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It’s Official! Let The Fun Begin!

Finally and mercifully the RNC convention came to an end…..this Majesty ended this thing with a speech of acceptance….OMG!~ the length…..92 agonizing minutes in total.

At first it was and acceptable speech and even thought there was truth in the desire for unity….and that was what I get for thinking things would change after the ear piercing.

Before we got the honor of his majesty we had to site through the boring speeches by the slithering throngs of Trumpites…..Hulk Hogan, the octogenarian wrestler, entertained the crowd of low intelligent morons by ripping his classic shirt off…I should go on….but why the speeches were a bunch of canned crap about the border and Biden and Dems and….well use your imagination.

Let’s move on to his majesty’s acceptance speech…..like I said a rambling mess of accusations with no proof of statement.

Here we go….hang on to your ‘nads.

Donald Trump accepted his party’s presidential nomination for the third time on Thursday and gave a speech written in the days after the attempt on his life. His was the longest televised presidential acceptance speech ever, at one hour and 33 minutes, ending at 11:05pm CT. The previous record belonged to Trump; he set it in 2016 with a 75-minute speech. With his ear still bandaged, Trump was joined on stage by the firefighter’s uniform that belonged to Corey Comperatore, who was killed at the Saturday rally. Trump touched on topics ranging from COVID and his classified-documents case to inflation and the border and went off-script repeatedly. Standout lines:

  • “Four months from now we will have an incredible victory and we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country. … I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.”
  • already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened, tell us what happened, please, and therefore, I’ll tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.”
  • “I heard a whizzing sound and felt something hit me really really hard on my right ear. … I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack. … Bullets were continuing to fly and brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage … and pounced on top of me so I would be protected. I felt very safe because I had God on my side. The amazing thing is that prior to the shot if I had not moved my head at that very last instant … I would not be here tonight.”
  • “Nobody [in the crowd] ran and by not stampeding many lives were saved. They knew I was in very serious trouble and thought actually most did that I was dead. They knew it was a shot to the head and they saw the blood. … The ears are the bloodiest part, they bleed more than any other part of the body, the doctors told me. … This beautiful crowd they didn’t want to leave me and you can see that love written all over their faces. … Bullets were flying over us yet I felt serene.”
  • “I will end our illegal immigration crisis by closing our border and building our wall. … We have to stop the invasion into our country that is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year. I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created,” specifying Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza.
  • “If you took the 10 worst presidents of the United States and added it up they would not have done the damage that Biden has done.”
  • “I will bring back the American dream. You don’t even hear about the American dream anymore. With great humility I am asking you to be excited about our future, be excited.”
  • Trump said he was the first president in modern times to start no new wars. “There was peace in Europe and the Middle East. Under President Bush, Russia invaded Georgia. Under President Obama, Russia took Crimea. Under the current administration, Russia is after all of Ukraine. Under President Trump, Russia took nothing. We defeated 100% of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, something that was going to take five years, and I did it in two months. I stopped the missile launches from North Korea.”
  • “With our victory in November, our years of war and chaos would be over. … I could stop wars with just a telephone call.”
  • “America is on the cusp of a new Golden Age, but we must have the courage to seize it … we have to produce massive amounts of energy if we’re going to produce the new … AI needs tremendous, literally twice the energy that’s available now in our country, can you imagine?”
  • “Just a few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended. And yet here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise, and a total renewal of a thing we love very much, it’s called America. We live in a world of miracles. None of us knows God’s plan, or where life’s adventure will take us.”
  • “But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we love.”
  • “For too long our nation settled for too little … You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. I am here tonight with the opposite message. Your expectations are not big enough. It is time to start expecting and demanding the best leadership in the world. Leadership that is bold … as long as our energies are spent fighting each other our destiny will remain out of reach and that’s not acceptable.”

What can I say?

Nothing has changed his rhetoric is the same as his 2 previous nominations….the call of unity flew down the political toilet.

I am still searching for the stats on his claim of hundreds of thousands killed by illegal immigrants…..so far nothing to confirm that POS.

He got as much mileage out of the assassination attempt as he could….he milked it for the all it was worth.

Finally I heard lots words but nothing I could point to as policy….promises that mean literally nothing but crowd fodder.

That was 92 minutes of pure crap but a junkie like me listened to it all and then had to visit the porcelain library….

Now I await the Dems moment in the sun….what will it be…Joe or his replacement?

Stay tuned

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Vance Off And Running

So far the RNC convention has been a collection of Trumpites babbling their way through their allotted time and then came the highlight of the night….the VP candidate speech…..OMG! Such bullshit spread with a pinch of chest thumping.

YAWN!  Ah–choo….sorry I am allergic to bullshit!

He rambled and I thought I would have to rip my ears off to get him to shut up….he had lots to say and none of it was anything a thinking person would agree with on any level.

Introducing himself to the nation after being tapped as Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance used his Wednesday night address to the Republican National Convention to share the story of his hardscrabble upbringing and make the case that his party best understands the challenges facing struggling Americans. In his first prime-time address since Trump made his pick, the 39-year-old Ohio senator cast himself as fighter for a forgotten working class, making a direct appeal to the Rust Belt voters who helped drive Trump’s surprise 2016 victory and voicing their anger and frustration. Standout lines from the AP:

  • The first millennial on a major-party ticket, Vance spent much of his speech talking up Trump and going after Biden, using his relative youth to draw a contrast with the 81-year-old president. “Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington as long as I’ve been alive. For half a century he’s been a champion of every single policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer.”
  • “Never in my wildest imagination could I have believed that I’d be standing here tonight,” Vance said. He shared his story of growing up poor in Kentucky and Ohio, his mother addicted to drugs and his father absent. He later joined the Marines, graduated from Yale Law School, and went on to the highest levels of US politics—an embodiment of an American dream he said is in now in short supply.
  • The Hill reports the personal details he shared included references to “Mamaw,” the grandmother who helped raise him, and his mother, who has been sober for the last decade and was greeted with cheers of “JD’s mom!” as she was seated.
  • The Wall Street Journal reports he ended his speech by sharing the story of proposing to his wife, the daughter of South Asian immigrants. “We were in law school, and I said, ‘Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky.'”
  • He spoke more about his Appalachian background, and said, “In small towns like mine in Ohio, or next door in Pennsylvania, or in Michigan, in states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and children were sent to war. To the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and every corner of our nation, I promise you this: I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.”

He paints a great picture as the poor kid from down the street….manure all was manure!

Let me look at a couple of his positions that need addressing…..why?  Because they are fucking insane.  First housing crisis….his cure is to deport 20 million people.

Now, he even cites Trump’s campaign promise to deport between 15 and 20 million people as a way to address the nation’s housing affordability crisis.

In a tweet responding to the allegation that conservatives have few plans to address rising housing costs, Vance argued that cracking down on immigration would go a long way.

read more….

https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-deport-20-million-immigrants-reduce-home-prices-rents-2024-7

You think that is crazy how about his voting rights position?

This Yutz believes that childfree people should not have the same voting rights as people with children…..that’s right with this d/bag your voting rights would be in jeopardy if you have decided not to have children.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/jd-vance-childless-left-voting-power-parents

Nothing about this man stands out other than he is a massive POS.

But wait!  The Big Cheese speaks tonight (oh the joy of the Big Cheese)

If you vote for this ticket then you should have a lobotomy for the good of the nation.

For god’s sake the future of this country is at stake please reconsider your support for this person and his running mate….old ‘whats his name’.

Learn the candidate’s positions….they will not change after the election.

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A Rambling Babbling Sort Of Night

As a political junkie I have been watching the RNC convention not out of interest but rather out of concern….and my concern is well founded.

The one thing after 3 days is a lot of chest thumping from low IQ pronates with nothing substantial other than platitudes and all that gets drooling applause and chants from the adoring crowd.

But I have noticed that the party has tweaked its positions somewhat…..

The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week is not just a celebration or a crowning of the party’s presidential ticket. It’s a realignment. Republican positions are no longer standard conservative down the line; the party is turning toward economic populism, for instance, Politico reports. And longstanding relationships with business and unions are changing. The remodeling is driven partly by societal and demographic changes and an attempt at building a broader coalition. The result is a party that its leaders from the 1970s wouldn’t recognize, Stuart Rothenberg writes in an opinion piece in Roll Call. “I think what we’re witnessing now is a full on frontal assault on conservatism,” said Marc Short, who was chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan puts the change another way, saying: “I think President Trump has made our party what it always should have been, which is a populist party rooted in conservative principles.” Examples of the sometimes-awkward shift include:

  • Abortion: Organizations working against abortion access objected to the more cryptic plank in the party’s platform, which mostly reiterates Donald Trump’s most recent stance of letting states decide the issue. Those organizations, and delegates, dropped their opposition to the revised wording. “This platform is a platform that is responsive and supportive of where America is actually at,” said one delegate.
  • Unions: The convention heard from a Teamster for the first time ever. Union President Sean O’Brien’s speech was a shock to the GOP system, ripping Right to Work laws and corporations as “the biggest recipients of welfare in this country.” He referred to the Chamber of Commerce as “unions for big business.” Party leaders are reaching out to unions, though polls show little support for that in the party at large, per a Washington Post analysis. “I was starting to squirm a little bit on some of that stuff, but I also know how you blend that, and that’s what makes up my support,” said Indiana Sen. Mike Braun. “And that doesn’t mean you take the most outrageous stuff that he might have said, but you don’t dismiss some of the rest of it, and you find a new coalition.”
  • Ukraine: The speakers Wednesday night “went a step further,” Short said, giving the example of those who essentially said “NATO was at fault for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.” That follows the lead of Vance, who once said, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” There’s no mention of Ukraine in the platform, though polls show Republicans have no objection to the amount of aid provided by the US.
  • Marriage: There’s no mention in the platform anymore about marriage being between one man and one woman, either. It does express support for “a culture that values the sanctity of marriage” and “the foundational role of families.” That appears to be a loss for one segment of the party.

So far my biggest WTF? was the Teamsters boss speech…..not something you would expect to hear at a GOP function.

So far all in all it is a collection of rambling and babbling nonsense.

Sorry anyone that votes for these clowns has a crack problem or they are just plain stupid.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

2024–The RNC Promises

Things you need to know before you vote.

For god’s sake know what you are voting for in November!

Not much has been written yet about the new platform for the 2024 election by the RNC…..promises with no solutions offered.

The first promise (read….Lie) is a return to commonsense.

Seriously?

Then it goes on to list 20 planks of the party….

To make clear our commitment, we offer to the American people the 2024 GOP Platform to Make America Great Again!

It is a forward-looking Agenda that begins with the following twenty promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate.  (There you have it……only if they control both Houses and the White House….if not then all bets are off.)


1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION

How will you do this?


2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY


3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN

Explain the plan to make this happen


4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!


5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER


6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!

From the GOP?  I will believe it when I see!


7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS,
INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR
ARMS

This is pure horse manure!


8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A
GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY — ALL MADE IN AMERICA

What’s the plan for this situation?


9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

How so?


10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG
VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDER

How will this be accomplished?

11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL
AGAIN.

What will be the magic bullet (no pun intended) to accomplish this feat?


12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST
AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD

How much more cash will we waste on this pipe dream”?  How much tax payer dollars will be siphoned off for the War Department?


13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY


14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO
CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE

This does not sound like something the GOP would even consider…..this one is the most suspicious of the lot.


15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS


16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER
IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR
CHILDREN

This is so much lies upon lies…..and the perfect way to control the future by indoctrinating the young…..does this sound familiar I asked of those that have a little historical knowledge.


17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS


18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN

Deport American citizens that oppose genocide….How?


19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS,
AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP

Sounds more like a state problem than a federal one…..and a typical GOP outright lie.


20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS

This is my favorite….how will they accomplish this when hatred is a primary motivator?  The only thing broken in this country is our political discourse….where ignorance is being cultivated and the crop is stupidity.

Who wrote this sh*t?

Which one of these planks will improve your life and standing?

This is typical BS from the GOP…. tell them everything and deliver nothing.

Do not tell me what you will do but rather tell me how you will accomplish to end result…..is how I evaluate this stuff.

At what point do we stop buying into these fanciful statements and start looking for answers to the country’s problems…..none of the 20 planks are those answers.

Stop being a cult member and following some loud mouth bozo blindly and look to your neighbor and vote to improve his life and in doing so you will improve yours.

Stop being a fool!

Stop being a useful idiot!

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As Usual Late To The Game

Back in January the Heritage Foundation released its ‘plan’ for the GOP to destroy our long standing institutions…..Project 2025 lays out a plan for the GOP to embrace…..in case you have not got up to snuff….

Project 2025

For the last 6 months or so the ‘plan’ has been batted around within the GOP and the Dems slept through the rollout and now the Dems are doing what they do best….to late to the game…..

A group of congressional Democrats on Tuesday launched a task force aimed at spotlighting and combating the threat posed by Project 2025, the sprawling far-right agenda crafted by allies of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

Spearheaded by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), the Stop Project 2025 Task Force “will serve as a central hub for pro-democracy Members of Congress, civil society, and affected communities to coordinate on examining, highlighting, preempting, and counteracting this right-wing plot to undermine democracy,” Huffman’s office said in a press release.

“Project 2025 is more than an idea, it’s a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will,” said Huffman. “This is an unprecedented embrace of extremism, fascism, and religious nationalism, orchestrated by the radical right and its dark money backers.”

“We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it’s too late, ” the congressman added.”Through this task force, leaders across the ideological spectrum and experts in every policy area that’s under attack are uniting to protect democracy as we know it. Donald Trump and those behind Project 2025 are ready to turn America into a theocratic regime if they get the chance—and we are going to be ready to stop them.”

The congressional effort was launched with the backing of several prominent Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)—the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee—and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

“Project 2025 is Donald Trump’s blueprint for destroying our democracy,” said Jayapal. “It attacks the very foundations that this country was built on and seeks to limit Americans’ rights to further embolden MAGA extremists. We can and must stand up to ensure that Project 2025 never sees the light of day, and instead ensure that our Proposition Agenda, bold, progressive, and popular policies, are at the forefront.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/stop-project-2025-task-force

A task force?

Seriously?

A bit late you idiots the time to start this process was when they released the ‘plan’ months ago.

Dems do this all the time…..wait and try to make a difference in a short space of time and it seldom works out for them….they never learn.

Something to think about….the Dems have held task force and summits on climate and look how disastrous that has been.

The Dems have some great ideas they just suck at politics.

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“lego ergo scribo”

RNC Job Interview

Who did not see this coming?

If you watch politics this is not a surprise….but it is a major news story….and a source of humor for people like me.

We have new leadership for the RNC, Trump has his people entrenched in control over party politics….no one will buck ‘The Boss’….this means they need to hire more people to help lead the rush to whatever it is that Trump envisions for the US.

If you need a job and are considering applying to the RNC you might want to have a heads up….

Republican National Committee employees let go in a “bloodbath” earlier this month are being allowed to reapply for their jobs—and insiders say they’ve been startled by one of the interview questions. Sources tell the Washington Post and the New York Times that Trump advisers conducting the interviews have asked: “Do you think the 2020 election was stolen?” The question about Trump’s false claim is seen as a “litmus test” for loyalty to the former president, the Post notes.

  • RNC spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez did not deny the question had been asked. “Candidates who worked on the front line in battleground states or are currently in states where fraud allegations have been prevalent were asked about their work experience,” she said in a statement. “We want experienced staff with meaningful views on how elections are won and lost and real experience-based opinions about what happens in the trenches.”
  • Insiders tell the Post the question was “open-ended,” though one former RNC employee says: “But if you say the election wasn’t stolen, do you really think you’re going to get hired?” The Times‘ sources say most of the applicants told interviewers there were some irregularities and changes to procedures in 2020 that were cause for concern.
  • The Trump campaign “has effectively merged its operations with the RNC,” CNN reports, and potential hires were told they might have to move to West Palm Beach, Florida, where the campaign is based.
  • “Donald Trump is demanding fealty to his extreme, antidemocratic beliefs to be part of his Republican Party,” Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement.
  • Trump installed loyal supporter Michael Whatley and daughter-in-law Lara Trump as co-chairs of the RNC earlier this month. On Tuesday, Lara Trump told NBC News that the party is “past” litigating the 2020 election. “The past is the past, and unfortunately, we had to learn a couple of hard lessons in 2020,” she said. “Believe me, we are applying them all across this country in every single state, and we want to ensure that, indeed, every single legal vote is counted.”

Also keep in mind Project 2025….the playbook for a Trump presidency….

Project 2025

Just a reminder of what could come.  You want to be terrified then read this playbook.

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Give Us That Old-Time Purge

Just like the days of old when the USSR purged people by Stalin or Kim in North Korea purging opponents or China purging dissent to policies….the RNC seems to be solidifying Trump’s control….

It’s been just a few days since the Republican National Committee welcomed its new leadership—including Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of former President Trump—but big moves are already afoot. Politico reports on a “bloodbath” at the RNC, with sources telling the outlet that more than five dozen staffers in the communications, data, and political departments are being fired—including five of the committee’s more senior members, though they haven’t yet been named. Cuts were also made to vendor contracts, as well as to staffers that managed the RNC’s community centers, which did outreach to minority groups in blue states, per the AP.

“During this process, certain staff are being asked to resign and reapply for a position on the team,” Sean Cairncross, the RNC’s new COO, said in a letter to employees, adding that the shake-up was meant to “ensure the building is aligned” with the committee’s new vision. In addition to these other developments, the Trump campaign is prepping to merge its operations with that of the RNC, which would mark “an unprecedented level of integration between the former president’s campaign and the GOP’s formal political and fundraising apparatus,” per the AP. In addition to Lara Trump, North Carolina Republican chief Michael Whatley will co-chair the RNC, with political consultant Chris LaCivita named as the group’s new chief of staff.

LaCivita and others celebrated the news of the RNC shift, proclaiming it to be necessary in the name of streamlining an overly bureaucratic organization. Other prominent Republicans also weighed in. “MAGA is now in control of the Republican Party!!” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted late Tuesday on X. Not everyone was happy about the change. “Gutting a committee just before the election seems insane,” one ex-RNC worker tells the Washington Post. Staffers who don’t intend to reapply for their jobs will be asked to leave at the end of March, though some were asked to vacate RNC offices on Monday, per the AP.

Any excuse to rid the RNC of any disloyal followers.

But this is not the first time Trumpers have gone on a witch hunt….think back to 2016 (don’t bother I wrote about it and you can read for yourselves)

Is This A Purge?

Let’s see…sign a loyalty pledge and purges….does that sound like democracy at work?

Not for me.

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Closing Thought–16Aug21

Would you wear a t-shirt that says MORON?

Well the GOP is selling shirts to raise money that state “MORON”……

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is attempting to fundraise off House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) calling him a “moron” last month for criticizing a mask mandate in Congress’ lower chamber.

And it’s going exactly how’d you’d expect.

Several reporters noticed on Thursday that McCarthy, through WinRed, was selling red T-shirts with the word “moron” printed on them in large bold letters.

Below the word, the shirt says: “A term coined by Nancy Pelosi referring to freedom-loving Americans who oppose mask mandates.”

The call to action on the WinRed page urges people to donate between $25 and $2,900, the maximum allowed.

“Nancy Pelosi JUST CALLED Kevin McCarthy a ‘moron’ for opposing the mask mandate. You’re a top patriot and HE NEEDS YOU to get this t-shirt to oppose HER & the Radical Socialist Left,” the page reads.

People online mocked McCarthy for hawking the T-shirts, with many people pointing out that the whole thing felt like a giant self-own.

.@GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy is selling t-shirts emblazoned with the word ‘moron.’ Well, Kevin, if the t-shirt fits,” one Twitter user wrote.

“I thought I was having a bad day, then I saw Kevin McCarthy is trying to get his supporters to buy shirts that say moron on them,” another person tweeted.

“Oh, this is rich. This is REAL. Kevin McCarthy is fundraising by getting his constituents and supporters to wear a red shirt that says ‘MORON’ on it. They’re going to be easy to spot,” one Twitter user chimed in with.

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Most people will stop reading after the word MORON…..

For once the GOP will be telling the truth!

Apparently the advisers to the GOP are not the sharpest pencils in the box…..

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Trump Makes Demands Of RNC

Trump is finally attempting to flex those flabby muscles….well at least politically……

Former President Donald Trump has reportedly told the largest GOP fundraising entities to stop using his name. Per CNN, lawyers for Trump recently sent a cease and desist letter to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, demanding that they stop using his name and likeness on fundraising outreach and merch. The news comes a day after Politico reported that Trump was “furious” over the organizations’ use of his name because it could help some of the Republicans who voted to impeach him following January’s attack on the Capitol.

The groups have not commented on the letter, but a Trump adviser told Politico that Trump’s commitment to the GOP “doesn’t give anyone – friend or foe – permission to use his likeness without explicit approval.” Meanwhile, Trump’s recent reemergence at CPAC might have hinted at where he’d like donations to go instead. In his first speech since leaving office, the former president encouraged loyalists to give directly to him, saying, “There’s only one way to contribute to our efforts to elect ‘America First’ Republican conservatives and, in turn, to make America great again. And that’s through Save America PAC and donaldjtrump.com.”
The RNC has responded to Trump’s demand…..

The Republican National Committee’s reply to former President Trump? Nope. The RNC responded to the cease-and-desist letter it received from Trump’s attorneys by asserting, in its own reply letter, it has the right to use Trump’s name and likeness in its fundraising appeals, and that it has no plans to stop doing so, Politico reports. Trump’s lawyers sent similar letters to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, neither of which have yet publicly responded. Trump and the RNC have worked closely together on fundraising in the past, but Trump wants to use the 2022 elections to retaliate against Republicans who he thinks were disloyal to him, and has spoken out against his supporters donating to “RINOs” (Republicans In Name Only), CBS News reports.

Recent RNC fundraising appeals have included lines like “DEFEND President Trump’s America First policies” and “defend President Trump’s legacy.” In its response to the cease-and-desist, the RNC says Trump and RNC chair Ronna McDaniel “enjoy a close relationship, and we understand that President Trump reaffirmed to her over the weekend that he approves of the RNC’s current use of his name in fundraising and other materials, including for our upcoming donor retreat event at Palm Beach at which we look forward to him participating.” Some senior Republicans have speculated the cease-and-desist was not driven by Trump himself but rather those surrounding him. Trump has, however, recently said there’s “only one way” his supporters should be donating money, and that’s by giving directly to him.

This is a small setback for Donald the Orange….but you can bet he is not finished with his attempts to control the party in its entirety……

Trump is attempting to takeover the GOP….(I think it is too late to use the term ‘attempting’)

Donald Trump isn’t happy the Republican Party won’t purge members who haven’t been totally loyal to him. And of late, he’s doing more about it than he did when he’d channel his anger by posting mean tweets.

Days ago, lawyers representing Trump took the extraordinary step of demanding the Republican National Committee (RNC) and other prominent GOP groups cease and desist using Trump’s name and likeness. The RNC denied the request, citing Trump’s status as a public figure, and Trump responded Monday night with a tweet-like statement asking supporters to give to him instead of to the party.

“No money for RINOS,” the statement begins, referring to an acronym for “Republicans in name only,” which for Trump has come to mean anyone who isn’t totally loyal to him.

https://www.vox.com/22321215/trump-rnc-cease-and-desist-fundraising-feud-purge

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2020 GOP Convention–Day 4

Three down and one final day for the RNC and the GOP give a scenario for a united and secure nation….(spoiler alert:  they failed)

Tonight Trump will officially accept the nomination of the GOP as the candidate for president in 2020…..but not before the array of ass kissers……

Let me close down the posts on this convention…..broadcast news is sparse for the Hurricane has sucked all the oxygen out of news reports other than the storm.

And the night went like this…..

President Trump closed out the Republican National Convention Thursday night by formally accepting the Republican nomination for president, which he did from the White House—the AP calls this the first political convention ever to be held there, and CNN notes Trump’s was one of the longest acceptance speeches ever given. The end of the evening also included fireworks on the National Mall (some of them spelling out “Trump” and “2020”) and a performance by opera singer Christopher Macchio from the Blue Room balcony. Among Trump’s acceptance speech pledges was to put the first woman on the moon, a promise he made after touting his administration’s commitment to space exploration. More from his speech and the rest of the convention’s final night:

  • Trump’s speech lasted more than 70 minutes, NBC News reports. As expected, it also included digs on Joe Biden (he called him a “Trojan horse for socialism,” among other things), calls for law and order (he said “mob rule” must never be allowed), and a rosy outlook on the coronavirus pandemic and coming vaccine.
  • Others aligned with law enforcement also spoke during the night, and echoed Trump’s calls for law and order and the end of violent protests.
  • The AP reports hundreds of protesters gathered near the White House for a “noise demonstration and dance party,” hoping to drown out Trump’s speech, but there was no indication Trump heard them.
  • Trump was introduced by daughter Ivanka, who worked to humanize the president in her speech. “I recognize that my dad’s communication style is not to everyone’s taste. And I know his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered,” she said. But “I’ve been with my father and I’ve seen the pain in his eyes when he receives updates on the lives that have been stolen by this plague.”
  • Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, suggested that Black Lives Matter, along with antifa, is pushing Biden to “execute their pro-criminal, anti-police policies” and had “hijacked the protests into vicious, brutal riots.” The AP fact-checks this (there’s no evidence of Giuliani’s claim), as well as several other claims made during the night, here.
  • Alice Johnson, the grandmother whose drug sentence was commuted by Trump said his criminal justice reforms are “just getting started” and that his First Step Act “brought joy, hope and freedom to thousands of well-deserving people.”
  • Housing Secretary Ben Carson, the highest-ranking Black member of the Trump administration, offered his sympathies to the family of Jacob Blake, who was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
  • UFC head Dana White said Trump is the man to get the economy back on track after it was ravaged by the pandemic; he specifically mentioned the president’s commitment to bringing back sports safely.
  • Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said, per the Hill, that Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
  • One line from Mitch McConnell: The Democrats “want to tell you what kind of car you can drive. What sources of information are credible. And even how many hamburgers you can eat.” That’s a reference to the mistaken belief that proponents of the Green New Deal would limit beef consumption.

For me the most memorable moment or should I say “line”……

“I stand before you tonight honored by your support, proud of the extraordinary progress we have made together over the last four incredible years and brimming with confidence for the bright future we will build for America over the next four years,” he said. Think of Trump’s speech as the sequel to his 2016 acceptance speech, in which he memorably declared, “I alone can fix it.”

Trump did nothing but move his mouth…..his rambling talk went on for over an hour……and hour that none of us can ever get back…..but beyond that he talked and yet said nothing to give the voter confidence that the country can be saved from itself.

Where were the deficit hawks?  Fiscal conservs were NO where to be heard.

According to CNN’s Chirs Cillizza…..

Now, there’s an element of this sort of gush-fest in every political convention. The goal of these four-day affairs is to shape an image of the president (or presidential nominee) that is appealing to the broadest swath of people. Voters, as history has repeatedly proven, tend to pick a president based in large part on how that person makes them feel. Are they proud of that president? Does he seem like the sort of person who understands their hopes, fears and desires? All that sort of stuff.

But never before — at least in the modern history of politics — have we seen a party that is so dedicated to blindly following a president, and abandoning many of the bedrock principles upon which it once stood. There was nary a word on Monday night about the ballooning federal deficit. The social conservative wing of the party was also practically nonexistent.

Mercifully the GOP Convention is over……and now the real circus begins in earnest.

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