Trump Rails At Republicans Who Defied Him

 

The mentally unstable, would-be dictator Malignant Fascist was up last night/ early morning on his failing social media platform railing against Republicans who've stood up to him at one time or another.  He took particular umbrage at Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, running for reelection, whom he's never forgiven for voting to impeach his seditious, fat ass for inciting an insurrection on January 6, 2021.  His problems with Reps. Massie and Boebert stem from their voting to release the Epstein files (where his name is mentioned 38,000 times) which the convicted sexual abuser is determined to keep hidden from the public and posterity.  Here are his unbalanced, un-presidential rants, full of projection and consciousness of guilt:

Cassidy lost his party primary yesterday and aimed some well-justified barbs at the Malignant Fascist:

“When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to,” he told dozens of supporters in Baton Rouge. “But you don’t pout. You don’t whine. You don’t claim that an election was stolen from you.”

Without naming Mr. Trump, Mr. Cassidy expressed his view that America’s leaders should be focused not on “one individual” who demanded absolute loyalty but rather on the general welfare of the public.

“And if someone doesn’t understand that and attempts to control others through using the levers of power, they’re about serving themselves,” he said. “They’re not about serving us. And that person is not qualified to be a leader.”

Messages entirely lost on the MAGAt voters in Louisiana yesterday.

Three Blind Rats

This is really par for the course for a party/ cult whose idol is King Rat, the felonious Malignant Loser:

The House Ethics Committee said Monday that it is investigating a trio of GOP lawmakers over allegations ranging from accepting a “free or below-market-value trip” to Aruba to engaging in an improper relationship with a staffer.

One of the lawmakers, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), is a freshman who lost his GOP primary battle last week. The other two are Reps. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.) and Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.).  [snip]

In Cawthorn’s case, all 10 Democrats and Republicans voted unanimously to establish an investigative subcommittee into the embattled North Carolina Republican’s actions. The subcommittee is tasked with determining whether Cawthorn “improperly promoted a cryptocurrency in which he may have had an undisclosed financial interest, and engaged in an improper relationship with an individual employed on his congressional staff,” the committee said.  [snip]

In Jackson’s case, the Texas Republican’s campaign committee “reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes,” the Office of Congressional Ethics said in recommending that the matter be further investigated.

The Federal Election Commission prohibits the use of campaign funds for memberships in country clubs and similar organizations. There is “substantial reason to believe” that Jackson used his congressional campaign funds to “pay for unlimited access to the Amarillo Club, a private dining club located in Amarillo, Texas,” the OCE said.  [snip]

The House Ethics Committee also published a report on Mooney, who this month won the primary race for the GOP nomination for West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District.

The report said the committee would continue to review several allegations against Mooney, including that he may have accepted a “free or below-market-value trip” to Aruba, used a campaign vendor’s Washington property as a free source of lodging, converted campaign funds to personal use and pressured congressional staffers to run personal errands for his family.

Who could possibly have foreseen that these members in good standing of the Corrupt Cult -- a "dark MAGA" nitwit, a pill- pushing drunk, and an anti-Semitic, pro-Russian crank -- would be blind to ethics issues?  Clean government is for losers!

Today's Dispatch From The Stupid Party

It's been quite a while since we had one of these dispatches, not because there wasn't ample evidence of cognitive rot in the Republican (a.k.a., Stupid) Party.  It was because if we were to memorialize it every time it appeared, we'd be doing nothing else on this blog.

However, an instance has arisen that is so profound in its abject stupidity, so cynical in service to a malign purpose, that we could not ignore it. Here you have Republican/ Stupid Party and Freedumb Caucus member Rep. Thomas Massie, from Kentucky coal country "grilling" former Secretary of State John Kerry in a House Oversight Committee climate change hearing the other day:

MASSIE: Isn't it true you have a science degree from Yale?

KERRY: It's a Bachelor of Arts degree.

MASSIE: Is it a political science degree?

KERRY: Yes. Political science.

MASSIE: So, how do you get a Bachelor of Arts in a science?

KERRY: Well, it's a liberal arts education and degree, and a Bachelor of Arts.

MASSIE: Okay, so it's NOT really science, I think it's appropriate that somebody with a pseudo-science degree is here pushing pseudo-science in front of our committee today. (quiet laughter around him) I want to ask you --

KERRY: Are you serious? (loud laughter) I mean, this is really a serious happening, here?

Later, the "questioning" turned to the topic of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributing to global climate change:

KERRY: We know definitively that at least in the last 800,000 years, has atmospheric CO2 been as high as it is today....

MASSIE: The reason you chose 800,000 years ago is because 200 million years before that it was greater than it was today.

KERRY: Yeah, but there weren't HUMAN BEINGS then, it was a different WORLD, folks, we didn't have 7 billion people!

MASSIE: So, how did it get to 2000 ppm if we humans weren't here?

KERRY: Because there were all kinds of geologic events going on on Earth that spewed up --

MASSIE: Did geology stop when we got on the planet?

KERRY: Mr. Chairman, (to Chairman Cummings) this is just not a serious conversation.

Now, here's the catch:  Massie has a BS and an MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, so he knows political science isn't a science degree.  The best interpretation is that the cynical little squidge was trying to be sarcastic about Kerry's expertise, because that's what Republicans do when confronted with science.  They have no answers so they malign and disparage.  Massie would also be likely to know that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was high 200 million years ago because of, for example, volcanic activity.  So, one can assume Massie's not the dolt he was playing in the hearing.

So, how to explain Massie's performance?  It's because he thinks his constituents are stupid. He thinks they'll think he's clever and scoring points on that pointy- headed elitist Kerry (keeping in mind Massie himself went to MIT).  It's because he thinks his constituents can be distracted from the truth by a few dumb bombs dropped at a hearing (that'll no doubt be cut and pasted into a campaign ad next year).  Massie and his fellow Republican cynics have been working this angle for decades, thinking so little of the intelligence of their voters that they happily perform charades like this, counting on their ability to con the gullible when voting time comes.  It's working for some of them, so far.

Sad!