Why I no longer have Retrumplican friends

[maxrandb]

Just heard this guy Joe Walsh "the former Retrumplican politician, NOT the excellent guitarist" say that "Donnie Dipshit having a toddler tantrum in the SUV and throwing food against the wall in the White House" will "only increase his support among the Retrumplicans".

Sorry, I have already raised my children. I refuse to be forced to do the same for "supposedly" grown adults.

[pwb]

1. That was all a staged event because he had no intention of going to the Capitol.

A big lie to make it look like he wanted to go. IMO

[SoCalDavidS]

4. He Absolutely Wanted To Go, And Lead His Cult

There is No Question of what he wanted. It was far from an act.

[oldsoftie]

13. I agree. He wanted to lord over the attack. Just like a Mussolini nt

[gordianot]

18. Taking down the Magnetometers was a line too far for the Secreet Service.

A rough equivalent of a President riding in a convertible.

[aggiesal]

21. I agree, he wanted to go to the Capitol ...

He wanted to walk into the House chamber with his Q militia and intimidate Mike Pence into declining the electoral ballots from "their" contested states.
Then when the all hell broke loose, he would impose the Insurrection act.

The Insur­rec­tion Act author­izes the pres­id­ent to deploy milit­ary forces inside the United States to suppress rebel­lion or domestic viol­ence or to enforce the law in certain situ­ations.

Under normal circum­stances, the Posse Comit­atus Act forbids the U.S. milit­ary — includ­ing federal armed forces and National Guard troops who have been called into federal service — from taking part in civil­ian law enforce­ment.

Invok­ing the Insur­rec­tion Act tempor­ar­ily suspends the Posse Comit­atus rule and allows the pres­id­ent to deploy the milit­ary to assist civil­ian author­it­ies with law enforce­ment.

As you can see from the excerpt, "Posse Comitatus" and "to enforce the law" are bold, that's because Pendejo45 wanted to enforce HIS law that Pence can decline electoral ballots to throw it back to the states he needed to win the election. And he would not lift the insurrection act until that happened.
To accomplish this, he needed to create chaos (i.e. pipe bombs at RNC/DNC HQ's, and the Insurrection at the Capitol) and be in the House chamber to lead the insurrection and enforce his coup.

That's how I see it anyway.

[radical noodle]

15. He's all about photo ops and publicity

He envisioned himself leading the charge like Napoleon or something. The conquering hero so to speak. There's no doubt in my mind that he expected to be there and be protected by that mob of thugs.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Oh, I totally believe the duped cult will love that about him.

They will say, “Wouldn’t YOU be angry if the election was stolen from you?” … “I like that he is so passionate!” …. “He loves this country so much sometimes he gets very emotional “, etc. etc.

They have no idea how brainwashed Fox News has made them.

[radical noodle]

16. Agree. They admire that combative attitude he projects n/t

[moondust]

3. Well yeah.

They worship their big fucking WWE alpha male boss man ordering everybody around and shoving anybody who gets in his way!

[dameatball]

7. Sorry to sound brutish, but I always wondered what would have happened if that guy had smacked him.

[3catwoman3]

9. I wish he had.

Trump is so crass and classless. “Ain’t got no couth.”

[dameatball]

12. Me too.

[moondust]

10. Well, if it had been

another juvenile predator he probably would have. Maybe next time.

[CottonBear]

11. That guy was Montenegro Prime Minister, Dusko Markovic

You just know he wanted to smack the orange brute.

TFG is a vile creature. Can you imagine being shoved aside by him?

🤮

[jaxexpat]

14. Putin would have invaded that guy's country earlier than planned.

[Lucky Luciano]

20. One trumper I know posted this beaming with pride while pointing out Biden is a comparative p**sy.

[BlueIdaho]

5. Why Bother?

Who needs that kind of insanity and stupidity in their lives? Not Me.

[LakeArenal]

6. Such an ugly man.

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. For all the reasons listed so far

and more, the bottom line is - the best thing you can say about them is that they are gullible, malleable and easily duped. Their judgement cannot be trusted on anything important if they are that easily suckered.

At the worst, they are full-blown racist assholes.

In no case are they worth associating with.

[Martin68]

17. The operative word is "trumplican." I still have Republican friends who hate Trump and all his

supporters. I know some will say, "how can they do that" or "how can you be friends with a Republican?" My reply is that I've always been a liberal, but there used to be a few valid concepts among the detritus of conservative thinking.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. He's right. They love it. He is them. At least in that regard...