Biden is right: Trump's wounded ego was the main reason for Jan. 6

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/06/bidens-speech-identified-terrible-truth-jan-6-insurrection/

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In what may be the most powerful speech of his presidency so far, President Biden delivered a searing (and overdue) indictment on Thursday of his predecessor — never mentioned by name — for inciting a mob attack on the Capitol exactly a year ago. Biden identified the central truth of the insurrection: “The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election … because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. He can’t accept he lost.”

That’s exactly right. There was no higher principle at operation on Jan. 6. This was not a battle over tax cuts, abortion, immigration, infrastructure, vaccine mandates or any other policy — none of which former president Donald Trump seems to care much about anyway, save to the extent that they are useful chum to excite his followers into a frenzy. Trump was willing to stage an assault on more than two centuries of democracy in America simply because his all-encompassing ego will not allow him to admit that he was repudiated by more than 81.2 million voters.

And most Republicans, it is now clear, seem just fine with that. A party that once stood for certain principles — lower taxes, traditional values, a strong defense — has been reduced to a cult of personality for a narcissistic television personality. The GOP didn’t even have a policy platform in 2020. What is normally a lengthy document listing positions on issues big and small was reduced to a one-page statement affirming “that the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.” Trump-first agenda is more like it.

Remarkably enough, Republicans’ desire to cater to the whims of the orange emperor has not lessened in the past year despite his loss of power (and his Twitter account). The Republican National Committee — whose chair, Ronna McDaniel, dropped the “Romney” from her name to appease Trump — even agreed last month to pay up to $1.6 million of the former president’s personal legal bills in investigations of his shady business practices. The probes of Trump by New York prosecutors have nothing to do with his actions in office. But the RNC has become his personal piggy bank. Indeed, the entire Republican Party has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump Organization.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. TFG is a baby

You knew that TFG would lose it when Joe called TFG a loser

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[GB_RN]

7. Not Realistic. You Can Tell It's Photoshopped By His Hand...

It is WAY too big in that photo.

🤣😂🤣😂

[musclecar6]

2. I read

Thru the replies on Twitter to this. They were all good and the one I liked best was Mark Hamill's description of a demented sociopath. Perfect characterization of a would be Hitler, who never stops conning, lying and cheating his way to have absolute power absolutely.

[UCmeNdc]

3. Trump is just a "power mad" "greedy" piece of S__t!

[malaise]

4. Greed, power and ego

in any order

[Earth-shine]

6. Add "stay out of prison" to your list. nt

[ShazamIam]

5. Publicly blame sore loser syndrome and be thankful but cautious, Trump adm was busy privatizing

(converting tax funds and government assets to private income and wealth). Prime targets, privatizing Medicare which may be continuing under Biden, and of course privatization the USPS.

Privatization is theft.
No bidding, no investment risk, but increasing costs to users, reducing service, limiting redress, reducing wages and benefits for the workers.