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The Death Throes of the Old Republican Party

February 7, 2024 Buck Banks

“Politics used to be the art of the possible. Now it’s the art of the impossible. Meaning, let’s put forward proposals that can’t possibly pass so that we can say to our respective bases, ‘Look how I’m fighting for you’ … We’ve gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.”

— Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), commenting on his party’s inability to govern, quoted by Punchbowl News.

Stupidity or Malice … Or Both?

February 6, 2024February 7, 2024 Buck Banks

“This era of American politics will end, one way or the other. And when it does, historians are likely to debate whether its defining characteristic was stupidity or malice. … I’ve gone back and forth in my own mind, but I now realize that the two traits have almost fully merged. Malice is creating stupidity, and stupidity is creating malice.”

Almost Half of Americans Want Trump Verdict Before Election

February 6, 2024 Buck Banks

48%

CNN Poll: “About half of Americans, 48%, say it’s essential that a verdict is reached before the 2024 presidential election, and another 16% that they’d prefer to see one.”

Haley Slams Trump for Praising Xi

February 6, 2024 Buck Banks

“Praising dictators is not normal. Make America normal again.”

— Nikki Haley criticized Donald Trump’s recent praise of Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling it abnormal.

Four Convicted Capitol Rioters Are Running for Congress

February 6, 2024 Buck Banks

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“Nearly 900 people have been convicted of crimes related to breaching the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Now, at least four of them are trying to make their way inside the building again, but this time as elected officials,” NOTUS reports. “House Republicans say they’re fine with it.”

Trump Is Immunodeficient

February 6, 2024February 7, 2024 Buck Banks

He thought he could trample our laws with impunity,
While sowing fascism, chaos, discord and disunity.
But Donald Trump has just found,
That by jurisprudence he’s bound.
He might have chutzpah, but he ain’t got executive immunity.

Month: February 2024

The Death Throes of the Old Republican Party

“Politics used to be the art of the possible. Now it’s the art of the impossible. Meaning, let’s put forward proposals that can’t possibly pass so that we can say to our respective bases, ‘Look how I’m fighting for you’ … We’ve gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.”

— Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), commenting on his party’s inability to govern, quoted by Punchbowl News.

Stupidity or Malice … Or Both?

— David French

Almost Half of Americans Want Trump Verdict Before Election

48%

CNN Poll: “About half of Americans, 48%, say it’s essential that a verdict is reached before the 2024 presidential election, and another 16% that they’d prefer to see one.”

Haley Slams Trump for Praising Xi

“Praising dictators is not normal. Make America normal again.”

— Nikki Haley criticized Donald Trump’s recent praise of Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling it abnormal.

Four Convicted Capitol Rioters Are Running for Congress

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Trump Is Immunodeficient

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%