Branch Trumpvidians 3: Too Many Deplorables

[47of74]

I was browsing through the old LOLBible thread, and realized we haven't been keeping up with Jon McNaughton -- the last "painting" of his I could find in an FJ thread was the animated Trump petting the flag one.
Here are some more recent  . . . um . . . things:

 
This is one devoted, dedicated, deluded man.

If I ever met him face to face I would be sorely tempted to ask him the kind of questions that would get me sent to a prayer closet for the next 50 years.

[thoughtful]

More from McNaughton - as he sketches, he talks about how he works, and how he went from thinking "is this guy for real? He's pretty crass" when Trump first announced his candidacy, to thinking he was "exactly what this country needed."

This is a man who really likes Trump, and he doesn't even see how petulant and paranoid his idol looks in the sketch.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I think MAGA hats must be lined with tinfoil.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

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[JMarie]

No mention of Trump, but I'm guessing the teacher is a Trump supporter

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/utah-teacher-tells-boy-excited-to-be-adopted-by-2-dads-its-nothing-to-be-thankful-for/ar-BBXAvHo?ocid=spartanntp

[Audrey2]

4 hours ago, JMarie said:

No mention of Trump, but I'm guessing the teacher is a Trump supporter

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/utah-teacher-tells-boy-excited-to-be-adopted-by-2-dads-its-nothing-to-be-thankful-for/ar-BBXAvHo?ocid=spartanntp

I saw this and I so badly wanted to give it an angry reaction because that's how I feel. I guess I'm a liberal because I would much rather a child get adopted in a home that's going to love it and nurture it and care for it then have it continued to be part of our overburdened foster care system. Almost as appalling are the people who are constantly complaining about taxes and having to pay for social services including foster care who still don't want this child to go to a home where, once he's adopted, his adoptive parents will no longer receive any money from the foster care system.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[thoughtful]

On 12/1/2019 at 8:54 PM, JMarie said:

No mention of Trump, but I'm guessing the teacher is a Trump supporter

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/utah-teacher-tells-boy-excited-to-be-adopted-by-2-dads-its-nothing-to-be-thankful-for/ar-BBXAvHo?ocid=spartanntp

I love what the kid's classmates and principal did, though.

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Three female students asked the teacher to stop multiple times, and, when she didn't, walked to the principal's office to report her.

The principal walked the substitute teacher (and full-time bigot!) to the door, and told her "There's the door, keep walking."

[thoughtful]

I found this on someone's Facebook page while looking at McNaughton's stuff:

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We don't have enough eye-roll smileys for that. Trump is so disgusting, I think the picture works better with this text:

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[Audrey2]

Well the prayer sounds good. I would just intend to use it in a different way.

[thoughtful]

1 hour ago, Audrey2 said:

Well the prayer sounds good. I would just intend to use it in a different way.

Other than the "Christian values" part, I agree with the whole thing. But I suspect the woman who posted it is thinking of the exact reverse of the people we're thinking of!

[fraurosena]

Turns out a presiduncial pardon isn’t what it’s made out to be.

The asshole probably doesn’t realize that by accepting a pardon you are admitting guilt. 

Why would he think anyone want to hire an admitted war criminal?
 

My record would be expunged! But I went on national television to get my five minutes in the Faux spotlight, and now everybody knows what I did despite the records... and that I don’t regret mudering two people and even admitted I would do it again. They also know I’m advocating for other war criminals to be released because I talked about that on Hannity and Faux and friends.

And now I am sooo astonished nobody will hire me. 

[GreyhoundFan]

From Max Boot: "Will the GOP’s born-again Trumpers ever pay the price for selling out?"

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Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), one of the best-liked members of the House, announced his retirement last week in a searing letter that deserves more attention than it has gotten. “The countless hours I have spent in the investigation of Russian election interference and the impeachment inquiry have rendered my soul weary,” he wrote. “I will never understand how some of my colleagues, in many ways good people, could ignore or deny the President’s unrelenting attack on a free press, his vicious character assassination of anyone who disagreed with him, and his demonstrably very distant relationship with the truth.”

I, too, am soul-weary and incredulous that so many Republicans who are “in many ways good people” could become imitators and enablers of the most dishonest and corrupt president in U.S. history. I’m not talking about crazy conspiracy-mongers like Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) or Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Given their intellect and character, you can’t expect anything better from them. I’m not even thinking of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who is smarter but just as unprincipled. What I find crushing is how many normal, mainstream Republicans who know better have sold out to President Trump.

The paradigmatic case is, of course, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R.-S.C.), who once upon a time accurately denounced Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot.” Now “Lickspittle Lindsey” will not even look at the copious evidence against Trump because he claims the impeachment process is “a bunch of B.S.” Another notorious example is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who warned that Trump would turn out to be an authoritarian leader. Now he will not even protect State Department employees from character assassination by Trump’s henchmen. I met both Graham and Pompeo in the pre-Trump era (which now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era) and I am still shellshocked by their transformation. It’s as if their brains have been scooped out and replaced with Trumpian mush.

I must be an awful judge of character because there’s a whole lot else I didn’t see coming. I didn’t anticipate Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), a scion of the Republican establishment, referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by the same racist slur that Trump uses. Obviously Trumpism is contagious. Cheney doesn’t seem to care that Trump is unwinding the internationalist foreign policy that she and her father always championed — at least not enough to stop making excuses for him. She somehow manages to blame his betrayal of the Kurds on … the Democrats for daring to impeach him!

Nor did I anticipate the transformation of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner who first supported Jeb Bush in the Republican primary. Last year, as Trump’s ambassador to Britain, Johnson fired the well-respected deputy chief of mission for daring to mention President Barack Obama in a speech, Julia Ioffe reports in GQ. Yet another example of how Trump’s courtiers come to resemble their master.

Then there is Nikki Haley. I have written that “she acquitted herself admirably” as ambassador to the United Nations because she managed to keep her distance from Trump; she was much tougher on Russia than the president is. But now, perhaps hoping to supplant Mike Pence as vice president, she seems intent on erasing any impression that she might be any better than her erstwhile boss. “In every instance I dealt with him, he was truthful, he listened and he was great to work with,” Haley told NBC in reference to a president who has uttered more than 13,000 falsehoods while in office. She has also parroted the White House spin on impeachment, which she calls “a distraction from what the American people really care about.” (Would that be toilets — a subject on which Trump had a lot to say on Friday?)

Worst of all, Haley has emerged as a born-again defender of the Confederate battle flag. She told Glenn Beck (another Never Trumper turned Always Trumper) that mass murderer Dylann Roof had “hijacked” an emblem that before 2015 had stood for “service, sacrifice and heritage.” Umm, the Confederate flag has always stood for white supremacy, because that’s what the Confederacy was fighting for. Anyone who isn’t a graduate of Trump University should know that. By pretending not to possess such elementary knowledge, Haley appears intent on undoing the credit she received for taking down the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. Why would she do that? Perhaps because Trump loves “beautiful” Confederate monuments.

The Republican Party’s born-again Trumpers are not only morally obtuse but also politically myopic. They might judge their transformation to be necessary to survive in today’s political environment (although why a multibillionaire like Woody Johnson should kowtow to a poorer president remains a mystery). But sooner or later Trump will be consigned to the ash heap of history. In the future, a Republican who dared to stand up to Trump might turn out to be a more marketable commodity than all of the Trump mini-mes who now flatter and fawn over a president who will be remembered as only the third occupant of his office to be impeached.

 

[fraurosena]

16 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

From Max Boot: "Will the GOP’s born-again Trumpers ever pay the price for selling out?"

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Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), one of the best-liked members of the House, announced his retirement last week in a searing letter that deserves more attention than it has gotten. “The countless hours I have spent in the investigation of Russian election interference and the impeachment inquiry have rendered my soul weary,” he wrote. “I will never understand how some of my colleagues, in many ways good people, could ignore or deny the President’s unrelenting attack on a free press, his vicious character assassination of anyone who disagreed with him, and his demonstrably very distant relationship with the truth.”

I, too, am soul-weary and incredulous that so many Republicans who are “in many ways good people” could become imitators and enablers of the most dishonest and corrupt president in U.S. history. I’m not talking about crazy conspiracy-mongers like Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) or Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Given their intellect and character, you can’t expect anything better from them. I’m not even thinking of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who is smarter but just as unprincipled. What I find crushing is how many normal, mainstream Republicans who know better have sold out to President Trump.

The paradigmatic case is, of course, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R.-S.C.), who once upon a time accurately denounced Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot.” Now “Lickspittle Lindsey” will not even look at the copious evidence against Trump because he claims the impeachment process is “a bunch of B.S.” Another notorious example is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who warned that Trump would turn out to be an authoritarian leader. Now he will not even protect State Department employees from character assassination by Trump’s henchmen. I met both Graham and Pompeo in the pre-Trump era (which now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era) and I am still shellshocked by their transformation. It’s as if their brains have been scooped out and replaced with Trumpian mush.

I must be an awful judge of character because there’s a whole lot else I didn’t see coming. I didn’t anticipate Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), a scion of the Republican establishment, referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by the same racist slur that Trump uses. Obviously Trumpism is contagious. Cheney doesn’t seem to care that Trump is unwinding the internationalist foreign policy that she and her father always championed — at least not enough to stop making excuses for him. She somehow manages to blame his betrayal of the Kurds on … the Democrats for daring to impeach him!

Nor did I anticipate the transformation of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner who first supported Jeb Bush in the Republican primary. Last year, as Trump’s ambassador to Britain, Johnson fired the well-respected deputy chief of mission for daring to mention President Barack Obama in a speech, Julia Ioffe reports in GQ. Yet another example of how Trump’s courtiers come to resemble their master.

Then there is Nikki Haley. I have written that “she acquitted herself admirably” as ambassador to the United Nations because she managed to keep her distance from Trump; she was much tougher on Russia than the president is. But now, perhaps hoping to supplant Mike Pence as vice president, she seems intent on erasing any impression that she might be any better than her erstwhile boss. “In every instance I dealt with him, he was truthful, he listened and he was great to work with,” Haley told NBC in reference to a president who has uttered more than 13,000 falsehoods while in office. She has also parroted the White House spin on impeachment, which she calls “a distraction from what the American people really care about.” (Would that be toilets — a subject on which Trump had a lot to say on Friday?)

Worst of all, Haley has emerged as a born-again defender of the Confederate battle flag. She told Glenn Beck (another Never Trumper turned Always Trumper) that mass murderer Dylann Roof had “hijacked” an emblem that before 2015 had stood for “service, sacrifice and heritage.” Umm, the Confederate flag has always stood for white supremacy, because that’s what the Confederacy was fighting for. Anyone who isn’t a graduate of Trump University should know that. By pretending not to possess such elementary knowledge, Haley appears intent on undoing the credit she received for taking down the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. Why would she do that? Perhaps because Trump loves “beautiful” Confederate monuments.

The Republican Party’s born-again Trumpers are not only morally obtuse but also politically myopic. They might judge their transformation to be necessary to survive in today’s political environment (although why a multibillionaire like Woody Johnson should kowtow to a poorer president remains a mystery). But sooner or later Trump will be consigned to the ash heap of history. In the future, a Republican who dared to stand up to Trump might turn out to be a more marketable commodity than all of the Trump mini-mes who now flatter and fawn over a president who will be remembered as only the third occupant of his office to be impeached.

 

There is one explanation for this mind-boggling transformation into imbecilic trumplican zombies that everybody seems to forget: it wasn't only the DNC that was hacked in 2016.

The Russians also hacked the RNC (and who knows which other Republican servers they also managed to get into, then, and since). The Russians have gathered a heck of a lot of kompromat on them. They probably get orders like:

(note I'm making this stuff up -- somewhat)

Do this for us Lindsey, otherwise everybody will find out what your actual sexual proclivities are.
Defend Trump, or the public will know all about your activities with those male escorts, Gymmie boy.
Make sure no bills are passed in the Senate, Mitch, or we'll release all the information we have on your personal finances, which are shady as eff.
If you don't push our propaganda every time you open your mouth, Devin, we will release all those nasty little video's you secretly like to watch when you're alone in your bedroom at night.

Of course I don't know exactly who or what's what with regards to the kompromat. But the fact that the Russians have dirt on them is pretty obvious.

[47of74]

Sounds like a nice man (sarcasm) 

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A MAGA-movement Congressional candidate known for his failed attempts to unseat Maxine Waters was arrested Sunday for allegedly stalking his ex-girlfriend.

Republican Omar Navarro, 30, was picked up around 2 a.m. in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood and booked on suspicion of violating a restraining order, extortion, stalking and criminal threats, police confirmed to the Daily News.

The ex-girlfriend, conservative commentator DeAnna Lorraine Tesoriero, told The News she called the cops on Navarro after he threatened her life in a series of messages and was spotted pacing outside her window wearing a black hoodie.

She claimed Navarro has continued to send her disturbing messages after he posted bail and was released from custody.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Another prince /sarcasm

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[fraurosena]

12 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

When I see people like her, genuinely upset, I so wish I could talk to her. I really want to know why she believes he's done such a great job. What exactly does she think he has done? What has he achieved? 

But then I realize that she probably gets her information spoon fed to her by Faux and Sinclair, and I know such a conversation would have no effect whatsoever.

It's so disheartening to see the effects of the propaganda machine.

[thoughtful]

Take away their chocolate - they don't deserve it.

[GreyhoundFan]

I can't stand Limbaugh. What a tool.

[fraurosena]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I can't stand Limbaugh. What a tool.

I am shaking with rage right now. My two eldest sons and my daughter-in-law are all on the spectrum. They are well adjusted, kind and caring people. How dare that arrogant, ignorant asshole suggest my kids are 'not well'? Fuck him! 

[HerNameIsBuffy]

36 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

I am shaking with rage right now. My two eldest sons and my daughter-in-law are all on the spectrum. They are well adjusted, kind and caring people. How dare that arrogant, ignorant asshole suggest my kids are 'not well'? Fuck him! 

My eldest is also on the spectrum and the only one who isn't well is Rush Limbaugh.

On ‎12‎/‎11‎/‎2019 at 3:59 PM, fraurosena said:

When I see people like her, genuinely upset, I so wish I could talk to her. I really want to know why she believes he's done such a great job. What exactly does she think he has done? What has he achieved? 

I applaud your instinct, but there is a very good chance there is no answer she could give besides "he has and continues to hate and bully the people I fear."

Much of his support comes from people desperate to cling to their delusional superiority.  

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

This is disgusting: "Conservative radio host wishes for a ‘nice school shooting’ to distract from impeachment"

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As Chuck Bonniwell welcomed listeners back from a break on his Colorado talk-radio show just after 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, he laughed as he introduced a segment discussing the “never-ending impeachment of Donald Trump.”

“You know,” he said, “you wish for a nice school shooting” to interrupt the nonstop impeachment coverage.

His wife and co-host, Julie Hayden, immediately jumped in and cut him off.

“No, no, don’t even — don’t even say that,” she said. “No, don’t even say that. Don’t call us, Chuck didn’t say that.”

Bonniwell quickly tried to back off from the statement, saying he would want a shooting “in which no one would be hurt,” but the damage had already been done. By the end of the day, the couple’s conservative show was canceled by the Aurora, Colo., radio station 710 KNUS.

“Given the history of school violence that has plagued our community, 710 KNUS confirms that an inappropriate comment was made on the ‘Chuck & Julie’ show by co-host Chuck Bonniwell,” the station said in a statement Wednesday evening. “A programming decision was made to end the program immediately.”

Bonniwell did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Wednesday. In a now-deleted tweet, Bonniwell defended himself, suggesting people had misunderstood his intent.

“I made an inappropriate comment meant as a joke,” he said, the Denver Post reported. “I’m sorry it was not received that way.”

“Chuck & Julie” was removed from the station’s website and returned an error message by early Thursday.

The radio station said the “Chuck & Julie” show would be replaced by former White House aide Sebastian Gorka’s “America First” program starting Thursday.

KNUS is no stranger to controversy brought on by its programs. Another host denied allegations last week that he had posted white-supremacist memes online after he made comments on-air that mirrored an anti-Semitic post by someone using his name on a Russian social media platform frequented by extremists. That host told 9News the post was part of an elaborate plot by a local anti-fascist group to defame him. The station defended him.

In November, the station unceremoniously interrupted another host as he began to criticize President Trump on-air. The station denied pulling the program because of the anti-Trump comments, but the show later disappeared from the 710 KNUS website, 9News reported.

Bonniwell’s comments struck a raw nerve in a state that has been rocked by several devastating mass shootings. Twenty years ago, two teenage gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School. In 2012, a gunman walked into an Aurora movie theater and killed 12 people. In May, two shooters killed a student and injured several others at a high school in a Denver suburb.

Those touched by gun violence in the state were quick to criticize the radio host. The mother of a woman killed in the Aurora theater shooting called for Bonniwell to be fired shortly after a reporter shared the clip on Twitter.

“Total ignorance,” Sandy Phillips wrote. “Shootings hurt us all … just ask witnesses and first responders. You don’t have to be shot to be wounded.”

Another parent who lost a child in a recent school shooting also denounced Bonniwell’s comment and shared tweets protesting the radio host’s show.

“Unbelievable that a radio host would suggest a school shooting to distract from the presidential [impeachment],” John Castillo, whose son Kendrick died in the May shooting, wrote on Twitter. “My comments have nothing to do with any political affiliation, only doing the right [thing] and not [promoting] domestic terror.”

Replacing his show with Gorka isn't an improvement, more of a lateral move.