Never Trumpers Illustrate Why Loyalty
Is An Important Political Virtue
Posted By: Deborah Grannet, 3/16/2021 9:30:18 AM
After the dust continues to settle on last year’s presidential election with Americans slowly accepting Joe Biden as the 46th president of United States, Julie Kelly’s polemic against the Never Trump movement may seem like yet another instance of a political writer getting it wrong. When Democrats occupy the White House along with the House and Senate, it seems like those writers who opposed Donald Trump won the argument. They can point to the results and claim they knew Trump and his populism would eventually lead to losses and relegate the GOP to their current political quagmire.
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After the dust continues to settle on last year’s presidential election with Americans slowly accepting Joe Biden as the 46th president of United States, Julie Kelly’s polemic against the Never Trump movement may seem like yet another instance of a political writer getting it wrong. When Democrats occupy the White House along with the House and Senate, it seems like those writers who opposed Donald Trump won the argument. They can point to the results and claim they knew Trump and his populism would eventually lead to losses and relegate the GOP to their current political quagmire.
Nikki Haley is a social-climbing political opportunist whose most deeply held political belief is Nikki Haley.
This has been true since before she even entered the national consciousness, but she blessed us with a quick refresher course Thursday when she condemned President Donald Trump during a dinner speech to the Republican National Committee’s annual winter meeting.
She’s not alone in doing so. Corporate media swelled this week with Republicans who, like Haley, spent years working for the president
It should surprise no one that Nevada has problems with election security and voter fraud, especially after the state mailed an absentee ballot to every registered voter this year whether he requested one or not, then received back more than eight times as many mail-in ballots as they did in 2016. That’s part of the reason Republicans in Nevada filed another lawsuit on Tuesday alleging widespread voter fraud and irregularities.
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Former Vice President Al Gore said on Monday on CNN’s “Tonight” that Republicans believed that the United States “would be better if the wealthy and powerful” voted.Lemon said, “The next big battle, you know it is going to be over the GOP to restrict voting rights. A lot of these bills target Black and brown voters. Is this only going to get worse as demographics continue to change and Republicans are increasingly in the minorities? Is their effort is going to pick up to disenfranchise voters, especially those of color?”Gore said, “Absolutely. This is really and truly un-American Don. This is a naked effort trying to suppress Black, brown
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with other Senate Dems, are urging the president to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt by using executive authority. Senators Schumer and Elizabeth Warren revealed a legal review on the use of executive authority is underway by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Executive action has already been used by Biden to continue the suspension of student loan payments until the end of September 2021.
Warren spoke to reporters on Monday and slammed student loan debt for "crushing millions of Americans."
Joe Biden will hold his first presidential press conference next Thursday, the White House announced on Tuesday amid criticism about the amount of time it has taken the president to hold a formal question and answer session with the press.'President Biden will hold a formal press conference on the afternoon of Thursday, March 25th,' White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. Press conferences are ways for public officials to be held accountable for actions they are taking and policies they are implementing. That date is Biden's 64th day in office, a record for a modern president in waiting to hold a press conference.
CNN’s Don Lemon recently appeared on The View and commented on a recent declaration from the Pope that the Catholic Church will not bless gay marriages.Lemon claimed that God doesn’t judge people. Has he ever read any of the Bible?Judging the living and the dead is mentioned pretty explicitly.The Hill reports:CNN’s Don Lemon on Vatican refusing to bless same-sex unions: ‘God is not about hindering people’ CNN’s Don Lemon on Monday said the Vatican needs to “reexamine themselves and their teachings” after it declared that the Roman Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions because God “cannot bless sin.”
President Biden said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin was “a killer” in an interview Wednesday, vowing that he would “pay a price” for his election meddling efforts. The commander-in-chief made the remarks to ABC’s “Good Morning America” after being asked about a report from the office of the Director of National Intelligence which implicated the Kremlin in efforts to undermine US elections and divide American society.(Snip)
Asked by GMA anchor George Stephanopoulos about his previous comment that he did not believe the Russian president had a soul, Biden confirmed those remarks. “I did say that to him, yes,
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (Ret.), a key figure in the first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, published an op-ed Monday at the Lawfare blog in which he proposed suing conservative media outlets to make them less “radicalized.”Vindman had worked at the National Security Council, and appeared in dress uniform before the House Intelligence Committee to testify against Trump in support of the theory that Trump had withheld aid from Ukraine in exchange for investigating his 2020 rival, Democrat Joe Biden. (Evidence provided by other witnesses contradicted that claim.)
Vindman would not reveal who the anonymous “whistleblower” was
Former first lady Michelle Obama said it “wasn’t a complete surprise” to hear Meghan Markle detail alleged racism within the British royal family. Obama was asked about Markle and Prince Harry’s bombshell sit-down with Oprah Winfrey in an interview with NBC’s “TODAY” show that is scheduled to air Tuesday. Markle, 39, who is biracial, told Winfrey that someone in the royal family expressed “concerns” to Harry, 36, about “how dark” their son Archie’s skin would be.Co-host Jenna Bush Hager said it was “heartbreaking” to hear Markle describe
President Joe Biden said he doesn't understand the 'macho' thinking of vaccine skeptics, as former President Donald Trump urged MAGA-world to get shots. 'I just don't understand this sort of macho thing about, "I'm not gonna get the vaccine. I have a right as an American, my freedom to not do it,"' Biden said in his ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos. 'Well, why don't you be a patriot? Protect other people.' Trump brought up that he respected people's freedom, but he also encouraged Americans to get the vaccine and admitted some anti-vaxxers were part of his fan-base.
A New York City judge has removed a 6-year-old girl from her mother because she did not wear a mask while dropping her off outside of the school.In a shocking and egregious move, the court also told Dr. Epstein that in order to get short supervised visits with her child — she will have to wear a mask inside her own home.It was a normal day for Dr. Micheline Epstein, a family physician, when she went to drop her daughter off at the Birch Wathen Lenox School on the Upper East Side last week — until her entire life was turned upside down in an instant.The tearful mother
A GoFundMe page set up to pay off the mortgage on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s $14.6 million California estate has gone bust—after raising a measly $110, a report says. Anastasia Hanson, 56, of California told Britain’s the Sun that she started the fundraising effort because she seriously felt sorry for the multimillionaire royal couple—after Harry publicly whined to Oprah Winfrey about being financially cut off by Buckingham Palace. “When they came to the USA, they were without jobs and with limited funds,” said Hanson, who lives about 25 minutes from the princely pair’s palatial estate in swanky Montecito.
INDIANAPOLIS — Her family said Jeanettrius Moore worked hard at a beauty supply shop to support herself and two little girls and appreciated the most recent $1,400 stimulus check issued to help Americans recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The father of her youngest baby, Malik Halfacre, thought he should get half.
“He wanted some of Jeanettrius’ tax money, stimulus money,” said Wendy Johnson, a cousin who heard Jeanettrius’ account of what led up to a quadruple murder in a house in the 300 block of Randolph Street Saturday night. “She had just got her money, and he wanted half of her money.
President Biden on Tuesday issued a blunt message to migrants thinking about crossing the border: “Don’t come.”The president spoke about the crisis at the US-Mexico border in an interview with ABC News — in which host George Stephanopoulos asked, “do you have to say quite clearly, ‘Don’t come’?”“Yes, I can say quite clearly: Don’t come over,” Biden replied. “Don’t leave your town or city or community.”The number unaccompanied of children and teenagers taken into custody by US authorities at the southern border has shot up in recent weeks,
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As a person who was a 'tea partier' before there was a Tea Party, I don't believe Trumpism is completely new-- I think Trump was/is simply the leader needed to head up the Tea Party and effect change.