GOP’s Sen. Sasse says Trump mistreats women, flirts with white supremacy and secretly mocks evangelicals

Ben Sasse actually did a decent job interviewing Coney Barrett.

Plus, he's kind of cute.

Tom Cotton wants Ben Sasse in him, quite deeply.

Here he is checking out Sassy's package.

Sasse wastes no opportunity to hint that Trump is crazy. "Mad" occurs inordinately often in his tweets and comments about DJT.

And McTurtle give him the middle finger on his 'big' stimulus.

I guess they can read the polls.

And yet he does Trump’s bidding without fail. Can’t he just take his clothes off and keep his mouth shut?

How disturbing that the Republicans don't even allow any internal, dissenting opinions against their King Trump!

This from the same party whose constituents are always whining about free speech and others not allowing their differing opinions. Biggest hive-mind sheeple of them all!

This is brand new information, Mr. Sasse!!

And yet he still lacks the integrity to say it loud and proud because indecency being called out loses you votes in "real 'muricah." Trashy people.

Whoops, try again from R2.

nice legs

Hes pandering...if he hates Trumps rhetoric and policies so much, why does he always vote for the things Trump wants, the people Trump hires, and even for Trump in the impeachment. Hes a phony.

Why is Sasse dressed like a teenage boy circa 1996 at R9?

Sassy is positioning himself to run in 2024 as the alternative to Trumpism and if he gets the GOP nod to appeal beyond the GOP. He votes with Trump so not to anger Republicans back in Nebraska. That explains the seemingly contradictory behavior.

I think Sassy converted to a conservative type of Presbyterianism out of a conservative Lutheranism. He's pretty Christian or maybe a pretty Christian.

R12, cause emotionally he is a teenage boy circa 1996, a conservative teenage boy from the Plains.

And to show off his sexy legs.

We could do far, far worse if someone other than Sasse is the future of the post-Trump GOP. Alas, it would never happen.

[quote] Sassy is positioning himself to run in 2024 as the alternative to Trumpism a

In order to position himself as an alternative to Trump maybe he could actually try to, ya know, not vote lockstep with Trump all of the time?

No, he just has to say stuff contrary to Trump.

I actually worked with Sasse on a policy initiative through were I work several years ago. Yes, he is conservative Republican but he had bipartisan leanings and a sense of fairplay on a range of issues both domestic and international. He is closer to Romney in that respect. I am disappointed with his voting record and lack of pushback, but I always knew he privately was disgusted with Trump's actions as a human being.

[quote]Why is Sasse dressed like a teenage boy circa 1996 at [R9]?

He was trying to get the Senatrice to vote for one of his bills.

R17, so in other words, he's just another Republican coward full of bullshit just like all of the other the so-called 'bipartisan' Refucks -- Collins, Murkowski, Romney.

Sasse just talks and writes about abstract bipartisanship without doing a thing. If he voted to hold off on this nomination, he would stop it. That would do a massive amount to heal partisan polarity. He won’t.

In contrast, Democrats have consistently reached across the aisle only to get their limbs ripped off.

Sasse Ben is by far the biggest threat to whomever runs in 2024. If you read his book or listen to him for any length of time you can tell he's bright, polished, and hungry. He will run from the 'middle of the right' and reminds me of Mayor Pete! in how he articulates his arguments. Right now he's just enough outside the T Rump orbit to claim he opposed him -in many regards -when 2024 rolls around. Americans have short memories and like shiny new things so I expect he will be a hit. Fair warning!

**SLURP***

[quote] and reminds me of Mayor Pete! in how he articulates his arguments.

He is nowhere near as sharp, as quick, or as intelligent as Pete.

Sasse is also up for reelection next year and does not want to get kneecapped by some Trumpist. He wants to win so he will be well positioned for 2024.

He is likely betting that a Biden administration will feature a good deal of strife between the progressives and the moderates.

Sasse is famous for saying "I think about leaving the GOP every morning when I wake up," thinking we couldn't hear him saying that every morning he recommits to a degraded authoritarian mob despite knowing what it is. He wants to get by on lip service.

Cotton probably wishes they'd overlapped at Harvard where he could have seen some of that sweet Sasse peen in the showers. Alas, the they missed each other by a year or two.

^^Scratch that-- his reelection is this year, so ignore the first paragraph of R26

And like Pete, he is a middle class kid--father was a high school teacher and went to a public high school... and he worked at McKinsey's rival, BCG

His wife homeschools their kids though that may be more because there are no decent schools anywhere near Fremont NE than anything else.

Sasse is a homophobe. When pressed on gay marriage, Sasse claims that the government's interest in marriage is to ensure that children grow up being raised with a parent of each gender. His quote:

[quote] “It’s empirically obvious that kids are best raised in a world with one mother and one father,” he said.

[quote] He said other questions, such as civil unions, are better left to the states.

[quote] The government is not interested in who your best friend is,” he said.

He is no friend to gays.

[quote] U.S. Senator Ben Sasse issued the following statement after the Supreme Court handed down its decision on same-sex marriage:

[quote] “Today’s ruling is a disappointment to Nebraskans who understand that marriage brings a wife and husband together so their children can have a mom and dad. The Supreme Court once again overstepped its Constitutional role by acting as a super-legislature and imposing its own definition of marriage on the American people rather than allowing voters to decide in the states.

Why would homophobia be an impediment to being elected as a Republican? It’s in their party platform.

How big is the peen, R27?

What was his relationship to Aaron Schock?

R31, of course it wouldn't. Antigay policies have always been their platform. Just wanted to highlight how he is not 'bipartisan' and 'fair' or upstanding and moral. He is, in fact, quite villainous. He certainly is no Pete.

Sasse voted to deny witness testimony at the impeachment hearing and then he voted to acquit Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors.

In this audio, he acknowledges that Trump built “literal concentration camps” where people including children were killed. He knows it. He admits it. This happened before the impeachment hearings.

Process that. He publicly supported and enabled a man whom he recognized set up concentration camps and killed people.

I cannot believe any of you are crushing on him. He is a fucking nazi who willingly supports someone who he understands is killing innocent people.

He is very cute.

[quote] I cannot believe any of you are crushing on him

You must be new here

2022 to 2024 is going to be interesting. Each party is going to struggle with its extremist wing(s). Biden will likely pass the mantle, as will almost all of the Old Guard, but I doubt he will give it to Harris without her earning it.

Mayor Pete is currently savaging Sasse to Joy Reid, saying that he is trying to have it both ways. Let’s stop this now rather than leaving it to Nikki Haley.

[quote] Mayor Pete is currently savaging Sasse to Joy Reid, saying that he is trying to have it both ways.

R38, thank you for that visual!

[quote]Why is Sasse dressed like a teenage boy circa 1996 at [R9]?

Being from Nebraska, 1996 would be considered progressive.

[quote]GOP’s Sen. Sasse says Trump mistreats women, flirts with white supremacy and secretly mocks evangelicals...

...but I'll do anything to confirm an unqualified, religious ideologue and nincompoop like Amy Coney Barrett! See? It's all a vaudeville act, folks!

Just like Mitt Romney. All of that meaningless bluster.

Hes pandering...if he hates Trumps rhetoric and policies so much, why does he always vote for the things Trump wants, the people Trump hires, and even for Trump in the impeachment. Hes a phony.

Meh, he sees the writing on the wall that the USS Dump is sinking fast & he's desperately trying to reposition himself. Who cares what you think, Sasse - it's what you *do* that counts & you've consistently carried the water for Dump. The voters will not forget.

[quote]What was his relationship to Aaron Schock?

Bottom.

[quote]Mayor Pete is currently savaging Sasse to Joy Reid, saying that he is trying to have it both ways.

He's bi?

R13 I’m inclined to agree. He wrote a book, which is one step on the presidential candidate checklist. Title is The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming of Age Crisis.

Don't stop, you savage!

I bet Miss LIndz creams her bloomers every time Ben walks in the room.

R42, how soon ye forget. Romney became the first senator in US history to vote to convict an impeached president of his or her own party. Hardly "meaningless bluster."

And, yet, Romney will vote to confirm Ofdonald or whatever that fundie bitch's name is.

R49, meaningless gesture. Romney/GOP calculated that there weren't enough votes to convict. If Trump's conviction truly hinged on Romney, he would have voted with the rest of them to acquit Trump.

If Nixon hadn't resigned, more than a few Republican senators would've voted to remove him. That's why he resigned.

His fellow Nebraskan who also has a PhD in History from Yale, Scott Kleeb, is a Democrat, is much dreamier than Sasse, and should have won for Senate back in 2008.

This douchebag Ben Sasse says things like this all the time, but then his nose always goes right back up Trump's filthy ass anyway. Check his voting record; he's in lock-step with everything Trump and his minions have inflicted on the USA, including having voted to confirm the fat RAPIST who now sits on the SCOTUS. Just like with Jeff Flake, don't believe a word he says. He will always, *always* disappoint you. And in continuing that tradition –mark my words– he will vote yes on confirming Barrett's SCOTUS fix as well.

Daaaamn, R53. Yummy!

Ben Sasse is a WHORE!

I agree with you totally, R35.

[quote] I'll do anything to confirm an unqualified, religious ideologue and nincompoop like Amy Coney Barrett! See? It's all a vaudeville act, folks!

I agree with you totally, R35.

[quote] I'll do anything to confirm an unqualified, religious ideologue and nincompoop like Amy Coney Barrett! See? It's all a vaudeville act, folks!

[quote] I'll do anything to confirm an unqualified, religious ideologue and nincompoop like Amy Coney Barrett! See? It's all a vaudeville act, folks!

Sorry for the above two posts.

Mean to say that in the linked video you can see that he's practically in love with Amy Coney Barrett, and agrees with her completely.

He is no friend to the left.

And his record in siding with Trump is enough to cancel him.

He is doing exactly what he was installed to do, "make the wh white again".

"They" haven't recovered from a black presidency.

Not meaningless gesture, R51. History will take note that Trump’s predecessor as party nominee voted to convict him, adding credence that this was not a partisan endeavor.

Did Feinstein hug him, too?

New York Times has this above the fold right now with a much stronger headline

He's so dreamy.

And I would love nothing more than to bathe myself in that GOP bloodbath. I hope they rip each other to shreds.

The first rat has left the ship.

Sasse votes 86.5% of the times with Trump's position.

"I don't know him."

fucker just wants to get reelected. He will confirm the SC Justice. Trash.

He's just the male Susan Collins.

Remember, in Germany 1946 no one has ever been a Nazi

Oh, please like she's just learning this.

[quote]I bet Miss LIndz creams her bloomers every time Ben walks in the room.

Heck, she does that with Trump.

I admit it. It is true that I like so many others on here want to forgive Senator Sasse because he is so handsome. But bottom line is, that he IS a republican. And one can never be forgiven for that. He is still one of those ugly people who just happens to have been given the perfect face. And body.

PERFECT face? You just get out of solitary confinement or something?

I was about to post what R75 said. What two horse towns do these posters slobbering over him live? He's not ugly, just an above average looking middle aged guy. If you go down the street of any bigger city, you'll see five guys of his age better looking than him within the span of 10 minutes.

I believe he's a runner - that's why he's dressed like that in R9's pic.

Whatever happened to Scott Kleeb?

NOW a warning?!?!

Sasse is an average looking white guy.

Of course the old caftaned queens of Datalounge are creaming their panties over him.

[quote]We could do far, far worse if someone other than Sasse is the future of the post-Trump GOP. Alas, it would never happen.

It would actually not be a bad thing to have two younger Presidential candidates in 2024... Kamala Harris vs Ben Sasse.

And Sasse is arguably less vile than some of the other thirsty Republicans like Tom Cotton.

Sasse/Cotton v Harris/Buttigieg in 2024.

Sasse: Trump set up concentration camps and killed innocent children.

Sasse: This impeachment is a sham and I refuse to hear from a single witness. My president is a god who shall not be questioned publicly!

DL: Sasse is the good kind of Republican. 🥰

Please, gays, continue.

Did he say who he was voting for?

R84 Trump, obviously.

He probably meant all that shit he said as flattery.

Miss Lindz has had disputes with Tom Cotton, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz.

She would be more inclined to support Mike Pence or Don Junior if he kicked Guilfoyle to the side.

Nah - he waited too long. It's like denouncing Hitler in 1946.

Bullshit. And don't think he's going to 'work across the aisle' - Republicans NEVER do. He's just worried about what will happen when the tables are turned.

The problem is - Democrats are moral people and never take the same low, disgusting political moves when they are in power. And it bites them in the ass time and time again.

There is NO working with Republicans - they are not fair or honorable people.

the base simply won't give a fuck they like that he's a liar and a deceitful jerk

Damn R53 is one hot man.

Sasse is not ugly but that's the only compliment he's getting from me. He is a homophobe who will never support us and his wife wife is a homeschooler so she can fill her children with religious bullshit and raise little fundie homophobes and misogynists.

Sasse is not as fuckable as Josh Hawley.

R35 and R36 coming back-to-back is classic DataLounge.

Donald Trump managed to maintain 40 to 45 percent approval by acting insane and lying. Do you really think Americans are going to reject a kinder, gentler Republican? Not all of them, and not enough of them.

Ben Sasse, Josh Hawley, and Nikki Haley are going to run as the new “moderate” Republican Party and distance themselves from Trump’s failure and divisiveness. Democrats thought they were golden after Obama won decisively, including 59 to 60 Senate votes.

Republicans have no shame and few principles beyond corporate money, Christian oppression, and class warfare. Watch (and fight) how they try to repackage themselves post -Trump.

Sasse looks like a "hawt" Lutheran minister. Hawley on the other hand is "young Christian dad on the downlow hawt."

Sasse = von Stauffenberg

von Stauffenberg ist heiß!

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

I’m not saying this is a strategic leak from Sasse’s camp... but if you think Trump is gonna get smoked & you want to rebuild the GOP on a foundation that disowns his presidency, now’s the time to get in on the ground floor. Quotes like these won’t get same notice post-November.

The hypothesis in R96's link assumes that the worrywarts on DL who post Trafalgar polls and warn of PA yard signs are at odds with what Republican senators think is coming.

So if Trump falls, how will the post-Trump Republicans keep the MAGA in their electorate if they start dissing him?

Some of MAGA will fall off, just as Bush Republicans left the Trump party. It will depend on how the opposition responds to the (likely) Biden administration and their track record.

4 years may be too short for Republicans to turn their ship around. Trumpists may be the new Bernie Bros, but there is likely no path to succeeds without Trump. My fear is that Republican moderates will be able to rebrand and unite their party by 2022.

Democrats would be wise to have a united, popular front that pulls moderates and progressives and independents together. Unlikely, but they pulled it off over the last six months.

The problem is the media. The media will treat the Sasses and the Hawleys and the Grahams like they didn't have a hand in the Trump presidency and that they didn't enable the hate solely for their own, selfish means.

The GOP's saving grace is the media's omission of how Trump rose to power after he's gone.

DL Fave Eric Swalwell nails it "Ben Sasse remains the Mitt Romney of Susan Collinses: He talks a good game but generally falls into line with Trump at the drop of a hat."

I think trump has done more than just flirt with the white supremacists.

[quote]Trumpists may be the new Bernie Bros, but there is likely no path to succeeds without Trump. My fear is that Republican moderates will be able to rebrand and unite their party by 2022.

If he's not in jail or in Russia, Trump may run again in 2024 though. He can, can't he?

Fuck him..he had his chance to vote the traitor out with impeachment - he didn't even for for witnesses. FUCK HIM

[quote] If he's not in jail or in Russia, Trump may run again in 2024 though. He can, can't he?

2016 was his time. He's wearing thin now and in 2024 we will just be a little pest that people will swat away.

[quote] If he's not in jail or in Russia, Trump may run again in 2024 though. He can, can't he?

Absolutely he can!

Trump running in 2024 would be a gift to Democrats. Narcissists get nastier with age.

Felons can't run for president.

Sasse says that “Trump spends like a sailor.”

And Sasse voted yes to every one of those spending bills

Doo he need a good time? I am architect with clean privates and big house. I am happy to give good time to him.

[quote]if he hates Trumps rhetoric and policies so much, why does he always vote for the things Trump wants, the people Trump hires, and even for Trump in the impeachment.

Because he's voting with Mitch McConnell. Trump doesn't set the Senate's agenda, the Turtle does. And the Turtle cares about Trump only as much as he can get him to go along.

Sassy Cotton sounds like a much gayer ticket than anything with Buttigieg on it.

The bars!

The Republican clown car is already full for 2024. Nobody wants a repeat of 2016, which means that over the next two years, we'll see a coalescing of the Republican donors around probably 2 or 3 candidates. Sasse is unlikely to be one of them - his hypocrisy puts him into Susan Collins territory, as someone else already noted. Without donor $$, no candidate has a chance.

[quote] The Republican clown car is already full for 2024

It is! I fucking dread 2024 already.

Republicans already with Presidential ambitions for 2024 include, but not limited to, Mike Pence, Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Nikki Haley, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, John Kasich, Mitt Romney, SC Gov. McMaster, several other GOP current & former Governors, Mike Pompeo, and Donald Trump Jr. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner want to be annointed Queen and King by decree.

Several of those politicians are authoritarian types that will continue the assault on democracy.

Marsha Blackburn!! I’m sorry but I saw that woman on The View and thought she was satire. If anyone watched Absolutely Fabulous she’s the type of moronic grifter “Bo” would be if she and Marshall went for political life. As it is the character “Bo” became a televangelist on the show and the scenes don’t even read as satire now that Trump’s spiritual advisor is a televangelist even more brazen and ridiculous.

Marsha and some of the others won’t have a shred of credibility with anyone after Trump. And they will crash and burn in debates because they don’t have the machismo of Trump which let’s face it is what got him support from uneducated men and damaged women. Guys would just love to be a swaggering bully who fucks pie starts and shouts over women and pays $750 tax. He is their American Dream!

*pornstars not pie starts!

Meanwhile Senator Sasse will vote in line with Trump.

They let you do it when you're a pie start, R118!

Here we go....

[quote]Guys would just love to be a swaggering bully who fucks pie

Jason Biggs for president!

You know when you see who the young male Trump supporters are on Reddit Jason Biggs, dick in pie, wearing a gaming headset would be a good mascot.

[quote] Of course the old caftaned queens of Datalounge are creaming their panties over him.

While I admittedly can’t speak for all caftan wearers, with me it’s either caftan OR panties. It’s either/or, but never both. Makes it too difficult to present hole to the food delivery drivers.

It never ceases to amaze me (though by this point it should) just how thin-skinned Trump is.

Although Sasse and his aides must be high-fiving each other now as they can use that tweet to show their anti-Trumpist credentials for '24

I agree with those who say he's preparing for 2024 and nothing more.

Republicans are just unethical scum.

I expect Paul Ryan is going to come crawling out of the woodwork in 2024 too.

[quote]so in other words, he's just another Republican coward full of bullshit just like all of the other the so-called 'bipartisan' Refucks -- Collins, Murkowski, Romney.

No, he is much worse.

Romney voted for impeachment. Collins and Murkowski have rebuked Trump on a few of their votes.

Sasse has been a loyal supporter of Trump with his voting record. Don't listen to his words, look at his actions.

I think Paul is done with public office. Probably makes a shitload in the private sector for all of the whoring he did while in Congress.

No current Republicans should ever be allowed to detach themselves from their appeasement of this orange scum of the earth. Not a single one.

People seem like to misreading the Republican base. The Repulican base loves Trump, the winner of the GOP primary is going to be someone who is Trump-like. I woudn't be surprised if it is someone like Tucker Carlson or who knows.

R131, there isn't enough of a Trump base to sustain the party and they're only dwindling. 2018 proved people are tired of his shit and the fact that during a pandemic, millions have already voted, does not bode well for the Trump base.

[quote]The Repulican base loves Trump, the winner of the GOP primary is going to be someone who is Trump-like.

Yeah but that kind of candidate is not electable nationwide. Trump in 2016 was a one-off who barely squeaked out a win because his opponent was overwhelmingly hated.

r133, he "won" because the Russians flipped votes in key counties. Do keep up.

Thank you R133. This just needs to be repeated over and over till it sinks into DLers heads:

[bold] Trump in 2016 was a one-off who barely squeaked out a win because his opponent was overwhelmingly hated.*

[/bold][italic]*Not quite as hated as Trump was, but hated enough to make his election possible

Trump was not as lucky to get the White House as he was to get the nomination. Had Marco Rubio dropped out, Ted Cruz would likely have won the nomination. God knows who would have been President.

Republicans still, in overwhelming numbers, stand behind Trump. He is losing because he lost independents,, not because his party doesn’t support him.

There's nothing more appealing than a bunch of low-life rats deserting the sinking Republican ship. Expect the flood gates to open completely if Trump loses.

And Senator Sasse has had plenty of opportunity to criticize Trump in the past, but being the gutless, spineless coward he is (as are all Republicans) he safely waited until the air of desperation and potential loss was in the air to pounce. Hardly a profile in courage.

If Sasse runs for the Republican nomination in four years, he'll be one of those people who gets 3% or 4% of the vote in the early primaries and then has to drop out.

Republican voters don't like overachieving eggheads and I don't think he has the "common touch."

r138, they don't like figureheads with their own ideas, as a general rule.

[quote]Romney voted for impeachment.

No, he didn't, because he is not in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Trump WAS IMPEACHED. Never forget.

It's really not as simple as saying he won because Clinton was hated. First of all she won the popular vote. Now, the divide between the top 5% and everyone else has been widening since the 80s. The working and middle classes were getting by on credit until the 08 crash. Obama came along and energized the young, the black community and gave people hope that he would be the one to bring about change. That didn't really happen. Young people from UMC homes got on okay. They did unpaid internships, parents paid their rent and they had a delayed entry into the good jobs. On the other hand working class kids were pushed into the gig economy. Banks were not handing out credit they way they used to. It was too expensive for a lot of people in the south and midwest to move to the coasts and people got trapped with student loans and low paying jobs. The rust belt and deep south never came back from the recession and you had people in their 40s and 50s out of work with little hope of ever re-entering the workforce and not enough capital to start over in the now crazy expensive coastal cities.

Along comes this guy who promises he will bring back manufacturing jobs and coal mines. He promises to build a wall to keep out competition for low paid work. He validates people's racism and sexism. He stirs up tribalism and fear of the 'other'. He says he will go to DC and throw out all the corrupt politicians who have promised this and that while their parts of the country just kept getting more impoverished and left behind. You have the perfect storm for enough people to think he was the answer to all their problems and a return to a time when a white working class man only had to get a job, any job, and he would be entitled to a mortgage, car loan, submissive wife and his job would be 'for life'. He could drink and gamble and never lift a finger in the home and the wife was powerless to do anything but shut up and put up. Trump comes out and says he'll bring those good old days back. Grab em by the pussy. Kick out the blacks, they probably weren't born here anyway. Add in FB 'news' and Youtube 'facts' and you can see why he tipped the electoral college.

There's no small amount of irony in that H-Hive posts defending her honor are always of the TL;DR variety

[Quote]It's really not as simple as saying he won because Clinton was hated.

It basically is that simple. Clinton was a historically unpopular candidate who the majority of Americans disliked. The only presidential contender who has been more unpopular is Trump himself. That's really why Trump was able to squeak out a win.

Prepare for another 2500 word post on why people don't really dislike Her, R143

Sorry but as a working class person I can assure you it isn't that simple and if you chose to believe the only problem was Hillary then we are doomed to have another horrendous Republican candidate win in the next decade.

[quote] Sorry but as an academic who thinks he has a bead on working class people....

No I can assure you I am. Maybe the only one on DL but I was raised in a council estate in Liverpool and now live in a working class suburb of Chicago and work as a factory supervisor. I came to the US via Canada. I'm a welder by trade.

R143, if she's so unlikely, why did she get more votes than Trump?

R38 thinks Kamala is an "extremist" - lol

Now Trumplethinskin is coming after Sasse:

Nikki Haley would have better luck running in the Knesset. She served Israel at the UN, not the US

[quote] [R143], if she's so unlikely, why did she get more votes than Trump?

How many times do we need to explain this to the H-Hive R148?

Two people can BOTH be unlikeable.

It so happened that three million people found Hillary [italic] slightly less unlikeable[/italic] than Trump.

R148, my first choice was Kamala. You appear to have zero sense of political nuance or realities.

[quote] I am disappointed with his voting record and lack of pushback, but I always knew he privately was disgusted with Trump's actions as a human being.

R18, that has to be one of the most infuriating things I’ve read on DL. A voting record and pushback to gross indecency are the only weapons in a politician’s arsenal. Hand-wringing behind the scenes or proclaiming a higher moral tone does not display integrity, but the complete and utter lack of it.

Sasse sees the writing on the wall. He realizes he won’t have a political future unless he starts distancing himself from Trump now as the ship is sinking.

We won’t forget how he was instrumental in sailing that ship

R152, you seem to have little understanding of what an extremist is.

R155, I have no idea what your problem is. In my original post from *Thursday*, I merely pointed out that both parties will have to deal with their extreme wings. It’s not a radical observation, nor is it an expression of whatever political leaning you seem to want to ascribe to me.

I think any Republican who is calling out Trump at this point has already given up any 2024 ambitions.

R12, he’s in one of those body swap movies that were so popular circa 1996. The twist in this film is that he body swapped into himself *in the future*.

Now Trumplethinskin is coming after Sasse:

I like that one Trumplethinskin - very funny R149

By all means Dump, spend the final days of your campaign shitting all over fellow repugs, take a couple of shots at McTurtle while you're at it....

R159, when i see them go after each other, my only thought is: Should I go with butter or caramel on the popcorn?

Now it's Texas Senator John Cornyn's turn to claim he was troubled by Trump all along:

The senior Republican senator from Texas, who is being challenged by Democrat MJ Hegar, said he chose to work on those disagreements with the president’s staff in private discussions, rather than by publicly voicing his opposition.

Cornyn initially described his relationship with Trump as “maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they’re going to change their spouse, and that doesn’t usually work out very well.”

actually, I'm not sure that's true r108. Many felons are not allowed to vote, but I'm not sure there are really a lot of restrictions on running for most offices. Some age restrictions, some need to gather enough signatures by a certain date, but other than that ...

R162, that's crazy. So many can't vote but they can be given power?

We all saw this coming. They got what they wanted from the orange clown who they knew was a fucking clown and now they're done with him and pulling a Mariah.

You know which ones are the smart ones who lack integrity and ethics, but went along for political gain (ie. tax cuts for the rich and ACB) and those who are true believers. Matt Gaetz is one of the few true believers. Like Trump, an idiot allowed to fail upward because of who his daddy is.

I think so, r163. Our political rules are very arbitrary that way. In fact, Don Blankenship who spent a year in jail for multiple violations regarding his coal mines, and for being an all around asshole really, is running for president for the Constitution Party.

Oh, God. Is Blankenship the guy John Oliver did a piece on? How could anyone support that asshole?

The "felons can't vote" laws are strictly about suppressing Black votes.

And the problem is that when they imagine "black felons," they think every single one was a rapist/murderer rather than just found with some weed. Meanwhile, the suburban white kids who drive drunk or party with tons of weed, are given a warning.

And what did he say about Trump three years ago?

To be fair, I have ALWAYS been extremely concerned about President Trump's behavior.

[Quote] I merely pointed out that both parties will have to deal with their extreme wings.

Except the extreme democratic wing wants to give Americans what European governments have been offering to their citizens for decades. The extreme GOP wing wants to make America a theocracy, decimating rights for gays, women, and minorities.

There is a huge difference

I made no suggestion that the extremes were equivalent in their views. You’ve got some weird issues.

[quote]The senior Republican senator from Texas, who is being challenged by Democrat MJ Hegar, said he chose to work on those disagreements with the president’s staff in private discussions, rather than by publicly voicing his opposition.

R173, the truth is he doesn’t really have any differences. He just said that to get re-elected

R171, the ones who imagine a faction of the left being "extreme," think that it translates into giving minorities they hate, more power rather than simple equality. They'll ignore literal death threats to governors from the extreme right. Over what? Over trying to *protect* them from a deadly virus and the president himself encouraging those death threats. And they think that is analogous to anything the "far left" believes in.

Shameful people who call themselves "moderates" when really, they're just trying to rationalize their own prejudices.

[quote]The senior Republican senator from Texas, who is being challenged by Democrat MJ Hegar, said he chose to work on those disagreements with the president’s staff in private discussions, rather than by publicly voicing his opposition.

A Senator's disagreement has meaning only through his / her votes.

If, as I suspect, Cornyn voted with Trump on the so-called issues of disagreement, he did not disagree.

Wasn't D. Blankenship the guy who coined the phrase "Cocaine Mitch"? Mitch is heavily invested in Elaine Chao's family's international shipping company based in China. A big load of cocaine was found on one of the ships several years back.

they're just not doing well. they are just too stupid and just too lazy to realize, they just ain't doing well. this con game is coming to an end, and they don't know what to do about it.

[quote] they are just too stupid and just too lazy to realize,

Oh, so kind of like you with the shift key.

Sassy Ben is bearded and wide awake.

I have a feeling “moderate” Republicans will become democrats in order to take over the democratic party & make it the new GOP-