Sen. Bill Hagerty says Republicans are looking at weakening the filibuster to ram the SAVE America Act through the Senate (Trump, who has called for "nationalizing" elections, has been pushing hard for the bill ahead of the midterms).
Decline of the GOP - XVII
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Sen. Bill Hagerty says Republicans are looking at weakening the filibuster to ram the SAVE America Act through the Senate (Trump, who has called for "nationalizing" elections, has been pushing hard for the bill ahead of the midterms).
I've long maintained one of the biggest screwups the Democrats made was saving Bill Clinton from his perjury. Remove him, put Gore in place, Gore wins in 2000 (and no, a pardon would not have lost him the race; he'd have been running on two years while in office of peace and prosperity). They paid a HUGE price for that - and yes, I know the GOP was just retaliating for Nixon, but I also know Clinton lied under oath.
Fast forward a little over a quarter of a century.
Now we have a GOP that has been handed not one but TWO chances to get rid of this piece of garbage forever, and party loyalty won out over common sense. OK, you can argue the first one over the Ukraine garbage (note: he still should have been removed)....but the 1/6 impeachment? Hiding behind technicalities is something lawyers do.
Right now as his numbers go down is the time for the GOP to get their stuff together. Tell Trump very simply, "You're coming up to Capitol Hill to answer questions about Epstein, if you don't, we're removing you from office because you're baggage we don't need and JD Vance is half your age and can run for reelection in 2028 while you can't."
If none of these GOP officeholders wants to keep THEIR OWN office badly enough to do this, they deserve to lose.
Democrats need to seriously contemplate the world they'd be living in had they succeeded in toppling the filibuster a few years ago. And Republicans need to as well. You'd think both parties would have learned from Harry Reid, but he's dead and doesn't have to live in the world he helped create.
Oh and one more thing: the raging cult that supports this guy, let's be honest: they're not going to stay home if Trump gets removed, and they're not going to vote for the Democrats, either. They'll suck it up and vote for any racist or fascist or even normal Republican who is on the ticket in a general election.
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
Oh dear God…… the real one, not the GOP one….
"Lee Greenwood is a pathetic has been, a guy married five times to four women, a loser from California who dared to enter the marketplace with his own false Bible. While "God Bless the USA" - and yes, amen - is a great song, it should not be tarnished while tied with the name of a loser like Greenwood and his Bible. Instead, you should buy the Trump Bible, the one inspired by Jesus Himself. Jesus has five letters, so does Trump. Can't be a coincidence. I'm cancelling Lee's future White House visits until he withdraws his pathetic attempt at sacrilege from the divine marketplace. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
- Trump's Next Tweet No Doubt
Yep. Although "Game respects game". Trump might be angry (WOULD be angry) with anyone infringing on his grift, it does seem to be ok with those who just want to destroy and debase everything.
CBS lawyers would not let Colbert air his interview with Talarico, thanks to Brendan Carr.
So he put it on YouTube.
Here are two great quotes from this interview by Talarico:
So he put it on YouTube.
Here are two great quotes from this interview by Talarico:
CBS and Carr are fully in the deplorables catagory.
Well, Colbert is a big, tough man isn't he?
His show is going away anyway, so he can afford to do this stunt. I mean, come on folks, you spent a decade telling me "nobody stands up to Trump except if he has nothing to lose" but then you boast about this guy standing up to Trump who - oh yeah - has nothing to lose.......
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I'm not boasting about Colbert, I posted the videos because 1) I like what he had to say about the idiot Brendan Carr in the first video and 2) I like what Talarico had to say in the second.
No offense, but Colbert has been speaking out against Trump from the beginning. It wasn't some change because his show is going away. I mean, he has been so vocal that he is losing his show because of it. I will never believe the financial excuses. He had something to lose and is losing it now, so I don't think this is your best example to use.
No offense, but Colbert has been speaking out against Trump from the beginning. It wasn't some change because his show is going away. I mean, he has been so vocal that he is losing his show because of it. I will never believe the financial excuses. He had something to lose and is losing it now, so I don't think this is your best example to use.
This just in from CBS: "THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options."
Not how I took it from you but okay.
Colbert has been speaking out against Trump.
He hasn't been "oh, let's anger the FCC" this whole time, however.
But now I have another question on this.
Isn't that equal time provision WAIVED for entertainment shows like Colbert?
Honestly. Is it?
I thought it was, but I may also be wrong.
Technically, yes but there are a lot of shows that have political candidates on as guests and call themselves "entertainment" but all they talk about with said guest(s) is politics. They're walking a fine line and everyone has been giving them a pass until Trump came along. Now he is holding them to the FCC standard, fair or not. Yes, I realize that Fox News is guilty of this as well.
My personal feelings is I wish we would follow the law on this one. ANY network that has a political guest on the show and the main topic is politics should be required to give equal time to opponents. There is a reason this law was created and it is fundamental to fairness in elections.
Yes, when I look at Donald Trump, "holding to standards" is absolutely the first thing I think of.
Right after the word "not".
Thanks for the reply, though.
It's always seemed kinda specious to me.
I know that for the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates they abolished the rule for just that. But fearing lawsuits they came up with a new subterfuge for the later debates: a debate was a "news event" that they would hold and if the "news organizations just happened to come along and cover it," that was fine.
VANCE: "AOC is somebody who doesn't know what she actually thinks. Politicians are given lines and when you ask them to go outside the lines they're given, they fall apart... This is a person who is mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her."
Do you think Vance realizes that he's describing himself?
So, he's not even worried about fairness; they are just gonna target the ones they see as "fake news", which is everything they disagree with.
Sure, whatever. I wonder why they are not concerned with radio, hmmm. Maybe because conservative talk radio dominates the airwaves.
Just more rules for thee, not for me, from this corrupt administration.
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