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Trump gets gagged, McCarthy gets booted. What's next in Trumpworld?

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AcrossthePond55 · 04/10/2023 13:20

Roll up, roll up for the GOP Mystery Tour!! Trump thread lost-the-count!!!

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SerendipityJane · 06/01/2024 09:00

SequentialAnalyst · 05/01/2024 21:17

No, I didn't hear the piece in detail. Have you a link?

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No link - I just wondered if that had covered that question.

SequentialAnalyst · 05/01/2024 21:17

SerendipityJane · 05/01/2024 15:34

and the answer about how foreign heads of state visit POTUS in prison ?

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No, I didn't hear the piece in detail. Have you a link?

SerendipityJane · 05/01/2024 15:34

SequentialAnalyst · 05/01/2024 14:35

@SerendipityJane, I think I heard mention of this on the BBC last night.

and the answer about how foreign heads of state visit POTUS in prison ?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 05/01/2024 15:33

And what do these people emphasise? That any action must be taken in secret; that if the Americans are told about it that will increase Trump's chances of being elected; that it needs to be a covert operation.

What damn fool told the media?

SequentialAnalyst · 05/01/2024 14:35

@SerendipityJane, I think I heard mention of this on the BBC last night.

SinnerBoy · 05/01/2024 09:48

The orange skid mark would love to be able to do that.

lljkk · 05/01/2024 00:42

So far, the states that took Trump off are all firm blue (non-swing?) states anyway, right?

It's when OH, FL, MI or PA take Trump off ballot that fur will fly. Maybe GA too.

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AcrossthePond55 · 04/01/2024 23:59

Oh, and two more states have joined the 'Trump off the ballot' brigade, Illinois and Massachusetts. Well, I guess it's more accurate to say that voter's groups have filed challenges that will end up in court.

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AcrossthePond55 · 04/01/2024 23:56

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/01/2024 14:18

I am still trying to work out how the President, who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, is somehow not an officer of the armed forces, which is what Trump and his coterie of thugs are arguing.

If a commander-in-chief is not an officer, albeit one at the top of the chain of command, what the blue thundering blazes is he? A civilian? If he is a civilian, can he be in the chain of command?

Being 'Commander In Chief' is a role granted by the Constitution, it's not a military rank like General or Field Marshal. It's unique unto itself and there is only one CiC at a time, that being POTUS. Sort of like the King/Queen being 'Head of the Church'. They aren't a member of the clergy (like the Pope is), it's a unique role granted to them by virtue of simply being monarch.

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 04/01/2024 14:18

I am still trying to work out how the President, who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, is somehow not an officer of the armed forces, which is what Trump and his coterie of thugs are arguing.

If a commander-in-chief is not an officer, albeit one at the top of the chain of command, what the blue thundering blazes is he? A civilian? If he is a civilian, can he be in the chain of command?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/01/2024 16:16

I thought he was making money off the marks on the back of his many legal cases.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 30/12/2023 17:03

I would think the electorate in the new district might find her parachuting herself in to take over Ken Buck's old seat rather objectionable, for two reasons:

One, They seem to have liked him, and he has made no secret of having resigned because of the antics of some of his party, of whom Boebert is a glaring example, though he couched it more diplomatically than that and mostly spoke of "looking to the future rather than harking on about the past" or wtte. And he has distanced himself from Trump's nonsense about the "stolen" election. I doubt that he will endorse her: they clashed in Congress over various things.

Two, She has been seen through by the electorate in her previous (safe red) seat but thinks the electorate in the new (safe red) seat is too stupid to have noticed her shenanigans and her uselessness as a representative. Nobody wants to have a candidate who despises them as stupid, I wouldn't've thought.

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AcrossthePond55 · 30/12/2023 16:34

The Boebert switcheroo will be an interesting election to follow. I don't know how she managed to get elected in the district she was previously elected in to start with.

I think if the 'new' district can come up with ONE viable candidate and the rest of the GOP candidates get behind that candidate, she'll be SoL. Unless by 'a redder district' they mean a highly Trump cult district.

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AcrossthePond55 · 30/12/2023 16:30

SequentialAnalyst · 29/12/2023 23:30

Can't be much help, but can whole-heartedly do this:
<does twirly, spitty, stompy thing a la @AcrossthePond55 >

Trust me, it really works!!!

Except when it doesn't. But I didn't do it in 2016 because I thought Doofus would have no chance in hell and look what happened then!!!!!

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BruceAndNosh · 30/12/2023 12:26

The sooner Congress is free of Boebert and Taylor Greene, the better. We need more female politicians, but not ones like them

SerendipityJane · 30/12/2023 09:08

BruceAndNosh · 29/12/2023 23:13

Slightly old news, but Lauren Boebert has announced that she will be switching districts and running for Colorado 4th in 2024, not the 3rd that she currently represents.
Nothing to do with the fact that she won the 3rd by less than 600 votes and the 4th is very very safely Republican, no sirree!

Presumably she has displaced the original candidate ? Will they still run and split her vote ?

None of the Tories gerrymandering tactics this side of the pond appear to have any discernible effect on their journey to electoral irrelevance.

SequentialAnalyst · 29/12/2023 23:30

Can't be much help, but can whole-heartedly do this:
<does twirly, spitty, stompy thing a la @AcrossthePond55 >

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