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i just gave you my thoughts on this. do you realize if the repukes had their red tsunami it would encourage the hate and violence in the red party because it worked.

maybe i am too hard line but here it is in a nutshell. the only chance of stopping the rising violence and crazy wacko bull in the republican party is to support the other party. and the only party that had any kind of chance of stopping that is the dems. and you throw them under the bus. it does not mean you are ok with everything the dems do it means you sacrifice for what is right and the libertarians are not even close to that. have i explained this to where it makes sense? the dems do a lot of stupid crap but they are not promoting violence and hatred like the right has.

most of them did and it did not matter. it did not change a thing.

david you need to work on your party a little more. your party had a ton of chances to rise up when this country was divided and what did they do? nothing relevant. it is your right to bash red and blue but your side has been stuck in the mud and not doing anything themselves. it is like you give everyone hell but your party gets a free pass.

first off the fact you think dems are ok with anyone burning anything is just not true. tell me what could they do? they had extra cops and called in the guard and what did they stop? nothing. i am not sure you can even stop something like that without dropping a bomb on folks and killing all of them. so tell me what could have been done?

hey au78 show me where i lied one time?

i can smell your tears from here. i can smell their hate for me because i seldom candy coat my responses. well boo hoo boys you were sold a bill of goods by a very corrupt party that uses violence and intimidation in their arsenal and even going to extreme of running a mentally handicapped guy that beat his wife and kids and payed for how many abortions now? you have made a mockery of religion and and thrown jesus under the bus. your party had turned into a trashy jerry springer episode and the truth is most of you were ok with it. you can lie about it all you want. hell you trashed the few repubs that actually had some brains and some honor for Q people. and i admit i was ready to give up hope america stood up and said enough. one more thing. while you guys are all pissed at me for this thread? many of you would be making posts slamming the dems and making fun of posters yourself. again you dish it but cannot take it. maybe......just maybe you guys will finally wash the taint of trump off of you and maybe pitch in and help the country heal. and last thing about ol trump. most of the country has figured him out finally for who and what he is and they must not have been too upset with trumps impeachment. so be mad but you know in your heart if the red wave had happened many of you would be crowing all over the board.

the ones that promised a red wave? some of you in fact said it was a done deal. tell us what happened or hell you can make it up. some of you dissed ol fetterman for not being able to talk well so how did that turn out for you? and lauren is gone. but do not despair you guys still have hershel. maybe you guys can get a toy badge huh? of course he has to do a runoff. now that people are getting the message of too much crazy crap and encouraging violence sit back and think a minute. words do matter. people are tired of hate. they are tired of people getting beat up in their own homes. i hope the lesson is learned but i doubt it. i believe in my heart if you guys had cut out all that crap and just ran on the issues you might have seen your red wave.

GOP Rep. Mayra Flores Of Texas Loses And Gripes That 'Red Wave Did Not Happen' Ron Dicker 2 minutes Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) lost Tuesday and reacted with a big “RED” rant. She won a special election to gain the seat in June but surrendered it in a defeat to Democrat Vicente Gonzalez in the midterms. “The RED WAVE did not happen,” she tweeted after she was projected to lose. “Republicans and Independents stayed home. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RESULTS IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR PART!” The RED WAVE did not happen. Republicans and Independents stayed home. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RESULTS IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR PART! — Mayra Flores (@MayraFlores2022) November 9, 2022 Flores checked many of the boxes for conservative extremists. She expressed her “love” for Donald Trump. She advanced election fraud claims and a conspiracy theory that “antifa” activists were behind the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. She also repeatedly used a QAnon hashstag in now-deleted posts on social media, CNN previously reported. But her South Texas district apparently had enough, according to the results. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

i will celebrate this bags loss if it is true. i might bust out the old funky chicken. oz has been put on the road. huge smile. now i need hershel to lose to complete my morning joy. many of these people are idiots and should have never run for office to begin with.

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert is trailing with most votes counted in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District Madison Hall 2 minutes Rep. Lauren Boebert on the House steps of the Capitol on Monday, January 4, 2021.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken right-wing freshman lawmaker, is in a tight battle for reelection. Democrat Adam Frisch is facing off against her in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District. Boebert's been a thorn in the Democratic Party's side while in office. GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert is in a tight race in her bid for reelection on the same night when Republicans appear to be poised to take control of the US House. Boebert is facing off against Democrat Adam Frisch, a businessman and former city councilman. Voters elected Boebert into office in 2020, and the representative from Rifle, Colorado, has used her position to be a thorn in the Democratic Party's side. Since taking public office, she's denied the 2020 presidential election results, interrupted President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, and denigrated a Democratic member of Congress over their religion. Two years later, her antics may have cost her a job, as she's close to joining the ranks of Rep. Madison Cawthorn as one of the few members of Congress to get elected in 2020, but lose their bid for reelection after only one term in office.

2022 midterms: Republican hopes dashed as control of Congress remains in doubt Andrew Romano 6-7 minutes As a long Tuesday night bled into a bleary Wednesday morning, it was still not clear whether Democrats or Republicans had won control of Congress in the pivotal 2022 midterms. Yet amid all the electoral confusion, one thing was already abundantly clear: It was not the night Republicans had been hoping for. Buoyed by widespread voter dismay over record inflation and doubts about President Biden’s ability to turn things around, some people in the GOP waltzed into Election Day expecting a red wave. A sweeping new majority in the U.S. House. Clear command of the U.S. Senate. And hard-right Republicans in position to rewrite the 2024 election rules in key swing states such as Arizona. By the time the day ended, however, the red wave that so many pundits and politicos had predicted was looking (at most) like a red ripple. “This should teach us a lesson — that voters always have the last word,” David Plouffe, President Barack Obama's former campaign manager, said on MSNBC. “It’s a shocking development.” Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, waves to supporters at an election night party in Pittsburgh early Wednesday. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) It’s still possible — even likely — that once the dust settles, the GOP will narrowly recapture the House of Representatives for the first time since 2017. But “narrowly” is the key word here. Typically, the party that doesn’t occupy the Oval Office tends to gain ground in the midterms because its supporters are highly motivated to vote against the president — and the president’s supporters aren’t particularly motivated to vote for more of the same. It usually takes extraordinary circumstances, such as the 9/11 attacks or the Cuban missile crisis, to make a president and his party popular enough to avoid a midterm drubbing. Factor in the highest inflation in 40 years, skyrocketing interest rates, concerns about a coming recession, a pandemic-era uptick in violent crime and President Biden’s anemic approval rating — the worst of any modern president at this stage of his first term — and the writing seemed to be on the wall for Democrats. But now they seem to have avoided the worst. In each of the last four midterm elections, the president’s party has lost an average of about 37 House seats. In 2010 (Obama’s first midterm), Democrats lost 64 seats; in 2018 (Donald Trump’s first midterm), Republicans lost 42 seats. Currently, Biden’s Democrats are projected to lose only about 10 seats, give or take. It’s still possible that they will lose fewer than 5 — and manage, somehow, to hang on to the House. If that happens, it will be due to Democrats such as Abigail Spanberger (a Blue Dog moderate who fought off Republican Yesli Vega in Virginia’s Seventh District) and perhaps even Adam Frisch (a former Aspen city councilman who was leading the hardcore Trump Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Third District late Tuesday night). Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., celebrates with supporters at an election night watch party, on Nov. 8 in Fredericksburg, Va. (Shaban Athuman/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) At the same time, control of the Senate — where Democrats are defending the narrowest of majorities — remains up in the air, pending the final results in several races that are too close to call. But even here, the GOP's grandest ambitions failed to materialize Tuesday. In New Hampshire and Colorado, the Democratic incumbents Maggie Hassan and Michael Bennet easily fended off what were supposed to be spirited Republican challenges. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated his Republican rival Dr. Mehmet Oz, flipping a former GOP seat. Depending on what happens out West — where Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were locked in tight battles with venture capitalist Blake Masters and former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt, respectively — the Senate could all come down to the results of a likely Dec. 6 runoff between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia. The last time Warnock ran in a runoff, he won. It’s important to emphasize that the final 2022 results — which may not be final for days, or even weeks in some places — will define the next phase of U.S. politics. Even a narrow House majority will mean that Republicans can block Biden’s domestic agenda and pursue their own political goals through hearings and subpoenas. If they win, the result is likely to be yet another era of gridlock, brinkmanship and partisan investigations on Capitol Hill. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., at a debate with his Republican challenger, Joe O'Dea, on Oct. 28, at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. (David Zalubowski/AP) Likewise, some of the GOP’s most high-profile election deniers — including Mark Finchem, who was running for secretary of state in Arizona, and Pennsylvania gubernatorial hopeful Doug Mastriano — appeared to have lost by wide margins or fallen far behind in the early count Tuesday night. But others remain very much in the hunt — including Kari Lake, the former Phoenix newscaster turned GOP gubernatorial nominee in Arizona, who has been described as “Trumpism’s leading lady.” If elected, Lake and others who share her views would have the power to help the 2024 Republican presidential nominee win their respective states, regardless of the actual results. Yet while the United States waits for every last race to be called, the main question will be why the GOP underperformed Tuesday. Was it candidate quality? Was it the end of Roe v. Wade energizing Democratic voters? Was it Trump’s continuing presence at the center of American politics, as he teases a presidential campaign announcement that could come as soon as next week? It could take a long time to answer such questions — longer, even, than it takes to count all of Tuesday’s votes.

you guys are complete tools and idiots if you think jesus sees a left side and a right side. just keep trashing jesus because that is exactly what you guys are doing.

i can let you talk to dr oz.......here is over here raking my leaves. being a republican i sure hope he does not fall out of that tree.

hell you guys denie all the factual stuff. you still crying over trump? show me where it hurts...............

'Auburn being Auburn': AD John Cohen aims to flip script on 'JABA' refrain Updated: Nov. 08, 2022, 6:25 p.m.|Published: Nov. 08, 2022, 1:36 p.m. 4-5 minutes John Cohen has been around the SEC long enough to know the acronym commonly thrown around when it comes to Auburn. JABA. Just Auburn Being Auburn. The Tigers’ new athletics director has heard it time and again. He has seen it mentioned on many occasions; it’s usually in reference to the perception of self-sabotage, civil unrest and meddling that outsiders associate with Auburn’s athletics department. Cohen, who was introduced Tuesday as the 16th athletic director in Auburn history, wants to change the stigma of that common refrain. Read more Auburn football: John Cohen approaching coaching search with list of 58 key items Everything Auburn AD John Cohen said at his introductory press conference The making of Coach Lac: Cadillac Williams’ humble journey from DII intern to Auburn interim head coach “I want to tell you, in my opinion, as somebody who’s been on the outside who’s now coming in, ‘Auburn being Auburn’ is a special thing,” Cohen said toward the end of his opening remarks. The idea of “Auburn being Auburn,” as a pejorative, isn’t new, but it has come up often this year. It surfaced during February’s university-led inquiry into then-coach Bryan Harsin’s handling of the football program, and again as Harsin’s grip on his job slipped further away early in the season as the on-field product left plenty to be desired. Auburn fired Harsin last Monday, less than two years into his tenure as head coach, triggering a buyout of more than $15 million owed to him. That was on top of the more than $27 million in buyouts owed to Gus Malzahn and his assistants that Auburn had to pay just to make way for the hiring of Harsin. Just Auburn being Auburn. Yet Cohen, who spent the last six years as athletics director at Mississippi State and spent extensive time in the SEC before that, believes “Auburn being Auburn” should — and does — carry a different meaning, given the reach of the Auburn brand both academically and athletically. “Three Heisman Trophy winners is ‘Auburn being Auburn,’” Cohen said. “Athletes who forever changed the nature of their own sport — not just here, not just in the SEC, but nationally — like Bo (Jackson), like The Big Hurt (Frank Thomas), like Sir Charles (Barkley), like Rowdy (Gaines), like Ruthie (Bolton), like Suni (Lee). I can name a bunch more. That is ‘Auburn being Auburn.’ How about Hall of Fame coaches? Shug Jordan, Pat Dye, Joel Eaves, Sonny Smith, Hal Baird — who I got to see the other day — Joe Ciampi, David Marsh, Ralph Spry, Susan Nunnelly, Tim Evans, and many, many more. We have future Hall of Fame coaches in this room right now, and I’m thrilled with that. That is ‘Auburn being Auburn.’ “Twenty-two national championships, almost 100 conference championships, countless individual national champions, that is ‘Auburn being Auburn.’ The great traditions — the Tiger Walk, the eagle flight, rolling Toomer’s Corner — that is ‘Auburn being Auburn.’” Auburn being Auburn, he said, was “a big why” for him when it came to the decision to leave his alma mater, Mississippi State, for the Plains. The Tigers just need to change the outside perception of that term, which Cohen aims to do in his new role leading the athletics department, with goals of competing for and winning SEC and national championships, delivering “elite” facilities upgrades, staying out front on NIL and bringing forth a prosperous new era for Auburn sports. Auburn’s new athletics director then echoed another familiar refrain before taking questions: “I believe in Auburn and love it,” he said. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

Cadillac Williams plans to 'sit in the moment' before 1st Auburn home game Published: Nov. 07, 2022, 5:31 p.m. 4-5 minutes Auburn Football Cadillac Williams on 1st home game as Auburn’s head coach: ‘You can’t make this up’ Auburn's interim head coach Carnell Williams reacts to a replay on the stadium monitor during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. Mississippi State won 39-33 in overtime. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP Cadillac Williams has made the run through the south end zone tunnel at Jordan-Hare Stadium 52 times during his life — 27 as a player, 25 more as an assistant coach at Auburn. None of those will have prepared Williams for the one he’ll make Saturday evening, when Auburn hosts Texas A&M in what will be Williams’ first home game as the Tigers’ interim head coach. “It’s Monday, so I’m going to hold it together,” Williams said. “You can’t make this up. Honestly, I don’t know how I’m going to feel.” Read more Auburn football: Starting offensive lineman Austin Troxell out for remainder of season What’s next for Auburn football recruiting after Bryan Harsin? Auburn’s turnover margin trending in right direction, finally It’s sure to be an emotional, out-of-body experience for Williams. Then again, just about everything during the last week has been surreal to the former All-American running back. He took over as his alma mater’s interim coach last Monday following the firing of then-coach Bryan Harsin, who was shown the door by Auburn president Dr. Chris Roberts less than two years into his tenure, finishing with a 9-12 record on the Plains. Since then, life for Williams has been hectic but rewarding. Sleep has been difficult to come by, thanks to late nights at the Auburn athletics complex putting together gameplans and trying to put out fires left and right. It has been like trying to drink out of a fire hydrant for Williams and the remaining members of Auburn’s coaching staff. It culminated in an overtime loss at Mississippi State in a game that saw Auburn erase a 21-point first-half deficit and claim the lead twice in the fourth quarter before coming up just short of the road upset. But now the Tigers return home, and things are starting to slow down for Williams, who has been able to reflect on a “bombshell” of a week and show appreciation for all the support he has received — support from players and from within the program, support from former teammates and lettermen, and an outpouring of support from the Auburn fanbase. “Honestly it doesn’t surprise me,” Williams said. “It’s why I chose this institution two decades ago, because of that same love that you all are feeling from the Auburn family. They embraced a kid like myself that had a dream to take care of my mom, to change the trajectory of my family. The feeling they gave me on my official visit is one that always stands out to me…. Everybody I ever played with, people are truly reaching out and supporting me and getting behind this. I’m excited. I’m honored that my fellow brothers would actually take time out and get behind this.” That support has brought Williams some solace during a hectic time. He was finally able to get some sleep Sunday night — five hours’ worth, which nearly matched his total hours of rest from last Monday to Thursday. He’s settling into his new role, embracing the opportunity ahead and taking it one day at a time. The job’s not done, though. He’s ready for an even better performance this weekend when the Tigers welcome the Aggies to Jordan-Hare Stadium. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m., with the game airing on ESPN2. Shortly before that, Williams will run onto Pat Dye field for the first time as Auburn’s head coach, with the full-throated support of 87,451 adoring fans behind him. “I do know I have a job to do, to get this team ready to play and get these guys prepared and lead these guys,” Williams said. “I know I can’t make this about me, but I am going to sit in the moment. I’m going to enjoy it. I’m excited for that moment and honor.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

Auburn football: Can Cadillac drive the program in the right direction? Glenn Sattell | 22 hours ago Carnell “Cadillac” Williams is a placeholder at Auburn Universityb — a placeholder for a job in case a viable candidate isn’t interested. And the knee-jerk reaction, given the way Auburn has treated its head coaches the past handful of years, is: Who would want it? Well, the reality is there are a lot of coaches who would want the job as head football coach at Auburn. It’s a place where you can compete, a place where you can win big if everyone is pulling in the same direction. Prior to Bryan Harsin’s cup of coffee, the previous 5 and 6 of the previous 7 head coaches at Auburn finished seasons ranked in the top 5. Before Harsin, 2 straight head coaches played for a national championship. Gene Chizik won one in 2010. So to say this job is unattractive would be a short-sighted statement. Are there obstacles? Of course there are. The same could be said with any job. In all probability, Williams will not be named the permanent head coach at Auburn. There are some big-name candidates being bandied about. But all that will sort itself out once the season comes to a merciful end. The Tigers are languishing in a 5-game losing streak, and at 3-6, they would need to win all 3 remaining games just to break even and become bowl-eligible. They lost the last 5 games of the 2021 season, including the Birmingham Bowl to Houston. You’d have to go all the way back to 1950 to find the last time Auburn lost 6 consecutive games in the same season. That year, the Tigers lost all 10, and as a result they ushered in the Ralph “Shug” Jordan era. By the way, just 7 short years later under the guidance of Jordan, Auburn won all 10 games on the 1957 schedule and with it, a national championship. Here’s to hoping the current turnaround will be at least as swift and successful. Who guides the ship through these troubled waters is anyone’s guess. Williams would have to be considered a longshot, but so was Ed Orgeron — a placeholder himself who was tabbed as interim head coach at LSU after the Les Miles firing. Orgeron was the longest of longshots to get the job, but he landed it after going 6-2 to finish the 2016 season in Baton Rouge. Three years later, he won the national championship with arguably the greatest college football team in history. Orgeron got the job because the Tigers succeeded on the field. Off the field, he was one of them — a Cajun to the core whose dream it was to be the head coach at LSU. Williams’ story has similarities. An All-American running back at Auburn, he helped lead the Tigers to an undefeated 2004 season. He’s definitely one of them. He still holds Auburn’s all-time record for career rushing attempts and rushing touchdowns. A 1st-round draft pick, Williams spent 7 seasons in the NFL before continuing his football career in the coaching ranks. It began in 2016 at West Georgia as a graduate assistant. He later served as running backs coach at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., and in 2018 he took the same position with the Brimingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football. In January 2019, Williams came home to Auburn as running backs coach under head coach Gus Malzahn, and he was retained by Harsin. In his 4th year of coaching at Auburn, Williams is the longest-tenured assistant on the staff. So it made sense that he would be named interim head coach a week ago Monday before the Mississippi State game. That left Williams, and the rest of the Auburn coaching staff, scrambling to put together a game plan for Mississippi State on the road. It looked it in the 1st half. Tentative and somewhat disarrayed, Auburn fell behind 24-3 and looked to be in for a very long night. But give Williams, the staff and the team a lot of credit. At halftime, Williams challenged the Tigers to keep fighting and believing in one another. And they responded, scoring 27 points in the 2nd half before falling in overtime. The Tigers hadn’t scored 27 points in a half since opening the season with 28 in the 1st half vs. Mercer. That has to be encouraging. Auburn now gets a full week with Williams to prepare for Texas A&M on Saturday at Jordan-Hare, then finishes up the season with Western Kentucky before the Iron Bowl in Tuscaloosa. He won’t say it out loud, and maybe he hasn’t yet allowed himself to entertain the idea. But you have to believe that Williams, like Orgeron at LSU, would love to be the permanent head coach. Winning a couple of these final games would go a long way toward helping that cause. But right now, Williams remains focused on the moment, on the preparation, on getting his team ready for the next challenge. And that’s really the proper approach to take.

Auburn's loss to Mississippi State proves something: The Tigers have heart. Jack Singley 4 minutes Auburn went on the road to Starkville last night and as expected they suffered a loss. The unexpected came when Auburn made second-half adjustments and took a game that was 24-6 at the half, to overtime. The undoubted reason for this fight and heart is the former running backs coach and now interim head coach, Carnell "Cadillac" Williams. The team and the coaching staff seemed like they had been released from captivity and were finally allowed to be themselves and show emotion. This is incredibly showcased by a highlight of Interim Head Coach Williams and Secondaries coach Zac Etheridge, both Auburn players and graduates, sprinting down the sideline to call a timeout. Etheridge seemed to have hurt himself as well. Williams was a constant source of happiness and energy for the team, the number of sideline yards walked by Coach Caddy might have eclipsed the Tigers' 256 rushing yards. Todd Van Emst / AU Athletics The effort, dedication, and energy shown by the Auburn Tigers on Saturday add further evidence that Bryan Harsin was a cancer to this team and needed to be removed. Harsin began his coaching career while Williams terrorized SEC defenses for the Tigers. Harsin became a coordinator in 2006, a year after Carnell Williams won NFL Rookie of the Year. Bryan Harsin became the head coach for Arkansas State while Williams was done with football and starting a family. Williams only became a coach in 2016 and has managed to go from West Georgia Graduate Assistant to Auburn Interim Head coach. All the experience mentioned above could not prepare a man from Boise for the torture that is an SEC program. The recruiting was not there for Harsin, as his message of work, hard work didn't resonate with the recruits he did decide to put the effort into. A 6-2 start was offset completely by going 0-5 for the rest of the season in 2021. The off-season further proved an inability to connect as players kept transferring and Derek Mason, the defensive coordinator left for a substantial pay decrease. Then the message of "Just Watch" was his main takeaway for those who thought Auburn wouldn't be able to perform well in the SEC in 2022. The season started and the fans did what he asked, just watched, helplessly as their favorite team withered away, limping to a 3-4 record at the bye week. The nail in the coffin was the Arkansas game and the hiring of new athletic director John Cohen. Williams was named the interim on October 31, 2022. How did this battered and bruised team manage to show the effort and heart to come back 24-6? How did a desensitized fanbase start to feel again? The answer is a coach who cares, shows emotion, and never gave up on the team. Harsin finished with a 9-12 record at Auburn, and Williams might go 0-4 in the interim position, however, Williams won the fans and the team back and that is more valuable in a season where all hope foe the future was lost.

dude i am the heathen. well part heathen and part christian or as i say i try to be a follower of christ.

honest question. if you were in jawja would you vote for hershel?

well i heard charter schools and private schools both robbed money from public schools. i ever posted an article on it. but i agree more people are stupid than there used to be. unless we have just discovered this in the age of computers.

no i do not hate christians. the article was written by a pastor. what i hate is how the right has hijacked christianity. try harder pen. i would hate to start caling you scooter as well..................

trump goes first and gets his hair done. barber asks trump if he wants some sweet smelling stuff sprayed on him and trump declined saying i better not because melania will think i have been to a whore house. so the barber invites obama to sit and gives him a nice haircut. the barber asks obama if he wants some sweet smelling stuff and obam said sure. my wife does not know what a whorehouse smells like. grins

Trump Slammed For Outrageous New Attack Dehumanizing Nancy Pelosi Ed Mazza 1-2 minutes Former President Donald Trump called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) an “animal” during a speech on Monday and in response, his supporters cheered. During a rally in Ohio, Trump recalled dismissing MS-13 gang members as “animals” during his presidency. Then, he said the same insult applied to the House speaker. “I think she’s an animal, too, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said as the crowd roared with approval. “They’ll say, ‘Oh, what a horrible thing he said about Nancy.’ She impeached me twice for nothing! Nothing!” The escalation in rhetoric comes just days after a man broke into Pelosi’s California house looking for her ― allegedly to hold her hostage and break her kneecaps ― and then struck her husband, Paul Pelosi, in the head with a hammer. He was hospitalized for six days with injuries to his right arm and hands and underwent surgery for a skull fracture. Nancy Pelosi said her husband was facing a “long recovery process and convalescence.” Trump’s critics took to social media to call him out: