This nay be obvious or redundant, but Trump's DeSantis "loyalty" rants are seriously CREEPY.

Trump set a pretty high bar when he said his own daughter "does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

Hard to go further downhill after that.

But Trump saying ""So then when I hear he might run, you know, I consider that very disloyal," Trump told reporters on board his plane, per CNN. "But, it's not about loyalty — to me it is, it's always about loyalty. But for a lot of people, it's not about that."" sort of makes my skin crawl.

Trump says it's 'very disloyal' of Ron DeSantis to even consider running against him in 2024

I'm stunned to think "analysts" believe Trump can put the cork back in the racist bottle

I'm no fan of Elaine Chao, her work, or her choice of a marriage partner. I would never express that by attacking her ethnicity. I don't dislike her because she's an Asian woman. I dislike her because she was a member of Trump's cabinet who was so upset over the events of January 6th that she got up and left, rather than stick around and call for his removal.

Trump is a child. When he discovers something he thinks is funny or witty or clever, he runs it into the ground and repeats it endlessly. He did it with Elizabeth Warren, now he's doing it with Elaine Chao.

And in the minds of Trump voters, I've come to the conclusion that his blatant and unapologetic racism is a feature / benefit, NOT a shortcoming or deal breaker, OR "it doesn't matter" because of all of the great things he does to make America great again, like play golf and watch TV.

In an opinion piece for Bloomberg, Robert A George writes "Trump’s Racism Alienates a Growing Voting Bloc: The former president’s insults of Asian Americans are not just repugnant, they are also politically stupid."

He writes:

"There are at least two ways for Republicans to avoid sabotaging their emerging relationship with the fastest-growing minority group in the country. They can denounce Donald Trump when he goes off on one of his racist rants, as he inevitably will. And they can nominate a presidential candidate who doesn’t have racist baggage."

But Republicans WON'T denounce Trump. They usually claim they "didn't see" his remarks.

And if Trump battles them regarding the 2024 nomination, they will cave. Trump can and will destroy DeSantis on the national stage, if it comes to that. He has plenty of ammo just by virtue of DeSantis being DeSantis, but whatever he lacks, he'll just make up.

Whatever happens, I hope that America doesn't "find out" that Trump is a racist pig. That would be just awful.

OK, be HONEST...was ANYONE in suspense over whether Trump would be "reinstated" on Facebook?

I really hope that the new Boof Boy rape allegations don't make him cry. Again.

I don't know what's more heart-rending...Boof Boy alternating between weepy denials and his bared fang hissing, or Rittenhouse blubbering fake crocodile tears in court.

I wonder if investigations into his "ALLEGED" activities will inspire Lindsey Graham to once again take time out from his very busy day to yell at us and tell us how we "destroyed" Kavanaugh's life. Gee...$165,000 per year and the highest quality medical care available, for LIFE? Yeah...Lindsey's right. He sure got destroyed.

Pompeo's Kashoggi remarks. WT actual F is WRONG with Republicans?

I'm not going to post what he said here. If you're missing the context, you can read it at this link:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/mike-pompeo-criticizes-jamal-khashoggi-activist-rcna66973

Kashoggi was dismembered with a bone saw while still alive.

What IS it? Is Pompeo trying to position himself as a bigger prick than Trump, or is it just impossible for Republicans to pass up ANY opportunity to "own the libs?" This is ghoulish and loathsome, and the fact that he lacks the filters to prevent himself from saying it tells us all we need to know about "presidential hopeful" Pompeo.

I'm heartbroken over the DOJ's comments on the Gym Jacket Off Jordan Poo Flinging Chimp Show.

Wow. This is SO special. Joe Manchin, a DEMOCRAT, wants to HELP Republicans SAVE Social Security!

I wonder how an unrelenting 2-year Jim Jordan clown show for Fox News cameras will play with voters

The logical side of me says "After two years of Jordan accomplishing nothing beyond mugging for Fox News viewers, voters will have had enough and Democrats will take back the House in 2024."

Then I think about the "red" voters I know personally, and don't believe that at all. I think the Trumpist, "straight red ticket" voters are probably going to be just as amused and entertained by poo-flinging chimp Jordan as they are each night by Tucker Carlson.

THIS is why voters elected Republicans in the midterms? So that Jordan can "investigate" how "conservatives are mistreated?"

MSNBC's doing a great job of carrying the GOP's water on the Biden docs situation

I GET THE FACT that it is "news."

And YES, it was a breach of protocol, so investigate it and put it to rest.

But I had to turn off MSNBC because they are having ENDLESS conversations and analysis of this. I think I could sum up what happened in maybe five minutes, ten tops, but the "analysis" just keeps going ON and ON and ON and this morning appears to be the "big story" in MSNBC world.

It hasn't mattered a bit that:

1). Trump LIED ABOUT HAVING the documents
2). Trump DEFIED A SUBPOENA to hand them over
3). He returned a LIMITED NUMBER of docs and said "That's all of them!"

And the worst part of this is that ON MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, we have Tim Scott, a black Senator, giving a speech that equates treatment of Trump versus Biden with RACIAL INEQUALITY IN AMERICA.

Republicans "have threatened to use the debt ceiling as leverage to demand spending cuts"

This was actually a campaign promise from Republicans during the midterms. While Social Security and Medicare are NOT SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED in this article, we already KNOW both programs were part of this rhetoric last year. They're not talking about the Paul Ryan Tax Cuts For Millionaires that added $1.6 trillion to the deficit. They are talking about extortion, about forcing Democrats to sign on the dotted line for SS / Medicare cuts.