Never in the history of the country has there been a more transactional presidency. Combine that flaw with an unqualified cabinet, and we have one dangerous situation. However, we learned from his first term that a more qualified cabinet would have a very short shelf life.
Marjorie Taylor Greene joined the My Way Or The Highway Club this weekend, and Trump will support a primary opponent in the spring. Trump's problem with Greene will snowball this winter. Between $35 steaks, Epstein and the coming cold, his support is already waning. His tariff waffling has only created economic uncertainty.
Taylor Green might emerge a political maverick, like John Fetterman. Trump already coined one of his immature nicknames for her, Wacky Marjorie. When the public turns against him, it is going to turn fast and hard. Trump's messages have no consistency, because he has no plans, only reactions. MAGA knows the new ballroom isn't for them.
I'm not here to be polite or popular
ADDENDUM: Green has announced her resignation from Congress effective January 5, 2026.
I never have like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Her supporting Russia’s unprovoked wars of conquest on its neighbors and insinuating about double-loyalty of Jews and her arguments against Israel I simpy do not agree with at all.
ReplyDeleteRarely someone who supports one Evil doesn't support another.
Her antisemitic comments was it for me. She is an embarassment as an American
Brent - I know nothing about MTG, but I doubt she “…was supporting Russia’s wars of conquest on its neighbors.”
DeleteIt is far more likely that she, like many Americans, don’t support American involvement in the Russia-Ukraine’s war.
I know that those who want America involved there attempt to smear those who don’t as supporting/loving Putin or Russia, but I think you know that’s not the case.
They say that the truth is the first casualty in war, and that type of rhetoric prevents people in this country from having the honest conversation that should be had.
We can, and need to, do better than that.
@7:04 You are very wrong. 80% do support the plight of the Ukranians. Our national aims, ever since the revolution is to support liberty and freedom. To support people who never wanted war and escape the tyranny the Russians want to impose on then.
DeleteUkraine does not want the American military to fight in the war the Russians imposed on them. They are simply asking for help to achieve victory by repelling the Russian invaders on their soil. Every night, Putin sends missiles into their homes, into their markets, into their churches, into their children's playgrounds. They need more weapons to stop this carnage.
Even now, after Trump says he is imposing sanctions on the two largest Russian energy companies, which largely provide the money for Putin to continue his invasion and his pillaging of Ukraine, Trump has now given extensions to those who continue to fund the invasion.
Yes, we can do better. We can provide the Ukranians the weapons they need. And give them the victory over tryanny and the freedom and liberty they are entitled to enjoy.
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You are on board with the full MSM and the bipartisan Washington establishment in supporting the NATO/EU/ Internationalist proxy war against Russia.
The MIC apperc
8:35 am - Yes, 80% of Americans (or more) do support the Ukrainians. However, that number plunges significantly when it comes to writing the Ukraine a blank check or providing them with weapons and missiles that could reach deep into Russia. Many rightly worry about what escalation that type of aid could bring.
DeleteIf a Russia or China gave another country weaponry that could reach into the US, I know how we’d react and it wouldn’t be pretty. Why would we expect the reaction from Russia to be any different?
You'd might as well announce as a democrat, Mike. Your TDS is now full blown, and your blog has been removed from my bookmarks list....
ReplyDeleteHA! I just did the same thing. Shouldn't matter to Mike, though. He claims he's not interested in the size of his readership. I have a second black cloud over my head. I post as Anonymous.
DeleteAfter at least 15 years participating here it's now ADIOS!
About "TDS".
DeleteI'm tired of hearing the overused worn out expression. In truth the "TDS" applies to the "MAGA" movement. It's they to seem to suffer the most from it. In the future I hope they can come up with something more creative to parrot for the next 3 years.
7:26 - I find “TDS” to be a perfect description. Everyone (no matter what their political persuasion) knows what it is, and it saves a ton of space and effort having to describe it each time.
DeleteI suspect that you’re so tired of it because it’s so accurate.
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DeleteYes, the history of
US FOREIGN POLICY is a study of intentions noble, kind, generous and enlightened.
Absolutely.
Is "TDS" Trump Derangement Syndrome, as the right-wing wants to call it? Or is it Trump Delusion Syndrome, as those in the far-right wing of the Republican Party, who are the MAGA supporters of President Trump are full of the delusion that cultists have for their leader?
DeleteThe MAGA that can not accept any criticisim, at all, of their great leader.
The MAGA that immediatley considers anyone who disagrees with Trump to litterally be un-American at best, or at worst to be a "Liberal" ?
Currently, being called a Liberal is the same as what in the 1950s, the members of the John Birch Society, a historical group of fringe right-wingers similar to what MAGA is today, called "Communists"
Personally, I dislike the extremists on the fringes of both the Democrats on the left and Republicans on the right. Both sides tear the unity of the United States apart with their extremist views, and their intolorance of those who do not agree with them fully.
I'm simply an American who is sick of the rhetoric of both sides. Who is sick of everything one does today that has been tainted politically. One of whom President Nixon called the "Silent Majority"
MTG finds herself in the same position as Liz Cheney once did. No matter how Republican one is they become an outsider to the new MAGA party within. MTG's business has now had a threat of a pipe bomb, her office and home suffer with numerous fake pizza deliveries. Not everyone agrees with everything a president does, but that doesn't make them an enemy even though Trump sees things that way. One day people will come to realize the king has no clothes. Let's hope the country can recover from that day if it's not too late already.
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I also posted the tired of hearing TDS/MAGA thing I don't know why google's not showing my ID
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I was born during the Truman administration. I ALWAYS vote.
I spent almost fifty years as a registered, often very active, Dem, albeit one who voted Green frequently. I voted for one Republican mayor, one Republican D.A. and one Republican for President. one time. Stream to the average person out there just a little time.
I reregistered Independent when I returned home from the Philadelphia Convention in 2016.
Sad.
Pathetic.
Predictable.
I see TDS in full delusional flower all over the media, the community and my extended family regularly.
I’m talking about hateful, insane, wild TDS.
Liz Cheney was part of Donald Trump's second impeachment. She was one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach him for "incitement of insurrection" after the January 6th Capitol attack.
DeleteThat put Ms. Cheney directly in bed with the Nancy Pelosi Democrats who paraded that political theater fraud upon the people of the United States, and differentiates her significantly with Marjorie Taylor-Green.
Ms Green's political views are indeed repulsive to many with her support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and her vile anti-semitisim. However associating her with Liz Cheney is a presumtion that goes too far as she is not a crazed lunatic of the left.
anons@6:47&7:10: Sorry for your departures, but not for my questioning about this administration.
ReplyDeleteLVIC@7:50: Amazing how Trump resorts to juvenile name calling against those who leave the band.
MGT was always a traveling Southern joke. Bleached hair, uneducated, lacking decorum, disrespectful, and loud, just loud. However, she knows which side of the bread gets buttered and as you explained, Trumps presidency is transactional. She has found that she gets as much press criticizing him, as praising him. Her sudden found wisdom is interesting, and I’m glad she grew a set. Many of her peers would benefit from the same, especially in our Congressional district.
ReplyDeleteMarjorie Taylor Greene is one of the biggest grassroots fundraisers in the GOP, that's a big difference between her and Liz Cheney. She has a future in the party and is trying to prepare the party for what comes after Trump for the GOP.
ReplyDeleteI think she'll mark a more significant GOP defection than previous ones, (Cheney, Kinzinger, Flake, etc.) though I guess we'll see as a lot depends on the results and fallout from tomorrow's vote in the house.
Rubio and Vance will decide the R Party future.
Deleteneither have the juice to be pres after Trump.
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DeleteThat comment had a short shelf life.
Why didn’t the Progressive Democrats didn’t release the Epstein material during the four years of the Biden administration?
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