"Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election 'on character.'”
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"Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election 'on character.'”
No, really."
~Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
/1The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump
The rage and shame of the anti-anti-Trumpers is getting worse.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Lowry and others are intelligent people who know better, but their decision to bend the knee to Trump—even if only with a very small curtsy—requires them to take to the pages of America’s national newspapers and say that Trump might be terrible but Democrats are worse. ...
The anti-anti-Trumpers must now define Harris—and all Democrats—as evil beyond words. Otherwise, how would they explain the ghastly compromises they’ve made?"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Principles are sometimes burdensome things; that’s part of what makes them principles. The behavior of the anti-anti-Trumpers continues to be an inexcusable betrayal of the values they once claimed to hold. Many of them spoke, even passionately, against Trump—and then they shuffled into line. And for what? One more federal judge? A few billion more dollars in the account of a donor?"
#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
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"It’s one thing to sell your soul cheaply. It’s another to keep taking out second and third mortgages on it until all that’s left is debt and shame."
#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
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"As of Monday, August 26, 2024, we can safely say that the NYTimes is an 'unserious newspaper.'
The NYT’s Monday edition included a guest essay by Rich Lowry entitled, Trump Can Win on Character. ...
When the Times opens its editorial pages to opinions that are objectively, demonstrably false and misleading, the Times should be viewed as approving of those opinions."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"No responsible editorial board would platform such views unless it believed they were held in good faith and belonged within the realm of public discourse."
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"Trump has done what no Democrat—not Bill or Hillary Clinton, not Mario Cuomo or John Kerry, not Joe Biden or Barack Obama, not any Democrat—could have done. He has, at the national level, made the Republican Party de facto pro-choice."
~ Peter Wehner
#Trump #abortion #Republicans #ProLife #ProChoice
/7Trump’s Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse
The pro-life justification for supporting the former president has now collapsed.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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"Who in the pro-life movement—Al Mohler, Mike Huckabee, Franklin Graham, Eric Metaxas, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, Robert Jeffress, and countless others—will speak out, publicly and forcefully and relentlessly, against Trump’s about-face?"
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"Will they tell the full truth, which is that abortions increased during the Trump presidency, that the pro-life movement is weaker than at almost any time in its history, and that, when it comes to making the Republican Party the home of the pro-life cause, Trump is doing unprecedented damage?
Will they now say of Trump what they say of liberal Democrats, that he supports the murder of innocent unborn children?"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Once the strategic, logistical, and ideological concerns are resolved, there’s only one thing left to explain the lack of anti-Trump Republican support for Kamala.
These people are chickenshit. ...
To all the GOP politicians who, deep in their heart, know that Trump is too grave a risk."
~ Tim Miller
#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles
/10They Served With Trump and Saw the Crazy. They Should Endorse Harris.
Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"To the seventeen Republicans who voted to impeach and convict him. To the vice president he would’ve happily left for dead.
Say it loud and proud: Kamala Harris for president.
I promise you it will be a relief to get it off your chest. Because doing the right thing is never the wrong thing."
#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles
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@wdlindsy
#Harris2024 is the #NewWayForward !!Republicans who know the dangers of the MAGA cult need to speak up for freedom and #EndorseDems
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"After over a year in this job, I cannot understand Putin’s hold on Trump.”
~ Retired Army Gen. H.R. McMaster
#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles #Putin
/12H.R. McMaster struggled to understand ‘Putin’s hold on Trump’
Donald Trump was so weak toward Russia that former national security adviser H.R. McMaster told his wife, "I cannot understand Putin’s hold on Trump.”
MSNBC.com (www.msnbc.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"So the sun was out and shining as this third-generation draft dodger pretended to care about the soldiers who were suckers and losers enough to get killed during the United States' withdrawal from its Afghanistan adventure. How in the hell this was allowed to happen is beyond me."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles #veterans
/13Who The Hell Let Trump Into Arlington National Cemetery?
This is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there.
Esquire (www.esquire.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Arlington is the country's 'most hallowed ground.' (Just ask the tour guides.) Arlington is profaned by his presence on just an average day. But to allow itself to be used for the purpose propping up one of the Republican Party's most noxious half-truths—as promulgated by its most noxious elements personified by its most noxious candidate—is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there."
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"As a citizen of the United States, and therefore someone with a stake in places like Arlington, I choose to look upon his presence there as obscene."
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@wdlindsy Ditto
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Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
If a former President wants to lay a wreath at the national cemetery, really, what can anyone say.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️ last edited by
@the5thColumnist I think anyone can say anything she or he wants — as Charles Pierce does here with his usual eloquence. He recognizes, of course, that the claiom this is simply a former president laying a wreath at a national cemetery is entirely mendacious and dishonest, and he speaks, as he says, as an American citizen outraged at this use of a cemetery for those who died defending the US as a stage prop for that person.