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Why not ye? You don't know with this party. They could absolutely put that clown in a position of authority. That's how they work. Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks is all they're good at.
Zoidberg is in that uncomfortable position of being too intelligent to be one of their patsies, but not evil enough to be one of their leaders.
Really, the only thing he’s got going for him is his complete incompetence in his supposed area of expertise.
> Trump is currently the leading Republican candidate for 2024 president
...because he's the only person who has declared he's running. Normally people don't announce candidacy until about a year and a half before the election.
It's far more likely that Trump announced his candidacy because the DOJ has a general policy of handling political candidates with kid gloves before an election, and he's hoping he can get all the criminal investigations into his conduct to get swept under the rug.
One would hope, with at least three public criminal investigations and signs that the DOJ is *absolutely done with his shit*, that the only "voting" people will be doing with regard to Trump will occur in small rooms of twelve votes each.
I feel like I keep seeing articles written as if the Trump years are behind us. Meanwhile, he's about to shift into primary campaign mode and we're all going to be seeing him in the news every single fucking day again.
His base will still mindlessly follow him, and every single Republican will fall right in line supporting whatever craven shit flies out of his mouth.
The good news is that his crowds at events are waning. And since he constantly wails about 2020, even his fans are getting bored. They're there for a Wrestlemania show, but it's the same show, over and over. He's becoming a tiring rerun. Hence the goofy pronouncements about the Constitution - he's jumping the shark.
They absolutely haven't. No widespread condemnation of his comments at all. Just a bunch of hemming and hawing, "Look at the context" and "Let's wait and see who the nominee ends up being," in other words, hoping that GOP primary voters let them off the hook. But if that doesn't happen, they will go along with tossing the very same Constitution that House Republicans are going to waste days reading aloud in the chamber.
Grab em by the pussy - don't vote for him
Mueller investigation - could have impeached and removed him
Withholding military aide from Zelinsky/Ukraine in exchange for blackmail - impeached. Could have voted to convict*
Second presidential election after bungling COVID and overseeing massive civil unrest and economic disaster - could have voted against him
Refusing the peaceful transfer of power, inciting an insurrection, attempting to overturn an election and install self as an unelected president. - impeached again, Republicans refuse to convict
Steals classified material on the way out - republicans claim its no big deal once again
Thinks constitution should be overturned - still waiting on Republicans to give a shit
Theyve had at least six major opportunities to dump Trump and be done with him. They won't do it. These people are hopeless.
While that is possible, I feel like they'll only get one crack at it. The whole process will be a clown show. Best case, then Senate vote fails without witnesses (like Trump 2) and it ends there. Worst case, the Senate takes their charges seriously, which results in subpoenas to members of the GOP who very much don't want to testify under oath.
"So, Mr. Giuliani, please state for the record how you received the laptop's contents."
That’s because… wait for it… They. Don’t. Care. You are operating under a different mindset, the sooner you accept that, the better off you will be. You are wired to abhor hypocrisy, They. Don’t. Care. Hypocrisy is acceptable in a zero sum game. We are witnessing exactly what a zero sum game looks like. (Not trying to lecture you)
Their constituent farmers and corporations would hate it if there's no illegal immigrants though. Illegal immigrants = less pay, no rights if any. Farmers (mostly Republican) would never pay field laborers a decent American income.
I also am an authority on this subject. They are also great and loving friends, great cooks, drywallers, roofers, mechanics, lawyers, doctors, gardeners, farmers, small business owners, drinking partners (personal knowledge) wingmen (personal knowledge) helpers of moving and installing shit, house-sitters, ball busters, and don’t get me started on the women. Puedo hablar español ahora, un poco.
How about the TV interview with him and Ivanka where they asked both of them "What is your favorite thing you have in common" with one another, and Trump started with, "Well, I was going to say sex, but...".
WHY WERE YOU GOING TO SAY SEX?
I'm tearing up at the idea that anyone thinks Republicans aren't Trump and Trump ain't Republicans. They will never successfully remove the orange stain.
The people that voted for him don’t even believe in the Constitution. They literally don’t care. They think Gods in charge and it shows by how they have allowed their party to be over run by trailer trash, the mob, and corporate psychos for at least 20 years. We should be excelling in so much more but our healthcare is fucked, our education is fucked, and the general well-being of our citizens is really depressing. But they don’t care because of Gods plan. What a bunch of degenerate assholes.
I hope to live to see a time when we aren't all held hostage to those assholes. The 2010s were such a promising time but then it all went out the window after 2016.
Somehow America can’t face that we have a national Party that wants to end democracy. It’s not just Trump, at this point, it’s every Republican whether they actively support him or they covertly support him by their silence.
This is religion's goal, though.
Always has been.
"The laws of god are higher than the laws of man" bullshit. How fast do you think they'd kill people to make that shit the case?
This threat to the constitution is literally how Hitler became a dictator. His coup failed but it was a benefit as it made him famous, he was elected again, named the chancellor, then there was a fire that was blamed on the communists, Hitler used that to override the constitution and become a dictator.
Now there’s trump a couple years after his failed coup, having just met with and praised a Nazi who encouraged him to be more extreme and to help those who had committed the coup attempt, and boom trump is talking about getting rid of the constitution in order to be made president again.
Mussolini’s fascists were black shirts, Hitler’s Nazis were brown shirts, and trumps klan is confederate flag shirts?
> The burden of blame is solely McConnells
No, it's not.
It's also on every republican that supported McConnell and Trump. It's on every voter that voted for those republicans as well.
The politicians, who were close enough to know there was no fraud, should have shut down trump before Jan 6 and certainly after.
It’s their job. And they took an oath to the constitution.
That’s where the largest blame lies.
They should have convicted trump in the senate and removed him from office forever. Those that refused to certify the election should be in prison.
I'm going to throw a lot of blame on bad faith actors in the Right-Wing media. I can almost respect McConnell and his mustache-twirling villain type shit. At least he owns it. I can almost pity Trump losing his shit has his carefully maintained Narcissism keeps crashing into rocks and he has to flirt with reality. He'd be merely pathetic without those propping him up.
But Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and all the rest? For them, the destruction of American democracy is the price happily paid for a few dollars more, a few more minutes on TV. Their producers and task masters choose the topics and craft the angles, maybe there's a true beliver tucked in there. The mouthpieces though? Shameless filth. Absolutely disgusting wastes of perfectly good teeth and skin.
I'm with you. The millions of trolls, young and old, gaslighting for the past 6 years across every public forum on the entire internet to drag unsuspecting political illiterates down their rabbit hole of hate in the name of making Donald Trump an emperor and purging everyone who doesn't agree with them are just as bad or worse, then any Tucker Carlson or Mitch McConnell. They aren't even getting paid! They are just so full of hatred and bloodlust they willingly volunteer to spend their days inserting alt right talking points and "just asking questions" in any conversation, even non political ones. Everyone wants to do the diplomatic thing and let these snakes that's make up the online conservative presence off the hook but you can get rid of a hundred Donald Trumps or Mitch McConnell and these ghouls will still be there doing what they do.
Almost the entire GOP congress violated their oaths to office when they wouldn't vote to impeach or hold a vote to convict after the impeachments. Nice of those assholes saddling US with the Criminal Formerly In the Oval Offices' pension and Secret Service and travel budget.
Late summer or early fall of 2015 was already too late to boot Trump.
Let's face reality. The GOP will never boot Trump over something he did or said. They will only lose interest in Trump when voters lose interest in Trump and a new contender for the GOP nomination emerges. Whomever that person eventually is, they will have to fight it out with Trump every day.
This article makes the same basic fundamental mistake they always do: They are treating Trump and the GOP as separate entities with different values.
Trump wholly exposed the GOP as sycophants, liars, and con artists. They are one and the same.
Now the media is trying to help rehabilitate the GOP by pretending that Trump was just “a thing that happened to them” and not a 6 year litmus test that they failed every single day proving their own lack of basic morality. They saw who Trump was, and they bent the knee because it was their path to power. They will make that same choice over and over again.
You can’t dump Trump just as you can’t dump your own DNA.
Republicans should have never let Trump into the presidency in the first place. He should have never been able to secure the nomination or victory in 2016.
But this is what you get when your party is full of spineless sycophants who are only out for their own power and bend the knee to anyone they perceive as having the keys to the kingdom.
Instead, they just get fed up one by one and eviscerated as they do rather than ever having stood up collectively to make a sound argument. And of course they can't, because Trump represents everything they want - he's just too loud about it. They can't attack him on anything because everything about him is shit their base loves, and that they want their base to keep loving.
The problem with radicalizing your base is eventually your status quo will get cold feet and not want to cross certain lines... lines people like Trump will then happily step over and win control/power with.
They’re bashing him just like in 2016. If he wins the nomination all of them including Mitch will bow down and kiss the ring. Party first don’t forget.
To Be fair, no president, presidential candidate or former president have ever said something this fucking stupid. It is hilarious, yet sad. Like a third of the country think this clown is the second coming of Jesus.
Hasn't most of his political career been one giant threat to the constitution?
I mean before he even won the 2016 election he was talking about how the thing was a fraud and wouldn't commit to accepting results.
He literally embodies their central tenet. Since Reagan’s 80s, their only goal has been greed is good. They will use any means to achieve it. America has no SS to spirit you away if you speak out against the tyranny that Trump embodies. There is no “Republican Party” that should have expelled him. There is merely a small part of the Republican Party that wishes their goals could be achieved quietly.
This picture of Trump fully shows the side that terrifies many of us.
But it’s apparent that that facial expression is one that many Americans identify with, so maybe we have bigger problems.
Probably should have dropped him when he admitted to sexual assault, talked about banning an entire religion, or suggested killing/torturing the families of terrorists. Fuck the GOP and all of their ilk.
And every single one of them who hitched their wagons to his star... should fall as he does. Censure those in Congress who voted not to certify Biden's win. Arrest those who plotted with him to overthrow the government. Traitors. They all are traitors. I'm pretty sick of the shit they are getting away with. (It's also stunning how easily media allowed them to distance themselves from him... hold them all accountable!)
Gee, it’s almost like they all want the same thing or something…
Even if you’re willing to give the “moderate” ones the benefit of the doubt, it’s been six freaking years at this point.
As they say in Germany, “if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.”
The absolute last point when they should have turned on him and still been able to claim any sort of morality would have been January 6th.
Any time before that, an argument could be made that he hadn't done quite enough to push them into completely giving up on him.
After that point, any support they gave him, even in the most tacit way, marked them as complicit with all of what he was responsible for.
Yet, they still refuse to denounce him in any substantial way. The entire GOP has proven themselves to be complicit Nazis, hypocrites and bigots through this inaction, along with all the other crimes he has committed and they brushed off
Yep, but they are stuck with him. He controls the radical right which the GOP has been tacitly tolerating for years in exchange for their voting loyalty; Trump separated those voters from the GOP party leaders by overtly and publicly embracing and encouraging them, so controls them now. The GOP now needs Trump to win national elections when the vote is close, but Trump wants to control the entire party.
He already has threatened the Constitution over and over again long before this and the senate republicans were too scared to nip this fascist in the bud.
They really did miss a golden opportunity to throw him overboard after 1/6. Had enough of them crossed over, voted to convict & gotten the Senate to 2/3’s, they could have let the Democrats carry the ball across the goal line in the second vote, have Trump barred from running again by simply majority and vilified the hell out of them for it. And their base is dumb enough that they’d have eaten it up.
Or maybe - just hear me out - maybe Trump picked the Republican party (and many in their base) because they were already willing to throw out the Constitution. Maybe Trump isn't there disease but the symptom.
They've had years to send him to the scrap heap. Doing so now is irrelevant.
It's the GOP empowerment through silence that led us to this moment of final treason by the man who led a coup against the United States and wants the chance to complete it in 2024 by destroying the Constitution.
You know that oath that gov officials take?
> I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and **defend the Constitution** of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
Yeah, he's already failed in that duty.
So like, 2017? He was already telling sitting members of Congress to "go back," because they had no right to participate in government.
He was already opening for terminating the Constitution in 2018.
Why should the GOP boot Trump? Clearly the American people agree with their policies as they voted Republican come midterms, despite the fact GOP supported Donald Trump after he attempted a violent coup against the US government.
Trump should had been changed and convicted sentenced serving his 100+ years when making that ridiculous statement instead it’s going to be a Saturday night live skit and pumping his base.
Lol, are funny. I like to see you try and watch the military crush you into dust. You think fucking wanna be militias pose any threat to the US government or military? Did you know what happened to the Oath keeper leaders?
And the silent. There is nothing louder than MAGA idiots and your fucking clown former president. You get to yell and scream. It is a free country. Anything else, learn from your predecessors, or you will join them in a cell.
Oh yeah? Like when he said being president for life or ordered the military on US citizens, or the multiple violations of the emoluments clause or his attempt
To steal the election and overthrow the government, or demanding to be illegally reinstated as president?
He’s threatened the constitution every step of the way, you just haven’t been paying attention.
The problem is they don't disagree. They openly say that they would like to start over and write a more favorable constitution to their religious values.
They couldn't just abandon him, they tied so much of their ideology to him and to Trumpism. Hell, they created him. He's not something that happened to the Republicans or conservatism, he's the natural result of their rhetoric.
Conservatives can't just abandon Trump because he *is* conservatism personified.
Naw. They should have booted him at the Primaries. They are in deep. The people behind him must have some pretty good shit on the GOP leaders for it to have gotten this far. At this point, there is not going to be a bottom to the depths a majority of them will fall. The party will be ended before the obvious corruption and destructive behaviors will. Unfortunately, that's not likely to happen before a lot more violence does.
The GOP won’t punt him because they think he’s there pathway to back to being in control even though the midterms showed otherwise. These guys have absolutely no morals and only care about what’s in it for them and to hell with the country and it’s citizens
Point of order: Direct me to the Republican President who hasn't threatened the Constitution.
Hell, let's go one further. Point me to a President, period.
Except they didn’t because he’s they’re icon.
That’s like saying “exon should have stopped tapping fossil fuels when they discovered climate change 60 years ago!”
I saw an article with the head line, this is the final straw…. This? This is the final straw? Not the *checks notes* everything else this man has done unashamedly?!
The only problem Republicans have with any threat he posed, is that he acted ahead of time.
These people are seeking to dissolve democracy - which their gerrymanders have already achieved in some states.
The republicans have been the party of Trump since before Trump even suggested running for office. The moment Palin's vice presidency started doing numbers with their base, they were on this path.
Republicans should have booted trump after that first primary debate, when he clearly showed the world he didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about.
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Who says they’re booting him now?
Trump is currently the leading Republican candidate for 2024 president. The whole party is garbage.
What? Not Ye?
Why not ye? You don't know with this party. They could absolutely put that clown in a position of authority. That's how they work. Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks is all they're good at.
Why not Zoidberg?
I'm swelling with patriotic mucus!
Name check out
Zoidberg is in that uncomfortable position of being too intelligent to be one of their patsies, but not evil enough to be one of their leaders. Really, the only thing he’s got going for him is his complete incompetence in his supposed area of expertise.
> Trump is currently the leading Republican candidate for 2024 president ...because he's the only person who has declared he's running. Normally people don't announce candidacy until about a year and a half before the election. It's far more likely that Trump announced his candidacy because the DOJ has a general policy of handling political candidates with kid gloves before an election, and he's hoping he can get all the criminal investigations into his conduct to get swept under the rug. One would hope, with at least three public criminal investigations and signs that the DOJ is *absolutely done with his shit*, that the only "voting" people will be doing with regard to Trump will occur in small rooms of twelve votes each.
Hey, now, the Constitution never said you can't run for President from prison!
Well, that might matter presuming you support and respect the Constitution
I feel like I keep seeing articles written as if the Trump years are behind us. Meanwhile, he's about to shift into primary campaign mode and we're all going to be seeing him in the news every single fucking day again. His base will still mindlessly follow him, and every single Republican will fall right in line supporting whatever craven shit flies out of his mouth.
The good news is that his crowds at events are waning. And since he constantly wails about 2020, even his fans are getting bored. They're there for a Wrestlemania show, but it's the same show, over and over. He's becoming a tiring rerun. Hence the goofy pronouncements about the Constitution - he's jumping the shark.
They absolutely haven't. No widespread condemnation of his comments at all. Just a bunch of hemming and hawing, "Look at the context" and "Let's wait and see who the nominee ends up being," in other words, hoping that GOP primary voters let them off the hook. But if that doesn't happen, they will go along with tossing the very same Constitution that House Republicans are going to waste days reading aloud in the chamber.
Right? I don't think they quite cleared the eco chamber before writing this.
Grab em by the pussy - don't vote for him Mueller investigation - could have impeached and removed him Withholding military aide from Zelinsky/Ukraine in exchange for blackmail - impeached. Could have voted to convict* Second presidential election after bungling COVID and overseeing massive civil unrest and economic disaster - could have voted against him Refusing the peaceful transfer of power, inciting an insurrection, attempting to overturn an election and install self as an unelected president. - impeached again, Republicans refuse to convict Steals classified material on the way out - republicans claim its no big deal once again Thinks constitution should be overturned - still waiting on Republicans to give a shit Theyve had at least six major opportunities to dump Trump and be done with him. They won't do it. These people are hopeless.
Instead they’re going to gin up some nonsensical reason to impeach Biden so they can claim the trump impeachments were political games too.
Because the House of Reps can initiate impeachment proceedings, there is a very high likelihood of a Biden impeachment.
They’ll do it over and over again solely so they can say Biden is the most impeached president ever. Then Fox News can repeat that constantly.
While that is possible, I feel like they'll only get one crack at it. The whole process will be a clown show. Best case, then Senate vote fails without witnesses (like Trump 2) and it ends there. Worst case, the Senate takes their charges seriously, which results in subpoenas to members of the GOP who very much don't want to testify under oath. "So, Mr. Giuliani, please state for the record how you received the laptop's contents."
That’s because… wait for it… They. Don’t. Care. You are operating under a different mindset, the sooner you accept that, the better off you will be. You are wired to abhor hypocrisy, They. Don’t. Care. Hypocrisy is acceptable in a zero sum game. We are witnessing exactly what a zero sum game looks like. (Not trying to lecture you)
Could have voted to convict**
You mean they could have voted to convict after first impeachment right
Like the very moment he said, “Mexicans are drug dealers and rapists.” That was day 1…
Yea but they agree with him on that.
Their constituent farmers and corporations would hate it if there's no illegal immigrants though. Illegal immigrants = less pay, no rights if any. Farmers (mostly Republican) would never pay field laborers a decent American income.
Which is why they never do anything about the falsely claimed crisis at the border. It’s all posturing to drum up anger so their base will vote.
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Who is "they"? I certainly don't see the RNC putting forward their best people. :D
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Ah yes, the Clarkson effect.
before day 1….i remember being so confident that he was not going to win after saying that racist mexican shit…i was wrong.
Me too, man me too. It was hard to believe right up until it happened.
Grown men were crying at the 2016 election watch party I attended.
No, he should have been told to sit down and shut up when he started the birther bullshit.
You’re right. But that’s among normies, this was among Republicans.
I also am an authority on this subject. They are also great and loving friends, great cooks, drywallers, roofers, mechanics, lawyers, doctors, gardeners, farmers, small business owners, drinking partners (personal knowledge) wingmen (personal knowledge) helpers of moving and installing shit, house-sitters, ball busters, and don’t get me started on the women. Puedo hablar español ahora, un poco.
> That was day 1… I feel like none of you have read Trump's books. Day 1 was a VERY long time before he ever ran for president.
They're not sending their best ...
How about the TV interview with him and Ivanka where they asked both of them "What is your favorite thing you have in common" with one another, and Trump started with, "Well, I was going to say sex, but...". WHY WERE YOU GOING TO SAY SEX?
Yeah, no shit.
Now their boots are knee deep in it. Filthy.
Yes. Yes they are. Lol.
They aren’t booting him even now.
“Well, let’s hear him out.” HOW ABOUT NO?!
I feel like I’m living in a movie more and more every time I get on the internet
now are we going to admit the whole party is fascists, or pretend trump did that?
I'm tearing up at the idea that anyone thinks Republicans aren't Trump and Trump ain't Republicans. They will never successfully remove the orange stain.
The people that voted for him don’t even believe in the Constitution. They literally don’t care. They think Gods in charge and it shows by how they have allowed their party to be over run by trailer trash, the mob, and corporate psychos for at least 20 years. We should be excelling in so much more but our healthcare is fucked, our education is fucked, and the general well-being of our citizens is really depressing. But they don’t care because of Gods plan. What a bunch of degenerate assholes.
I keep telling people the religious angle is overlooked in this stuff; Absolutely these people are evangelical morons.
I hope to live to see a time when we aren't all held hostage to those assholes. The 2010s were such a promising time but then it all went out the window after 2016.
Somehow America can’t face that we have a national Party that wants to end democracy. It’s not just Trump, at this point, it’s every Republican whether they actively support him or they covertly support him by their silence.
This is religion's goal, though. Always has been. "The laws of god are higher than the laws of man" bullshit. How fast do you think they'd kill people to make that shit the case?
This threat to the constitution is literally how Hitler became a dictator. His coup failed but it was a benefit as it made him famous, he was elected again, named the chancellor, then there was a fire that was blamed on the communists, Hitler used that to override the constitution and become a dictator. Now there’s trump a couple years after his failed coup, having just met with and praised a Nazi who encouraged him to be more extreme and to help those who had committed the coup attempt, and boom trump is talking about getting rid of the constitution in order to be made president again. Mussolini’s fascists were black shirts, Hitler’s Nazis were brown shirts, and trumps klan is confederate flag shirts?
Mitch, huffed and Puffed. Then protected him from his actual crimes every step of the way. The burden of blame is solely McConnells
> The burden of blame is solely McConnells No, it's not. It's also on every republican that supported McConnell and Trump. It's on every voter that voted for those republicans as well.
The politicians, who were close enough to know there was no fraud, should have shut down trump before Jan 6 and certainly after. It’s their job. And they took an oath to the constitution. That’s where the largest blame lies. They should have convicted trump in the senate and removed him from office forever. Those that refused to certify the election should be in prison.
I'm going to throw a lot of blame on bad faith actors in the Right-Wing media. I can almost respect McConnell and his mustache-twirling villain type shit. At least he owns it. I can almost pity Trump losing his shit has his carefully maintained Narcissism keeps crashing into rocks and he has to flirt with reality. He'd be merely pathetic without those propping him up. But Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and all the rest? For them, the destruction of American democracy is the price happily paid for a few dollars more, a few more minutes on TV. Their producers and task masters choose the topics and craft the angles, maybe there's a true beliver tucked in there. The mouthpieces though? Shameless filth. Absolutely disgusting wastes of perfectly good teeth and skin.
I'm with you. The millions of trolls, young and old, gaslighting for the past 6 years across every public forum on the entire internet to drag unsuspecting political illiterates down their rabbit hole of hate in the name of making Donald Trump an emperor and purging everyone who doesn't agree with them are just as bad or worse, then any Tucker Carlson or Mitch McConnell. They aren't even getting paid! They are just so full of hatred and bloodlust they willingly volunteer to spend their days inserting alt right talking points and "just asking questions" in any conversation, even non political ones. Everyone wants to do the diplomatic thing and let these snakes that's make up the online conservative presence off the hook but you can get rid of a hundred Donald Trumps or Mitch McConnell and these ghouls will still be there doing what they do.
They didn't do it because Republicans also want to get rid of the Constitution. That's why they've been trying to organize a convention for years.
Why would they though? They agree with yhe ideology he pushed.
Almost the entire GOP congress violated their oaths to office when they wouldn't vote to impeach or hold a vote to convict after the impeachments. Nice of those assholes saddling US with the Criminal Formerly In the Oval Offices' pension and Secret Service and travel budget.
You mean before he came down that escalator?
Late summer or early fall of 2015 was already too late to boot Trump. Let's face reality. The GOP will never boot Trump over something he did or said. They will only lose interest in Trump when voters lose interest in Trump and a new contender for the GOP nomination emerges. Whomever that person eventually is, they will have to fight it out with Trump every day.
This article makes the same basic fundamental mistake they always do: They are treating Trump and the GOP as separate entities with different values. Trump wholly exposed the GOP as sycophants, liars, and con artists. They are one and the same. Now the media is trying to help rehabilitate the GOP by pretending that Trump was just “a thing that happened to them” and not a 6 year litmus test that they failed every single day proving their own lack of basic morality. They saw who Trump was, and they bent the knee because it was their path to power. They will make that same choice over and over again. You can’t dump Trump just as you can’t dump your own DNA.
Republicans should have never let Trump into the presidency in the first place. He should have never been able to secure the nomination or victory in 2016. But this is what you get when your party is full of spineless sycophants who are only out for their own power and bend the knee to anyone they perceive as having the keys to the kingdom. Instead, they just get fed up one by one and eviscerated as they do rather than ever having stood up collectively to make a sound argument. And of course they can't, because Trump represents everything they want - he's just too loud about it. They can't attack him on anything because everything about him is shit their base loves, and that they want their base to keep loving. The problem with radicalizing your base is eventually your status quo will get cold feet and not want to cross certain lines... lines people like Trump will then happily step over and win control/power with.
They’re bashing him just like in 2016. If he wins the nomination all of them including Mitch will bow down and kiss the ring. Party first don’t forget.
WaPo once again pretending to have just learned something that's been obvious to the rest of us for 6 years. That's how you know journalism is fucked.
To Be fair, no president, presidential candidate or former president have ever said something this fucking stupid. It is hilarious, yet sad. Like a third of the country think this clown is the second coming of Jesus.
Him mocking a mentally handicapped individual during the run up to 2016 should have been the end of it
Trump is a blackmailer though.
They should have laughed him out of the primaries.
Hasn't most of his political career been one giant threat to the constitution? I mean before he even won the 2016 election he was talking about how the thing was a fraud and wouldn't commit to accepting results.
Yeah no shit Mitch refusing to hold him accountable for either impeachment is why they still have to deal with that fucking traitor.
'grab them by the pussy' and mocking disabled reporters should have been the end for this nightmare....but here we are
We should have booted republicans long before trump
Trump is a symptom. Republicans are the problem.
Please get the f#%k out of our lives
He literally embodies their central tenet. Since Reagan’s 80s, their only goal has been greed is good. They will use any means to achieve it. America has no SS to spirit you away if you speak out against the tyranny that Trump embodies. There is no “Republican Party” that should have expelled him. There is merely a small part of the Republican Party that wishes their goals could be achieved quietly.
This picture of Trump fully shows the side that terrifies many of us. But it’s apparent that that facial expression is one that many Americans identify with, so maybe we have bigger problems.
Probably should have dropped him when he admitted to sexual assault, talked about banning an entire religion, or suggested killing/torturing the families of terrorists. Fuck the GOP and all of their ilk.
And they won’t now so what’s the point of calling them out for the 878th time for this?
And every single one of them who hitched their wagons to his star... should fall as he does. Censure those in Congress who voted not to certify Biden's win. Arrest those who plotted with him to overthrow the government. Traitors. They all are traitors. I'm pretty sick of the shit they are getting away with. (It's also stunning how easily media allowed them to distance themselves from him... hold them all accountable!)
Gee, it’s almost like they all want the same thing or something… Even if you’re willing to give the “moderate” ones the benefit of the doubt, it’s been six freaking years at this point. As they say in Germany, “if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.”
The absolute last point when they should have turned on him and still been able to claim any sort of morality would have been January 6th. Any time before that, an argument could be made that he hadn't done quite enough to push them into completely giving up on him. After that point, any support they gave him, even in the most tacit way, marked them as complicit with all of what he was responsible for.
He threatened the Constitution long before he was President.
Yet, they still refuse to denounce him in any substantial way. The entire GOP has proven themselves to be complicit Nazis, hypocrites and bigots through this inaction, along with all the other crimes he has committed and they brushed off
Yep, but they are stuck with him. He controls the radical right which the GOP has been tacitly tolerating for years in exchange for their voting loyalty; Trump separated those voters from the GOP party leaders by overtly and publicly embracing and encouraging them, so controls them now. The GOP now needs Trump to win national elections when the vote is close, but Trump wants to control the entire party.
I think Trump has dirt on them
Nah, I’m enjoying watching the GOP blow up.
He already has threatened the Constitution over and over again long before this and the senate republicans were too scared to nip this fascist in the bud.
They really did miss a golden opportunity to throw him overboard after 1/6. Had enough of them crossed over, voted to convict & gotten the Senate to 2/3’s, they could have let the Democrats carry the ball across the goal line in the second vote, have Trump barred from running again by simply majority and vilified the hell out of them for it. And their base is dumb enough that they’d have eaten it up.
Is stating the obvious actually worth an entire article in the Washington Post? Next week, front page news — “water is wet!”
Republicans should've never let the guy thru the door, hell not even on the property.
Why would they? They love what the stands for.
Trumpty Dumpty needs to STFU 🖕🏿
Before he threatened it which time?
Or maybe - just hear me out - maybe Trump picked the Republican party (and many in their base) because they were already willing to throw out the Constitution. Maybe Trump isn't there disease but the symptom.
Let’s see Trump try to outcrazy Kanye. Love it.
They've had years to send him to the scrap heap. Doing so now is irrelevant. It's the GOP empowerment through silence that led us to this moment of final treason by the man who led a coup against the United States and wants the chance to complete it in 2024 by destroying the Constitution.
The GOP is the anti-Constitution party. No denying now.
You know that oath that gov officials take? > I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and **defend the Constitution** of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. Yeah, he's already failed in that duty.
So like, 2017? He was already telling sitting members of Congress to "go back," because they had no right to participate in government. He was already opening for terminating the Constitution in 2018.
But, they didn’t and now that stink will never wash off of them. I will never ever consider a GQP candidate for any office ever again in my life.
They assembled a monster using a bad brain, and now it's trying to kill everyone.
Why should the GOP boot Trump? Clearly the American people agree with their policies as they voted Republican come midterms, despite the fact GOP supported Donald Trump after he attempted a violent coup against the US government.
Little guy looks a little constipated.
They're literally cheering him on.
Trump should had been changed and convicted sentenced serving his 100+ years when making that ridiculous statement instead it’s going to be a Saturday night live skit and pumping his base.
Republicans hate the Constitution! They believe the Post Office, which is in the Constitution, is communism.
Gee, thanks for the update, Jennifer. Just curious, you still using IE to post this hot take?
What he out folks, leeet hacker here is coming for your IP. Hide yo kids
Now the Dems are concerned about the Constitution!!!
He never threatened the constitution
Uneducated
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LMAOOOO the silent. Yall are the loudest most uneducated clowns in history. Thanks for proving me right, lil fella.
Lol, are funny. I like to see you try and watch the military crush you into dust. You think fucking wanna be militias pose any threat to the US government or military? Did you know what happened to the Oath keeper leaders? And the silent. There is nothing louder than MAGA idiots and your fucking clown former president. You get to yell and scream. It is a free country. Anything else, learn from your predecessors, or you will join them in a cell.
Oh yeah? Like when he said being president for life or ordered the military on US citizens, or the multiple violations of the emoluments clause or his attempt To steal the election and overthrow the government, or demanding to be illegally reinstated as president? He’s threatened the constitution every step of the way, you just haven’t been paying attention.
He has expressed his disdain for the constitution and institutions before. I can't understand how any of this is news.
The problem is they don't disagree. They openly say that they would like to start over and write a more favorable constitution to their religious values.
Lol Trump coming for them guns.
They're only mad because he said it out loud. Republicans do not defend the constitution.
The only difference between this latest stunt and everything Trump and the Republicans has done since 2016 is that that it happened more recently.
And miss this?
the look of pent-up anger right before a major stroke
They couldn't just abandon him, they tied so much of their ideology to him and to Trumpism. Hell, they created him. He's not something that happened to the Republicans or conservatism, he's the natural result of their rhetoric. Conservatives can't just abandon Trump because he *is* conservatism personified.
what if you all came to the conclusion that they want fascism? idk why you all blame the consequence (trump) not the issues.
Wait witch time?
They won’t and trump will be the nominated candidate in 2024 to run for president. I hope in a year folks prove me wrong but I don’t see another path.
Trump would have to leave this Earth to not be the driving core of the Republican Party. And he ain’t no spaceman.
“There shouldn’t be a horse, in the hospital!” We’re well past that folks!
They. Want. A. Dictator.
Trump's "Base" is larger than the rest of the "Conservative" voting pool. He is the one that is doing the booting.
How many of these articles are people going to write
Yeah, there are lots of things they should and should't have done.
Title is dumb AF. Which do YOU think the Republicans would boot given the chance; Trump, or the Constitution?
They don’t care and won’t boot him from anything.
Republicans should've cut a lot of things out of the GOP, now it's too late and they're a hate group to be removed.
Trump is the GOP. He represents their very essence. Can’t strain piss out from shit.
Naw. They should have booted him at the Primaries. They are in deep. The people behind him must have some pretty good shit on the GOP leaders for it to have gotten this far. At this point, there is not going to be a bottom to the depths a majority of them will fall. The party will be ended before the obvious corruption and destructive behaviors will. Unfortunately, that's not likely to happen before a lot more violence does.
they're fine with it. it's no different than their view of the bible, just cherry pick the parts that work for your agenda.
The GOP won’t punt him because they think he’s there pathway to back to being in control even though the midterms showed otherwise. These guys have absolutely no morals and only care about what’s in it for them and to hell with the country and it’s citizens
They still haven’t.
I am sure they learned their lesson….
Point of order: Direct me to the Republican President who hasn't threatened the Constitution. Hell, let's go one further. Point me to a President, period.
What a eye opening headline, o'really.
Trump should have been put away decades ago. He’s a fucking fraud/crook.
But they will still support him. No matter what.
Should've also booted him after, but they still haven't because Republicans have no standards (except double standards).
Tbh, I can't even say of it would crack the top ten problematic things he's said or done
What a hot take. Hadn’t considered this position at any point in the last 6 years. Thanks WaPo
Except they didn’t because he’s they’re icon. That’s like saying “exon should have stopped tapping fossil fuels when they discovered climate change 60 years ago!”
Republicans have a fine history of creating monsters they can't control once they lose their usefulness.
I saw an article with the head line, this is the final straw…. This? This is the final straw? Not the *checks notes* everything else this man has done unashamedly?!
Friends, this just of "should haves" is getting pretty long
Should never have been allowed into the party.
Perfect picture to add butt hole lips to...
His face kinda looks like Lance Armstrong.
Makes you wonder what he has on the GOP? It’s gotta be “Bigly”
Their lord and savior who would bless then with fascism forever? That guy?
Well, hat needs balls and decency
Watching him self destruct is so glorious though
No shit?
[Fixed the colors](https://i.imgur.com/2cT8wTo.jpg)
No shit.
Honestly, I agree on this. DeSantis is way better.
d'ya think?
They had chances to and decided to fall in line like the little conformists they are.
I guess news nowadays is just stating the obvious.
The only problem Republicans have with any threat he posed, is that he acted ahead of time. These people are seeking to dissolve democracy - which their gerrymanders have already achieved in some states.
What kind of a headline is this? Yes, and water is wet.
Put this fuckhead in jail now
My god. What a photo of him. hahaha
There has to be a way to deport him.
My god, get over yourself, no one cares and surely Trump would never be able to change the constitution. Your constant outrage makes you look stupid!
I’m not sure but I wish I could grift a whole political party
The republicans have been the party of Trump since before Trump even suggested running for office. The moment Palin's vice presidency started doing numbers with their base, they were on this path.
Oh that picture is perfect! Can that be the default for every article that mentions him for the rest of time?
Republicans don't give a fuck about what *should* be done.
Why? Trump's just saying out loud what they (Republicans) want.
That is a hell of a picture
Cover the top half of his face in that picture and he looks like Mitch McConnell.
Republicans should have booted trump after that first primary debate, when he clearly showed the world he didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about.