, and Nicole Wallace and Charlie Sykes and David Jolly.
(Not Hugh Hewitt, though. Ew.)
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)He just spouts propaganda.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)wow, she's on it!
renate
(13,776 posts)I don't know Ana Navarro but I'll listen for her name the next time I watch CNN.
I forgot to mention Steve Schmidt. I like him too.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)Like the other names we've been mentioning.
radical noodle
(8,016 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Tried, but he's just tooooo complicit in the shitshow right wing radio has become in the last 20 years.
radical noodle
(8,016 posts)even though I disagree with all of them on policy, Sykes has been as outspoken as the others on MSNBC about what a clusterfuck the trump administration is.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)And he has done a public apology for his part in wrecking the political discourse in this country; I just can't get past it.
radical noodle
(8,016 posts)Right now I grasp at the smallest straw.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)spooky3
(34,517 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Once you've lost Jen Rubin.....
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)when they've got all the marbles.
irisblue
(33,047 posts)irisblue
(33,047 posts)Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)Beartracks
(12,827 posts)You'd think people who freaked out about so-called "Hanoi Jane" would also have serious issues with Kremlin Don.
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Enoki33
(1,589 posts)Coast Guard graduation was aimed at Flynn. Reportedly he recently sent him a message to stay strong.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)SunSeeker
(51,784 posts)CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)But who is Rick Wilson?
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)I think he supported Jeb in the primaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Wilson_(political_consultant)
Rick Wilson (political consultant)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rick Wilson is a national Republican political strategist and media consultant based in Florida who has produced television for governors, U.S. Senate candidates, super PACS, and corporations.[1] He became well known during the 2016 United States presidential election for his vitriolic denunciations of Donald Trump and supporters of Trump.[2] Examples include asking Ann Coulter via Twitter if Trump "pays more for anal", and on MSNBC referring to some Trump supporters as "childless single men who masturbate to anime".[3] Wilson has written in The Daily Beast, Politico, New York Daily News, The Federalist, Independent Journal Review, and Ricochet.[4]
moonscape
(4,676 posts)maybe after Jeb was out?
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)The only thing I could find was this:
We are going to pay and pay and pay and pay for this, says Rick Wilson, a GOP strategist who supports Rubio. The fact of the matter is that this is a party who had an opportunity this year to show Hispanics an interesting, diverse, compelling party. Instead, what were going to show them is a 70-year-old verbally incontinent white man from Queens who bellows about brown people.
https://newrepublic.com/article/131504/republicans-already-lost-florida
Who knows? Maybe he supported them all! LOL
womanofthehills
(8,801 posts)with the same intel a few weeks ago - all 3 from different intel sources. All three seem to be great Twitter friends always re-posting each others posts.
(excerpt is not working for me - maybe because site was down)
Rick Wilson?Verified account @TheRickWilson
Rick Wilson Retweeted Louise Mensch
Remember: Louise was first and right on the initial FISA warrants. Claude was right on the EVDA etc.
"Rick Wilson is a national Republican political strategist and media consultant based in Florida who has produced television for governors, U.S. Senate candidates, super PACS, and corporations. Hes on Twitter at @therickwilson." Rick writes for the Daily Beast. Here is a recent article:
President Trump Just Cant Help Himself
"This isnt a White House turning the corner or getting its bearings in Washingtonits a White House engaged in daily Downfall cosplay.
President Donald Trump cant stop sticking his head in the noose. The last 10 days in Washington have been a singularity of Trumps reckless, dangerous, lead-paint-and-cheap-vodka brain-damage style of governance. As he flailed from crisis to crisis, nothing said Youll be tired of all the winning like a series of self-inflicted wounds to his political, legal, and presidential fate.
The firing of FBI Director James Comey was just the start of this latest chapter in the White House drama. Trumps dissipated preppy consigliere Stephen Bannon, Wisconsin Cheese Board Deputy Director Reince Priebus, and Shifty Spice were all cut out of the loop. This
Their myriad stories, revisionist history, weapons-grade stupid talking points, midnight shrub-based press avails, and rolling Sarah Huckabee Sanders corn-pone Aw-yall-hes-muh-second-cousin claims to have talked to countless FBI agents in defense of President Indefensible didnt signal determinationit signaled that the iceberg has holed the Trumptanic and the crew is running for the lifeboats.
Entertaining yet insane interviews with Lester Holt and others told us that Trump is ignoring reason, logic, politics, and most importantly, his legal team. His unveiled threats to Comey about secret White House tapes were a self-inflicted can of political whup-ass. Trump had long ago declared a pointless, doomed war with the intelligence community. Short of a land war in Asia, its the jewel in his crown of stupid. Our outward-facing intelligence agencies like the CIA already view Trump as a dangerous, compromised child. By firing Comey, Trump has crossed another red line. The FBI rank and file took it as an insult and an affront to their integrity and their reputations.
As if we hadnt had enough lunacy in the last 10 days, Trump looked at America and said, Hey hold my beer. Watch this. In his very cozy Oval Office meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Both men are so steeped in Russian intelligence circles they might as well have spy tattooed on their foreheads. As one of the smartest political observers I know said, Its ONLY MONDAY.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/15/president-trump-just-can-t-help-himself.
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Hekate
(90,978 posts)Texin
(2,600 posts)He has remained the only consistent anti-tRump conservative among the current crop of so-called conservatives, along with Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace (though NW has been more muted in her remarks than the other two). Wilson has despised the orange shitgibbon and the rest of the rethuglicons for well over a year. Hugh Hewett drew my interest early on because he was very outspoken in his dislike of twitler, but he quickly changed his tune the night the Russians delivered tRump. I have absolutely no use for a quisling like that.
I think it's another case of ""the party left me". Let's face it, you are either a Trumpian or you keep your soul.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)They really spoke my pain in speaking theirs.
I caught up with the others later, and was so glad to see them speaking out.
BootinUp
(47,209 posts)nycbos
(6,041 posts)It would be worth your time.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)I read the post by Highplainsdem though; is that the op-ed you mean?
If you work for Trump, it's time to quit
womanofthehills
(8,801 posts)I wanted to read a particular article really bad. Now I pay NYT's, WaPo, and Randi Rhodes podcast besides all the other small monthly fees like icloud storage, photoshop, photobucket, audible, etc. The internets are expensive.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)I hate that I can't read Greg Sargent's Plum Line every day.
TacoD
(581 posts)Reg. price is $9.99/mo
Do you subscribe through Amazon Prime or the WP?
TacoD
(581 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)womanofthehills
(8,801 posts)He's good!!!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Pretty simple! Especially, don't do it on television!
Trump's New Impeachable Offenses: Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy, Abuse of Power
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Duppers
(28,130 posts)3catwoman3
(24,088 posts)...which are right on target.
My appreciation is not full-throated, however, because it is hard to forgive these past efforts -
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/donald-trump-gop-rick-wilson/index.html
In 2002, he crafted an ad against former Democratic Sen. Max Cleland that included images of Osama bin Laden to suggest he was undermining the war on terror. And when then-Sen. Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, Wilson organized a television campaign about his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The smear of Max Cleland is difficult to forget, and impossible to forgive.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Ilsa
(61,710 posts)Dear Trumpers:
No Wall.
No tax cuts.
No Obamacare repeal.
No trade deals.
You. Get. NOTHING.
Nothing but months of pain.
czarjak
(11,316 posts)Republican at the core. Trump is not one to Rick.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)And after this mess, as I said upthread, he will go back to pissing me off every other day. But right now, he's helping the cause.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)President Donald Trump cant stop sticking his head in the noose. The last 10 days in Washington have been a singularity of Trumps reckless, dangerous, lead-paint-and-cheap-vodka brain-damage style of governance.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/15/president-trump-just-can-t-help-himself?source=email&via=desktop
DeminPennswoods
(15,292 posts)When he gets someone tweeting defending or praising Trump, he's got the punchiest replies around. But I'm sure he's completely ok with Ryan and McConnell's policy agenda.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)ThoughtProvoker
(32 posts)He's a rolling ball of knives, isn't he?
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Welcome to DU!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)charlyvi!
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Mahalo!
Cha
(297,935 posts)that goes.