Trump and McCarthy Meet and Agree on GOP Goal to Take House

[TomCADem]

Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump, in a meeting with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday, agreed to help the GOP retake control of the House in 2022.

McCarthy went to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida where the two men discussed many topics, starting with how Republicans can win the seven seats needed in next year’s midterm elections to retake the House, according to an account of the meeting provided by the Save America PAC.

“President Trump’s popularity has never been stronger than it is today, and his endorsement means more than perhaps any endorsement at any time,” Save America said in a statement, calling the meeting “a very good and cordial one.”

A Jan. 15 Pew Research poll showed only a 29% job approval for Trump, the lowest of his presidency, as he was about to leave office.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-mccarthy-meet-and-agree-on-gop-goal-to-take-house/ar-BB1dbEIq?ocid=msedgntp

[Blue Owl]

1. The good news is, everything tRump touches turns to...

[Arne]

3. Everything McCarthy touches smells like piss, what a team.

[iluvtennis]

32. Sheeeet and piss, y'all made me roll on the floor laughing.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Propaganda that would make his buddy in North Korea blush.

“President Trump’s popularity has never been stronger than it is today," Stronger, where? In Russia?

[Thekaspervote]

6. I saw that and wondered the same thing!

We will have to work to keep the house. I think the Dems are woke and are fearful of losing the house, so I think momentum will still be with the Dems. The shell shock isn’t going away anytime soon.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Agreed.

I checked my ActBlue donations for 2020......probably a 300% increase over what I used to spend on political donations, on the past 20 year average. I thought I could take 2021 off, in advance of the next cycle, but damn, I want to maintain some serious fundraising this year. I hope EarlG and Omaha Steve get together and think about good Democratic institutions to support and add to the Home Page.

The good news is I think the Republican Party will continue to hemorrhage voters from the saner components of their Party. Probably(I) voting (D). In 2 years, lots of new voters added (D). Meanwhile, what's left of the GOP gets to have primaries in 2022....should scare the shit out of sane Americans even more.

[Lonestarblue]

39. To keep the House, we need a strong record of accomplishments.

That’s why the filibuster has to go so McConnell can’t prevent passage of House bills in the Senate. Even with that said, it may be an uphill battle because Republican states will gerrymander their districts to ensure more Republican wins. I’m expecting Texas to gain another House seat or possibly two will our population growth, and those new seats will be fixed as Republican seats by making the big city districts larger and the rural, Republican districts smaller.

Democrats will file lawsuits, but they probably would not be settled in time for the 2022 election. It was just a year or two ago that a court case on redistricting from the 2010 census was settled.

I don’t know if they have the authority, but I would like to see Congress pass a law that ensures fair redistricting by independent agents rather than partisan legislatures. They should also set requirements for paper backups for all electronic voting machines and limit the restrictions states use to suppress voters.

[abqtommy]

4. Words that don't belong together: "President Trump's popularity has never been stronger

than it is today"... Who writes this crap and can we put them in jail right now? My extensive
knowledge of tRUMP/reTHUG history tells me that this will turn out to be another epic fail!

[Thekaspervote]

9. Agree! Everything he touched in business failed, his political failure was even worse.

Yet the pukes think he’s got a winning strategy....either they are very blind or we are.

[bullimiami]

5. what? were they not sure that was a goal? just figured it out?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. They tried taking the House on Jan 6, their day is done /nt

[dweller]

8. the steal is on

n/t

✌🏻

[ProfessorGAC]

10. They Agreed On A Goal?

Huh? Wouldn't the goal always be to take control of the legislative body?
This is like agreeing to a goal of having the sun rise tomorrow!

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Better Insurrection Execution?

Power is their only goal.

[Delphinus]

13. Was watching PBS

and saw a short segment (before I had to leave the room or vomit) about this (and two repukes) - this makes me so very angry. It's as though the Jan. 6 insurrection didn't happen.

[llmart]

14. And here we thought we were going to be safe from seeing crap like this once he was gone.

I was so looking forward to not having to leave the room or mute the sound for the past 5 years. Please tell me that we're not going to be subjected to this sort of thing again.

[choie]

15. What the fuck!

he's a goddamn seditionist criminal. This is exactly why he needs to be barred from elected office.

[Dawson Leery]

16. The GOP is a national security threat.

They are all on board with dictatorship.

[moose65]

17. Please proceed, assholes

As 2018 showed, hardcore Trumpers will not vote in droves when Trump isn’t on the ballot. However, if Trump is out there running his mouth, it WILL motivate Democrats and left-leaning independents to come out and vote.

[yaesu]

18. we need to stop being an echo chamber for RW media propaganda like its real news. nt

[TwilightZone]

22. Bloomberg is center-left.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bloomberg/

It's probably a good idea to be aware of what the House Minority Leader is up to. Apparently, you disagree.

[tinrobot]

19. Haven't the majority of Trump-endorsed candidates lost?

After the coup attempt, I doubt those numbers will get better.

McCarthy is an idiot to keep going down this road.

[ancianita]

20. The America THEY want to "save" ... goddess forbid. God forbid the America they represent.

That is an America that hates the rest of America.

We must never ever let them "retake the House." God forbid they even come close.

[lonely bird]

21. Fuck all of them

Every single, treasonous one.

[kimbutgar]

23. And every ad in 2022 needs to remind voters mf45 and the repukes were ok with insurrection

And tried to overthrow our government and ignore the constitution. Show those videos of MF45 telling his supporters to overthrow our government.

Hit them hard and call them out for the traitors the repukes party truly is.

[DeminPennswoods]

24. The voters needed to win seats for the Rs only vote

when Trump himself is on the ballot. Trumpism itself doesn't appeal to a significant majority of Americans. You can see that by how candidates who run on it consistently lose. The latest example being the two senate seats in GA. Despite both Perdue and Loeffler aligning themselves with Trump and his endorsement, turnout was lower in GOP strongholds while nearly the same as Nove turnout in Dem areas.

[Midnight Writer]

25. An agreement with Trump? Worthless.

[LudwigPastorius]

26. "President Trump's popularity has never been stronger than it is today, and blah, blah blah..."

McCarthy's statement is completely divorced from objective reality, proving once again that the GOP has become the party of Violent Insanity.

[VladmireTrumpkins]

27. Guarantee this

If they do take the House they will impeach Biden...we can NEVER allow this to happen

[amb123]

28. And tRump is ordering McCarthy to replace

Liz Cheney with Marjorie Taylor Greene as Chair of the House Republican Conference. You can count on it.

[Marie Marie]

29. Hey Republican Senators - you want more Qanon Representatives?

You want more of the batshit crazy people making your party look bad. Then keep on bowing to Trump.

[mdbl]

30. Talk about making a deal with the devil

move over satan, here's Trump and his archangel Kevin McCarthy.

[trueblue2007]

31. TRUMP IS IN THE TOILET !!!!!! 29% job approval for Trump, the lowest of his presidency

HA HA HA,,,,, ORANGE PIG MAN. Flush him down the potty

[mahina]

33. Were Murder Hornets busy? How about

diarrhea with vomiting?

Is there anything less popular he could go suck up to?

[BlueStater]

34. Why is Kevy meeting with a domestic terrorist?

Fuck them both.

[not fooled]

36. To keep red don

from forming a third party. Poor Kevin, forced to go kiss the ass of the orange blob.

[summer_in_TX]

35. Trump is delusional.

He is very able to get others to share his psychosis since he is a genius at marketing and propaganda.

So those low ratings may not reflect the impact of his endorsement on those races.



From The 'Shared Psychosis' of Donald Trump and His Loyalists - Scientific American

"One such person is Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine for the past 17 years and president of the World Mental Health Coalition. Lee led a group of psychiatrists, psychologists and other specialists who questioned Trump’s mental fitness for office in a book that she edited called The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. In doing so, Lee and her colleagues strongly rejected the American Psychiatric Association’s modification of a 1970s-era guideline, known as the Goldwater rule, that discouraged psychiatrists from giving a professional opinion about public figures who they have not examined in person. “Whenever the Goldwater rule is mentioned, we should refer back to the Declaration of Geneva, which mandates that physicians speak up against destructive governments,” Lee says. “This declaration was created in response to the experience of Nazism.”

[snip]

Scientific American asked Lee to comment on the psychology behind Trump’s destructive behavior, what drives some of his followers—and how to free people from his grip when this damaging presidency ends.

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

What attracts people to Trump? What is their animus or driving force?

The reasons are multiple and varied, but in my recent public-service book, Profile of a Nation, I have outlined two major emotional drives: narcissistic symbiosis and shared psychosis. Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the developmental wounds that make the leader-follower relationship magnetically attractive. The leader, hungry for adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth, projects grandiose omnipotence—while the followers, rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury, yearn for a parental figure. When such wounded individuals are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology in the population that creates a “lock and key” relationship.

“Shared psychosis”—which is also called “folie à millions” [“madness for millions”] when occurring at the national level or “induced delusions”—refers to the infectiousness of severe symptoms that goes beyond ordinary group psychology. When a highly symptomatic individual is placed in an influential position, the person’s symptoms can spread through the population through emotional bonds, heightening existing pathologies and inducing delusions, paranoia and propensity for violence—even in previously healthy individuals. The treatment is removal of exposure."

More at the link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/

[olddad65]

37. Trump is a conduit of russian money into our elections.

He needs to be in jail

[DallasNE]

38. This Sounds Like A Lose-Lose Deal

Trump loses his dream of forming his Patriot Party and McCarthy loses by having the Trump albatross draped around his neck (you can be sure that some impeachment testimony will be highly problematic.

[apnu]

42. The "Patriot Party" is a super PAC, not an actual political party.

Its in the filing docs. Don't get confused about the name, they want you to think they are a party, they are only a grift.

[Hugin]

40. Is it too soon to start saying...

VOTE IN THE GODDAMNED MIDTERMS?

[apnu]

41. File this under "well duh"

Seriously. if the GOP wasn't working to get the House back, then they're not serious about being a competitive political party.

Trump and McCarthy are scum, but really, every political party is trying to gain and consolidate power. This is the nature of democratic politics in a party based system.

[bluestarone]

43. Looks like something OUR new AG.

Might be interested in? (after he's installed)