Allegedly impossible events DO happen. First there are anti Trump GOP people, Secondly Ukraine shot down a hypersonic missile. Face it: No more MTG !
That means stop KOWTOWING to Marjorie (Putin can do no wrong) GREENE. Act NORMAL and stop being ABJECT cowards !
First, as Trump outside the GOP is as popular as rabies, it is time for people to stop quivering under the bed in abject cowardice, and to embrace a non Trump future. Its right there for the taking if abject cowardice is refuted by common sense. Secondly, Ukraine did shoot down a Russian hypersonic missile via patriot batteries
Joe Biden is not a LOT more popular than Trump now, but as I as an example would gladly crawl through a football field of broken glass distance to vote against Trump, in 2024, there is reason for people to stop abject cowardice
The doomsayers need to crawl out under the beds, or the underground bunkers and stop having virtual whipping sessions with Marjorie Greene in their lives and to start acting NORMAL for once in their lives
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Those who say they will only vote for Trump are part of a vanishingly small minority that is holding Republicans back.
If?the Republican Party wishes to have a shot at winning the 2024 presidential election, the sizeable portion of its members who remain immune to Donald Trump’s medieval-era demands of absolute fealty are going to need to stop quivering, come out from under their beds, and tell their tormenters in no uncertain terms that they should feel free to go ahead and shoot the phantasmic hostages they insist they’re keeping in the attic.
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Secondly, the ALMIGHTY Hypersonic boogyman of Putin does have an answer
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Ukraine says it has for the first time used a US-made Patriot air defense system to intercept a Russian hypersonic missile.
Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, said on Telegram Saturday: “Yes, we have intercepted the ‘unmatched’ Kinzhal,’” adding an emoji of the Ukrainian flag.
Oleshchuk said the interception happened during a night attack on May 4 in the sky over Kyiv.
The Kh-47 Kinzhal is a hypersonic ballistic missile. It travels 10 times the speed of sound and can be fired far from the battlefield, making them difficult to intercept.
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yes it is difficult to imagine both events, i.e. a NON Trump GOP contender for POTUS and an answer to the Kh-47 Kinzhal is a hypersonic ballistic missile but if you are going to give into Marjorie (Putin can do no wrong) Greene, you will be oblivious to the changing dynamics
FTR stop being PLAYED by Marjorie Greene, people. Stop cowering beneath your beds and GET UP and do it
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It’s Time to Call the Always-Trump Faction’s Bluff
May 3, 2023 1:58 PM
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Those who say they will only vote for Trump are part of a vanishingly small minority that is holding Republicans back.
If?the Republican Party wishes to have a shot at winning the 2024 presidential election, the sizeable portion of its members who remain immune to Donald Trump’s medieval-era demands of absolute fealty are going to need to stop quivering, come out from under their beds, and tell their tormenters in no uncertain terms that they should feel free to go ahead and shoot the phantasmic hostages they insist they’re keeping in the attic.
I am told — sometimes as a threat, sometimes under the guise of “analysis” — that if Donald Trump loses the primary next year, the minority of Republican voters who tell pollsters that they will vote for him and for him alone will sit out the general election and guarantee President Biden a second term. This is untrue. It is a lie, a falsehood, a ploy. It is an empty promise, based upon an assumption of potency, numerical strength, and broad-based monomania that is simply not in evidence. Certainly, the Always Trump contingent makes a lot of noise, but, practically speaking, they do not matter. Should they fail to get their way in the primary, they will end up being as impotent in 2023 as were the Never Trumpers in 2016. It is time, at long last, for mainstream Republicans to call their bluff.
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There is not much for the GOP to lose by jettisoning Donald Trump and his acolytes. The number of Republican voters who are actually prepared to boycott non-Trump candidates in a fit of pique is vanishingly small, and, as we saw in 2022, those who?do?stay at home in protest are considerably outnumbered by the Republicans and independents who delightedly return to the fold. In Georgia last year, the incumbent governor, Brian Kemp, won his primary 73 to 21, prompting the Always Trump contingent that had gone to war with him over his “disloyalty” to predict that he would be beaten roundly in the general. Instead, Kemp won it by eight points. The same dynamic played out with Brad Raffensperger, the state’s beleaguered secretary of state, who was supposedly destined for defeat as punishment for his refusal to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. Raffensperger won his primary 52 to 33. But he won the general by nine points. At the same time, Trump’s preferred candidate for Senate, Herschel Walker, lost by three points.
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Georgia was by no means unique. Everywhere in America we saw the?clear electoral benefit ?of being separated from Donald Trump. Which . . . well, which should not come as a great surprise, should it? In about 2016, the institutional Republican Party decided that it would be a jolly good idea to jettison the millions of suburban voters who have turned out reliably for the GOP since 1968, and to replace them with a herd of chimeras. In 2016, Chuck Schumer predicted that “for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” Because his party had nominated a candidate who was less popular than syphilis, this did not come to pass immediately. But it has since. Seven years later, and we know for a fact that neither moderate Republicans nor their equivalents among independents will vote for candidates who they believe are too closely allied with Donald Trump. This was true in 2018. It was true in 2020. It was true in 2022. It will be true next year, too. The GOP’s answer to the boisterous promises of abstinence that emerge from the most obsessive Always Trumpers should be, “Good!” In exchange for an online silo, they’ll gain a midsize city in the real world.
Elections, whatever you may have been told online, are there to be won. His disqualifying behavior to one side, Donald Trump ought not to be the Republican nominee on the simple grounds that he is incapable of putting together a coalition that can gain power. He is a loser. He loses. He’ll lose in Georgia and Arizona and Nevada and New Hampshire and Michigan and in every other contested area where he and his followers elect to compete. Ultimately, there is nothing to fear from the Always Trump brigade, because it represents the vanguard of an army that cannot march. Republicans who wish to rid themselves of their present loser mentality should rest assured that the hostages can be safely shot because the hostages do not actually exist. They are ghosts — and no sensible political party would base its future around those.
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Whereas the Russian hypersonic threat does have an answer
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Ukraine says it used US-made Patriot system to intercept Russian hypersonic missile
By?Maria Kostenko?and?Nick Paton Walsh , CNN
Updated 8:25 AM EDT, Sat May 6, 2023
A Patriot air defense system, pictured in Germany in January.
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Ukraine says it has for the first time used a US-made Patriot air defense system to intercept a Russian hypersonic missile.
Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, said on Telegram Saturday: “Yes, we have intercepted the ‘unmatched’ Kinzhal,’” adding an emoji of the Ukrainian flag.
Oleshchuk said the interception happened during a night attack on May 4 in the sky over Kyiv.
The Kh-47 Kinzhal is a hypersonic ballistic missile. It travels 10 times the speed of sound and can be fired far from the battlefield, making them difficult to intercept.
Ukraine has received at least two Patriot systems, one from the United States and one from Germany, to enhance its air defenses, which have previously been unable to intercept more modern Russian missiles such as the Kinzhal.
If it is confirmed that Ukraine successfully shot down Kinzhal it raises questions about Russian capabilities.
Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Inhat said Saturday that the Russians said “the Patriot is an outdated American weapon, and Russian weapons are the best in the world.”
“Well, there is confirmation that it effectively works against even a super hypersonic missile,” Ihnat said, adding that intercepting the Kinzhal is “a slap in the face for Russia.”
Last month Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that Patriots would be critical in defending Ukrainian infrastructure against ballistic missiles.
“Building a multi-level air and missile defense system as soon as possible is our priority,” he declared. “This is to protect peaceful cities, critical infrastructure, and our people in the rear and at the front. Patriot systems create a capability that did not exist before – to defeat ballistic targets.”
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD