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    This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

    We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

    There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?



     
    MT15 said:
    Dave, do you honestly think anyone viewing that ad was going to vote for Meijer and then saw the ad and said, no, I’ll vote for Gibbs? It was negative against Gibbs in my opinion. People who liked that ad were never going to vote for Meijer. It would have set more independent-minded people against Gibbs than for him. You have to be a die-hard Trump fan to like that ad.

    If all the ads were like this one, I really think it’s not nearly as big a deal as was being made of it. Sorta a double standard from the press, actually.
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    All due respect, but you're completely missing my point. It's really not even about the ads. It's about the DNCC putting money into Republican primary campaigns and attempting to influence voters. Whether it's effective or not is beside the point. They clearly want someone to win, otherwise, why spend the money?
     
    MT15 said:
    He said it. But he hasn’t done it. So, yeah that’s being fired for a hypothetical. I didn’t realize it was already signed, though.

    Even so, prosecutors have wide discretionary powers, or always have in the past. Just like teachers used to be free to express themselves in Florida, and companies used to be free to train their employees the way they liked. Now, there’s very little leeway for anyone; there doesn’t seem to be any aspect of life in Florida that DeSantis doesn’t want to control. Small government he ain’t.

    And the “Soros-backed” is a hilarious touch. Good lord, that’s embarrassing. 🤦‍♀️
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    Prosecutors do not have that much discretion to completely refuse to enforce a law.
     
    Watch the video:

    www.c-span.org

    Steve Bannon Says We Are At War

    While delivering remarks at a dinner for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Trump, said that "we are at war...a political and ideological war." He went on to call President Biden illegitimate and said that the 2020 election...
    www.c-span.org www.c-span.org
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    No comment.
     
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    SteveSBrickNJ said:
    This was taken out of context. Sorry that I don't know who he thinks are "cheese eating surrender monkeys". Would you be willing to explain this speech excerpt please? ( Thanks for your patience)
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    "Sen. Ted Cruz lambasted the Biden administration as 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' on Friday for failing to stand up more vigorously to China when a former editor for its state media called for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plane to be shot down when she visited Taiwan.

    He said the White House was making the world less safe. "

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-monkeys-White-House-making-world-safe.html
     
    BullSheetBuddha said:
    "Sen. Ted Cruz lambasted the Biden administration as 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' on Friday for failing to stand up more vigorously to China when a former editor for its state media called for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plane to be shot down when she visited Taiwan.

    He said the White House was making the world less safe. "

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-monkeys-White-House-making-world-safe.html
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    Thank you for taking the time to answer my question :)
     
    SteveSBrickNJ said:
    "outraged"?
    I believe I used the word "concerned"
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    I am not focusing on the Dems who are voting for Trump endorsed candidates.
    I am focusing on the Rs voting for Trump's chosen candidates,
    I am disappointed ....amazed...and concerned.
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    Somebody used the word “outrage” ….if it wasn’t you then apologies, my mistake…but the point I was making stands….your party has gone over the top batshirt crazy….I also long for the days that the typical Republican was, at least, sane…..
     
    As readers of The Washington Post and his syndicated column know, Dana Milbank covers politics with snap and crackle.

    His gift, and his dogged reporting, serve him well in his new book, “The Destructionists” (good title), on the quarter-century-long crackup of the Republican Party.


    While reading it, a line by the late P.J. O’Rourke came to mind: “The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.

    The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”


    Another line kept coming to me — Ronald Reagan’s farewell letter to the American people, which ends: “I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”

    Reagan’s letter was dated Nov. 5, 1994. Three days later, Republicans won control of the House and the Senate, led by a pale rider named Newt Gingrich. And hell followed with him.

    Milbank traces the descent of the party once led by Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole and John McCain as it became the party of Gingrich and Mitch McConnell and, ultimately, the cult of Donald Trump.

    For those once fond of the GOP, it’s like switching the channel from “Father Knows Best” to “The Sopranos.”


    That’s a dated but not altogether inapt reference.

    The ’94 election that ushered in Gingrich’s Republican Revolution also ushered out a Congress led by veterans of World War II.

    Four years later, the Un-Greatest Generation became its dominant demographic…….

     
    “A dramatic interpretation of the people I snitched on to save my own skin”
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    According to WUSA9 reporter Jordan Fischer, the man pretending to be locked up is Brandon Straka, the founder of the “Walk Away” campaign that was started ahead of the 2018 midterms to urge liberals to leave the Democratic Party.

    He was allegedly involved in the riot, but avoided jail time because of “substantial” cooperation with investigators, according to statements made by his lawyers in sentencing memos.

    One person Mr Straka shared information about with the FBI is serving a 60-day jail sentence, with prosecutors saying his information was “valuable”, WUSA9 reported……

    www.independent.co.uk

    CPAC mocked for ‘silent disco’ booth featuring fake Jan 6 prisoner crying in a cell

    ‘This is incredible. A weeping insurrectionist pajama boy art installation,’ former Obama staffer says
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    All you need to know about the state of the Republican Party today is what happened at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Thursday.

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been destroying his country’s democracy, received a standing ovation less than two weeks after he gave a speech in Romania in which he endorsed the white supremacist “replacement theory” and denounced a “mixed-race world.”


    One of Orban’s longtime advisers quit over what she described as a speech “worthy of Goebbels” before backtracking a bit.

    But Orban hasn’t recanted his repugnant views, and right-wingers in Dallas thrilled to his denunciations of immigration, abortion, LGBTQ rights and “the Woke Globalist Goliath.”

    He even excoriated Jewish financier George Soros, a Hungarian native, as someone who “hated Christianity.” The racist and anti-Semitic signaling was not subtle……

     
    Optimus Prime said:
    All you need to know about the state of the Republican Party today is what happened at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Thursday.

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been destroying his country’s democracy, received a standing ovation less than two weeks after he gave a speech in Romania in which he endorsed the white supremacist “replacement theory” and denounced a “mixed-race world.”


    One of Orban’s longtime advisers quit over what she described as a speech “worthy of Goebbels” before backtracking a bit.

    But Orban hasn’t recanted his repugnant views, and right-wingers in Dallas thrilled to his denunciations of immigration, abortion, LGBTQ rights and “the Woke Globalist Goliath.”

    He even excoriated Jewish financier George Soros, a Hungarian native, as someone who “hated Christianity.” The racist and anti-Semitic signaling was not subtle……

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    And if all of that wasn't bad enough....and it is.....Donald Trump won the straw poll for 2024 by a significant margin.
    When people were asked "If Trump did not run, then who would you vote for??"....then DeSantis was the winner.
     
    SteveSBrickNJ said:
    And if all of that wasn't bad enough....and it is.....Donald Trump won the straw poll for 2024 by a significant margin.
    When people were asked "If Trump did not run, then who would you vote for??"....then DeSantis was the winner.
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    DeSantis is a real problem. However, we can hope CPAC isn’t representative of the majority of Republicans. I don’t think it is, just my opinion. But it’s a pretty large portion, maybe 35-40%? Just a wild guess.

    All of the sane Republicans are going to have to unite with democrats to vote the crazy Rs out. It’s just as important now as it was in 2020. This will have to occur at the state levels as well, as some of the crazier folks have taken over some state R parties. Its so important now to study the people on the ballot, you cannot go by the Party to know if they are crazy.
     

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