CHRISTIE: Donald, if you pardon your kids, they'll be forced to testify against you. And they will. You've trained them to be selfish. You know them. They'll bury you. You cannot be this stupid. It'd be the dumbest thing you could do
IVANKA: Daddy, don't pardon anyone who is not family. Not Manafort, not Giuliani and gosh, not that vile creep Stephen Miller. The more you pardon, the more there will be investigations. Keep pardons just within the family, Daddy.
DON JR: Sir, Ivanka testified in DC against you & Eric testified in NY. You can't trust them. Eric isn't even our blood. That freak was fathered by Gary Busey. Just pardon me
TRUMP: Should I pardon your scary wife, the Gargoyle?
ERIC: Sir, pardon all of us, all of your kids. Not just Jr and Ivanka, but your adopted kids like Lindsey Graham, Matt Gaetz and me. And Sir, also pardon all of your illegitimate kids like Hope Hicks & Hannity. Pardon all of us
GIULIANI: "Don't pardon your kids. They're all conspiring against you. Eric testified in New York. Ivanka testified in DC. Don Jr incited that riot in DC. Pardon me. I'm the only one you can trust. So only pardon me."
IVANKA: Daddy, don't pardon the boys. Junior is an idiot and incited that riot in DC. Eric is a moron and isn't even our blood. We all know his dad is Gary Busey, so fuck him. Just pardon me
BARR: What idiot suggested you could pardon your kids? Anyone who was involved with you will now be forced to testify against you! Was it Hannity? Don't tell me you're listening to Giuliani again? Hasn't he given you enough trouble?
TRUMP: Mike? I don't have a bid from you. Don't you want a pardon?
POMPEO: No Donald. I'm better off negotiating with the FBI & ratting out this snake pit. I'm gonna go do that & call it 'being on quarantine for Covid'. Good luck
HANNITY: Sir, I'm the only one of your biological children who has remained loyal to you. Even Ivanka is now ratting you out in DC court. Don't pardon them. Fuck 'em. Pardon only me
FIRST TRAMP: Stuff your pardon, Donald. I don't need it. I made recordings. The divorce takes effect on 20th of January & I'm taking Barron. We have a saying in the Slovenian Hooker Association: "I really don't care, do you?"
"Mr DeJoy, I just got word from the President about your pardon. Because you couldn't rig the postal vote, I was asked to tell you that your pardon got lost in the mail. I am so sorry."
Hey Donald! We didn't need to even think of pardoning our kids. Also, everybody you pardon will have to testify against you. Even we could not imagine you being this stupid. Have a great time in prison!
OPERATOR: Line 1 is Matt Gaetz, asking about his pardon. Line 2 is Ted Cruz, asking about his pardon. Line 3 is Jim Jordan, asking about his pardon. Line 4, Rudy Giuliani is calling about his fee #PardonRoulette#PardonGate
PARDON ROULETTE
COHEN: Donald, just so you know. After you didn't pardon me, I told everybody how you treated me, and told them all to make recordings. It doesn't matter whether you pardon them or not, they will all screw you when they testify.
No. We did not meet to discuss bribes to sell Presidential pardons. No. Not at all. No pardons were discussed. We were... discussing the... Rolling Stone cover with ... Lipa? Dua Lipa
GIULIANI: Donald, even if you pardon yourself on federal crimes, you'll face New York state crimes. I hold evidence to put you away for life, on your crimes in New York. Don't pardon your kids, they're ratting you out. Just pardon me.
TRUMP: No. I'm not giving any of you assholes leading the Republicans any pardons at all. You fuckers didn't fund my Wall. So I will launch the Patriot Party instead, to destroy you and your pathetic party
I seem to have some issues with moving into tremendous Mar-A-Lago on January 20th. Would you happen to have a spare bedroom for a couple of months? I could grant you a full Presidential pardon in exchange?
TRUMP: I am a bit tight on cash right now. What if I give your lackeys all Presidential pardons, like Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham & Ron Johnson? Would that be enough for me to get asylum in Moscow? I promise I'll pay you back everything
TRUMP: I am a bit tight on cash right now. What if I give your lackeys Presidential pardons, like to Jared Kushner? Would that be enough for me to get asylum in Saudi Arabia? I promise I'll pay you back everything
TRUMP: Rudy said that a Presidential pardon won't stop New York state from prosecuting you, & a pardon would force you to testify against me. So I'm not going to pardon either of you. Also, there is no money left in my will, I'm broke
TRUMP: Should I give you a Presidential pardon, for the bribes I accepted when I made you a Justice of the Supreme Court? Would that help or hurt you? Maybe you should reconsider whether you will pay me another bribe now?
"I Donald J Trump hereby pardon Donald J Trump for all crimes foreign and domestic; federal, state, local and on Twitter; before, now and in the future. And I won the election."
Remember Trump was collecting the spreadsheet where they listed more than 100 who had asked for a Presidential Pardon? (and that list before the DC riots would have growth to near 200 or more)
It is a MONEY collection spreadsheet. People bid on pardons
Now if Trump has taken bids on pardons - and doesn't deliver - people will be mighty upset if they paid half a million for example expecting a pardon, and Trump then doesn't deliver.
THEY WILL BE BLACKMAILING TRUMP - demanding pardons that they already paid for
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I mean literally brainwashing. Please see psychological and sociological theories. I mean literally building a cult - that CANNOT FIND THE TRUTH
It is like the Branch Davidians (mass suicide)
Steve Bannon built this cult for Trump
I mean literally brainwashing. MOST OF YOU have relatives or friends who are inside the cult. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot find the truth. They believe in their brainwashing.
PERFECTLY SANE even intelligent people can be brainwashed. It is not 'stupidity'
Yes MANY of the Trump #cult45 are gullible and some are mentally simple, many are lowly educated. BUT plenty of smart, educated, successful people have fallen into the cult - and like any cult - they cannot get out.
If you learn from the doctor, that you have cancer, that is spreading that cannot be stopped, but must be cut out, the sane thing is to cut out as soon as possible, to remove as little as possible? Right?
I showed you, that the GOP accepted racists into their midst (Wallace). Then they made deliberate decision to abandon fighting for the political center, and embrace extremist views (Newt). Then GOP fell in love with conspiracy theories (Sarah Palin) and locked into a cult (Fox)
All this makes the current GOP a FRINGE party, a natural MINORITY party that cannot win general elections and only can win those elections where the race is artificially in their favor (gerrymandering) or cheating (voter suppression etc).
It was Fox. Fox created a Maga Nation (without that name) and promised their maga god Messiah would come some day. In 2015 when Trump came down that escallator, FOX proclaimed Trump as their dude
Trump didn't even know the lyrics
Fox News was born after Reagan ended the Fairness Doctrine in TV news broadcasts.
Fox was set up from the start to be a PROPAGANDA channel. To give PARTIAL and BIASED news. Not the full picture. They brainwashed 1/3 of American electorate over 3 decades
Long before Trump decided to run, Fox had been building a voter base for an ultra-conservative (and racist) candidate. Who would 'defend America in a war against Christmas' and who would 'build a wall' to keep brown people away etc. A cult of white men who feared a changing world
Aka let's try to do SPD again, Sarah Palin's Disease. Sorry, my 2nd Thread was longer than I expected with Newt.
So now let's do Sarah Palin properly, in her own thread.
While George Wallace is the grandfather to Trump's run in 2016 (starting in 2015), there are not enough racist voters to win the election. Not even enough racists to win the NOMINATION of the GOP.
Trump needed to expand his support in 2015 & 2016. He needed INSANE voters.
The real prototype candidate to Donald Trump is Sarah Palin - a candidate so bad, she COST John McCain millions of votes in 2008 against Obama. Yes, exit polls are clear, for every 2 votes Sarah brought in to McCain she brought 3 votes to Obama. Net cost to McCain several MILLION
Looking at the coming split of the GOP, next up is the era right up to Trump announcing his run in 2015. What happened in the decades right up to that moment. We get SPD, Sarah Palin's Disease. Alas, there is no cure
I like to joke that the GOP got infected by SPD Sarah Palin's Disease but many have pointed out that no, the GOP became sick well before Sarah. And the root cause is Newt Gingrich.
The first corruption of GOP as a politically viable party came via Newt
When the GOP came off its immense power era (2 terms of Reagan, record-national support, leading to rare 3rd term by one-term Daddy Bush) - then came suddenly the populist Bill Clinton - who stole the Republican thunder and stole the MIDDLE GROUND of politics
So my Ph D treaties on Twitter, about how Trump split up the GOP. We start with history of course. And we go to the political era before Trump. To the origins.
No. Not Sarah Palin.
No. Not Newt Gingrich. The origins:
George Wallace, the last racist
So reality check to my younger Tweeps, some who do not know this. Up to the 1960s, it was the DEMOCRATIC party that was the racist party and the Republicans stood for equal rights. Yes that is true.
The South had 'Dixie-crats' who were KKK Nazis, Democrats who were openly racist
The last Racist to openly run for President to win some (Southern) states - was former Democrat - turned Independent, George Wallace.
Democrats threw the racists out of their party and embraced the minorities, with a passion. Today it seems impossible to imagine DEMs as racists