If Congressional Republicans are willing to stick with Trump for something as pointless and idiotic as this shutdown, you have to wonder what else they are on board for.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 25, 2019
RNC Resolutions Committee just voted unanimously to “undivided support” for Trump and his “effective presidency," clearing way for passage before full GOP governing body on Friday.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 23, 2019
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I know ‘Just imagine if Obama / Hillary had… ‘ is a much-used trope, but seriously, can you imagine what the Media Village Idiots would’ve said if the Democrats had declared no party members would be permitted to challenge the Anointed One?
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[??????, ??????????????? ????????????] https://t.co/36hN6oPmv4— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 23, 2019
(Which Google translates as: The decision was made unanimously by the Central Committee. Hail to the decisions of the Party! We implement them in full – in life! [Loud and prolonged applause])
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Possibly relevant:
A broader point in this bizarre story: Trump 2020 has yet to build out an in house comms operation.
former White House spokesman Raj Shah had preliminary discussions last year w/ Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale about aiding the 2020 comms shop, two sources told The Daily Beast https://t.co/mPWqmvksk8
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) January 23, 2019
Maybe they just can’t afford to, now that Vladimir doesn’t need to sweeten the pot…
NEW via @jdawsey1 @myhlee: Koch network tells donors it plans to stay out of 2020 race, once again declining to back Trump https://t.co/7w7INAb0Ra
— Sean Sullivan (@WaPoSean) January 24, 2019
Bread lines…televised Cabinet flattery sessions…centrally-planned economic industrial policy: Under Republican leadership, the US is turning into Republicans’ scariest 30-year-old Soviet fever dreams.https://t.co/exJpcI3p6N
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 22, 2019
Brachiator
Problem is, we’ve got Trump and the Village is not sure whether they have a problem with that.
Reality is worse than any hypothetical. And despite the spanking that Trump is getting from Pelosi, the GOP leadership and the right wing media is doubling down in their support of Trump. They are fine with putting the nation’s future at risk.
They are afraid of something. Some vision of the future. It doesn’t matter whether or not this future would be better for everyone in the long run. They would rather die and take everyone down with them.
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator: The GOP needs to go the way of the NSDAP and the CPSU.
Oblivion.
scav
Gutless, but neverless somehow able to swallow anything Trump shoves into their mouths and (theoretically) down their throats.
Lacking spines too. I think I saw one of them on a school field trip once on a boat in Dana Point, sort of a living transparent sandwich bag. Didn’t know at the time it could be elected to high office as a conservative.
2liberal
russia is no longer communist. the authoritarian dictator model the Republicans are on board with and have always been on board with.
Brachiator
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yep. But they won’t go quietly.
Mnemosyne
Hell, they did claim that the Democrats said it about Hillary in 2016, and the Bros latched right onto it thanks to Wikileaks’ selective email leaks from the DNC.
But now that Trump is for real out in public doing the thing that they claimed Hillary was secretly doing? Crickets. Chirp, you fuckers. ?
Frankensteinbeck
@Brachiator:
A brown America. It terrifies them in a way we can’t truly understand.
JGabriel
Catherine Rampell via Anne Laurie @ Top:
They’re like the Soviet Party, if it was right-wing – without the commitment to anti-colonialism, egalitarianism, or anything but the interests of Donald Trump.
JGabriel
Brachiator:
A vision of the future where Vladmir Putin reveals all the ways he’s helped Republicans get elected and betray America.
JGabriel
@2liberal:
Not always. Only since FDR. Or maybe Taft.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
My god, that’s rigth about the Soviets – Trump is the dumb, lazy Stalin. Trump really has all of Stalin’s vices and none of Stalin’s virtues.
ljdramone
Вся слава товарищу Трампу!
Vsye slava tovarishchu Trampu!
[All glory to Comrade Trump!]