This is incredible…this from the primary to replace new governor Mikie Sherrill
Jersey is so controlled by the party aparatus that until very recently primaries were considered pointless - whomever was the party machine candidate won. That system has showed signs of cracking in recent years and here you have the machine candidate, Gill, way down in 4th.
Even more relevantly though is this is a spectacular defeat and own goal for AIPAC. They were concerned about Malinoski and so spend a lot of money (for a race of this size) attacking him on a series of unrelated issues and trying to prop up the very Pro-Israel candidate Way. The result - the Bernie/AOC aligned Meija who is even more anti-israel than Malinowski ended up winning.
Using the Trumpometer, where 1 is mild wrong doing and 10 is “why is not anyone forcibly removing him from Office to save the world”, this is 6/7. However, within the sub-genre of Trump Personal Attacks, this is a 9/10.
We must be thankful that he has not yet ranted about skull size and his genes.
After defending it previously as no big deal, they have now taken it down and blamed a staffer who (with access to Trump’s official account???) “erroneously” posted it. In the middle of the night.
As always with these chucklefucks, the explanations actually are often even more problematic than the initial thing being queried.
“oh you gave a pardon to a notorious criminal without knowing anything about the case? And you think that is a defense to the criticism the pardon is receiving?”
So Vance gets boo’ed at the Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony but US coverage mutes the boos to stop the US public seeing how hated their leaders are in the rest of the world
Fuck sake, Trump has now reversed course again to admit he did it and just simply didnt see the whole video before posting it so didnt think there was anytign wrong with it
I’m beginning to think it’s another distraction effort. It gets his base applauding while the rest of us froth. His base likes it when we get upset or angry and they forget about the scrutiny he’s under for whatever.
Is just that the lie like the rest of us breathe, and they do so for someone too dumb and too disregarding of their effort to bother sticking to the story. .
It’s a pattern we’ve seen 1000s of times now. They take pride in refusing to admit wrong doing so the reflex is to own it and tell everyone to suck it up. “woke is dead, snowflake.” They then realized there was more blow back than they thought there would be so tried to lie their way out of it (this time, without acknowledging how bad even the lie of an explanation was). But Trump is Trump and cannot stay on script for more than 2 minutes and so any work his surrogates do to come up with a story to deflect from his wrong doing is then shit all over by him at the first possible opportunity.
