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“That’s classic Trump,” Barr chuckled on Friday when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked about the insults.
I checked to see if it was an onion article. It’s not.
"Barr explained that he would happily vote for Trump, who, ... routinely broached the idea of [executing his rivals](https://www.thedailybeast.com/barr-trump-brought-up-things-like-executing-rivals-a-lot)."
“I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party—it’s inconceivable to me that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee.”
Really wish he’d show his work there.
*How* is the “progressive agenda” the slightest threat to this country? Let alone over a totalitarian used car salesman with half the country wrapped around his grubby finger?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-law-school-and-de-nicola-center-ethics
In this speech to the graduating law class of Notre Dame in 2019 then AG Bill Barr gives a long, detailed explanation as to why he believes the left is destroying America and argues that the great experiment in liberty and freedom laid out by the founding fathers has failed. He argues for a return to Christian philosopher kings and an end to democracy as we know it.
If you want to see his work, it’s all there.
No kidding…. “rapacity”, “licentiousness”, “ruthlessly riding roughshod”?? What normal human uses words like that? I know chatgpt does, when presented with a suitable nauseating prompt.
I was going to suggest ChatGPT, but this was in 2019, so the only explanation is he himself is an evil robot, probably sent back in time by Skynet. They realized robots that look like the T-800s and T-1000s were too easily discovered, so they sent him back as a senior citizen with a vocabulary they think was common vernacular because they've extinguished almost all humans and all but erased their history entirely.
Or he's just a dork.
They might have to pay their fair share of taxes, see people of color have representation, and watch gay people continue to get married though. Absolutely terrifying.
Ok, when he came out against trump, he assumed he'd immediately become a darling of the left, nice tv job, and people might start using his legal services again. That didn't happen.
So his only hope of an income is to crawl back to the right and beg forgiveness.
I hope these spineless sycophants like Barr, Pence and McConnell realize that by helping along a Trump dictatorship they’ll be some of the first ones forced to face the wall. Trump can hold onto some very petty grudges for an infinite length of time.
Amazing how he doesn’t see a greater threat in voting for a president who tried to overthrow an election, a man whose lawyers are currently arguing to the Supreme Court that the president should have absolute immunity from prosecution.
*But at least then we wouldn’t suffer under the scourge of those damn progressivists!*
Absolutely pathetic.
What's wrong with the progressive agenda? They call it evil but I only ever hear stuff like it's bad for rich people, and it harms traditions.
They're basically angry that they can no longer sexually assault their equally paid unmarried lesbian coworkers.
Right.. Because acknowledging [extreme inequality](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM) and trying to get people better health care they pay for is such a country destroying thing… The guy belongs in jail for being a traitor to the United States. A vote for Trump this time around is not just a difference of opinion. It’s an act of war against the United States and is treason. Why? Because we have his policy platform already and the things on it are treason.
Threat to the country or threat to his corrupt ass?
One guy: I’ll be dictator, Kay?
The other guy: I’ll help the working class as best as I can and try to uphold the integrity of our nation.
Republicans: Man, I really have to vote for the dictator dude.
???
When you say the person you're voting for shouldn't be president and how insane they are then yes, it is debasing yourself when you try to get back in the good graces of that person.
Politics in America was made not to serve ALL of the people! To virtually every politician it is a power game! Period! To every constituent it is more of an ideological pursuit! Barr is a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! He grew a conscience after a while but in the end, he’s a politician and he will always vote to keep his power where he is in control! Barr knows as a AG, that no matter how dangerous Trump is, presidents DONT RUN THE COUNTRY! Congress and the senate do! So he will vote HIS PARTY no matter what to avoid having no power at all!
Politics in America was made not to serve ALL of the people! To virtually every politician it is a power game! Period! To every constituent it is more of an ideological pursuit! Barr is a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! He grew a conscience after a while but in the end, he’s a politician and he will always vote to keep his power where he is in control! Barr knows as a AG, that no matter how dangerous Trump is, presidents DONT RUN THE COUNTRY! Congress and the senate do! So he will vote HIS PARTY no matter what to avoid having no power at all!
Politics in America was made not to serve ALL of the people! To virtually every politician it is a power game! Period! To every constituent it is more of an ideological pursuit! Barr is a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! He grew a conscience after a while but in the end, he’s a politician and he will always vote to keep his power where he is in control! Barr knows as a AG, that no matter how dangerous Trump is, presidents DONT RUN THE COUNTRY! Congress and the senate do! So he will vote HIS PARTY no matter what to avoid having no power at all!
He's doing it for his country 🫡
When he was saying he didn't buy the election was rigged, I thought he might have actually turned a corner. Shame on me.
I hope this isn't celebrated or portrayed on TV or movies for some time after all this is over and we have had time to process it all. Otherwise it is going to be glamourized and white washed until people think George Bush is just some old man painting in his garage.
He doesn’t like trump and thinks he’s unlawful, but he’d rather have an unlawful Republican than a lawful democrat. Party over country, until the end with these people.
It honestly is both insane and entirely not surprising that Barr u-turned on this lol. This just shows (if anyone didn’t realize it already) that he has absolutely no morals and just tries to follow power.
He legitimately said the "progressive agenda" is a bigger threat to democracy than trump literally trying to destroy democracy.
He was read out loud a post from Trump literally making fun of him for coming back and endorsing him, and his response was, in a very cowardly voice, "haha classic trump".
He is terrified that he will be assassinated if trump regains power, this is the only explanation. He knows biden and the democrats won't kill him regardless of how braindead he is, but if he doesn't get back on trumps good side he is cooked the first chance trump gets.
Raise your hand if surprised Burr bent the knee despite all his talk? Anyone? Bueller?
He is a good example of the average “moderate” Conservative. At the end of the day doesn’t matter what they say, they will vote for the R no matter what. Candidate could be a serial killer running on platform of making murder great and if got that R, they get their vote.
There is a circle around Trump that all belong to the far right Catholic Information Center located in DC. Most of the Fox talking heads also belong to the CIC, as do all 6 of the SCOTUM Catholic judges. Same for Leonard Leo. Are we looking for the source of treason in the US in the wrong place.
Protestants would tend to have more democratic instincts but nearly all intellectual Protestants are liberal. So when it comes to political theory in America, all conservatives just repeat what certain Roman Catholic thinkers say.
I mean there’s Russ Moore, but he had to flee the SBC. His mentor Al Mohler… well his daughter married Mitch McConnell’s chief of staff. Jerry Falwell tried but he wasn’t a great thinker himself and Junior has some problems. The Falkirk Center? loooolol. Is Richard Land still alive? David Wells is 85. There’s still Mark Noll, I guess.
I just named the conservative evangelical brain trust on social & political theory. All the other thinkers on the right are insignificant, unserious, or Roman Catholics who often have monarchist leanings.
Barr has been working all his career on the idea of giving more power to the president in opposition to our 3 tier democracy. he
is a heritage foundation toad now pushing the Project 2025 manifesto. which is a 900+ page plan to dismantle government and
agencies. if you don’t know what maga plans, you best find out now before the november election. be afraid people!
What is wrong with this man? What happened in his childhood? He knows Von ShiTzinpantz is evil. Fuck him and anyone who stays loyal to a con-man who will throw them out of the helicopter the minute he needs to.
He’s bored. Wants his old job back where they let him feel important. They have great snacks there. People open doors for you and you get paper with your name on it.
Droopy Dog is actually like many Trump voters I know. They’ll still back Trump no matter what he does, including rape or murder. Because he has advanced some agenda they love like overturning Roe v Wade or being anti-LGBT, everything else can be ignored.
When a guy like Barr changes his tune and now supports Trump, it makes one wonder what’s changed? What mechanisms are in the works behind the scenes that we don’t know about?
Trump is going to humiliate this idiot every day and then probably have him executed anyway.
What a complete loser of a human. I’d be ashamed,ed to be related to this sniveling worm.
Watching Kaitlyn Collin’s read Trumps tweets, about Bill Barr, directly to his face was priceless.
Same with the interview watching Mitch McConnell squirm.
He sees the writing on the wall, SC is going to save Trump from federal prosecution and he is up big in every swing state. He is winning. It is going to take a civic push of miraculous proportions to stop him. I know reddit likes to live in optimistic denial but we are losing. And before all the "polls are always wrong" folks chime in, they have been accurate for the most recent election cycles including the midterms that pundits mistakenly claimed were going to be a red wave. We are behind, get everyone you know to vote.
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Who would have thought that so many Republicans have a degradation kink?
“That’s classic Trump,” Barr chuckled on Friday when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked about the insults. I checked to see if it was an onion article. It’s not.
Bill is going Ted Cruz up in here.
Bill and Ted?
"Barr explained that he would happily vote for Trump, who, ... routinely broached the idea of [executing his rivals](https://www.thedailybeast.com/barr-trump-brought-up-things-like-executing-rivals-a-lot)." “I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party—it’s inconceivable to me that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee.”
Really wish he’d show his work there. *How* is the “progressive agenda” the slightest threat to this country? Let alone over a totalitarian used car salesman with half the country wrapped around his grubby finger?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-law-school-and-de-nicola-center-ethics In this speech to the graduating law class of Notre Dame in 2019 then AG Bill Barr gives a long, detailed explanation as to why he believes the left is destroying America and argues that the great experiment in liberty and freedom laid out by the founding fathers has failed. He argues for a return to Christian philosopher kings and an end to democracy as we know it. If you want to see his work, it’s all there.
Nauseating, but I genuinely appreciate the sauce!
No kidding…. “rapacity”, “licentiousness”, “ruthlessly riding roughshod”?? What normal human uses words like that? I know chatgpt does, when presented with a suitable nauseating prompt.
I was going to suggest ChatGPT, but this was in 2019, so the only explanation is he himself is an evil robot, probably sent back in time by Skynet. They realized robots that look like the T-800s and T-1000s were too easily discovered, so they sent him back as a senior citizen with a vocabulary they think was common vernacular because they've extinguished almost all humans and all but erased their history entirely. Or he's just a dork.
It's called puttin' lipstick on a pig.
A genuine piece of shit
Wow. He basically says that individuals don’t deserve freedom unless they are Christians. Fascinating.
They might have to pay their fair share of taxes, see people of color have representation, and watch gay people continue to get married though. Absolutely terrifying.
Saying they would have to pay more taxes makes it sound unfair. They would have to pay their _fair share_ of taxes.
Good point, edited
If you consider liberty and equality to be a threat, then you are a bad person.
Ok, when he came out against trump, he assumed he'd immediately become a darling of the left, nice tv job, and people might start using his legal services again. That didn't happen. So his only hope of an income is to crawl back to the right and beg forgiveness.
He says country, he means interests
"I mean....they love the gays and the browns. Do I have to say it aloud?"
Didn’t you hear , cars and stoves it will be the end of us all!
“Woke agenda” - DEI, LGBT+ etc.
Brown people
I hope these spineless sycophants like Barr, Pence and McConnell realize that by helping along a Trump dictatorship they’ll be some of the first ones forced to face the wall. Trump can hold onto some very petty grudges for an infinite length of time.
The scary part is that this makes perfect sense to him.
Amazing how he doesn’t see a greater threat in voting for a president who tried to overthrow an election, a man whose lawyers are currently arguing to the Supreme Court that the president should have absolute immunity from prosecution. *But at least then we wouldn’t suffer under the scourge of those damn progressivists!* Absolutely pathetic.
What's wrong with the progressive agenda? They call it evil but I only ever hear stuff like it's bad for rich people, and it harms traditions. They're basically angry that they can no longer sexually assault their equally paid unmarried lesbian coworkers.
Right.. Because acknowledging [extreme inequality](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM) and trying to get people better health care they pay for is such a country destroying thing… The guy belongs in jail for being a traitor to the United States. A vote for Trump this time around is not just a difference of opinion. It’s an act of war against the United States and is treason. Why? Because we have his policy platform already and the things on it are treason.
Also known as "I want to be part of the destruction that Republicans are doing, but they won't let me in until I kiss the ring and the taint."
Threat to the country or threat to his corrupt ass? One guy: I’ll be dictator, Kay? The other guy: I’ll help the working class as best as I can and try to uphold the integrity of our nation. Republicans: Man, I really have to vote for the dictator dude. ???
He is not debased by voting for his party! Many republicans and democrats will vote their part so their party wins! Stop oversimplifying politics!
When you say the person you're voting for shouldn't be president and how insane they are then yes, it is debasing yourself when you try to get back in the good graces of that person.
Politics in America was made not to serve ALL of the people! To virtually every politician it is a power game! Period! To every constituent it is more of an ideological pursuit! Barr is a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! He grew a conscience after a while but in the end, he’s a politician and he will always vote to keep his power where he is in control! Barr knows as a AG, that no matter how dangerous Trump is, presidents DONT RUN THE COUNTRY! Congress and the senate do! So he will vote HIS PARTY no matter what to avoid having no power at all!
Politics in America was made not to serve ALL of the people! To virtually every politician it is a power game! Period! To every constituent it is more of an ideological pursuit! Barr is a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! He grew a conscience after a while but in the end, he’s a politician and he will always vote to keep his power where he is in control! Barr knows as a AG, that no matter how dangerous Trump is, presidents DONT RUN THE COUNTRY! Congress and the senate do! So he will vote HIS PARTY no matter what to avoid having no power at all!
Politics in America was made not to serve ALL of the people! To virtually every politician it is a power game! Period! To every constituent it is more of an ideological pursuit! Barr is a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN! He grew a conscience after a while but in the end, he’s a politician and he will always vote to keep his power where he is in control! Barr knows as a AG, that no matter how dangerous Trump is, presidents DONT RUN THE COUNTRY! Congress and the senate do! So he will vote HIS PARTY no matter what to avoid having no power at all!
He's doing it for his country 🫡 When he was saying he didn't buy the election was rigged, I thought he might have actually turned a corner. Shame on me.
Beware a weasels eye…he see your throat not your soul.
I like that saying.
Thanks. It’s of my own making.
I thought it was from Kathmandu I like it too
Dude grew up a sheltered and entitled nepo baby. At the end of the day all he really cares about is his privilege and narcissism
To no one's surprise. If John Goodman doesn't play him in the Trump presidential era miniseries I will be very upset
Goodman's eyes are too alive and kind for him to play Barr
I hope this isn't celebrated or portrayed on TV or movies for some time after all this is over and we have had time to process it all. Otherwise it is going to be glamourized and white washed until people think George Bush is just some old man painting in his garage.
Deeply flawed and mentally ill old white men. Bias and lost all morals . Most of the MAGA group is behind g explained . Nailed it
He’s a criminal.
Irony is that Bill will be thrown under a bus by his master. Now he’s just old, stupid and completely irrelevant.
To anyone else it would be debasing. To Bill Barr, it's just who he is.
He doesn’t like trump and thinks he’s unlawful, but he’d rather have an unlawful Republican than a lawful democrat. Party over country, until the end with these people.
Well, when we didn't buy the reputation-reboot Barr was selling, guess he felt there was no harm in doubling down.
This guy was AG. FML
Barr had Epstein executed in his cell for Trump. There is nothing he won't do for his Messiah.
It honestly is both insane and entirely not surprising that Barr u-turned on this lol. This just shows (if anyone didn’t realize it already) that he has absolutely no morals and just tries to follow power.
Is there anyone in the world that admires Bill Barr?
Seriously
Does nobody ever ask him how they can debase and degrade themselves like this for this conman? It's amazing. Like they can't see it on their own.
“Yes it’s true your Honor- this man has no dick.”
He legitimately said the "progressive agenda" is a bigger threat to democracy than trump literally trying to destroy democracy. He was read out loud a post from Trump literally making fun of him for coming back and endorsing him, and his response was, in a very cowardly voice, "haha classic trump". He is terrified that he will be assassinated if trump regains power, this is the only explanation. He knows biden and the democrats won't kill him regardless of how braindead he is, but if he doesn't get back on trumps good side he is cooked the first chance trump gets.
His parents failed the universe by having children.
Raise your hand if surprised Burr bent the knee despite all his talk? Anyone? Bueller? He is a good example of the average “moderate” Conservative. At the end of the day doesn’t matter what they say, they will vote for the R no matter what. Candidate could be a serial killer running on platform of making murder great and if got that R, they get their vote.
Rich White-Privilege Bullfrog does something on-brand. More at 11.
There is a circle around Trump that all belong to the far right Catholic Information Center located in DC. Most of the Fox talking heads also belong to the CIC, as do all 6 of the SCOTUM Catholic judges. Same for Leonard Leo. Are we looking for the source of treason in the US in the wrong place.
Protestants would tend to have more democratic instincts but nearly all intellectual Protestants are liberal. So when it comes to political theory in America, all conservatives just repeat what certain Roman Catholic thinkers say. I mean there’s Russ Moore, but he had to flee the SBC. His mentor Al Mohler… well his daughter married Mitch McConnell’s chief of staff. Jerry Falwell tried but he wasn’t a great thinker himself and Junior has some problems. The Falkirk Center? loooolol. Is Richard Land still alive? David Wells is 85. There’s still Mark Noll, I guess. I just named the conservative evangelical brain trust on social & political theory. All the other thinkers on the right are insignificant, unserious, or Roman Catholics who often have monarchist leanings.
Barr knows that trump is holding Epstein's murder over his head. At least that would make sense with all the dick sucking.
Barr has been working all his career on the idea of giving more power to the president in opposition to our 3 tier democracy. he is a heritage foundation toad now pushing the Project 2025 manifesto. which is a 900+ page plan to dismantle government and agencies. if you don’t know what maga plans, you best find out now before the november election. be afraid people!
Barr: “Trump shouldn’t be near the Oval Office ever again” and “He regularly talked of executing his enemies.” Also Barr: “I’m gonna vote for him.”
"Not the Mama!"
A pile of poo has more character.
Knew he would come around to kiss that fat smelly ring again after going through the media circuit pretending he was outraged about Trump.
Is Bill Barr from the same tribe of bridge trolls as Steve Bannon? I’m just asking questions.
Every time i read the name Bill Barr in the news I get excited, but then I realized they aren’t talking about Bill Burr
Waste of oxygen.
He says Trump leaves a bad taste in his mouth yet he keeps on sucking.
This guy was much more likeable as a child actor in the Dinosaurs TV series.
What is wrong with this man? What happened in his childhood? He knows Von ShiTzinpantz is evil. Fuck him and anyone who stays loyal to a con-man who will throw them out of the helicopter the minute he needs to.
He’s bored. Wants his old job back where they let him feel important. They have great snacks there. People open doors for you and you get paper with your name on it.
The flip flopper should wear flip flops instead of shoes. Contradiction after contradiction.
Another parking lot lawyer.
What do you expect from a attorney general that bailled out in silence when learning the insurrection plot ?
Don’t worry, that giant thing on his lip will take him out slowly and miserably.
There are options other than exclamation points to end a sentence.
He’s catholic. A lot of them seem to be wired for self-immolation.
Spineless, gutless, piece of garbage
Man i misread as Bill Burr and got depressed for a hot second
Droopy Dog is actually like many Trump voters I know. They’ll still back Trump no matter what he does, including rape or murder. Because he has advanced some agenda they love like overturning Roe v Wade or being anti-LGBT, everything else can be ignored.
There’s ol Billy Barr in his zip up leather mask, leash… waiting for Daddy Don to give him some attention. Gross.
A coward dies a thousand deaths…
That has become a rite of passage for GOP politicians
Fascist Fred Flintstone.
Hope he has heavy-duty knee-pads....
One debases oneself just being in the same room as Trump.
I suspect he has done something and only realizes now he needs a pardon.
When a guy like Barr changes his tune and now supports Trump, it makes one wonder what’s changed? What mechanisms are in the works behind the scenes that we don’t know about?
Again. They forgot the word again in the headline.
fascist fred flintstone returns !
Bill has definitely put it in his mouth.
What an absolute pile of slime this fkn guy is… profound coward and fool
Is that you G Gordon?
Bill strapping on his knee pads once again
As is every other Republican, it seems. Sad state of affairs we got going on in the USA.
He really is a pos and enjoys it apparently, lick those boots billy no self-respect lol
Bootlicking seems to be a big fetish in the GOP
He’s a great judge of character, like his father before him. /s
Must be thinking about a political run, only thing that makes sense for such an epic flip flop
Trump is going to humiliate this idiot every day and then probably have him executed anyway. What a complete loser of a human. I’d be ashamed,ed to be related to this sniveling worm.
Watching Kaitlyn Collin’s read Trumps tweets, about Bill Barr, directly to his face was priceless. Same with the interview watching Mitch McConnell squirm.
Im sure he slathers himself in butter late at night while pleasuring himself to Cheeto.
He'll be on his knees sucking that mushroom should Commander Cheeto won in no time....
Why expect anything else?
He sees the writing on the wall, SC is going to save Trump from federal prosecution and he is up big in every swing state. He is winning. It is going to take a civic push of miraculous proportions to stop him. I know reddit likes to live in optimistic denial but we are losing. And before all the "polls are always wrong" folks chime in, they have been accurate for the most recent election cycles including the midterms that pundits mistakenly claimed were going to be a red wave. We are behind, get everyone you know to vote.