Members of Trump’s own party have lined up to condemn the deal, which pledges to help fund Iran and scrap sanctions
Republicans have turned on Donald Trump over his plan to end the war with Iran, accusing him of making the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades”.
The U.S. released the 14-point interim agreement on Wednesday as Trump signed the documents in Versailles, France. The terms included stopping the conflict and reopening the vital shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz, but also financing Iran’s recovery with a $300bn fund and scrapping sanctions.
“Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” said Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy on Wednesday, referring to the former president Trump admires.
MTG picked the perfect moment to leave Congress.
At this point, I have her as the front runner for the 2028 GOP nomination.
I guess we’ll see. On the one hand she’s a blithering idiot, which is a feature for the smoothbrains that vote Republican.
But on the other hand, she doesn’t have a penis, which might make it really hard for the Nat-C types in her base to overcome. I mean, their own text prohibits women having dominion over men.
I mean, we’ve already seen them vote for and otherwise support women (including MTG herself) for political office, so it seems this “principle” is pretty flexible/unimportant compared to all the hateful shit they’d like to get up to.
True. That’s why it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I saw some of them go ga-ga over Palin as potential VP, too. And she was just as gross and nasty and unqualified as MTG. And McCain was up there in years, and so him passing while being in office was not all that remote of a possibility.
It’s possible that she was a factor in him losing that election, though.
I’m familiar enough with lots of conservatives and heard them talk about women holding power. Being a Rep is one thing, being President is quite another…I don’t know who she ran against as far as Republicans, but she was from a R+19 district.
But ultimately, watching them try to balance “but she’s a woman she should not rule over men” up against the truly awful and un-American and disgusting things she would likely try to bring about, for example, making this a “Christian nation” will be interesting.
I’ve never spoken to her, or met anyone who has. But let’s look at the facts.
She didn’t just leave Congress. She waited until a point in the news cycle where she’d get a lot of notice. She gave up her office before being placed in a position to go against Trump in a realistic way [e.g. voting for impeachment.]
She’s in a great position to be a TV pundit for the midterms, which means more money and more exposure.
For a nitwit, she’s played some pretty cunning moves.
I agree, assuming she’s making a play here.
I think a lot of these people might be incredibly stupid at some things [1] and incredibly crafty and cunning at manipulation and scheming.
[1] Or great at acting like they are fucking morons to get the base to like them because the base confuses being smart with being “elitist”.
For one of the most extreme examples of this acting like a dumbshit act, see ol’ Foghorn Leghorn himself, Senator John Kennedy, is a Rhodes Scholar, who has a motherfuckin’ degree from Oxford. From his public persona, you’d probably never know this, since he sounds like a blend of Foghorn Leghorn and Hee Haw in his ridiculous folksy persona. For someone that now feigns to be so confused about things like gender, he sure has had quite the transition himself…
I always admired the way George W. Bush could be a Yale graduate with a vast fortune and a simple cowboy at the same time.
100%. I was going to bring him up, too, but my post was getting overly long as-is. 😀
I think some blogger had put up earlier W being quite sharp in some debate he had then contrasted that with some derpy thing he was saying during one of his two terms.
They were not necessarily politicians, but you’d see the same kind of thing (I think some people called it “redneck drag”) in the Duck Dynasty guys. There were plenty of people pointing out that these guys all looks like typical upper-class types, then at some point before the show, were sporting mountain man beards and plenty of camo.
That may very well apply here, too, but by “Nat-C”, I was turning around Christian Nationalism and making it match, phonetically, the party that it most closely resembles.
If people are not already familiar with Christian Nationalism / New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the plots and schemes of movements like the Seven Mountain Mandate, they should definitely brush up on it.
Marj is associated with Christian Nationalism and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) by the way.
I find it rather alarming to see that some people seem to be platforming Marj (and Tucker, FFS!) just because she’s criticizing PEDOnald on the Epstein thing and things like needless wars. Sure, a broken clock can be right twice a day, but people need to be very, very wary of people like her. Same goes for Tucker. I could see those two forming a ticket, by the way.
ok got it now, wasn’t familiar with the basic terminology yet
It’s funny because conservatism isn’t an ideology, it’s a disposition.
She is just insane enough to make it work. Then again she is a woman. And shes fetal alcohol syndrome or whatever that is. That’s the redeeming quality.
I don’t think she’ll ever make a serious bid at the presidency. She might throw her hat into the ring to grift and raise money but MAGA will never accept a woman as a leader and even the majority of conservatives think any white man is better than a competent woman or non-white individual.
That’s how we wound up with Turnip.
I still cannot process this is reality.
Harris never won a primary and ended up Veep and a potential President.
Politics is a complicated game, and so far she’s shown some good moves.
2028 is along way off. I am not counting anything out.
I haven’t seen any polls that put her at double-digits.