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Foreign Policy GOP WTF?!

Unhinged Lindsey Graham Demands Gaza Be Bombed The Way Hiroshima Was In WWII

An enraged Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said today during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Israel should bomb Gaza into oblivion the way the United States did the city of Hiroshima in World War II with a nuclear weapon.

Graham was asked by host Kristin Welker, “I guess the question is, why does Israel need the most massive bombs that can potentially level an entire block in order to wage this war? Why can’t it be more precise?”

The senator replied, “Why did we drop two bombs, nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end a war that we couldn’t afford to lose? You don’t understand, apparently, what Israel is facing.”

“So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons,” he continued. “That was the right decision. Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they can’t afford to lose and work with them to minimize casualties.”

Welker noted “that there has been so much technology since those bombs were dropped that for that very reason, that is why Israel and other developed countries can be more precise.”

She also reminded Graham that former President Ronald Reagan had also withheld weapons from Israel.

“Did President Reagan show that using U.S. military aid as leverage can actually be an effective way to rein in and impact Israel’s policy?”

The question enraged Graham.

“This is the worst decision in the history of the U.S.-Israel relationship to deny weapons at a time the Jewish state could be destroyed. Can I say this? Why is it okay for America to not to to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war?”

“I thought it was OK. So, Israel, do whatever you have to do to survive as a Jewish state!” he ranted. “These military officials that you’re talking about are full of crap!”

Let’s all be thankful that Lindsey Graham will never be president of the United States. The crazy son of a bitch would have us in World War III within a week of taking office.

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Donald Trump Elections GOP

Trump Willing To Sell Nikki Haley The VP Slot To Pay His Mounting Legal Bills: Report

In the surest sign yet that failed former president Donald Trump is desperate for cash as his legal bills continue to mount and his campaign coffers run dry, he’s now considering naming his chief 2024 rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Nikki Haley, to be his running mate, provided she hooks him up with wealthy donors who will pay his attorney bills.

That’s the word from Alex Thompson of Axios, who notes that top Trump advisers say Haley is indeed under consideration for the VP slot.

“The GOP rivals’ relationship remains chilly, but Trump could pick Haley if he were convinced she’d help him win the presidency, avoid a potential prison sentence and cover tens of millions in legal bills if he loses.”

There are increasing reports that Trump is having trouble raising significant amounts of cash to fund his faltering 2024 campaign in addition to whispers that his legal troubles are taking a bigger financial drain than he had anticipated.

Choosing Haley would also help Trump mend the growing divide among Republicans, at least 20% of whom have been casting their primary ballots for the former South Carolina governor despite her having dropped out of the race in March.

However, picking Haley could alienate many hardcore right-wingers, including former Fox host Tucker Carlson, Axios reports.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told a conservative commentator in December that if Trump selects Haley he “would not only not vote for that ticket, I would advocate against it as strongly as I could.”

For his part, Trump claims Haley isn’t “presidential timber,” even though she has more credentials as a potential GOP nominee than he ever did.

Trump loves to brag about his supposed wealth. But with each day it becomes clearer that he’s desperate for money to fund the campaign and help him avoid going to jail.

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Donald Trump Elections Social Media

Photo Of Trump Kissing A Child Goes Viral For All The Wrong Reasons

There’s a photo circulating online this morning that’s stirring up all sorts of controversy, with some suggesting it proves that failed former president Donald Trump and members of the MAGA movement will go to any lengths to make it appear they’re inclusive when their policies and rhetoric prove otherwise.

On Instagram, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) posted a photo of her campaigning with Trump, who is kissing a child, along with this caption:

“From working on Trump’s campaign in 2016 to now being the only Trump ENDORSED candidate in SC-01, we have come a long way Mr. President.”

 
 
 
 
 
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The photo set off a wave of commentary, with many noting just how “creepy” it looked and others suggesting the entire thing was little more than a political stunt.

Here are some of the reactions:

Others suggested the photo was fake and had been created using artificial intelligence or Photoshop.

Real or fake, the photo is getting Mace and Trump slammed, which is as it should be.

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Donald Trump Social Media

This Trending Social Media Hashtag Is Guaranteed To Enrage Trump

If you haven’t already this morning, be sure and take a digital stroll over to Twitter and check out what topics and phrases are trending.

As of 9:00 a.m., one of those trending hashtags is #OrangeTurd.

Where did that phrase come from? It was brought out during cross-examination of Stormy Daniels on Thursday, and the person who used it first was none other than one of former president Donald Trump’s attorneys.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell had a field day with the fact that “orange turd” was now part of the court transcript in Trump’s ongoing hush money and election interference case in Manhattan, HuffPost reports.

One of Trump’s defense attorneys in the hush money trial, Susan Necheles, was questioning porn star Stormy Daniels, a key witness, when she pulled up a tweet where Daniels once called Trump an “orange turd.”

“Susan Necheles brought the orange turd into the courtroom and kept it there. The questioning about the orange turd went on and on,” O’Donnell told viewers before reading from the court transcript.

O’Donnell added, “Imagine Donald Trump, sitting in that courtroom today … being forced to listen, with eyes closed or eyes open, to one of his criminal defense lawyers, on whom he has lavished money — money provided by his political contributors — listen to her repeatedly call him, ‘the orange turd.'”

Here’s some of the remarks from other Twitter users on the subject of the #OrangeTurd:

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Congress GOP History

WATCH Jamie Raskin Take A GOPer To The Woodshed Over The Pledge Of Allegiance

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) gave a Republican colleague a much-needed lesson in American history yesterday during a debate in the House of Representatives.

According to HuffPost, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) was speaking on the subject of adding a citizenship question to the U.S. census when he referenced a line in the Pledge of Allegiance which reads, “and to the Republic for which is stands,” which led him to quote Benjamin Franklin.

“After our Constitution was ratified, he talked about giving us a republic, if we can keep it, and I think people should analyze those two little quotes and wonder why there were references to republic in both of them.”

That led Raskin to note that he had been “inspired” by Grothmans’s comments, and then he took his GOP colleague to school.

He said that “radical Baptist minister” Rev. Francis Bellamy wrote the pledge for the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival to the Americas. He was concerned over the continued salute of the Confederate battle flag in the South.

“And so he wanted to write a flag salute that would be unifying for the Union,” explained Raskin, who noted that Congress added “under God” in 1954.

The Maryland Democrat also noted that Franklin was a strong supporter of immigration and added he had once loaned a friend some money.

His friend assured him that the principal was well invested, but paying interest would be against their religion, Raskin said. Franklin then told his friend that he meant to say it’s against his “principle” to pay him interest on the loan and against his “interest” to pay him the principal.

“Well look, here our principles and our interests converge, very much,” Raskin said.

“The principles are set forth in the Constitution, which is we count everybody and everybody is part of the census, and everybody is part of the reapportionment process. It’s been like that since 1790.”

Mocking the proposal to add a citizenship question to the censu, Raskin concluded his remarks with this salvo:

“But it’s also in our interest because, as my colleagues have said, this is a land that is built on immigration, except for the Native Americans that were already here and the people who were brought over as slaves. All of us are descendants of immigrants to this country.”

It has been said before but needs to be repeated: Jamie Raskin is a national treasure.