Trump's Inability To Accept Election Loss Is A Legal Drag For Some Capitol Riot Defendants - TRMS

[Rhiannon12866]

Rachel Maddow looks at how Donald Trump supporters arrested in connection with the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol are having their legal arguments for release ahead of trial turned upside down as Trump clings to claims of a stolen election and continues to encourage followers to attack the legitimacy of Joe Biden's presidency. Aired on 04/27/2021.




GOP Incapable Of Assailing Biden Agenda Resort To Made-Up Controversies - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

Rachel Maddow looks at the bizarre collection of false crises and sidebar stories that have become a fixation for Republicans instead of any substantive opposition to the actual legislation and governing decisions President Joe Biden is advancing. Aired on 04/27/2021.

[magicguido]

1. watch out; the space lasers will vaporize your burgers

[Rhiannon12866]

2. If any of the crazies they listen to said that, they'd probably believe it

It's amazing the insane and conspiratorial things they believe, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.

[Fritz Walter]

3. Conservative media: "Fake News!"

The faux rage over Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, Muppets, and now VP Harris's book, would be laughable if it wasn't so popular among the hard-of-thinking.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. That's an accurate term for it

If this wasn't actually happening, if someone proposed this as a book or movie plot, it would be dismissed as too silly and farfetched to be believable. And in the real world people are still getting sick and dying of covid and climate change is threatening life as we know it, but then there's Mister Potato Head to get incensed about...

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Vicious Cycle

Trump needs to continue to claim that "his" election was stolen in order to continue to raise money (which he then keeps for himself). But when he says that, the judicial system listens, and considers his disciples to be dangerous, not only to democracy but to the public at large. They have guns and weapons and will use them to "defend" their master, DJT.

You can't have it both ways, Babe.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. That's the thing, he's run out of other ways to make money

He's tried everything else he could think of over the years and everything else failed, casinos, Trump Steaks, Vodka and the infamous Trump University, scamming his "followers" is all he's got left and it's still proving to be a money maker for him.