He knows he has exactly zero chance of winning the state when his party is the one sending murdering thugs to it's streets. Now he gets to pretend to be a good person and avoid an embarrassing loss.
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It sounds like vote forecast rather than a moral awakening.
Exactly.
No chance of winning so why bother running. Steal what credibility you can and save your effort of sunnier weather.
I'll take a republican (maybe) having a conscience or even just abandoning a sinking ship over die hard fascists who would go down with the ship and drag as many people with them as they can.
At least he's virtue signaling instead of vice signaling.
If he's still a Republican, all he had is a pang of guilt, not a sudden onset of conscience.
It's a start though.
I’ll take what I can get at this point
he also defending Johnathon ross, so no not a conscience.
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If you registered as a Republican in the last 60 years, that is exactly what you signed up for. You joined the nazis and you knew.
"This is what I voted for."
They say smuggly
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Good Republicans don't stay Republican for long
Reminds me when Cawthorn was expelled from the party because he ratted them out about the cocaine and orgies.
Like thats where he draws the line. Everything else was fine.
They draw the line at spilling secrets about other Republicans. Remember this hit from Trump's last term?
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” said McCarthy, R-Calif., according to the report.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has said policymakers in Washington have been too harsh on Russia and should work more closely with Moscow to fight extremist groups.
McCarthy’s comment prompted laughter from some Republicans in the room.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told his colleagues to not share the remarks, the Post reported.
“No leaks, all right? This is how we know we’re a real family here,” Ryan reportedly said.
It doesn't matter what happens behind closed doors, as long as you don't talk about what happens there.
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He’s probably pulling out because of polling, but regardless, I appreciate him blaming the GOP immigration policies.
more than likely , hes defending johnathon ross as his defense attorney.
Tbf everyone has the right to a fair trial, John Adams himself even defended the British soldiers in The Boston Massacre. Even this loser deserves a trial (and should get convicted imo based on the evidence we've seen already, but still he deserves a trial as does everyone else).
I did not sign up to that.
Yeah. He did. At no point did Trump or MAGA lie about their intentions. From the beginning they said exactly what they were going to do.
And he signed on. Maybe its because he didn't believe they would actually do it and now he regrets it. That's fine.
But regardless, he literally "signed up to that" and he has to own that.
I don't doubt that this guy actually feels anger and is actually struggling with his feelings of guilt and some kind of morality crisis.
But that's only because this is actually happening to him and the people he knows firsthand. Because that's how Republicans are, these types of actions are fine when it happens to others but the minute it affects them personally, then and only then are they all of the sudden concerned about things.
They just don't have any sense of empathy or thinking about others at all. It's just all about me with them.
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Note to the reactionaries about to diss this guy: He said "Hispanics and Asian" people. Not black people.
So he could be telling the truth 🤔
I think black people are being left out of this about as much as white people? Progress?
Wait, no. Today brown people are the target.
Don't worry though, I'm sure the white supremacists will turn to more targets after this one if they get their way.
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I'm always amazed people keep having new lines they cannot cross. I really just assumed that if you were gonna vote for Mr. "Grab 'm by the pussy", you were already AOK with basically anything, as long as it came from the party of Reagan.
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The guy got blowback for being Jonathan Ross' attorney right now. Conscience my ass.
This exactly. Fuck him and fuck Jonathan Ross.
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Has he made any effort to criticise or stand up to to ICE or is it all passive and about himself?
Resiging in protest of something usually a way to critique that thing. Not saying he's doing it for the right reasons or well enough, but he's no less outcome-focused than someone expecting moral standards from republicans in a lemmy comments section.
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I am pretty sure through all this he's the attorney for the agent who murdered Renee Good.
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On the one hand, better late than never.
On the other, the Republican party has been the party of maximum scumbag since like Nixon.
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He's representing the fascist assassin Jonathan Ross....
Show me a consistent framework of justice where it was okay for John Adams to represent the guys who did the Boston Massacre but that guy (who is a shitbag who murdered someone) shouldn’t be represented.
I agree, he’s a murderer and should be prosecuted to the greatest extent of the law. But representation is part of that law.
How are so many people in this thread saying “yes, Trump bad” but also “I want to do exactly what Trump does but to other people instead”
The implication (I hope) is that noone is representing him that isn't a public defender. This man should be so socially radioactive that only the lawyers ordered by the court consider it.
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You did though, it's not a new part of the GOP.
Lets not pretend that he's grown a conscience. What he doesn't want is a humiliating defeat that would tarnish any dreams of a legacy he wants going forward. They will be back just not at this very moment whilst the party is super unpopular there.
They did this after january 6th as well and then media memory holed everything a couple years later and revised the event. The media will memory hole this as well.
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This guy is just blowing out because he'd get slaughtered. Just quitting to fight another day.
You did in fact, sign up for that
conscience my arse, where was this any time in the past 20 years, dude.
You're just seeing the writing on the wall and trying not to get put up against it
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Lol don't be a republican? Like, it IS what you signed up for dude, where have you been for the last 30 years+???
Virtue signal bullshit.
At this point I will take any ally in this situation. Piece by piece we can and will take this corrupt administration down. With or without any support from either side of the political spectrum.
He took one step in the right direction. ONE STEP. That’s better than nothing, but he’s got a long way to go.
It took until now for that to sink in? This isn’t morality, this is simply jumping ship after taking way too fucking long to read the room. This is a scared rat on a sinking boat, nothing more.
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Minnesota is a blue state. Hence this is meaningless.
Minnesota is a Democratic-leaning swing state where Republicans have remained competitive, which likely pushes the state party toward moderation compared with places like Texas. While this isn’t representative of the entire party, it does suggest early cracks a year after Trump’s win. It’s not meaningless; it highlights how difficult the midterms may be for Republicans, especially in swing states, where extreme national behaviour makes it harder to compete in states that are nowhere near as extreme.
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Sounds like the exact reason he should stay in the race. His presence alone prevents one of the Confederates from posting a candidate.
Nah, a republican looking at the optics, saying some good words, and hiding for a bit.
no hes doesnt, hes defending renee's murder, johnaton ross. plus TRump is only dialing back ICE because he suddenly dropped out of the race.
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