Chris Christie is a fat pant load. That’s not fat shaming y’all. He would be a fat pant load if he was skinny as a bean pole. Our subject matter this morning is the former Governor of New Jersey who has placed his hat in the ring for the 2024 Republican Presidential Nomination. Stop laughing. It’s true. Last night, Anderson Cooper, who I just don’t get, hosted a CNN Townhall for Christie and it was pure pant load.

I am not trying to be ugly (Southern for mean), I am being honest. Christie is 15 years younger than Donald Trump, but Lordy, he would be a high Covid risk, if you take my meaning. Christie is four inches taller than Ron DeSantis, but he seems like a smaller man, again, metaphorically. The CNN Townhall last night did nothing to change anyone’s mind about the former Governor and Trump advisor. The CNN show made me want to ask if this Christie run is to negotiate a better television contract or pure spite for Donald Trump. He can’t win. He couldn’t win in 2016 when he got relegated with dear Governor Huckabee to the children’s table, I mean, second debate stage. Chris Christie is not a popular man outside of his family:

People outside the NYC-NJ metro area forget that Chris Christie was implicated, but never formally charged, in a scandal that involved punishing the Ft. Lee mayor (and his city) by obstructing traffic on the George Washington Bridge during Christie’s reelection bid for governor.

— Dr. Charles, Feeling that Exile is Safer (@ergoking) June 6, 2023

I guess you want to know some snippets of what Chris Christie said. I know you didn’t watch CNN. The only people tuning in are the people related to the camera persons and gaffers. I think that Christie’s wife must hate him, because according to him, she convinced him to run. He has “unique” skills. Eye roll:

CNN’s Anderson Cooper opened tonight’s town hall with GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie by asking him why he wanted to run for president again — and how he made the case to his family. Christie said that it was “the opposite” with his wife, Mary Pat Christie, who made the case to him to run.
“It was kind of the opposite. It was really Mary Pat making the case to me, why she thought that it was necessary to do it,” the former New Jersey governor said.
Christie said that his wife told him that he has “a unique set of skills that need to be in this race” and that she told him he needed “to do this.”
“And she was making the argument. So, Anderson, when your wife is making the argument and you’re the candidate, go. Just go. Don’t ask questions, just go,” Christie said.

Remember that old song by Puddle of Mudd “She Hates Me”? I started humming that while I typed. There’s good reason to hate Christie. He believes what two reporters on the campaign trail told him in 2020 about Trump and Covid:

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday he was told off the record by two reporters in 2020 that then-President Donald Trump blamed him for spreading Covid-19 during debate prep.
What appalled Christie about this revelation was that while he was in intensive care, Trump called Christie to ask if he was going to tell the world he contracted Covid from the president.
“I said ‘Mr. President, I don’t know who I got it from. There were six of us in that room for debate prep and five us of us got it.’ So, I don’t know who patient zero was, but … then I understood,” Christie said.
Trump, who also contracted Covid in the fall of 2020, was released from the hospital before Christie, the GOP presidential contender said, and went back on the campaign trail where two reporters heard him blaming Christie for contracting Covid.
“He called me to make sure that I would not blame him, and when I said I wouldn’t because I had no basis to say who it was, he then blamed me,” Christie said.

What a fool! Who believes something that two reporters tell you during the final weeks of a National Presidential Campaign? Chris Christie says he has known Trump for 22 years and the only thing that Trump understands is “force”. I watch this and think the Christie is talking about his own self:

Christie: When did we get to the point we're blaming our adversaries for the weakness of our candidates? It's the Democrats' fault, it's the doj's fault, it's the media's fault. How about it's his? He hasn't won a damn thing since 2016. Three-time loser pic.twitter.com/DIP3Ea1HMA

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 13, 2023

And, speaking of telling us more about Christie than about Trump, here Christie talks about the “vengeance” term:

Christie’s position on assault weapons (???) has “evolved”:

Cooper noted this was a shift from his stance when he was running for a New Jersey state Senate seat more than 30 years ago.
Cooper pointed out that Christie said he got into that race because Republicans were trying to get rid of an assault weapons ban — something Christie wanted to keep in place. He now says he does not believe there should be a ban on assault weapons.
“At 29 years old, I thought there were easy answers to everything, I really did, and I thought that would be an easy answer, an easy fix. It turns out, it’s not,” he said at the CNN town hall Monday night.
Christie said it’s a right for people to own guns, including assault weapons. He said he doesn’t own one “but that’s been my choice.”
When Joe Robbins, a Nevada retiree who lost his son in a mass shooting, asked Christie how he would protect people from mass shootings while still protecting the Second Amendment, Christie reiterated his call for a focus on mental health.
“I don’t think with 350 million or so guns out there that tighter gun control is going to keep the gun out of the hands of someone who’s going to do what happened in Las Vegas or what happened in Uvalde or what happened in Sandy Hook,” he said.
Christie said law enforcement needs to be “much more sensitive” to what they are seeing in the community and be able to identify when people are having mental health problems.

Typical Republican non-answer and sop to the squish voters. Tell the truth. Gun-free zones invite trouble. Oof.

That’s Chris Christie: Talks big, but brings nothing new to the table, except his grudges.

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