Stefanik : "We are unified in working with President Trump.""purposefully disrespectful"

[UCmeNdc]

Stefanik's comment, made at a press conference, was noted by historian Michael Beschloss who tweeted, "Bizarre and ominous for Stefanik to feel compelled to announce, referring to House Republicans, "We are unified in working with President Trump." Congress is co-equal branch and Trump no longer President, having been thrown out by US voters (as it should not need to be said)."

Many on Twitter joined in, accusing the lawmaker of being "purposefully disrespectful" to President Joe Biden while also noting Stefanik is apparently willing to take her marching orders from the ex-president.


https://www.rawstory.com/elise-stefanik-president-trump/

[lindysalsagal]

1. The GQP has gone to bed with a monster, yet again.

Let the peeing begin.

[calimary]

26. So when is it gonna start biting them on the ass?

That’s what I want to know. When do we get to see their utter destruction as a legitimate political party?

They’re still standing. And still making noise. And still exerting power and influence - which is NOT good for the rest of us.

[Pepsidog]

29. Didn't happen after "W" like many predicted and I suspect we will be fighting these Christian nazis

for quite sometime into the future. When we Dems think republicans can go no lower, act more deplorably, they continue to exceed our expectations at just how
despicable they can be.

[dawg]

30. I think it already bit them in the ass with Georgia.

If Trump had gracefully accepted his defeat, I feel fairly certain that the Republicans would have held at least one of Georgia's two Senate seats. Both Republicans "won" in November - they just failed to reach 50%. Something happened in the intervening weeks that soured Georgia voters even more on the GOP, and now we control the Senate.

[jaxexpat]

40. Worth mentioning, though, our "control" of the Senate needs an asterisk.

Or at least a qualification since there are 1 or 2 and possibly more who threaten our ability to beneficially use our "majority". And they're not Republicans.

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. Its troubling that the GOP are going all in on Trump.

I hear about the Great Split in the GOP on liberal websites, but in actuality, I only see Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney on one side, and meanwhile see Republicans States censoring their own for voting to impeach.

It may be split, but I don't see the Never-Trumpers movement growing much lately.

All I see is that Republicans are using the "time heals all wounds" approach. The longer time goes by, the more dim the details of Jan 6th get, the more re-writing of history they do on Fox etc, more R reps dismissing the insurrection as just a protest by good folk gone wrong.

I think even old boys club R's like Mitch and Graham now realize that their best, at least quickest, path they have to get more power is by licking the fat orange turd's feet. They are going all in now. And they are succeeding in corralling their base down the same path. The ones that were Trump cult signups from the start, and those who are "moderate" and don't like Trump much, but if Mitch and Graham and other "moderates" are for him......they are too!

[C Moon]

28. They owe a lot to Russian oligarchs.

[smirkymonkey]

2. This is insanity.

I am so goddamned tired of it!

[ananda]

3. Sounds perfectly treasonous to me.

???

[hay rick]

16. Quacks like a traitor.

Traitor is a synonym for Republican.

[Dawson Leery]

41. It is.

Trump is no longer President.

[CrispyQ]

4. Democrat Party.

Repubs have been purposefully disrespectful for decades, now. It's their standard operating procedure but now they're just outright rude & divisive. It's hard to have respect for people I know who still identify with this party.

[madaboutharry]

5. She is a disgrace.

These people are not patriots.

[LisaL]

6. She should get a clue.

Biden is her president.

[pazzyanne]

7. Sad thing is, she has a clue.

Or at least did before she jumped on the tRump train. I want to know why supposedly intelligent people surrender their souls to that scumbag.

[Permanut]

8. Seig Heil, Mein Fuhrer..

The Aryan race will prevail.

Disgusting pieces of scum.

[acg]

9. Acknowledging the Hate

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ACKNOWLEDGING THE HATE
By Al Garcia

It is hard to ignore the obvious. It is difficult to walk away with dignity when words are flung at you that demean and humiliate. It is challenging to accept that hate in all forms and manner infests the world that surrounds us. It is human to feel the pain, discomfort and disrespect of hateful words, actions and behavior. It is hard to ignore the obvious.

Like a cancer that infects and overtakes, so too does hate overpower and overwhelm the heart and soul of man. It darkens the spirit and obscures the commonality of man. Left to fester and inflame, hate can devastate and destroy. And like all diseases of the body and the mind, hate disfigures, scars and mutilates the heart and soul of those too weak to see or feel the malevolence within.

Hate is not a virus or a germ that can be caught or easily transmitted by human contact or words alone. Rather, hate is taught and nurtured, instilled and implanted. It becomes viral and pathological when truth is denied, justice deprived, and dignity denigrated. In groups and at rallies, hate becomes volatile and hostile. Isolated, hate withers and dies or hides deep down inside in fear of being recognized and ridiculed for the evil that it is. Just ask the master of manipulation and deceit – Donald J. Trump. He is the Pied Piper to the disillusioned, the disenchanted and the cynical – offering delusive enticements and irresponsible and false promises of deliverance and rescue from their self-hatred and self-pity.

We all have within us symptoms of bigotry, racism, greed, arrogance, and conceit. But our immunity to hate grows stronger and fiercer as we stand up and speak out against those that have been overcome by the affliction that destroys the nobility of their human soul. Acknowledging the hate is hard to do. But worse yet, is seeing the faces and hearing the words that define the hate and make it real.

It is hard to ignore the obvious, and oh so easy to fall victim to the hate. We must not let our America become a victim of hate. We must stand up against the Republican Party – once the party of Lincoln and of justice and equality – now the party of division, deceit, hate and open and blatant corruption and disruption.

Acknowledging the hate emanating from the highest ranks of the Republican Party is a beginning to reclaiming America’s dignity, nobility, strength and character. And dousing the flames of hate, arrogance and greed with truth, justice, equality and civility, is the first step toward a return to the normalcy and tranquility that was America.

America was never a perfect nation. But, we were a nation evolving, growing and ever-changing -- seeking to mend and heal the errors and mistakes of our past, while meeting the challenges of tomorrow, with dignity, pride and resolve -- as a nation of substance and character.

Hate has no place in a nation inspired by dreams, and built with the blood, sweat and tears of people of every kind, color and creed, yearning to breathe free.

[Pepsidog]

31. Absolutely spot on.

[dalton99a]

10. Stefanik is Marjorie Taylor Greene with a Harvard degree.

[hay rick]

18. bingo. nt

[Pepsidog]

32. But worse. Stefanik went from bad to god awful in a minute. Greene was always bottom of the barrell.

[LaMouffette]

11. It's time to put some teeth into the House of Representative's Code of Ethics.

Maybe three strikes, you're out, as in, kicked out of the House for life?

Or for every act of disrespect, a representatives pay is withheld for six months and that money goes to the political party of the person she or he disparaged.

In my opinion, it all began when that asshole called out, "YOU LIE!" during President Obama's speech. That guy should have been dragged out of there by his hair. On the spot.

[TheRickles]

13. Agreed. What will have to happen before some of their behavioral guidelines get enforced?

[Pepsidog]

34. Yes congressional ethics is a joke. They get a censure at most.

[Midnight Writer]

45. Maybe some teeth in the Oath of Office?

Declaring Trump the President when he is not is hardly "upholding and defending the Constitution".

[William Seger]

12. I think there's a point being missed

All the kissing up to Trump in the Republican Party is really kissing up to trumper cult. There are at least a few Republicans who aren't stupid enough to think Trump has any political future, but all of them have calculated that their own political future requires retaining the support of the cult. All of them know exactly what will happen if they try to tell the cult that they have been deceived by a self-obsessed sociopath -- try that with any cult. But this is a situation that they have brought upon themselves. My fondest hope is that in all the battleground states, Republican candidates will need to decide if they want to lose because they support Trump or lose because they don't.

[Pepsidog]

37. Last line very insightful.

[ScratchCat]

43. Yep

n/t

[dlk]

14. Stefanik has made the personal decision to participate in the grift

It's about fundraising and personal financial enrichment, not principles.

[gab13by13]

15. Exactly, follow the money.

They do this to fund raise.

[dlk]

17. Sellouts for a buck

"The desire for money is the root of all evil."

[dalton99a]

22. +1. Stefanik is an unprincipled opportunist

very much like the top echelon in the Trump crime family

[dlk]

27. She has shown the world who she really is

We should believe her.

[ShepKat]

36. she's a traitor

a whore to the master grifter himself #trumpsfangirl

[malaise]

19. It is way more than that

This is treasonous - Trump must have the goods on her

[Martin68]

20. We live in very weird times.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Disrespectful?

Treasonous.

[BobTheSubgenius]

23. He is their low-rent L Ron Hubbard.

Yet even more deranged with even dumber ideas, as if anyone thought that possible, just a few short years ago. I would love to see him come out as a flat-earther.

The worst part, though, is obvious - he, and by extension, they, are very, very dangerous. As in literally Lethal To The Republica dangerous.

[Traildogbob]

24. Come on media

Where is all the bitching about Dems not being bipartisan?
We do not negotiate with terrorist, treasonous traitors to our country and constitution.
We, that have served, are getting near the need to defend our oath.
This GQP fascists black hole is sucking the life out of our democracy.
I am getting near the tipping point.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

25. These fucking people

Beyond disgusting.

[Martin Eden]

33. Fealty to the Fascist Trumps all

In today's Q-publican Party.

[spanone]

35. Hey stefanik, he ain't the fucking president.

[Cha]

38. Stefanik is a Bitter Psychotic

POS Zombie from the Planet of the Living Dead.

[WarGamer]

39. For those with eyes and ears... this was obvious.

This is Trump's GOP.

The GOP benefited greatly from him. Record breaking vote count for a sitting POTUS and a BIG rally in the House Elections with a boat anchor on top of the ballot during a universal mail-in ballot election.

And they still hold a 50 Seat roadblock in the Senate.

After Romney in 2012, the GOP was all but dead. Trump has united the various factions of the Right, I might even say "Unite the Right" (pun intended re: C-Ville)

So... WHY would GOP'ers abandon Trump now?

EVERY single GOP'er is hoping and praying that Trump rallies, fundraises and speechifies his way through '24 but refuses to run for POTUS, putting his full support behind someone like a Noem or DeSantis.

[Justice matters.]

44. "working with" what?? Since when has the oRange mob$teR been working??

Since when playing golf is "working"??

[Vinca]

46. How are they going to "work" with him? Do some of them know new methods to grift the cult?

[Rhiannon12866]

47. This is what her constituents in my neck-of-the-woods think of Stefanik. These went up in February:

Billboard campaign calls on Stefanik to resign
https://www.democraticunderground.com/106825978

[Retrograde]

48. If I were Kevin McCarthy I'd be worried

Stefanik IMHO is lining herself up to be the next Speaker of the House: McCarthy thinks he has the position lined up if the GOP takes the House but I wouldn't trust her to get in line. She's already shown she has no problems stepping on a fellow party member to get ahead.

[Blue Owl]

49. Donny's got a new turd gobbler

[smirkymonkey]

50. *snort*