Moiraine Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said: At least they're only 30% of voters last time I checked. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 8 hours ago, Moiraine said: At least they're only 30% of voters last time I checked. Last time I checked, they are even less than that. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said: Last time I checked, they are even less than that. I think 30% of voters but as part of the population a lot less. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 1 hour ago, RedDenver said: Oh...so now it's not March 4th, it's March 20th. I wonder how many times that's going to get delayed. Actually, My concern is what are these nut jobs going to do when they realize this whole thing is one big sham. Link to comment
RedDenver Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 I can't even tell if this is real or not. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said: Oh...so now it's not March 4th, it's March 20th. I wonder how many times that's going to get delayed. Actually, My concern is what are these nut jobs going to do when they realize this whole thing is one big sham. Maybe they will swarm mar-a-largo 2 Link to comment
Enhance Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Once omnipresent Kushner now MIA from Trump's political pack Quote Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, was notably not on the list of advisers assisting the former President. Kushner, who previously served as chief adviser-cum-micromanager with far-reaching responsibilities and had virtual carte blanche, has tapped out, say several people who worked closely with Kushner at the White House or are familiar with his thinking and told CNN on background in order to maintain relationships. "Right now, he's just checked out of politics," says one person, echoing the mindset of Kushner's wife, Ivanka Trump, who is so over the political bubble she has told friends and colleagues of late to not utter anything to do with Washington. Given Trump's election loss and current out-of-power position, Kushner's absence from the aftermath follows a pattern critics have previously pointed out: being present for the wins and MIA from the losses. A person with close ties to Kushner told CNN that Trump's son-in-law is enjoying "some much needed time with his family," and his retreat is unrelated to the ebb and flow of the former President's popularity. During the administration, Kushner was more than happy to speak on behalf of the moments that turned out well for the White House -- but also conveniently skip the parts embroiled in turmoil. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said: An interesting read. The first breakdown - a dad who is out of touch wt reality. Reminds me of the Kenosha, Wisc killer's dad. Quote According to court documents, the Cua family drove up to Washington from Georgia on Jan. 5 to protest the next day's congressional certification of the 2020 presidential result. Cua's father, Joe; his mother, Alise; and Bruno "walked over to the Capitol" together after the Trump rally, and the younger Cua asked his dad if he could get a closer look. His father said OK, and Cua disappeared into the crowd. And if Trump isn't charged wt a crime, justice has failed. Quote What makes this different is that in Cua's case, one of the people who inspired him most was President Donald Trump. "The tree of liberty often has to be watered from the blood of tyrants. And the tree is thirsty," Cua allegedly wrote on the social media site Parler a day after the insurrection. 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 8 minutes ago, RedDenver said: Reading the full article, I conclude that Trump et al should be charged with wire fraud. This was a planned operation to scam his supporters out of their hard earned savings. This is what Trump really thinks of his 'followers' - fools to be taken advantage of. Trump is despicable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html#click=https://t.co/v4WwlPlXmM Quote The sheer magnitude of the money involved is staggering for politics. In the final two and a half months of 2020, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts issued more than 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors. All campaigns make refunds for various reasons, including to people who give more than the legal limit. But the sum the Trump operation refunded dwarfed that of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees, which made 37,000 online refunds totaling $5.6 million in that time. The recurring donations swelled Mr. Trump’s treasury in September and October, just as his finances were deteriorating. He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his unfounded fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed. In effect, the money that Mr. Trump eventually had to refund amounted to an interest-free loan from unwitting supporters at the most important juncture of the 2020 race. Quote Marketers have long used ruses like prechecked boxes to steer American consumers into unwanted purchases, like magazine subscriptions. But consumer advocates said deploying the practice on voters in the heat of a presidential campaign — at such volume and with withdrawals every week — had much more serious ramifications. “It’s unfair, it’s unethical and it’s inappropriate,” said Ira Rheingold, the executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. Harry Brignull, a user-experience designer in London who coined the term “dark patterns” for manipulative digital marketing practices, said the Trump team’s techniques were a classic of the “deceptive design” genre. “It should be in textbooks of what you shouldn’t do,” he said. Political strategists, digital operatives and campaign finance experts said they could not recall ever seeing refunds at such a scale. Mr. Trump, the R.N.C. and their shared accounts refunded far more money to online donors in the last election cycle than every federal Democratic candidate and committee in the country combined. Over all, the Trump operation refunded 10.7 percent of the money it raised on WinRed in 2020; the Biden operation’s refund rate on ActBlue, the parallel Democratic online donation-processing platform, was 2.2 percent, federal records show. 1 1 Link to comment
suh_fan93 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Come on let's Make America Great Again!!! (Oh by the way...we need and are going to take your money....) Woof is an understatement. In the end grifters are gonna grift. In this case hopefully all the way to a damn prison cell. Link to comment
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