I wonder if Trump would accept it? I bet he’d twist it to his advantage somehow.
I agree it’s a terrible idea
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“Odal!” the Republicans insist.
“The whole answer is in the Roman alphabet.”
“Odal!”
“There is no Oþal in this.”
“Odal!”
“Odal!” they shout, as Trump retweets supporters using the Nazi occultist version instead of the historical letter.
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Weak evidence that only a Republican could love.
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The result comes as a blow to President Donald Trump who backed his fellow Republican.
Mr Trump made two campaigning visits to the state in the past two weeks, turning the run-off election into a test of his own popularity.
On Saturday he posted several tweets urging people to vote for Mr Rispone.
I don’t know much about this person, but any blow to Trump is welcome. It might help shake loose some Republican senators.
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JBE sucks in many crucial ways, is pretty good in other ways, and Trump came down like 3 times in the last two months to support JBE’s opponent, Rispone. Rispone himself dumped like 8 mil of personal money into trying to buy the election after bumping off his Republican challenger, a Dollar General opiod mule named Ralph Abraham.
Super weird for Trump to hate JBE, since JBE collaborated with Trump on some criminal justice reform (the First Steps act, which is better than nothing in terms of letting off nonviolent offenders). Like, they’re buddies on this thing, then JBE is an intolerable socialist who is best friends with Nancy Pelosi? Really obvious to other pols that being in Trump’s circle just means you get burned later, even if you aren’t on trial. And pretty transparent to voters - JBE holds a wide bipartisan approval for digging us out of the Jindal hole.
To sum up the night: Suck it, Trump. We also avoided a Republican supermajority, which means the redistricting won’t be uber fucked.
Been doing a lot of anxiety drinking; hope some of that is coherent.
Edit: It’s hard to say what this means, in terms of Trump. JBE won this one by like 3 percent. The last election, he won 56-43. But that was coming off of the ruinous tenure of Bobby Jindal. People have the memory of goldfish. I don’t think it should have been this tight, given that Edwards has clawed us out of a hole. But people forget fast, and Rispone was non-commital-ish on key things like repealing JBE’s medicaid expansion. In 2015, the Republican challenger was also a charisma-less prositute-frequenter. The latter thing some people feel squicky about, particularly in the very Baptist & conservative north of the state. So this race was tighter than it ought have been, given the governor’s accomplishments, is that due to Trump? The Rpublican wasted like 8 mil in personal money and still went up in flames - due to Trump?
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Ah, yes. Trump works “from 6am until very very late at night”. “Almost superhuman”. Yep, that’s totally believable.
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Getting a head start with routine checkups. /smh
This administration is so gross. Please impeach this motherfucker now.
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Darn leftist mainstream media, silencing conservative voic… err, wait…
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He’s part of the whole forced-birth crowd, apparently:
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I’m not sure Louisiana has ever had a pro-choice governor. The last Democratic governor, Kathy Blanco (2006), signed into law a bill saying that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, all abortion is illegal effective immediately. In the US, consistently about 75% of people think abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances, with ~20% saying illegal in all. In LA, those numbers are ~60% saying illegal always.
I don’t really know what to think about what to do. The heartbeat bill here was regarded as a bipartisan victory, and opinions on abortion are not divided racially like they are in many other states. Abortion is as close to a single issue as I have, but I don’t think there’s a path to victory if someone is pro-choice and open about it. Particularly since the NOLA suburbs are key deciders now, and they roll Catholic. I want to be wrong.
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I’ve also read a theory that he is preparing to step down from office “for health reasons.”
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From the Washington Post article about it,
[White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham] said Trump had taken advantage of a “free weekend” in Washington to “begin portions of his routine annual physical exam.”
When are his weekends not free? Or his mornings? Or any other time? He’s the laziest president we’ve had. I call B.S.
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