how to stitch a straightjacket

[nsacpi]

Ronald Brownstein is an excellent journalist and social observer. I recently read his book "Rock Me on the Water" and highly recommend it.

This article is an interesting read. But I think a better metaphor is threading a needle. That's what most of the candidates running in the GOP presidential primary are trying to do. Keep the MAGA voters motivated and within the fold while nudging them away from their champion.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/politics/republican-response-trump-indictment/index.html

[nsacpi]

I would add there is a symbiotic relationship between those (like Christie and Hutchinson) who are unequivocal in criticizing very poorly chosen one's actions and the other candidates who are trying to straddle some sort of middle ground. Christie and Hutchinson don't stand a chance, but they are doing the Lord's work.

[nsacpi]

The Lord's Work.

1668427071373058051

I think Barr's comments yesterday on Fox were extremely important. And John Bolton is doing his part too.

[nsacpi]

While the other candidates are trying to thread a needle, Vivek is hard at work knitting that straightjacket.

1668636648756895744

[Tapate50]

Holding govt accountable does seem to be an irrational take these days.

Wild.

[nsacpi]

1669346566157795337

[sturg33]

Oh wow another thread about Donald Trump

[nsacpi]

Former attorney general William P. Barr on Sunday compared his former boss, Donald Trump, to a “defiant, 9-year-old kid” and continued his condemnation of the actions described in Trump’s recently unsealed federal indictment.

Speaking to CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Barr, a Republican, pushed back on a number of his party’s talking points in excusing the former president’s alleged actions.

“The legal theory by which he gets to take battle plans and sensitive national security information as his personal papers is absurd,” Barr said. “It’s just as wacky as the legal doctrine they came up with for, you know, having the vice president unilaterally determine who won the election.”

Barr said that Trump did some good things as president but that he does not believe Trump should continue to be the Republican standard-bearer.

“He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests,” Barr said. “This is a perfect example of that.”

https://wapo.st/3Jk8kHi

Bolding added for emphasis. Always has. Always will. All other candidates from both parties understand that there is a national interest distinct from their personal interests.

[Runnin]

What does one look like in a straight jacket?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fy80FxTagAAVhH8?format=png&name=small

[Garmel]

Former attorney general William P. Barr on Sunday compared his former boss, Donald Trump, to a “defiant, 9-year-old kid” and continued his condemnation of the actions described in Trump’s recently unsealed federal indictment.

Speaking to CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Barr, a Republican, pushed back on a number of his party’s talking points in excusing the former president’s alleged actions.

“The legal theory by which he gets to take battle plans and sensitive national security information as his personal papers is absurd,” Barr said. “It’s just as wacky as the legal doctrine they came up with for, you know, having the vice president unilaterally determine who won the election.”

Barr said that Trump did some good things as president but that he does not believe Trump should continue to be the Republican standard-bearer.

“He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests,” Barr said. “This is a perfect example of that.”

https://wapo.st/3Jk8kHi

Bolding added for emphasis. Always has. Always will. All other candidates from both parties understand that there is a national interest distinct from their personal interests.

Wacky? Bill Clinton had national defense secrets in his sock drawer. It's a shame Barr is willing to lie to get brownie points with the media.

[nsacpi]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/opinion/trump-republican-party.html?unlocked_article_code=ayaFx1R2wFlGDPTbD 8bL3JHsNAXTRPmecssNoOsUCkrD4U09M9Qmoql4_T5yebkayrL bkokc9_jYxUb4-DSryGUNsOIhvCW8X8wMqX5Kr9DGOf0rnBc9-XNhgD4y_2eJv54qL-6PKR6n9hUEvRiIX9_26HDd22vF77FbU_M2TuHZt8TOdoABJvWG UC-dGZAxuxFCzu4xqWzvnM4f0y4F5kTjdDS_57WmtCNS728yLKNk1 yMtvRDeh75SsynI12MCwvxj5_5IeisfrkAJEqdlcayQAS5w8f4 aJsEgS607M203MnH_nUJ9GCubueT2IQMWKhV7IW9JJJt6w6RMC s1S&smid=url-share

[cajunrevenge]

Wacky? Bill Clinton had national defense secrets in his sock drawer. It's a shame Barr is willing to lie to get brownie points with the media.

Lol