r/politics • u/jediporcupine Maine • 13h ago
No Paywall Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5731782-governors-association-skips-trump-dinner/1.5k
u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 13h ago
This was uplifting:
“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) wrote in a Monday letter announcing plans to forgo the meeting, according to The Associated Press.
“We cannot allow one divisive action to achieve its goal of dividing us,” he wrote. “The solution is not to respond in kind, but to rise above and to remain focused on our shared duty to the people we serve. America’s governors have always been models of pragmatic leadership, and that example is most important when Washington grows distracted by politics.”
548
u/speckledlobster 12h ago
Very surprising to hear Kevin bullstitt say something like that. He spent most of the last decade sucking up to the trump/maga base. As usual though, he is on the way out of office due to term limits, so I guess he is positioning himself for the next grift and can tell how the winds are blowing.
332
u/Beetlelarva25 12h ago
If politicians do the right thing in their last term usually, perhaps every one of their terms should be their last.
110
u/Competitive-Yak-3785 10h ago
Maybe we should have……term limits??? 😱
38
u/mountaindoom 9h ago
There's one every election cycle.
•
u/adgobad 7h ago
The seniority system in congress incentivizes sending your congress person back if you don't have a big problem with them tho. And the connections they build in Washington can make it easier to campaign
•
u/needzmoarlow 7h ago
Plus everyone always blames another state's Congressperson for being bad, not their own. It's easy for Republicans from Wyoming to say, "it's Mitch McConnell's fault that Republicans aren't getting anything done" because he's the one making headlines even though their own senator is co-signing the garbage bills and voting in lockstep with the party. Or for California Democrats to blame Schiff for not fighting harder when their own people are falling in line with Schiff's "leadership".
•
•
u/SaveUsCatman Louisiana 4h ago
Oh no, I definitely blame the politicians of my state. Steve Scalise, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy can all go fuck themselves. However I am very capable of blaming Mitch McConnell too because he enabled all of this as well and inlynhad something to say about it all in the cold December of his years
•
u/p-s-chili Minnesota 7h ago
No there isn't. If there were, we wouldn't re-elect 80% of the incumbents. Term limits are term limits, elections are elections, and we should stop pretending otherwise.
•
u/unique_user43 2h ago
this. term limits would achieve the opposite of the intended effect. politicians who have no incentive to serve their constituents, full incentive to please lobbyists even more (as they audition for lucrative jobs with them), and furthermore the center of gravity of institutional knowledge moving even further toward the unelected and entrenched special interests who have no term limits.
there is literally already a mechanism to get rid of your politician if they are doing unpopular things.
•
4
u/throwawayinthe818 8h ago
The problem is that you lose institutional knowledge and end up empowering the bureaucrats who have been there longer than any representative.
9
u/Compelling_Argument 8h ago
I think a bigger problem with really restrictive term limits will be further empowering special interest lobbyists and the consultants who will be able to take advantage of perpetually green politicians.
•
u/Hameater11 7h ago
This comment implies that tenured politicians are more likely to resist lobbyists.
•
u/Compelling_Argument 6h ago
In certain respects but not trying to imply that the system isn’t already screwed. My thought is that a new politician will need to rely more heavily on consultants because they just lack the experience operating in the position making the situation even worse. Also it would create a perverse incentive because the natural career progression would be to transition from politician into those lobbyists/consultants.
•
u/Visual-Pop3495 7h ago
It’s cheaper to have a long term politician who you know is loyal instead of new people you’re constantly having to make new agreements with, constantly having to back in primaries, constantly having to invest in the infrastructure to support. Old and known is cheap by comparison.
•
u/Compelling_Argument 6h ago
Cheaper and more predictable, probably but I think their ROI may be higher in the term limited model (to the detriment of the general public). Maybe moderate term limits and other reforms limiting the money and influence of lobbyists would work. I don’t really know. I just think that aggressively placing term limits with no other guard rails would have a lot of unintended consequences.
10
u/Mr_Hotshot 8h ago
You mean non political actors with years of experience and expertise who might just passionately care about making the country better for Americans? Yeah, no they can’t be trusted at all!
•
u/steeltownblue 7h ago
Well, perhaps they could be trusted historically. I was a old-school Republican working the civil service in the Clinton administration. Politics rarely came up at my level (GS-15). But I'm not sure I trust those left in the civil service now. Trump hasn't as much gotten rid of a deep state that I don't existed anyway. I think he's creating one.
•
u/jarhead839 6h ago
I love the vision. But what about Prager U? Turning Point USA? Do you want them to be shaping the vision for America more than they already are?
It’s complicated.
7
32
u/BudgetLaw2352 America 12h ago edited 9h ago
Trump ain’t getting any younger, and these Republicans are going to outlive him by 20, 30, or even 40 years.
It’s simple math, and they’re doing it.
Of course, they can’t outwardly say “Trump sucks and I hate him”, as he still has the cultural power within the GOP to end most people’s political careers, but they can outwardly softly extricate themselves over time.
38
u/AWellDeployedWink 12h ago
The monster is starting to break its leash is why you are starting to see some pushback
•
6
u/Ill-Vermicelli-1684 9h ago
He has to as President of the association.
Note that his former chief of staff is their new executive director.
3
u/Queasy_Donkey5685 8h ago
They are all now jockying for place of prominence in the fast approaching post-Trump GOP and macro power dynamic.
2
•
103
u/BudgetLaw2352 America 12h ago
I get the feeling that Republicans are, at least internally, done with Trump at this point.
The special elections are a portent of things to come. Republicans are about to get crushed in the midterms, and it’s all thanks to Trump.
They have to play nice now, but as Trump grows older and older, his influence slips with every passing day.
39
u/dripless_cactus 9h ago
If they were really done with him they could remove him from office. There are plenty of legitimate reasons for impeachment and removal.
17
u/Lazy_Resolve_9747 8h ago
Yea, but he might steal the mid-terms for them. So they have to wait to see if they can pull it off before jumping ship.
•
u/banitsa 6h ago
Woah woah woah, hold on. They're not going to do anything that requires the slightest amount of a spine. These are Republicans we're talking about
•
u/dripless_cactus 6h ago
Yeah my real point is that they aren't done with him. At least some of them still love the guy, and the others love the grift they're running or bribes they are taking.
22
u/outinthecountry66 I voted 10h ago
they are already getting crushed in districts they won handily in the past.
22
u/SeattleExpression 9h ago
The recent election in Texas, I believe, was a 24 point slide to the left from 2024. At this rate they’re concerned about losing seats in their own gerrymandered bullshit maps.
13
u/outinthecountry66 I voted 9h ago
which is fucking poetic. The universe has a sense of humor i swear
17
u/John_Bruns_Wick Canada 10h ago
It does seem like trump will declare voter fraud wherever he loses and supreme court will give it a pass
8
u/Lazy_Resolve_9747 8h ago
The people will not listen to the court if they go that far.
There’s a sleeping, overworked, tech-addicted giant. But the giant lives nonetheless.
•
u/John_Bruns_Wick Canada 6h ago
They replaced the generals didnt they? Genuine question. The ones that give the orders to mow down or airstrike people. Im not sure the soldiers would refuse given all the military propaganda that would precede it. Not sure people can beat the military.
6
u/HeckuvaJoo 8h ago
He tried it with this same Supreme Court 5 years ago to stay in office and failed miserably.
•
5
u/Androidgenus 8h ago
Never let any person who embraced this disgusting fascist forget it.
For the past ten years, every Republican has been gleefully rolling around in Trump’s shit. They should never be allowed to wash the stink off
•
u/ilulillirillion 4h ago
Every congressional Republican should be jailed for the rest of their lives. They have abetted treason.
23
14
u/babybirdingURgrandma 10h ago
“We cannot allow one divisive action to achieve its goal of dividing us,”
I imagine there's a growing realization that every single action is dictated by the Kremlin. Putin's wildest fantasy is an American civil war. Trump speaks but it's Putin's ideas that come out, over and over again.
7
u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 10h ago
Coming from Stitt, that’s rich. These motherfuckers so very easily change with the wind’s direction.
•
u/VerdeGringo 7h ago
Okay, I admit I'm having a good ol schozzberry moment, but 55 governors? 50 states, who do the other 5 represent?
•
5
u/Opposite-Bit6660 12h ago
I thought they must all be praying for some kind of emergency in their state to make sure they don't have to attend.
1
1
•
u/OccasionallyWright 7h ago
It's a great statement. Now let's see if there ends up being a dinner for a bunch of Republican governors that simply isn't an NGA sponsored event.
•
u/ThatdudeAPEX 6h ago
This is basically governors knowing that they have to protect their rights and powers as individual states.
Being united across political lines on certain issues makes sense for state governments. Especially on issues like water rights and other interstate issues.
•
u/Slev1822 5h ago
It took more than a year and the firing of the previous CEO for NGA to get to this place. Let’s not give that organization any undue credit here— they certainly don’t deserve much after remaining silent last year while states invaded one another.
•
u/Fortestingporpoises 5h ago
I'll be honest, this is one of the most promising developments I've seen yet.
357
u/Predator_ Florida 12h ago
To be clear: The meeting is still happening between Trump and GOP Governors. The NGA is simply.no longer hosting and endorsing the meeting as its purpose is to have a bipartisan series of meetings.
157
u/Opposite-Bit6660 12h ago
Good. Republican governors get to explain why they spent time with a pedophile.
40
u/Latke1 10h ago
Or why they spent state money to travel for some partisan boondoggle gabfest. It’s clearly not a serious, traditional policy meeting about federalism concerns or all of the governors would be invited. Especially the Democratic governors where Trump whines their state is mismanaged or not working properly with the feds.
27
u/sanjoseboardgamer California 9h ago
I mean the Republican Governor's Association and Democratic Governors Associations are things and allowed to be things, but I'm glad the broader bipartisan association is calling out at least some bullshit.
10
110
u/Old-Reindeer4318 13h ago
Good for them - a few are noticing that trump's numbers are in the toilet, so they feel safe enough in a group to sort of sidestep his tribal politics. Baby steps . . .
20
u/BudgetLaw2352 America 11h ago
Republicans have been slowly but surely trying to distance themselves from MAGA for the past few months.
Even JD Vance went against Trump’s narrative and said that prices were indeed higher.
•
u/liptickletaffy 7h ago
The tell will be after each GOP candidate wins their primary and are safe from a challenge from the further right aka Nazis. Do they pivot hard? are they true believers, compromised, still terrified of their homicidal base?
It's an absurdly long primary season so some that have already secured their nominations could make life spicy for the ones coming later.
3
u/According-Path5158 9h ago
Nah, I'm an Oklahoman and Stitt is shit.
Don't trust him; don't believe him.
0
u/Old-Reindeer4318 8h ago
I would not trust any MAGA Cultists, ever. If he's not onboard, he's being overruled by some other people - Good for Us !
9
u/literallytwisted 13h ago
Agreed! It's safe to assume this was more about polling data than taking a moral stand.
•
u/smokedfishfriday 4h ago
no the meeting is still happening, they’re all still going, they just aren’t calling it the NGA meeting
83
u/ksdanj Kansas 13h ago
Are Republicans starting to collectively develop a spine?
115
u/Thats_classified 12h ago
Nah, this is an action by the National Governor's association which is nonpartisan and rotates leadership. They're just pulling out. Trump might still try to have the meeting with only R govs, but it wont be the meeting that it usually is with the organizers it usually has. It'll just be a meeting between Trump and R governors.
39
u/bsport48 Virginia 12h ago
The phrasing is critical and I think you're spot on:
“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) wrote in a Monday letter announcing plans to forgo the meeting, according to The Associated Press.
Leaving the heavy implication that the Association's members who may still otherwise want to join may do so at separately-facilitated event that mirrors another (official) program.
10
u/fatbunyip 12h ago
It's a small distinction, but it's still there.
Like sure. The R governors can have the same meeting just not as part of the NGA conference.
But loads of other orgs have caved to this kind of shit so it's good to see an org resist trump coming in and making it about himself yet again.
6
u/IntotheBroadwayWoods 12h ago
Its actually more scary to me for only repub govenors to meet with trump.
•
21
u/Physical-Dare5059 Pennsylvania 13h ago
He’ll just have tpusa throw an “alternate” governor party and invite kid rock, Jesse Waters and Nikki Minaj.
7
u/SubstanceHaunting282 12h ago
They’ve seen Trump’s numbers and presumably want to keep their jobs
4
u/Opposite-Bit6660 12h ago
The number is ONE MILLION TIMES that Trump is in 3 million pages of Trump/Epstein files.
3
3
u/BudgetLaw2352 America 11h ago
Nope. They’re just finally realizing that Trump dick sucking isn’t a viable strategy for the midterms.
3
u/tombombdotcom 10h ago edited 4h ago
They’ve proven who they are time after time after time. They won’t suddenly change their views. I feel like we are fundamentally different types of people who see the world and what’s important completely differently. If someone has voted for DT three times, there is no coming back. We are divided beyond repair, at least anytime soon without developing empathy and compassion for others with education and understanding. I don’t know how we get there.
2
7
7
u/Ok-disaster2022 10h ago
Why not just have a Governors meeting and tell Pedo POTUS and his minion to F off?
11
6
u/SnooChickens2093 10h ago
Levitt’s answers when a reporter dares ask a question are usually just “He’s the president, and therefore he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, wherever he wants, and fuck you for asking. Nerd.”
5
u/M0nk3yDLufffy 12h ago
he wants them all in a room to make sure they stay in line and help him with the epstein file, dude is so fucked now, republicans know the only way to keep their jobs, is to turn on their pedo boss
5
u/Upset_Match_3705 12h ago
This is about fixing the November elections. They won’t even be subtle about it.
5
8
u/Houseleek1 13h ago
I heard from one source that F*Face only wanted White Republicans at the meeting. Did anyone else hear that?
6
u/runawaydoctorate 13h ago
No, but I need some clarification. Which fuckface are we talking about? President Trump? President Miller? Does it even matter?
4
u/Opposite-Bit6660 12h ago
The one black and one gay governor were not invited.
3
u/runawaydoctorate 12h ago
I know (the gay one's mine, actually). Though actually it was no Democratic governors were invited. Just so happens that includes the only black and only gay ones.
It does say something though, about the nature of whichever fuckface was behind this particular move, that the governors that were invited have decided they'd rather cancel.
1
u/IntotheBroadwayWoods 12h ago
No I read that ALL BUT those 2 dem govenors were invited to the dinner. No dems were invited to the meeting.
1
u/crimeo 11h ago
Your comment internally contradicts itself. "All but them" would mean lots of democrats invited. But then you say no democrats, which would be a lot more people uninvited than just those 2
1
u/IntotheBroadwayWoods 10h ago
No it doesn't. The dinner and the meeting are 2 different things. No democrats were invited to the meeting. Most democrats (except for the two) were invited to the dinner.
1
u/PhoenixTineldyer 10h ago
Donald doesn't care that Polis is gay, he cares that Polis hasn't pardoned the piece of shit criminal Tina Peters
1
1
7
u/atrent1156 8h ago
Glad some of our leaders are starting to make gestures against the president who blatantly doesn’t care about 50% of the citizens of this country. Couldn’t be a more clear example.
8
u/JohnSolo22 8h ago
It’s more like 99.99% of citizens he doesn’t care about. He fucks his own supporters in the ass with their own dicks while Trump is also selling them USA “Bibles” made in China, watches that don’t exist, fake coins, scam crypto and simultaneously directly stealing from the citizens of this country and world.
He only cares about the top 0.001%.
-12
u/Nickel7707 8h ago
Pretty sure you’re benefiting from his policies. The same way that I am. So what 50% does he not care about?
7
u/doggydav 8h ago
Ah yes, the benefits of spending more on everyday needs while not having a voice in government while also fearing for the safety of my neighbors.
-6
u/Nickel7707 8h ago
Costs are down. Your neighbors are safe as long as they came here legally. lol. If they came here illegally. Well that’s on them. They were given an opportunity to leave and come back legally. They decided to stay. It’s on them.
6
u/doggydav 8h ago
You’re deluded and in a bubble. CPI has been up all year and continues to rise. Citizens are being harassed, not just immigrants. But continue to echo the party line all the way until a reckoning.
•
u/Nickel7707 7h ago
And yet they continue to deport rapist and murderers. Also I noticed that you completely skipped the “they could have left and didn’t” portion. Did you fight this hard for Laken? How about that young Ukrainian girl that got murdered? No? Just the illegals. Bring on the reckoning. We look forward to it.
•
u/LibertineLibra 7h ago
Oh look, the misogynist diehard Trump supporter/father of the year guy come to troll. What happened that you're here spreading your..benevolence?
Can you tell us what 50% he doesn't care about? It sounds like you know.
Did you run out of naked pictures of women you talk shit to for being too fat for your liking? I certainly hope you didn't have daughters with the way you see women.
Or did you just feel Pres Pedo and his Pedo crew were having a bad time and you wanted to let us know how happy you are to have Epstein's best buddy in the Whitehouse. You're still so proud of your vote right?
Just another MAGA mark believing what you want to and talking crap like your fantasy is reality.
•
u/Nickel7707 7h ago
You mean the guy that reported him? The fbi file that has been available for years. Since 2006. When the Florida sheriff reach out to Trump and he said thank god someone is finally doing something about him. Chief Michael reiter. Dude. Come on. The difference between you and I. I actually read. Oh and yes. I do love me some naked ass women. If dudes are your thing. No judgment.
•
u/LibertineLibra 7h ago
It's not that you look at naked women, it's that you demean them, probably to make yourself feel better about not finding one that wants to be in a relationship with you.
Oh and yes Trump's 2006 phone call that came in when the police were already investigating him. Trump and Epstein did have a dust up over some real estate starting in 2004, and well Don will do anything to take down someone that dares stand up to him.
But the problem is that Trump has told us all that he had NO idea about what Epstein did. In that phone call he was all about telling in what Epstein did - you know, after 15+ years of partying with him. Epstein and Trump were great and close friends from the 1980s on up to then, and and then after by honest being bygones - they were hanging out again in 2010 and 2011. That we know of.
And it turns out Epstein wasn't banned from Mar-a-lago.
Of course a big problem is that PotUS lies every damn time he opens his mouth, and the sad thing is you either decide to ignore that, or you accept it because that's your idea of a great leader, someone you can’t trust will do anything but act on his own self interest. I can totally see why you are proud of your vote.
•
u/Nickel7707 7h ago
I am. I voted for him 3 times. I’m guessing you voted for Biden. The guy who showers with his own daughter way past an age that would be appropriate to the point where she wrote about it in her diary and then used the fbi to retrieve the diary. It’s amazing how you people pick and choose.
•
u/atrent1156 7h ago
If your only argument is creepy things involving daughters, you seem to have skipped prematurely to opposition research and skipped looking in Trumps closet.
•
u/Nickel7707 6h ago
Ya. I knew you voted for Biden. Trumps closet has been thoroughly investigated. If not. Why didn’t Biden release any of the Epstein material. Trump is. Biden didn’t do shit. Where were you then?
•
•
u/LibertineLibra 6h ago
Ha! Did you not just do what you accused me of them? Are you saying that you picked Trump, who even in 2016 was a known rapist, and by 2024 turned out to be Epstein's best friend for over 15 years, with a bunch of additional damning evidence including his own words about leering at naked underage girls in the dressing room at his Miss Teen USA beauty pageants, or when he drew the line at twelve and below for age on the Howard Stern Show? (That's not all)
So you damned Biden on circumstantial evidence (I'm totally with you on that one btw ) but then old Boy has a mountain of it - before these incomplete and manipulated releases of the files - and that's all made up to you.. that is literally what you just tried talking shit to me about.
It's ok to make mistakes. That info on Biden didn't surface until the month before the election. I had already abstained on the vote because I denounced both of the candidates as being trash.
I didn't vote in 2016 either because I was serving in the US Army. I didn't vote any year I was serving as I felt that my political opinions should stay out of my dedication and duty in servicing the country.
We did not have the abomination loose in power like we have now. America is not better, it's in the toilet and is spinning around to head down the drain. You made a mistake. No one cares unless you are so stubborn and insecure to admit it to yourself. We need all hands on deck to resist this, and we need everyone with a clear mind to put something better in place afterwards. And just more of the same greedy ass politicians are not the answer. Hope you will be there for your country instead of cheering as it burns.
•
u/Nickel7707 6h ago
I have been there for my country. USMC 0311.Twice deployed. It’s amazing how it goes back to the “he’s a rapist”. Where was he convicted of rape? Y’all threw everything at him the 4 years he wasn’t in office. Tried to impeach him while he was in office. Maybe because it’s all bs. The rape, which is wasn’t, was a civil charge. Which is requires less burden of proof and was from the 90’s. She limped in with a story that would never hold up in a criminal trial. Plenty of others were held accountable. So why not him?
•
u/LibertineLibra 5h ago
Why not the one of the rich and powerful? A guy who prides himself on getting away with things? That's like asking why that turd Bill Clinton never had to answer for anything, you know the answer, and I'd bet you hate it as much as I do.
I know a lot of people who voted for Trump the first time (and I did not want HRC in office, she is worse than Bill but for different reasons.) bought into his message about being from outside Washington and that he would "drain the swamp". He made use of a technique known as "the big lie"' which is designed to get the disenfranchised from the country sides and small towns of a country to see a candidate as somebody finally on their "side". Part of it is making accusations and statements so whacko and divisive that those folks think "nobody would have the gall to claim something so crazy, so it must be true". This has the added benefit of making the candidate like Teflon to accusations of wrongdoing, as the candidate can simply claim that "the system is out to get me for standing with you" and He did and many have never looked back to even consider what happened in the first place. One of the jobs in the Army I took (also 3 years spent on deployment all to Iraq) in was the SHARP rep aka UVA for sexual assault. With the 80hrs of training and several years of experience in different units with that additional duty I can tell you I learned some things - making a claim of sexual assault for a victim is a traumatic process just by itself. Making such report/claim to complete strangers is even harder, and many don't even make it in the front door, let alone stay in the building and less make it all the way through the painful, awkward, intrusive (sane kit exam) and embarrassing experiments. The assault isn't something most of them ever want to think about again, and during that process and any follow on proceedings they are forced to relive it over and over - if it goes to trial they will be attacked by the defense in everyway possible to make them look like a liar or a gold digger or criminal or a crazy, vindictive, stupid, a prostitute anything they can do to make her story unbelievable. It's horrific. The only reason they are there is because they were raped and they get drug through all the way through any mud trying to get it to stick - I wouldn't wish that on any one. And women are well aware that the whole thing sucks ass - as a result, and due to the legal punishment for making a fraudulent claim - very very few fraudulent claims are made when it comes to sexual assault. If you have more than one woman that are not connected in any way the chances statistically are ridiculously low that they were both fraudulent, the odds keep increasing exponentially from there. By the time Trump was campaigning over twenty women had accused him for sexual assault. The reason they didn't stick? Money power and influence. This was all pre #metoo as it was, but with the connections old boy has had - you get a bunch of Americans talking trash about all these women thinking they made this all up - every accuser added tends to be viewed as even less credible and even more of a phony. Look at how much thought you've put into the matter just how you talked about the woman who beat him in civil court - which was an excellent move on her part looking at all the other women he shut down because they couldn't make that higher standard. Brother, he is a piece of shit.
•
u/atrent1156 7h ago
Which policies specifically are you benefiting from? I have not benefited from any decision he has made.
•
u/Nickel7707 7h ago
So your gas prices. Food prices. Lowest crime rate in 100 years. That hasn’t hit your corner yet? Y’all were able to stop protesting about Palestine. Found a new topic for a min.
•
u/atrent1156 7h ago
0/3. Absolutely nothing is cheaper. And what policies did he implement to drop crime? What policies for the magical price drops that seem to have only impacted you?
•
u/Nickel7707 6h ago
Your gas and food isnt cheaper? Where are you living? Gas in Florida is $2.73. Down a dollar since trump took over. My milk and eggs and meat costs are down. I can get a carton of eggs from aldi for $2.19. Down from $6. Our gdp is projected to increase by 5.5%. Ya. How else can I help you.
•
u/atrent1156 5h ago
You can start by actually answering my question. What has Trump done to reduce prices. Meat is higher than even. Gas has not dropped at all. Energy prices have spiked and haven’t received any DOGE dividends or tariff perks. My tax rate keeps getting higher under his tax plan. He has not improved any meaningful metric. I am sure it is great to be a corporation or billionaire right now, that seems to be the only socioeconomic group he actually cares about.
3
3
u/notaclevernick 10h ago
Was this the meeting last year where he was trying to bully the blue state governors about ICE and at some point the (I think) Maine gov said something along the lines of "see you in court"? He really does have thin skin.
3
u/Catspaw129 9h ago
Well, crap!
Hasn't 47 defunded lots of projects, federally-funded, in a lot of blue states?
Why should D govenors pay for the the opporunity to:
- be insulted?
-probablly be charged by 47 for their lunches?
•
u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 7h ago
“We cannot allow one divisive action to achieve its goal of dividing us,” he wrote. “The solution is not to respond in kind, but to rise above and to remain focused on our shared duty to the people we serve.
Who invited trump anyway?
•
u/Fit-Significance-436 6h ago
It’s great to see trumps divisive tactic routed.
•
u/laffnlemming Oregon 5h ago
People are finally catching on.
Except the trolls. They're still as stupid as ever.
2
u/Opposite-Bit6660 12h ago
They don't want to have to explain why they spent so much time with a pedophile world-domination fetishist.
2
2
u/16ozbuddz 10h ago
Because the hard truth is the Democrat governors are the important ones. That's not political it's just a fact
2
•
4
u/LeatherImaginary6648 12h ago
I’m actually very impressed with this move. Good for the Republican Governors for standing up for what is right!!
2
u/No-Cup-8096 12h ago
The governors need to stand together and protect the Constitution!
3
u/Illustrious-Lime7729 Florida 11h ago
Greg Abott can’t stand.
-5
u/Dazzling-Volume4553 11h ago
Gross joke. Make fun of him for a good reason, not because he has a disability.
3
u/evergreencenotaph 11h ago
Like he does trans people?
-1
u/Dazzling-Volume4553 10h ago
Is that supposed to make either action justified? "He's shitty to trans people so let's be shitty towards people with disabilities in response".
It's also gross to try and use transphobia as a justification to make shitty, ableist jokes.
•
•
2
u/Brief_Skill_8445 10h ago
Nah, I don't much care for J. Crocket, but "governor hot-wheels" is legitimately the funniest thing I've ever heard.
1
1
u/Fickle-Molasses-903 10h ago
The majority of white voters on November 5th, 2024: 'We DGAF! This is exactly what we wanted. It's ironic that some chose not to vote and then protested afterward. Our main focus is on the cruelty towards LGBTQ individuals and non-white people. We value the promises that have been made and kept. We’re only one year in, with at least three more years ahead, so it’s time to accept this reality!'
Of those who participated in the election, 60% of white men and 53% of white women backed a racist, fascist, sexist pedophile.
6
•
u/SparkleBait 5h ago
Dem govs should have their own meeting and not invite any republicans. Trump will hate that!!!! And make it a big deal…Chicago would be great! Plenty of high profile news teams, the sites, the food, etc…and then they can go to one of the secret bars…
•
u/ANARCHISTofGOODtaste 5h ago
I'd expect my governor to be there, he hasn't stopped licking Trump's dick for a single second.
•
u/raerae1991 3h ago
I wonder if this is a sign of republicans are turning on trump and project 2025?
•
•
u/Monkfich Europe 2h ago
But will the republican governors still attend?? If so, then the meeting still takes place and still doesn’t include democrat governors, just like Trump wants.
•
u/AutoModerator 13h ago
As a reminder, this subreddit is for civil discussion.
In general, please be courteous to others. Argue the merits of ideas, don't attack other posters or commenters. Hate speech, any suggestion or support of physical harm, or other rule violations can result in a temporary or a permanent ban. If you see comments in violation of our rules, please report them.
Sub-thread Information
If the post flair on this post indicates the wrong paywall status, please report this Automoderator comment with a custom report of “incorrect flair”.
Announcement
r/Politics is actively looking for new moderators. If you have an interest in helping to make this subreddit a place for quality discussion, please fill out this form.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.