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To the Lincoln Center Kochs, the Donald is Jed Clampett-esque…
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The Kochs only give it out to people, like Scotty Walker, who remember to keep their teeth covered whilst paying homage.
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I can’t stand the Koch’s, but why should they give anything to Trump, they have no obligation to do that.
I would think the RNC is obligated to provide any official candidate with that info. In fact, the linked article says the RNC reached out to Trump to get him the list, like any other official candidate?
The Koch’s have no such obligation or desire. So, that begs the question, “why isn’t the RNC looking to BAN organizations like Freedom Partners, if they feel they have too much power?”. A question that makes no sense since they are the ones who created the organizations…to have more power.
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I’m loving this.
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Trump, you’ve just been Koch-bloched. KOCHADOODLEDOOOO! Here, here’s a t-shirt.
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I keep thinking that Trump is the brilliant central player in an intricate power game, coordinated by diabolical masterminds who want to frame the issues even more rightward than they already are. (Trump is the goal line they can’t cross, but they’ll settle for a fieldgoal from the Scott Walker Red Zone.)
I love that story. But the facts keep undermining it.
He’s just a rich, dumb rube hollering the unfiltered wet dream of the GOP base, and who doesn’t care if his unsanctioned party burns the house down. I guess that will have to do.
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Yeah, I’d like it a lot more if the GOP circus wasn’t consuming all the air in the room, considering the advertising principal that even bad press is good press. By the time the real election kicks off, the Democrats will be asked questions like, " and why wouldn’t you want to build a 20-foot tall spiked fence along the border with Mexico?"
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icymi - This is a pretty good article about the Koch Brothers secret voter database “Inside the Koch data mine”
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“[T]he RNC’s data-sharing contract, which was offered to all Republican candidates and which has been signed by 11 of the 17.”
Is the entire contract written in blood, or only the signature, to bind a GOP candidate’s soul to Baphomet?
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Trump is playing on the Republicans’ field, and he’s playing by there rules. In my opinion, nothing justifies treating him any differently from the other candidates. And by the way, what makes Trump more offensive or less desirable than someone like Chris Christie or Ted Cruz? They don’t like Trump because he’s the loudest of the windbags? They’ve got 17 announced candidates, and offhand I can only think of two I consider even remotely presidential. Trump deserves exactly the same respect as the others, and it reflects badly on the Republican party when they treat homophobes, bigots, and talk radio celebrities better than they do him.
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Yeah, but I think the larger benefit is that we get this lengthy and nauseating spectacle of seventeen different candidates all trying to out-crazy one another in pursuing the shrinking demographic of “ig’nent blue collar white folks” and “scared elderly white folks.” Meanwhile blacks, women, gays, progressives, better-informed voters, and most especially Latinos/as are seeing this clown-car spectacle and getting more and more het-up to come out in '16 and vote against it.
I think what Bernie and Hillary are doing, respectively, is exactly what they should be doing. Feeling more and more sure of that analysis at each new GOP psychopathic episode.
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The Koch’s are pissed that their chosen lackeys Walker and Kasich are being blown out of the water in the polls by the Donald. He is ruining their attempt at world domination and they won’t stand for it.
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BECAUSE they have “too much power”.
The GOP is all about providing “too much power” to the powerful. This isn’t a conundrum: it’s a success!
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It makes sense that ANY party constructed entirely around the notion of screwing everyone outside the party (including puisne members who’ve got nothing but their registrations to show for their commitment) would be most vulnerable to collapse from within.
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Remotely is the key.
But two? Kasich, but who else?
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I’ve got to say, the best thing that could happen for the Republican party long term is for Trump to win the nomination and get totallly destroyed in the general election. Maybe they could get over their decades-long bout with insanity.
Ummm, is anyone else bothered by the fact that the Koch brothers have their own independent database about 200+ million voters in the US? A database that is equivalent to the ones of the major political parties? Something seems really peculiar about them collating that much information together…
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Well, now that you mention it …
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Wait, how can there be 250 million voters, when there are over 80 million younger than 18?
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