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52. True, tfg has inspired many to say and do things that were unthinkable

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 10:21 PM

Dec 2021

to say out loud or actually follow through on before he came along. Newt Gingrich wins the prize for rampaging through Congressional norms and civility years before tfg, however. Newt got the ball rolling, but he just couldn't capture the public the way tfg managed to do. He lacked the charm (and the perception of wealth) needed to get people to follow him all the way off the cliff.

Like tfg, he's a complete nutbar and entirely too pleased with himself.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-inside-story-of-how-newt-gingrich-single-handedly-destroyed-congress

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This is why they will NEVER abandon him. [View all] kpete Dec 2021 OP

I have never seen truer words Ferrets are Cool Dec 2021 #1

+1.. explains why these fecknEjits back him...uff. nt mitch96 Dec 2021 #41

Hate is a powerful drug. - n/t lapfog_1 Dec 2021 #2

Real world ghouls and vampires. dchill Dec 2021 #3

Yep. He hates the people they hate. TDale313 Dec 2021 #4

Great quality in cilla4progress Dec 2021 #31

more than half Grasswire2 Dec 2021 #47

Thank you for providing that stat, G! cilla4progress Dec 2021 #49

Trump/ Riley tour a flop. True Blue American Dec 2021 #69

they worship him. they never give concrete reasons, other than the border wall, which relates Demovictory9 Dec 2021 #55

Black football players. panader0 Dec 2021 #68

Spot on. MontanaFarmer Dec 2021 #5

I'll never forget the republican woman, crying on national TV, after Trump's soybean fiasco, CrispyQ Dec 2021 #6

Yes, that was also featured prominently in a newspaper article. keep_left Dec 2021 #21

Bingo. crickets Dec 2021 #28

The reporter who wrote that story later tried to claim that's not what Minton meant. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #35

It's a shame the author tried to walk it back. crickets Dec 2021 #37

I heard a comment this morning that said the extreme hatred between political parties began napi21 Dec 2021 #48

True, tfg has inspired many to say and do things that were unthinkable crickets Dec 2021 #52

So true. The newster is the one who started the uncivilized behavior in Congress & he's very proud napi21 Dec 2021 #56

Getting even with True Blue American Dec 2021 #70

His supporters are sado-masochists Captain Zero Dec 2021 #62

Wow, missed that clip way back then. Glad you posted it. Never thought of trumpers that way. machoneman Dec 2021 #71

I'll never forget that, either: it's seared into my memory. I will never understand. nt Hekate Dec 2021 #36

Must have been a farmer DENVERPOPS Dec 2021 #59

How to fight back against such cruel and relentless sadism? Don't be a masochist. dalton99a Dec 2021 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2021 #19

Exactly. They are tactically using aggression to get their way. GoodRaisin Dec 2021 #42

Most psychopaths DENVERPOPS Dec 2021 #60

And then they get to the play the victim when the "other" outsmarts them ck4829 Dec 2021 #8

They don't want a level playing field. White privilege is the tilt they are fighting to retain. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #14

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you KentuckyWoman Dec 2021 #15

As has been said here many times... keep_left Dec 2021 #23

It's not about him. Cracklin Charlie Dec 2021 #9

K&R, people swore up and down Putin's Whore wouldn't be a factor in the GQP uponit7771 Dec 2021 #10

Trump is worse, but Nixon and Reagan radius777 Dec 2021 #11

There's two words I never thought would be used.... SergeStorms Dec 2021 #58

Cruelty sustains these God fearing Christian folk Martin Eden Dec 2021 #12

And today's GOP/RNC/Evangelicals KS Toronado Dec 2021 #16

"And they really believe they're true Christians." Martin Eden Dec 2021 #33

Yep. They are constantly in a state of trumpy road-rage against folks FM123 Dec 2021 #13

"Owning the libs"... keep_left Dec 2021 #17

Interesting that they still want to "own" people. CaptainTruth Dec 2021 #26

They like him because he can hurt the people they want to hurt. patphil Dec 2021 #18

67 indictments being opened on January21st.... secondwind Dec 2021 #20

I know they are out of their minds with fear and anger. I wonder just how those junkies are Ford_Prefect Dec 2021 #22

I like the scenario you painted here Alice Kramden Dec 2021 #67

That absolutely nails it! No doubt at all. Evolve Dammit Dec 2021 #24

Sociopaths and psychopaths. moondust Dec 2021 #25

Truth CaptainTruth Dec 2021 #27

Victimhood nowforever Dec 2021 #29

Perfectly expressed. Paladin Dec 2021 #30

True, sad to say. Joinfortmill Dec 2021 #32

Ugh karin_sj Dec 2021 #34

Which is why we ignore these degenerates at our peril... GoldenMezzoDiva Dec 2021 #38

True - but the Civil War really never ended dwayneb Dec 2021 #73

Explains a lot. Pepsidog Dec 2021 #39

vindictive bastards? RussBLib Dec 2021 #40

Ah...the stench of an empire in its final death throes. roamer65 Dec 2021 #43

Reminds me of Newsmax with the psychopath murderer Putin on the cover. 58Sunliner Dec 2021 #44

Sado-Populism: He inflicts pain on THEM. They view it as a loyalty test zaj Dec 2021 #45

Misplaced hate. Duppers Dec 2021 #46

isn't that pretty much true of the repuke party? Skittles Dec 2021 #50

That, and the fact that he is them. Belligerently ignorant, Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2021 #51

I guess that says it all. Poiuyt Dec 2021 #53

"Haters gonna hate." hay rick Dec 2021 #54

It is funny how something so trite sounding turned out so preseient.... JanMichael Dec 2021 #57

Conservatives have always been this way ItsjustMe Dec 2021 #61

They were taught that government will never do anything FOR them. Kablooie Dec 2021 #63

Yep. That's about it. calimary Dec 2021 #64

100%. This is my ex-marine neighbor with anti-Democratic party placards all over his walls. C Moon Dec 2021 #65

They freaked when HRC called them "deplorables." Imagine if she'd truthfully called them SADISTS hlthe2b Dec 2021 #66

Trump proclaims to hate the same people. twodogsbarking Dec 2021 #72

I think you're right. They expect continual misery, they believed they are cursed ... marble falls Dec 2021 #74

++ llashram Dec 2021 #75