Can’t even work with his own party in Congress, won’t have to if he’s a dictator.

Trump threw himself a Nazi rally last night, proving Kelly to be right.

Jake Tapper held his own and was great in a very testy interview with JD Vance. Vance kept trying to dance around the Kelly and other Trump VP/General/Cabinet/Lawyer refusal to endorse and calling him a fascist.

Tapper called Vance out and fact-checked him in the moment on his BS. It was great.

Dictators withhold disaster aid from states that don’t vote for them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“When former President Donald J. Trump’s longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss “falls into the general definition of fascist,” Mr. Trump let loose with the insults, assailing his onetime right hand as a “total degenerate,” a “LOWLIFE” and a “bad General.”

What Mr. Trump did not do, at least at first, was actually deny that he was or aspired to be a fascist.

Any other politician might consider that a damning denunciation worth rebutting. Only when asked days later did he directly dismiss the idea. But in the nine years that he has been running for or serving as president, Mr. Trump has regularly evoked the language, history and motifs of fascism without hesitation or evident concern about how it would make him look.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

True!

Also John Kelly is braver than I thought.

Agree. He did the right thing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly’s misgivings, a phalanx of former Trump officials sounded alarms about what they described as the former president’s fascistic impulses and fixation with Hilter and his generals.

“Does he have authoritarian tendencies? Yes,” Elizabeth Neumann, a former senior Homeland Security official in the Trump administration who has endorsed Harris, told POLITICO. “Is he kind of leaning towards that ultra-nationalism component? Absolutely. That is kind of his brand, right? He’s made nationalism the new definition of the Republican Party.”

In her CNN town hall Wednesday evening, Harris called Kelly’s warnings a “911 call to the American people.”

Trump, predictably, took the bait, lashing out at the storyline in a Truth Social post, calling Kelly “a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”

Trump said he had "only the best people." Yet somehow virtually ALL of them weirdly turned out to be "lowlives."

Maybe they were all fine and it was Trump who was the lowlife all along. 40 out of 44 of his hand picked "only the best" former Cabinet officials refuse to endorse him. The common problem factor there is Trump.

No, half of his cabinet has endorsed him. You only focus on the handful of malcontents.

No, half of his cabinet has not endorsed him!! You are a liar.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/trump-cabinet-endorsements/

Many who worked with the President speak positively about him. Yet, you only focus on a. Few malcontent deep state actors who were let go because they were doing a poor job.

Do you realize how circular your reasoning is? What evidence do you have of him having done a poor job? Trump, period.
BW Kelly was an immigration hard-line who supported separating children from their parents. USA Today wrote "Kelly oversaw some of the most controversial policies of Trump's agenda, including a travel ban targeting several majority-Muslim countries, a reduction in refugee admissions and stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants."

Trump's statement at the time:
John Kelly will be leaving—I don’t know if I can say ‘retiring.’ ” Trump referred to Kelly, who spent six months as Secretary of Homeland Security before becoming the White House chief of staff, last July, as “a great guy,” and, as if to explain his exit, noted, “He’s been with me almost two years now, between the two positions.”




When, in July, 2017, he moved from the Department of Homeland Security to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, his task was to impose some order on the chronic chaos that had enveloped the Administration. To some extent, he succeeded. By restricting access to Trump, regulating the flow of paperwork, and getting rid of chancers like Anthony Scaramucci and Omarosa Manigault, it is generally agreed that he made the White House work more smoothly, at least for a while.

Certainly, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill appreciated Kelly’s arrival and the role he played. They believed that the disarray at the White House was hampering the enactment of their conservative legislative agenda. “During this time he has become a dear friend and trusted partner,” Paul Ryan, the departing Speaker of the House, said in a statement on Saturday. “He was a force for order, clarity, and good sense. He is departing what is often a thankless job, but John Kelly has my eternal gratitude.”

One lesson of Kelly’s departure is that Trump is incorrigible. Months ago, reports emerged of him chafing at the restrictions that Kelly had imposed. “As part of his exasperation with being handled, Trump has taken to telling friends that—like Lyndon Johnson—he doesn’t even need a chief,” Jonathan Swan, a reporter for Axios, wrote in May. Citing a source close to Kelly, Swan said he was “now resigned to the fact that he can’t come close to controlling Trump.”

Kelly found himself in CrazyLand, tried to tamp down the crazy, but Trump preferred crazy.

Anonymous wrote:“When former President Donald J. Trump’s longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss “falls into the general definition of fascist,” Mr. Trump let loose with the insults, assailing his onetime right hand as a “total degenerate,” a “LOWLIFE” and a “bad General.”

What Mr. Trump did not do, at least at first, was actually deny that he was or aspired to be a fascist.

Any other politician might consider that a damning denunciation worth rebutting. Only when asked days later did he directly dismiss the idea. But in the nine years that he has been running for or serving as president, Mr. Trump has regularly evoked the language, history and motifs of fascism without hesitation or evident concern about how it would make him look.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

True!

Also John Kelly is braver than I thought.

Given that he's said he would be a dictator from day one, that he's a huge fan of dictators (and not of democracy) and that he's, at this point, not terribly cogent, it does seem likely. How his fans say he's not likely to be a fascist ruler is beyond me.