Trump is a the lamest of lame ducks. Say it over and over again.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s voters are sticking with her, as Ted Cruz--and even Greene--may be running for president in ‘28. We should encourage it all, as Trump loses his grip on MAGA, and on power.
Ted Cruz, according to reporting in Axios, is setting his sights on a 2028 run for the presidency. The report forced Donald Trump to respond to it, and thus to talk about life without him as the leader of MAGA, much less America.
No, Ted Cruz will not be elected president in ‘28—and we certainly don’t want that to happen—but we should encourage the talk nonetheless, and media should to bring it up more. Apparently, the White House is angry with Cruz for putting it out there, seeing it as undermining Trump—and JD Vance. As NOTUS reports:
The White House and its allies believe Sen. Ted Cruz is taking positions antithetical to President Donald Trump from his perch as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee as a way to position himself against Vice President JD Vance ahead of 2028.
And they’re not happy about it. Cruz has been making life difficult for the White House behind the scenes.
And that’s why it’s a good thing. This week’s outcome of the months-long debacle in Congress over the Epstein files, coming to a head after Republicans saw a Democratic blowout at the polls two weeks ago, underscores Trump is a lame duck.
The dam burst, as Republicans rushed to vote to force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. We have not seen a president rebuked like this in eons, with a veto-proof majority that was nearly unanimous in the House and Senate to release the files.
Sure, Trump jumped on the bandwagon and told Republicans to vote for it, but only after he saw he was going to lose big. He could release the files at any time, and didn’t need a bill. He signed the bill—which he had to do, or face that veto-proof majority—with no cameras, nor with the victims by his side, announcing it on Truth Social in the dead of night.
Trump was forced to do something he was loath to do. It doesn’t mean the files will be released, as he’ll go to Plan B or Plan C, working with the DOJ to block them or strip out anything in them about him. While that’s not good for the victims who want justice, any further stonewalling will just keep the story out there. It will never go away, and will continue to bring Trump down.
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Trump is the lamest of ducks, as Republicans in states like Indiana now defy his orders to redistrict and further gerrymander. And Marjorie Taylor Greene went for broke and created a huge clash with Trump. She was the most high profile deep, dark MAGA figure to break with him, taking a gamble that it would work for her. And it did.
Trump finally exploded and called her a “traitor”—which is rich for so many reasons, including that she’s used that word against so many others—inspiring violent threats against her. None of us knows MTG’s true motives, but there’s been lots of talk about her positioning herself to run for president too.
Bring it on!
No, MTG will not be elected president. But the more the MAGA base talks about this rift and about other Republicans running for president, the more they show that they’re dividing and also looking at life beyond Trump, who’s dropped his threats—for now—of running for a third term.
Trump’s power over the GOP is slipping, and the Epstein debacle was really a massive exposure of that. NBC News reports that Greene’s voters, while they still support Trump in her blood-red, gerrymandered district in Georgia, also continue to support her. NBC interviewed voters in the district.
Trump had pulled his endorsement of Greene and has threatened to back a candidate to primary her. But it doesn’t seem to be working:
“That’s not right. It’s not right,” Debbie Dyer, 60, said of Trump’s accusation. “She should not be seen as a traitor. She’s trying to do the best for the American people and I think Donald Trump should accommodate her and work for America.”
“She has a lot of courage and tells it like it is,” added Dyer, who lives in Dalton, near the Tennessee border, and works at a carpet company.
Trump was hoping the voters would choose between him and Greene, and choose him—his black and white world in which you’re either with him or you’re against him—but that doesn’t appear to be happening. This tactic always worked for Trump, but it’s now deflating.
“Some people are struggling with it. Some are choosing Team Marjorie, and some are Team Trump,” said Angela Dollar, a local Republican official in Floyd County, part of Greene’s district.
As for Dollar: “I can like two people who don’t like each other. My hope is they’ll reconcile.”
It seems highly doubtful that Trump is going to destroy Greene. And that’s a big deal.
Of course, none of us should trust or root for Greene, who’s been a vile force in politics, her recent pushback on Trump notwithstanding.
But if Trump no longer has the power to destroy Republicans by backing primaries against them—and as more of them learn that that’s true—we could see the GOP bucking him on a number of issues as we head toward the mid-terms, where Democrats have opened up a big lead in the generic ballot.(A whopping 14 points in one poll, and high single digits in others.)
Right now Republicans are in real disarray, with a civil war currently underway over everything from welcoming Nazi holocaust denier Nick Fuentes into the party to fears about the impact of Obamacare subsidies expiring. The only thing uniting The GOP for years has been a fear of Trump.
But if that fear dissipates, the splits just widen, as they fight one another more and facilitate the MAGA crack up. And that is definitely something to root for.
Trump has three years left to complete the autocratic takeover of America.
Russia, Hungary, Turkey also have elections. All the tools are almost in place to render elections Kabuki theater, be redistricting, voter caging, voter suppression laws, MAGAt election commissions, voter ID, restricting the number and placement of ballot boxes, restricting or eliminating mail in voting.
Why do you think he has tore down the East Wing, redid the Lincoln Bathroom, gilded the Offal Office, planted two flag poles, paved over the Rose Garden. Because he isn't going anywhere except on gurney, he has remade 1600 Pennsylvania Ave into Mar a Lago north
The problem is with us, our perception, we don't want to acknowledge reality, so we live in denial, the solution is distasteful, because it means a national intifada, an uprising, a general strike positive resistance, and that means violence, someone might get hurt, and/or inconvenienced.
We delude ourselves that the institutions constructed since 1789 will save us, and blind ourselves to the reality that in just 180 days, Trump and his handlers have destroyed those institutions, and replaced them with Project 2025, we need to pretend that all is still the same, and that we can course correct with the proper messaging.
This is not an administration, it is a regime. The regime controls, with an iron fist, the government, it's cabinets, the legislature, and the highest court in the land, not to mention most appellate and lower courts.
If he loses at a lower court, he appeals to a District court, if he loses there, and he seldom does,he appeals to the Supreme Court, and there and he has only lost there twice, and each time he ignored the court.
He controls the police, the military, ignores international law, commits murder.tells the UN. go f*ck itself, accepts bribes freely with no consequence, betrays our allies and democracies, and yet some of us are so self deluded that we believe that the ship of state can right itself because of our , non existent, institutions.
And,oh, the Epstein files, we will never see them, we have been punked, Bondi is going to hold them back because they are evidence in an investigation she is taking under Trumps direction, to seek revenge on Democrats, and if any head of state, billionaire, important supporter of Trump is mentioned in the files, it will be scrubbed for "national security" concerns.. We have been punked again, liberals never learn, the Mueller Files, the Document files, Fani Willis,Letititia James, all squashed or punked, and has E Jean Carroll seen one dollar of the judgement, has NY seen one dollar?
Amazing.. pretty high for a nazi in America, 38%? Who are these ppl?.. 8% would make more sense.