Sunday, December 08, 2024

Satan goes on NBC

Satan showed up on NBC's MEET THE PRESS.  Hilarity and brimstone ensued.  David McAfee (RAW STORY) notes:


Columnist and editor James Downie said over the weekend that Trump "is already backing off his most important campaign promise." He then said Trump let slip an "unexpected but revealing admission in his first post-election television interview."

Calling it "arguably the most significant moment of all," Downie noted that, "During the campaign, Trump proposed tariffs of 10-20% on all imports — and 60% on goods from China. Welker asked whether he could 'guarantee' that Americans won’t pay higher prices under those tariffs."

“I can’t guarantee anything,” Trump replied, according to Downie's analysis.

"He noted (correctly) that his first term saw low inflation, even as he implemented new tariffs. But those tariffs were on a much smaller scale. Multiple studies project his sweeping new proposal would cost Americans hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year," Downie wrote. "The significance of inflation isn’t lost on Trump... And yet even Trump, who has built a career on bluffing and promising the impossible, couldn’t pretend that his plan to avoid future price increases will work."


I don't get how that's your big takeaway.  It is an issue?  Yeah, it is.  And it's going to impact a lot of people when Satan wrecks the economy.  But there were a few other issues that were pretty important in that interview.  David Edwards (ROLLING STONE) notes one:


In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC, host Kristen Welker pressed Trump on his campaign promise to do away with birthright citizenship.

"You've promised to end birthright citizenship on day one," Welker noted. "Is that still your plan?"

 "Yeah, absolutely," Trump insisted.

"The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens," Welker pointed out. "Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?"

"Well, we're going to have to get a change," Trump remarked. "We'll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it."

  "Through an executive action?" the NBC host asked.

"Well, if we can, through executive action," Trump replied. "I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be honest with you. We have to end it." 


So the thinks he can alter the Constitution by executive action?  That may be the scariest thing he's said in some time. There is a process for altering the Constitution and it is not executive action nor has it ever been. But Satan thinks no rules apply to him. 

January 20th, he will again take an oath to uphold the Constitution but clearly he won't mean it.  He's too stupid to even understand the Constitution let alone uphold it. 


He doesn't respect the rule of law -- or understand it.  Bill Barrow and Will Weissert (AP) report on another aspect of the interview:


“Honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said of members of Congress who investigated the Capitol riot by his supporters who wanted him to remain in power.

The president-elect underscored his contention that he can use the justice system against others, including special prosecutor Jack Smith, who led the case on Trump’s role in the siege on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump confirmed his plan to pardon supporters who were convicted for their roles in the riot, saying he would take that action on his first day in office.

As for the idea of revenge driving potential prosecutions, Trump said: “I have the absolute right. I’m the chief law enforcement officer, you do know that. I’m the president. But I’m not interested in that."

At the same time, Trump singled out lawmakers on a special House committee who had investigated the insurrection, citing Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.

“Cheney was behind it ... so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee,” Trump said.

Asked specifically whether he would direct his administration to pursue cases, he said, “No,” and suggested he did not expect the FBI to quickly undertake investigations into his political enemies.

But at another point, Trump said he would leave the matter up to Pam Bondi, his pick as attorney general. “I want her to do what she wants to do,” he said.

Such threats, regardless of Trump's inconsistencies, have been taken seriously enough by many top Democrats that Biden is considering issuing blanket, preemptive pardons to protect key members of his outgoing administration.

 

On the threat he keeps floating, Yasmeen Hamadeh (THE DAILY BEAST) reports:


Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has clapped back at President-elect Donald Trump after he threatened to imprison her and other members on the congressional committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.

In an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press that aired Sunday morning, Trump claimed that Cheney, along with a “committee of political thugs” deleted all the evidence from their investigation. 

“Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” the President-elect said, referring to Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (the committee’s chairman). “They deleted and destroyed all evidence.” 

[. . .]

“Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power,” Cheney said. “He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol, where they attacked police officers, invaded the building and halted the official counting of electoral votes. Trump watched on television as police officers were brutally beaten and the Capitol was assaulted, refusing for hours to tell the mob to leave.”

“Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power,” Cheney said. “He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol, where they attacked police officers, invaded the building and halted the official counting of electoral votes. Trump watched on television as police officers were brutally beaten and the Capitol was assaulted, refusing for hours to tell the mob to leave.”


Like Rebecca ("i support a pardon for liz cheney"), I support a pardon for Liz Cheney or anyone else that Satan might go after when he returns to the White House. He is a convicted criminal, a rageaholic, a raving idiot, and someone in the throes of early onset dementia.  


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