Reading the Room 2.0....When Rupert Murdoch Dumps Trump, Mega Donors Dump Trump, Ivanka and Jared Dump Trump.....Game Over.

 

Written by Grant G

Donald braggadocious Trump started his unhinged Mar A Lago announcement/rally rerun speech last night by boasting of his endorsement success...

Let the delusions begin...

Trump's endorsement winners in the 2022 midterms were, for the most part House seats in ruby red districts held for near ever by Republicans....In other words, Trump endorsed odds on favorites, almost all house seats, competitive house seats Trump stayed away from..In fact, in house districts where the GOP stood no chance Trump didn't endorse at all...

Trump's major endorsement loses.

Trump's major endorsements...In Pensyvania Mehmet Oz....Mastriano...PA said Hell No!

In Arizona...Trump got swept out...Kari Lake..Blake Masters..Mark Finchem..Abraham Hamadeh all lost.

In Alaska Kelly Tshibaka lost to Murkowski ..Palin lost

In Nevada...Marchant and Laxalt lost.

In Michigan, Tudor Dixon lost, in fact dems flipped Michigan state house too.

Up and down the entire country Trump lost the big ones, election deniers shown the exit doors.

Yet Trump blathered like he won...Yet his team lost,,,Trump and his team lost.

This is nothing new, Trump started decades ago, by advice given to him by Roy Cohn.."Never admit defeat, even when you lose"

That advice might work in some circles but it doesn't work in politics,....as we witnessed here in B.C. with Carol James...She too was given multiple chances to become premier...However, after three strikes, she was out, Trump has had his three strikes.....He got hammered in 2018 losing the House and Senate...Trump lost in 2020(bigtime, 7 million vote loser) Trump got bruised again in 2022...Trump got bruised when so many things were in Republicans favor, from inflation, energy costs and world strife.

Trump's extreme ultra-mage candidates were rejected on masse.

Trump's ego, and Trump's never admit defeat defect is one reason he wants to be president again, there is however another reason, or two as to why he's running for president..

First and foremost....Trump needs money from the rubes who have been sending him money(small donors)...That money has dried up..

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-fundraising-pacs-lose-dollar13-million-in-three-months-after-mar-a-lago-raid

The dollars have stopped flowing into his coffers...Trump believes his announcement will bring those donors back...It won't, some may return to giving but most will not.

Also, Trump thinks announcing a presidential run will stave off indictments, it won't...The unwritten rule of not investigating those running for office only applies to 6 months before an election, not two years..

Here's another fact...No man, woman or other in the history of the USA has announced a presidential run 2 years out, a record...That was a major mistake by Trump..two years of Trump whining and self grieving won't play well...It becomes like ad nauseum..

 GOP insiders pleaded with Trump not to announce a run this early, and or to at least wait until the Georgia runoff between Hershel Walker and Warnock has been settled..

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1592954140887773184

Trump has now guaranteed that Hershel will lose...Dems WILL be motivated..GOP, not so much, especially after Dems already won the Senate...

Trump is not a team player...Never has been, never will be...He's a bloated, silver-spoon-fed megalomaniac who's only concern is himself...

Notably absent from Trump's Mar A Lago unhinged rally was his daughter Ivanka, and Jared..They have chosen, out of self preservation to keep as fucking far away from trump as humanly possible..

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/ivanka-donald-trump-presidential-campaign-political-involvement/index.html

As for Melania destroyer of rose gardens Trump...She, last night full-filled her contract obligation and briefly appeared on stage with Donald..

Trump, because of derangement and what he perceives as self preservation by announcing a run, has killed of Hershel's chances to win a Senate seat...Hershel is so punch drunk he should never be near the levers of power, on anything let alone a US Senator.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1592954140887773184

Behind the scenes...The big dark money cheque writers have, in no uncertain terms said they ain't backing Trump, they will in fact fight Trump with everything they got...and what they got is $$$money, lots of money for anti-Trump moderate candidates..

Trump, even if he raises money..None of it gets spent on anything but himself, 2022 midterms proved that..Trump spent next to none of his super-pac money on GOP candidates.

Trump today, one day after his unhinged announcement suffered another defeat..

Donald has been going full throttle after Mitch old crow McConnell and pushed to have him replaced by fellow Floridian, Senator Rick Scott...Today the Senate voted...Rick Scott got no traction, meaning Trump has no traction.......Old Crow won the Senate leadership vote 31 to 10....Another Trump loss

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/senate-republican-leadership-vote-meeting/index.html

Chris Christie...yea, i'm not a fan, but he knows politics..

Yesterday, Christie was at an event with a room full of mega dark money Republican donors ...Christie made a speech where he ripped Donald Trump and...And after his speech the room erupted in applause and rose to their feet and gave Chris Christie a standing ovation..

That seals the deal...For when did Chris Christie ever get a standing ovation? Never, until yesterday.

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/chris-christie-trump-governors

Lastly....Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News...and the New York Post...

You can't send a bigger, more pointed message to Trump than what Rupert Murdoch sent today..

This is savage, almost as savage as Liz Cheney's tweet to Kari Lake yesterday..

https://twitter.com/Kaylan_TX/status/1592888179497250818

The below was on the front page of the New York Post

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/new-york-post-trump-2024-announcement/index.html

  And for those that haven't seen the Cheney Tweet...A little background...Liz Cheney spent money to help Katie Hobbs beat Kari Lake in Arizona Guv race...Kari Lake a couple of weeks ago released a statement, a statement directed at Liz Cheney..Kari Lake in that statement thanked Liz Cheney for supporting Hobbs..saying that it was a good thing Cheney supported her opponent Hobbs, that it was driving voters to the Kari Lake team..

Liz Cheney yesterday, in a savage tweet to Kari Lake said, very simply......"You're welcome"

Absolute savage Tweet, with 500k likes...Salt in the wound savage tweet.

https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1592340964982808576

As for reading the room, Trump can read the room and that's why he launched his run yesterday, two years out because he knows his star is dimming and its killing him, 

That and the need to grift with hats, knives, picture books and  reoccurring donations from the duped MAGA faithful....and a Hail Mary move Trump thinks might prevent indictments.

The game is over for Trump, at least any chance of winning the game is over for Trump....

Because....

It's not enough to just read the room....You need to know when to hold em, and when to fold em..

We ain't playing bridge where Trumps matter,,

We're playing for Democracy....

And that's what matters.

Knowing when to fold em is.... "reading the room correctly"

PS.....Everyone say a prayer for the "carters"...cuz apparently Trump is out to get them.

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Reading the Room.......Green Democratic Shoots Reappear(Thankfully) in Our Southern Neighbors' Lands(USA)

 

Written by Grant G

Trump and his rabid maga cult, political pundits, mainstream media along with Christian Nationalist leaders from coast to coast clearly mistook all the noise THEY were making as a wave, a movement, a reawakening, a ...........Hogwash, what they heard was sounds and noise bouncing back and forth in the echo chamber they reside in...

Christian self proclaimed prophets, Pastors and grifters overplayed their strong hands, they were  drinking their own bathwater.  Can you imagine, these God-praising persons literally threatened that when they take power(GOPChristianWhiteParty) they WILL impose upon and force feed their chosen religion down everyone's throat, like it or not...

Seems like telling people and threatening people as to how it's going to be rather than asking and trying to persuade the masses was a mistake...Appears to this observer that the Church was following the playbook of one Donald J Trump, take no prisoners and piss on everyone, lie with impunity and distort absolutely everything...Who would have thought that be a winning strategy.

The 2022 midterm elections revealed much..

Trump support is waning and will never recover.

America is multicultural Nation that is growing more and more diverse each and every passing year.

The youth vote surged and they voted for fairness, truth and self determination, and I thank them for that, and who can blame them, imagine a future where ancient near-dead mega church preachers, grifters and lifelong conmen are going to decide their fate.

The youth voted for a future, and that means protecting the environment, protecting freedom and most importantly, protecting Democracy...

Closed borders, isolation, one only force fed religion, patriotic education, ....Yes, they voted against that garbage and on mass, voted for a progressive path forward..

In thinking about the 2020 White ChristoFascist uprising in America we've all witnessed(if you have been watching)...I'm grateful it happened in the 2020s and not in 1950s...I salute the politicians of yesteryear for keeping the church out of the federal government back then..For in 1950...1960..America was way less diverse, there was more than enough of a white majority at that time to pull it off.

Also, there was no instant communications at everyone's fingertips like today..

Thank the powers that be that National Political Parties in the 50s and 60s didn't let Donald Trump and Kenneth Copeland type distorters anywhere near the levers of power..

And as for those green-shoots sprouting....indeed.

Trump is over, done, caput...Most of his high profile fascist endorsements lost....

Election deniers vying for key positions lost...With inflation raging, stubbornly high energy prices still here, covid still complicating matters...with all that dogging Biden....Biden literally gained strength after the midterms(which almost always favor the party out of power)..

Anyway....November 11/2022....Trump is done, and on his long slow way out of the ChristoFascist Party he's going to burn down as much of the GOP as he can...

And perhaps, just perhaps...We can thank Donald J Trump for exposing the darkness in men..

The one good thing Trump has done has set in motion a reawakening of the GOP into a party that recognizes that it will have no future in power unless it fundamentally changes into a real conservative party where the future, actual policy, the environment, sustainability and basic human decency is the road forward.

Either the GOP turns itself around or it will wallow in mediocrity outside the reigns of power for a long time...

Calling the majority of Americans...Socialists, Commies, heathens and haters of America appears to be a failed gambit...Who knew..?

They need to learn to read the room...

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Republicans Voters Appear to Crave a Socialistic Fascist hybrid Government....are they confused? Uneducated? or,,,,Is it who they really are

 

Written by Grant G

Joe Biden and his government over the last 2 tears passed gobs of good, popular and needed bills, from a massive infrastructure bill, student debt, drug price  reductions, a mild new gun law legislation, CHIPs act,.....Republican opposition have nearly on masse voted against all these bills/legislation..

In fact, Republicans have contributed nothing over the last 2 years outside of voting no for the sake of voting no..

However, this article isn't a debate about Biden's successes and failures....

Can anyone explain to me what Biden did to cause energy prices to spike around the world...

He did nothing, there are more available drilling permits to be had than ever before...Refineries weren't shut down...pipelines didn't fail...

Uneducated people?, or are they educated but still stupid..which is it?

Oil companies were begging for help during worldwide covid lockdowns and shutdowns in 2020...oil storage facilities were full, people weren't travelling and oil prices collapsed, ..$50..dollars...$30...$20....and, for a very short time the price of oil fell to  MINUS -$35 dollars....That's right, they'd pay you $35 dollars to take a barrel of oil...

What happened next? what always happens, the oil companies begged Government for help, and government did help....

Trump and his energy department led negotiations with OPEC and other oil producers to cut production around the world to drive the price up.....

Oil prices rose......

For a short time in 2020 gasoline in the USA averaged $1,47 per gallon....(here in BC we were still paying near $6 dollars per gallon)...

All the GOP candidates running for the Senate, Congress, Governors, all of them are saying the same thing on the issue of energy prices....

Trump at his rallies, at all his rallies..what does he say about gasoline and oil prices in 2022, the same thing every GOP candidate is saying....

Trump "When I was president I got gas prices down to $1,47 per gallon"

Really, the so-called free market(even though in 2020 oil companies were thrown a socialistic bailout led by government by manipulating the oil market upward)

People, investors, oil companies, drillers, producers, not one of those that fall into that category are in the oil or investment industry/business are there to stand pat, no, they are there to make profit...They all want the price of oil to rise and rise....You have all seen the record profits big oil is reaping...

That's the free market, even if they are gouging, which they are....Do Republicans want a National government owned oil market where prices are kept at acceptable levels for consumers...It appears they are voting for that...yet there are no plans by any party to regulate gasoline and or oil prices...

And, for as long as i've been alive and paying attention, anytime Democratic parties have suggested and even promoted a national government oil industry(which they have done many times over the last few decades...Republican political leaders and rightwing pundits have howled..."Socialism Socialism Socialism , Democrats want Socialism"....

But now, in 2022, one the eve of midterm elections...Republicans seem to be clamoring for Socialism..

Trump at his rallies on energy...He also said this, many times, another statement on energy, a statement he's repeated many times in recent weeks, a statement that undercuts his claim about getting gasoline prices down(to $1,47 per gallon)....That statement is this..he says it during the Q-music segment

"Oil reached an all-time high in price, what country would stop drilling oil with record prices, we could make a fortune" 

So, Trump has been making 2 separate statements on energy at all his recent rallies..  obviously the stark contradiction is way over the heads of MAGA cultists in attendance, is it also way over the heads of average GOP voters?...

How on one hand Trump brags about bringing the price of gasoline down to $1,47 per gallon(during lockdowns/shutdowns and a oil glut) and then talks about how much money the USA could have made by producing and selling oil when the price was record high?......

You can't do both.......Uneducated Republicans, cultists....close-minded haters....What do GOPers want...US making big oil money when prices are at record high or ...Socialism with domestic prices controlled by government...

Look....Record energy prices are a world problem, inflation is a world problem....and yes, Big Oil is gouging, the corporate world ais price gouging....Why are the doing it...2 reasons...Number 1...Governments around the world splashed $trillions into the economy....What happens when governments get too spendy with the people and splash money?

Along comes the industrial vacuums to suck it all up...Big oil, banks, corporations....

If anybody thinks Trump would have prevented Big Oil from gouging is delusional....There were no energy shortages in USA or Canada....Big Oil went wild because that's what they do..

What else are the Trump Republicans clamoring for?

Patriotic education....? What is that? Hitler did that....I'm a huge sports fan, from soccer, darts, Mosconi cup, pool, olympics, football, hockey, baseball....all sports....I haven't seen in my lifetime any decline in American fans yelling/chanting "USA USA USA USA" at sporting events involving other countries..

Inflation...Nobody likes inflation.....My take...When prices are high, too high, I stop buying the product, wait for it to go on sale...yes, I know, some items you have no choice...especially with energy for driving.....However, once again, it's the free market......prices are what the consumer will bear...If millions cancelled vacations, if the world pulled back prices would drop, but after the Covid Cyclone everyone has endured....Like a cat in a cage....people are doing stuff, regardless of cost, like the cat, people are leaving the cage and travelling ...

So, outside of the Christo-Fascist wing of the GOP, who's number 1 political goal is to have government force ChristoFascism religion upon all and wall off America from the not so-white world.

It's too bad that in the year 2022 any conversation or debate on real policy issues isn't possible, you can't debate policy when GOP influencers spout conspiracy theories and bemoan imaginary cultural demons..

Critical race theory isn't being taught to grade students, kids are not believing they're cats and using little boxes in school, or anywhere else for that matter..

So, what what America has is 2 political parties, one party that is far from perfect(Democrats) but at least campaign in reality and has policies on medicare, social security, infrastructure, climate...

And....The social issues, warring, Christfascist, confused between wanting patriotic Nazism indoctrination and Socialism where oil and gas prices and all other commodities are controlled by Government.....

Lastly......

Methinks, as off 2022...the internet collectively is causing more harm than good...

Almost impossible to have intelligent debate online....Too many uneducated, too many haters, too many close minded people, too many religious deceivers....

Democracy is at risk.....Never thought i'd see America slide off into the abyss...

But here we are.....

Update, November 10/2022.....

Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms

https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/heres-how-donald-trump-sabotaged-the-republican-midterms/

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Don't believe the polls....The Fascist are going to lose..Most of them! Dems to pick-up 2 Senate Seats(52-48 Dem Majority)

Dems will pick-up 2 senate seats.....52 to 48 Dem majority..

The US House is likely gone....almost all midterm elections in recent decades sees the ruling party losing seats...

However...It may be different this year....

Rightwing polling companies are flooding the zone with shit partisan polls..Eh Trafalger?

And despite an electorate pissed off at the price of groceries and gasoline....Republicans have no answers for the future outside of investigating a fictional hard-drive and impeaching Biden for yet unspecified crimes...Voters are staying put..albeit Florida has swung right...But they be back to sanity in 2 years....Wait til they taste the fascism..

I've been watching this polling gambit the rightwing is engaged in...

538 polling seems to be level headed and even handed .....

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/2022/new-york/

Whereas Real Clear Politics, a once legit polling aggregator has turned sharp-right after accepting rightwing dark money .....Check it out, a night and day difference..

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/co/colorado_senate_odea_vs_bennet-7773.html

More details on RCP rightwing conspiracy swing here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClearPolitics

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1588962811128020992

MAGA and ....and our Canadian version of  the Dumb and Dumber extreme right are very noisy, but their numbers are small(Eh Tamara Lich)....MAGA represents about 40% of the GOP....The remaining GOP will mostly vote party lines....But, about 10 % of the current GOP will not vote for Fascists.

Lastly....Friend of Bolsonaro...Mike Lindell claims he has proof 5.1 million votes were stolen(stold) or as Trump would say.."stollen" from Bolsonaro..

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1588220443353399296

 

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-hints-brazil-election-rigged-cyber-guys-watched-race-1756803

Yea, the fucking deadbeat crackhead rightwingers aren't content to just mess with their own American elections they want to fuck wth other countries too..

Including Ali Alexander who is attempting to promote a "StoptheSteal" campaign/coup in Brazil..

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/trump-big-lie-backers-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-election-fraud-concede/

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PS....Mom is still hanging in there......Cheers