🤔Gee, who owns the #RNC? Oooo, ooo! Pick me! I know!🙋🏻♀️ 1/...
Via democracydocket:
BREAKING: Republican National Committee files lawsuit alleging that #Michigan's voter rolls are outdated and the state is in violation of the National Voter Registration Act. The RNC wants Michigan to purge voters before the November election.
@GottaLaff Well, yes. But I daresay that, take one, Dubya, despised at the time and admittedly for good reason, has more in common with any Democrat you can think of than with Orange Hitler.
@GottaLaff You're absolutely right, this is an alarming development in an already hair-raising series of developments. Too many Americans are ignorant of events leading to Hitler's rise to power. This is straight out of the fascist play book and it is terrifying in its implications. These days my keen interest in politics is down to 'can't look, can't look away'.
@GottaLaff Geek, do you think the guy who whined endlessly about an election being stolen from him would possibly be considering stealing an election himself?
@JonChevreau@GottaLaff #DefendantTrump got ~1 million more votes in 2020 vs 2016, despite his incompetence causing the death of ~765,000 Americans. Mitch McConnell won his election despite his lowest poll numbers ever. Lindsay Graham and Susan Collins were re-elected despite huge unfavorability numbers.
I don’t know if I’ll ever get rid of the feeling that trump’s “rigged election” claims aren’t due to the fact that they insufficiently gamed the voting machines.
This is truly quite harmful to the nation and our state of politics. Trumps goal of being Putin took a leap forward today as the RNC is now Magaland... The GOP is officially dead and coffin nailed closed with this move. Trump now runs a full political party to bend to his will and diseased outlook... this truly is a very bad day for America...
lol.. ya ya.... it's works upon occasion... generally very early in the day.
My hope is the more that the true-conservatives ala Cheney's and more moderate-Murkowski's' band up and causes the final rift that splits the party into two separate entities. That may be a huge help that helps to save democracy along with democrats... . That limits the total power that MAGA\trump will hold as a full political party.
Yes... and I'm going to guess the heritage foundation has their hands deeply involved in this already and knowing their only chance to win is election fraud and theft... will run hard with that just as fast as they possible can..
@GottaLaff I still maintain that Trump's takeover of the RNC isn't going to help the GOP's chances, because he'll loot it: siphon off money to pay his legal bills instead of campaign expenses. The Michigan GOP could have brought exactly this same kind of lawsuit without the RNC.
@GottaLaff@not2b My attitude: "Only most of the people in MAGA world are incompetent grifters."
In other words: yes, a huge chunk are just there to use any mechanism they can to funnel cash to themselves.
But there are also real, competent, nefarious people in that world (see the Operation 2025 folks) who aren't there for the grift -- they're there for the facism. And they'll do real damage.
@danciruli A lot of them. We applied for PR in Canada back in 2018 or 2019 for a reason. I started worrying enough to convince my family back in 2015-16. @not2b
@GottaLaff@not2b I do have to wonder how much collateral damage he’ll cause while taking down the RNC with him. I don’t think it’ll be limited to just republicans.
@GottaLaff
You are dead right to have those nagging doubts.
A zombie or fully theofascist party could still come to power, and even if they fail to capture the presidency, they could gain local power all over the place and bring the country to a grinding halt.
Think of Jan 6s all over the place, armed people showing up at local statehouses, and regular little putsch attempts. Think of ongoing stalemate in Congress, endless obstruction, and infinitely looping outrage storms
The RNC had only $8 mil cash on hand per their january reports. That's like, two medium House races worth of cash. Yeah, mangolini will steal it, but it's a rounding error WRTG his "needs". Also who (among Americans) is going to donate to the RNC knowing that money will go to mangolini's expenses, not winning lege majorities.
> The Michigan GOP could have brought exactly this same kind of lawsuit without the RNC.
No, they can't, because they're broke and spending what little time and money they have on a leadership shitfight.
It's the firing of 60 staffers that will cause the most damage. You can't rebuild state & county relationships over night.
Running an effective coordinated campaign requires coordination that's hard enough when you know most of the people involved, their strengths and weaknesses.
When you're coming in blind and starting from scratch in April? Good luck.
@GottaLaff
Here, here!
You can’t take your eyes off these “destroyer of (political)worlds”.
It just “burns my buns” the bs they try to pull.
I know our Sec. of State & AG will do their part…
But so must we…
And AWAY we go! I hadn't seen that coming, using the RNC as a legal attack base. They're wasting no time, laying down their smoke screen. Marc Elias has his flank to worry about, now. Democratic state committees better hear the klaxons going off!
This is going to perturb the entire fundraising landscape, as Trump drags the Dems into legal fights on what will be all conceivable fronts. We're going to either need independent war chests, or Trump can decimate the DNC funds, just like he has the RNC's.
@skydog@GottaLaff
Why don't the courts just say no. After 2020 and 2022, I believe everyone is aware that these "lawsuits" are not valid in any way. The RNC does not have control over State election policy. Why does anyone appease them? I don't get it.
@skydog@GottaLaff The courts should require evidence to open any of these "voter fraud" cases. These frivolous lawsuits cost taxpayers a lot of money and tie up the courts. Raise the requirements. Why wouldn't we? The RNC does not deserve deference as previous bad actions have proven. They are not legitimate, especially NOW!
I don't understand what's happening to the RNC and worse yet, why no one in the party seems to be voicing concern. People are okay with what appears to be the foundation for setting up a dictatorship... install your family everywhere and your close allies.
So, I started reading Disproven, by Ken Block, who was hired by the Trump campaign to look into data driven claims of voter fraud in 2020. The book was released yesterday. On p. 10 he says "States that do not provide full dates of birth in their voter files should be sued in advance of the election in order to secure the data necessary to properly evaluate results."
The book so far is pretty reasonably argued, but this seems like a weird coincidence.
@GottaLaff shades of Florida 2000 - outsource the voter rolls review to a previously unknown company and remove any name similar to a felon.
Send the list to other states, remove more felon-adjacent names.
The SCOTUS has your back.
More performative jackassery. They think they're laying some kind of bullshit groundwork for their next act of treason in November when Biden kicks the tangerine twattgrabbers ass.
I honestly don't even know why they keep up the pretense. EVERYONE knows exactly what they're doing and they certainly don't seem to be shy about admitting their fascist, anti-citizen agenda, but I guess admitting that they're fomenting another coup attempt is slightly over the line, even for MAGAts.
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@GottaLaff But that was the "motor voter" act, requiring states to make it easier to register to vote. How does having allegedly outdated registrations violate the law, and why should that require that the rolls be purged? Seems like a "Hail Mary" to me, but maybe there is something I don't get.
@GottaLaff I guess my question is whether the lawsuit will be instantly tossed or if it has any chance of having an effect, but we'd need a legal expert to address that.
Re-question: Are there any Republicans?
Nope. The Republican Party no longer exists. It's now the MAGAt Party (or the-party-formerly-known-as-Republican).
They may keep calling themselves "republicans" but these are the same asswhipes who call themselves "christian" and "patriots" so, no. There is no longer a Republican Party.
@HistoPol@CindyS@steveo1049@GottaLaff or if he loses. I can totally see Trump blaming his loss on "Deep State Republicans" and declaring that the only answer is to "start over with a brand new party."
Of course, he won't actually start anything over because that would be hard and cost money. But a re-branding in service of his continued grift?
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