And now:
The message from House Republicans' campaign arm, which on Wednesday caught the eye of many reporters, warns people that if they opt-out of recurring donations and "UNCHECK this box, we'll have to tell Trump you're a DEFECTOR & sided with the Dems."
Oh, you mean this?
GOP GOES FULL PSYCHOPATH, THREATENS TO “TELL TRUMP” ABOUT SUPPORTERS WHO WON’T PONY UP DONATIONS Nothing says unhinged cult like labeling people “defectors” and threatening to rat them out. BY BESS LEVIN - vanityfair. com/news/2021/04/gop-trump-defector-threat. - April 7, 2021
In a statement, Michael McAdams, a spokesman for the NRCC, said the committee “employs the same standards that are accepted and utilized by Democrats and Republicans across the digital fund-raising ecosystem.”
He did not say if he’d ever come across a Democratic fundraising notice that read “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Joe Biden you’re a dirty rotten scoundrel and a traitor to the party.” …
Saw that. Rather insidious. I’m sure they’ll get several extra donations who don’t read the whole thing and don’t notice they are making their donation monthly.
I could have retired early by creating fake bills and mass mailing them. There are a lot of people out there who just write checks without looking. I would have had to retire before everyone stopped writing checks!!
I saw it too and thought, anyone gullible enough to stay after that… I’d hate to see them lose all their money because the dotard party stole it all from them, but that’s essentially what is happening to these people who continue to pay them monthly. Of course, they could agree and then not have the money in their account the following month, which would in that. Smart person would make one donation from a secondary account and then leave it with just enough money to keep it open, but not enough to pay the dotard’s people. Better yet, use something like Paypal and then stop your Paypal account for at least that deal.
Who is not for me is against me and <ho is against me is an enemy, and must be destroyed.
That’s a totalitarian frame of mind.
Sounds like trumpism.
Though you should have included that honest and truth are treated with contempt within that mindset.
Speaking of insidious. This kind of cynical utter dishonesty and disregard for Democracy is appalling.
How a Sham Candidate Helped Flip a Florida Election The candidate and the man who prosecutors say recruited him to play spoiler in a Florida Senate race last year were both arrested this week.By Patricia Mazzei
March 19, 2021www. nytimes . com/2021/03/19/us/florida-senate-race-fraud .html
MIAMI — The recruitment of the sham candidate began with a Facebook message at around 4 a.m. on May 15, 2020. “Call me,” a Florida legislator turned lobbyist wrote to an old friend. “I have a question for you.”
Later that day, former State Senator Frank Artiles, a Republican, asked Alexis Pedro Rodriguez by phone whether he still owned a home in the suburban Miami village of Palmetto Bay. Because in that case, Mr. Artiles wanted something else: to put his friend’s property and last name to use in the upcoming election.
The incumbent Democrat, State Senator José Javier Rodríguez, was on the ballot. And Mr. Artiles, a crafty political operator with a dubious reputation, had a plan: to plant his friend as a candidate and siphon off votes that could defeat Senator Rodríguez.
The plan worked, setting off one of Florida’s most brazen electoral scandals in years — even by the heady standards of a state that has long been fertile ground for political scammers. …
Don’t you find it ironic they are now gaslighting “Transparency” ?
Edit: Well, maybe not just now … thinking about it, it has been awhile. But it’s back up the scale in AZ I guess…
Ashley Parker: The Fringe Of The Republican Party Has Become ‘Its Beating Heart’ | MSNBCWashington Post White House bureau chief Ashley Parker, editor at large of The Bulwark Charlie Sykes, and former Democratic senator Claire McCaskill discuss the MAGA takeover of the GOP, and the efforts to push out the former standard-bearers of the party.
Will Republican hysteria to limit voting bit them in their fat arse?
Amy Gardner, national political reporter for the Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Florida Republicans, in their zeal to appease irrational Trumpian concerns about election fraud, passed new voting restrictions that include making it harder to vote by mail, which many Republican constituencies do.MSNBC
Although at 5:15 she forgets to point out that Trump is who created the runaway pandemic. Had he stood behind the health experts, past decades show that COVID would have been cornered and isolated by the medical experts.
"One-hundred percent of my focus is on stopping this new administration," McConnell responded.I think he said something like that at the beginning of the Obama administration too.
“House Republicans need to be solely focused on taking back the House in 2022 and fighting against Speaker Pelosi and President Biden’s radical socialist agenda, and Elise Stefanik is strongly committed to doing that, which is why Whip Scalise has pledged to support her for Conference Chair," Scalise’s spokesperson, Lauren Fine, said in a statement.Nothing about COVID, the economy, infrastructure, global threats, immigration, splintering of American society ... PEOPLE
Nope. Just Stop The Other Guy and WIN WIN WIN.
Democrats should speak up more (there has been an occasional peep) in support of the likes of Kerry, Cheney, Gonzales (a local R that voted for impeachment), etc. It’s not like they’ll lose anymore support because a (D) stands up for them The (T)'s have already written them off.
The next evolution, ignore election results altogether.
T’s Totalitarian Trumpsters. It’s not a cute label, it’s a description of what’s happening to the Republican Party.
Republicans Are Running Against Democracy Not DemocratsMay 6, 2021
Rachel Maddow looks at how Virginia Republicans have made registering to vote so annoying that they are already ignoring their own new rules for their primary election, and points out that in a natural offshoot of Donald Trump’s election fantasies, the Trumpiest Republican candidate is already sowing seeds of doubt about her own party’s primary election’s outcome.
Mass demonstrations, civil disobedience, occupying private public space, general worker strike… … its all happening over this.
Why is none of this a surprise?
Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in GovernmentBy Adam Goldman and Mark Mazzetti, May 13, 2021, New York Times
The campaign included planned operations against President Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and F.B.I. employees, according to documents and interviews.
https: //www. nytimes. com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas. html
… Central to the effort, according to interviews, was Richard Seddon, a former undercover British spy who was recruited in 2016 by the security contractor Erik Prince to train Project Veritas operatives to infiltrate trade unions, Democratic congressional campaigns and other targets. He ran field operations for Project Veritas until mid-2018.
Last year, The New York Times reported that Mr. Seddon ran an expansive effort to gain access to the unions and campaigns and led a hiring effort that nearly tripled the number of the group’s operatives, according to interviews and deposition testimony. He trained operatives at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming.
The efforts to target American officials show how a campaign once focused on exposing outside organizations slowly morphed into an operation to ferret out Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies in the government’s ranks. … It goes on and on and pretty sickening,
... Mr. Seddon first came to know Mr. Prince in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when he was stationed at the British Embassy in Washington and Mr. Prince’s company, Blackwater, was winning large American government contracts for work in Afghanistan and Iraq. Former colleagues of Mr. Seddon said he nurtured a love of the American West, and of the country’s gun culture.He is married to a longtime State Department officer, Alice Seddon, who retired last year.
After Mr. Seddon joined Project Veritas, he set out to professionalize what was once a small operation with a limited budget. He hired former soldiers, a former F.B.I. agent and a British former commando. …
This one bares listen to the end since the last part is the most interesting.
Top Republicans in Arizona are blasting members of their own party for peddling conspiracy theories with their "election audit."MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber discusses this growing fracture within the GOP with political strategist Chai Komanduri. (who has a warning about the upcoming election, worth hearing out. His read of GOP’s, trumpster baiting, as a coherent plan, is worth taking seriously. We’ll see if the Democratic Party can get it together enough to inform and engage enough new voters, plus start changing some minds enough to overcome the ruthless absolutists that the GOP has devolved into. )
Georgia elections official slams Arizona audit as 'neither transparent nor, likely, legal' BY JORDAN WILLIAMS - 04/27/21
Perhaps a few people might discover that “governance” is not as easy as a well-run government may seem to function.
This effort shows the general intellectual capacity of the “conspiracy” adherents . I’ve seen High School student bodies functioning with more efficiency than this sorry lot.
I just read a line that I think succinctly defines the GOP groupthink:
... whose ambition leaves her with fewer scruples about the truth.It's from a CNN article about forming a commission on the insurrection. The line is referring to Stefanick who replaced Rep Liz Cheney as GOP House conference leader.
I think it can be generalized to all GOPers with the “Win at any cost” mindset:
Ambition leaves them with few scruples about the truth.
I think it can be generalized to all GOPers with the “Win at any cost” mindset:Ambition leaves them with few scruples about the truth.
