One thing we do in Canada, and I posted a couple of articles, it effected both the Liberals and the Conservatives - is the party can boot the elected member FROM the party.
They were elected to represent their area. They stay to represent, but as independent backbenchers. The party is “free” to determine who is representing the group policy and if they are not, they don’t have to continue in that vein.
This is what gets me. I have never seen some of my trump friends be this loyal to a politician before. Especially one who doesn’t seem to care about the values they claim are theirs. The republican party has truly become a cult of personality.
I have been trying hard not to say it, as he seems particularly fragile whenever his hero is discussed.
Follow that link to see the false allegations of voter fraud thoroughly disproved.
Or you can carry on lying to yourself, it’s your choice at the end of the day.
I dare you to claim the BBC are part of a left wing cover up…
Do you mean “British Broadcasting Commission?” If so, that is charge often hurled at the BBC by the lunar right, to which Mr Macabre seems to be a paid up member.
Same here in Oz and our ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission)
Tbh I fully expected another “reds under the beds” rant from him, if he responds at all. Yes it’s funny how extremists, who have to be in the minority by definition, always see enemies everywhere, and assume that’s down to everyone else’s bias. You have to laugh, well, until they march violently on the government, then I stop laughing.
Things are heating up in the GOP.
“GOP campaigners have called on senators Ted Cruz and Josh-Hawley to resign through billboards that condemn them for supporting claims the 2020 election was “stolen”.”
It appears some in the GOP have finally had enough, and are fighting back against Trump’s pernicious lies and attempts to undermine legitimate democratic elections.
I remember that one famous tweet of Trump about crime rate in South Africa . He regarded South Africa as a “shithole country” due to South Africa’s high crime rate . He didn’t improve anything in my country he commonly tweets about land expropriation and killing of farmers it only fuels the alt right .My country still has a high crime rate .
Given the historical injustice, and crimes against the majority of South Africans under apartheid, it’s hardly surprising they are facing the problems they do.
One of Trump’s most annoying characteristics, is his opportunistic use of facile rhetoric for political point scoring, or political posturing.
He often made comments that by comparison made the average deepity seem profound and edifying.
And the most hilarious thing I read today that was his legal team (well the two lead lawyers and at least 6 others) have all resigned…citing “differences in strategy”.
Apparently the orange toddler wanted to complain about the election being “stolen” etc etc. Or maybe they refused to accept the professional bunko man’s assurances they would get paid?
The best tRump could do is plead “insanity”… he thinks he knows more than the lawyers who are VERY knowledgeable in their field (although I’d argue that he was impeached as President-his trial is after…like charging a thief for embezzlement while he worked for the company, firing him, and then the trial for “guilt or not guilty).
tRump, at the very least of his many personality disorders suffers from
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive biashypothesis that people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability.
Yes Trump does seem to be going through lawyers apace. As things stand the impeachment doesn’t have enough support from the GOP to convict anyway, though a few have indicated they’d vote to impeach him, but many are still worried about alienating his supporters.
Who knows why, as Trump’s most ardent supporters are highly unlikely to vote for a Democrat ever, and many of the rest just might view his incitement of armed violent insurrection as egregiously as everyone else.
The main problem is, as far as I can see is that “Trumpism” or at least the hard line right confederacy loving uneducated loons are no longer a fringe minority in the GOP. They ARE the GOP very much like the Abbotts in Australia are the New Liberals, and the Buffoonery Boris ARE the Tory party in the UK…mind I suspect that the UK for all its faults will lead the way on rejecting such bullies come the next election. If it doesn’t then Scotland will certainly reject the Union.
The majority of Republicans believe the election was stolen and still back Trump. Several prominent Republicans who dared back impeachment have been formally censured by the Republican party in their states. Trump has a history of putting forth and backing the opponents to those who crossed him in anyway. Incumbents who would have got their parties nomination unchallenged will find themselves in a fight just to get nominated to run. Trumps attacks on them will be relentless, and of course, full of lies. He has millions of dollars at his disposal that he racked in to “Stop the Steal” that, due to the fine print, he can use to support a candidate of his choosing and run nonstop negative campaign ads.
As an aside, Trump’s “Stop the Steal” slogan has to be the most ironic rallying cry ever uttered.
I think there are good people on both sides of the political spectrum, just as there are good ideas. One of the things I detest most about Trump’s behaviour, is his sweeping bigotry and intolerance of millions whose political opinions simply differ from his own.
Political ideas are to be attacked, and challenged, not people. I don’t attack Trump because I dislike him, or because his politics differ from mine, I attack his behaviour, and his intolerance of the rights of others to hold whatever opinions they wish.
Do you mean the majority of the GOP, or the electors who support them? I’m not so sure, what evidence is there to support this? I think January 6th has appalled many republican voters and politicians alike.
This doesn’t of course mean they’re not appalled at Trump’s treasonous behaviour in violating his oath of office. It’s as likely they just want to limit the damage to their own party, and don’t see impeachment as the best way to heal the rifts in the GOP.
I agree, Trump’s dishonest rhetoric is Orwellian in both its scale and audacity.
It would be unwise in my opinion, even now, for the GOP to underestimate the damage he can still do.
Apartheid was harsh alt right extremists controlled everything in South Africa (In the apartheid era). It was illegal to race mix in the apartheid era non whites were often mocked and discriminated . Whites were seen supreme beings .If you were an atheist in the apartheid era you would’ve been fined or put in prison for blasphemy and blasphemy laws only applied to Christianity so those alt right extremists could hate speech other belief groups as much they wanted and they did that is why their hate is still there.
Many, but not all, of elected GOP officials are well aware the election wasn’t stolen, but if they’re willing to appease Trump and his legion of supporters by acting like they think it was and doing everything in their power to see it over turned, then what’s the difference? Even after the capitol was stormed most of them still voted to not certify the election because that “was the will of the people” they served. The outrage, and out right fear, of what had happened at the capitol quickly faded as they realized the majority of the GOP voters still backed Trump. Anyone who is in good with that base has a good shot at being our next president. I don’t personally know a single Trump voter who still isn’t an enthusiastic backer or think him in anyway responsible for the riot at the capitol. They think the democrats caused it by stealing the election. I have to agree with Old Man on this one, the loons are the GOP.
The Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell is scheduled to meet Marjorie Taylor Greene, to decide if she has any future in the GOP.
And to be clear here, you’d have to insane at this point to want your party associated with her in any way…
She’s been a busy little bee removing incriminating evidence from her social media accounts apparently. Too fucking late, one can only hope her days in the GOP, and Congress are numbered.
Let’s see how long she lasts with no party affiliation. If Mich McConnell doesn’t clean house here, then who knows what further damage this bigoted lunatic can inflict on the GOP’s already tarnished reputation.
To think that internationally there was no “fallout” from this rhetoric 
50 years of a military dictatorship.
Struggle for democracy and election.
Military takeover - claims “fraud in elections”…promises to return to “people” after a year 
Suu Kyi’s party captured 396 out of 476 seats in the combined lower and upper houses of Parliament in November’s polls.
The military has charged that there was massive voting fraud in the election, though it has failed to provide proof. The state Union Election Commission last week rejected its allegations.
