this morning. One can debate what our role in the Ukraine war should be, or how much money we should spend. But anyone telling me the war is Ukraine's fault because they rejected Putin's "generous" peace terms after he invaded another sovereign nation without provocation and murdered thousands of their citizens while capturing their territory can F right off.
Matt Gaetz is with Darren Bailey tonight in my area.
If you remember, Mike Bost (current Republican congressman) yelled at Gaetz last year when Matt was yelling at Kevin McCarthy.
Fun times
back in 2022 in a small gathering at a friend's house. He's much easier to deal with in person, and comes across as a very nice guy, if a bit religious nutty. Obviously he was a terrible candidate, and helped me lose again that year. [Hard to win when the top of your ticket is 30 points under water.]
But Matt Gaetz? Good grief. Everything about him, including his physical appearance, screams douchebag. I was at an event for a friend last year, and they also mentioned potentially bringing in Donald Trump Jr. I had to suppress my gag reflex. He may be the worst of the whole bunch.
...in February 2023, at an evented advertised as open only to police officers, I saw Bailey and his wife in line in the sidewalk waiting to go into the Elmhurst K of C. I wondered if the regular DuPage GOP met with Bailey at that time.
Bailey signs even here in Trump country.
I think Bost will beat him. He’s established and well-known.
I’m not voting for either but I don’t think there’s Democrat running against him.
Actually, in my county, EVERYONE will be selecting the Republican ballot as the most hotly-contested race is that for Judge. Rather than go through trying fund a campaign twice, all the candidates are running as Republicans. High drama in this one. Objections to the Election Bureau for residency concerns, wives and ex-wives going back and forth.
My attorney (and NDN lurker) brother and I think there’s enough here for a movie.
Edit - Agree on Don Jr. I had a beer (in ironically enough) when I was working in Scranton with Eric. His now wife started out in one of the media groups in the area. My at the time girlfriend was on some local committee with her.
So yeah, there I was in the back of the Scranton Cultural Center with a then unknown Eric for no more than a few minutes while our girlfriends were working.
Then he can award Tucker the "Hero of Russia" medal, and ship him off to the Ukrainian front.
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre is one of my favorite books. Philby averaged a fifth of gin a day for most of his life. I couldn't function, yet he managed to not only function, but be one of the most notorious spies ever with that much gin flowing through him.
You wonder how they pulled it off.
I never understood how there could've been Nazi sympathizers in the 30s and Communist sympathizers in the 50s. MAGA has clarified that.
Note I did not say he’s Jane Fonda with a penis. Only the bow tie is certain.
He's fringe now, and he will soon be forgotten altogether. He's scuttles around like a cockroach, sort of like that MOGOAzul guy.
Online stuff doesn't make up for that.
Essentially he's fading into oblivion, or wherever Bill O'Reilly is hanging his hat these days.
Compared to Newsmax, FoxNews is Mother Jones.
and that's why I hadn't heard about him in a while. I suppose Newsmax is career hospice.
Still amplify his content, send pictures of Zelensky as a welfare queen etc.
He's weaker but the party is buying what he's selling.
At least when Americans believed the hype in the USSR or Nazi Germany, America was in depression and those places had improving quality of life for people not in death camps. Median income there is poorer than Mexico and the place remains a stagnant backwater.
Coming from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.
I know Twitter brings out the worst in people and the worst people, but those comments are inane.
It attracts the wackos, but it does provide a service in that it never lets you forget there are a hell of a lot of wackos.
game
I can not fathom what his play is here, perhaps I am dense.
almost entirely run by Democrats, look bad with a message of, if Russia can do it, why the hell can't you, as well as trying to make the point that people care more about their day-to-day lives than they do the political issues that seem to dominate our current political discussions. Anyone with two brain cells, however, realizes that one nice supermarket and one nice subway station do not a prosperous nation make. It's not clear to me if Tucker is actually this stupid, or he just thinks his audience is that stupid?
which is why i find it odd.
His actual political views are somewhere around Reagan Republican. At some point, maybe 15 years ago, he realized how lucrative it would be to buy into the Palin/MAGA wing of the GOP. He became a snake oil salesman and sold his soul. His true self isn’t aligned with his media persona. He’s a fraud.
But kudos to him for becoming very wealthy.
And he's right.
I doubt the timing was an accident.
Maximum pain.
More the "Russia is so much better than the US" play.
Aside from a few q-anon/MAGA idiots who are so far gone that they can't even process rational thought, you've now made anything you ever say suspect because of this lunacy.
It's lost on me.
Side thought re: Navalny -- he went back to Russia to stand up to Putin, knowing that it meant death. The current GOP are too scared to stand up to Trump because he may give them a nickname and say something mean on Truth Social #perspective