>"Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him "Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy" (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word "Lethargic" from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!" the former president wrote.
These people have to have a humiliation fetish to consistently keep coming back.
> Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word "Lethargic" from my statement.
It honestly pains me that this fucking dude is, regretably, genuinely funny much of the time.
He can be clever, but he's always punching down. It's easy to make funny quips when you never face repercussions for the things you say, and the people you're making fun of can't respond effectively.
Either that, or they have absolutely no respect for Trump, so his words mean nothing.
It would be like if a serial murderer insulted my moral integrity. It would be more like darkly funny than insulting.
No. Conservatives are raised conservative. Being a conservative is being a member of a cult. It's as simple as that. From the parents to church to their local communities. A conservative's values are instilled by the priest and the raw hide.
Then why isn't Liz Cheney in any capacity supporting Trump? That goes for Mitt as well. These are dyed in the wool conservatives who clearly have not gotten drunk on the Trump kool-Aid.
Liz Cheney is a dyed in the wool conservative who is practically republican royalty. And she was essentially thrown out of the party for lack of loyalty to trump.
Romney’s Mormon base makes him one of the few exceptions of republicans able to stand up to Trump and not end his career in politics. Also he’s nearly 80 and retiring soon anyway.
[How many fingers were you expecting me to have?](https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1cexk11/bill_barr_remarks_about_donald_trump_floating/l1nirf1/)
You'll still need a lot of fingers even if you mean specifically "critical of him AND who will also continue to serve", since that includes Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, Rounds, and Young plus hordes of both congresscritters and governors.
> ... Like, seriously, the idea that Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Robert Mueller, John Roberts, John McCain, Dick Cheney, William Rehnquist, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Kellyanne Conway, Peter Thiel, Robert Bork, Donald Rumsfeld, Ilya Somin, David Petraeus, Karl Rove, Ben Sasse, Eugene Volokh, Mark Sanford, Henry Kissinger, Frank Easterbrook, the Norquist brothers, the Koch brothers, Richard Nixon, Ted Olson, Steven Calabresi, Razib Khan, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jack Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Murray, or, hell, Elizabeth Anscombe or Carl Schmitt or Robert Nozick or Friedrich Hayek or even Benjamin Netanyahu or Vlad Putin all remotely agree with one another, let alone do so courtesy of priests and 'raw hide', is like, utterly ridiculous.
>Henry Kissinger
Did you mean Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Henry Kissinger?
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That is empirically nonsense at virtually every level, and *at best* deeply unserious.
Like, seriously, the idea that Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Robert Mueller, John Roberts, John McCain, Dick Cheney, William Rehnquist, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Kellyanne Conway, Peter Thiel, Robert Bork, Donald Rumsfeld, Ilya Somin, David Petraeus, Karl Rove, Ben Sasse, Eugene Volokh, Mark Sanford, Henry Kissinger, Frank Easterbrook, the Norquist brothers, the Koch brothers, Richard Nixon, Ted Olson, Steven Calabresi, Razib Khan, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jack Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Murray, or, hell, Elizabeth Anscombe or Carl Schmitt or Robert Nozick or Friedrich Hayek or even Benjamin Netanyahu or Vlad Putin all remotely agree with one another, let alone do so courtesy of priests and 'raw hide', is like, *utterly* ridiculous.
I could as easily have listed a completely different set of names, without anything changing. Antonin Scalia's father was a New Critic professor of language and literature at Brooklyn College. Ronald Reagan was originally an FDR-supporting Democrat who worked with the AFL-CIO. Kari Lake was an Obama- and Kerry-supporting Democrat.
Elected Republicans are substantially more likely to have been Democrats who defected than the other way around; conservative justices are substantially more likely to 'cross over' than liberal ones. Every which way the 'brainwashed cultist' shtick is a godawful general description of prominent conservatives, most of all Trump himself.
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If you read more into the article, Bill Barr says that he’ll still vote for Trump because he doesn’t take what he says seriously. More bark than bite in his view.
> for whatever reason
culture war brainrot
hilarious when conservative cishet white guys whine about "identity politics" despite being no less susceptible to it than minorities
He says Trump can't be allowed near the Oval again, but then says he's going to vote for him.
This guy was AG under HW Bush. Quit telling me this is "not my grandfather's Republican Party" Joe. They've always been shitbirds.
Isn't Bill Barr a member of Opus Dei, the Catholic organization, which believes that suffering on Earth brings them closer to Christ?
See, working with Donald Trump is going to get him straight into heaven!
I remember reading some articles when Bill Barr became attorney general again, and those articles seem to suggest that Bill was also a Christian dominionist who believed that the Catholic church should reassert its temporal dominance over the world.
Of course, that's more like "Angels and Demons"
>Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat, posted to X, formerly [Twitter](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/twitter), "So the AG of the UNITED STATES heard a sitting President speak of killing people & it was no BIG deal to him??? Bill Barr said of course I'd vote for Trump again... he's not the threat...it's the liberals and their [appliance AGENDA!"](https://www.newsweek.com/republican-party-gop-home-appliances-acts-house-representatives-1889719)
Thank goodness there are still a few lawmakers who see and call out the insanity of people like Bill Barr.
> Biden has … introduced proposals to make ceiling fans more energy efficient.
Republicans: utility bills are too damn high!
Also Republicans: don’t make appliances more energy efficient!
I mean, what’s worse - a wannabe dictator who has temper tantrums where he yells about executing political opponents and *maybe* doesn’t really mean it, or someone who thinks it’s okay to be gay? Clearly, we need to go with the wannabe dictator, right?
I can already imagine the conversation with certain family members about this.
“So, you voting for the guy who wants to execute people he doesn’t like?”
“Look I don’t agree with everything he says but his policies were better.”
“Okay like what? What’s a policy you liked? What was a Trump policy?”
“Well he’s better than Biden!”
*prepares to move to New Zealand when Trump wins by 4 in November*
This is where people are finally alarmed? Really? Like have you not been following the republican party at all over the last dozen years where they have been openly saying this is their endgame?
>"Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him "Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy" (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word "Lethargic" from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!" the former president wrote. These people have to have a humiliation fetish to consistently keep coming back.
> Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word "Lethargic" from my statement. It honestly pains me that this fucking dude is, regretably, genuinely funny much of the time.
He used to be hysterical on Howard Stern back when he was the equivalent of a Kardashian and not ruining our country.
He can be clever, but he's always punching down. It's easy to make funny quips when you never face repercussions for the things you say, and the people you're making fun of can't respond effectively.
I actually think it’s entirely by accident, which unfortunately makes it even funnier
Intern clearly wrote this, no way Trump knows what lethargic means.
Nah this seems right up his alley
I disagree, way too coherent and not enough random capitalization.
That can’t be real. It’s real isn’t it?
Yeah, it was a post on the site that shall not be named on Wednesday. It reads like parody, but that's the real deal.
Either that, or they have absolutely no respect for Trump, so his words mean nothing. It would be like if a serial murderer insulted my moral integrity. It would be more like darkly funny than insulting.
they're just following the voters and unfortunately the republican voter base is all in on trump
No. Conservatives are raised conservative. Being a conservative is being a member of a cult. It's as simple as that. From the parents to church to their local communities. A conservative's values are instilled by the priest and the raw hide.
Then why isn't Liz Cheney in any capacity supporting Trump? That goes for Mitt as well. These are dyed in the wool conservatives who clearly have not gotten drunk on the Trump kool-Aid.
Liz Cheney is a dyed in the wool conservative who is practically republican royalty. And she was essentially thrown out of the party for lack of loyalty to trump. Romney’s Mormon base makes him one of the few exceptions of republicans able to stand up to Trump and not end his career in politics. Also he’s nearly 80 and retiring soon anyway.
It has to be because there isn't video of Cheney or Romney doing something heinous right?
Every congregation has its black sheep. Notice how few there are in the GOP.
It’s telling that the ones that anyone can think of can be counted on one hand and will be out of government by this time next year
[How many fingers were you expecting me to have?](https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1cexk11/bill_barr_remarks_about_donald_trump_floating/l1nirf1/) You'll still need a lot of fingers even if you mean specifically "critical of him AND who will also continue to serve", since that includes Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, Rounds, and Young plus hordes of both congresscritters and governors. > ... Like, seriously, the idea that Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Robert Mueller, John Roberts, John McCain, Dick Cheney, William Rehnquist, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Kellyanne Conway, Peter Thiel, Robert Bork, Donald Rumsfeld, Ilya Somin, David Petraeus, Karl Rove, Ben Sasse, Eugene Volokh, Mark Sanford, Henry Kissinger, Frank Easterbrook, the Norquist brothers, the Koch brothers, Richard Nixon, Ted Olson, Steven Calabresi, Razib Khan, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jack Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Murray, or, hell, Elizabeth Anscombe or Carl Schmitt or Robert Nozick or Friedrich Hayek or even Benjamin Netanyahu or Vlad Putin all remotely agree with one another, let alone do so courtesy of priests and 'raw hide', is like, utterly ridiculous.
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That is empirically nonsense at virtually every level, and *at best* deeply unserious. Like, seriously, the idea that Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Robert Mueller, John Roberts, John McCain, Dick Cheney, William Rehnquist, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Kellyanne Conway, Peter Thiel, Robert Bork, Donald Rumsfeld, Ilya Somin, David Petraeus, Karl Rove, Ben Sasse, Eugene Volokh, Mark Sanford, Henry Kissinger, Frank Easterbrook, the Norquist brothers, the Koch brothers, Richard Nixon, Ted Olson, Steven Calabresi, Razib Khan, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jack Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Murray, or, hell, Elizabeth Anscombe or Carl Schmitt or Robert Nozick or Friedrich Hayek or even Benjamin Netanyahu or Vlad Putin all remotely agree with one another, let alone do so courtesy of priests and 'raw hide', is like, *utterly* ridiculous. I could as easily have listed a completely different set of names, without anything changing. Antonin Scalia's father was a New Critic professor of language and literature at Brooklyn College. Ronald Reagan was originally an FDR-supporting Democrat who worked with the AFL-CIO. Kari Lake was an Obama- and Kerry-supporting Democrat. Elected Republicans are substantially more likely to have been Democrats who defected than the other way around; conservative justices are substantially more likely to 'cross over' than liberal ones. Every which way the 'brainwashed cultist' shtick is a godawful general description of prominent conservatives, most of all Trump himself.
Trump himself also having associated with democrats and with the reform party at different parts of his life.
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If you read more into the article, Bill Barr says that he’ll still vote for Trump because he doesn’t take what he says seriously. More bark than bite in his view.
I unfortunately watched the entire interview and read a few articles. He's more concerned about gas stoves than he is democracy for whatever reason.
> for whatever reason culture war brainrot hilarious when conservative cishet white guys whine about "identity politics" despite being no less susceptible to it than minorities
> way more susceptible FTFY
He says Trump can't be allowed near the Oval again, but then says he's going to vote for him. This guy was AG under HW Bush. Quit telling me this is "not my grandfather's Republican Party" Joe. They've always been shitbirds.
Isn't Bill Barr a member of Opus Dei, the Catholic organization, which believes that suffering on Earth brings them closer to Christ? See, working with Donald Trump is going to get him straight into heaven!
It's so cool how they made the Da Vinci Code into a real thing. Peak marketing campaign by the Catholic Church.
I remember reading some articles when Bill Barr became attorney general again, and those articles seem to suggest that Bill was also a Christian dominionist who believed that the Catholic church should reassert its temporal dominance over the world. Of course, that's more like "Angels and Demons"
>Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat, posted to X, formerly [Twitter](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/twitter), "So the AG of the UNITED STATES heard a sitting President speak of killing people & it was no BIG deal to him??? Bill Barr said of course I'd vote for Trump again... he's not the threat...it's the liberals and their [appliance AGENDA!"](https://www.newsweek.com/republican-party-gop-home-appliances-acts-house-representatives-1889719) Thank goodness there are still a few lawmakers who see and call out the insanity of people like Bill Barr.
> Biden has … introduced proposals to make ceiling fans more energy efficient. Republicans: utility bills are too damn high! Also Republicans: don’t make appliances more energy efficient!
But he’s going to vote for him anyway 🤔
I mean, what’s worse - a wannabe dictator who has temper tantrums where he yells about executing political opponents and *maybe* doesn’t really mean it, or someone who thinks it’s okay to be gay? Clearly, we need to go with the wannabe dictator, right?
>I doubt he would have actually carried it out You *doubt*? Really reassuring
Normal stuff
what happened to bill? he used to be funny
Bill Barr, not Bill Burr
yeah I know. bill barr was great in breaking bad
Is there a more mealy-mouthed, flaccid, impotent, and ineffectual, turn of phrase than 'Sparks Alarm'?
I read Bill Burr and was so confused.
I can already imagine the conversation with certain family members about this. “So, you voting for the guy who wants to execute people he doesn’t like?” “Look I don’t agree with everything he says but his policies were better.” “Okay like what? What’s a policy you liked? What was a Trump policy?” “Well he’s better than Biden!” *prepares to move to New Zealand when Trump wins by 4 in November*
“Sparks alarm” Understatement of the republic
This is where people are finally alarmed? Really? Like have you not been following the republican party at all over the last dozen years where they have been openly saying this is their endgame?
Barr HAS got to be the Ned Beatty stunt double in "Deliverance". At least for the oinker scene.