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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday was a sickening disgrace...
To watch the spineless, toady Republicans kiss the ring of the guy that threatened their lives on January 6th, 2021, in our nation's Capitol.
At this very moment, every American should be bent over their toilets vomiting. If this doesn't make you sick, as an American, then something is seriously wrong with you.
The convicted felon returned to the scene of the crime. It was a sight to behold. The looks on the faces of the Republicans welcoming him back to the place they had to run from on January 6th. Their loving glances and embraces for their Cult Leader. It was nothing less than disgraceful.
But, for Trump, it was a necessity. He cannot survive without the support of the Republican Party. He is toast if he does not win the nomination of their Party. So, he uses the same old bullshit and lies that he has used for the last nine years. And with the disgraceful Republicans, it works every time.
Four weeks from today, he is to stand before the Judge for his sentencing. How much damage can he do to our institutions and our rule of law in four short weeks? There is no simple solution. Simply putting him in jail does not fix the damage he has already done. Nothing the Judge will do will change the minds of the cult that follows Trump, including elected Republicans.
These same Republicans want to subpoena the Manhattan DA and Prosecutor to testify before their Committee on July 12th, the day after the sentencing. Nobody should expect anything good to come from that.
The voters must understand by now that the Justice system is not going to work for them. The Congress is not going to work for them. The Supreme Court is not going to save them from the scourge that has attacked our democracy.
The voters can only save themselves. There is no one else to save us. Even then, there is no guarantee that our votes will not be corrupted. We are the last line of defense.
Silent Type
(6,097 posts)a painful 5 months until November.
Blue Owl
(54,423 posts)COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)Half of it!!!
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,250 posts)thank you, Kentuck for posting one of the best opinion pieces Ive read on DU in a while.
The disgusting behavior of the toadying Republicans towards Trump makes me want to vomit, also.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,081 posts)hadEnuf
(2,612 posts)She does not care how she looks. She was in on the insurrection and helped to plan it.
BigDemVoter
(4,513 posts)I have had a very dim view of repigs for years. . . I watched Nixon & Reagan & George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush do unsavory, illegal and frankly treasonous things, but none of that can match what this swine has done. **$$Y-Grabber is bad enough, but his enablers are even more disgusting. I hate them ALL.
Pas-de-Calais
(9,979 posts)I too watched the same unfold as you
But
This
Forker!!
I still believe when Putin hacked the servers RNC & DNC, something on RNC DJT is using.
All the kowtowing to him is unnatural
PatSeg
(49,589 posts)but I also believe that they are revealing who they really are and have been all along. They will do or say whatever it takes to hold on to power.
They all know what Trump is and I'm sure most of them despise the man, but still they will fawn all over him and kiss his ring. Clearly none of them has an ounce of character. If nothing else, Trump has revealed who they are.
wnylib
(24,103 posts)With him as their public image, they can do the most outrageous things and count on his gaslighting skills to make whatever they do seem legitimate to a large number of people.
Scarlet Begalas
(44 posts)I just watched Steve Bannon and a couple of the other traitors talking about how they're going to come after people they don't like. These people are getting indistinguishable from Nazis. What the hell is wrong with people in this country that find this garbage appealing? I'm getting tired of yelling "fuck you" at the TV, but that's what these monsters deserve. And much more.
TSExile
(3,275 posts)If not for them, the RAPIST would have been banished into the dustbin of history long ago. DAMN THEM!!!!
Emile
(28,678 posts)Pathetic scumbags.
the bar has always been lower for repukes but now it's pretty much rolling around on the ground
3catwoman3
(25,321 posts)Trench.
Skittles
(157,978 posts).......there *IS* no bottom for repukes; they will ALWAYS find a way to go lower - *ALWAYS*
returnee
(246 posts)inarguably.
calimary
(83,904 posts)Actually even lower than that. Hell comes to mind.
lastlib
(24,676 posts)They know no depth too low. Valles Marineris is too shallow to contain their low.
COL Mustard
(6,806 posts)I dont know what the bottom looks like, but were not there.
TheKentuckian
(25,781 posts)Once there is nowhere is for their backhoes to dig any further they will just start chucking shit into a super massive black hole that is a hundred parsecs wide.
Evolve Dammit
(18,346 posts)surfered
(2,615 posts)bodies, they flip flop on other policies according to the whim of their Dear Leader, whose only policy goal is to stay out of prison.
Bundbuster
(4,018 posts)llmart
(16,301 posts)He is such a disgusting pig.
vile and evil.
Response to llmart (Reply #13)
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Blue Owl
(54,423 posts)And powerless to snap out of it
Evolve Dammit
(18,346 posts)SarahD
(1,732 posts)How many pairs of Republican lips can fit on Trump's penis? It is a disgusting spectacle.
llmart
(16,301 posts)I truly do believe that the only way to destroy the cult and their leaders is for us to get a massive blue wave in November. I mean overwhelmingly get every last Independent voter and even some sane Republicans (there are a few I'm sure) and of course every single Democratic voter out there voting for everyone with a "D" after their name on the ballot.
I'm just afraid that we would find that there really are higher percentages of hateful and ignorant people than I ever thought possible.
ananda
(30,403 posts)trying to defend Trump and certain polices, but I just talked
to one who said he would never vote for Trump and that
he's a traitor for J6.
Oddly enough, he doesn't care about the NY felony. He made
the comparison to people who use marijuana, who he never
really considered felons. Well, like I said, pretzelly.
Also, he's not so good about women's rights and certain
economic issues, especially since he's well-heeled and they
don't affect him.
bdamomma
(65,820 posts)exactly correct. I totally agree with your sentiments. We GOT to save ourselves or we are not going to recognize our country if this convicted felon gets in.
Remember he is out for retribution and revenge, all the more reason not to VOTE for him.
sop
(11,078 posts)"In discomfiting news for those still inhabiting Planet Earth, we are now through the looking-glass into a place where reality is so weird fantasy seems more plausible and it's tough to distinguish one from the other..."
"Still, his faithful peeps would follow his delirious lead. Having passed through the looking glass...they've entered a murky dystopia where logic is suspended and dark lies are truths: the election was stolen, the government is corrupt, villainous migrants are invading the country, Democrats or others outside the toxic MAGA bubble are fascists, everything ~ courts, votes, media, the very government a grifting felon seeks to run again even more incompetently and vindictively than he did before ~ is rigged, with their weak, sick, tinpot madman the only hope to save America."
https://www.commondreams.org/further/bobbleheads-r-us-not-a-rapist-thief-grifter-liar-bully-and-complete-ignoramus
AllaN01Bear
(22,874 posts)B.See
(3,274 posts)DET
(1,648 posts)What if Trump just declares that he won after the election, despite having lost, and starts trying to govern? Thats what Roger Stone suggested last time. He effectively controls the House right now; hell, he could have been conspiring with them today to do just this. Trump would presumably have the support of most if not all Republicans in Congress, lots of law enforcement, much of the military, and millions of MAGAts. Plus the majority of the Supreme Court and much of the press. What happens then?
slightlv
(4,196 posts)"Constitutional Sheriffs" who are creating militias comprised of themselves to wreck havoc during and after the election. They consider themselves to be the supreme law enforcement agency of the country. Aren't they part of that Sovereign Citizens stupidity? Did they all just change their names in order to magat identified... much like the Dominionists changed their affiliation name to the National Apostolic Reformation (NAR)?
Attilatheblond
(4,090 posts)These 'Constitutional Sheriffs' have been around for decades now, claiming ultimate legal authority, they are mini dictators who claim to be the top of the legal system and ultimate authorities in their counties.
Dictator Divas
Patrol Car Pashas
Militia Mafioso
Posse Potentates
Delusional Deputies
Kangaroo Kourt Klowns
FUBAR farces
Evolve Dammit
(18,346 posts)mahina
(18,815 posts)But they could target individuals who have acted with courage
dmr
(28,637 posts)President Biden is our sunshine 🌞
Im sure President Biden would do his best, but hed need help to maintain law and order. My primary concern is if the military and law enforcement refuse to contain the coup. Thank God we had General Milley last time. But General Charles Flynn (brother of Michael) is still commanding general of the United States Army and appears to have played a role in the events of January 6. From what Ive heard, there are plenty of military that support Trump.
I dont mean to be a downer, but Trump is cornered and we know he is capable of anything, no matter how unlawful or evil.
Initech
(101,554 posts)Fox News is a truly disgusting organization and they should be taken down several pegs.
B.See
(3,274 posts)By supporting, fabricating, and spreading the BIG LIE that had led to the events on January 6. They were (and continue to be) complicit in an ATTEMPTED COUP.
Initech
(101,554 posts)So is the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. They are out to undo 100 years of progress and were also all complicit in helping carry out January 6th.
B.See
(3,274 posts)literally a fascist MANIFESTO:
Eliminating the Department of Education
Eliminating the Department of Commerce
Deploying the US military the put down protests
Dismantling the FBI and Department of Homeland Security
Removing protections against sexual and gender discrimination
Ending diversity, equity, inclusion and Affirmative Action.
Ending public education by siphoning off billions of dollars of public school funding
Phasing out public educations Title I program
Gutting the nations free school meals program
Eliminating the Head Start program
Funding private schools via taxpayer paid vouchers
Banning books about diversity, inclusion, and equity
Suppressing any curriculum that discusses the evils of slavery.
Banning all abortion
Restricting access to contraception
Forcing suspected undocumented immigrants to be detained in concentration camps
Eliminating Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act
Recruiting 54,000 loyal MAGA Republicans to replace existing federal civil servants
Ending Separation of church and state.
NBachers
(18,011 posts)slightlv
(4,196 posts)they just got left behind and are now working in cahoots with their Devil. Note that I do NOT believe in a "Rapture" and was always told it was not Bible-based dogma. Nor do I believe in their Devil. I'll let them have that. The fact they fashioned him from old imaginings of Pan tells me, once again, these people are so anti-sex-based they can't see their way out of anything.
paleotn
(18,994 posts)Attilatheblond
(4,090 posts)It is one of the reason the nutball religious Xian* zealots want to ban aborting and birth control. They are in a hurry to hit the magic number so they get whisked to heaven and those who believe in freedom go to hell.
* I reserve use of the word Christian for those who walk the walk rather than talk and talk
paleotn
(18,994 posts)dchill
(40,146 posts)calimary
(83,904 posts)vapor2
(1,491 posts)Evolve Dammit
(18,346 posts)FakeNoose
(35,306 posts)We need to save screenshots of these MAGA assholes kissing Chump's butt. They're all going to regret this after November 5th. We'll be ready to jump in and remind them every chance we get.
paleotn
(18,994 posts)I could watch each and every one of them be the "subject" of a particular scene in the movie Casino (Indiana cornfield) and not "bat" an eye. Hate to say it, but I would enjoy every minute. I hate their very existence. I love my country. I've served my country. Thus, I fucking hate their fucking guts. Harsh? More than slightly over the top but I think our country is worth it.
Traildogbob
(9,835 posts)Zambero
(9,621 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 13, 2024, 10:49 PM - Edit history (1)
The Mar-a-Lago smiley handshake shortly after January 6th signaled that the failed insurrectionist was still their guy. The GOP capitulation is now complete.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,612 posts)If all civil options are used up. There may not be a choice in the matter and should be with great reluctance.
orangecrush
(21,240 posts)live love laugh
(14,111 posts)Dan
(4,011 posts)America might end up like Syria.
ECL213
(295 posts)I would have had someone there filming my opponent debasing themselves. Then I would run a commercial showing everyone what a pathetic crapweasel they had representing them.
Silent Type
(6,097 posts)Her Democratic opposition in November is a retired (40 years) Brigadier General and owns a farm now.
He's infinitely better qualified, but her district likely won't see it that way. Hope I'm wrong because that would be a huge shift.
ECL213
(295 posts)It wouldn't sway a cultist one bit, but it might draw some attention to the race. I live right next to Jacket Off Gym Jordan's district. How anyone can still vote for that worthless motherfucker is beyond me, but I have not seen one advertisement against him. If I were running against him, there would be scathing news articles about me calling him a worthless motherfucker every time you turned around.
orleans
(34,782 posts)wondering where he was and where & where his followers were worshiping him
poozwah
(257 posts)the bend over brigade ASSumed the position to receive cummunion from pope lius l.
Blue Owl
(54,423 posts)cynical_idealist
(433 posts)Where they are kissing homelander's butt so they don't get zapped
Joinfortmill
(16,219 posts)soldierant
(7,773 posts)that he didn't even commit the crime at the crime scene, but from theWhite House. Yet we speak of him "returning to a crime scene he was not at.