I think at least half of the GOP would like it if Lara Trump started using those DSLs to earn some extra cash.
Go for it. I’d love to see the RNC pay all of Trump’s fees. Before a dime goes into marketing a single candidate, make sure this paragon of Americanism is protected. Nothing is more important than pouring money into this sinkhole.
I adamantly agree with this statemen. This is the best idea the RNC could ever have.
I’m in disagreement. I may be naive but I still believe the Republican Party needs to separate itself from Trump.
Sure, I’d love to see the Republican Party crumble; but because the people, independently and democratically, acknowledge its failure to govern and uphold American ideals.
By supporting the party’s funding of Trump’s legal fees, you’re supporting the idea that his court cases are “political persecution”. And I mean, aren’t we talking about the party of Personal Responsibility?
I think the RNC should be putting money towards a viable alternative. The RNC should be joining the DNC in fighting the MAGA party. Shit, the DNC should be putting out money for a viable alternative right now too. The power and corruption these two committees hold undemocratic and destructive. Which brings me to my soapbox chant for Ranked Choice Voting.
Spending money on orange Jesus’ legal expenses instead of elections is a great way to build a wall and have the true believers pay for it. This is the fastest way to disconnect that cult leader and reset the party
The cons always were MAGA. For as long as I can remember. Sure, they put a nice veneer on it that /mostly/ held, although the ugliness of things would shine through in the words/deeds of Nixon, Raygun, Bush the Lesser, etc. And never mind their unholy rhetoric on their hate radio and Faux.
The Republican Party is full of Republicans. That means they are maga and trying to somehow tease these unicorn “principled conservatives” who aren’t primarily just motivated by racism and/or dreams of theocracy out from the con movement is going to be a fool’s errand. They are probably 10% or less of the con movement, possibly less. The rest is all racism/white nationalists and/or xtian talibangelical types; i.e., “maga”.
I can’t fix what’s broken with the Republican party. But I’d be happy to quicken it’s demise so that a more sensible conservative party might emerge. I’m not a Democrat by ideology - at least I don’t agree with them in all cases, but it feel obligated to oppose the current Republican party at every level.
I like having choices at the ballot box and right now I feel I have none. Excise the tumor so that it can become healthy.
But I’d be happy to quicken it’s demise so that a more sensible conservative party might emerge.
I might be pessimistic, but I don’t see the sensible part of the party coming out on top in that fight. They’ve lost ground every step so far.
perhaps, but why? Why do all the sensible people have to lose to the fucking insane?
Because of first-past-the-post primaries.
Probably because in that party, anyone with a modicum of rational thought and who is not driven by emotional drivers (like racism and dreams of a xtian caliphate) is a very tiny minority. Sure, there might be a few left who are just there for the tax cuts and the corporate handouts; they are probably the elitist thought leaders and/or the donor class funding the movement/party.
Something is clearly broken with America, and everyone who isnt an insufferable policy wonk all know that it’s the neoliberal system we have organized around that is the problem.
The divide comes because conservative elements cannot accept that free market capitalism has failed at improving life for anyone but the ultra-wealthy, so they blame undesirables and minority boogiemen because they have been conditioned to beleive that socialism will lead to bread lines and technological stagnation. Fascism is capitalism’s last ditch effort to save itself.
I don’t even know what a sensible conservative party that /isn’t/ where the Democratic Party is already at would look like, TBH. So many in the party already adheres - even still - to neoliberal orthodoxy on matters economic.
I’m almost exactly the opposite - I’d love to have a serious alternative to the left of the Democratic Party and the end of the Republican Party. Both parties have gone to the right; leaving the progressive majority of Americans (on the issues) out in the cold. Money in politics ruins everything and of course, only the donors really get the policy they want.
I love how someone on Trump’s team (I forget who) promised specifically that one of their goals was to send more money to state parties.
Bullshiat. When has money ever flowed DOWN in a Trump enterprise? 😆
But I hope they go right ahead and MILK THOSE COFFERS BABY!!!1
Sure the leopard will eat the merchants faces, but it wouldn’t eat mine…
Money comes up from below and gushes all over RNC. Drill baby, drill!
They would share some with state parties to get rid of never Trumpers in their party
You know what happens next…
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were fucking pikers.
It always pissed me off that Tammy Faye got her image rehabilitated just because she became an ally for queer people. Don’t get me wrong, queer people need as many allies as they can get, but what about everything else? I remember that fucker crying on camera about how terribly her poor, poor husband was being treated.
I mean you can watch the Nightline interview where she starts bawling about her husband’s so-called mistreatment. It’s on YouTube.
I’d never heard of them, what the fuck is this shit?! “A little bit slid under the tire of his car.”
Mother fucker ran a child over.
And he’s still around and still grifting.
He’s been selling “survival buckets” of so-called food as part of the ministry he’s still allowed to have somehow for over a decade now.
“Imagine — the world is dying and you’re having a breakfast for kings,” the ad for the the food proclaims. And why not, as Bakker urges, buy food today so that you can “have parties when the world’s coming apart?”
This is a far more accurate picture:
These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. --Jude 1:12
Well you know there is a way to find that out for sure, a vote of all members. And then we will see him tank not only himself, his children, all the businesses he has touched, But also the RNC!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But she said she thought the idea would get broad support among GOP voters who see his legal cases as political persecution.
In addition to the millions he is spending on lawyers, Trump’s legal debts now top half a billion dollars.
That did not stop him last week from publicly calling to remove the RNC’s current leaders and suggest Lara Trump should serve as co-chair.
She told reporters on Wednesday that GOP voters will feel more trust in the RNC by having a Trump family member installed in leadership.
Those causes were electing Trump president in November, growing the Republican majority in the House with “patriots, America first candidates” and winning back control of the Senate, she said.
Lara Trump said if she is made co-chair of the RNC, her loyalty would be to her father-in-law, but she believed the organization would stick to its policy of staying neutral in primary contests, saying, “I don’t know why we would change course on that now.”
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This may be the one and only time I can say I whole heartedly agree with a trump. Milk the coffers baby, milk 'em dry!
Enough with these fucking traitors. When will we do what must be done?
It’s not a legitimate org or party, doesn’t matter who runs it, still needs to be dismantled and worst offenders held accountable.
Problem with people like Trump is having all the nepo babies filling up the space where actually interesting people would have stories.
Imagine that every time there was a news story about any member of that family, that instead we got to see literally anything else?
Yeah, and she’s an unemotional objective observer on the matter.
😂 😆
Yes, I think they would indeed enjoy that. Doesn’t make it right though.
Fuck 'em all. They want to foot the bill, they can, and then look around in slack jawed confusion for where everyone else’s campaign finds went.
I mean go ahead. Let Trump empty their coffers, so they can’t run the next election either. Just sounds like Republicans screwing each other, so I’m all for it.
While it would be great to bleed the RNC dry, part of the problem is how much free publicity the media gives this guy.
In 2020, they gave him a ridiculous amount of free attention.
It doesn’t matter. Minds were made up long ago on Trump himself, it’s even literally a rematch.
Trump can drain the RNC dry, with any luck they lose Congress seats by being outspent.
So you’re saying we can separate the idiots from their money AND guarantee none of that money goes to GOP campaigning?
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Imagine if the justice system worked and he was declared an enemy of the state as attempting to steal the presidency should be a crime against the state.
Paying any legal fees would be considered giving aid to an enemy of the state. Aka, an act of treason
Even more of a reason for them to give him money, the more of them locked up the better.
Lara Trump said Wednesday while campaigning for her father-in-law ahead of the South Carolina primary that she was not familiar with the RNC’s rules about paying Donald Trump’s legal fees in a multitude of criminal and civil cases. But she said she thought the idea would get broad support among GOP voters who see his legal cases as political persecution.
Lol, okay. Not unexpected.
“Having someone like me in there I think will go a long way for people. I can assure you that my loyalty is to my father-in-law and I will make sure that every penny is used properly,” she said.
Again, completely expected. But then,
Lara Trump said if she is made co-chair of the RNC, her loyalty would be to her father-in-law, but she believed the organization would stick to its policy of staying neutral in primary contests, saying, “I don’t know why we would change course on that now.”
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Neutral, lol.
As soon as the Trumps gain control of the RNC – and I do mean the very minute they show this bitch to her new office and the papers are signed – the GOP primary season will be over, Trump will be handed the ticket, Nikki Haley will be discarded without comment (which was always the plan), the cash will be drained to fund Trump’s legal fees and hamberder/Depends bills, and GOP corporate bankruptcies on the state level will bloom like mold on last week’s takeout leftovers.
Anybody see any different outcome here?
You’ve understated how much the RNC will simply become a Trump-family slush fund. Otherwise I think you’re spot on.
Does it matter that the GOP donors will pay his legal fees? That just means less money to campaign.
Im not sure it should be legal though. I am no longer a democrat so I have nothing on the line, but I’d still be frustrated if Biden was using DNC funds for personal shit
It’s not legal at all, nor ethical, to use campaign money for personal expenses.
But Trump is trying very hard to conflate his legal fees with campaign costs, which is where it gets tricky. I cannot imagine a single penny of the E. Jean Carroll verdict counts as a “campaign expense” by even the broadest possible definition, but his legal expenses in regard to the attempted coup, fake electors, and other election fuckery could possibly be considered connected to his campaign.
I’m not clear on the legal separation between the RNC coffers and PAC money, but there is every likelihood that this is illegal on the face of it – or if not, exceedingly close to the line – depending on which specific legal fee the cash goes toward paying.
SEE ALSO: https://ethics.house.gov/campaign/proper-use-campaign-funds-and-resources
LOL so you are telling me he is actively committing crimes in the open that can be investigated and potentially tried in the coming years? Can this man even get out of bed in the morning without committing a crime?
