Coincidences take a lot of planning. https://t.co/HJ2QkOCbHu
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 1, 2020
This is Bloombergian in its ineffectiveness.
Trump is going to absolutely eclipse the most money ever spent for no polling ROI whatsoever.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 2, 2020
Curious thing in 2020 is how many of the media x factors that dragged him across the finish line are either gone or severely curtailed.
Ailes-dead
NRA-bankrupt
Assange-jail
Manafort/Cohen/Stone/Flynn-convicts
altright-deplatformed
AMI-sanctioned
news anchor sex creeps -decimated https://t.co/1IMczZrY7e— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 1, 2020
Correction, it’s clearly Trump first, Russia Second, KKK third, and America last. pic.twitter.com/MPS50NfVgj
— Chip Franklin (@chipfranklin) July 1, 2020
Sophie Update!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
saw some discussion of enthusiasm in an earlier thread
ETA: I have the figure of $130M in my head for his May fundraising. Anybody remember?
Alison Rose
Those are the kind of campaign accounting figures that could only come from the guy who managed to go bankrupt running a FUCKING CASINO.
Jeffro
So ol’ Brad has decided not to go quietly into that good night, eh? And at what – $10M, $20M a month probably going right into his own pockets, who can blame him?
I also like how trumpov has decided to ignore ‘woke Jared’ or whatever and just go full metal white supremacist. I mean, I don’t actually like it…I just like how it improves our already-good chances!
burnspbesq
Re the Trump campaign: “follow the money.”
Quaker in a Basement
Waterfront vacation houses and fancy sports cars don’t come cheap!
Ken
Some, I’m sure, but I also have to think there’s a reason the Senate is trying to strip the restrictions on foreign donations.
CaseyL
It’s pretty damned delicious that the supreme Con Man is himself being conned and scammed.
Parscale has figured to ride that gravy train until it gives out under him – he might actually not care whether the campaign is any good, in the sense of getting the candidate elected. Just looking to skim as much cash as he can.
Which is totally fine with me.
Brachiator
In a result that surprised no one, Russian voters approved a measure which will let Putin run for president in 2024 and 2030. He is currently 67 and could rule until he is 83.
Trump must be so jealous.
Jinchi
@Ken: What’s this about foreign donations?
Anya
Hopefully, one of the good things to come out of 2020 is that campaigns can’t buy elections.
Speaking of Trump’s political forebearer, what’s up with the Klan’s weird ass robes? They are such freaks.
Benw
The Death Star was no moon.
HumboldtBlue
Posted this late in a thread below, the Lincoln Project has found their Tovarisch.
Ken
@Alison Rose: @CaseyL: So the thought is that Parscale is running the campaign like a casino bust-out? Plausible. Any speculation on cui bono? My guess would be the Russian mafia, but I may be biased by Pelosi’s expert opinion that all roads lead to Moscow.
Steeplejack
@Jinchi:
“Senate strips provision from intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help.”
Ken
@Jinchi: The Senate stripped the requirement for campaigns to report foreign assistance.
Edit: Steeplejack wins by a nose!
Wolvesvalley
OT, but: New York court gives Simon & Schuster the go-ahead to publish Mary Trump’s book. Temporary restraining order lifted.
...now I try to be amused
@Anya:
You inspired me to go to Wikipedia. The original Klan didn’t wear those robes or do cross burning. Those customs were invented by Thomas Dixon Jr. in his novel The Clansman, which D.W. Griffith adapted as The Birth of a Nation. The second Klan adopted the customs from the novel and film.
A depressing thought: The first Klan was founded in late 1865 and suppressed in 1871. The second Klan was founded in 1915 and faded away by the 1940s. The current Klan rose in the 1950s, making it by far the oldest of the three.
catclub
@Wolvesvalley: That ruling they got for prior restraint made no sense that I could see.
Ken
@catclub: Wasn’t the legal argument that there were family non-disclosure agreements regarding Fred Trump’s estate? The Trumps, putting the dys in dysfunctional family for three generations.
Adam L Silverman
@Ken: @Jinchi:
That’s now what they were stripping from the legislation. What they stripped from the Intelligence Community funding that is being appended to the National Defense Authorization Act was the requirement that any campaign contacted by a foreign government or someone acting on their behalf had to immediately notify the FBI. If they did not, then it would be a Federal crime.
HumboldtBlue
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
“Nobody is contributing to Biden’s campaign!”
catclub
@Ken: yes, those were private agreements, most likely with penalties laid out if you break them.. So you break them and pay the penalty.
But UNTIL you break them, you have NOT broken them, plus, what business is it of the state to intervene in a private contract?
Mike in NC
Last month they ran some truly stupid ads here that actually compared Fat Bastard to a “bull in a china shop” and thought it was clever. They lasted about a week.
Ken
@Adam L Silverman: That’s better than I had thought, I suppose?
debbie
Doesn’t Trump still have like $100 million from the Inauguration he can use?
Anya
@…now I try to be amused: Thanks for looking it up. Typical. Just like Trump’s campaign is getting their inspiration from the stormtroopers the Klan got its inspiration from fiction. I am hopeful that the current klan is coming to an end. The monuments are coming down and even Mississippi has changed its flag. Change is coming.
Anya
@Mike in NC: I thought that ad wasn’t bad. They’re basically trying to turn what people hate about Trump (republicans who don’t care about the racism but are turned off by the crude personality) into strength. This is why I think it’s a really bad idea for Dems to portray Trump as rude and an authoritarian. We should focus on his cowardness ness and weakness. The fact that he’s being used by foreign leaders because of his weak personality. Sadly, a lot of Americans find his bluster and fake strong man as a strength.
Origuy
@…now I try to be amused: Dixon got the idea for the burning cross from the Scottish Highlanders. It was a way to signal the Highland clans to assemble, usually to fight another clan.
Searcher
Quaker in a Basement
@debbie: Yes, but it’s, um, tied up in “long-term investments,” yeah.