This is a silly quote. Trump had several years to get him home and he’s still there.
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If you say it, they will believe.
Marjorie Taylor Greene told the crowd at the NY Young Republicans gala last night that, “the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol would have succeeded if she had planned it and that the insurrectionists would have been armed.”
https://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1602024490128605184?t=pm6uME7bvGGgGwlt4bAx0A&s=19
MTG had more nuggets to share at the same event:
“Greene didn’t limit her comments to boasting that she and Bannon could have ended democracy as we know it on Jan. 6. She complained about policies to protect transgender children in the classroom and claimed that “teachers can pass around dildos, butt plugs and lube.”
On the plus side, because of MTG I learned that CVS sells sex toys
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anything can be a sex toy with enough imagination
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Same. MTG probably just increased sales for CVS’s sex toys dept.
One time I saw Kleenex in the “family planning” section at a CVS. Well played, CVS, well played.
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He got rapper A$AP Rocky out of jail quickly, but not Whelan.
Probably because a Kardashian was involved.
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Sounds like a lot of Republicans are saying they don’t want Trump.
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One can hope…
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Yeah, I’ve seen that episode before. Everyone is ready to dump Trump, then he says something really racist, the liberals talk about how racist he is, so everyone realizes that Trump pisses off the liberals and comes flocking back.
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…I’ve seen that episode before. Everyone is ready to dump Trump…
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When in the past were Republican voters ready to dump Trump? Maybe early in the 2016 primary when they didn’t take him seriously, but that doesn’t really count IMO.
ETA the bolded, since it wasn’t as clear as I had assumed that I was talking about voters, not politicians.
January 7th. A month later most were ready to bend the knee again.
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I agree with this, though now_samantha has a point, which is that Trump hasn’t been in the news for years, so of course people don’t like him. His #1 talent was always shitposting his way onto the front page.
It helps a lot that the Republicans have already settled on a frontrunner this year, who already checks all the boxes. (establishment, rupert murdoch, chirstians, culture warriors)
Eh, I’ll nitpick this a little.
January 7 Republican Congress members were ready to dump Trump. By a month later they had realized that Republican voters were not.
But I don’t think Republican voters were really ready to dump Trump before.
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That’s true.
A significant number of Republicans dislike Trump, but they are generally reluctant in speaking out against him because of the potential voting strength of the MAGA crowd.
We should see the phenomenon more clearly as the 24 primary campaigns start up, assuming someone runs against Trump for the GOP nomination.
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I have edited my post to make it clearer that I was specifically talking about the folks polled, i.e. the voters.