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Whiskeytide

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42. Trump's endorsement of Strange was ...
Thu Sep 28, 2017, 10:20 AM
Sep 2017

... not enthusiastic. He stated they were both good people, and that he'd support Moore if Moore won the primary. He said these things at a Strange campaign rally. That was all voters needed to tell them Trump was ok with Moore. McConnell and the R establishment know what he did. They are pissed about it, but of course cannot call him out on it.

But I think this is good evidence of the REAL plan.

I suspect pushing Moore over the top was Bannon's goal all along, and Trump was playing along while sticking a thumb in McConnell's eye. This is Trump/Bannon's idea of political strategy. They are knifing the R establishment in the back every chance they get because that creates fear, and they believe fear encourages loyalty.

I think Bannon - and therefore Trump - is actually quite pleased with the dysfunction in the republican congress because it fuels Bannon's "burn it all down" fantasy. Chaos is all part of the plan in Bannon's twisted little mind.

Love the writing of Charles Pierce Moral Compass Sep 2017 #1
One more piece of the white supremacist puzzle thegoose Sep 2017 #2
Trump's endorsement of Strange was ... Whiskeytide Sep 2017 #42
K&R murielm99 Sep 2017 #3
I don't know how Moore could be sworn in mnhtnbb Sep 2017 #4
Remember the first "Indiana Jones" when the swastika on the crate containing the Ark burnt off? Girard442 Sep 2017 #24
Same way trump could. volstork Sep 2017 #34
"Neither of them give a shit about the Constitution" FiveGoodMen Sep 2017 #61
Standing ovation!! brer cat Sep 2017 #5
When Roy Moore picks up a Bible Zorro Sep 2017 #6
People who vote for him are beyond the reach of Democrats ehrnst Sep 2017 #7
People who vote for him are beyond the reach of sanity and decency. nt hvn_nbr_2 Sep 2017 #12
Yes! mcar Sep 2017 #17
K&R gademocrat7 Sep 2017 #8
K&R ismnotwasm Sep 2017 #9
k and r Achilleaze Sep 2017 #10
K& Fucking R. n/t rzemanfl Sep 2017 #11
I just wish the people he's addressing could read it NastyRiffraff Sep 2017 #13
Hit it; hit it hard; hit it repeatedly gratuitous Sep 2017 #14
EXCELLENT Duppers Sep 2017 #15
Damn Right! Leith Sep 2017 #16
Irishman Bannon isn't really a Christian Teddy Rattlesnake Sep 2017 #18
Sigh.... Marcuse Sep 2017 #19
That is a great toon mcar Sep 2017 #20
Great toon! burrowowl Sep 2017 #35
nice one Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #58
K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #21
YES! He isn't a "firebrand" or "controversial". He is a BIGOT, a law-breaker, and a crackpot. nt Maven Sep 2017 #22
Yup. concreteblue Sep 2017 #23
How I wish I could rec this at least 62-million times. calimary Sep 2017 #25
Oh, I understand where they are coming from all to well. Ligyron Sep 2017 #46
There's also a very strong possibility that they yearn for him to wipe "that" out of the history calimary Sep 2017 #63
Fuck Roy Moore!!!!!!! Initech Sep 2017 #26
It's a cheap media market we can start to saturate sending even $20 to doug jones stuffmatters Sep 2017 #27
As usual, Charlie Pierce speaks for me. Paladin Sep 2017 #28
American Taliban Martin Eden Sep 2017 #29
You beat me to it. mjvpi Sep 2017 #31
I have many Iranian friends. I know how they feel when they tell me about home. mjvpi Sep 2017 #30
Trump's base desparately want white hierarchy Juliusseizure Sep 2017 #32
Not just "an extremist." He's an extremist religious fundamentalist, extremist racist, extremist Nitram Sep 2017 #33
Hats off to Chaz Pierce, once again Hekate Sep 2017 #36
30% of the country is irrational, uninformed, spiteful and stubborn beyond reason. King_Klonopin Sep 2017 #37
The ghost of Jefferson Davis is really riled up. So to hell with him. VOX Sep 2017 #38
A liberal writer from the northeast calling Alabamans "half-bright goobers" oberliner Sep 2017 #39
Not all Alabamans, El Mimbreno Sep 2017 #41
All the white people who live in Alabama oberliner Sep 2017 #45
When talking about a state or a country, we smoetimes refer to the majority as "all" louis c Sep 2017 #47
The vast majority of white people in Alabama oberliner Sep 2017 #48
It's a slur orangecrush Sep 2017 #50
The phrase is thruthful, when phrased like that louis c Sep 2017 #54
That is not relevant to the point that I am making oberliner Sep 2017 #55
Moore can wave the bible around as much as he wants DFW Sep 2017 #40
K&R... spanone Sep 2017 #43
K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Sep 2017 #44
K&R orangecrush Sep 2017 #49
Roy Moore - poster boy for Murika's Christian Sharia Party (fka GOP) bigbrother05 Sep 2017 #51
The earth is flat & how did they get 2 Tyrannosaurus rex on the ark? Motley13 Sep 2017 #52
Agree treestar Sep 2017 #53
I never had any to begin with. 58Sunliner Sep 2017 #56
Moore is nothing more than SATAN Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #57
His voters believe he's a Godly man because he defends religious crap lunatica Sep 2017 #59
K&R UCmeNdc Sep 2017 #60
And, apparently, out of Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2017 #62
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