Keep in mind that the GOP is the same party that colluded with Russia to steal the election in 2016; so it will continue to lie, cheat, steal in the midterms. Why would anyone think the GOP would suddenly become ethical or law-abiding? It will again use social media to spread lies and false narratives. In fact, itâll probably be far worse than 2016 because it has learned lessons from the collusion Trump engaged in. If the main platform for misinformation is Facebook, then nothing will change; Zuck will never have anything in place to counteract the propaganda machine thatâs already churning out lies.
âOur sweeping infrastructure, combined with on-the-ground enthusiasm for President Trump and Republican policies, puts us in prime position to defend our majorities in 2018,â McDaniel said.
Really, and their candidates, staff members and volunteers will all be riding unicorns and will be met with parades and celebrations everywhere they go. Actually, I would show up to see a unicorn.
I guess he had to say that but it comes off as completely delusional.
Itâs going to be so successful McDaniel will even get her maiden name back!
Itâs April. And theyâre going to put a quarter of a billion dollars worth of infrastructure in place in the next six months. When they donât even know whether their big donors are going to pony up that kind of money in a losing cause. Yep, itâs an AP story.
If it were democrats, the story would be about how they were abandoning half the countryâs states in their plan.
Field staff in Florida will be dedicated to building relationships with the influx of Puerto Ricans who recently migrated from the hurricane-ravaged island, reminding them that it was Obama and the Democrats who refused to provide aid to the island despite the humanitarian efforts of President Trump and the GOP majority.
Seven months before Election Day, there are already 300 state-based propangandists on the RNCâs payroll, complementing the established corps at the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg. The strategy is expensive but the GOP has already raised more than $132 million from a handful of plutocrats dedicated to creating an unregulated free market that will be the greatest greed and wealth accumulation movement the world has ever seen.
We expect the recently impoverished farmers in Iowa to join the still unemployed coal miners and steel workers across the rust belt to once again show their on-the-ground enthusiasm for President Trump and Republican policies, which puts us in prime position to defend our majorities in 2018, McDaniel said.
Since Mitt is running heâs better take a look at how his niece did on one the of the MSNBC shows last week, not good, her stupidity woke me up from my resting of the eyes. I had to see, not just hear, who was so unprepared, giving stupid answers to simple questions. At one point I even thought maybe her ear piece isnât working.
RNC has been paying the legal fees of Trump et al. Now theyâve got to deal with Broidy and Cohen. Their $250 mill will be dwarfed by the DCCC, DSCC and most importantly, direct individual donations to candidates.
Completely agree. There are without doubt GOP individuals thinking hard about how to defraud the electors in November. No question about it. The combination of an imminent blue wave, huge personal financial incentives, and zero commitment to the rule of law precludes any other scenario. Barely anything has been done to safeguard voting technology from Russia, the GOPâs de facto electoral ally. And nothing would give a shock GOP victory in November more plausible cover than a loudly proclaimed but cloudy âstrategyâ to devote $250 million to âfield operationsâ of miraculous efficiency. The 2016 strategy was also miraculously efficient, it will be recalled.
That isnât to be defeatist. Dems can win this.
ââŚleaves the RNC with no additional resources to run advertising on television or the internet.â
Thatâs OK, Russia and Fox do all of that work for free, as the RNC is well aware.
Thatâs a lot of dolphin rides.
The RNC may only be donating a quarter of a billion, shaking out the couch cushions to hold their corrupt, unhinged, gerrymandered majority in the House, but not to worry: the real Party Organization will bring the investment up to well over a billion and counting by the time all is said and done, by the time the hacking is complete, the voter suppression has done its job, the agitprop has spewed, and those loyal Republican secretaries of state have declared the totals.
In my deep red state, those glossy Koch-funded mailers have been showing up in the mailbox for months already, full of smears and slime and poison that intensify wherever a race shows signs of tilting away from the wholly-owned Republican candidate, whether incumbent or challenger. The Kochs, by the way, clearly regard no race as too small for their attention and their money.
All the local news sources in this state are owned by right-wing corporate entities as well, so thereâs little danger of the news cycle getting away from the reactionaries around here.
I have an awful and growing sense that the time to have stopped this madness was, oh, say about 30 years ago: that the game has been well and truly over probably since the Gingrich ascension of 1994, certainly since Bush v Gore in 2000.
Nevertheless, I will fight on, vote, struggle, dissent, defy, and hope for the best.
So âŚwhatâs $250M in rubles ? ? âŚ
This is whatâs known in the sweet science as a feint. In real life, theyâre renting office space at Trump properties, paying settlements for NDAs and hiring lawyers. But sure, go ahead and set a quarter billion of your idle rich donorsâ cash on fire. It wonât be enough.
I wonder how much of that â250 millionâ is from Russian oligarchs.
It is mind-boggling that the MSM, and indeed the culture at large, has still not metabolized the fact that a central and by all appearances decisive GOP electoral strategy in 2016 was to weaponize stolen social media information, disseminate systematically falsified news on social media and TV, and amplify this effort by the use of Russian bots and trolls that to this day still operate as Trumpist/GOP megaphones. Thatâs not even getting into the express requests by Trump on TV for help from Russian hackers, the scanning of voting machinery, and the amount of Russian money poured into the GOP election coffers by the NRA and (we can be certain) other straw entities. There is no âmeddlingâ here. There is no minor mischief-making. There is a de facto GOP-Russia electoral alliance that is shaping to be more crucial than ever in November. When will Dems start talking about this in appropriately partisan terms?
The good news is that the GOP propaganda seems to have less effect on voting than ever. Weâve been winning in Louisiana, Virginia, Wisconsin (Koch HQ), Oklahoma, Pennsylvania. The Blue Wave cannot be stopped by dumb fliers that people throw out. Thatâs why we must be so attentive about GOP cheating at this point.
I do get the sense that many Republican voters (not the deplorables) are fed up with the politics of fear and hate. They wanted their tax cuts and they got them. And, what exactly are they going to run on?
If I were planning to steal an election I was supposed to win, this is exactly the kind of cover story Iâd create to explain my otherwise inexplicable victory to an MSM practically programmed to accept any story that doesnât sound like a âcrazy conspiracy theoryâ to them.
In fact, itâs precisely what they did in '16.
Say what? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha keep dreaming, McDaniel.
Is it me or does $250 million really not sound like that much money for the seats they have to defend?