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Post by Merge on Jan 15, 2021 17:58:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2021 18:09:54 GMT
Obviously more successful than the Walk Away Campaign that was tossed about some time ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2021 18:11:49 GMT
This is what needs to happen.
This.
Unfriending.
Big money has to dry up from supporting the delusional.
That's the only thing that will help - CONSEQUENCES.
For too long, we've been tiptoeing around these delusional people, we've been oblivious to who they are, we've been supporting them financially because we don't pay attention to what our money is propping up.
We have to start paying attention. Start noticing. Start distancing.
If they find that their delusions and violent rhetoric and their lack of belief in power by democracy (believing instead in power by FORCE) have CONSEQUENCES - they might, just MIGHT, start to question their delusions. Maybe.
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 15, 2021 18:30:08 GMT
I officially officially switched to Independent in 2018, but had started voting more Democratic when McCain thought Sarah Palin was a good idea. I saw where the party was headed and could not stomach it.
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Post by refugeepea on Jan 15, 2021 20:36:42 GMT
Ironically, I'm probably going to register as a Republican to weed out the crazy right wing, racist, misogynistic, homophobic candidates in the primaries.
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Post by lucyg on Jan 15, 2021 20:51:53 GMT
Ironically, I'm probably going to register as a Republican to weed out the crazy right wing, racist, misogynistic, homophobic candidates in the primaries. My dad stayed with the Republican Party till the end of his life for that very reason. (I think I’ve said that before. Sorry for repeating myself.) |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jan 15, 2021 20:57:30 GMT
I officially officially switched to Independent in 2018, but had started voting more Democratic when McCain thought Sarah Palin was a good idea. I saw where the party was headed and could not stomach it. That’s the ONLY reason I didn’t vote for McCain. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 15, 2021 20:57:49 GMT
Ironically, I'm probably going to register as a Republican to weed out the crazy right wing, racist, misogynistic, homophobic candidates in the primaries. I vote for mostly Democrats but in the 2016 primary, I declared myself Republican just to vote against Trump. In NH, we’re lucky that we can declare a party on the day of the election, then switch back to Independent. |
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Post by elaine on Jan 15, 2021 20:58:44 GMT
And I can’t remember which one of the current House frighteningly-delusional members was just complaining this week that the #walkaway campaign had been banned from some social media sites. Why would that even be on her radar if it wasn’t actually run by a right-wing not-ever-a-Democrat propaganda group?
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Post by elaine on Jan 15, 2021 20:58:59 GMT
I officially officially switched to Independent in 2018, but had started voting more Democratic when McCain thought Sarah Palin was a good idea. I saw where the party was headed and could not stomach it. That’s the ONLY reason I didn’t vote for McCain. Me too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 14:24:43 GMT
Republicans will emerge from the Trump era gutted financially, institutionally and structurally.The big picture: The losses are stark and substantial. They lost their congressional power. Their two leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, are hamstrung by corporate blacklisting of their election-denying members. The GOP brand is radioactive for a huge chunk of America. The corporate bans on giving to the 147 House and Senate Republicans who voted against election certification are growing and virtually certain to hold. The RNC is a shell of its former self and run by a Trump loyalist. Democrats crushed them in fundraising when they were out of power. Imagine their edge with it. Sheldon Adelson, the party's biggest donor, died Monday. The NRA is weaker than it has ever been, after massive leadership scandals. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, once controlled by rock-ribbed Republicans, also gave to Democrats in 2020. Rank-and-file Republicans are now scattered on encrypted channels like Signal and fearful of Big Tech platforms. www.axios.com/post-trump-republican-party-44423c0a-bde5-4284-b3c0-1d1480a4198b.html
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 16, 2021 14:51:45 GMT
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I hope they enjoy reaping what they’ve been sowing for the last several decades. They deserve everything they’re getting right now.
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Post by schizo319 on Jan 16, 2021 14:53:09 GMT
Republicans will emerge from the Trump era gutted financially, institutionally and structurally.The big picture: The losses are stark and substantial. They lost their congressional power. Their two leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, are hamstrung by corporate blacklisting of their election-denying members. The GOP brand is radioactive for a huge chunk of America. The corporate bans on giving to the 147 House and Senate Republicans who voted against election certification are growing and virtually certain to hold. The RNC is a shell of its former self and run by a Trump loyalist. Democrats crushed them in fundraising when they were out of power. Imagine their edge with it. Sheldon Adelson, the party's biggest donor, died Monday. The NRA is weaker than it has ever been, after massive leadership scandals. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, once controlled by rock-ribbed Republicans, also gave to Democrats in 2020. Rank-and-file Republicans are now scattered on encrypted channels like Signal and fearful of Big Tech platforms. www.axios.com/post-trump-republican-party-44423c0a-bde5-4284-b3c0-1d1480a4198b.html I hope every bit of that is true, but after all we have seen I am extremely skeptical. I HOPE this is the wakeup call the RNC needs to fix their party, but I'm not quite ready to celebrate just yet. I'm afraid to underestimate them again - even with all of this. |
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Post by Merge on Jan 16, 2021 17:27:14 GMT
Republicans will emerge from the Trump era gutted financially, institutionally and structurally.The big picture: The losses are stark and substantial. They lost their congressional power. Their two leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, are hamstrung by corporate blacklisting of their election-denying members. The GOP brand is radioactive for a huge chunk of America. The corporate bans on giving to the 147 House and Senate Republicans who voted against election certification are growing and virtually certain to hold. The RNC is a shell of its former self and run by a Trump loyalist. Democrats crushed them in fundraising when they were out of power. Imagine their edge with it. Sheldon Adelson, the party's biggest donor, died Monday. The NRA is weaker than it has ever been, after massive leadership scandals. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, once controlled by rock-ribbed Republicans, also gave to Democrats in 2020. Rank-and-file Republicans are now scattered on encrypted channels like Signal and fearful of Big Tech platforms. www.axios.com/post-trump-republican-party-44423c0a-bde5-4284-b3c0-1d1480a4198b.html I hope every bit of that is true, but after all we have seen I am extremely skeptical. I HOPE this is the wakeup call the RNC needs to fix their party, but I'm not quite ready to celebrate just yet. I'm afraid to underestimate them again - even with all of this. This. I believe corporate donors “paused” funding to avoid potential backlash, and will quietly resume funding of the party that offers them corporate tax cuts and welfare as soon as it’s safe for them to do so. And somewhere, right now, the RNC is ginning up a caravan or some other big brown-skinned threat to hardworking white Americans, so they can create fear - and present themselves as the antidote to it - in 2022. The America that put Trump in office in the first place is deeply stupid. They won’t learn anything from this. Those who are inclined to believe that poor people and POC represent a threat to them will keep on believing it, and the RNC will have the candidates there to feed those fears. None of this is going away. |
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