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No wonder the cult #maga fans are so stupid--they listen and believe this crap
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11/13/20 3:26am
Greg Gutfeld: Even If Trump Loses, He's Head Of The Party, So 'We'll Have Two Presidents!'
This has got to be a contender for the worst take on Donald Trumps decisive election loss to Joe Biden yet. No, Greg, we only have ONE president at a time.
I wish Greg Gutfeld would share whatever the hell it is he's smoking, because if he's not high, he is out of his idiotic sh*t-for-brains mind.
This Fox Five moron suggested in all seriousness that because Trump was the "titular head" of the Republican party, he would continue to be president alongside Joe Biden when Biden is sworn in on January 20th. That's right, but first, he set up this GRAND Hollywood movie scenario wherein 2016 was Act I (Trump mAkEs aMeRiKkKa GrEaT), Joe Biden's presidency is Act II, wherein Biden DESTROYS EVERYTHING GOOD AND HOLY THAT TRUMP HATH WROUGHT, and 2024 will be Act III, when Trump makes a triumphant return to the White House for a second term as president because, (get this) Gutfeld smarmed, "You don't really love somebody until they go away. And then when they come back, you love 'em even more."
Now, if your sex organs didn't just shrivel up and commit Hari Kari listening to Gutfeld's slimy voice speak that sentence, you might be a Republican. You might even enjoy the fact that Gutfeld is openly slathering himself in Astroglide on live TV in an effort to shimmy up Trump's ass so far he'll emerge from one of his fake hair plugs. But hey, in that case, you're probably not reading this.
The best part was at the end, though, when he posited this bit of Constitutional blasphemy:
GUTFELD: THINK ABOUT THIS! Obama went away! He wasn't the titular head. He basically left the party, just disappeared. Trump isn't gonna do that, and they need him. He redefined the party, because he spoke for people that both the Democrats and the Republicans forgot about. So I think, I think we're gonna have a HELL of a lot of fun. We're gonna have two presidents! We're gonna have two presidents!
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BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,938 posts)we can rely on Greg Gutfeld to remind us that he is stupid frequently.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)durablend
(7,455 posts)"Biden's not our president!" so there will be a shadow president in Trump.
Eid Ma Clack Shaw
(490 posts)At this point, if you give him a Fisher Price Oval Office set, a hamburger and Diet Coke, hell think hes still President.
MissB
(15,803 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,909 posts)Trump and his minions wont have a shred of executive power after January.
GoCubsGo
(32,074 posts)As is anyone who listens to this clown.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)When dagan McDowell started blabbing I got a great "ewwww" from my daughter. As McDowell was blabbing I said, I could see her kissing trumps butt every time she speaks.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)He will be the christofascists' "President". He will be their hero and martyr. He will continue his touch myself rallies and make noise about running in 2024. Primarily because he can fleece the RWNJ sheeple. The rest of the GOP will cower and shy away, and enable.
Trump isn't going to prison either. He may be fined a lot of money. He may get probation but he isn't going to prison.
The christofascists have created in Trump not just another politician, even a beloved one.
Trump is a race hero, a prophet, and a conqueror to these nutjobs.
Turin_C3PO
(13,909 posts)It doesnt matter anyway because he wont have any true power and he certainly wont win in 2024.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... or in jail and he's not going to go away like every other president.
lol ... touch myself rallies, exactly what they are
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,392 posts)Al Gore, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, and Hillary Clinton all were too LOL
underpants
(182,603 posts)Ive watched this show. They seem to think they are funny laughing at their own jokes. The other constant element is the two guys teaming up and screaming at Juan Williams.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)DFW
(54,280 posts)In February, 2009, I asked Howard Dean why he had no interest in staying on as DNC head, and he said that when a party is out of power, the party chairman is the head of the party, but when a party holds the White House, the president is the head of the party. Howard said he would only have a diminished role as DNC chairman when Obama was president, and he was perfectly willing to let Obama do his thing. Obama never really showed Howard any gratitude for his four years of incredible work, but with Rahm Emmanuel as his chief of staff, he would never get the chance, since Rahm hated Howard's guts.
If Trump automatically remains Republican party head even after he leaves office, the Republicans have a different rule book to play by. Fine with me. If there's one to ruin that party fast, it's to let the crazies continue to run the show when they DON'T have the presidency.
Turin_C3PO
(13,909 posts)DFW
(54,280 posts)Cheneybush was starting to lose some of their popularity, especially with the non-progress of the Iraq invasion. There was a big meeting between Howard and Emmanuel in the Spring about how to allocate financial resources. Emmanuel was DCCC head at the time. He insisted the Democrats continue with the old practice of trying to focus on as many safe districts as possible, where Howard had just devised the 50 State Strategy, and wanted to try it for the 2006 midterms. Emmanuel said Howard was crazy and it would never work. Howard countered that the old way hadn't worked for a few cycles, either. There was a lot of shouting, and Emmanuel emerged beet-faced from the meeting.
I saw him a few hours later, as I was in the States for something else entirely, but attended the annual Emily's List gathering, since my younger daughter was interning there at the time. He was still crimson from the tense meeting with Howard, but I didn't know that at the time. I just thought he had serious blood pressure problems. Howard was crazy busy at the time, so we didn't see each other on that visit, so I only found out about the meeting in the paper later. This was (I think) in April or May of 2006. Emmanuel didn't get his way, and Howard did his thing.
Fast forward to November. Howard has instituted his 50 State Strategy, and lo and behold, the Democrats retake both houses of Congress. Nancy Pelosi will become Speaker for the first time when the new Congress is seated in 2007. Emmanuel, instead of calling Howard to congratulate him and tell him he was right, was even more furious. I don't know if the two have even spoken since. It became clear that the next Democrat nominated for President in 2008 would be the next President. Obama and Hillary Clinton fought it out, but it was all thanks to Howard's efforts that the nomination was such a prize.
Being from Chicago, Obama's political base, Emmanuel was not an unknown in Obama's circle, whereas Howard, concerned with the overall national scene, was. Even my daughter, who was frequently at the Emily's List HQ in DC (she went to GW), said Obama came to hang around a lot when he was a Senator, and Howard only showed up occasionally, since as DNC chair, he seldom had time for anything. Emmanuel carried the grudge like a burning coal, so when he was selected for Obama's White House Chief of Staff, he did everything he could to freeze Howard out of the Administration. There was probably never a more logical pick for Secretary of HHS than Howard in January of 2009, but Emmanuel would never hear of it. He wanted Howard excluded from being anywhere near "his" White House, even though he had Howard to thank for him being there.
I saw Howard in February, 2009, right when Tom Daschle had been forced to remove his nomination for HHS due to some undocumented domestic help, and Sibelius hadn't yet been named to replace him. Although Howard remained the logical pick, Emmanuel made sure he would get it. I asked Howard what he would do if Emmanuel kept him out. He said he would lend his name to some law firm for name recognition (for them) and some steady income (for him), and then spend the rest of his time raising hell for causes he cared about. True to his word (as usual), that is exactly what Howard has been doing. He was at the Davos gathering in Switzerland--not as a political representative, but as an environmental campaigner (he and Bernie Sanders once clashed over an environmental issue, and didn't speak for four years when Howard prevailed). Howard also was one of the organizers of a foot march from Bangkok to the Burmese border to raise awareness over the evils of human trafficking going on in the area. He never got much publicity in the American press about any of his activities, but he wasn't doing it for the headlines. In recent years, he has been involved in a low-key joint effort with Hillary Clinton in trying to recruit young Democratic talent to run for office. He didn't get any headlines for that, either, but the outcome of the 2018 midterms weren't entirely unaffected by their efforts.
I still say Howard would have been brilliant as HHS Secretary, but due to that one screaming match in 2006 (and Howard's being right), we never got the chance to find out. Howard will be 72 on Tuesday, and I don't think he's overly interested any more. Êven so, if he were offered the post, you KNOW he'd jump at the chance. However, I think Judy would probably have him chained to house in Burlington the moment his name came up. She has only seen him on weekends for most of the last 20 years, and I know she would like a bigger slice of the pie.
TlalocW
(15,374 posts)Democrats tend to have projects that they want to do to help communities after their presidencies - building houses, foundations to help communities, etc. There's an almost unwritten rule that after their time is over, whether through term limits or defeat, republican presidents go away to make room for whichever person gets the title of appointed by God to be president. Trump isn't going to go away, and it will be interesting to see how republicans react to that. Will FOX allow him to dominate their news shows at the expense of other republicans wanting some airtime because they plan on running in 2024? Will they agree to the demands that he's most likely to make that he's the candidate and not even allow others to run? Or will they come to see him as a drag to moving forward and slowly start to shut him out?
TlalocW
TeamPooka
(24,206 posts)to be President once a day between golf rounds.
Just like now.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)There's a good one at the National Museum of American History (in DC).
TeamPooka
(24,206 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He seems more interested in titties than anything else.