2/6/22: On any given day, the most
colossal idiot could find Democrats willing to bash Republicans, Democrats
ready to smash Republicans, and everyone else hating on Whigs. So, it’s
always wise to tune out 95% of the noise in politics.
On
Sunday, however, a number of conservative voices were raised against
former-President Trump in warning against what has become of the not-so-Grand
Old Party.
On Meet the Press, Marc Short, former chief of staff for Vice
President Mike Pence, offered his thoughts regarding the fable of the “stolen election.”
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“Bad advisers, who were basically snake oil salesmen.”
Marc
Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence
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Asked to comment on the
idea that Pence could have overturned the vote and gifted Trump a second term,
Short told NBC’s Chuck Todd, “I think unfortunately the president had many bad
advisers, who were basically snake oil salesmen giving him really random and
novel ideas as to what the vice president could do. But our office…researched
that and recognized that was never an option.”
For Trump cultists let’s
explain:
1.
Short says the Orange God was getting bad advice from “snake oil
salesmen.” That is: con-men.
2.
The Orange God believed them.
3.
You believed the Orange God, who believed the con-men.
4.
Either the Orange God was so profoundly
flawed as a human being that he was an easy mark for “snake oil salesmen;”
5.
Or, much more likely: he is and always was himself a “snake oil
salesman,” and like attracted like.
6.
Four or five, it’s the same. For those of you still members of the cult,
it’s time to admit you got sucked in by “snake oil salesmen.”
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“January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump.”
Short wasn’t alone in sounding the alarm. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and took a crack at Mr. Trump. Responding
to the claim that Pence could have overturned the results of the election, Gov.
Christie refused to pull his punches.
“Let’s face it. Let’s call it what it is,”
he told host Martha Raddatz. “January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald
Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly
what he said in his own words last week: Overturn the election.”
“[Trump is] trying to do a clean-up on
aisle one here,” Christie added. “But it’s not going to change. He
actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned.”
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“An assault on the first branch of government.”
On CBS , former
Trump National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster was featured as guest.
That’s Trump’s
own choice for the job, and not to be confused with other Trump choices for top
jobs, who variously came to view him as a fucking moron, a threat to the U.S. Constitution, the most flawed person ever, a man
who put self-interest above national security
interests, and now the man who hoped to advance the most un-American idea
ever, so he could get a second term in office.
Asked to respond to comments by the Republican National Committee and
his former boss, the Orange God of Mar-a-Lago, McMaster pointedly disagreed with any defense of the Jan. 6 rioters.
Those rioters weren’t patriots, as Trump insisted.
They weren’t engaged in “legitimate political discourse” as the RNC claimed
in its recent statement.
What happened on January
6, Gen. McMaster said, “was illegitimate political discourse because it was an
assault on the first branch of government. I think it’s really important for us
to come together now,” he added. “I really think it is possible to improve the
transparency and the security of our elections while ensuring that every
eligible voter gets to vote.”
He thought about it a
moment, then added, “It is pretty clear that we are emerging from a number of
traumas of the past couple of years.”
Those traumas were:
Donald J. Trump.
– and –
More Donald J. Trump.
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“Mr. Trump’s disgraceful behavior after the
election.”
IT COULD BE we are
seeing the first signs of a rise among decent Republican and sensible conservative
voices to take on the Orange God of Mar-a-Lago and try to return sanity to his
bizarre cult. The Wall Street Journal, for example, backed the Vice
President completely, saying, “Mr. Pence stands out as a rare
Republican these days willing to stand up to Mr. Trump’s disgraceful behavior
after the election. Too many in the GOP seem to have lost their
constitutional moorings in thrall to one man.”
Even Brian Kilmeade, in a broadcast of Fox Nation, said it was
time for Trump to quit claiming he won the election in Arizona, in 2020. Kilmeade,
who had kissed the Orange God’s ass so many times, he left a permanent imprint,
must have been getting the word from on high. It would seem the Fox Empire has
decided it might be time to cut ties with the lunatic. Kilmeade insisted, no
one cared anymore about the last election. The OG’s constant whining about how
the election was stolen was “cringe-worthy.” As for Trump’s claim that he had
triumphed in Arizona, the Fox host got it partly right – and glaringly wrong at
the end:
Nobody cares about 2020. Nobody. And everything that he said
and the challenges that he made should have been done before the election. And
they did a recount in Arizona, and the recount showed no difference almost, and
he came out and said it showed that they won Arizona. That’s an outright lie,
and please stop wasting our time with that, because he’s capable of doing so
much more.
If you read Kilmeade’s comment
one way, he’s saying Trump could change focus and offer his supporters “so much
more.”
What Kilmeade still hesitates to
say – because he’s fundamentally a coward – is that what “more” Trump could
offer, if he were elected president again was more outright lying and more and
more serious threats to our system of government.
None of this is even the least
difficult to comprehend. When asked if he agreed with Pence, Sen. Marco Rubio was
clear. “Vice presidents can’t simply decide not to certify an election.”
Trump said they could.
Sen. John Barrasso of
Wyoming concurred, explaining on “Fox News Sunday,” that Mr. Pence “did his constitutional duty that day. It’s not the Congress that
elects the president, it’s the American people.”
Pence upheld the
Constitution.
Trump wanted to tear
it into little pieces – and if we give him another crack in the Oval Office, he
will try again. (See: 2/11/22.)
FUN WITH –
STUPIDITY: Republican senators reacted badly to news that President Biden
planned to pick an African American woman to fill the soon-to-be open seat on
the U.S. Supreme Court. Sen. Ted Cruz said that Biden was really saying to the
majority of Americans, “I don’t care about you.”
Whereas the
majority of Americans – and we know Cruz means white folks – could only console
themselves by gazing wistfully at Neil Gorsuch’s face. Or Bret Kavanaugh. Or
Amy Coney Barrett.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch. |
Cruz also called
Biden’s announcement an “insult to Black women,” which made pretty close to
zero-point-zero sense.
Not to be
outdone, Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana quipped that he hoped
Biden would pick someone who knows “a law book from a J Crew catalogue.”
Because, I guess, Sen. Kennedy believes most black women can’t?
