A lot of members of the @HouseGOP and @SenateGOP think that there is some end to Trump's insatiable appetite for obedience.
There isn't.
You thought all you had to do was not criticize him. Wrong.
You thought all you had to do was not impeach him. Wrong.
You thought all you had to play along as he pretended he won the election. Nope.
You thought all you had to do was stay silent on whether or not you'd help him try to overturn the election. Not good enough!!
Trump behaves like a gangster. Think about what would happen in a criminal gang when a new recruit goes along with a few petty crimes but tries to draw the line at something serious. The leader will respect that, right? Nope! You'd better do it or else!!
You think Trump is going to just be satisfied by some futile stunt on January 6th to try to "protest" the election outcome because his feelings are hurt? Nope. That's not the end. There is no end. You'll be on call for him to do whatever dumb un-American thing he asks. Forever.
Some of you guys think that you're Trump's supporters or even his partners (I really feel sorry for those of you who think that. He'll roll over you like a locomotive the minute he gets hungry and you look tasty).
What you are, folks, is his prison bride.
Notice that Trump is not threatening Mitt Romney. Because Romney stood up to him and he knows he has nothing over him.
But for those of you who have caved for him, time and time again, he thinks he owns you. And, to be fair, why wouldn't he think that? You've taught him to.
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Some dishonest Trump surrogates and supporters try to make it seem as if the 2020 elections were some sort of anomaly. That Trump was doing awesomely and that something must have gone suspiciously wrong in order for him to lose.
And so I prepared this little recap ...
Trump took office in January, 2017.
In November, 2017, the GOP lost the New Jersey Governorship
In 2018, the GOP lost the Governorships in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Wisconsin.
Also in 2018, Trump’s party lost a Senate seat in Arizona and a seat in Nevada.
The GOP that year also failed to flip the Senate seats Democrats held in Montana and West Virginia. Despite Trump personally making repeated trips to Montana to campaign against Jon Tester. Nope!
I won’t ever understand why some people had such a hard time believing that COVID exists or that there are common sense things we can do to keep it from killing more people.
It takes a lot less faith to believe the truth than it takes to believe a lot of their other theories.
1) There’s an airborne pathogen which is both much more deadly than the flu and also more contagious.
2) The virus affects different folks differently. And not always the way we expect. A lot of people have no symptoms at all. It’s killed little kids. Some have lasting issues.
3) You can spread the disease to others, if you have it, just by talking. Even if you FEEL fine. You can get it by just being near people who have it.
4) Wearing masks significantly cuts down the chance that infected people will unknowingly spread it to others.
Another observation: every Senate race in the last six years that came within five points went the same way that the Presidential race went in that state. This does NOT factor in the wildness of run-off races.
Hassan (D) won New Hampshire by 0.14 points in 2016. Clinton won NH that year.
Toomey (R) won Pennsylvania by 1.43 points in 2016. Trump won PA that year.
Cortez Mastro (D) won Nevada by 2.43 points in 2016. Clinton won NV that year.
Blunt (R) won Missouri by 2.79 points in 2016. Trump won MO that year.
Johnson (R) won Wisconsin by 3.36 points in 2016. Trump won WI that year.
Peters (D) won Michigan by 1.68 points in 2020. Biden won MI in 2020.
A total of 345,672 human lives were lost to abortions performed by Planned Parenthood, America's leading abortion provider, in a 365 day period, in 2018-19. The most it ever reported.
A total of 340,553 human lives were lost to COVID in America over just the last 305 days.
So that means that an average of 947 human lives a day ended as a result of abortions performed by America's leading abortion provider.
And an average of 1,116 human lives a day ended as a result of COVID in America. The place that has become the world's epicenter for the virus.
I am and will always be pro-life. I oppose the ending of human life through abortion. I care about human life at all stages - both before we leave the womb and afterward.
But I don't understand being concerned about human life only when it's in one location or the other.