Pedo Protectors
Why is protecting the pedophiles in the Epstein files so important to Donald Trump supporters
And this is why I do not want to live in a red state or a red congressional district. I don't want to live in a place where the majority of people are so loyal to Trump that they will punish a man for not protecting pedophiles. It's bad enough that the blue city I live in now borders what we affectionately call Spotsyltucky.
Even while he has the lowest approval ratings of any president in the history of approval ratings, Trump's MAGA base will go to any lengths to serve him, even if it means ousting a guy because he would not protect pedophiles.
Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky had been a thorn in Trump's side for a while, even though he was a staunch conservative. It's not like Massie wanted equal rights for black Americans, for women to be free to make health decisions regarding their own bodies, or that he wanted free lunches for children in poverty.
Massie voted against Trump’s signature tax-and-spending package and moved to rein in his war powers over Iran, but the final straw was his leadership of the bipartisan effort to release the Epstein files, in which Trump is mentioned thousands of times. Republicans spent $33 million to defeat Massie in a primary. This was $33 million to defeat one of their own. This was $33 million spent on a safe red seat. And they invested all of it in a failed state Senate candidate, whom many believe is dumber than a doorbell.
Trump has now ousted several state senators in Indiana because they would not gerrymander in his favor. He primaried Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy because he voted to impeach Trump after his coup attempt. And now he has endorsed the corrupt Ken Paxton in a runoff over Senator John Cornyn, who has been very loyal to Donald Trump. Naturally, Trump prefers the corrupt candidate. Some Republicans are finally seeing that Donald Trump does not return the loyalty that he demands from them.
Senate Republicans left town early instead of passing his latest spending demands. His endorsement of Paxton and a $1.8 million slush fund for insurrectionists is too much for several of them, at least for now. They are Republicans, so I don't have faith that they will turn on Trump for good.
Things have gotten beyond weird with Trump supporters. They adopt his personal issues like the arch, the ballroom, and protecting pedophiles, as if those are in the national interest.
What is in the national interest is that Republicans lose the House and Senate, making Donald Trump a lame duck for the next two years. We need to remove as much power from Trump as possible. We need the construction site for the ballroom to sit vacant for the next two years and be a daily ugly reminder to Trump that he can't always get what he wants. We need to remove the criminal slush fund. And we need to revoke his war powers. If the government gets nothing done for the next two years, that will be an accomplishment.
And we need to get the Republican Party to stop protecting pedophiles, including the pedophile Donald Trump.
Grant: I finished the Netflix documentary on Ulysses S. Grant last night. Grant gets a raw deal from historians. Because Southerners have been framing the argument that the Civil War was over state rights and not slavery for the past 150 years or so, that has made Robert E. Lee more of a sympathetic figure and Grant, not so much a bad guy, but kind of forgotten. Lee is always portrayed as being cordial and a gentleman who chose to fight for his home state of Virginia over the United States, but you have to remember what he was fighting for. It wasn't states' rights. It was slavery.
While Lincoln saved the Union, Grant held it together. And while Lee is always viewed as a brilliant general, Grant was probably a military genius. And he was a man who did not panic when chaos ensued or when plans failed, but instead would plow forward. He was a man who could admit his mistakes, learn from them, and succeed the next time.
For years, Grant was viewed as a great general but a lousy president. Historians have changed their views for the most part and now view him as a great general and a good president, or at worst, middle-of-the-road. I disagree with that, too. I don't believe he was our greatest president and maybe not in the top five, but he was a damn good president.
Donald Trump, our worst president, has less in common with Ulysses S. Grant and more with Ferdinand Ward, the Wall Street financier who swindled Grant out of his entire fortune, leaving him destitute.
Next, I'm watching the documentary on TDR.
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There’s a lot of wishful thinking that Trump backed candidates will be easier targets for dems, I’m wishing too. The biggest challenge will be getting enough voters who are disgusted with Trump to vote in the midterms. I became a naturalized citizen in 2004.
Many of my friends and neighbors who are multiple generation citizens have never voted in the midterm elections, and I’ve had to explain the significance to them.
I imagine that Trump isn’t the only politician currently in office who’s name appears in Epstein files.
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