"Beware the Military Industrial Complex." Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell warning.

Trump wants to get the U.S. out of NATO, abandon our allies and join forced with Vladimir Putin to invade Eastern Europe, i.e. WWIII. Russia can't do it alone. They need the support of a U.S. President.

There are billions of dollars to be made because of war. I can picture Trump wanting it all.

"Trump makes a false statement."

Does he know any other kind?

HAMBURGLER @ #7

Now that Jack Smith has the J-6 trial under control, we're waiting for John Eastman to squeal on her. All hell is going to break loose when Trump loses this election.

Fun times ahead. Vote accordingly.

REIN

The United States is a money making machine. Trump doesn't want to snuff it out. He wants to own it.

DANNI

Trump expects total fealty, including throwing themself on the sword for him.

I'm given to understand that's a trait most demanded by dictators. If Trump wins this election, you can rest assured America will experience a seismic upheaval.

This school shooting has put Gov. Kemp, an open carry, no permit advocate, between a rock and a hard place.

Now he has to figure out who he works for, the citizens of Georgia or Donald Trump

For a while, back in 2020, I thought Kemp had a spine. Not so much now that I know he lobbies for concealed carry without a permit or even a background check.

DANNI

What Trump was asking Pence to do was illegal. Pence was no doubt loyal to Trump but not enough to go to jail for him.

Pence did the right thing. But it wasn't to save the election. IMO, it was to save himself.

Why do you guys keep letting this retread pull your chain?

CLOWN

If they passed the border bill then, they wouldn't have anything to blame on Democrats now. There was a method to their madness.

It's very important that Harris get control of both houses. She wants to put that border bill front and center immediately without a bunch of butt hurt Republicans having hissy fits.

The new federal deadline (December 11, 2024) came out of the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, a law that Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed as a way to try to prevent the kind of post-election chaos that then-President Donald Trump and his allies created after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The FEC has advised all state election officials of the legal consequences of failing to certify after all reasonable due diligence has been performed to verify the results.

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Only Donald Trump would consider repeated re-counts and coercion of election officials "reasonable." This new law will not stop him from trying to gum up the works if he loses critical states.

Chalk up this government shutdown threat in September to another Trump 'Hail Mary.' Republicans would get hammered in November. If they pass anything it will be an extension.

BTW, I vaguely recall another time when Trump thought shutting down the government would shut down the courthouses. Maybe he's as delusional now as he was then.

The joke was that Trump had any intention to carry out the stated purpose of the fundraiser.

Empathy for anybody but himself is nowhere to be found in Trump's character profile.

CATDOG

"attendees would be in dirty boots, jeans and T-shirts, a certain fat orange criminal insurrectionist and style icon decided he couldn't have such miscreants soiling the carpet, stealing the silver and urinating in public."

Keep in mind that the gala wasn't for any of "those" people you just described. They don't have the kind of money Trump is looking for. And, as you said, Trump wouldn't want to soil the premises.

The fleecing of the flock was only for the well-heeled among his supporters. It was supposed to be a fun day of golf, good food, a speech and an open bar (no doubt to loosen their spirit of generosity) to help raise a defense fund for those poor innocent J-6 victims who are being held hostage by the evil Democrats.

My guess is still: The event was cancelled because NO ONE RSVP'd

It's also the carrot and stick thing. Trump dangles pardons so those terrorist groups who are not in prison will keep responding to his dog whistles. They'll think they don't have anything to worry about.

LAMP

Trump was never a big time real estate developer who hob-nobbed with the uber-crowd. In fact, early commentary back then was that Trump always felt snubbed ~ that is to say not welcome ~ among the monied polite society. They considered him unsophisticated, ill-mannered and crude.

That snub was always a bone of contention with The Donald. I'm not going to bother looking it up because it's past history, but I recall a story about Trump fudging some numbers (cheating) to get himself on Forbes list as a millionaire. When the scam was uncovered, of course, he was later unceremoniously removed.

To your point, I doubt if the Greenwich crowd knew much more about him than he wasn't one of "them."

LAMP

Noone could ever call Trump a victim of the GOP either. They used each other.

He was certainly sane enough in 2016 to realize what a golden opportunity had just fallen into his lap to enrich himself financially. The GOP is responsible for making the world Trump's oyster.

I'd really like to see all the operating officers, past and present, to end up at the Hague.

RONNIE68

You're probably right. I forgot about Trump's connection to Saudi Arabia where money flows like wine.

DANNI

Downticket Republicans have no control over who gets how much from PAC'S. They can ask and make their case but really all they can do is hold their hand out and hope something falls into it.

Strictly speaking, (as you already know) the funds are supposed to be doled out to the downticket candidates most in need. But in this case and with a sock puppet like Speaker Johnson pulling the strings for Donald Trump, you can bet that Trump will end up taking his half out of the middle.

That wouldn't normally sound reasonable . . unless you consider that a Dictator has no use for a system of checks and balances.

As for Trump, I'd be satisfied if he was so financially ruined that he'd have to buy his golf balls at the Dollar Store.

DARKVADER

The GOP created, used to their advantage and then lost control of this mentally disturbed person.

What punishment do they deserve for foisting him on the public without a blinking, neon warning sign?

If I was President Kamala Harris, I'd decertify the GOP certificate as a political party and put their head honchos in prison for un-American activities, i.e. small "t' traitors.

After a fair trial, it goes without saying.

REIN

Trump gives lengthy explanations for everything. He calls them a "weave."

All of Trump's (no-name) "English professor" (no-name) friends gave him a pinky swear.

I'll take a guess.

How 'bout . . . Nobody RSVP'd?

EARTHMUSE

How many times can Trump cheat?

Trump calls it The Art of the Deal.

EARTHMUSE

"How many times CAN the GOP try to cheat this
election? The world may never know...100's of times most likely."

100% of the time is even more most likely.

Here's his beef:

"Former President Trump in an interview broadcast late Sunday slammed Vice President Harris as "vicious" and claimed her treatment of former Vice President Mike Pence during a debate was "horrible."

Trump, speaking on Fox News's "Life, Liberty and Levin," pointed to the viral moment during the 2020 vice presidential debate when Harris rebuked Pence's interruption with the phrase, "Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking."

They've been trying to lay a glove on her since she first announced. Kamala Harris must be a saint if this is all they could find.