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Rhiannon12866

(226,774 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 04:20 AM Jan 18

Bernie Sanders Forces MAGA Nominee Into Troubling Admission - The Watch List



Trump's billionaire puppet Scott Bessent doubles down on starving workers, slashing Medicaid, and shielding the ultra-rich, while Senate Democrats expose the GOP’s shameless war on economic justice. Jayar Jackson breaks it down. - 01/17/2025.
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C0RI0LANUS

(2,565 posts)
1. Bessent is a double-talking stumble-mouth. And did the oligarch bring Oliver Twist with him to soften his image?
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 05:54 AM
Jan 18
The kid is more like this:

Rhiannon12866

(226,774 posts)
2. What offends me is that these nominees are so full of themseves and they're so rude to the senators who have to approve
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 10:35 AM
Jan 18

Them! At least they're rude to the Democrats - the Republicans are under threat to approve these unqualified jerks. It's like TFG is testing the Republicans by nominating the most unqualified choices possible.

And I remember Richie Rich, when we'd visit my maternal grandmother, my Dad would take my brother and me to a newsstand around the corner - and he'd get MAD Magazine for himself and a comic book each for my brother and me.

C0RI0LANUS

(2,565 posts)
3. You said it. Republicans feel superior to Democrats, hence their arrogance or rudeness.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 02:57 AM
Jan 19

A few weeks ago a Russian TV host commented about Trumpf's Cabinet picks: "Good, America will dismantle itself."

Russia and China can't wait to watch the American implosion.

Rhiannon12866

(226,774 posts)
4. Alfred E. Newman pretty much said it! It's beyond me that we're stuck with him again, Biden just cleaned up his mess!
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 03:09 AM
Jan 19

And it's also got to be discouraging for the President since he worked so hard to set things to right. Who could possibly have voted for a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, who jeopardized national security by stealing classified documents and tried to overthrow the government?? Anyone else who committed any of those crimes would be behind bars by now...

C0RI0LANUS

(2,565 posts)
5. I'll be drafting an historical perspective about this very issue soon. BTW: I just posted something on AH.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 04:54 AM
Jan 19
As the Chairman of the Board used to toast:

"Here's to the confusion of our enemies!"



Rhiannon12866

(226,774 posts)
6. Like everyone else here, I'm dreading the next 4 years.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 05:09 AM
Jan 19

It's also frightening since we know that TFG will alienate and offend our allies - and he did before - which also jeopardizes our national security. And he identifies with and prefers the most dangerous dictators in the world - our long time adversaries. Not to mention, he has no common sense, couldn't care less about the welfare of the people, he's only in this for himself and how much money he can grift, as he has his entire life.

I'll look forward to your OP.

C0RI0LANUS

(2,565 posts)
7. Thanks, Rhiannon. Research for the OP will take some time. We gotta hang in there somehow for four %$@* years.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 05:34 AM
Jan 19
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