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LOL double down? Trump didn’t even single down on his promised agenda. He was elected to lower inflation and end all wars. He stoked inflation every chance he got, threatened to start a dozen wars, then got us into another Vietnam. Yeah, the voters want change. But I’d like to see a Democrat in the White House in 2028 (2029). So I hope Trump takes your advice and doubles down on the worst presidency in American history. Build the arch! Flame out in your new ballroom!Because sycophantic idiots like you are gonna hand us the White House in two years.
Congratulations to the new Chief of Staff, @StephenM.
Double down on the agenda. Too many people are demanding a change to tough policies because they were unpopular in the midterms. That’s foolish and cowardly.
The short term unpopularity of a policy does not make the policy wrong. The President’s priority should be long term benefits (like an Iran without a nuke), not short term popularity.
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Stephen Miller proves
that only in America
can a young Jewish boy
grow up to be a degenerate Nazi.
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Pope Leo and Bob Dylan look like they're starring in an early '90s CBS drama in which two priests - one by the book and one who does things his own way - try to solve mysteries in their seemingly sleepy Midwestern town that hides a seedy underbelly.
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Kelly: Trump went through life as a guy who avoided Vietnam. He didn’t want to serve. He doesn’t understand service. He’s intimidated by people who served.
So he wants to project this tough-guy image and just go around dropping bombs on things at every opportunity.
And I think with Hegseth, it’s something different. He seems to operate as a secretary of defense as you would expect a junior officer might. He cares about those kinds of things, how people look, beards, uniforms, gym shorts. And then, to project his tough-guy image, he runs around on a stage and talks about maximum lethality.
So I think you have insecurity in both of them for different reasons.
The result is dead Americans, a lot of dead Iranians, 800 injured Americans, tens of billions of dollars wasted. And what did the American people get out of this?
They got higher prices, and now they can’t afford to put gas in their car. And half of the country is having a hard time affording food because the president and the secretary of defense are clueless, have no idea what they’re doing.
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The right-wing Anakin posting does make a lot of sense as it combines many of the Right’s core preoccupations: getting groomed; killing your wife; working for an insane, octogenarian tyrant; being hated by your children; losing and dying
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This constant demand for reckonings and apologies and other similar militant preening is one of the silliest and stupidest features of the terminally online subspecies of humanity. As someone who didn’t support either in the primary, just focus on winning the seat and also grow up.
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Quite apart from the policy differences between @HaleyforMI and @AbdulElSayed when you run for a party nomination you are making an implicit promise to the voters of that party that you'll support the nominee if it isn't you, just as you'll expect the same from those you've defeated if you win. It's not about the other candidate, it's about the party's voters.
Of course there are some cases where policy differences or individual behavior makes that impossible. And if you can't endorse you can't. But you should not expect to play any role in that party in the future since you've violated that promise. Like anything else, conscience is conscience. If that's what you need to do that's what you need to do. But again, you're violating a promise. It is all the more the case here since Rogers is a lockstep supporter of Donald Trump, a diehard abortion rights opponent and a bunch else. Where do Stevens' purported beliefs and values fit into this equation?
In this case, there is a level of duplicity on Stevens part with her colleagues and her staff that is inexplicable in any of those terms. She didn't have to tell numerous colleagues as recently as last night and in some cases apparently early this morning that she was definitely voting for El-Sayed. She was either lying to them for no conceivably legitimate reason or she made these decisions as matter of sudden impulse over a period of an hour or two. It's hard to say which possibility paints her in a worse light.
I say all this as someone who has strongly supported AES since he won the nomination and wishes he would have denounced that Cenk ad more clearly. There's an endless amount of behavior here from Stevens that simply cannot be explained as any kind of stand on principle. It's personal, impulsive and selfish.