I think the reason Spitzer — and let's throw in Al Franken — didn't stand their ground and fight is that they were beholden to their political party. Trump never was in thrall to other Republicans. He took over the party. Who holds sway with him?
The article also has this quote from Trump: "Other people, if they ever got indicted, they’re out of politics. They go to the microphone. They say, ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life, you know, clearing my name. I’m going to spend the rest of my life with my family.' I've seen it hundreds of times.... I can tell, you know, it’s backfired on them."
Maybe some of these others — Spitzer, Franken — would have prevailed if they'd fought. But it's hard to believe that other beleaguered politicians will fight like Trump. The Trump example shows that by fighting, you attract endless woes — multiple impeachments, felony charges, efforts to confiscate all of your wealth, the most miserable smears on your character. But Trump fights, and it's an amazing spectacle.
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Spitzer's wife wasn't getting it done, is what I thought.
Women take on "other priorities."
I think the Trump spectacle has shown us how far we've fallen as a society.
I won't get into Trump's base, but look at the opposite side. The fact that Trump has been soup to nuts investigated for 7+ years including his initial political campaign being spied on by the FBI, special prosecutors, investigation by his political opponents, openly prejudicial state AGs who commit to prosecuting him as they start investigating, faulty media smears over and over, publication of literally falsified "dossiers", FBI raids, rumors he took nuclear documents with him....
On top of which he was impeached for asking the Ukrainian President to investigate the Bidens due to how badly Biden behavior in Ukraine appeared (which, I'd say, has fairly well held up as we've now directed $75 billion to Ukraine).
I can't even list all the "Sky is falling" scandals. What have they actually come up with besides constant unseemly behavior by Trump? What actual guilty judgements have been rendered by fair and impartial juries?
They have and continue to make fools out of themselves. They've lost all credibility. And they don't see it.
I have a two word rebuttal to this ridiculous sophistry. Bill Clinton.
Trump is the mentally toughest person I have ever seen. He’s facing three criminal cases. He’s constantly attacked. Some people spend all day hating Trump and trying to destroy him. And for what? What did Trump do to cause such vitriol? Many here posted good answers to that question that I posed. The common thread in the answers were that those haters are loons.
Franken was a victim of bad timing—his transgressions came out at the precise moment the left thought it could use sexual harassment to do real damage to the right. He sacrificed himself to keep the witch hunt going. Spitzer is a bit different because he was a scold who self-righteously imprisoned people for doing the exact thing he did. The hypocrisy was so stark it would’ve been hard to wriggle out. Having lost the moral high ground, his effectiveness was sure to follow.
Fortunately, Trump seems to love the fight. He’s the pig you don’t want to wrestle with. It’s all worth it to get himself in the history books—which he has surely done.
Every so often I play Elton's "I'm Still Standing" to remind me why I voted for him. Like Richard Boone out of "Have Gun Will Travel".
Unflappable and focused.
I have a two word rebuttal to this ridiculous sophistry. Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton had a two-word excuse for his misbehavior every American understood: Hillary Rodham.
Spitzer was also engaged in structuring.
"Client #9" reinvented himself in 2014 when he went to work for his father’s company, Spitzer Engineering, which he rebranded Spitzer Enterprises.
The firm built iconic properties such as 200 Central Park South and 800 Fifth Avenue — the luxury apartment tower overlooking Central Park that Spitzer now calls home. In 2014 and 2015, he sold two properties his father had accumulated and got started on two projects of his own: a three-tower, 857-unit rental development on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn and a mixed-use project with Related Companies in Hudson Yards, which will have 1.4 million square feet of residential and office space.
So he too has become a genuine New York real estate magnate, but Eliot Spitzer (no longer "Client #9") respects the rule of law and isn't likely to be sued or run out of town by Tish James to disgorge $250M as is the case with TFG.
Which is why his base loves him. The GOPe doesn't fight for us...They cave. Every single time, and then they tell us to keep voting for them, until they have the House, Senate and Presidency, which they will then again, cave to whatever the Progressives tell them they want. Every single time.
The left are so filled with Nazi-like hatred for Trump - we are forced to endure the most corrupt husk-puppet president to ever be installed as dear leader.
We are forced to endure complete lawlessness at our open southern border.
we are forced to endure a complete invasion.
We are forced to endure mass lab created disease.
we are forced to endure DEI and sex-obsessed groomer-losers who want to indoctrinate our children into the cult of woke-Marxism.
we are forced to endure a pathetic old white left Joy Behar Rachel Maddow NBC NPR NYT WaPo culture of pro-democrat party propaganda - who all dutifully rally about the awful Biden family, and ignore Biden family crime.
All because - Trump hate.
Remember right after the 2016 election - The Washington Post(D) headline 'We must Impeach Trump'
As far as pols being dependent on the party, I think you are exactly right about the Democrats. The Democrat Affirmative Action coalition has been a zero-sum "I scratch your back and you scratch mine" proposition since at least the 1960s if not go back to FDR. Without a party structure to do the horse-trading that wouldn't work, and a pol that isn't plugged into the party structure gets little support.
Republican politicians have had more flexibility because the GOP coalition in the same time period (Religious conservatives, National Security, Business) had largely congruent goals that didn't require the same trade-offs.
Trump has gained control of the GOP because he's brought Populists into the party at a time when other groups were exiting though it remains to be seen if the coalition is actually stable.
I personally didn’t care for Trump because at times he could be so crude. But I came around when I realized he really was fighting for our country and especially for the “little people.” The “little people” are seeing that. When Trump was in the White House I felt safe.
A NYC real estate business must be the perfect training ground to steel yourself for national politics, if you actually want to build or accomplish anything there and put your name on it.
“Spitzer's wife wasn't getting it done, is what I thought.“
Who do you think paid for the hookers?
There was no excuse for Eliot’s patronage of prostitutes. None.
I know Trumps birthday is not in a couple days. But I can’t help compare and contrast.
Where our birthday celebrant is some people’s hero, who at some point ‘didn’t open his mouth’. Trump is an anti-hero who will never shut up. We don’t know what our birthday celebrant sounded like, we only have the transcripts. Whereas the sound of Trumps speaking style seems to cause detractors to go into convulsions. It’s possible Trump haters are allergic to the sound of his voice, is so bad.
I remember once in an interview during the 2016 campaign, Trump was asked about his somewhat unorthodox get down in the mud mouthy behavior. The interviewer questioned whether or not Trump would/could turn off the pugnaciousness on the unexpected chance he ended up winning the election. He smiled and said that acting Presidential will be so easy..it will be boring but easy.
Ironically, the Dems and their media hounds never gave him a chance to relax against the constant made up attacks. So we got and still have the constant fighter. He really is remarkable in that regard.
I have a two word rebuttal to this ridiculous sophistry. Bill Clinton.
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Although, truth to tell, if any of the charges against Trump been real, and not concocted out of the gossamer dreams of hardcore Democrats whose brains were long ago destroyed by a mix of cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol, then he might really be in trouble. But they’ve thrown lawfare at him for so long and so relentlessly that if he really did shoot someone in Times Square at high noon there are 80 or 90 million voters whose immediate response would be to assume it was just the Democrats in the Deep State concocting some more ridiculous charges to throw at Trump.
That kerfuffle with the Colorado Supreme Court? In the days since then Trump has since increased his polling lead over Biden, and his campaign is raising money off it. So keep it up, Democrats.
Backing the strong horse.
"But it's hard to believe that other beleaguered politicians will fight like Trump. The Trump example shows that by fighting, you attract endless woes — multiple impeachments, felony charges, efforts to confiscate all of your wealth, the most miserable smears on your character."
Many non-lefties saw how shamelessly Trump has been treated, beginning with the escalator ride down in June, 2015, with no letup. Americans, having an inborn sense of fairness, witnessed Trump being railroaded including by his own party (Paul Ryan as speaker disgusted me). That alone has earned Trump support. The left is amazed at his growing support with each one of their stake-to-the-heart efforts.
Exactly what I been saying.
What is the problem?
A representative from the TSA told Fox News:
For non-citizens and non-U.S. nationals who do not otherwise have acceptable forms of ID for presentation at security checkpoints, TSA may also accept certain DHS-issued forms, including ICE Form I-200 (Warrant for Arrest of an Alien)...All passengers whose identity is verified through alternate procedures receive additional screening before being allowed into the secure area of the airport.
Why won't those darn villagers come running when the shepherd boy cries wolf? It's a mystery.
There is no mystery. Fighting is one of the two reasons I backed Trump from almost day one. The other is that he wants to make America better for Americans. Yes, America first.
Some people seem to lose sight of the fact that we like it when someone fights, if they're wronged.
“Trump fights for us.”
This simply is not true. Trump fights for Trump, full stop.
He talks a lot and says things people like to hear but nobody can name an instance when he has fought for others.
The key to Trump is easy - compliment him and he is putty in your hands. Fauci figured it out but none of the other Democrats did.
"I think the reason Spitzer — and let's throw in Al Franken — didn't stand their ground and fight is that they were beholden to their political party. Trump never was in thrall to other Republicans. He took over the party. Who holds sway with him?
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Maybe some of these others — Spitzer, Franken — would have prevailed if they'd fought."
The Party's priority was to get Trump by any means necessary, and if a few minor players had to sacrificed, so be it. My guess is they were told not to fight. Calls to mind Barbara Lawson's tearful retraction from the WI gubernatorial race so that Tom Barrett could run against Scott Walker. Walker won, of course, but Lawton's political history was probably thought to be too far left as compared to Barrett's nice guy persona.
I stand with Israel (sic)...
"Remember right after the 2016 election - The Washington Post(D) headline 'We must Impeach Trump'"
The day after the election in 2016, nearly all print outlets had Trump in black silhouette on their covers or front page. I bet they thought they'd never need it. Trump Montage
What the fuck is supposed to be the comparison? Trump is accused of ‘crimes’ invented by the opposition party. Spitzer had butt sex with prostitutes, a crime you know but the problem is optics and the feelings of leftie white women. A leader who has butt sex with prostitutes while pretending to be a family man in a monogamy is kind of a hard sell with leftie white women. Not because of the butt sex but the imposition on those women obligated to support the guy politically while pretending to value women…and their rights or something. It’s kind of a hard sell…
It was butt sex? I'll be jiggered.
That's what I like about the blog. An Althouse reader never stops learning.
"So he too has become a genuine New York real estate magnate, but Eliot Spitzer (no longer "Client #9") respects the rule of law and isn't likely to be sued or run out of town by Tish James to disgorge $250M as is the case with TFG."
Um. Gadfly, I don't think that supports the point you think you are making. I presume tht Spitzer and his companies borrowed some big money to develop those properties. Based on property valuations which were higher than assessed values. Why isn't Letitia James looking into that?
The Democrats have made Trump into a folk hero.
Franken recorded his comic sexual assault of a captive woman. Even Bill #MeToo Clinton exhibited better judgment. Biden does it where democracy dies in darkness. Harris takes a knee for progress. What is a human rite worth to the men and women of Venus, Mars, and Uranus?
Original Mike said...
I have a two-word rebuttal to this ridiculous sophistry. Bill Clinton.
The sophistry herein is O-Mike's rebuttal. Using an unrelated person, Bill Clinton is a deceptive attempt to cover up the perfectly good reasoning on the part of TreeJoe.
At Shiloh in April, Grant fought one of the bloodiest battles in the West and came out less well. President Lincoln fended off demands for his removal by saying, “I can't spare this man–he fights.”
The other mystery is how a man who electoral record is abysmal became such a hero? America used to back winners. Trump is a sad sack crybaby loser for has fucked up so many elections at this point its hilarious. The ONLY reason he won once is because Hilary is soooo awful and detestable. But what major election since has he helped the GOP win? Lost 2020. Fucked up the Senate multiple times. Never met a pedophile DA he didn't want to endorse.
The argument against Trump is he is a LOSER. He fucks up everything he touches. It's like the GOP has become diehard Cleveland Browns fans and they really, really think this season will be different. It's Super Bowl baby! (But all the refs hate us 😢😿😢 Sad Trumpies. Awww...) Or maybe try something new, dipshits.
Let it burn! I'm making pancakes. Fuck you all.
well Spitzer destroyed companies like Lehman and AIG, he was one of the SDNY pirates,
"I think the reason Spitzer — and let's throw in Al Franken — didn't stand their ground and fight is that they were beholden to their political party. Trump never was in thrall to other Republicans. He took over the party. Who holds sway with him?"
This is close to correct, I suppose, but here is the truth that isn't mentioned here- Spitzer and Franken were actually guilty of some of the things of which they were accused. There isn't any real doubt Spitzer was buying the services of prostitutes and the Tweedon photograph isn't in doubt either (some of the other claims against Franken are less certain, but the people making those claims weren't Republicans, so the political motivation to lie isn't clear-cut).
In the case of Trump, the Democrats have been warping the law to make actions Trump took look like crimes- they are basically using novel, never before used legal interpretations of statutes to charge Trump with criminal activity. An innocent man should never bend the knee to his persecutors- in fact, he should knee his persecutors in the groin as often as possible. This is why Trump might well be indispensible- he fights back against the very worst Americans in politics.
Franken was a useful idiot, for Obamacare's 59th vote, then they brought him back for the Russia Russia sideshow,
This really did start with Bill Clinton. When the Lewinsky story first broke, it was generally assumed that, if it were true, he'd be finished, he'd have to resign. But he calculated that was a skillful politician that he could hold together enough support within his party and with the voters that he could ride it out. Part of the calculation was that the public would turn on the GOP for pursuing the sordid matter so tenaciously. In any event, the assumption that he was mortally wounded, once tested, proved to be false.
It's similar with Trump. He's proven repeatedly that there are enough people who either like his policies, like HIM for being sort of a renegade, or who HATE everything the deep state and leftists are doing to the country, that he can at least weather the blows that have been dealt him, if not use them to his advantage. Eliot Spitzer seems rather late to the party in coming to that realization.
D.D. Driver.
This rant from a guy who voted for Biden. You haven't a leg to stand on.
I guess he was mildly amusing in the 70s, but then so was Chevy Chase,
regardless they have an even insulated hack like Tina Smith looting merrily,
getting back to Spitzer destroying Ace Greenberg's work, making it possible for Cassano to exacerbate the subprime crisis,
“efforts to confiscate all of your wealth”
Exaggerate much? I know, it’s the times we live in.
Said Eliot Spitzer, a man who resigned for nothing more than using prostitutes
Romney gave up when Candy Crowley wouldn't take his side in a debate.
In the case of both Spitzer and Franken - the Democrats were able to replace them with another Democrat - and that was better than risking an electoral defeat to a Republican. I am quite sure that if Minnesota had had a Republican governor ready to fill Franken's seat with a Republican, he would have fought it out and the Democrats would have fought with him. Better analogy is Bill Clinton - who should have resigned when the Lewinsky affair came to light - but simply refused.
“What the fuck is supposed to be the comparison? Trump is accused of ‘crimes’ invented by the opposition party. “
Trump is supposed to give into supposed crimes fabricated by his enemies.
He was impeached twice:
- for questioning the corrupt deal made between the Biden’s and the Ukrainian govt.
- for questioning the corrupt election that installed Biden as President through very obvious election fraud.
He is also defending himself in four criminal trials:
- FL: made up crimes by the same DOJ (Counterintelligence and Export Branch) and FBI (Counterintelligence Division) orgs that sabotaged his candidacy, and then Presidency, starting in summer of 2016. We are talking about the orgs behind RussiaGate, Crossfire Hurricane, Mueller investigation, esp. The real target of the MAL raid was likely the binder of documents that Trump ordered declassified his last full day in office, that implicated these two organizations in gross misfeasance and malfeasance. It’s orchestrated by the head of that DOJ unit, Jay Bratt, who is also Smith’s Deputy Special Counsel.
- DC: J6 “Insurrection”, orchestrated by Pelosi, her Capital Police, and the FBI. In response again to the blatantly stolen election through very visible election fraud.
- GA: the prosecutor defending the GA portion of the election fraud.
- NY: AG ran for election on platform of getting Trump. It’s using made up values of properties to allege that he filed false property value estimates, that the lenders have stated they didn’t rely on, and would have committed malpractice if they had. The Court used appraised property values, which invariably are inaccurate, and in this case grossly so, as testified by RE experts.
In the law, there are traditionally two types of crimes: Malum Prohibitum and Malum In Se. Both Spitzer and Franken can be argued to have engaged in Malum In Se types of crimes. Trump’s alleged crimes don’t even rise to the level of Malum Prohibitum, because the interpretations utilized by prosecutors invariably involve LawFare type (and with even actual LawFare participation in some cases) cutting and pasting of statutes, using novel applications of the law. Because they are novel interpretations of existing statutes, it is likely that any convictions would be overturned on appeal, on Due Process grounds, because there was no reason for Trump to have known that his behavior had been criminal at the time he engaged in it. And, yes, since these prosecutions were saved up for late 2023, and are all running into 2024, they are fairly obvious and egregious attempts at election interference.
So, the question is, why should Trump quit in the face of very obvious election interference by highly political prosecutors engaging in LawFare constructed prosecutions that are unlikely to survive appeal?
Great missive AA.
Trump has some odd gene that almost nobody else has, certainly no one in politics.
As for clearing his name, how is OJ doing?
D.D. Driver.
This rant from a guy who voted for Biden. You haven't a leg to stand on.
"Said Eliot Spitzer, a man who resigned for nothing more than using prostitutes."
That's not quite how I recall it. But that's an interesting choice of words on your part. "using prostitutes". Or, perhaps, being used by prostitutes. Prostitution is an inherently exploitive transaction. Quid, meet quo.
"Said Eliot Spitzer, a man who resigned for nothing more than using prostitutes."
That's not quite how I recall it. But that's an interesting choice of words on your part. "using prostitutes". Or, perhaps, being used by prostitutes. Prostitution is an inherently exploitive transaction. Quid, meet quo.
Dope D:
The argument against Trump is he is a LOSER. He fucks up everything he touches. It's like the GOP has become diehard Cleveland Browns fans and they really, really think this season will be different. It's Super Bowl baby! (But all the refs hate us 😢😿😢 Sad Trumpies. Awww...) Or maybe try something new, dipshits.
What was gas on November 4, 2021? What was inflation? What the the unemployment rate of black men ? He fucked up the Obama plans to transform the country. Now that "Let's go Brandon" is in charge, Obama's plan is going ahead. And you voted for him.
“It’s a mystery!”
Anyone who could write this and mean it is too stupid for me to bother reading on. If he doesn’t mean it (the more likely scenario) he’s too much of a liar for me to bother reading on.
I guess what strikes me is the casually dismissive tone. So he used a few prostitutes. Big deal. That's what they're there for. Not that I necessarily disagree. Consenting adults, and all that. But I am somehow reminded of the way that women who are being paid to be sexy are always referred to as "girls". Cheerleaders, strippers, dancers. Whores. "The girls". They are a commodity, something you may enjoy. They let you grab 'em by the pussy!
"The common thread in the answers were that those haters are loons."
Not really. I think it is rather, that they could not possibly hate him for the reasons they are willing to provide, so they must hate him for reasons they prefer not to disclose. That doesn't make them loons. It makes them liars.
What was the reason to support Trump back even in 2016?
He Fights!
Something sorely missing after Mitt Romney rolled over for Candy Crawley. Romney wouldn't even bring the fight to Obama.
My sister, as loony a leftist as any, sent me an e-mail this AM in which she referred to "Trump, that vicious rapist, would-be general-killer and Putin emulator, fat, sloppy, supercilious ugly ...".
Huh? What? Rapist? Oh, right. Like Kavanaugh. Would-be general-killer? Since when is my sister concerned about the well-being of military officers? Putin-emulator? Are they thinking he's going to invade Canada? He did mention buying Greenland.
No, whatever they're steamed about, they aren't saying. But they're good and steamed. I think they realize that "He's exactly like you!" is not a persuasive argument against him.
I read the article. Spitzer said that he resigned because he felt he owed it to the public and to his family. So here we see how high minded, public spirited family men like Spitzer react to scandal. He's in some way a role model for all politicians, especially those who butt fuck prostitutes....I read this article just after the obit on Negri that Althouse comments on above. There was apparently some evidence that Negri was part of a group that committed acts of terrorism and kidnapped and murdered a prominent Italian politician. By my reckoning that's a worse offense that butt fucking a prostitute, but Negri didn't retire from public life. Instead, he ran for and got elected to the Italian government after his imprisonment. He received a nice obit in the NYT and lots of people on the left mourn his passing.....Say what you want about Trump, there's no evidence that he butt fucked Stormy Daniels.
I was surprised that the Democrats threw Al Franken under the bus so hard. He seemed to toe the party line really well for them.
I'm not saying that what he did was right, but many politicians did things that were far worse and weren't forced to resign.
Personally, I think that he should have dug his heels in and stayed. This whole idea that because someone did something stupid years earlier means that they need to automatically lose their jobs is heartless and stupid. If it's not that serious an offense and the person apologizes and is remorseful, they should be cut some slack.
If everyone were automatically fired, and became un-hirable, because they did something inappropriate earlier in life, we'd have a shitload of unemployed people.
Humperdink nailed it--the Lincoln qoute re US Grant "He fights" is appropriate.
Donny Two Scoops is a battler. It's a good characteristic to have in a US President. That biography of Teddy Roosevelt that our host has qouted also notes that Teddy was happiest when he was battling against opposition.
A lot of criticisms of Trump are fully justified--crude, arrogant, the attitude of a New Yorker from Queens (I grew up on the Western Slope myself and that Noo Yawk attitude is a problem). But mostly Trump battles for the right sort of things--including stanching that bleeding sore on our Southern border. Nobody's perfect, and in an electoral world of binary choices, you have to take the bad with the good.
January 2022. Spitzer still paying.
“ afterwards, the then-25-year-old threatened she would 'make it worse than 2008' for Spitzer, when he resigned as governor over patronizing another prostitute - according to a text exchange between the pair.
Travis-Zakharova, who is said to have charged clients $5,000-a-night for her services, later recanted the charge. Spitzer claimed she was trying to extort him.”
"But it's hard to believe that other beleaguered politicians will fight like Trump."
Maybe the ones who are not guilty of the accusations will fight like Trump, and for the same reason.
One big difference is- Trump isn't guilty of anything, even Trumped up charges that have never been used against anyone in the past.
And Bill Clinton, mentioned before, didn't have to put up any kind of fight. The lamestream media and his acolytes covered for him- "Everyone LIES about SEX!", which, of course, wasn't what it was about.
The culture of American politics has changed. What Spitzer omits is that in the past, any politician with as much evidence of foreign corruption pulled up against him as Biden has would have been driven from office. That's no the longer the case, and Biden doesn't even have to fight; the establishment protects him.
Eliot Spitzer was not in hot water just because he used prostitutes. As the state’s Attorney General he had aggressively prosecuted prostitution rings. He also deliberately violated the law by structuring the payments to the prostitution enterprise so as to evade the reporting requirements related to money transactions over ten thousand dollars.
He was also a vicious and vindictive man who abused his prosecutorial powers, which earned him a lot of enmity.
Biden is doing great by every objective measure except poll numbers. Biden keeps humming this tune:
You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'
And you keep losing when you oughta not bet
You keep samin' when you oughta be a'changin'
Now what's right is right but you ain't been right yet
These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
Blogger Rusty said...
D.D. Driver.
This rant from a guy who voted for Biden. You haven't a leg to stand on.
Spitzer; Franken; the Democratic Party; the establishment Republican Party; they are all disadvantaged in relation to the TrumpWing. The disadvantage that they have, compared to Trump, is that they have principles, policy positions, and they are trying to assemble legislative and electoral majorities in order to accomplish policy goals.
Trump is just out to advance himself. An election would be nice, but if not an election, then a court case, or martial law, or street violence. Shamelessness is Trump’s super-power. There’s no need to moderate anything or adhere to any principles or norms when all that matters is the next stunt for the next news cycle. Policy schmolicy. What is working with the Fox News audience?
Trump is a businessman. Name another president with that identity, that grounding. He literally owns foundations, the kind made out of cement. He doesn't want or need to win over his enemies; he wants to win, over them.
Pre-presidential Trump was celebrated for being an American success story and he spoke lovingly of America and his fellow Americans. He ran on the platform MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and by every metric things were going much better than they have under Biden, who positioned himself as the antiTrump. And he took it to the extreme of canceling help for Ukraine that was preventing war and y’all know the rest of the Biden disasters that are ongoing and haven’t yet peaked (bottomed out if you prefer). This is a preface to my point that his actions demonstrate that he loves America and his foreign policy of America First is again demonstrably patriotic. Everything Biden has said and done demonstrates his dislike for average Americans and disinterest in the pain he has caused: the crippling inflation, the disastrous Afghan fiasco that to this day has our citizens and allies stranded under Taliban tyranny. He paid Iran billions of dollars to release a few hostages but hasn’t lifted a finger or done anything about almost a dozen kidnapped by Hamas. He wouldn’t shut up about a stupid lesbian WNBA player because he’s keen on pandering for votes when not hectoring blacks who might consider Trump. He got the guilty player released but hasn’t even mentioned the names of the hostages in Gaza. He doesn’t care.
And even if I’m wrong about Trump I will be better off in his America than the dystopian nightmare Biden has blithely created.
Howard said...
"Biden is doing great by every objective measure except poll numbers. Biden keeps humming this tune:"
No. He's not. But you go ahead. Vote for him again.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
“efforts to confiscate all of your wealth”
Exaggerate much? I know, it’s the times we live in.
************
OK, OK....we'll re-phrase. Not all our wealth, just a large portion of it.
Better?
"Biden is doing great by every objective measure except poll numbers.
Name one thing he's doing great. Just one.
Said Eliot Spitzer, a man who resigned for nothing more than using prostitutes.
His job was enforcing the law, and he was violating it.
Franken ran on the Democrat "respect women" platform, and was caught violating that.
Trump? Trump has apparently not committed a single crime int eh last 10 years. Because with all their law fare, they've yet to come up with a single actual crime to charge him with.
I know I couldn't survive the kind of investigation Trump's been under. And neither could 90%+ of Americans.
Policy schmolicy.
It's the new slogan for the LLRs!
He talks a lot and says things people like to hear but nobody can name an instance when he has fought for others.
Obvious lie. Or brain dead commenter. There are rational arguments to be made about Trump. Put on your thinking cap and stop with the stupid shit already.
400,000,000. Libs should be careful what they wish for.
"This has been the mystery of the Trump era — every time we think this is the final straw, it turns into a steel beam that merely solidifies his political infrastructure."
There's no mystery: just like in Palestine, the people who did the original 'wrong' (the Democrats and the Zionists) are, years later, still trying to make it credible, and permanent, by piling on ever more heinous wrongs. But everyone can see through it, except for those people who've supported the original 'wrong,' who are now left wallowing in cognitive dissonance, instead.
Jim at said...
"Biden is doing great by every objective measure except poll numbers.
"Name one thing he's doing great. Just one."
Howard's not big on veracity. You're going to have a long wait.
Once again, the opponents of Trump fail to realize he is merely a symptom of our disgust with them, not a love affair with Trump. Should Trump stroke out tonight, our disgust with his opposition would remain. And they might not like what gets chosen to replace him.
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