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Making the former "RNC - brainwashed, totally dependent, abused housewife" title less sexist. Not that it was intended so, I'm not a native English speaker
RNC - nobody loves what they became if not for Trump.
And now Trump formally brands them as his possession and takes their money
Trump, RNC clash over using his name in fundraising
The Republican National Committee is defending its right to use former President Donald Trump’s name in fundraising appeals after he demanded they put an end to the practice.
In a Monday letter to Trump attorney Alex Cannon, RNC chief counsel J. Justin Riemer said the committee “has every right to refer to public figures as it engages in core, First Amendment-protected political speech” and said “it will continue to do so in pursuit of these common goals.”
But he maintained that Trump had also “reaffirmed” to the chair of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, over the weekend “that he approves of the RNC’s current use of his name in fundraising and other materials, including for our upcoming donor retreat event at Palm Beach at which we look forward to him participating.”
Trump responded to the letter with a statement that put that agreement in doubt. “No more money for RINOS,” or Republican in name only, he stated. “They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base — they will never lead us to Greatness.” He instead again urged his supporters to send their contributions directly to his own Save America PAC by using his personal website, adding, “We will bring it all back stronger than ever before!”
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The statement came days after Trump's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to stop using his name and likeness for fundraising and merchandise sales.
Ah, my fair lady Schadenfreude, I wonder what were they thinking?
Were they thinking? (no, that's not an echo)
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Senate Republicans bailing out on 2022 are opening the door for more QAnon candidates and Trumpers
At least five GOP incumbents are planning not to run for re-election next year, making way for a potential seismic ideological shift in the upper chamber.
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"It seems that in recent times, it's all about beating the other person or preventing them from winning, not about putting forward good, sound policies," Del Percio said. "These are more than just political people like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. They cared about what they were doing, and about moving policies forward. It is devastating."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @04:08AM (6 children)
Until the president and his spouse are both dead, the law prohibits using their name for promotions without permission.
For example, Nancy Reagan used it to shut down an effort to start Reagan University. She objected because she felt it would divert donations from the Reagan Library. Our law gave her that right, and she used it.
So yes, Trump does have the legal right to make those crummy unpatriotic RINOs stop using his name.
Biden can use the law too. If I decide to market a scented shampoo for kids called "Touch of Biden", he can stop that. Once dead, his wife can stop it.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 09 2021, @04:26AM (1 child)
Did you say "Touché of Joe"?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 09 2021, @03:54PM
At least it wasn't "Douche of Joe"... ewwww...just threw up a bit into my mouth...
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:17PM (3 children)
Sure, he has the right, but since when does that stop the cries of evil censorship?
Oh yeah, since magic (R), nevermind, move along.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:38PM (2 children)
It is evil censorship! There's no other kind. Nobody has the right to dictate what I can draw on the canvas, ever!
Good old Trump! Still on the front page. He is a wonder of the world!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:08PM (1 child)
The world wonders how his mother didn't smother him as a child. We know what his dad did to him, and let me tell you, it was bigly everyone says so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 10 2021, @06:37AM
The world wonders how his mother didn't smother him as a child.
Doesn't matter. The name still draws headlines and money
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 09 2021, @04:24AM (7 children)
Of course, because you are bashing Trump and the RNC, few will take you to task for the stereotyping title.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 09 2021, @05:19AM (4 children)
Sexist?... OK, maybe - unintentional but that would be a "Touche"
Misogynistic? I doubt that I'm making a show in saving my sympathy for the abusive husband and blame the wife.
FYI, I just tried to fit "marriage partner" in the place of "housewife" - I can't, the title length is restricted. So as misleading the wording may be, it's gonna stay this way.
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Otherwise, metaphor and wording aside, do you have any other comments that you would like to share with us on the reality of the things?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @05:39AM (1 child)
Yes, much better, and true. You know, there is a hotline for spousal abuse, and it does not matter if you are a manly man, you can still call, if you need help. Even in Southwestern Arkansas.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:10AM
Thanks, "spouse" was the word I was missing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @09:28PM (1 child)
Nobody is abused. Nobody in that group is brainwashed.
Trump was the most pro-America president in over a century. Since that is the primary job qualification, he was great. (the job is NOT to kiss European ass)
The RNC is only 1/3 like that. It's also 1/3 big-business outsourcer libertarian (just like the DNC is) and 1/3 Bible thumper. The RNC can't even internally agree with itself, which is no different from the DNC having to bridge the gap between wallstreet warmonger Hillary and bread-line communist Bernie. Both parties are full of people who hate their own party, but hate the other party much more. Party platforms are compromise and negotiation by people who really hate each other, but hate the shared enemy more. The actual politicians are a bit less into the hate than the voters, with more focus on collecting bribes via family members and "campaign contributions".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 10 2021, @05:05PM
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @08:18AM (1 child)
Or the straight up generic unqualified abuse it represents.
Trump was able to do what Bernie could not in 2016, simply because the RNC's primary process is far more democratic than the DNC's primary process. If anyone is the abuser in the relationship between voters and government, it is surely the DNC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:14PM
That is correct and a large reason why the DNC is pretty much despised by most liberals. The GOP had less concern about their primaries because they usually had the political options pretty well locked down and there was much less worry about a wild candidate since the conservative base marches much more in lockstep than liberals. Even with an evil liar like Trump the GOP was able to push their political agenda so they didn't care.
Now Bernie, he scares the shit out of the corrupt status quo. The DNC can not allow a true democratic primary, similar to the electoral system for the national election, because the liberal base wants to improve the lives of everyone and not just the rich donors.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:01AM (12 children)
You are the dumb fuck who keeps bringing up President Trump 24/7, especially in threads that have nothing to do with him. Thinking you are the obsessed cultist,,,,,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:05AM (5 children)
Yes, we are. But it is Twice impeached, ex-President Trump, to you, our dear dumpling! Why so obsessed with our mentioning him, again? Is there some evening, in your life, that you would prefer to forget? And that the Feds would also forget?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:53AM (3 children)
The first time around, the House chickened out. They didn't follow proper procedures because that would have let the republicans call witnesses. The senate was kind enough to pretend that the impeachment was legit.
The second time around, it was even worse. We had the same issue with witnesses, and then the Chief Justice refused to hold the trial. (as specified by the Constitution) It was that bad.
Of course every Trump-hater will say he was impeached, but was he? It doesn't seem so. Clearly it was a shitshow both times. Something is especially fucked up if you can't get the Chief Justice to make a showing.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @08:20AM
He was impeached twice and acquitted twice. The DNC is like a power mad prosecutor bringing ridiculous cases and getting shot down at trial. Over and over.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @10:04AM (1 child)
Um, yes? Twice? Evidently you do not understand what the word means. Carry on! (Maybe you also think "winning" means losing by 8+ million votes?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @10:32AM
Latest and last Trump yuge win with SCOTUS [supremecourt.gov] came on International Women's Day.
No surprises, rejected and denied [forbes.com], not even bothering to comment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 10 2021, @05:04AM
That is not the preferred title. Please refer to him as the 45th ex-president.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:13AM
I doubt you're actually able to, but I'll give you half a point for mimicking the process.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:20AM (4 children)
Just look at that golden calf [gannett-cdn.com] just above the flip-flops, isn't it gorgeous?
I don't even dare to critique it, it's just perfect.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 09 2021, @04:00PM
Yeah! I love Angus Young too!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:13PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @10:36PM (1 child)
I would pay money to see that thing ground down and them made to drink it, too bad the irony would be lost on them. But maybe this idolatry is very thing evangelicals feared would result from people not seeing the 10 Commandments everywhere.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 10 2021, @05:10PM
Actually, the real irony is that it is many of those same evangelicals who should be the first in line to be made to drink.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 09 2021, @12:41PM (11 children)
There's not enough popcorn in the world. I hope the Trump camp and the "slightly less insane than the Trump camp because we know collapse of the nation would be bad for our stock portfolios" camp rip one another to shreds in the most humiliating, painful, long, drawn-out possible way. Lie down with rabid dogs, and you'll get up with far worse than fleas.
Too bad most of the Democrats are do-nothing cowardly Reaganites, huh? This SHOULD be the perfect opportunity to make a start on fixing the last 50+ years of damage the GOP's inflicted on us, but as it's said, a House (and Senate...) divided against itself cannot stand...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 09 2021, @01:06PM (3 children)
Well, with the traditional GOP buried, the stakes become a lot higher.
If the Dems don't make mistakes, Trump's party is a goner and there'll be a void to fill in or after 2024; there's always hurricanes when low pressure systems develop.
If the Dems make mistakes, then Trump and his QAnon's will turn US into an ugly monster and all this world will be sad, Canada included.
Makes the times quite interesting to live in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday March 09 2021, @04:01PM (2 children)
Since when do the Democrats NOT make mistakes?
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 09 2021, @04:20PM (1 child)
They could start at any time. Theoretically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday March 10 2021, @03:57PM
Nothing theoretical about it; you can pretty much guarantee that the Democrats will screw something up.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 09 2021, @01:26PM
Just seens on S/N:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:46PM (1 child)
Too bad most of the Democrats are do-nothing cowardly Reaganites, huh?
Oh please! No they are not. They are full on complicit accomplices, partners in the same crime, a power sharing coalition. Why does everybody believe the charade?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @10:48PM
That is what the bit you quoted said. Are you severely autistic or obsessive compulsive? You seem to have trouble with basic communication skills.
Besides, they are not all complicit unlike the GOP where it took blatant criminal corruption for any of the GOP senators to vote their conscience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:07PM (3 children)
Oh noes! Fusty's brainwashing is starting to work on Azuma!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:39PM
Not that unnatural to berate the Dems. When one sees the Bernie's mittens, fusti becomes quite irrelevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 10 2021, @01:18AM (1 child)
Please, the Democrats as a whole sold their souls in 1996. I was only 8 at the time and didn't understand what was going on, but it was fairly clear to me by late teenagerhood that Clinton's so-called "welfare reform" was the distillation if not the apotheosis of Reaganomics, applied in the worst possible way.
Thankfully a new, younger generation of them is up and coming, but it may be too late. They have a lot of damage to undo and it's questionable whether there will be a country left to undo it in, let alone the resources or wherewithal to do the undoing with.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 10 2021, @02:15AM
Correction: 1968.. Created all sorts of excitement, it was all over the TV
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:02PM (7 children)
As someone who married a survivor of spousal abuse, I find this journal headline an insult to such survivors. The RNC has far fewer redeeming qualities (and is not nearly as attractive).
Also, it takes, on average, seven years for an abused individual to break free of the abuse. if corporations are people, my friend, the RNC has a few years yet to suffer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:18PM (5 children)
"The RNC has far fewer redeeming qualities (and is not nearly as attractive)."
Not all abused people are good people, there are plenty of shitty people being abused. If the metaphor of the RNC as an abused spouse of 45 truly offends you then that sounds like something to discuss with your therapist.
For once I hope you are just trolling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @08:40PM (4 children)
So when you hollar at the dog for peeing on the carpet, and you turn around and find your spouse hiding in a locked bathroom for hours, you learn that the PTSD is real - as are the tears.
Let me know when you see a corporation lock themselves in a bathroom in terror.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @08:54PM (1 child)
Do you understand the difference between a metaphor, an analogy and a definition? Because you seem very prone to stuck only with the last of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @09:06PM
So which one is "corporations are people"? Analogy, metaphor, definition?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @10:52PM (1 child)
Domestic abuse is real and it is terrible, but are we only allowed to use happy fun metaphors now? Gimme a break.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 10 2021, @01:05AM
Yes, the RNC predicament should be all about the icing on the cake!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 09 2021, @07:56PM
I'm sorry, but I still find the metaphor as apt.
I assign no blame (other than the "what were they thinking") but what happens between them and Trump matches an advanced slide into an abusive type of marriage. The victim has still that mixture of reluctant consent, fear of rejection ("nobody can love you, but I do. In my own way, and that's all you have") and the dreading feel that what happens is not quite right; and the abuses start to grow in intensity and frequency.
So they will. They may even die (as a party) in the process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0