Chuck Hagel, who served as a GOP senator from Nebraska and as the secretary of defense in the Obama administration, discusses the current state of the GOP.
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Chuck Hagel: 'I'm a Republican. I'm not sure what that means anymore.'
It means being in a cult of the manipulated and their manipulators.
@The FuQ is Wrong with you? Just like DRC Congo is a democratic republic. Makes sense.
This is why you can’t win Glenn Kirschner.
”I stayed up late on election night , when I went to bed Trump was WAY ahead …… I slept well knowing he would be re-elected for a 2nd term .
When I woke up the next morning the first thing I did was check my phone……Read they had stopped counting in the middle of the night which has NEVER happened before, they always continue to count through the night until they had a declared winner.
They were saying that Biden had won.
It felt like somebody punched me very hard in the stomach,
I knew then that they had cheated and silenced the voice of the MAJORITY in our country .
I was angry and numb for about a month .
This was all planned out by the Democrats for a LONG time to get Trump out at any cost .
Even letting China l launch a bio weapon to push for mail in ballots.
The people who died or lost their small businesses or whose lives were ruined were just collateral damage.
Us peasants .
The deep state keeping their power and agenda outranked all of we the people.”
@HS Good evening, Troll. You’re exemplifying my point. This is the typical message from the manipulators, which in turn is accepted by the manipulable. GOP has also become a sanctuary for all the nutjobs. Any conspiracy theory imaginable is better than reality, it seems.
The FBI KNEW most if not all about all the mass shootings ahead of time.
They KNEW these mass shootings were planned & did NOTHING to stop them.
So you’re left with two conclusions: either they wanted to allow the mass shootings OR they helped the mass shootings happen.
The FBI are corrupted & actively attacking America & all Americans.
@HS The earth IS flat. So, based on that we can conclude…etc
Chuck Hagel: “I’m a republican. I’m not sure what that means anymore.”
It means nothing.
@The Tweatles
The tone of your comment leads me to think that you are against helping your fellow Americans because they are black or LGBT. That says a whole lot more about you than it does about the dems. And please show me even one police force that has been defunded.
Republican means Fascist.
If you’re not a Fascist, then you do not fit in the current Republican party.
Unfortunately, the USA, with its first-past-the-post, two party system, the Democrats are the only alternative.
@Alex Hamilton It’s a shame that you cannot write a coherent sentence with proper grammar and spelling.
If he is not sure what it means then why is he still in the GOP? Just askin’
This is why you can’t win Glenn Kirschner.
”I stayed up late on election night , when I went to bed Trump was WAY ahead …… I slept well knowing he would be re-elected for a 2nd term .
When I woke up the next morning the first thing I did was check my phone……Read they had stopped counting in the middle of the night which has NEVER happened before, they always continue to count through the night until they had a declared winner.
They were saying that Biden had won.
It felt like somebody punched me very hard in the stomach,
I knew then that they had cheated and silenced the voice of the MAJORITY in our country .
I was angry and numb for about a month .
This was all planned out by the Democrats for a LONG time to get Trump out at any cost .
Even letting China l launch a bio weapon to push for mail in ballots.
The people who died or lost their small businesses or whose lives were ruined were just collateral damage.
Us peasants .
The deep state keeping their power and agenda outranked all of we the people.”
Between McConnell and McCarthy, the current Republican party is full of McSheets.
They are deplorable and disgusting sons of Mitches! >.<
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Pat Adams Bravo! We are reading from the same script, Pat. These ‘goobers’ from places I won’t name specifically always vote against their own interests ( Republican ), but eagerly take advantage of all the social programs beneficial to them that were crafted by Democrats. There must be some wires hooked up wrong in their tiny ‘pea brains’.
My pillow guy should get into diapers!
@lacebolla My Pillow Guy should take a nap and sleep off that Trump ‘hangover’.
Admitting you’re a Republican is like admitting you’re a seditionist and you love Timothy McVeigh. Oy vey! 😂
@Larry Garland the south. the poorest part of america. most states in the south get more money from the federal govt. than they send. is heavily populated by blacks and they are all trump states.
@[TRUMP]-[TOTAL WAR] NOT TRUE!
@[TRUMP]-[TOTAL WAR] more blacks in NORTHERN LARGE CITIES
Scientology called: They want their crazy cultist and corruption status back!
@Larry Garland I’m a DEMOCRAT and what you said was a Bald face Lie!! I guess you being a Republican is all that!!
They dont want the truth known because some of them are involved.
@Jason Boyce Listen to all the tinfoil hat people. You’re pathetic.
Correct.
@Bill Burgess If you support Trump or the insurrection than you are the delusional one.
@Bill Burgess lol
100%
“block, block, block” the sound of a Republican chicken
@Larry Garland They are popular with the voters. Just not so much with the tyrannical GOP leadership. You know the ones that rule you.
Unfair to chicken.
Fry ’em up !
@Larry Garland so you’re OK with the alternative facts BS coming from the so called “Republican Party” ?
lol facts!
Instead of “crazies”, can’t we just call them “traitors” like they are.
@Barnard Flapdoodle lol
Can we call them “deplorables” now??
@John Deininger Ikr??! Ive been calling them traitors before Jan 6th.
@Tifa Exactly!!💯
The FBI KNEW most if not all about all the mass shootings ahead of time.
They KNEW these mass shootings were planned & did NOTHING to stop them.
So you’re left with two conclusions: either they wanted to allow the mass shootings OR they helped the mass shootings happen.
The FBI are corrupted & actively attacking America & all Americans.
“They’v lost confidence in our institutions” because their party has been bolstering lies for years. And now we’re surprised by the outcome?
Good point
Tell a lie long enough and the truth will never be believed, even if/when the lie is exposed as a lie.
Republicans: Take all the credit and none of the responsibility
They all suffer from Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). google it. It’s very easy to understand. They know right from wrong, but it helps their fragile feelings to have acknowledgement.
Typical deflection, projection, hypocrisy, cowardice and ignorance time and time again from the GQP.
That is the most projecting comment I’ve ever seen. As if Democrats are a part of responsibility.
It means you are part of a political party that has no message, no policy, and only an urge to stay in power at all costs. Also, a lot of your fellow party members are overt racists. It means you are either very comfortable there, or very uncomfortable. It cant be both.
Projection.
@Larry Garland Yes, Republicans project a lot.
Wow. Well said.
It didn’t matter much to all those who supported Hitler well.
If you don’t vote for Xiden you ain’t black
I like this interview. It’s about time that a Republican of note and an American veteran speaks up against the travesty that is today’s Republican party.
@Bryn Carlson that’s what I meant.
He didn’t speak forcefully enough in my opinion. Real Republicans must leave their Party for the good of their Party and country.
The FBI KNEW most if not all about all the mass shootings ahead of time.
They KNEW these mass shootings were planned & did NOTHING to stop them.
So you’re left with two conclusions: either they wanted to allow the mass shootings OR they helped the mass shootings happen.
The FBI are corrupted & actively attacking America & all Americans.
@HS —
If I am to take your remarks as fact, here’s the conclusion I have come to: America is imploding. Therefore, it follows that a destructive civil war is in the offing.
He isn’t exactly speaking up.He agreed to do a spot on a show for some ego airtime.
Americans fighting Americans, where’s my popcorn says Putin.
@Sue Howie Trump – “Putin has the cleanest boots now. So clean. Some people tell me those are the cleanest boots they’ve ever seen.”
@Pat Doyle I suppose they could have counted the votes quicker if Trump hadn’t attacked the Post Office to slow down mail in ballots.
@Chad Lane hahaha. No kidding, Wayne has scribbled down all the GQP talking points. What a rube.
@BKR
Yes, and in several states like mine, if the GOP had not blocked attempts by the SOS to allow early counting of mail in ballots (since we knew it would be a flood) we here in Michigan, and several other states would have had results on election night. But they didn’t WANT that. They knew that in person voting was almost certain to favor Trump, and make it look as though he had won by the end of the night, thus allowing him to claim that he DID win, but that in the dark of night, the evil cheaters “stole” it from him.
@Pat Doyle and even after stacking the deck, they couldn’t pull it off. I think they’re as upset the con didnt work as they are that the Con didn’t get reelected.
“Stand back and stand by” Trump said. TREASON no doubt.
It’s spelled TRE45ON 😁
And on Jan 6 after the failed coup, he said “Go home, we love you, you’re very special.”
And they did exactly that!
@wnose And that was on Jan. 6 after first waiting 4 hours to see whether the coup would succeed.
That’s what I don’t get about these people. They still voting Republican after all this shtt. Sometimes it’s hard for me to feel sorry for most of them.
because it’s not a political party, it’s a cult.
@Barnard Flapdoodle You need to ask forgiveness first. Then maybe the blessing will follow.
@JeepDan777 “JeepDan777” I think you are confusing “repeat[in] the same atrocities and nonsense” with telling the truth. We deal in facts, not Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts.”
@LD lol yep!
They need a third party, we need 4 parties total. Actual conservatives have no other place to vote for now which is the problem.
Clearly, “Republican” now means “anti-Democratic”. Mitch McC has stated it.
@Richard Ivonen Stingy, life isn’t fair, grow up nobody owes anyone sh!t. I should have been a Rockstar but that never happened.
America gives you a better chance then anywhere in the world. You are blessed and to stupid to realize it.
@66Sixxy your delusional, i dont watch any msm fox or tucker. Your believing cnn. Africans sold africans to europeans, we dont acost , thats wrong, you dont get to acost white people. Plus america is dead burnt, it will never be what it was ever again. I know im shooting for the phoenix of liberty to rise from the ashes.
The FBI KNEW most if not all about all the mass shootings ahead of time.
They KNEW these mass shootings were planned & did NOTHING to stop them.
So you’re left with two conclusions: either they wanted to allow the mass shootings OR they helped the mass shootings happen.
The FBI are corrupted & actively attacking America & all Americans.
@elroy the great
Many people fall on hard times for any of a large variety of reasons.
Someday you .may become of the people who needs a safety net.
Be careful lest your pride becomes a stumbling block that causes you to fall.
( ps; I recomend that you remember he lesson that Jesus taught about the good Samaritan.
It would serve ou well..)
@elroy the great
You can thank Reagan and Brown for federal and state deinstitutionalization, and the consequential homelessness output.
“I m a Republican” = “I am a fascist.”
How hard is that to understand and accept?
@HS 😂
@Duck Labs Gaming your not going to be laughing much longer when all the Marxist Democrats and RINO’s will be facing treason charges. Gitmo will be full, Trump spent I believe 50 billion in upgrades. Military trails Tribunals, remember Graham questioning SCJ Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.
@Richard Owens So sorry about your Mother. My step-Dad watches Tucker Carlson every night, much to my & my mother’s dismay. It’s incredibly frustrating, & that’s without him understanding & admitting outright to being a fascist. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if it was my Mom.
The FBI KNEW most if not all about all the mass shootings ahead of time.
They KNEW these mass shootings were planned & did NOTHING to stop them.
So you’re left with two conclusions: either they wanted to allow the mass shootings OR they helped the mass shootings happen.
The FBI are corrupted & actively attacking America & all Americans.
@Hakura Chii I’m sure your mom won’t leave him cause she’s knows that he supports her with a roof over her head. Typical liberals looking for a free ride.
Education is the key to a nations’ enduring as a democratic world leader.
These idiots would let republicans destroy this country then vote for a deocrat
Sorry mate but that fantasy mantel is LONG GONE. Get used to “International laughing stock” instead. It’s taken 5 years but you’ve finally achieved it.
Anyone who still claims to be a Republican is already dead inside. All those with any humanity washed their hands of the party long ago.
@Heather Kingston I would extend that to >95% of the party has to go as well at this point. Absolutely shameful.
@The Enlightened one No, not the majority of them at least. High praise for those who stood up to Trump and refused to alter the ballot counts in their states. They are national heroes.
But regardless of party, you’ve got to keep an eye on each and every one of them. I’m old enough to remember the shoe being on the other foot. Getting dark & big money out of elections would go a long way towards fixing that. So would a national voting rights law.
@Joseph Gerarde Thanks for asking. I have one example of many I saw in 2016. Ben Shapiro used his Daily Wire to post everyday a post of bikers with assault rifles slung over their shoulders with the caption, TRUMPS BIKERS WILL BE AT THE POLLS TO CATCH DEMOCRATS CHEATING. Poll intimidation was published as well on the Daily Caller and Direct to the People on a daily basis. Republicans hate mail in voting because it is an end run around their game of intimidation at the polls.
@david clark that’s not ok. But I am trying to figure out how that works even work anyway. If I was a democrat and saw that, it wouldn’t be intimidating because how would they have any idea who I voted for or was going to vote for? They don’t go in the booth with people do they? Could you send me a link to that also? I can’t find it anywhere
Amen, I left the G.O.P. way before Trump came along. Their M.O. is to claim God but murderer everyone who will not obey the Christian moral code that they do not even attempt to live by. 100% Satanic people who wear their hatered for their fellow man on their sleeves, with mouths full of lies! They have their ears tickled by false prophets who are really just thieves. Christ is the one who said this would happen to many (not all) believers, in the last day’s Mathew 24…….
Isn’t it about time they did the job they are elected to do instead of just looking to get elected in the next cycle.
Being a Republican means that you are afraid of everything including science, gays, change, non-white people, inquiry, truth, your imaginary god, justice, integrity, self introspection, protest and anything that you think you don’t control which is almost eeverything.
Good luck trying to relevant even another six years.