Trumps Presidency 2025

[romad1]

37 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

If it seems personal for Judge Reyes, she was born in Uruguay.

like all the articles about her say within a few beats.  You don't think the MAGAs will seize on that to have her disbarred? 

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Point of order, Mr Reichlin-Melnick: Judge Reyes is not comparing George Washington and Kristi Noem. She is contrasting George Washington and Kristi Noem. Difference.

[chasfh]

32 minutes ago, romad1 said:

like all the articles about her say within a few beats.  You don't think the MAGAs will seize on that to have her disbarred? 

Plus she is super gay. Another strike against her. 

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Plus she is super gay. Another strike against her. 

How can she rule on the actions of super patriots when she can't trace her family back to the original 13 colonies.  

[Edman85]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

like all the articles about her say within a few beats.  You don't think the MAGAs will seize on that to have her disbarred? 

Her wikipedia showed her coming down hard on Democrats during the Biden years.

I wasn't saying she should recuse at all, by the way. Just that she is an immigrant who has gone on to a successful life, another counterpoint to the xenophobic trash coming from the right these days.

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Her wikipedia showed her coming down hard on Democrats during the Biden years.

I wasn't saying she should recuse at all, by the way. Just that she is an immigrant who has gone on to a successful life, another counterpoint to the xenophobic trash coming from the right these days.

Agree.  Was just joining your rant.  It's necessary sometimes. 

[ewsieg]

On 2/1/2026 at 12:06 PM, chasfh said:

I think the thing with MTG is that she is a true believer in a way that transcends Trump. She still believes that QAnon is real, that Democrats are evil baby-blood drinking monsters who are embedded deep into the Epstein rot, that there are Jewish space lasers, and more. But her true belief is not subject to Donald Trump's whims as it is with maybe, I don't know, 90 or 95% of the other people we regard in that camp as being "true believers". She was willing to completely break with Trump in support of her true belief.

I think MTG is just proof of Dunning-Kruger.  She knew something wasn't right with our government and jumped towards the conspiracy theories.  Once in office, she became more educated on issues and realized it's a lot more nuanced and eventually kind of realized Trump really doesn't know what he's doing.  She still wants to side with that side, just like smarter folks on the GOP side were fine with him not really knowing anything because he was a useful idiot to them.  Unfortunately they realized long ago they can't control him but continue to trick themselves into thinking that if they go along with him for now, if its important, they will be a check on him.   MTG, for all her faults, appears to have a backbone though and as she is realizing she's wrong on some things, she's standing up to Trump.  We want people to change, to get better, but we need to find a better way to get more sensible people in congress right off the bat, because most want power and don't care about getting better.

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MTG is the person on facebook complaining about the garbage collections and all of that then gets elected to council and realizes it's not easy.

She specifically referred to her kids losing coverage for health care.  Yeah.  It's easy being "small government" until you need something.