Ultimate RINO

There’s a meme floating around the internet since about 2015 in which Donald Trump says that if he were to run for office, he’d do it as a Republican because they’re so stupid.

Well, he never really said that. He may have thought it, but it never said it publicly.

However, he often seems to act that way. He keeps changing parties.  Trump registered as a Republican in 1987; a member of the Independence Party, the New York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999; a Democrat in 2001; a Republican in 2009; unaffiliated in 2011; and a Republican in 2012.

He must be doing it as a business strategy. Whichever will serve him best at the time, that’s the party he’ll switch to.

His ideas about why he changes seems to change just as often.

In 2004, he confessed to Wolf Blitzer: "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats....But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disasters under the Republicans."

However, in 2015 he had other thoughts. “I am a conservative person. I am by nature a conservative person. I never looked at putting a label on myself, I wasn’t in politics.   But if you look at my general attitudes in life I would certainly have the more conservative label put on me."

Republicans have often wondered about whether he was a real Republican too.  “He was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican. He's given more money to Democrats than he has to Republicans," Jeb Bush said.

Face it, when you think about the history of the Republican party, Trump is nothing like their leaders of the past. In your mind can you lump him in with Lincoln, Teddy, Ike, Reagan or even Bush I & II?

Of course not. If he adheres to any of the tenets of the party, it’s only to further some interest of his. Except for his hardcore base of zealots, everyone knows that everything he does is purely for him.

I’m bring this all up because just like the majority of his former cabinet members, hundreds of people who have served in Republican administrations in the past and the majority of military leaders who have had to follow his orders have stated publicly, you are not giving up your affiliation with the GOP if you don’t vote for him.

"Let me be clear to my Republican friends at home: If you vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 you’re not a Democrat, you’re a patriot,” former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) said.

Trump is the ultimate RINO—Republican in name only.  So be patriotic and put country before party. Vote for Kamala Harris for president.

Ahhh, James Thurber

We here at The Thurber Brigade once again apologize for yet another side step away from the “War Between Men and Women” (relationships) in order to blog about The Orange One. Sure, we’ve blogged about how he’s insane, how he is bad and how he is really unpopular. But with the election drawing so near we believe we need to keep pounding home how this person should never be in the White House again. We promise to get back to the straight and narrow real soon. Maybe. Oh, look, football season is about to begin!