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Pic Of The Moment: You Have To Perform Some Serious Mental Gymnastics To Be A Republican In 2024 (Original Post) EarlG Jun 2024 OP
Cult member #1 - What are you doing? underpants Jun 2024 #1
It is the party of traitors and criminals - led by a felon rapist traitor dalton99a Jun 2024 #2
You really have to see it to believe it. Marcuse Jun 2024 #3
Clearly, republicans don't believe in anything PatSeg Jun 2024 #4
I might have an unpopular opinion here: I don't think a felony conviction should in itself disqualify somebody from ColinC Jun 2024 #5
i guess the constitution agrees with you... ret5hd Jun 2024 #25
Truth. ColinC Jun 2024 #26
"Mental gymnastics" ... really? Maybe we're giving them more credit than they deserve FakeNoose Jun 2024 #6
I remember some talk about removing the requirement that a president be a natural-born citizen Harker Jun 2024 #7
So 42% believe a felon should not be allowed to be president? CaptainTruth Jun 2024 #8
Here's a hint - the other 58% are lying to the poll interviewer FakeNoose Jun 2024 #10
Believing he shouldn't be allowed to serve and not voting for him are two different things. TwilightZone Jun 2024 #12
2/3 of Republicans think Trump is innocent. progressoid Jun 2024 #19
So he's a felon but he's not REALLY a felon. CaptainTruth Jun 2024 #20
Yep. Because the trial was a sham. A political hit job. A witch hunt. progressoid Jun 2024 #21
Johnson says he believes in the rule of law vapor2 Jun 2024 #9
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2024 #11
They love twisting themselves into pretzels! BumRushDaShow Jun 2024 #13
Yummy - but true. GOP logic, is pretzel logic peppertree Jun 2024 #16
LMAO... rule of law. Even the sheriff has given up. Initech Jun 2024 #14
Medieval Mike is a walking punch line. peppertree Jun 2024 #15
Yup more republican values. republianmushroom Jun 2024 #17
USA Today opinion piece: Felons generally can't serve in the military ffr Jun 2024 #18
what a difference two months can make mnmoderatedem Jun 2024 #22
Not mental gymnastics Marthe48 Jun 2024 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Marthe48 Jun 2024 #23
"We believe in the rule of law." BobTheSubgenius Jun 2024 #27

underpants

(194,842 posts)
1. Cult member #1 - What are you doing?
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:04 AM
Jun 2024

Cult member #2 - Dear Leader said to line the walls with hay bales and douse them with gasoline.

Cult member #1 - Oh! ….Do you want me to help?

PatSeg

(52,130 posts)
4. Clearly, republicans don't believe in anything
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:17 AM
Jun 2024

Well, except for winning by any means necessary.

ColinC

(11,098 posts)
5. I might have an unpopular opinion here: I don't think a felony conviction should in itself disqualify somebody from
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:18 AM
Jun 2024

being president.

ret5hd

(22,185 posts)
25. i guess the constitution agrees with you...
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 04:52 PM
Jun 2024

the point wasn’t the “legality”

it was the hypocrisy

FakeNoose

(40,147 posts)
6. "Mental gymnastics" ... really? Maybe we're giving them more credit than they deserve
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:19 AM
Jun 2024

Maybe it's more like "complete short-term memory loss" ... because it makes things so much easier.

Harker

(17,401 posts)
7. I remember some talk about removing the requirement that a president be a natural-born citizen
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:19 AM
Jun 2024

when Arnold Schwarzenegger was Gov. of California.

They're for whatever works in their interest at all times.

CaptainTruth

(8,046 posts)
8. So 42% believe a felon should not be allowed to be president?
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:20 AM
Jun 2024

If that's true Trump is toast, but that number seems too high.

FakeNoose

(40,147 posts)
10. Here's a hint - the other 58% are lying to the poll interviewer
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:52 AM
Jun 2024

Repukes absolutely LOVE to lie on polls ... it's what they live for. They'll even lie and say they are Democrats, just to mess up the poll results. Also, it's why none of them ever believe polls, and neither should we.

Polls are useless, especially when they involve the polling of Repukes.

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)
12. Believing he shouldn't be allowed to serve and not voting for him are two different things.
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 11:04 AM
Jun 2024

There's always been a segment of Trump voters who disapprove of him personally, some quite vehemently (Mitt Romney, Nikki Haley, et al), yet vote for him anyway, simply because he's the Republican nominee.

That's almost certainly the case here -- they think someone convicted of a felony shouldn't be president, but they'll make an exception for Trump because he's the R.

progressoid

(52,570 posts)
19. 2/3 of Republicans think Trump is innocent.
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 03:18 PM
Jun 2024
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4704048-one-in-five-republicans-thinks-trump-is-guilty-new-poll/

In the Florida Atlantic University PolCom Lab/Mainstreet Research poll — taken immediately after the 12-person jury returned the unanimous guilty conviction last Thursday — pollsters asked 2,068 adults in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin whether they think Trump is guilty, “regardless of how the jury in New York decided.”

Overall, 48 percent of respondents say Trump is guilty, 38 percent say he is not, and 14 percent say they don’t know.

While Democrats are most inclined to think Trump is guilty (79 percent), the survey shows some splintering among Republicans, 18 percent of whom say they think Trump is guilty, compared to two-thirds (66 percent) who say he is not, and 16 percent who say they don’t know.

vapor2

(3,733 posts)
9. Johnson says he believes in the rule of law
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:20 AM
Jun 2024

but just put 2 anti law morons on the intel committee? HYPOCRISY HERE!

BumRushDaShow

(165,671 posts)
13. They love twisting themselves into pretzels!
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 01:02 PM
Jun 2024


Some of them even graduate to bread and get fancy!



ffr

(23,325 posts)
18. USA Today opinion piece: Felons generally can't serve in the military
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 03:08 PM
Jun 2024

In the values and character section of the Go Army website, it states that a person convicted of a felony is generally not permitted to join the military. So how on earth should a felon be allowed to lead the entire military if he couldn't join because of his criminal record?

Make it make sense.
USA Today

mnmoderatedem

(3,905 posts)
22. what a difference two months can make
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 04:16 PM
Jun 2024

what, pray tell, happened in that time frame to change their outlook?

Response to EarlG (Original post)

BobTheSubgenius

(12,169 posts)
27. "We believe in the rule of law."
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 01:12 PM
Jun 2024

"Not enough to feel bound by it, but we believe it exists."

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