The good:
New rumblings are emerging about a new political party being concocted by betrayed MAGA luminaries, but according to the D.C. insiders at Pod Save America, these rumors actually pose a disaster for President Donald Trump and his allies, as well as "a gift to Democrats like you cannot imagine."
In the latest episode of the "Pod Save America" podcast, former Obama
administration officials Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer touched on the
emerging rumors that ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson
might be plotting a run for president, as well as the rumors about a
new political party that might coalesce around him. The rumors went into
overdrive after former congresswoman-turned-Trump critic Marjorie
Taylor Greene shared a photo to X of herself at Carlson's Maine
compound, alongside Rep. Thomas Massie and Joe Kent, along with the
caption, "The movement has begun."
"MAGA was betrayed. We all were. It's time for a new path forward," she added in another post.
While Carlson has denied any
presidential ambitions, he did last week release a "10-point plan for
America," outlining his vision for the future of the country, something
that Favreau, Obama's one-time director of speechwriting, said "sounds
pretty 'I'm going to run in 2028.'"
The hosts of Pod Save
America, especially former National Security Council spokesman Tommy
Vieter, have long despaired about the possibility of Carlson running for
president, given that his established popularity with the GOP base and
his well-honed media skills could make him a highly effective
"demagogue." In light of this news, however, Pfieffer, Obama's former
senior communications adviser, argued that Carlson's political threat to
Democrats was entirely neutralized and that he would instead become a
major threat to MAGA Republicans.
"There's
been a lot of talk of Tucker Carlson being a formidable presidential
candidate because of his media skills, mainly because of his media
skills," Pfeiffer explained. "That was always under the assumption he
would be the Republican nominee, right? Tucker Carlson, a third-party
candidate, is a gift to Democrats like you cannot imagine."
He continued: "There aren't a lot of potential John Ossoff, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], Kamala Harris,
Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro voters who are voting for Tucker Carlson,
but there are a lot of disillusioned Trump 2024 voters who might vote
for Tucker Carlson. That's how you win. So that would be very good news.
Like, we should encourage this. This would be great... It does speak to how much the MAGA coalition has truly fractured under Trump's second term, right? Because of Epstein, apparently because of the war, there are these incredibly prominent people with large audiences who have soured on Trump."
Every day that the bastards are fighting amongst themselves and splintering is a good day, for Democrats and for democracy.
The bad:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected President Trump's
15-point peace plan for Gaza, saying Israeli forces will not withdraw
from Gaza until Hamas is "genuinely disarmed."
"We are talking about genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament," he said at a meeting with government ministers Sunday.
Netanyahu's comments come just over a week after President Trump
announced that his Board of Peace had reached a deal with the
Palestinian militant group to completely give up its weapons.
"Today,
the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE
DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a
monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY," Trump wrote on social media in late July.
Under Trump's proposed peace deal, Board of Peace officials said
Hamas and other militant groups would hand their arms over to a vetted
international policing force.
But a senior Hamas official
previously told NPR that the group would only hand over their weapons if
Israel withdrew from parts of Gaza first...
Given that the Malignant Fascist is a pathological liar without the slightest knowledge base about the Middle East or skill in negotiation, combined with a toddler's attention span and attention to detail, it wasn't hard to imagine that the HISTORIC agreement he rashly trumpeted was just a creation of his desperate, diminished mind. At best, he thought he could bum rush Netanyahu into agreeing to an agreement by making a premature announcement -- a classic Shart of the Deal move by him. But he ends up looking like he got played like a fiddle (which he was). He puts American prestige and lives on the line every day just to make his worthless orange self look as good as he can. That this disgraceful behavior isn't called out for what it is every day in our credulous, broken media is another scandal of our times.
The ugly:
President Donald Trump has found a new way to go
after politicians he doesn’t like: dragging their marriages into his
political feuds.
On Saturday, the 80-year-old president unleashed a flurry of posts on Truth Social, including one targeting Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, 41, and his wife.
The
post paired a photo of Trump and Melania Trump, 56, with one of
El-Sayed and his wife, Dr. Sarah Jukaku, putting the two couples side by
side beneath the typo-riddled caption: “Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s.”
Trump also singled out El-Sayed’s full name,
identifying him as “Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed”—a pointed choice that
echoes his repeated emphasis on Barack Obama’s middle name, “Hussein.”
When asked about Trump’s post on CNN’s State of the Union
on Sunday, El-Sayed agreed that the two marriages represented “two very
different Americas,” but turned the president’s jab back on him. He
contrasted what he described as a marriage between “two people who don’t
like each other” but are united by their shared interest in making
“billions of dollars off of you” with his own relationship with Jukaku,
which he said is rooted in genuine love, family, and even enjoying “some
pancakes together.”...
The MF's completely on-brand racist, Islamophobic post got many more pointed rebukes from social media pointing out truths about his third wife and marriage, but JFC what a piece of shit we have representing our country, always in the most despicable ways possible. Two very different Americas, indeed.
