House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday said he's voting for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
In an op-ed for the Janesville Gazette of Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan -- who sparked a political firestorm last month when he told CNN's Jake Tapper he was "just not ready" to back his party's nominee -- says he is now convinced Trump will advance the Republican agenda.
"I feel confident he would help us turn the ideas in this agenda into laws to help improve people's lives. That's why I'll be voting for him this fall," Ryan wrote.
Later Ryan felt the need to deny that he had made any kind of deal with Trump:
Ryan said the endorsement is not the product of any deal with the billionaire developer. Trump won his endorsement, Ryan said, based on "an understanding of our mutually agreed upon principles." Ryan said he specifically wanted to go over Trump's approach to executive power, judicial appointments, and his position on abortion.
Yeah I think we know what those "mutually agreed upon principles" include. And none of them are good for the country.
I wish I could say I was surprised at how quickly Trump's outspoken critics among the Republican establishment have been brought to heel, but I'm not.
Right now Trump is using Hillary's vote on the resolution to use force in Iraq to attack her, calling the Iraq war one of the biggest blunders in history.
Personally I agree with him on that but the very same Republicans that are now biting their tongues while kissing his giant orange ass were gung-ho to go into Iraq in 2002.
Which means that either they are now in agreement with him, which I doubt, or they are simply too afraid to speak out against him because they fear the lunatic might actually win the presidency.
What was it that Ronald Reagan once said?
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Yeah, that's it.
So off topic. Sorry. Brissie's latest Instagram pic with Duhkota. Look closely folks at her left hand. Engagement ring back on. Here we go again.
ReplyDeleteWho GIVES a fuck?!?!
DeleteSomebody pregnant?
Delete"Here 'we' go again?"
DeleteUh, no. There 'you' go again.
8:35, you could join the rest of the normal world, and just not give a shit what these people do.
Maybe start by not obsessing over their social media accounts.
What a joke of a pic. She goes fishing for big fish with a ring on. Man, I wish it would have slid off onto the water. And look at how she's holding the fish. She's not using two hands the way anyone else is. She's finding a way to make her left hand cross over and show the ring in the pic. Nothing is ever real and spontaneous and sincere with her. That is the cheesiest forced picture of an engagement message ever.
DeleteAnonymous 9:40 gives me a glimmer of hope that there actually are normal people who read this blog.
DeleteHow did she get Sarah to give it back?
DeleteTraditionally, if the bride breaks the engagement she returns the ring to the fiancee. How come that didn't happen. (Yes, we all speculate that Sarah bought the ring but still. Looks bad.)
Who cares, she's a nothing and a nobody. Just like her idiot parents.
DeleteJust because someone hunts animals for their "food" does not mean that they are experts on gorillas. And no, you can't eat Harambe or mount his head for a trophy on your house.
DeleteWho GIVES a fuck!?!?
ReplyDeleteThat should be $arah kissing The Donald's ass. Both $arah and Ryan made careers based on ass-kissing! However, $arah climbed up the ladder to success, and met Cess himself (or was it Kristol, McCain, Brad, Curtis, Cruz,...); who the fuck knows...
ReplyDeleteRyan and all his gop colleagues are afraid of what the donald will say to bully them. They don't know how to respond to him. Hillary is the only one who isn't afraid of trump thanks to decades of dealing with having everything but the kitchen sink thrown at her by the gop. Paul Ryan is such a nothing - it just shows how few leaders are in the gop. They have no ideas - they are just a bunch of golddiggers doing the biding for any billionaire who will cover their campaign costs so they can keep their cushy jobs in DC
ReplyDeleteYou got that right!
DeleteTrue that, and you can add Priebus to that mix.
DeleteWinner, so very true!
DeleteBWAHAHAHAHA, they deserve each other. Dakota will accept any child as his own, because he is impotent. They are all frauds. Bristol "got ahead of myself" by fucking some AFTADARK friend of Marina. Now she has avoided any contact with the plus sized dwarf sex model. How much is Sarah paying Marina for her silence?
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how Marina has been nowhere in sight for months now. At first it appeared that she'd been told to keep things on the down low because Sarah was stumping for Trump and adding to the Palin trash talk. But now there's no real need for Marina to stay out of sight. Something happened. Could even be, though, that Marina just got bored. Bristol Palin and all the Palins are dullsville. There are always tabloid stories about them, but they are actually the most boring people.
DeleteRight, 9:48. They're so boring that you have to comment off topic on a blog about them.
DeleteI cannot believe the Republican party is putting up Donald Trump as their candidate for POTUS. The guy is one ugly dude both mentally and physically!
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton is well qualified and has my vote! And, I agree w/everything she said about Trump (all verified facts!) in her outstanding speech!
I loved Hillary's speech yesterday and even received
Deletea call from Hillary last night
(robocall)here in CA. Ballot
already sent in the mail last
week! No excuse not to vote when
you don't even have to leave the
house and stand in line!
Me too.
DeleteMe three.
DeleteActually that cartoon has Ryan kissing the wrong part of Trumpf's anatomy. Doesn't Donny like seeing people on their knees???
ReplyDeleteHRC in 2016!!
This reminds me of that comment Trump made about Eva Longoria and short women who "come up to you know where," so no kneeling necessary. Ick. Trump is such a pig. Yeah, HRC in 2016! And 2020!
DeleteTrump just makes me sick to my stomach!
DeleteThat comment about Eva Longoria was horrible....he should be kicked in the balls every chance a female gets! Maybe it would make him stop walking and talking!
Good imagery. Keep it held maybe it will happen.
DeleteBarstool is wearing an engagement ring.
ReplyDeleteDid Barstool tell her mother that duhkota been hittin' Barstool's hoohah so Sarah went out and bought that engagement to make Barstool look honorable instead of a ho?
Wouldn't that be the same ring Sarah bought the first time that they kept and Sarah wore after the first engagement failed?
DeleteBut the big question is:
ReplyDeleteAre the koch boys kissing the orange orangutan's ass yet? Or ever?
I don't think they will.
DeleteFirst, they don't have to.
Second, they're Libertarians and have already decided not to back Trump.
If they want him to lose, even if it means a Hillary win, they have enough money to give a third party candidate a substantial run.
Duhkota I hope you understand that if Bristol calls off the engagement or wedding again, that ring you gave her is yours to get back? Don't let her add it to her engagement ring collection.
ReplyDeleteIt should have been his the first time she called off the engagement but she kept it.
DeleteBristol Palin tells all. LOL, to the sucker that owes her and her 'stud' thousands plus 6 percent interest.
Deletehttps://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sIMc4TcQ--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_north,h_358,q_80,w_636/17ig6hybya1uhjpg.jpg
Bristol is like a broken record. This time Mommy Dearest is helping her with her PR to build up the Power Couple as having a long time to get to know each other.
So much planning goes into this one.
Gryph - Does everyone hold VP Biden, SoS Kerry & Sen. Schumer responsible for their Iraq War Authorization votes, too? Hillary was hardly alone, yet those men are never smeared as war-mongers. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteHillary is held to an entirely different standard.
DeleteOn EVERYTHING.
Or don't you watch Fox News?
They aren't running for president and if they were they would get the same treatment.
DeleteG, are you willing to admit that voting for the war was a mistake?
1:43 - they are sitting politicians, silly. Much more important than a mere candidate. Biden is the sitting current VP! Obviously Biden's Iraq war vote did not stop Pres. Obama from putting him on the ticket. Did you ever protest Biden?
DeleteMr. Ryan’s endorsement of Trump: A sad day for the GOP — and America
ReplyDeleteAS DONALD Trump was building a campaign on lies, bigotry, insults, fearmongering and unreason, a few Republican leaders of apparent principle offered some resistance. Foremost among them was House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.). In March, Mr. Ryan insisted that “all of us as leaders can hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity and decency” and that “we shouldn’t accept ugliness as the norm.”
On Thursday Mr. Ryan capitulated to ugliness. It was a sad day for the speaker, for his party and for all Americans who hoped that some Republican leaders would have the fortitude to put principle over partisanship, job security or the forlorn fantasy that Mr. Trump will advance a traditional GOP agenda.
Explaining his belated endorsement of Mr. Trump in a home-state newspaper, the speaker said that conversations with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee have reassured him. Mr. Trump will help turn House GOP ideas into law, Mr. Ryan said, in a way that a President Hillary Clinton would not.
This is fanciful, as Mr. Ryan must understand. Judging by his wild swings of position over the years, Mr. Trump does not believe in much of anything. The convictions that he does hold — against free trade and U.S. leadership abroad, for dividing the nation by religion and ethnicity — are antithetical to the principles Mr. Ryan has said guide him. Having secured the nomination without Mr. Ryan’s help, a President Trump certainly would not feel bound by any assurances that Mr. Ryan believes he has heard from the candidate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-ryan-capitulates-to-ugliness/2016/06/02/a497fe4c-2903-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html
Ie, no cajones.
DeleteRyan. What a brown nosing little bitch! Just another card carrying lifetime member of the Pansy Assed Pussy Boy Club.
ReplyDeleteThe little Ryan shit started off his elected life as a Kochsucker.
DeleteIt's all downhill from there.
Ryan would climb a mountain for the Donald to plant a Cleveland Steamer on him.
I like that, don's bit¥ch!
DeleteO/T- Go Warren! Wasserman-Schultz reverses on payday lending: http://www.newsweek.com/debbie-wasserman-schultz-cfpb-payday-lending-466230
ReplyDeleteGood news. Thank you for sharing.
DeleteWell, DWS sorta had to. Way too much negative publicity about PayDay Loans and her support of them. She had to reverse her stance.
DeleteThank you, BERNIE.
I just read this illuminating article on the judge who Trump has been dissing. It makes Trump look like even more of an ass:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/us/politics/donald-trump-university-judge-gonzalo-curiel.html
Rachel Maddow Exposes How Hillary Clinton Destroys Trump In Ways Republicans Couldn’t
ReplyDeleteMaddow said of Clinton quoting Trump directly in her speech, “This speech today was the best speech yet of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In part, because I think she likes pressing her case on national security issues for one. But also because it is just rhetorically deadly to be able to take your opponent’s record, not embellish it, not dress it up, not make it seem worse than it is, not round up to the nearest funny thing about it. Just take it as it is, string it together word for word literally, let it speak for itself, and let people respond. It’s hard to do, but when it works, it’s politically deadly.”
The MSNBC host concluded, “If it is a presidential race, then Hillary Clinton really did just step up her campaign significantly, and she did it by tacking him to the wall with his own unadorned statements. It’s really hard to do that in politics, but she did it today over and over and over again. And that kind of assault from a candidate is hard to rebut and hard to beat.”
Hillary Clinton showed that she was a better politician than any of Trump’s primary opponents. The Clinton campaign also revealed that they are superior strategists than the Trump campaign. The reason why Republicans were never able to stop Trump during the primary was that they kept getting drawn into Donald’s world of insults and barbs.
None of the Republican candidates possessed the political skill needed to take Trump’s words and properly use them against him because they were terrified of alienating Trump’s supporters who they are thought that they would need in a general election.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/03/rachel-maddow-exposes-hillary-clinton-destroys-trump-ways-republican.html
New Reuters/Ipsos Poll Has Clinton Expanding Her Lead Over Trump To Nine Points
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/02/reutersipsos-poll-clinton-expanding-lead-trump-points.html
Hillary Clinton Wins Twitter Battle With Trump In One Perfect Tweet
Deletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/epic-hillary-clinton-wins-twitter-battle
Dude is back:
ReplyDeleteLiberal Redneck - The Truth About Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGv6exoKkw
thank "space fairy to eat broccoli casserole." HAHAHA
DeleteThis is the one about Trump.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsqKyv86pEY
I think that Donald represents everything they think anyways. They were just afraid to come out of the closet. Now, they are bolstered by polls etc. When, in Hitler's days, they saw how determined that lil' fellow was becoming, all the evil ones came out of the woodwork and came forth. Paul Ryan wasn't run by anything good. Just that his kind has to survive above all means. I just don't see why the RNC would fall like nine pins for Trump other than that. Plus, we know, you know, they know, everyone is desperately afraid of Hilary. They are gathering behind their front man Donald who looks a little winded lately. The men sure busy trying to keep a woman out of the White House. Wonder why?
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...The GOP has hit the dust.
ReplyDeletePolls: Bernie Sanders is closing in on Hillary Clinton in California
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11842568/polls-bernie-sanders-california
http://www.laweekly.com/news/bernie-sanders-could-actually-beat-clinton-in-california-6993355
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-latimes-presidential-primary-poll-20160602-snap-story.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/poll-california-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-223810
Whatever. They also said Benie may parachute into a rally in CA, then said: "Naw, never mind."
DeleteI voted for HRC weeks ago. But among Likely Voters, it's still Clinton Plus 10. http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/california-tight-poll-democratic-race/
Polls mean shit.
DeletePolls mean shit unless it's Hillary over Trump, then they mean everything.
DeleteHillary's speech was so good. The only thing I wished, as far as trashing Trump went, was that she'd made better use of Trump’s lie about Putin and 60 Minutes. He had to admit never having met Putin after lying that they’d talked face-to-face when they both were to appear on 60 minutes. Trump was interviewed at his place in Trump Tower (natch) and Putin was interviewed in Russia. I’d have loved it if Hillary had driven home the fact that Trump had heavily embellished things. And wow, at least when Bush said he could see that Putin was a good man by looking in his eyes, he was talking about having seen him in person.
ReplyDeletePutin would turn the Donald into a pile of goo with one real life glance and then walk on.
DeleteI've noticed things recently too when The Donald speaks at his 'press conferences'!
ReplyDeleteHe rants, raises his voice, appears pissed off, sweats where the sweat droppings on his face can actually be seen dropping off, rambles, repeats and repeats himself, always critical of others, name calls, horribly reactive, out of control, not prepared, has no self control, etc.
He cannot handle the fact he is being proven a liar with regard to his personal and business worlds!
He'd be a horrible POTUS and I'm sure he'll never beat Hillary Clinton. She is so much smarter, more level headed, experienced in government and will nail his fat ass in a debate! And, I bet he'll lose it with her on the debate stage!
Dementia can do terrible things to people.
DeleteThere's something definitely wrong with him. Most people can see it. I don't think he'll make it to November. He's always on the verge of a meltdown psychologically, in addition to being a habitual liar; physically, he seems red-faced, overweight and ill (heart issues); and in terms of intelligence, he is also clearly lacking IQ points. His brand is tumbling. There's no way he can keep with up for another 5 months. Whether he picks Newt or Rick Scott, neither will prop up the run enough.
DeleteIt makes one wonder: will the VP pick end up being the Presidential GOP nominee when Trump drops out? Much will depend on the convention, probably.
And he breathes heavily, taking inward breaths so often and you can hear them clearly. This guy's doc said he's so healthy. In Trump's own (so cheesy) words, give me a break.
DeleteYeah, we need a made vid of all his hands out gestures and what is said at that moment. Then one when he points to the sky.
DeleteTrump attack on judge proves Clinton's point that he's 'temperamentally unfit' for presidency
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/03/1533955/-Trump-attack-on-judge-proves-Clinton-s-point-that-he-s-temperamentally-unfit-for-presidency
Megyn Kelly Rages About Trump's Racist Attacks On Trump U Judge
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/megyn-kelly-rips-trump-continued-racist
The PRESS responds to Hillary's EPIC speech, and it is awesome.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/2/1533764/-The-PRESS-responds-to-Hillary-s-EPIC-speech-today-and-it-is-awesome
Trump gets savaged by Clinton, you'd think Republicans would rush to his defense. Instead? Crickets
ReplyDeleteSo Hillary Clinton tore Donald Trump a new one yesterday, lambasting his foreign policy gibberish. Trump has responded with, well, more gibberish. It’s actually quite amazing how bad he is at this “being the nominee” stuff. But there’s something else quite fascinating about Clinton’s attacks yesterday.
This was a planned speech. Everyone knew it was going to happen. It was on the calendar. Republicans had all the time to prepare a response and come to their nominee’s aid. But … crickets.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/3/1534016/-Trump-gets-savaged-by-Clinton-you-d-think-Republicans-would-rush-to-his-defense-Instead-Crickets
dailykos lol. yawn.
DeleteRepublican leaders react to Trump's latest racist rantings that came 'totally out of left field'
ReplyDeleteThe morning after House Speaker Paul Ryan stuffed his remaining dignity in a sack and threw it into the river, he's supposedly reeling from presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's ongoing racial tirades against the judge hearing the case against Trump University. Trump's contribution yesterday was the claim that the U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had an "absolute" conflict of interest in the case because he was "of Mexican heritage."
Paul Ryan's response to this latest demonstration of Trump's blunt racism?
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/3/1534051/-Speaker-Paul-Ryan-Trump-s-latest-racist-rantings-came-totally-out-of-left-field
Yeah.
DeleteAttempting to get Republican support by playing the race card?
Surprise Surprise Surprise.
Not.
" Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” "
Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.
http://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
dailykos again lol. yawn again.
DeleteFYI to newbies:
Delete10:41 is our resident dullard.
It always cracks me up when fellow liberals trash various progressive sites, and DK is a favorite of those who do it. This need to be cooler when it comes to what we read is too funny. Eyeroll.
Delete11:14 - huh?
Delete“Trumpelthinskin”
ReplyDeleteHillary boxes in 'thin-skinned' Trump
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/3/1534056/-Hillary-boxes-in-thin-skinned-Trump
Trumpelthinskin! That's great. That's gonna get to ole Donnie Boy. Haha.
DeletePutting someone impulsive, brutish, intemperate, megalomaniacal, and lacking any foundation in principle into such an office is just too dangerous. Emergencies at home and abroad arise in every presidency, and a president who grossly underreacts or grossly overreacts would be uniquely catastrophic. This is, in a way, the argument Hillary Clinton made yesterday in her foreign-policy speech in San Diego—and she focused on powers more essential to the presidency than did Ryan’s op-ed did.
ReplyDeleteRead more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436193/paul-ryan-endorses-trump-misses-point-presidency
Hey Gryph -no need to publish this, but maybe put Ann Telnaes' name on the cartoon?? I follow her wonderful work & she'd prob appreciate the attribution. TY - sjp
ReplyDeleteO/T...87 planes were vandalised at Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage...tires were slashed/where the hell is Track Palin?
ReplyDeleteI hear Track left the state. Someone would know. He is innocent.
DeleteTake the test.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.isidewith.com/
Elizabeth Warren takes on Debbie Wasserman-Shultz in payday lending fight
ReplyDeleteThis is probably a fight that Debbie Wasserman-Shultz wishes she hadn’t stepped in on.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently unveiled new rules to curb Payday Lenders abilities to become loan sharks by requiring them (among other measures) to limit on how frequently borrowers can get payday loans as well as requiring that lenders verify that people can repay the money without taking on new debt, avoiding the so-called debt trap.
These new rules didn’t sit well with some Republicans and Florida Republican Rep. Dennis Ross introduced legislation in the House to curb them.
And for some reason DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Shultz decided to join them.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/2/1533643/-Elizabeth-Warren-takes-on-Debbie-Wasserman-Shultz-in-payday-lending-fight
My guess is that Trump has said that he plans to delegate all of the hard work Ryan and his ilk in Congress, so they're making nice with him so that they can have free run to destroy everything Obama has done - and more.
ReplyDeleteGet out there and vote and VOTE DEMOCRAT OR PROGRESSIVE. Getting Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders will mean nothing if the Republicans are still entrenched in Congress.
M from MD
In the doctor’s office today, I overheard two older ladies discussing Ryan’s “endorsing” Trump (it was on Faux News). These were “good Christian” church-going type ladies,opposed to lying, bragging, cussing, and divorce. Trump’s persona should be so repellant to these kinds of people that they would never consider supporting him.
ReplyDeleteHowever, these ladies had both heard, they said, that Trump was a really nice person, that how he is acting as a candidate was just showmanship, and he would be different as president. Besides, what is the option? They both shuddered.
And there you have it.
DeleteThere is no reasoning with these people. Facts don't matter. Nothing matters.
He said it. He could kill a person in the middle of the street and wouldn't lose any voters.
Hillary is no sure thing.
ot
ReplyDeleteDakota Meyer and Bristol Palin could care less about Ryan and Trump.
Dakota 'Levi' Meyer soon to announce engagement?
He is back from O'Fallon, MO and halibut fishing with Bristol. 'Life couldn't be better'
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13322204_1180478395325333_5718480876262783926_n.jpg?oh=bfdeb0b0a596269d8b866aa16d81897e&oe=57C3A55A
Palin Brand is back to the same old publicity shots. Dakota gets some outdoor sporty looks in and he is promoting their ad. Ha!
DeleteIs there a military treatment rehab in Missouri? When do we get to hear why they were there for Memorial Day?
Has Sarah posted another flash back? That monster is going to be hell to sell.
When is she going to unload again?
Unload more on Ryan, Sarah. You are so good going after fellow Repubs.
You agree with Trump, but you are supporting Hillary. Who is the stupid jackass? YOU!!
ReplyDeleteAlicia?
DeleteAnd so will Mitt Romney and the Bushies. Yup.
ReplyDeleteThere will be a very long line of Republicans bending over to kiss the ring (Trump's butt).
DeleteLove the GIF. I imagine Boehner, in a stupor, a room full of empty beer bottles, so glad he quit when he did. Paul Ryan, all around body builder, failed vp pic for Mitt has just changed butts, but the kiss will always be the same.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't your father's GOP, and it never will be again.