I have seen plenty of football (soccer) performances described as dour. I have watched some of them as well 
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“Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, … He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our country,”
I mean, that part checks out.
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Exactly what I was thinking. “Well, Trump certainly didn’t write this. But it’s not wrong!”
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I heard it being applied to the Scots too.
My favourite footie phrase is, “an agricultural player”.
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The verbiage, ranty and inarticulate yet clearly not from the mind of Trump, has led some observers to conclude the letter was written by his hardline advisor Stephen Miller.
Dour, unsmiling political hack? Takes one to know one!
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Turmp & McConnell can shove each other up each other’s asses
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Assroboros: The Human Snake?
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I find it interesting that Trump hasn’t been seen in public since Jan. 6. In fact, I’m shocked he didn’t accept the invitation to testify at his impeachment just so he could be on TV again. And no rallies? What’s up with that? My inner conspiracy theorist wonders if he’s still alive.
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“Dour”? Must have been the word of the day on his toilet paper this morning.
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I doubt Trump wrote a single word of that. Reads more like a Stephen Miller brand of soft porn.
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I had to re-read your post a couple of times. I was wondering, “They do Steve Miller Band soft porn?” I might be more tempted if it was Steve Gibbons Band soft porn.
As one of my school friends used to say, “The sun shines on a dog’s ass sometimes.”
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They keep saying “Trump said”-- did Trump actually say it? Is it a press release on his letterhead?
His statement is in all the newspapers, except: They don’t release the press release, only a summary of it. Even the NYT says only that it was a “600-page statement”-- but they don’t release the statement.
What is the source? Is it a press release, handed out by a PR person? An email? A video? Is it online? Ive never seen a piece of “news” where they do not cite the actual text or video.
It’s uncanny. I’ve looked at 5 news sources at least, and none of them cite where they got the statement, nor do they reproduce the statement itself.
EDIT: NYT’s Maggie Haberman apparently says that she received it via email.
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Despite Senate Republicans acquitting him in his second impeachment trial,
I keep seeing that he was acquitted. He wasn’t. The Senate did not vote to acquit him, they voted to convict him and did not reach the necessary votes to do so.
Sorry, “acquit” just bothers me because of the implication that he is somehow absolved of his crimes because he was acquitted - but he was not acquitted. The Senate failed to convict and in their duty to provide a check on the executive.
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acquit: verb, free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.
To the extent that the senate vote is akin to an actual trial, failure to convict is acquittal.
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Exacty, the Senate voted on whether he was guilty, and they failed to reach a verdict. They did not reach a verdict at all, neither guilty or not. Failure to convict is more similar to a mistrial, not a non-guilty verdict.
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Trump’s full statement is below. It is a press release directly from his PAC. Please feel free to choke on it.
The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last.
In 2020, I received the most votes of any sitting President in history, almost 75,000,000. Every incumbent House Republican won for the first time in decades, and we flipped 15 seats, almost costing Nancy Pelosi her job. Republicans won majorities in at least 59 of the 98 partisan legislative chambers, and the Democrats failed to flip a single legislative chamber from red to blue. And in “Mitch’s Senate,” over the last two election cycles, I single-handedly saved at least 12 Senate seats, more than eight in the 2020 cycle alone—and then came the Georgia disaster, where we should have won both U.S. Senate seats, but McConnell matched the Democrat offer of $2,000 stimulus checks with $600. How does that work? It became the Democrats’ principal advertisement, and a big winner for them it was. McConnell then put himself, one of the most unpopular politicians in the United States, into the advertisements. Many Republicans in Georgia voted Democrat, or just didn’t vote, because of their anguish at their inept Governor, Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and the Republican Party, for not doing its job on Election Integrity during the 2020 Presidential race.
It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will.
My only regret is that McConnell “begged” for my strong support and endorsement before the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him. He went from one point down to 20 points up, and won. How quickly he forgets. Without my endorsement, McConnell would have lost, and lost badly. Now, his numbers are lower than ever before, he is destroying the Republican side of the Senate, and in so doing, seriously hurting our Country.
Likewise, McConnell has no credibility on China because of his family’s substantial Chinese business holdings. He does nothing on this tremendous economic and military threat.
Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership.
Prior to the pandemic, we produced the greatest economy and jobs numbers in the history of our Country, and likewise, our economic recovery after Covid was the best in the world. We cut taxes and regulations, rebuilt our military, took care of our Vets, became energy independent, built the wall and stopped the massive inflow of illegals into our Country, and so much more. And now, illegals are pouring in, pipelines are being stopped, taxes will be going up, and we will no longer be energy independent.
This is a big moment for our country, and we cannot let it pass by using third rate “leaders” to dictate our future!
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WAY too many complete sentences to be written by Trump.
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