As he's in the news, time for another episode of our popular series of 2024 GOP wannabes
Tonight's hero: Failed James Bond Villain, the mute Henchman The Chrischristie ("with a stare so cold, so devoid of emotion, so empty, so desolate, it was like.. Jersey")
Christie thread 2/
The Chrischristie illustrates perfectly the dilemma that the GOP is in, after the Senate GOP failed to impeach Trump after Jan 6 riots. Christie has to play both sides of the fence. He is an astute politician, he is doing this far better than most. Let's study
Christie thread 3/
The Chrischristie is definitely making obvious run for 2024 POTUS. Make no mistakes about this. He ran in 2016, was a lower-midfield contender, saw he won't win it then, dropped out early, to endorse -very strongly - the obvious winner-to-be, Trump.
Christie thread 4/
Christie's early 2016 game plan was... to be on the top of the ticket NEXT, after Trump. He saw Trump will win the 2016 nomination (early polling, first primaries, fractured GOP) and calculated he'd align TOTALLY with Trump, and become his shadow
Chris thread 5/
The Chrischristie understood the political climate & polling, knew Trump was likely going to be crushed by Hillary Clinton, and if Christie were the Veep, he'd 'inherit' the leadership for the 2020 election cycle. IF Trump won, Chris would still be frontrunner
Chris thread 6/
As we know, Trump is a gullible child, and trusts the dude who happens to talk to him last. The Chrischristie understood this very well, and made sure, he was always the last man to talk to Trump. Chris could count on becoming the Veep. He was playing Trump
Christie thread 7/
A funny thing happened on the happy highway to Veepsville. Someone shut down his bridge. Christie didn't know how broke Trump was. Paul Manafort sailed in, with Putin millions, and took over the campaign (briefly) and forced Trump to take Pence instead as Veep
Christie thread 8/
The Chrischristie was stunned. His months of humiliation & babysitting the toddler Trump & his tantrums were wasted
But this Bond villain was not defeated. Like Jaws he returns, stronger. Christie became Trump's Transition Manager, the guy who picks his staff
Christie thread 9/
As Transition Manager, the Chrischristie could pick any job for himself. Everybody expected he'd take White House Chief of Staff, politically the most powerful man after POTUS. Trump WANTED him. Chris coulda been Attorney General or Secy of State. Anything
Christie thread 10/
But the Chrischristie now SAW what a corrupt guy Trump is, and who he wanted to his cabinet, including the crooks Trump took along, overriding security clearances. Chris KNEW Trump would be impeached. He wanted to be on the OUTSIDE when that happened
Christie thread 11/
Christie, a former high profile prosecutor, coulda been AG. Why not? A former Governor, coulda added his foreign policy credentials by being Secy of State? Why not? He knew Trump would fall from grace, wanted to be CLEAN when Trump fell. Remain on the outside
Christie thread 12/
Trump trusted Christie, called him regularly for advice. And used Christie for debate prep in 2020. Yet Christie was fast to say Trump lost his debate AND Christie said he'd have voted to impeach Trump. Christie needed a DISGRACED Trump out of the way
Christie thread 13/
Christie calculated that Trump will fall, and Christie decided not to join Trump's administration in any capacity. He NEEDS Trump removed.
But a cowardly GOP Senate didn't remove Trump. They did not impeach him. Now Trump looms large for 2024 and beyond
Christie thread 14/
Which brings us to today, and the groveling henchman, The Chrischristie is back to humiliating himself. He pretends to love Trump fully. He now proclaimed on Hannity at Fox, that Trump deserves an A for the four years!!
Christie thread 15/
This illustrates the GOP dilemma. They now HAVE to praise Trump, else they cannot hold hope to gain GOP base support. But secretly they hope that Trump is in prison by 2024. So that is what Christie is doing. He is preparing to run if Trump is not GOP ticket
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On Monday Judge Chutkan in DC (Jack Smith 2) case will hold a hearing about putting a gag order on Herr Hezbollah, the nation's Terrorist-In-Chief. Trump was under protective order. He breached it many times. So this is now his 'final warning'
Let's do a Thread
GAG ORDER THREAD/2
Don't look at me like that! This is JUSTICE. It is EXACTLY the same legal standard that would apply to you and me. Nothing more, nothing less. Trump is a FIRST TIME OFFENDER; has NEVER been convicted of any crime (yet). He was put on a 'protective order' FIRST
GAG ORDER THREAD/3
Then Trump repeatedly broke that protective order. We WITNESSED IT LIVE on TV and on social media, REPEATEDLY
But the Judge CANNOT do anything about it. Until she is FORMALLY told by the prosecution. She CANNOT do anything yet. It would be same for you and me
We certainly feel it was taking too long. In reality this is about par for the course, in some ways FASTER than normal, for such a large criminal conspiracy. Timing is similar to Watergate
FIRST of PLANNERS of Jan 6 go to trial, in Georgia in two weeks !!!
So January 6th, 2021 was two years and 9 months ago. Over 1,000 of the violent mob have been caught, over half prosecuted, and prison sentences for those running up to more than a decade in prison. That is justice
The ORGANIZERS of the Jan 6th plot are Trump, the Seditious Six..
The ORGANIZERS of Jan 6 are
Trump
Seditious Six (Giuliani, Flynn etc)
Evil Eleven of Congress (Gosar, Gym, Gaetz etc)
and a handful others (Roger Stone, Bannon etc)
They are ALL CAUGHT
Jack Smith STARTED to prosecute the organizers. Look who he has as WITNESSES to this crime
Trump calls Hezbollah "very smart" for their terrorist attack? Same Senile Man called Putin smart for invading Ukraine. And called murdering dictators MBS and Kim Jong Un smart
Meanwhile Trump has called HIS OWN CABINET and HIS OWN GENERALS idiots & stupid
General Mattis: Trump's not mature, a 5th grader
General McMaster: he's a dope, kindergartner idiot
Colonel Esper: irresponsible
General Milley: crazy
General Hytin: an idiot
General Kelly: Trump's crazy, an unhinged idiot
Next...
Then let's ask Trump White House staff, people Trump selected:
VP Pence: Trump is reckless
CoS 1 Priebus: he's an idiot
CoS 2 (Kelly, in above)
CoS 3 Mulvaney: terrible human being, a clown show
CoS 4 Meadows: Trump is worthless
SoS Tillerson: he's a fucking moron
Trump was massively embarrassed in New York, and that trial still continues. But this incident (Trump sitting in NY court for 3 days and then bailed) exposes insight into how incredibly stupid, and self-destructive Trump is
Let's do a Thread
New York New York Thread /2
So what happened? Trump sat in the civil trial - he is NOT required to be there (he must attend all criminal trials which start in March 2024). He feuded with the judge, got hit with a gag order, then stormed out of New York. Let's see how dumb it was
New York New York Thread /3
Donald the Duck McTrump's whole brand is based on the carefully constructed fake illusion, that he is somehow a 'billionaire'. WE know he is not. That Trump is a fake, a con-artist, living on other people's money. But his SUPPORTERS believe that lie
What happens next? The House cannot conduct any other business until it has selected a new House Speaker. The GOP is in civil war. It may be chaos for a while. Most likely they find a suitable Republican Speaker
DEMs do not have votes for DEM Speaker
BUT DEMs could make a deal
If a slice of Republicans (as few as 6) ally with DEMs, then that alliance could select (a Republican) speaker
Realistically the most logical such choice is an EX House Republican, like Liz Cheney
Because of GOP civil war, DEMs have leverage now
This is the deal I suggest:
DEMs make deal for ANY Republican who they can trust (like Liz Cheney, Kinzinger) where promise is 2 House Votes every week. One vote on legislation provided by GOP, the other vote legislation provided by DEMs. Both will get a floor vote each week
With Friday's bombshell news in court filing by Jack Smith of 3 more prosecution witnesses - now just about as big as they come - let's do a Thread about the flippers in Trump's life, the rats who all testify under oath, in criminal courts, against Trump
Flipper Thread/2
Trump committed an act of insurgency against America. That word is rarely used. The legal EFFECT is the same as 'treason'. Trump committed a crime which is essentially as bad as treason
So who does Jack Smith have as a witness? Trump's OWN Attorney General Barr
Flipper Thread/3
Bill Barr was not just the nation's top lawyer, as Attorney General, when this plot was first hatched - Barr learned of the idea - and TOLD TRUMP IT IS ILLEGAL. That is what Barr will testify under oath. That Trump KNEW this plot is illegal