Surviving a second Trump admin*

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Mad as a hatter - and angry too.

This ain't gonna help.

The White House launched 'Trump TV' following a press ban on CNN and others, sparking a boycott by major US television networks.

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Way over DonOLD's head....toying with him.

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I think they hate America.

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Hilarious. 24 years old. Watch out Natalie!




Trump Finds New Assistant Press Secretary in Real America’s Voice Correspondent

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Sounds like a porn name.

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Sounds like a porn name.

https://x.com/patriottakes/status/2106158508437885325

Holiday spirit?

Is that her father-husband?

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Hilarious. 24 years old. Watch out Natalie!

https://www.navajivan.in/wp-content/upl ... -Voice.jpg

Trump Finds New Assistant Press Secretary in Real America’s Voice Correspondent

I think Harp is okay . . . for the moment.

Trump aide Natalie Harp outshines Melania, Usha and Susie Wiles on Washington power ranking: ‘Wild stuff’

She and her portable printer can crush rivals like a bug.

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She and her portable printer can crush rivals like a bug.

That diaper bag is a national security necessity.

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Sounds like a porn name.

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This is a definite possibility.
And then we are in true constitutional crisis territory, where it will be up to the United States Marshals, who, by law, are duty-bound to enforce federal court orders.

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This is a definite possibility.
And then we are in true constitutional crisis territory, where it will be up to the United States Marshals, who, by law, are duty-bound to enforce federal court orders.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/2109381683980235200

What a tragedy that would be! The wrecking ball moves faster than a judicial writ.


Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pillay Slams Trump Administration’s ‘Cruel’ International Criminal Court Sanctions

What an immature asshole he is! :obscene-birdiered:

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If there were a repug revolt brewing, we wouldn't know anything about it because it would have to be super secret. If Tr*mp caught a whiff it would be very bad for them. But could it be possible that all the repugs really are compliant and are happy to have Tr*mp. As their leader and masthead? How can they look at him and see his condition and all the leopards running around eating them and their constituents and not form a revolt?

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If there were a repug revolt brewing, we wouldn't know anything about it because it would have to be super secret. If Tr*mp caught a whiff it would be very bad for them. But could it be possible that all the repugs really are compliant and are happy to have Tr*mp. As their leader and masthead? How can they look at him and see his condition and all the leopards running around eating them and their constituents and not form a revolt?

Quietly complicit no longer? Some did not survive.

'This is a disaster': Angry Republicans blame Trump for midterms defeat

Inside the Republican Party, initial shock at the stunning election results on Tuesday night quickly gave way to anger with US President Donald Trump.

After Democrats won upset after upset in deep-red states like Texas, Kansas and South Carolina, some Republicans focused their ire on Trump, arguing that his focus on his legacy and indifference to voter concerns cost the party control of Congress.

"It's on him. It's not on anybody else. It's a total, complete rejection of President Trump," Bill Miller, a top Republican lobbyist in Texas, told the BBC. "This is a disaster of the first magnitude. Nobody saw it coming like this."

... A White House ally said public disapproval with Trump over the Iran war, tariffs and the administration's immigration crackdown created a "perfect storm" in November.

"There's palpable frustration [within] the party about how this has all played out," the person said, and much of it is directed at Trump. Anger with Trump "is extremely high".

... "I wasn't on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter," Trump wrote.

He said in later interviews with the New York Times and Fox News that he would accept the election results. Trump told Fox he was a "little bit surprised" by the election results, but noted that the president's party typically fared poorly in midterm elections.

"poorly" This was a historic rout.

... Before Tuesday, Democrats had not won a Senate seat in Kansas since 1932, and had not won a statewide race in Texas in more than three decades. The party also notched surprise upsets in other reliably red states like South Carolina that were thought to be safe seats for Republicans just weeks before Election Day.

GoWhack9Go!

Trump and Vice-President JD Vance held dozens of campaign rallies in the run-up to the midterms. The principal Trump-aligned Super PAC, MAGA Inc., spent hundreds of millions backing Republican candidates.

"Fiscal responsibility"?

... Ken Paxton, the Republican Senate nominee in Texas, ran "the worst Senate campaign in the country from either side of the aisle," said another Texas Republican operative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "If Ken's campaign knocked on 100,000 doors I'd be shocked," the source said. The person added that Paxton's victorious Democratic opponent, James Talarico, ran "a really good and smart campaign."

... "He's the president. He's not going to spend his time campaigning 24/7," said Krish Mathrani, the Michigan Republican Party's youth chair. Mathrani said Trump's campaign rallies helped drive up enthusiasm among Republican voters. "President Trump is a turnout machine," he said.

Um, El Sayed won Michigan. You FAIL Poli Sci 101.

... Voters rejected Trump's argument that the economy was better on his watch and that he was achieving his aims in the war with Iran. The effort by Trump to portray Democrats as extreme socialists also fell flat, as voters handed victories to moderates like Roy Cooper in North Carolina.

"That just didn't work with Cooper," said a Cooper campaign official. "Trying to tag him as some socialist liberal, that wasn't going to fly."

GoNCGo!

Republican supporters at a watch party in Iowa, where Democrat candidate Josh Turek won a Senate seat

Awww. Smells like victory.

Trump often seemed disinterested in the midterms over the summer, the period of time when Republicans in Congress shifted their focus to the election.

Trump was consumed by the war with Iran abroad and his construction overhaul of Washington at home. The projects included the under-construction ballroom and a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House, renovations to a local golf course, a proposed memorial arch near Arlington Cemetery and renovations to the Kennedy Center.

Events like a UFC match at the White House on Trump's 80th birthday in June created the impression that the president was more interested in feting himself than winning the midterms, several sources said. Trump also repeatedly downplayed the rising costs of gas and often cast the affordability issue as a Democratic hoax.

Trump turned his full attention to the election in September at the Republican Party's midterm convention. The event was a gamble: Republicans hadn't held a midterm convention in decades, and it was an open question whether voters would tune in.

Other than MAGAts, we didn't.

Trump dominated the convention in Dallas, frustrating Republicans who told the BBC they wanted to highlight the party's midterm candidates.

In his rambling keynote speech, Trump pledged to give $5,000 (£3,700) to Americans if Republicans retained control of Congress and raised eyebrows with an endorsement of Paxton which included a lengthy criticism of the candidate's lack of charisma and physical appearance.

"Obviously, that's never helpful," Robin Armstrong, Texas' Republican National Committeeman, said of Trump's critique of Paxton. "You're not going to stop what President Trump says. We just have to kind of live with that."

Translation: He's an idiot.

The convention failed to attract a large television audience, and Democrats were quick to call it a failure. "It backfired for Republicans because nobody paid any attention to it," said Terri Burke, the Texas Democratic Party's executive director.

As I said.

Trump's penchant for straying off-message continued when he hit the campaign trail in the final weeks before Election Day. He made headlines for praising Ohio Republican Senator John Husted's physique, and drew criticism for calling Abdul El-Sayed a "jihadist" in the Michigan Senate race.

The racist attacks on El-Sayed backfired and Sherrod Brown ousted Husted. He can get his fine ass out of there.

As Trump criss-crossed the country stumping for Republican candidates, the White House contended with controversies in Washington. Katie Zacharia was ousted after just five days as White House press secretary, and Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned as the US ambassador to Greece after reports surfaced that she asked a donor to pay her credit card debt.

MAGA = Incompetence

Trump also faced a backlash in October for striking a deal to buy Russian diesel. The agreement, which blindsided members of Congress and drew condemnation from some Republicans, came just weeks after Trump signed a sanctions bill aimed at cutting off Russian oil and gas revenue.

Putin's puppet.

... Now, as Republicans take stock of the loss, several said they were ready to look ahead to the 2028 election.

"Whether that's JD Vance, or Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz, we've got a pretty big bench," said Scheffler, the state's RNC member. "It'll be a wide open race." ...

A big bench does not equal a quality bench. DonOLD-stained LOSERS.