Evan McMullin's tweets and comments about Trump (plus other comments from anti-Trump conservatives)

https://standuprepublic.com/about-us

Evan started his career with the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. He spent much of his service overseas as a clandestine operations officer running counter-terrorism and traditional intelligence operations. After over a decade with the Agency, Evan joined Goldman Sachs’s Investment Banking Division in San Francisco where he worked on a variety of strategic and capital raising projects in the industrial, consumer products, technology, and other industries.

In 2013, Evan returned to government service, first as a senior advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee and then as chief policy director to the Republican Conference, in the House of Representatives where he led national security, government reform, natural resources, and veterans’ healthcare initiatives.

In August 2016, Evan announced his candidacy for President of the United States as an independent conservative, attracting support for his principled defense of liberty, equality, and the Constitution. Evan selected Mindy Finn as his running mate and, after winning 21.5% of the vote in Utah, their three-month presidential campaign became one of the most successful third-party candidacies in U.S. history.

Leading Stand Up Republic with Mindy, Evan continues to defend the Constitution, democracy, and the timeless truths upon which our nation was founded at a time when they are under increasing threat.

LooseGoose wrote:McMullin is/was a nobody dork the media built up, he's too stupid to realize that his 15 minutes was up long ago.

Turtleneck wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:McMullin is/was a nobody dork the media built up, he's too stupid to realize that his 15 minutes was up long ago.

Predictable response.

Thank you for your amazing contribution to this thread.

LooseGoose wrote:Crickets on what McMullin is other than a brand of political streaker.

Gets 20% of the vote in one state, finishes 3rd there and now somehow he means something?

Was a nobody, is a nobody.

tGreenWay wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:Crickets on what McMullin is other than a brand of political streaker.

Gets 20% of the vote in one state, finishes 3rd there and now somehow he means something?

Was a nobody, is a nobody.

He's not allowed to speak his mind? Sorry he's not toeing the party line, but somebody has to tell the king he's wearing no clothes. It takes one person to stand up and say enough. Maybe some of the political sheep will take notice and do what's right for Country and, by extension, Party. Right now, those same sheep are only bleating the party line for the sake of the Party--America be damned.

LooseGoose wrote:Crickets on what McMullin is other than a brand of political streaker.

Gets 20% of the vote in one state, finishes 3rd there and now somehow he means something?

Was a nobody, is a nobody.

GRR Spartan wrote:As much as VP Pence scares me I am confident Mrs. Pence only allow a tweet like Trump's once before she would put the hammer down.

President Trump is a socially incompetent 70 year who has never had anyone of any consequence correct his boorish behavior.

"Presidents don't talk like this. They never have," Krauthammer said. "This is what it sounds like when you're living in a banana republic. This is how Hugo Chavez would talk about his opponents. This is how the worst dictator, Duterte in the Philippines, would talk about opponents."

Mercedes Schlapp pushed back, pointing out that Trump is not shutting down the press or using military force to silence his critics, as those dictators did.

"When you defend the president of the United States by pointing out that he hasn't sent the tanks out in the streets to shut down the media, you've reached a fairly low level of defense," Krauthammer replied.

He added it's not just the fact that Trump's Twitter remarks are an embarrassment and a distraction, but also that they give an unfiltered, uncensored look at Trump's psyche.

"What we're seeing is a vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of temperedness, a lack of self-control which is truly shocking," Krauthammer said. "And that's what I think people are reacting to."

Turtleneck wrote:
Krauthammer on Trump's Tweets: This Is What It's Like in a Banana Republic

"Presidents don't talk like this. They never have," Krauthammer said. "This is what it sounds like when you're living in a banana republic. This is how Hugo Chavez would talk about his opponents. This is how the worst dictator, Duterte in the Philippines, would talk about opponents."

Mercedes Schlapp pushed back, pointing out that Trump is not shutting down the press or using military force to silence his critics, as those dictators did.

"When you defend the president of the United States by pointing out that he hasn't sent the tanks out in the streets to shut down the media, you've reached a fairly low level of defense," Krauthammer replied.

He added it's not just the fact that Trump's Twitter remarks are an embarrassment and a distraction, but also that they give an unfiltered, uncensored look at Trump's psyche.

"What we're seeing is a vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of temperedness, a lack of self-control which is truly shocking," Krauthammer said. "And that's what I think people are reacting to."

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/29/krauthammer-president-trump-vs-msnbc-morning-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski

If Trump has any concern for democracy or human rights, he has not revealed it — except as a cudgel with which to beat the communist regime in Havana and secure Cuban-American votes. When asked to condemn Vladimir Putin’s murders of dissidents, Trump refused to do so, saying, “What, you think our country’s so innocent?”

The president’s senior national security and economic advisors, H.R. McMaster and Gary D. Cohn, wrote in the Wall Street Journal on May 30 that Trump believes “that the world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage…. Rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we embrace it.” In other words, this administration rejects the Enlightenment ideals of the Founders and instead embraces a Hobbesian view of the world in which the natural state of mankind is a “perpetual war of every man against his neighbor.”

Every previous would-be hegemon — Spain under Philip II, France under Louis XIV and Napoleon, Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin and his successors — inspired decisive opposition from other states. The United States, by contrast, has aroused less opposition than any previous great power, for the simple reason that most countries are not afraid of us. They know that we are not motivated by purely selfish considerations. While the United States has always sought to promote its national interests, it has interpreted those interests broadly enough to include the defense of freedom around the world.

Trump threatens that understanding with his “America First” policy. He thinks he is protecting U.S. interests, but, in reality, he is destroying the “secret sauce” that is responsible for America’s greatness. If the United States pursues a me-first policy, every other country will follow suit, and the law of the jungle will prevail. Such a development will endanger the hard-won achievements of more than 200 years of U.S. foreign policy rooted in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

Turtleneck wrote:From Max Boot

We Didn’t Kick Britain’s Ass to Be This Kind of Country
Donald Trump’s abandonment of human rights is a repudiation of the country’s founding principles.

If Trump has any concern for democracy or human rights, he has not revealed it — except as a cudgel with which to beat the communist regime in Havana and secure Cuban-American votes. When asked to condemn Vladimir Putin’s murders of dissidents, Trump refused to do so, saying, “What, you think our country’s so innocent?”

The president’s senior national security and economic advisors, H.R. McMaster and Gary D. Cohn, wrote in the Wall Street Journal on May 30 that Trump believes “that the world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage…. Rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we embrace it.” In other words, this administration rejects the Enlightenment ideals of the Founders and instead embraces a Hobbesian view of the world in which the natural state of mankind is a “perpetual war of every man against his neighbor.”

Every previous would-be hegemon — Spain under Philip II, France under Louis XIV and Napoleon, Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin and his successors — inspired decisive opposition from other states. The United States, by contrast, has aroused less opposition than any previous great power, for the simple reason that most countries are not afraid of us. They know that we are not motivated by purely selfish considerations. While the United States has always sought to promote its national interests, it has interpreted those interests broadly enough to include the defense of freedom around the world.

Trump threatens that understanding with his “America First” policy. He thinks he is protecting U.S. interests, but, in reality, he is destroying the “secret sauce” that is responsible for America’s greatness. If the United States pursues a me-first policy, every other country will follow suit, and the law of the jungle will prevail. Such a development will endanger the hard-won achievements of more than 200 years of U.S. foreign policy rooted in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/03/we-didnt-kick-britains-ass-to-be-this-kind-of-country/

Turtleneck wrote:Evan McMullin‏Verified account
@Evan_McMullin
Trump wasn't unprepared for his meeting with Putin. Nor is he ignorant of Moscow's subversion. He is a witting enabler of it.

The United States has long led the way in showing how newcomers of all different backgrounds and ethnicities can be integrated into our democracy. But Trump is walking away from that vision — he did not mention the word “democracy” once in Warsaw and the only time he mentioned an election was when he bragged about all of the Polish-American votes he won in 2016. Trump seems to think that the only thing that unites Poland and America is “bonds of culture, faith, and tradition,” but Russians could just as plausibly claim to share those bonds as well.

Indeed, there is every reason to suspect that Trump himself, in spite of a few mildly critical remarks about Russia’s “destabilizing activities” (a nice way to describe the invasion of Ukraine, the subversion of the U.S. election, and the war crimes in Syria), shares this rosy view of Russian-American affinity peddled by Putin. As Rex Tillerson said, “there was a very clear positive chemistry” between the two men, so much so that they refused to break up their tête-à-tête even when it ran long over-schedule. There was no such warmth evident in Trump’s meetings with European leaders such as Angela Merkel. After his return home, Trump tweeted, “Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!” No mention of working constructively with Germany or France.

In the end, Trump’s second trip to Europe confirms the message of the first one: For the first time ever, the United States has a president who is more sympathetic to our enemies in Russia than to our friends in Europe.

Turtleneck wrote:Bill Kristol‏Verified account
@BillKristol
In his tweets this morning, the American president condemns his predecessor more harshly than a hostile foreign dictator.

Turtleneck wrote:Ben Sasse‏Verified account
@BenSasse
Putin is an enemy of free religion, speech, press and protest. He is now plotting future cyber attacks on America. He won't become a friend.

Turtleneck wrote:Mindy Finn‏Verified account @mindyfinn 18m18 minutes ago
When will Republican leaders in Washington stop defending Trump? If not now, when?

LooseGoose wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Mindy Finn‏Verified account @mindyfinn 18m18 minutes ago
When will Republican leaders in Washington stop defending Trump? If not now, when?

Like when Dem leaders stopped defending Clinton after he fucked a young intern and subordinate in the oval office?

Politics is a contact sport, I guess you don't learn that when you're running as a farce.

LooseGoose wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Mindy Finn‏Verified account @mindyfinn 18m18 minutes ago
When will Republican leaders in Washington stop defending Trump? If not now, when?

Like when Dem leaders stopped defending Clinton after he fucked a young intern and subordinate in the oval office?

Politics is a contact sport, I guess you don't learn that when you're running as a farce.

DWags wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Like when Dem leaders stopped defending Clinton after he fucked a young intern and subordinate in the oval office?

Politics is a contact sport, I guess you don't learn that when you're running as a farce.

Fucking an intern is a treasonous act? You're warped.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Like when Dem leaders stopped defending Clinton after he fucked a young intern and subordinate in the oval office?

Politics is a contact sport, I guess you don't learn that when you're running as a farce.

What is the statute of limitations on this argument? I mean.... we're looking at 20 years pretty soon. I feel like at a certain point you're talking about something Chester a Arthur did as if it's relevant. I'm just curious where the line is.

DWags wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Like when Dem leaders stopped defending Clinton after he fucked a young intern and subordinate in the oval office?

Politics is a contact sport, I guess you don't learn that when you're running as a farce.

Fucking an intern is a treasonous act? You're warped.

Turtleneck wrote:

DWags wrote:

Fucking an intern is a treasonous act? You're warped.

I am not going to say treason. I am also not going to defend Clinton. His moral compass is not much better than Trump's. However, if Trump intentionally endangered this country's national security, I am not willing to draw a parallel to Clinton.

LooseGoose wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

I am not going to say treason. I am also not going to defend Clinton. His moral compass is not much better than Trump's. However, if Trump intentionally endangered this country's national security, I am not willing to draw a parallel to Clinton.

Did Trump issue the special waiver to let that Russkie in and stay? Nope Obama.