I detest Chris Christie but he is the perfect pick

[malaise]

to take on a criminal coward and con man with a big mouth.

https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-calls-trump-cheap-043534859.html

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) laid out a unified theory of former President Donald Trump, his former ally and current 2024 Republican presidential rival, on CNN Wednesday night. Trump, he told host Kaitlan Collins, is dishonest, obsessive about his boxes, a childish showoff, a longtime grifter, and "the cheapest person I've ever met in my life." And those characteristics explain why Trump is facing 37 federal felony counts and using campaign contributions to pay his personal legal fees, Christie argued.

😀😀😀😀😀

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I wish he'd level some real criticism

Like being a career criminal, among other things more worthy of discussion. Cheapness?!? Really?!?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Agreed. I'd like to see Christie wholly endorse Jack Smith as a former federal

prosecutor.

Let'er rip Chris!

[gab13by13]

4. It is working on Donald Trump,

Trump doesn't know what to do about Christie. Do not underestimate the importance to what Christie is doing, he is showing that the emperor has no clothes.

Chris Christie just needs to keep doing what he is doing, bashing Trump in front of a national audience, not behind closed doors.

[malaise]

9. THIS

Cornered is the word

[FakeNoose]

16. Don't forget, Chump and Christie have been "friends" for years

They go back to the days when Chump was first interested in being a NJ casino owner. I don't think Christie was even the Attorney General yet. I'm sure Chump has told Christie a lot of stuff too. Because he'll say anything to impress people, as we all know.

It never occurred to Chump that Christie might run against him some day. Chris Christie seems to be the perfect antidote to Donald Chump... at least, for now he is. I don't believe EITHER of these guys could beat Joe Biden though.

[Hekate]

72. Past tense

[mercuryblues]

84. Christie was fine with Trump

Until trump had no use for him anymore.

If trump had chosen him for AG he would be a rabid trump supporter right now.

[FakeNoose]

86. I agree except for one thing

It was 2016 when Christie got passed over for AG.

But in 2020 he was in there helping Chump get prepped for his first debate with Biden. In fact, Chris caught Covid from Chump when they were behind closed doors prepping AND he almost died from it. It was barely mentioned in the news after the debate, because that's when Chump himself was diagnosed and taken to the hospital. Remember when Chump got the miracle antibody cure and he was out of the hospital in 3 days? He arranged for Christie to get that same miracle cure, but it wasn't until after Chump himself was out of danger. So Christie almost died of Covid in the meantime.

Some friend, huh?

[mercuryblues]

87. If they'll do it with ya, they'll do it to ya.

[sir pball]

74. Thank you! I've been saying the same thing.

We don't need more Serious People telling us what Serious Crimes TFG committed. We have plenty of those. We need people who aren't afraid to get personal, to call a spade a spade. A CHEAP spade…

We all know what he did, we need to know how he's a venal, superficial shitbag.

[sir pball]

5. "Real criticism" doesn't bother TFG one iota.

Christie isn't concerned with that. He just wants to raise Cheeto Benito's blood pressure until he strokes out (if there is a God please let that happen on stage!). Calling him a career criminal is going to get nothing more than an incoherent, nasty denial/reply; calling The Great Gilded One cheap, on the other hand…that's gonna get under his skin, bigly.

Christie wasn't a terrible prosecutor, he knows exactly what he's doing and I am so here for it.

[EYESORE 9001]

19. I'll take your word for it

I think it’d be nice if Christie would throw a bone out for everyone else BUT rumpus occasionally. Tell the public something worse than, ‘he’s cheap.’ I might see that and think, ‘I’m cheap too! What’s wrong with cheap?’ If I were a superficial twit who never absorbed anything beyond the broadest of soundbites that crossed my consciousness, that is. Of course, we’re blessed with nobody like that in the good ol’ US of A.

[sir pball]

47. I understand you want serious discourse, but there's already plenty of that.

WRT TFGs actual negatives, criminality, scamming, incompetent leadership, there's already a chorus of people pointing them out. Christie really couldn't say anything anyone who's paying any attention hasn't already heard, regardless of whether they believe it or not. I'd rather he use his platform for the kind of petty, venal, personal digs that will bother a pathological narcissist, rather than just repeating what we've all already been made aware.of ad nauseam.

[k0rs]

77. 'he's cheap.' I might see that and think, 'I'm cheap too! What's wrong with cheap?'

Here's what's wrong with cheap: tRump's (allegedly) a billionaire. When was the last time you heard of the orange anus helping someone other than himself financially? Contributing to a charitable cause? Establishing an endowment? Funding a 503C? Any act philanthropy whatsoever? Bill Gates has given away over $38 billion (with a "B" ). Warren Buffet has given away $46 billion. There's a big difference between frugal and cheap. Hell, TFG wouldn't even buy dinner. He's one of the most selfish oxygen wasters on Earth. It's a character flaw that disqualifies him from the human race, let alone being president.

Incidentally the cheapest billionaire is Rupert Murdoch.

[EYESORE 9001]

79. No MAGAt would allow such a truth-bomb into their heads

Soundbyte to soundbyte. That’s all they can handle. Probably only registering every third word. You think a MAGAt is gonna look into an accusation from a detractor? ‘Ha’, I say.

[SheilaAnn]

36. Christie prosecuted Jared's daddy and sent him off to prison. Christie is quite capable. n/t

[sir pball]

73. That just makes him better at knowing what will get under TFG's skin.

Honestly, before Bridgegate I never really hated the guy…he's a Jersey politician, it is what it is. Now that he's turning that petty vengeful streak towards Trump, with his (Christie's) smarts on how to break a guy…

[Upthevibe]

68. sir pball.............

I'm not quite sure what you're saying. You say that real criticism doesn't bother tfg one iota but then you say that Christi just wants to raise "Cheeto Benito's" blood pressure.

Thanks for any clarification...I'm just confused regarding your post...

[sir pball]

71. I mean critiquing his real and criminal actions doesn't bother him, but personal digs do.

There's an entire Greek chorus of people reminding us of his criminality, Christie would just be another voice in many if he did that. TFG doesn't really care about that, sure he posts incendiary crap in response but it's clear he's just "harrumphing" rather than being deeply personally wounded. To raise his blood pressure, you need to make personal insults - which Christie, who for all his faults is very good at this game, is doing.

Calling him a traitor means nothing to him. Calling him cheap, a low-class nouveau riche grifter, is different; it's a purely personal dig that goes against his Gilded Baron image. It hits to the core of everything he believes himself to be, and I believe it's by far the best attack surface to get him to, pardon my French, absolutely lose his shit and hopefully stroke out.

In short, call him criminal, traitor, and he just laughs; call him fat, tiny-dicked, and weak and he reacts.

[summer_in_TX]

80. Well-said, sir ball!

The personal digs are definitely what get under his skin. Chris Christie's personal barbs has to add to the pressure all these indictments are placing on Trump. Hope they lead to the crumbling predicted by those who study what happens to individuals with a narcissistic personality when they feel like they're losing it all.

[Artcatt]

13. Yes. Enough of the emotional drama; much more of substance.

[gab13by13]

3. Right now we need more big name Republicans

punching Trump in the face. What Christie is doing is a first, someone punching a bully in the mouth. Trump does not know how to deal with Christie. Bill Barr and Asa Hutchinson to a lesser extent are doing the same, but we need more, the more the merrier.

Take this to the bank, if Chris Christie is on the debate stage, Donald Trump will back out of the debates.

[CentralMass]

6. All these republicans are wretched people.They will get no encouragement or support from me.

[Qutzupalotl]

65. Agreed, but none of Trump's opponents

would be the walking national security nightmare Trump was and would be again.

I think a lot of us are in the anyone-would-be-better-than-Trump camp, even if we would never support any of them.

[DFW]

7. Just play back Christie's speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention

THEN tell me he’s anti-Trump.

Christie is not anti-anything, he’s only pro-Christie. Anything else is just posturing.

[malaise]

11. We know that - let them destroy each other

but he is still exposing his ex best friend.

[Artcatt]

17. IIRC, Winston Churchill said he'd make a deal with the devil

to defeat Hitler.

[DFW]

29. Considering that he and Roosevelt had to play footsie with Stalin to shorten the war's duration

I'd say that's exactly what he (and FDR) did.

[SomedayKindaLove]

33. Ding

He so anti-Trump he only voted for him twice.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Our credit rating

Dipped eleven times when he was Governor.

This guy isn't much better than 45.

Also - I want Trump to be their nominee. We gain independents with him at the top of the ticket.

[Joinfortmill]

10. Totally agree.

[Happy Hoosier]

12. I doubt it.

No Republican can hope to get broad support in what's left ogf that party if they dare criticize Dear Leader

[2naSalit]

14. Now if...

He and TLP got together and worked in tandem to drive -45 over the cliff, all the better.

[PCIntern]

15. I agree with you to an extent...

But he actually denied the Trump would sell those documents to foreign powers, dismissing it as ridiculous. I wholeheartedly disagree.

[malaise]

18. I am with you on that

but all jabs matter when there's a criminal to be knocked out

[PCIntern]

21. True dat.

[CincyDem]

20. Agree that Christie is the most articulate and pointed critic today. And...

…who will pick up that mantle when he gets blown out of the primaries and during the general.

So far Biden has appropriately stayed away from comments re trumps legal issues. How’s that going to work during what increasingly looks like a Biden Trump general.

Elections are a political process and issues raised are being poiliticized. So…who among Dems is going to be the spokesperson for politicizing trumps legal issues?

[Captain Zero]

78. Sheldon Whitehouse could politicize the legal issues. Would work better if he was the VP nominee

to do that.

[JCMach1]

22. Christie is pro-opportunist

[The Jungle 1]

23. The primary campaign battle between those two could be fun to watch.

However I do not want either one to win. Both are loud mouth children that resort to bully tactics to dominate.
Christie is better at it than trump.

[paleotn]

24. The enemy of my enemy

[malaise]

27. That simple

[paleotn]

28. Yep.

It’s a corollary to Napoleon’s “don’t interrupt an opponent when they’re making a mistake”. If your opponents are beating each other up, let them.

[The Mouth]

25. Christie is 'old school'

Corrupt and probably at heart a bit racist and sexist, but not completely nuts. The kind of Tamney hall pol of old smart enought to not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs because he gets his cut, the kind who gets the infrastructure actually built, albeit by his contributors and pals....

[malaise]

32. Excellent profile

[regnaD kciN]

26. That may be a...uh...bridge too far for him.

[Scrivener7]

30. The adage is that politics makes for strange bedfellows. He's a strange one, all right, but

anyone who tells the truth about tfg is fine with me while he is telling the truth about tfg.

Christie is mean and funny and speaks well. He'll do damage.

Wouldn't vote for him for a million bucks, but go Chris!

[malaise]

31. Christie is mean and funny and speaks well. He'll do damage.

THIS

[PatSeg]

34. He is definitely a worthy adversary,

someone that whiny, wimpy Trump wouldn't want to go up against. I can't stand Christie, but he could really take Trump down. It would be the best thing he's ever done in his life.

[malaise]

39. Precisely

[Yavin4]

35. Fuck that. Christie doesn't get points for going after Trump.

He's doing what normal politicians are supposed to do.

[malaise]

38. You are correct but other than Liz Cheney, who else is exposing this

Scumbag?

[duhneece]

50. And he's hitting Trump where it hurts.

Trump’s ego.

[Kaleva]

37. Agree

[LittleGirl]

40. Hey Media

How about asking Christy about his bout with covid that he believes 45 gave him.
Did 45 call and ask about him while Christy was in the hospital?
Was there an event or conversation that made Christy change his mind about 45 after the covid illness? Was that the falling out between them?

[DLCWIdem]

45. Christie has talked about that

He was telling a story about how when he was in the hospital Trump called him and asked him if he was going to say Trump gave it to him. CHRISTIE replied "no....". When Christie got out of the hospital he found out that Trump was telling everyone that Christie had given him Covid. And later he found out that Trump was positive during debate prep.

I still think it kind of ironic that the architect of Bridgegate is the "reasonable" republican candidate for President.

[LaMouffette]

41. He left out "pervert."

[spanone]

42. I detest Chris Christie but he is the perfect pRick

to take on a criminal coward and con man with a big mouth.

[relayerbob]

43. Perfect in that he has slightly more balls than any other GQPper

Pretty low bar to clear

[Paladin]

46. A low bar, but I'm glad somebody managed to clear it. (nt)

[Sanity Claws]

44. Perfect pick or perfect prick?

[Sneederbunk]

48. TFG will never debate Christie.

[halfulglas]

49. Ha, ha. I first misread your line as he is the perfect prick.

And I thought, duh.

[malaise]

52. That too

😀😀

[Buns_of_Fire]

63. That's what I first saw. But that works, too. nt

[gab13by13]

51. A lot of people are missing an important point,

It doesn't matter how many big name Democrats go after Trump exposing his crimes, they will all be dismissed. When Republicans start trashing and exposing Trump, you bet, it is a big deal. We need a lot more Chris Cristies right now not later.

Even Bill Barr and Asa Hutchinson are helping, we need more.

[oldsoftie]

53. And the Trump PAC pays him 40k a month in rent on unused office space.

[peggysue2]

54. Christie is a practiced bully-boy

He's a decent counterweight (no pun intended) to Trump's never-ending lies and distortions.

There's no way Christie can stop Trump's nomination. However, if he dents and bruises the man along the way, I'm all for it. Christie's numbers have risen a bit in the process (from 0 to 9% in one poll).

The media loves the entertainment factor. Because gladiator sports are the bomb!

[malaise]

55. Same here

[FSogol]

56. You left off the "r" in Prick. He's a perfect prick.

[patphil]

57. Chris Christie has nothing to lose.

I don't like him, he's a vindictive bully. That said, he knows he isn't going to take the nomination away from Trump, and, since he holds no office, he can say what he feels regarding Trump without fear of reprisal.
If he can do damage to Trump, I'm all for it.

[AntivaxHunters]

58. Christie is a moderate

He did an interview recently & shocked me. He supports trans rights. My mouth dropped to the ground.

I believe he may be the only Republican candidate who supports trans rights. I'm unsure where Asa Hutchinson stands. The rest of them sure as hell don't.

That's a HUGE thing in this day & age. It drastically goes against his own party & Republican voters. I give him credit on this because he's really sticking his neck out here big time & taking a stand for what he personally believes that goes against the GOP.

[bello]

59. I detest Chris Christie but he is the perfect p(r)ick.

FIFY

[H2O Man]

60. Recommended.

I'm rather enjoying watching him these days -- despite previously concluding he was among the most repulsive forms of humanity. I keep in mind that he is not actually running for president. He is, of course, running for vice president, in an old republican party tradition. When we think back to Nixon picking Agnew, or Ford picking Dole, or Reagan picking Bush, we find the vice presidential candidate was -- to borrow a phrase -- a nasty man. An attack dog that can publicly say the mean and nasty things about the opposition that the top dog is too presidential to say.

[malaise]

61. Precisely

[Emile]

62. The orchestrator of the insurrection takes on the orchestrator

of Bridge Gate. Should be a hell of a fight.

[malaise]

64. Yepp

😀

[ZonkerHarris]

66. "I mean, come on, there's nobody in America who believes that story." - Christie ....

Have you met his followers Chris?
They're pretty stupid
they believe anything he says
The best confidence men in the world leave their victims never realizing they have been fleeced

[malaise]

69. No sane person

😀

[Skittles]

67. New Jersey hard talk

loving it

[malaise]

70. Yep

I welcome anyone who slaps down this criminal conman

[BlueTsunami2018]

75. He's polling at 1%. Republicans HATE him.

It doesn’t matter what he says, they won’t hear it. He’s a RINO, a traitor, a deep state stooge.

He had his chance in 2012, he’d have won the nomination over Mittens but still would have lost to Obama.

His window is closed.

[czarjak]

81. Window opportunities are Vladimir's specialty.

[Hassler]

76. Bully Kristie Kreme will get annihilated, but if he can annihilate Orange Jabba

It's worth it.

[GenThePerservering]

82. Christie's polling numbers are rising pretty quickly

::Let them fight:: gif.

[LeftInTX]

83. This will be gun to watch, Christie has to make the debate stage