The RNC is condemning Liz Cheney. Mitt Romney is condemning the RNC. Republicans are in total disarray, and it’s costing them voters in the middle. Yet you don’t see any headlines about how this helps Democrats, only headlines that suggest the RNC meltdown means we’re all doomed.
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The media: “Democrats are in disarray, and we’re all doomed!”
Most of the headlines about the RNC’s censure vote today are about how “chilling” it is or the “danger” and the “damage” to our democracy (all the usual hype words).
That’s cute. But this is war. When the bad guys begin attacking each other, it’s always a win for the rest of us.
In fact, when the bad guys are attacking each other, the only way it can go wrong for us is if we sit around like idiots, wringing our hands and fretting, instead of using it to our advantage. The GOP is trying to hand us the midterms. The Democrats want to win. But will we help?
Those of you reading this thread will decide the midterms. Will you let the media and the pundits lull you into wasting this year sitting on your hands and chanting “all hope is lost” like brain damaged zombies? Or will you put in the work, fight, and win?
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Key point: today's court didn't come from the DOJ. It came from Bannon, who's trying to paint himself as a victim (won't work). This means the DOJ is still not ready to reveal its overall probe, which at this point obviously covers Trump world and almost certainly includes Trump.
This filing reveals that the DOJ has been investigating not just Bannon, but also investigating Bannon's attorney, who happens to represent Giuliani, who's also known to be under investigation. This is far too sprawling not to be a probe of the *entirety* of Trump world.
It also reveals the DOJ has three federal prosecutors assigned to the Bannon case. Just for a contempt case that's already complete? Of course not. Suggests Bannon's entire life is under DOJ investigation, and has been for some time.
The real question is who leaked to the media that Trump ordered Giuliani to look into seizing voting machines. In any story, the source is usually whoever looks good in that story. The story says Bill Barr refused Trump’s order, so Barr is probably the leak. This is important.
Barr has a consistent history of thinly veiled leaks to the media to make himself look good or to promote his point of view. IF this is the case again here, it means Barr wants his version of the story out there – which means he’ll certainly give it to the 1/6 committee.
The 1/6 committee chair says it’s already spoken with Barr. Didn’t say what about; or if it was actual testimony, or mere conversations about testifying. But if Barr did leak this, and the context of the NYT article suggests he is, it would surely mean he’s cooperating.
At this point Donald Trump’s speeches increasingly resemble the videos that Bin Laden would periodically release after 9/11, in which he kept vowing to pull off bigger and bigger attacks, even as it became more obvious he couldn’t pull off any such thing.
9/11 was Bin Laden’s one big shot. It cost him his home base, his ability to freely communicate, and so on. 1/6 was Trump’s one big shot, and it cost him in roughly the same way. All Bin Laden had left after 9/11 was the ability to scare us just for kicks. Same as Trump now.
The parallels are remarkable – right down to Bin Laden’s visibly declining health in his post 9/11 videos, and Trump’s visibly declining health in his rare public appearances.
The creeps waving the Nazi flags are trying to get under your skin. If your reaction is to fret, lament, and talk about how all hope is lost, you're giving them exactly what they want. If you want to stick it to them, drive voter turnout in 2022 and defeat their Republican Party.
If we're smart we'll spend this entire election cycle demanding that every Republican candidate take a position on these Nazis. Any position they take, it'll cost them votes somewhere on their side of the fence. It's how this game is played.
Any Republican candidate who denounces these Nazis will lose votes on the far right. Any Republican candidate who refuses to denounce the Nazis will lose votes in the middle. It's a no-won situation for them. But only if we use it, instead of sitting around whining about Garland.
Everyone in the media knows Donald Trump has zero chance of being a viable candidate in 2024. Yet the entire media is conspiring with him to pretend he’s a lock for 2024. The media’s thirst for ratings has it conspiring with a traitor. That makes it a criminal conspiracy.
When Trump hints he'll run in 2024, the media has a RESPONSIBILITY to factually explain that he's just pretending he'll run so he can pocket the donations. Instead the media conspires with Trump to sell the lie that he's going to run.
When Trump says he'll pardon Capitol attackers, in an effort to convince them not to cooperate with federal investigators the media has a RESPONSIBILITY to point out no such pardons could ever happen. Instead the media conspires with Trump to pretend they'll be pardoned in 2025.
When Spotify chose Joe Rogan over Neil Young, the defeatists said "that's it, it's over, all is lost." Palmer Report said the battle was just starting, and it would come down to money. Spotify has since lost $4 billion in market value. Told you the battle is just getting started.
Spotify's executives and investors now have to try to figure out if the lost customers and stock price plunge are temporary or permanent, and if it's the latter, whether it'll be more costly than dumping Rogan would be.
People can talk all they want about Spotify's $100 million contract with Rogan, but that's not a huge amount of money in comparison to the overall market valuations companies this size. It would be expensive to dump him. But it may prove way more expensive to keep him.