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[moochedit]

Republican Party now solidified as nothing more than a personality cult forTrump.

‘Absolute bloodbath’ at RNC as new leadership loyal to Trump purges staff

Chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump move to reorganize the RNC, with an expected cull of 60 staff

www.theguardian.com

Ever since 1912 it's been a rotten, reactionary party steeped in bigotry, religious fundamentalism, violence and plutocracy, but it is now entering a new phase of barbarism. It now believes in nothing other than worshipping at the feet of a rapist, pedophile, insurrectionist and would-be dictator.

I wish there really was an "absolete bloodbath" at the rnc

 

[Jeff Robinson]

including ...

Ex-Trump Lawyer Who Sought to Overturn 2020 Election Hired by RNC as ‘Senior Counsel for Election Integrity’

Bobb also served as an attorney for former President Donald Trump, whose daughter-in-law Lara Trump was installed as RNC co-chair last week.

www.mediaite.com

The Republican National Committee has hired former OAN reporter Christina Bobb as senior counsel for election integrity.

They are a menace the world has an interest in being destroyed

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I sure hope this is right:



“Voters, donors, and staff alike are either fleeing the MAGA-fied Republican party or being chaotically forced out in a mass purge, casting a troubling shadow on the committee’s balance sheet and their prospects at the ballot box leading into a critical election year,” wrote DNC executive director Sam Cornale.

‘Chaos’ in Donald Trump’s Republican party will boost Joe Biden, Democratic memo says

Former president’s ‘purge’ of party’s national committee will hinder his White House bid, claim strategists

www.ft.com

It does seem to me that the mad authoritarian cult the RNC has become seems like a better suited apparatus to a one-party dictatorship, but then such parties are thriving in India, Turkey, Hungary and so forth, so who knows?

 

[petee]

It does seem to me that the mad authoritarian cult the RNC has become seems like a better suited apparatus to a one-party dictatorship, but then such parties are thriving in India, Turkey, Hungary and so forth, so who knows?

they particularly like orban, that big defender of western christian values

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/politics/trump-orban-mar-a-lago/index.html

Hungary’s Plan to Build an Army of U.S. Intellectuals

Viktor Orban has put billions of dollars behind a soft-power strategy focused on attracting conservative American thinkers.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[two sheds]

Trump's New Nickname For Himself Has People Howling

The former president's new moniker was mercilessly mocked as the “biggest OXYMORON ever.”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Honest Don

 

[Dogsauce]

That’s like the kind of name dodgy car lot dealers give themselves.

 

[Ted Striker]

Him and his family are going to bleed the Republican party dry, financially, no?

 

[chandlerp]

I'll allow it.

 

[WouldBe]

Trump's New Nickname For Himself Has People Howling

The former president's new moniker was mercilessly mocked as the “biggest OXYMORON ever.”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Honest Don

Didn't want to dis himself.

 

[Yossarian]

That’s like the kind of name dodgy car lot dealers give themselves.

It was also a punk record label

 

[petee]

Him and his family are going to bleed the Republican party dry, financially, no?

yes.
and this will be a new litmus test for true believers: if you, a republican, oppose this scam, you're a RINO, leftist, etc, and out you go.

 

[bluescreen]

Anyone remember the car dealer ad on the R4 show RadioActive?
Honest Ron, Honest Ron, the others are a con

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Georgia election interference case back on:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/15/politics/fani-willis-fulton-county-donald-trump-election-subversion-scott-mcafee/index.html

 

[JimW]

What's the gossip about Melania's absence for those of us too lazy to google?

 

[moochedit]

What's the gossip about Melania's absence for those of us too lazy to google?

Have the Trump's photo's been checked for photoshopping?

 

[petee]

What's the gossip about Melania's absence for those of us too lazy to google?

i haven't read anything specific, it's just that she's nowhere to be seen and you might expect that she'd show up sometimes.

 

[JimW]

i haven't read anything specific, it's just that she's nowhere to be seen and you might expect that she'd show up sometimes.

Same here, it's getting to be a notable absence.

 

[pogofish]

Same here, it's getting to be a notable absence.

Didn't she make an appearance at the dinner for Orban just recently?

 

[JimW]

Didn't she make an appearance at the dinner for Orban just recently?

Bang goes my theory then.

 

[pogofish]

Bang goes my theory then.

Doesn't mean she's not doing her best to avoid being seen with/validating him.

 

[JimW]

Doesn't mean she's not doing her best to avoid being seen with/validating him.

I thought he might have trotted her out at more campaign rallies but hadn't seen her.

 

[pogofish]

I thought he might have trotted her out at more campaign rallies but hadn't seen her.

I think Lara Trump has been promoted into that role FTM.

 

[Nylock]

Pretty sure I heard on some news outlet a couple of months ago that she's effectively told him to keep her out of it... Although I might also be hugely misremembering....

 

[teqniq]

He is so very obviously completely unfit to be anywhere near the levers of power and yet there is a distinct possibility he may win the election this autumn:

 

[chandlerp]

Leaver of power is what he should be

 

[Rimbaud]

He is so very obviously completely unfit to be anywhere near the levers of power and yet there is a distinct possibility he may win the election this autumn:

The danger is he may be right - US divisions are so wide now, media so partisan, and social media algorithms so cloistered that different people live in parallel realities and however wins the election will be decried as illegitimate.

If Biden wins, a wave of political violence by Trump supporters which dwarves January 6th and persists is absolutely a real possibility.

If Trump wins, it appears that he has a determined authoritarian agenda borrowed from Orban which could equally generate armed resistance, albeit over a longer timescale.

Best case scenario is a Biden victory and for the Republican reaction to be a damp squib. But this seems unlikely, Trump's hold over the Party is stronger than in 2020 and moderate Republicans with a commitment to democratic norms and belief in basic reality seem to be sidelined.

 

[petee]

The danger is he may be right - US divisions are so wide now

true, but how did it come to be that way? from half a century of remorseless rightwing bloviation over the radio first and now on the web. it's the heckler's veto.

If Biden wins, a wave of political violence by Trump supporters which dwarves January 6th and persists is absolutely a real possibility.

indeed it is, but that's not a reason not to vote biden. i cannot stress enough how psychotic things would be under a trump administration.
(i am not going to address the shitheadery that accuses me of being a biden-stan for saying this.)

 

[Sasaferrato]

true, but how did it come to be that way? from half a century of remorseless rightwing bloviation over the radio first and now on the web. it's the heckler's veto.



indeed it is, but that's not a reason not to vote biden. i cannot stress enough how psychotic things would be under a trump administration.
(i am not going to address the shitheadery that accuses me of being a biden-stan for saying this.)

Is Biden physically and mentally fit to serve another term?

Also, is this the best that the USA can do? Trump or Biden?

 

[petee]

Is Biden physically and mentally fit to serve another term?

 

[Rimbaud]

true, but how did it come to be that way? from half a century of remorseless rightwing bloviation over the radio first and now on the web. it's the heckler's veto.



indeed it is, but that's not a reason not to vote biden. i cannot stress enough how psychotic things would be under a trump administration.
(i am not going to address the shitheadery that accuses me of being a biden-stan for saying this.)

I agree with you, I'm hoping for a Biden win, but still worried about what kind of trouble Trump might cause.