US Politics: all the progressive's fault

[IheartIheartTesla]

Speaking of Trump, there are some new polls that seem to indicate support for him even within the Republican party has eroded a fair bit. Not sure if this has to do with Pence's comments, or the fact that he has to flush 15 times or is just a fleeting chimera, but just thought I'd share.

[Zorral]

3 minutes ago, IheartIheartTesla said:

support for him even within the Republican party has eroded a fair bit

Polls say the same thing about Biden and the Dems, alas.

[Ormond]

Sorry to bother you all again, but I have nowhere else appropriate to share these Trump emails and I find some too amazing not to share somewhere-- Also, in just the last ten days or so their number has greatly increased. I am getting several every day now. I wonder if it is getting harder for them to raise money so they are more desperately sending out these things to people on their list. 

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I could not wait a minute longer to send you this email.

While millions of Americans are realizing that Joe Biden and the radical Left have brought our nation to the brink of ruin, I am working day and night to SAVE OUR NATION.

Everything great I’ve ever done is because of loyal Patriots like YOU, which is why I am pleased to invite you to join my Inner Friend Circle.

The select few in my Inner Friend Circle will be exposed to confidential information - information that I trust will not be shared with anyone else - and are the ones I will rely on to tell me the TRUTH.

I am only inviting a very small number of Patriots to join. Invitations do not come around often, Friend, so please do not take this lightly.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY and you’ll instantly join the ranks in my Inner Friend Circle. >>It’s important you know that our movement is far from over. In fact, it’s only just begun.

I’m going to send important information to my Inner Friend Circle very soon. Make sure you join IMMEDIATELY, or you’ll miss it.

Contribute RIGHT NOW to join my Inner Friend Circle and get on the official roster.

 

 

[A Horse Named Stranger]

Get on the rooster? FFS, this is not LeBron James considering picking you for the All Star Game.

I'd really like to see where all the money from those donations actually goes. 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

52 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Get on the rooster? FFS, this is not LeBron James considering picking you for the All Star Game.

I'd really like to see where all the money from those donations actually goes. 

Into Trump’s pockets.

[Zorral]

New Yorker Magazine interviews AOC.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-an-insider-now

 

[Jaxom 1974]

Every time I see one of those TFG letters, I think of James Michener's novel Space and the character of the Senator's wife who falls prey to a charlatan who uses little green men as a bogey to frighten people out of their money...and each letter that is presented in the story reads just like one of those campaign donation letters...

[Durckad]

2 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Into Trump’s pockets.

Pretty sure even the die-hard Trump cultists wouldn't want to get on THAT rooster.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

I’m sure we are all terribly surprised to hear Sarah Palin’s defamation law suit against the NY Times has been dismissed:

https://apple.news/A8fW_gSF9TzG_a2bfhV2dzg

[DMC]

4 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

I'd really like to see where all the money from those donations actually goes. 

To his political organization, where he's amassed $122 million in his war chest.

16 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

I’m sure we are all terribly surprised to hear Sarah Palin’s defamation law suit against the NY Times has been dismissed:

Pretty weird he dismissed the case while the jury was out deliberating a verdict.

23 hours ago, IheartIheartTesla said:

Speaking of Trump, there are some new polls that seem to indicate support for him even within the Republican party has eroded a fair bit.

Yeah the CNN/SSRS poll released yesterday was particularly eye-popping.  When asked who should be the GOP nominee in 2024, 50% of Republican (and Republican leaners) voters said Trump and 49% said a different candidate.  Interestingly, electability still seems to be a thing even in Trump's GOP - while 39% of those that said a different candidate cited they don't want him to be president as their reason, 22% cited that they don't think he can win - and most of the other reasons that respondents cited are electability related.

Compare this to March 2018 when 77% of Republican-leaning voters wanted to renominate Trump.  It's very clear Trump's "support" - in the tangible way of him getting renominated - is significantly receding, even if he remains extremely popular among GOP voters.  If that number drops a bit more, say to 40-45%, over the next 12-16 months, suddenly Trump's inevitable renomination doesn't look so inevitable in the slightest.

[Centrist Simon Steele]

5 hours ago, Zorral said:

New Yorker Magazine interviews AOC.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-an-insider-now

 

I was going to say that's a terrible headline, but she is facing so much BS from "leftists" like Jimmy Dore and Briana Joy Gray (plus a bunch of their followers), I guess it makes sense.

[Zorral]

2 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Sarah Palin’s defamation law suit against the NY Times has been dismissed

Not quite.  At 5:24 today the judge said he'd dismiss the suit if the jury found for Palin.  And then, he says, she'll appeal. The jury's gone home until tomorrow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/business/sarah-palin-new-york-times.html

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

1 minute ago, Zorral said:

Not quite.  At 5:24 today the judge said he'd dismiss the suit if the jury found for Palin.  And then, he says, she'll appeal. The jury's gone home until tomorrow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/business/sarah-palin-new-york-times.html

Thank you for that clarification.  It’s the “13th Juror Doctrine”.

[Zorral]

And this just in!

"Accounting Firm Cuts Ties With Trump and Retracts Financial Statements
The firm, Mazars USA, said in a letter that it could no longer stand behind the annual statements, which are central to an investigation by the New York attorney general."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyregion/mazars-trump-organization-financial-statements.html

 

 

[A Horse Named Stranger]

12 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Into Trump’s pockets.

Obviously. But I'd love to see all the transactions of that PAC being leaked to the public. Quickest way to finally disperse of his Klan would be, if there was evidence for let's say half of the political donations finding it's way into Donnie's private accounts.

[DMC]

20 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

But I'd love to see all the transactions of that PAC being leaked to the public.

The Super PAC(s) Trump is running has to disclose expenditure reports to the FEC, which are then publicly available.  Nothing needs to be leaked.

The link above details his spending - and it's been paltry to say the least.  $1.7 million on legal expenses, $1 million to the lobbying firm Mark Meadows now works at (Jim DeMint's), some very generous payments to aides, and very minimal donations to preferred candidates.  Mostly, though, he's sitting on it.  First, to demonstrate he's the one that will bankroll GOP candidates this November - he has more than twice the cash on hand compared to the RNC.  Second, probably, to sit on it even after the midterms and either use it for his own campaign (which technically isn't legal, but there are ways to work around that) or then disburse it to his own people.

Sure he may be "pocketing" the donations, but that would mean underreporting how much money he's been raising.  I really don't see Trump doing that.  Considering all he can do with the money perfectly legally, he doesn't really need to.

[ThinkerX]

1 hour ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Obviously. But I'd love to see all the transactions of that PAC being leaked to the public. Quickest way to finally disperse of his Klan would be, if there was evidence for let's say half of the political donations finding it's way into Donnie's private accounts.

Such revelations will have no effect on the bulk of Trumps base.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

Just now, DMC said:

The Super PAC(s) Trump is running has to disclose expenditure reports to the FEC, which are then publicly available.  Nothing needs to be leaked.

The link above details his spending - and it's been paltry to say the least.  $1.7 million on legal expenses, $1 million to the lobbying firm Mark Meadows now works at (Jim DeMint's), some very generous payments to aides, and very minimal donations to preferred candidates.  Mostly, though, he's sitting on it.  First, to demonstrate he's the one that will bankroll GOP candidates this November - he has more than twice the cash on hand compared to the RNC.  Second, probably, to sit on it even after the midterms and either use it for his own campaign (which technically isn't legal, but there are ways to work around that) or then disburse it to his own people.

Sure he may be "pocketing" the donations, but that would mean underreporting how much money he's been raising.  I really don't see Trump doing that.  Considering all he can do with the money perfectly legally, he doesn't really need to.

Trump is a con artist. So him not 100% complying with FEC regulations doesn't strike me as out of character. Him making big announcements of bankrolling his preferred candidates only to leave them hanging out to dry and then boldly claim he didn't is a distinct possibility in my book.

Use it for his own campaign in a few years, that I can believe. 

I can also see him trying to pull some wild barely legal construct, with his PAC paying out money to candidates, which they'd have to reimburse him (personally) for later (may 40 cents on the Dollar or something).

[DMC]

2 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Trump is a con artist. So him not 100% complying with FEC regulations doesn't strike me as out of character.

I'm definitely not saying Trump wouldn't do anything illegal if he thought it'd benefit him.  My point is the money is already, effectively, in his pocket.  At least for now.  Plus, Trump is also an egomaniac, and underreporting how much money he's raising would be out of character.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

Just now, DMC said:

I'm definitely not saying Trump wouldn't do anything illegal if he thought it'd benefit him.  My point is the money is already, effectively, in his pocket.  At least for now.  Plus, Trump is also an egomaniac, and underreporting how much money he's raising would be out of character.

Depends on how you define effectively. There's limits to what he can do with his money. So he can't really sink any of it in a casino project in Atlantic City. 

Can he use it to start up his social media platform, tho. Genuine question, if he claims it's to promote political campaigns. My gut instinct tells me, probably not. But in the US a lot of stuff appears to be legalish.