Trump's RNC takeover and Orban meeting are a frightening glimpse into the GOP's future
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On the same day Trump was scheduled to meet with Hungary's authoritarian ruler, his handpicked candidates took the reins of the RNC.
On Friday, the Republican National Committee officially voted to install Donald Trump’s hand-picked nominees to oversee the RNC’s operations — and, perhaps more importantly, its finances — in the run-up to this year’s elections.
After Trump and his supporters pushed out (now freshly resigned chair) Ronna McDaniel, the MAGA movement installed in her place a pair of even more ardent loyalists — exemplified by the former president’s own daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who has vowed to spend “every penny” of the RNC’s money to elect Trump. Elected as her co-chair is Michael Whatley, an election denier who previously led the North Carolina GOP. And serving as the RNC’s chief of staff alongside those two is Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita, a Swift Boat campaigner who’s functioned as the former president’s personal attack dog.
McDaniel got emotional during her final speech as chair, and in a nod to the right-wing backlash against her recent tenure, she pleaded for party unity going forward. “I’m gonna ask you to join me in uniting for the next eight months and committing everything you have” to making sure Republicans win in November, she said before handing her gavel to Whatley.
With that, Donald Trump has essentially turned the Republican Party into another of his family businesses. It’s certainly insular and (if you take Lara Trump’s word for it) singularly focused on her father-in-law’s success. For Republicans’ sake, they ought to pray the RNC doesn’t go the way of other ventures that had "Trump" on the label, like Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump University, Trump Airlines, etc., etc.
But it’s hard to see the Trump RNC faring much better. As I wrote last month, there are several ways a gold-plated, Trump-branded RNC is likely to go wrong for Republicans, both politically and financially.
What makes the timing of this takeover more noteworthy is that it comes on the same day Trump meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a bigoted authoritarian who has sat atop his Fidesz Party for most of the last 30 years and used anti-democratic means — like gerrymandering and attacks on press freedoms — to harden its political power in ways some fear could keep Orban in power indefinitely. (He’s already the longest-serving leader in the European Union at 14 years.)
Trump’s RNC takeover, paired with his Orban meeting, signals the conservative movement's race toward a truly illiberal agenda. Like Orban, Trump has assumed full control of his party. Now, I suspect, comes the self-serving spending and another Republican platform that's only designed to put Trump in the White House and to ensure he can stay there as long as he wants.
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Reagan is probably turning over in his grave, not to mention Lincoln.
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Translation: Dig deeper into your wallets, suckers.
Exactly.
Lincoln especially, the poster child for true liberals and progressives.
that's quite the trajectory for a political party. start off with lincoln and end all it with trump...
Which is why the once upper case GOP, The Grand Old Party of Lincoln, is now referred to in the lower case as merely "the gop"...
they're the gqp nowadays - a bunch of weirdos and whackjobs - those on the former 'president's' ass kissing bandwagon that is
What is it about this guy that is so attractive to the current GOP?
I cannot think of a worse nominee historically for the GOP. In spite of his many serious wrongdoings as PotUS, the GOP is worshipping this scoundrel. Amazing how low the GOP has dropped in integrity since the time of Gary Hart.
I thought that in 2016, but now he's 10 times worse, and judging by the primaries so far a huge percentage of R voters still love him. Think about what that says about them. It's pathetic. Hell, it's un-American.
and this one:
There may appear to be a non-connection between your question and these portions of a larger and longer interview, but listen to the "logic" from Carlson it is indicative of what Trump is running as: A paternal father figure for the nation . That is, some conservatives (MAGAs) want to dominate the culture and governance of our country from top to bottom!
That said, Carlson's arguments are specious (as are Trump's and his are even worse). There is another clip between Cuomo and Carlson on January 6, capitol incident in the line-up on the Youtube site.
These are instances of " Trump Think " prevalent in MAGA.
I like Cuomo's push-back even though he is sitting in the presence of a MAGA 'beast.'
Also, I have to say this: Carlson is pulling a lot of facial expressions that are 'off' in there own way. Watch his facial expressions a while.
He's a useful idiot. They want to install a theocracy and once that's complete they'll have no use for him any longer.
Trump couldn't care less about any god. Trump wants at least an aristocracy, but am sure he would prefer a monarchy with him as the monarch.
I wonder if the Trump supporters on NT would donate now to the RNC, in other words walk the walk instead of just talking the talk.
Certainly more appropriate. If he gets the chance to act.
Pretty sure that anybody who wears a baseball cap is a fool.
Don’t think much of baseball players?
i have heard them called trucker caps , and that bill does serve a purpose when driving a semi , some of the younger folks like keeping the bill backwards to keep the sun off the back of their necks but complain the suns too bright and they cant see......
personally i wear a ventilated ( mesh) boonie style that looks like the panama jack hat .
Maybe if it's a Trump cap, but that one isn't.
Lots of people wear ball caps, including me, especially when doing yard work. They're cool and comfortable in the heat, you can easily wear hearing protection over them, and the bill is great for keeping the sun out of your eyes.
For some things, you can't beat 'em.
Weird. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone knock ball caps before, lol.
Never cared for the game of baseball.
Never cared for Trump or his hats.
Do wear an Ausie breezer at times.
I would have to throw punches in my hood wearing that.
The RNC had 1/3 of the cash reserves of the DNC and they fire 60 employees less than 8 months out from a Presidential election - winning formula for sure.
Given the intent is to elect Trump (forget about the rest of the candidates), my comment is 'good'!
In related news...
Republican Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress next week, narrowing GOP's slim majority
Buck, a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party's handling of former President Donald Trump, made his surprise announcement in the midst of the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents.
During an appearance on CNN, Buck lamented that he hadn't been able to ask a question in the hearing yet even though he is the third-ranking Republican on the committee.
“A lot of this is personal. That's the problem," Buck said. "Instead of having decorum — instead of acting in a professional manner — this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense," he said, adding that this was the worst of his nine years in Congress.
Buck has had it with MAGA and decided to leave early, without finishing his term like he had previously planned.
Apparently, leaving early allows him to stick it to Boebert, who moved across the state to run for his seat when she thought he simply wasn't going to seek reelection. Now she'll have to run against the incumbent winner of the special election in June.
buck left that thumper wimp, mike johnson, a voicemail letting him know he was done 20 minutes before the hearing. hopefully buck's early departure will fuck over the GOP in colorado, exploit the fractured christo-fascist party in the state, and take advantage of no RNC campaign money for down ballot races after their commie loving autocrat POS presidential candidate has his skank DIL loot their bank account at his direction. the GOP deserves what trump is about to do to them.
As the world turns
from the centrifugal forcing momentum from so many former Founding Fathers frantically spinning in their graves
Thankfully you didn't trash the GH Luke and Laura show!
Used to watch it 50 years ago when I was on drugs.
And you guys said I was melodramatic when I drew parallels between this country and 30's Europe.
I know some people on this site are still enthralled by the Trump pathos. To them I have to say ...
... not me. I wonder what maga stands for in german...
Make Adolf Great Again
yup, same thing...
The problem being that Hitler was actually elected.
VOTE!
I agreed with you.
Well, that's good. When we put that in a hat will it fill quicker than a MAGA hat?
yep!
She'll bankrupt the RNC and then wonder where all the money went
yeah, I'm thinking she's never had to balance a checkbook before, but to be charitable, her public devotion to the embarrassment of her inlaw's family mentally challenged husband for so many years is to be commended...
They should celebrate her success with a nose picking contest !
I wonder what she had to do at mar-a-lardo to get that job...
Bet it involved San Francisco slippers !
... and a signed non-disclosure agreement.
poor Eric, lol
I almost feel sorry for Eric, almost
To be committed?
Where's a good mental hospital when ya really need one?
(For 2025 issues, growth, development, and reading 'pleasure')
This is what MAGAs will be up to 'day One' and continuing in 2025 if Trump wins! Career government folks will lose their jobs as Trump's THINK-TANKS are planning a whole of government approach to hiring and firing . To that end, this PDF document (below) is 900 pages plus long!
( Actual reading starts at Page 36 of the PDF!)
Tom Petty returned from the grave with a cease and desist order
I saw that just a little while ago with my dad - still freaking hilarious
lol - they left voluntarily
not that there will be anything left of their treasury once the former 'president' is done raping, pillaging, and looting, like he did with his 'presidency' and his criminal enterprise of an administration
so right - dev - it's hilarious what they're letting this gargantuan turd do to them
Like what exactly?
and Lara now funds all her future nips and tucks and lip fillers, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. through them also
Jammed with and smoked pot with Tom way back in the day when life was a good thing.
If it’s another family business the RNC will be bankrupt in a matter of months.
rushing headlong into a collision of comedy this summer...
A tragic comedy.
I no longer have any sympathy for the willfully ignorant.
Nor should you since Trump is harmful to the entire nation ... not just to the GOP.
yeah well, at my age, their future will never be my future...
The Republican Party has lost me forever.
Given they have been Trump's party since ~ 2018 (about a year after he took office) and are now entirely a Trump cult (evidenced by Trump being the presumptive nominee), the recovery to a rational party is not in the foreseeable future.
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What? Projection? That doesn't even make any sense...
I understand it quite well.
People thought i was exaggerating big time when i first used this label.
I can think of no other word that better depicts "Dereliction of Duty Dons', Devoted Following , of Followers devoid of actual truths, irregardless of the amount of proof, as quality logical facts, they decide just go poof ! i know you are but what am i, no u didn't, yes i did you are too am not D 2 ? is that you, or AI, cause AL could be the A i guy, just spelled differently . '
Man, when the AI fakes kick in, Trump and cult cump will think they have the culpable deniability, that they somehow seem to believe, they deserve and possess now
as do some of us
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ok, ill be clearly not all, and you can be, clearly , not at all...
that makes no sense.
Me too. Any party, be it democratic or republican, that refused to let people live their best lives. . . I am against it.
Yes, as a pragmatist, I will vote for the best of two, and for now the best is limited to one: The Democratic Party.
That's how I see it. May be not for everybody or anybody else!
Mario Puzo's Godfather was based on the Borgias - Pope Alexander VI - one of his daughters Lucrezia you may be familiar with - I'm big on mafia history and the Borgias - as I was saying - the book about them is called The Family and the Godfather is based on the Borgia family. Puzo considered them the first mob family.
I relate them to the former 'president' in many ways and his 'family'.
But didn't you hear? He now calls himself 'Honest Don'
Sounds like a mobster/gangster - how shocking - projection at its' finest
A comedy of errors?
The "Teflon Don" fell hard!
The RNC decline began when the highly successful and popular Michae Steele was replaced by Mitt Romney's niece Ronna.
When the Trump campaign pulled off an unexpected victory in 2016
by early 2017 Trump instructed Ronna Romney McDaniel to drop the Romney from her name if she wanted to keep the job.
She complied and went on to prove she was no Michael Steele.
Now Ronna has been dumped for crazy Michael Whatley and Lara Trump.
What could go wrong?
Supposedly some 65 RNC staffers were fired today.
Recently the New York Times reached out to each of the 168 RNC staffers including McDaniels and only 4 endorsed Donald Trump
Odds are that this will get much worse before the RNC simply becomes another non paying resident of Trump Towers...
I saw an interesting story about the trump campaign bringing in some heavy hitters of past rwnj dirty tricksters.
Trump's base.
These ass kissers of the former 'president' have no spines whatsoever. She dropped Romney from her name at the turd's insistence?
Wow!
At least Steele had a spine and a conscience - he is someone I might have considered voting for.
Dollars to donuts the RNC and the Trump campaign will bring the infamous Oklahoma dark web political operative and Trump's 2020 Deputy Campaign Manager "Stephanie Mulligan Alexander" back onboard again for 2024. When they do expect things to get extra dirty really fast.
I am just waiting for the RNC lawsuits (for 'unjust' and possibly illegal firings) to start dropping. BTW, if Trump can pull off a win in 2024 and start "shitcanning" career contractual workers in the federal system and installing his cult members. . . more lawsuits will begin to fly all over the place!
If Trump actually wins in 2024, I'd sure hate to be on his SS security detail. So many will be so pissed!
the SS will rotate their disciplinary problem agents thru that detail. the mormons have melania locked in...
don't tell maga, but all of trump's SS agents are really FBI guys ...
... collecting the remaining missing classified documents.
... bugging his homes and jet. keeping tabs on the movements of his henchmen.
from drifty to grifty ...
I believe some here are 'working for the other side'
back on NV when she was defending ted the ped nugent once, I suggested she send her teenage daughter to him to collect an autographed picture. the resulting brouha turned into her and 2 or 3 other reregs getting banned. LOL
It's always the 'guys' with the smallest 'man'hood' who seem to have so much to prove like that scumbag nugent and his good buddy, the former 'president'
The mugshot is from from Alexander's cocaine arrest. She was found. "Difficult" and "Hard to work with" by the 2020 campaign that had held off hiring her...
Looks like Driftwood's avatar.
Yes, it does. Stephanie Mulligan married Chad Alexander an Oklahoma gop operative and convicted coke dealer...
I miss the vine but like this platform better.
Seems Perrie took vine.2 to a better place.
So sad that I got involved with cocaine whores back in the day. Stopped selling it and they went away.
Figured out who my true friends were.
And hard core folk like Travis and Taylor are liberals.
The vine really sucked.
that looks like a mugshot
bingo.
One of many...
Thanks for the fake photo of Trump as the one for the article.
On X (Twitter) – Name this foundation shade.
Snopes – Real or Fake: Is This an Authentic Photo of Trump?
Random story search – Yahoo (with several more ridiculous makeup photos as a bonus)
while that shade truly captures the realistic fecal tone of the subject matter, I'm partial to the more orange toned skin with raccoon style white eye sockets and hairline border...
Foundation Shade Shitstain #45
We should have a contest about the foundation shade colors - I already have the first entry
Funny how Trumpists say everything Trump says is fake.
true believers...
It's not fake.
If possible, can someone delete my duplicate comment? I can't edit or delete my comments.
Your comments are so good they should be read twice!
lol
fuck that, one single repetition is nothing compared to a bunch of rwnj's chanting the same lame-ass excuses daily...
Yeah, the endless defense of the indefensible is so fucking tiresome.
not one original thought amongst them, that isn't criminal...