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Pete Hegseth is the CEO of Concerned Veterans for America, and the former executive director of Vets for…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #2012presidentialelection #Barack #deficitandnationaldebt #Død #Economy #Hegseth #Mitt #nationalsecurityterrorismandthemilitary #obama #Op-ed #pentagon #Pete #petehegseth #picks #Romney #SecretaryofDefense
https://www.europesays.com/3006568/

Goodnight, friends.

Kind of wild/hilarious that Wavy #Gravy is a #Romney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy

#SoundMirrors were built across the UK in the 1930s and 1940s. They were designed to pick up sound from great distances and hopefully provide early warning of enemy attacks. The whole project came to an end with the development of the Chain Home radar network. This device is at #Romney in #Kent #photo #photography

New Romney Church, Kent, c.1901-10 - Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/new-romney-church-kent-c-1901-10-postcard-221944869.htm

#NewRomney #Romney #Postcards

🤦🏻‍♀️Here’s Irrelevant #Romney on #Trump:

“I agree with him on a lot of policy fronts. I disagree with him on some things. But it’s like, OK, give him a chance to do what he said he’s gonna do and see how it works out.”

FFS, HOW DOES HE THINK IT WILL WORK OUT?!🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/politics/romney-trump-state-of-the-union?cid=ios_app

@eighthourlunch you forgot “#fascists”

#romney was too liberal for them

It is surprising with all the #gerrymandering the #gop has been doing over the last 40 years (making the #house nearly impossible for the democrats to control), they got stopped in Utah!

#Demography will win in the end. Gerrymandering can’t be effective for long

Habe nun 1 Dank für eine Auszeichnung für "Family Values" - Familienwerte durch die Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage gebloggt. Hatte letztes Jahr u.a. auch auf einer interreligiösen Konferenz in Utah, USA gesprochen - & Trumpisten digital getriggert, weil ich dem Trump-kritischen Senator Mitt Romney für seinen fairen Dienst dankte. Ja, ich trotze durch Dialog auch US-Rechtsdualisten gerne! 😜 :ablobcatheart: #NeverTrumper #Romney #USA #Familienwerte

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/bangen-um-die-usa-dank-fuer-die-familienwerte-auszeichnung-durch-die-kirche-jesu-christi-der-heiligen-der-letzten-tage/

@mergy Also Mitt #Romney doing his own laundry and talking about buying his hoagies from "WaWa's." A laughably pathetic and fake attempt to look like Mr. Natural Everyman. The #McDonalds was even closed. Anyone seen at the drive-through, as well as the food production inside, was all faked for the cameras.

@mergy#Trump serving #mcdonalds looks as Natural Everyman as Mitt #Romney doing his own laundry and talking about buying his hoagies from "WaWa's."

"Romney’s winking ambiguity might’ve been bold four years ago, but it’s next to useless in our present moment."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mitt-romney-should-endorse-kamala-harris

#Romney #GOP #Trump #Harris #HarrisForPresident #politics

2012: Mitt Romney mocks global warming, then the unprecedented Superstorm Sandy strikes.

2024: Donald Trump mocks global warming, then the unprecedented Helene and Milton strike.

#helene #milton #sandy #climatechange #climatedeniers #gop #uspol #trump #romney

#Romney grew irritated. “Yeah, but I’ve got 25 grandkids!” he said, throwing up his hands. “How am I going to protect 25 grandkids, 2 great-grandkids? I’ve got 5 sons, 5 daughters-in-law—it’s like, we’re a big group.” This was clearly a problem to which he’d given serious thought, & realized there was no solution. In the wks after #Jan6, he’d spent thousands of dollars a day to protect his family from red-capped vigilantes.But how do you hide a family of 40 from a president hell-bent on revenge?

What about his sons? I asked. Might they be targeted?

“I mean, hopefully they’ve all crossed their t’s and dotted their i’s,” #Romney replied, straining to sound casual. “But it’s hard for me to imagine that President #Trump would take the time to go out & see if [he] can find something on members of my family.”

“You might need to expand your imagination,” I suggested.

#law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

But when I asked #Romney, in the spring, what a #Trump reelection would mean for him & his family, he was careful at first. “I don’t know the answer to that,” he said. If Trump tried to sic the #DOJ on him, Romney told me, “the good news is I haven’t had an affair with anybody; I don’t have any classified documents; I can’t imagine something I’ve done that would justify an investigation, let alone an indictment.”

#law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

#MittRomney Braces for #Trump’s Retribution

#Romney has good reason to fear Trump’s vengeance.

By McKay Coppins

Trump had repeatedly pledged to use the #DOJ & the #FBI to go after his political enemies if reelected.…Romney knew that he was likely to appear on any enemies list kept by the former president, & he’d privately mused to friends that it might be time for him & his wife, Ann, to consider moving abroad. (A spox for the senator told me he was not serious….)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/mitt-romney-trump/679994/

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Dick Cheney said. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again."

Any reasonable person should come to the same conclusion.

#Trump

#Cheney #Pence #Romney #Bush #McCain #Kinzinger #Rice

#Republican Party

I do not think the #GOP can recover.

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Dick Cheney said. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again."

Any reasonable person should come to the same conclusion.

#Trump

#Cheney #Pence #Romney #Bush #McCain #Kinzinger #Rice

#Republican Party

I do not think the #GOP can recover.

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Dick Cheney said. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again."

Any reasonable person should come to the same conclusion.

#Trump

#Cheney #Pence #Romney #Bush #McCain #Kinzinger #Rice

#Republican Party

I do not think the #GOP can recover.

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Dick Cheney said. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again."

Any reasonable person should come to the same conclusion.

#Trump

#Cheney #Pence #Romney #Bush #McCain #Kinzinger #Rice

#Republican Party

I do not think the #GOP can recover.

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Dick Cheney said. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again."

Any reasonable person should come to the same conclusion.

#Trump

#Cheney #Pence #Romney #Bush #McCain #Kinzinger #Rice

#Republican Party

I do not think the #GOP can recover.

Over 200 former #Bush, #McCain and #Romney staffers #endorse #Harris2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/200-former-bush-mccain-romney-staffers-endorse-harris-rcna168363

#RepublicansForHarris #VoteAllBlue #BlackMastodon

>200 #Republicans who previously worked for fmr Pres George W #Bush, the late Sen John #McCain, or Sen Mitt #Romney, endorsed VP #KamalaHarris for president in an open letter Mon obtained by USA TODAY.

The letter from alums of the 3 #Republican pres nominees prior to #Trump comes on the heels of a DNC last wk in Chicago that showcased Republican detractors of the #GOP nom. ≥5 fmr aides to fmr Pres George HW Bush also signed the letter, which has 238 signatures in all.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/26/bush-mccain-romney-trump-harris-2024/74947380007/

Hundreds of fmr #Bush, #McCain & #Romney staffers back #KamalaHarris

The more #Trump attacks #Harris as some kind of radical, the more mainstream #Republicans throw their support behind the #Democrat.

Late last week, the 2 major-party presidential nominees traded notable endorsements. On the one hand, Trump picked up support from independent conspiracy theorist #RFKJr, which didn’t seem to bother #Democrats at all.

#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hundreds-former-bush-mccain-romney-staffers-back-harris-rcna168430

Where are you #Mattis, #Kelly, #Romney, et al? "IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR THESE PEOPLE to heed their better angels. Donald Trump must be stopped. It is incumbent upon everyone who sees this clearly—and who played a part in getting us here—to speak out and deal with the personal ramifications. Frankly, it’s the least we should expect of them."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/republicans-who-served-with-trump-and-saw-the-crazy-should-endorse-kamala-harris

#Harris2024

More than ♦️200 people who previously worked for President George W. #Bush and Senators Mitt #Romney and John #McCain
♦️have signed a letter endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

Many of the more prominent signatories, including
a chief of staff,
a legislative director and
a deputy campaign manager for Mr. McCain,
had signed a letter 💥supporting President Biden in the 2020 election.

Others work for organizations like The Bulwark and the
Lincoln Project that 💥oppose Donald Trump’s leadership of the Republican Party.

But the former Republican officials’ renewed support of the Democratic ticket reflects how Mr. Trump has transformed the Republican Party under his leadership, as well as deep and persistent opposition to his candidacy from those who served Republican presidential candidates.

Mr. Romney, Mr. Bush and other high-profile Republicans skipped the Republican nominating convention last month
-- while the Harris campaign made significant efforts to highlight the support of anti-Trump Republicans
— as well as former members of Mr. Trump’s staff who no longer support him
— with speaking slots at the Democratic convention last week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/us/politics/harris-trump-bush-romney-mccain.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Zumal ich schon in #Utah dem fairen Republikaner Mitt Romney gedankt & mich früh für eine Präsidentschaftskandidatur von Kamala Harris ausgesprochen habe. bekomme ich gerade wieder viel Hate aus dem Trump-Lager, sogar Drohungen eines Ex-AfD-MdL. "Seien Sie lieber vorsichtig, wenn Trump an die Macht kommt..!" - "Dann leiste ich erst Recht weiter Widerstand gegen fossile Ideologien, Danke." 😃 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 #Romney #Harris #Trump #USA #Deutschland Fossiler #Dualismus vs. #Solarpunk https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/gedicht-die-feuer-des-hasses-als-video-text/

@gtconway3
While I live in Utah and don’t always see eye to eye on the stuff that goes on here, #romney is a damn fine person.

I’m old enough to remember Orrin Hatch R-Utah and Ted Kennedy D-Mass actually reaching across the aisle during lunch get togethers to negotiate stuff.

Too bad it’s not like that anymore.

I'm so old I remember when #Obama and #Romney went at it hammer and tongs . . . WORRY LESS DO MORE PEOPLE!!
#Democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/politics/obama-debate-election-2012/index.html

#Gespräch mit #Immanuel:

#Mehdi #Hasan; #Gouvernor #Romney: #Titel #behalten, nach dem #Amt: In der #Monarchie im #Unterschied zur #Praxis in den #USA, kann man #Titel nicht verlieren; #Anbiederung; #Arroganz;

#Pedigree:
Wieviel #Investment im #Sinne von #Ausstattung, #Voraussetzungsreichtum ist nötig, um eine bestimmte #Sportart auszuüben? #Voraussetzungsreichtum als #Verwechslung von #Stammbaum und #Meriten / #Verdienst;

“#PaulRyan also makes a sad appearance…. #Romney tells Coppins that Ryan called him during the 1st #impeachment…, seemingly lobbying Romney to acquit. Preserve your viability w/#Republicans, Ryan advises; preserve your ability to do good.

“It’s advice that once seemed plausible & which guided many upright people to enter the #Trump admin as voices of #sanity. The 1st problem w/it is that the #cult of #Trumpism demands absolute #fealty. One moment of honest dissent & you are cast from the ranks.

@potus
Biden will leave any meeting to take a call from his family.

#Republicans are fine with abusing/kiling dogs (#Noem #Huckabee #Palin #Romney)

To quote Collin Jost:

"AND THE RACE IS *TIED*???????"

@ablueview
After #Huckabee's son torturing & hanging a dog to death at Summer camp, #Palin hunting wolves from a helicopter, and Mitt #Romney strapping his dog-carrier to the roof of his car, being cruel to dogs (yes, I know wolves aren't dogs) seems to be a prerequisite to be on a #GOP presidential ticket. 🤨 #Noem

#Republicans and dogs have a "complicated" history: #Noem #Huckabee #Palin #Romney

#StephMiller just reminded everyone:

"It seems there's theme with #Republican dog owners. Before #Noem, there was #Huckabee's son who hung a dog, Sarah #Palin who shot wolves from a helicopter, and before that was Mitt #Romney strapping a dog to the roof of his car."

I forgot about all that. I really does seem #GOP candidates have a problem with dogs.

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Members on both sides are upset with #Trump’s attempt to kill #borderDeal to deny President #Biden a legislative win.

Sen. Thom #Tillis said it is “#immoral” for Republicans to reject border deal to help Trump.

Sen. Mitt #Romney called effort to kill bill “#appalling.” Romney argued that there is an issue at the southern border and anyone running for president should be attempting to solve it now — instead of solving it later and taking credit for it down the road.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4432079-thom-tillis-immoral-kill-border-deal-trump/

Mayorkas impeachment moves to Senate, where trial could end fast

House Republicans sent over articles of #impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro #Mayorkas on Tuesday afternoon,
kicking off what is likely to be a brief trial in the upper chamber that could conclude as soon as Wednesday.

Led by 11 impeachment managers appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Republicans have demanded a full trial,

while Senate Democrats, who hold a 51-49 majority,
are planning to band together to dismiss or table the trial.

At least one Republican
— Sen. Mitt #Romney (Utah)
— has said he plans to vote against a full trial.

Most Senate Republicans, despite previously voicing concerns about the substance of the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, have echoed the lower chamber’s calls for the Senate to adhere to the rules of impeachment and hold a trial.

Several others who have been critical of the impeachment have yet to stake out their position, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/16/impeachment-mayorkas-senate-trial-house/

#Romney’s name has been popping up in some frightening corners of the internet, which is why #King needed to talk to him. He isn’t sure Romney will be safe.

Romney hangs up & immediately begins typing a text to #MitchMcConnell, the #Senate majority ldr. #McConnell has been indulgent of #Trump’s #deranged behavior over the past 4yrs, but he’s not crazy. He knows that the #election wasn’t #stolen, that his guy #lost fair & square. He sees the #posturing by #Republican politicians for what it is.

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Members on both sides are upset with #Trump’s attempt to kill #borderDeal to deny President #Biden a legislative win.

Sen. Thom #Tillis said it is “#immoral” for Republicans to reject border deal to help Trump.

Sen. Mitt #Romney called effort to kill bill “#appalling.” Romney argued that there is an issue at the southern border and anyone running for president should be attempting to solve it now — instead of solving it later and taking credit for it down the road.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4432079-thom-tillis-immoral-kill-border-deal-trump/

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Members on both sides are upset with #Trump’s attempt to kill #borderDeal to deny President #Biden a legislative win.

Sen. Thom #Tillis said it is “#immoral” for Republicans to reject border deal to help Trump.

Sen. Mitt #Romney called effort to kill bill “#appalling.” Romney argued that there is an issue at the southern border and anyone running for president should be attempting to solve it now — instead of solving it later and taking credit for it down the road.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4432079-thom-tillis-immoral-kill-border-deal-trump/

Tucker Carlson lost. The Jan. 6 committee won.

On Monday, Tucker Carlson used his popular primetime program in an effort to undermine the work of last year’s House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack by presenting footage that, he claimed, would cast its conclusions into serious doubt.

It was a flop.

House Speaker Kevin #McCarthy gave #Carlson more than 40,000 hours of footage from that day, and the Fox News host used it to make the case that the vast majority of rioters were, in fact, peaceful “#sightseers” smeared through guilt by association with a few #bad #apples.

But to all but the most committed (or deluded) MAGA devotees, Carlson’s effort failed.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch #McConnell, Sens. Mitt #Romney, Thom #Tillis, Mike #Rounds, Kevin #Cramer, Lindsey #Graham, Chuck #Grassley, and Joni #Ernst — have #condemned the push to rewrite history.

The episode quickly became a subject of widespread #mockery and #scorn, apparently failing to gain even an iota of traction among the Trump-skeptical conservatives it was designed to entice.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/tucker-carlson-lost-jan-6-committee-won.html

BREAKING ALTERNATE REALITY NEWS:
MyFascist {tm) Mike Lindell, who was present for the meeting on 12/18/20 that led to the insurrection is going up against #Ronna #Romney (McDaniel) to lead the GOP.

Donald Trump has endorsed him.
I almost forgot I bought myfascist.com a while back. 🤔
https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/the-insurrection-was-plan-b-part

To #Romney, this was the problem w/the #Trump-era #GOP. He believed there were still #decent, well-intentioned ldrs in his party….

Perhaps Romney’s most surprising discovery upon entering the #Senate was that his #disgust w/#Trump was not unique among his #Republican colleagues. “Almost w/o exception, they shared my view of the president.” In public… they played their parts as #TrumpLoyalists, often contorting themselves rhetorically to defend the president’s most #indefensible behavior.

TheOnion: Senator Mitt Romney Will Not Seek Reelection, Calls For New Generation Of Leaders https://www.theonion.com/senator-mitt-romney-will-not-seek-reelection-calls-for-1850843886 #americanpeopleofgermandescent #centrismintheunitedstates #notseekreelection #georgewromney #philsarfatti #belindawebb #harrycaruso #mittromney #politics #romney #mitt

I'm 47% sad to see #Mitt #Romney retire from national politics.

I'm 47% sad to see #Mitt #Romney retire from national politics.