I think we're all still recovering from Donald Chump's Friday Oval Office appearance where it became clear just how unhinged he was. The video apparently before the nurse sedated the cranky old man and rolled him back to his room. It was appalling and it showed the whole world what a threat Chump is to it. It spat on allies and encouraged everyone to forsake the US for four years. If we're lucky, the country might be able to rebuild bridges with another president. Won't be JD Vance. Miss Sassy gets fatter every day as he eats his failure. And it won't be Marco Rubio. Could have been though. He's in a useless position that takes him nowhere. He's a nothing. A puppet in a corrupt administration.
The one time senator from Florida and the former presidential candidate was shocking on Friday. First, the appearance. He's long been accused of being too 'pretty' for the job of president. He looked flabby and that was his belly and his face. On his face, is it really that bad or were they just not bothering to light him? Second, the stupidity. When ambition outpaces brains, it's just sad and tragic. Marco has the ambition, he just lacks the brains.
This was how you position yourself for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination: You decry what took place and you offer to help try to salvage your relationship or they can take your resignation.
And you're set. It's not going to JD Vance whose everyone's ugly drunken uncle stuck in a nowhere job. But a dramatic moment here -- on an issue so many care about -- could've elevated Marco and made it appear he has actual leadership traits.
Instead, yesterday's cowardly poster boy looks like a bigger loser than ever . Lucy Leeson (INDEPENDENT) reports:
In an interview with CNN, Mr Rubio suggested Mr Zelensky’s behaviour leading up to the clash had been unacceptable.
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Hey, Marco, what's Donald ass taste like?
That's really the only question Rubio can answer anymore. He's nothing in the political world. He better be hoping he can line up a big lobbyist job because his career in government ends when Trump's term does -- if not sooner knowing Trump's inability to keep staff.
There are a lot of Republican unhappy with Chump right now. The first member of the administration to break with Chump could set themselves up for a real run at the White House in 2028.
Trump's dead in the water. The polling shows it. He's going nowhere. At some point, he's not even going to be able to threaten Republican members of Congress. They'll blow him off and find their spines as they (a) grow tired of the bully and (b) grasp that Alien Musk can't buy elections no matter how much he funds their opponents. All you have to do is point that out in your campaign: I represent America and my opponent in the primary will represent South African-born Alien Musk.
The press doesn't help Republicans by not knowing what's going on.
I donate to a lot of charity. So I do know who's funding what. Ukranian refugees in this country have overwhelming been funded by church groups -- most of them Republican leaning.
This isn't flying with a base that Chump can afford to lose.
There's not much he can do to win this base over.
Birth control? Restricting it might help him with a small group of losers who want to control women. But there's not the religious opposition to birth control that there is to abortion -- not even when you pull in the morning after pill.
Gays?
This isn't 1953.
Most Christians know gay people and have them in their family. They're not going to be pulled in on this issue.
Right wing church goers? They want to believe they're part of God's love. They want to believe that. They need to. Otherwise they'd have to face reality and probably kill themelves for all the abominations they've carried out using the Lord's name.
So their charity work?
It's really important to them.
And they have focused in the last years on the Ukranian community.
So Chump's stunt?
Right wing Christians are now in a real dilemma. They've got these people in their communities now and they're proud that they've helped them. Donald's attack on Zelensky threatens their identity, threatens how they see themselves.
So as appalling as that moment on Friday was, maybe, on the left, we should be thanking Chump? He's slit his own wrists on that one.
And the opposition will only grow. Matt Laslo (RAW STORY) notes:
“The enemy is on the inside,” former Republican Virginia Congressman Denver Riggleman told Raw Story. “There’s so much fear, but we need to overcome that fear now, and the rational, the sane — those who care more about this country than securing mineral rights for their oligarch friends — might be the way we need to go now. This is America. This isn't Russia lite.”
But with Trump’s aides booting Ukranians from the White House grounds after Vance and Trump piled on Zelensky, critics fear the president is being played by propaganda
With tech billionaire and X owner Elon Musk working inside the White House, disinformation is now regularly flowing from the Oval Office, Riggleman said.
“What's happened is that we have such a disinformation and propaganda landscape based on social media and far-right alternative media that there's no way for us to understand how integrated lies are into our policy making,” he said.
What’s so dizzying to Riggleman — an Air Force veteran who went on to be a National Security Agency contractor — is that Ukraine, formally at least, remains an ally, whileRussia is, formally, a foe.
After
today’s White House meeting blew up, Riggleman says it’s obvious Trump
and Vance are going out of their way to appease the Russian strongman.
“They're specifically trying to make Putin happy. It's interesting that the most powerful country in the world is bending the knee to a bare-chested b— horse rider,” Riggleman said. “This is absolutely unconscionable, and, because of his insanity, he should be removed on the 25th Amendment.”
Yes, Chump did come off insane, unhinged. And that reality is now in everyone's mind -- even the press, even the right-wing. An insane man revealed himself on the world stage And it's going to be tht much harder for people to trust his judgment as a result.
The best favor he can do the country is to continue showing those moments and making it clear how unfit he is for office.
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran and vocal Donald Trump critic, expressed deep disappointment in how the U.S. is handling Russia's war in Ukraine. Following the chaotic Oval Office meeting where Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kinzinger declared that the U.S. is no longer on the side of the "good guys." He criticized Trump's continued praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and warned that America's credibility on the global stage is at risk.Here are four key points from the veteran's critique of Trump and Vance.
He flipped it and for no reason. Which feeds into everything else he's doing -- in the eyes of the public it feeds into everything else.
He doesn't know what he's doing. The time for benefit of the doubt for the middle and the right has ended. He's provided them with the ending and from this moment forward everything he proposes or does is suspect.
President Donald Trump's effort to remove the head of a federal watchdog agency was "unlawful," a federal judge in Washington, D.C., said Saturday.
The ruling sidelines Trump’s bid to remove Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel and is likely to set up a Supreme Court fight.
“The Special Counsel’s job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals,” Jackson wrote in her Saturday ruling. “It would be ironic, to say the least, and inimical to the ends furthered by the statute if the Special Counsel himself could be chilled in his work by fear of arbitrary or partisan removal.”
Trump fired Dellinger by email last month as his administration carried out widespread cuts to the federal workforce, including the terminations of nearly two dozen other government watchdogs.
Dellinger challenged the termination days later, arguing it violated federal law stating special counsels can only be removed by the president "for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office."
Let's hope the courts hold.
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