Saturday, November 02, 2024

Trump's campaign falls apart, Jill and her grifters pick a fight with the European Greens

Voting in the 2024 election ends Tuesday and Convicted Felon Donald Trump's campaign is falling apart.  Adam Nichols (RAW STORY) reports:


Former President Donald Trump has told several campaign aides that he’s furious with his senior advisor Chris LaCivita and plans to sever ties with him as soon as the election is over.

LaCivita is one of two aides considered to be in charge of running Trump's campaign to become president.

But a report last month by the Daily Beast claimed LaCivita is raking in cash from the campaign, with several deals reportedly paying him $22 million in just two years.

“Trump has not raised the issue of LaCivita’s pay since,” The Atlantic writer Tim Alberta reported Saturday, basing the claim on conversations with several Trump staffers.

“Save for several episodes of the candidate teasingly — but conspicuously — calling LaCivita “my $22 million man!”

But, Alberta wrote, the relationship between the two has become tense, and was worsened by a CNN report that shared activity on LaCivita’s Twitter account on January 6, 2021.

It included LaCivita’s liking of a tweet that called for Trump to be removed for insurrection.


Lara Yunaska Trump was installed as co-chair of the RNC by her father-in-law.  She has no experience.  And people who had election experience were largely run off.  This is where the campaign's focus on getting out the vote for Tuesday.  That's getting voters to the polls by reminding them to vote, by driving them to the polls, etc.  Michelle Obama spoke about that today in Norristown.  But Trump's kicked out the people in the RNC who knew about that.  Instead, he's 'privatized' the task -- handing millions to Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk.  Joe Conason explains:


That's where the opportunities for grifting arose, after members of the Trump gang realized his campaign's field operations would attract big money from wealthy supporters. And at the forefront of the would-be chiselers in the 2024 campaign was Charlie Kirk, the aging leader of the MAGA movement's youth organization, Turning Point USA. (Kirk's personally profitable stewardship of Turning Point is examined in my recent book "The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism.")

While the "ground game" for a Republican presidential ticket has been traditionally overseen by the Republican National Committee, Kirk used his close connections with the Trump family, especially Don Jr., to seize effective control of the party apparatus. (No doubt the president's eldest son was grateful to Turning Point for bulk buying copies of his book "Triggered.") He succeeded in pushing out RNC chair Ronna McDaniel and promoting his Turning Point PAC as the Trump campaign's principal field operation. (He also persuaded Trump to install daughter-in-law Lara Trump, with no discernible credentials, as RNC chair so she could advance his fortunes.) He announced he would raise $108 million to "chase every vote" in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin.

The wholesale abandonment of McDaniel's extensive planning provoked deep skepticism among veteran GOP operatives. They saw no reason why Kirk would need so much cash to get out the vote in three states -- or why anyone should invest in his dubious project. They noted that Turning Point's previous election organizing efforts in Arizona's elections in 2022 had not ended well: Every Republican running statewide that year lost.

But Turning Point's lousy midterm results didn't discourage Trump, who was drawn to Kirk's emphasis on turning out "low-propensity" far-right MAGA base voters, rather than seeking to persuade the unaffiliated or undecided. That strategy has lately devolved into a crusade for the support of alienated young men, who may or may not actually show up at the polls. How Kirk plans to motivate them is unclear.

Not long after McDaniel's ouster, Kirk and his allies began to pressure state and local Republican officials to shift their voter outreach and canvassing programs onto a new platform -- an app marketed by Superfeed Technologies, a private firm that happens to be owned by Tyler Bowyer, Turning Point USA's chief operating officer. Just to keep it all in the family, Kirk's mother-in-law sits on the Superfeed board of directors.

Now perhaps this web of conflict and profit is all perfectly legitimate. And maybe the Superfeed app and Kirk's ambitious vote-herding plan will prove to be a brilliant success. But election experts told the Associated Press in early October that they doubt Turning Point can mobilize enough new or infrequent Trump voters to affect the outcome. They pointed out that record numbers of voters cast ballots in 2016 and 2020, which doesn't leave a large share of likely voters to be organized.

Another sign of weakness is that Turning Point has turned over its outreach campaign in Michigan, which reportedly collapsed, to Elon Musk's America PAC. The Musk effort has suffered from its own widely mocked technical glitches and flaws -- including a scam that allowed its employees to falsify their canvassing records.

Contrast all that sleaze with the Harris-Walz campaign, bolstered by tens or even hundreds of thousands of unpaid volunteers. They are motivated not by love of money but love of country.


His crowds are getting even smaller and even more people are walking out while he's speaking -- walking out of Trump rallies while Trump is speaking.



Eric Garcia (INDEPENDENT) covers the trend of Trump supporters being bored and leaving rallies  early, "But a few minutes into Trump’s speech, the Speeds left. Indeed, plenty of people said that they were leaving either because they were tired from standing or wanted to beat traffic."

This as Trump makes a bigger idiot of himself in public than usual: "Screaming and angry Donald Trump gives a blow job onstage."  And the editorial board of THE NEW YORK TIMES notes:


You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump's corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It's his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he's re-elected, the G.O.P. won't restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.


More bad news for Donald?  Jill Stein's not that popular.  I've noted this before.  I was worried before I started speaking around the country in the last three months.  But once I did, I saw she was not fooling anyone.  Now CAIR's got a new poll.  Over a month after I pointed out the flaws in CAIR's previous poll, over a month after I noted that it wasn't accurate, they've got a new poll.  1%.  That's how many Arab Americans and/or Muslims and or White Anglos (they were never honest about their polling, you actually dig into the data) in Michigan plan to vote for Jill.


Or state they will.  We'll come back to that after the election.


But the grifter's got even more problems.  Julia Conley (COMMON DREAMS) reports:


  Noting that the U.S. Green Party and its presidential nominee, Jill Stein, have strayed far from the values held by Green parties in countries across the globe, a coalition of European lawmakers representing the organization called on Stein to drop out of the U.S. presidential race to help prevent a victory by Republican nominee Donald Trump.

"The stakes of these elections could not be higher," reads an open letter from politicians and parties from countries including Norway, Belgium, France, Ireland. "We are clear that [Democratic Vice President] Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House."

Stein, who has run for president in the last four elections and won 1.4 million votes in 2016, is now polling between 1.1% and 1.4% and is on the ballot in a majority of states, including almost every battleground state.

The European Greens noted that they advocate "for a politics that prioritizes the planet, people, and peace above corporate greed, systemic injustice, and violence."

"The U.S. Greens are no longer a member of the global organization of Green parties," reads the letter, spearheaded by European Greens co-chairs Mélanie Vogel, a French senator, and Thomas Waitz, an Austrian member of European Parliament. "In part this fissure resulted from their relationship with parties with authoritarian leaders, and serious policy differences on key issues including Russia's full-scale assault on Ukraine."

Stein attended a dinner in Russia in 2015 with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has been critical of U.S. support for Ukraine's defense against the Russian invasion that began in 2022.

In mid-October, Stein joined former Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant at a rally where Sawant acknowledged that Stein has no chance of winning. At an event in Michigan, Sawant said the state was "ground zero to punish Kamala Harris and defeat her" for Harris' support for the Biden administration's policy in Israel and Palestine. The comment suggested to critics that Stein and her supporters view a Trump presidency as preferable to a Harris victory on November 5.

"The U.S. Green Party is attempting to go after the subset of voters on the left who don't like the Democrats," Carl Roberts, a spokesperson for Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, a political foundation affiliated with the German Green Party, toldThe Guardian in September. "I think this is quite out of step with other Green parties, who always center environmental concerns in their messaging and campaigns as one of their highest priorities." 

Here's the Tweet.




Margaret Kimberley and Anne Garrison are s**ting their Depends.   Too bad, you stupid fools.  I said Jill would be suicide for the Green Party.  They could have gone with Kat Swift, Kent Mesplay, Dario Hunter, anyone -- anyone but the grifter who'd already held the title of presidential nominee two times before.  When you run the same failure three times, you make it clear that your party is not growing.  It's stagnant.  And when that loser is a grifter who grabbed millions from people for a 2016 recount that never really happened?  Your con artist is very close with Donald Trump's campaign for a reason.


Faced with reality, these idiots and kooks can't deal with it.  So you get Margaret Kimberely nuttier then when she used to claim that a plane didn't bring down the Twin Towers now insisting, "They are pro-war collaborators. So yes, they got a call from NATO and I'm guessing from the DNC too."


That's right, Margaret, it's a plot!  An international plot!  It's a plot!  The Eurpapean Greens are actually CIA!  And NATO!!!!


Do you get how crazy you sound?  Do you?  People are laughing at you -- and, for a change, it's not because your buddies with registered sex offender Scott Ritter, nor is it because of your cheap ass weaves.  Open the purse, Margaret, spend some money on fake hair or wear your real hair.


They are a joke -- and a dirty joke at that.  Their response to this criticism -- accurate criticism -- is not to attempt to refute it but to instead serve up more nutty conspiracies.  


They can't see reality.  They can't even see themselves accurately -- or am I the only one who's seen the illustration BLACK LIBERATION MEDIA (formerly BLACK REVOLUTIONARY MEDIA) is using for their election night coverage?  They don't have a single man among them with short dark hair and no woman in their collective has the hair or body of the woman in the illustration.  I guess they think that if they didn't use models, if they used actual representations of what they look like, no one would want to watch?  It's really sad when you've got 18 -- at least 18 -- on airs whose looks represent Black America in various shapes and sizes but you'd rather attempt to go for some idealized version that few will ever reach.  Self-hatred.  That's really the only explanation.

 


SNL.  Kamala had a cameo tonight, she appeared in the opening skit. 



While the GOP falls apart and the laughable US Green Party tries to slam the European Green Party -- which actually gets on ballots and elects people to office -- we need to focus on the end game.  We need to turn out our voters on Tuesday.  Check and see if anyone you know needs a ride.  And grasp that people who have cars may need rides.  Some may not be able to drive due to vision issues.  Some may be terrified of going somewhere new.  I'm not joking.  I'm dyslexic.  If a city is set up on a grid system, no problem.  Otherwise?  I always have anxiety.  So find out where the polling places are in your area and check with your friends, family and neighbors to see if anyone needs a ride in order to vote on Tuesday.  We have the numbers.  We just need to make sure we show up.


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