You can't make this up - Devin Nunes to Head Trump Social Media

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Commodus

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Let's be frank: Nunes is doing the entire planet a favor by taking himself out of political office. And he's going to be in for a rude shock when Trump's social network likely flounders.
 

HomerJS

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but...but...Trump wasn't corrupt

Do you idiots who voted for him feel stupid yet?
 

fskimospy

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To be honest about it, that is probably exactly what is going to happen.
Sort of - his seat will be filled in a special election, which a Republican will almost certainly win. In 2022 it will be up for general election where whoever succeeds Nunes will probably lose. (Redistricting is moving it to Biden +9)

Trump’s social media platform is probably just a scam anyway but even in the case it isn’t it will probably fail because Trump doesn’t understand social media’s appeal to conservatives. They like to use it to fight liberals, if you make a site that caters to conservatives there’s no one on there to fight, so no fun. That’s why all those conservatives who said they were moving to Parler or whatever are still on Twitter.

When it does fail though, absent some other scandal I’m sure there will be more jobs for Nunes as he’s a loyal apparatchik. In a mob structure you want to reward loyalty unless that person becomes a threat, so as long as Nunes can stay a benign lap dog he will be fine.
 
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sportage

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I don't want to go off subject too much, but I just can not believe that Donald Trump is still "a thing", at all, in any sense.
I recently watched that CNN special report "ASSAULT ON AMERICA: The Root's Of Trump's Insurrection", and I got pissed off all over again. And, learned a lot more than I either did not know before or had forgotten about from that day back in January.
Add to that, I also recently watch an old file I had of the Dick Cavett Show, the subject was the Nixon Watergate scandal.

And so I wondered.... while the America of the 1970's believed what Richard Nixon tried to pull off was extremely threatening to democracy, I can not imagine what a Sam Ervin would think of today's politics and of the reality that a sitting US president could orchestrate an attack on the US capitol? Then, to walk free?

Imagine if the traitors who murdered Abraham Lincoln had not been held accountable but instead, had been elected as members of congress? Is that not where we are at today?

Of everything imagined back during the Nixon watergate fiasco, and the Nixon assault on justice and law and constitution, no one back then during Watergate could have imagined a day when millions of people would get caught up in a cult. And then with the cult leader and president Donald Trump inciting an insurrection instructing his cult to attack the US capitol, to kill police, and like wild animals to hunt down and threaten members of congress.
Sam Ervin could have never imagined members of the US congress having to run and hide inside the US capitol, to hide under desks and in closets, to save their very lives.

Lets face it....
Even today the people of this country do not realize the scope of what actually happened on January 6th 2021. Nor do people realize what kind of a monster Donald Trump really is, or the threat that Trump poses still today. People just don't get it, an entire political party just does not get it, and the United States of America has not a clue that our country has, in all practicality, already ceased to exist.

The end has already taken place, and people just don't get it. People just don't understand that America is pretty much a no more, definitely not as the founding fathers designed this great nation to be.
That America is over !!!!
America no more, because after all that Donald Trump has done, and after all that republicans have also done to empower Donald Trump, and the fact that the US government appears powerless to hold Donald Trump nor this republican party accountable, Trumpism continues to thrive. And even now with a democrat in the Whitehouse.

It's all over folks. Donald Trump is still walking around holding rallies, spreading lies, and empowering his future insurrection. However, Trump will not need his future insurrection come 2024 because states will have already done everything necessary to ensure that Donald Trump becomes the next dictator in chief regardless of what the people want or the ballots prove.

The fix is in for 2024, and no one seems to really give a damn. The day will soon come when we all realize America has become just another shit-hole dictatorship of a country, with Donald Trump back in power, as republicans in congress cheer and applaud the monster they have created, and applaud the America that they have so efficiently destroyed.
And that folks, that is how it ends?
 

HomerJS

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To be honest about it, that is probably exactly what is going to happen.
So much to unpack from that statement. There's an unstated admission that Trump ran the most corrupt administration in the countries history bit I can never confess it.
 

hal2kilo

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Anyone else hope that he resigns, California fills his seat, then the Trump media gig falls flat on its face and he's left jobless?
His district was somewhat redistricted, and it wasn't going to be a cake walk again. I really just think he likes the smell of orange anus.
 

Leymenaide

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I still cannot believe all these Republicans are going to work for PRAVDA. I am sure most of you remember the original Pravda. He could not come up with an original name.
 
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Shamrock

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I didnt give a link, because of other thread that Lost_in_the_HTTP gave, but here is one.

 

fskimospy

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I wonder if this has something to do with the pedo bear talk that was happening a few months ago.
I think it's the logical end to a Republican congressional career like his. He never attempted to enact any meaningful legislation, he just served as a loyal apparatchik with the hopes of getting a future payday, which he appears to think has arrived.

I'm not sure how confident of this I would be though, he always struck me as a Kendall Roy of sorts - the guy who thought he was on the inside and was a big player but nobody took him seriously and he is entirely expendable.
 

Commodus

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I think it's the logical end to a Republican congressional career like his. He never attempted to enact any meaningful legislation, he just served as a loyal apparatchik with the hopes of getting a future payday, which he appears to think has arrived.

I'm not sure how confident of this I would be though, he always struck me as a Kendall Roy of sorts - the guy who thought he was on the inside and was a big player but nobody took him seriously and he is entirely expendable.

That sounds accurate. Nunes seems to be oblivious to Trump's long, long history of screwing over virtually everyone who works for him; the soon-to-be-ex-Congressman is in for a rude shock when the social platform fails and Trump blames him for it.
 
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IronWing

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That sounds accurate. Nunes seems to be oblivious to Trump's long, long history of screwing over virtually everyone who works for him; the soon-to-be-ex-Congressman is in for a rude shock when the social platform fails and Trump blames him for it.
Nunes and Trump suing each other would be entertaining. Not sure which of the two is the more sue happy.
 

cytg111

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Remember Brad Parscale? Here is the thing… if if you find that payday, if its actually a payday? Trump will feel like you’re stealing from him, of him, his name brand everything and he will shut you down like the two bit thief that you are.
Endless pit of depravity. Dont go chasing waterfalls in pits of shits. Good luck Devin, you deserve this.
 
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Moonbeam

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I'm ashamed that both Nunes and McCarthy are Representatives from the State of California. I'm ashamed of the partisan constituency that elected them; and I'm sorry for the remaining voters in those districts which Nunes and McCarthy simply refuse to represent at all.

They're not "US Representatives". They don't "represent" their entire districts in the Capitol. And that insinuates one of the problems we have with at least one party: over-riding, exclusive partisanship.
I'm still convinced they only got elected by voter fraud and there should be a recount.