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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?



     
    Booker said:
    www.yahoo.com

    RNC votes to install Donald Trump's handpicked chair as former president tightens control of party

    The Republican National Committee voted Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked leadership team, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a third straight presidential nomination. Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed Trump’s...
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    so they just gave all the money to trump. well thats good cause now the rest of the crazies wont get much campaign money and trump will bleed the RNC dry. Like I said trump is a backbone vampire he can suck the backbone out of any idiot making them a worthless quivering mess of fear.
     
    “Say Her Name,” read the t-shirt Georgiafirebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene wore to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday night.

    Pins featuring Laken Riley’s name and face were also emblazoned across her bright red blazer, which matched her “Make America Great Again” cap.

    The MAGA Republican handed the pins out to anyone she could – including to the president himself – and made sure to get herself noticed as she heckled throughout his speech, calling on him to do as her shirt said: “Say her name!”

    It was a deliberate outfit choice – and one that took the tragic murder of the Georgia student who went for a run and politicised it to push her brand of politics……

    Mr Ibarra is not a US citizen and is an undocumented migrant.

    The 26-year-old Venezuelan migrant was arrested for “unlawfully entering” the country in September 2022, according to the ICE. He has since been accused of shoplifting in Georgia and was allegedly arrested in New York. However, the NYPD told The Independent it had no record of such an arrest.

    And so, in the wake of the attack, Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, have used Mr Ibarra’s status to exemplify the ongoing issue at the southern border and touted Riley’s brtual killing as a way to bolster their anti-migrant agenda.

    Almost as soon as the suspect’s immigration status became known, prominent Republicans quickly pushed anti-immigrant rhetoric and pointed fingers at the president.

    On Truth Social, the former president wrote:“Crooked Joe Biden’s Border INVASION is destroying our country and killing our citizens!”

    He called Mr Ibarra a “monster” who “illegally entered our Country in 2022…and then was released AGAIN by Radical Democrats in New York after injuring a CHILD!!”

    If elected president, the 2024 Republican party frontrunner promised to “immediately Seal the Border, Stop the Invasion, and on Day One, we will begin the largest deportation operation of illegal CRIMINALS in American History!”

    House Speaker Mike Johnson joined in the rhetoric on X.

    “The brutal murderer who took the life of Laken was one of the millions of illegal aliens that the Biden Administration simply released and unleashed upon our country,” he said. “The brutal murderer who took the life of Laken was one of the millions of illegal aliens that the Biden Administration simply released and unleashed upon our country.”

    Tennessee Sen Marsha Blackburn similarly wrote: “The disastrous policies and negligence of the Biden administration is putting American lives at risk!”

    Ahead of the president’s State of the Union, Georgia Republican Rep Mike Collins invited Riley’s parents as his guests. They declined.…..

    www.independent.co.uk

    How the right wing politicised the murder of Georgia student Laken Riley

    Almost as soon as the suspect’s immigration status became known, prominent Republicans quickly pushed anti-immigrant rhetoric and pointed fingers at the president’s handling of the US-Mexico border. Kelly Rissman reports
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    amazing How this is the only death they focus on. such kind compassionate people. you never see this outpouring of love for the victims of mass shooters.
     
    what it really means for the RNC is they will only back trump sluts if you dont Kowtow to the king you is not getting any money. I mean this should make the republican party even better.
     
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    bdb13 said:
    And.. as I always think to myself.. "it's Donald freakin Trump.. the guy is/was a forking joke. What the fork are you jackasses doing?"
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    This guy…people are serving time for storming the Capitol…for this guy…
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    Booker said:
    This guy…people are serving time for storming the Capitol…for this guy…
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    I can imagine a 35 year older Trump watching Jan 6th unfold the same way (with a tub of popcorn)

    I’ve said here before if there is footage of Trump that day at the White House, that’d tell you everything you need to know
     
    Taxes. Vaccinations. Chickens.

    Republican party leaders in Catoosa county, in the north-west corner of Georgia, ran prospective GOP candidates through a battery of ideological questions, permitting some to run in the party primary while denying others.

    Local political purity tests have been discussed by both Republican and Democratic party officials for years, but this is the first time a county’s political body has actually attempted the feat.

    Perhaps that’s because of the punishing backlash now facing the six executive committee members of the Catoosa county Republican party after a lawsuit from disqualified candidates: fines of $1,000 an hour, times four for the number of Republican candidates the county’s GOP body refused to put on the ballot, times six for each of the executive committee members. That’s $24,000 an hour for the whole group until they comply with a judge’s order to put the candidates on the ballot.


    “The criteria they’re using is how we vote in the commission meetings,” said Vanita Hullander, a Catoosa county commissioner initially barred by the county’s GOP leaders from running for re-election as a Republican in the 14 May primary. “They’re very manipulative, and they’ve been trying to take control of the commission for a long time.”

    Hullander is a lifelong conservative Republican, she said. But after the county party’s executive committee questioned her about votes on local tax increases, vaccination requirements and a contentious local ordinance governing where and how residents may keep chickens on their property, it declared it would not allow her on the Republican ballot line. The group also barred three others.

    Others, like Jimmy Gray, a candidate for commissioner, were not barred. Notably, Gray’s stepmother, Regina Gray, is chairwoman of the Graysville precinct of the county’s party.

    The disqualifications would have left only one person running for the chairperson’s seat: Nick Ware, a perennial candidate with hard libertarian views.…….

    The prospect of barring candidates for insufficient political fidelity has been raised by both parties at one point or another in Georgia and elsewhere. For example, North Carolina’s Democratic party is contending today with the state representative Tricia Cotham, who ran in an open Charlotte-area seat as a Democrat and then immediately switched parties to give Republicans a veto-proof supermajority.

    But a county-level process runs a risk of ideological capture by political extremists who do not reflect the politics of most voters……




    www.theguardian.com

    Republicans in Georgia put candidates through purity tests. Now they’re facing fines

    Party officials in Catoosa county required would-be commissioners to answer a series of ideological questions
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    The president of the rightwing Claremont Institute and another senior Claremont official are both closely involved with the shadowy Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), an exclusive, men-only fraternal order which aims to replace the US government with an authoritarian “aligned regime”, and which experts say is rooted in extreme Christian nationalism and religious autocracy.

    The revelations emerge from documents gathered in public records requests, including emails between several senior members of SACR: Claremont president Ryan P Williams; its director of state coalitions and Boise State University professor Scott Yenor; and others including former soap manufacturer and would-be “warlord” Charles Haywood.

    The trove also contains an “internal” SACR “mission statement” with a far more radical edge than the public “vision” now recorded on the organization’s website.

    That document speaks of recruiting a “brotherhood” who will “form the backbone of a renewed American regime” and who “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise”; whose “objectives” include to “collect, curate, and document a list of potential appointees and hires for a renewed American regime”.……
    www.theguardian.com

    Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order

    Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which experts say is rooted in Christian nationalism
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     

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