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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarjorie Traitor Greene Celebrates The 'Bloodbath at the RNC'
In the past 24 hours, over 60 staffers lost their jobs at the Republican National Committee after Donald Trump's daughter in law, Lara Trump, became the new chairwoman of the RNC. According to the politico article announcing the major cuts, the RNC will merge much of its operations with the Trump campaign in an effort to streamline its budget. As it stands, the RNC was bleeding cash with less than $10 million in the bank at the end of last year. Many of these staffers will now be without a job as a result of the new leadership pushing them out.
In response, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrated and announced that "MAGA is now in control of the Republican Party!!" Despite what public reports may say about streamlining budget, Greene's statement makes clear that the likely reason behind the resignation stemmed from the attempt to remake the RNC in Donald Trump's image.
Link to tweet
Whether Lara Trump is able to turn around this sinking ship remains a mystery, but one thing's for sure, Marjorie Taylor Greene is right: the Republican Party is now the Party of MAGA and Trump.
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-celebrates-the-bloodbath-at-the-rnc
Going the way of the Whigs.
PJMcK
(25,048 posts)Everything Trump touches dies.
Everything.
PCIntern
(28,369 posts)Im still waiting.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,512 posts)Kennah
(14,578 posts)lastlib
(28,268 posts)I personally think it's a great thing for the Democratic Party for November, and maybe beyond. If TSF wrecks his party structure, it could mean fewer GOPhers in the House, Senate, governors' seats--even statehouses. Maybe we could accomplish some long-overdue reforms then. That would make me smile! It would be even more pleasurable to hear GOPhers whine (although we might need earplugs to muffle it.)
We need to be the majority party long enough to get through some positive changes. There is plenty of work to be done, especially if we want to prevent another debacle like the Trump presidency.
Vdizzle
(391 posts)Next 20 years will be like the 20 years that followed FDRs New Deal. Growth. Building. Prosperity. And hopefully we can do better with a complete and total repudiation of fascism, despotism, MAGA, authoritarianism, etc
.
I really want my kids to inherit a better world/country when my time comes.
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)Life runs in cycles and we are due for such a cycle, a quantum leap forward, and I view Biden as our FDR. Of course like you, I am cautiously optimistic. The last 20 years have been unnerving, so I am conditioned to expect the unexpected. I could have never imagined Donald Trump.
Blue Owl
(59,106 posts)
nature-lover
(1,861 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,495 posts)lastlib
(28,268 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)rubbersole
(11,223 posts)ShazzieB
(22,590 posts)MTG is the queen of the malapropism!
Wikipedia: A malapropism (also called a malaprop, acyrologia, or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound, either unintentionally or for comedic effect, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.
So far, she's come up with:
- gazpacho police
- peach tree dish
And now:
- title wave
Have there been any others that I missed?
Vdizzle
(391 posts)ShazzieB
(22,590 posts)Blue Owl
(59,106 posts)ShazzieB
(22,590 posts)calguy
(6,154 posts)My money is on the other guy getting the boot as well, making Lara trump in charge by herself, free to funnel most of the funds into the trump family coffers.
TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)calguy
(6,154 posts)Turbineguy
(40,074 posts)Pay up suckers!
OAITW r.2.0
(32,133 posts)As the saner Republicans quit DC, she's going to be the House face of the Republican Party.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Shes got that will-to-power thing down pat
OAITW r.2.0
(32,133 posts)The demolition of the the Grand Old Party would be complete.
Mister Ed
(6,927 posts)They say that when you're in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. But I guess there will always be those contrarians who instead continue to dig deeper.
Or maybe she's just urging the marks and chumps to dig deeper into their pockets?
Ilsa
(64,371 posts)I don't see how Rs can keep control of the House if Prisoner Orange-Skin keeps walking away with donations so his lawyer can carry a $70,000 Hermes Birkin bag.
tanyev
(49,295 posts)
OAITW r.2.0
(32,133 posts)We grew up with the best cartoons ever! Great animators and great ideas that we could understand. Willy never stood a chance against the Roadrunner.
AllaN01Bear
(29,495 posts)Stuart G
(38,726 posts)Glamrock
(12,003 posts)Because it all went to her Orange Jesus.
The Schadenfreude. Aging like a good scotch in a charred oak barrel
.
rubbersole
(11,223 posts)I'll drink to that. -. 🥃
underpants
(196,495 posts)for the RNC, the Congressional campaign operation, and probably herself. Her only threat is to get primaried and thats unlikely. Ive been to her district many times (family down there), a ham sammich with an R behind its name is a lock there in the general.
limbicnuminousity
(1,416 posts)Particularly when it includes that overgrown troll-doll. If she isn't careful her own party may start SWAT-ing her again.
Wounded Bear
(64,324 posts)
BootinUp
(51,323 posts)qwlauren35
(6,309 posts)In feeling very sorry for all of the Republican moderates like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney who have to watch the implosion of their party. I don't think they deserved this. My boss was a Republican because his parents were Republican and it didn't occur to him to be anything else. Not a racist bone in his body. Totally LGBTQ ally. Possibly pro-Choice (I don't remember) Hates Trump. To me, he represented a new moderate, educated Republican that I could see working across the aisle. There are lots of Republican policies that I hate. But I do not hate all Republicans.
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)She is a temporary ally. She is as hard-line, right-wing as her Dad. You would hate her policies.
qwlauren35
(6,309 posts)A temporary ally is better than no ally at all.
rubbersole
(11,223 posts)She'd grind a heel 👠 in your...in you.
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)rubbersole
(11,223 posts)I was asked if I had been in police work by a former detective...a variation of "gum shoe".I had to look it up. But I now wear 'sensible' SAS brand shoes. Probably the choice of the Cheney's at this point. The only time you'll associate 'Cheney' with a soft sole!
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)rubbersole
(11,223 posts)I got a good acoustic guitar when Rubber Soul came out. I was 12. Traded in my Green Stamps Kay acoustic. Didn't want to plagiarize the greatest band in history by using "Soul". But it's a way to pay a small tribute to a transformative album in their maturation. (Especially since it took me a year to figure out how to tune that original guitar.)
tom_kelly
(1,051 posts)Anyone getting in the way of their grift.
ancianita
(43,307 posts)All of these people have brought about their party's trump-by-lethal-injection death.
They forgot that their leader would eventually put the squeeze on them, and then throw them all under the bus.
Now their election small donors know what's up and won't even bother anymore.
Now these election deniers will be themselves denied RNC election money in 2024.

gopiscrap
(24,733 posts)fuck every one of them including the moderates like romney and cheney they stood by and watched and often enabled starting with nixon
ancianita
(43,307 posts)They've dispirited the country with divisive strife, lies, and contentiousness, creating fear and love of power.
They now reap what they've sown.
Johonny
(26,178 posts)Because that's what Trump does best.
sakabatou
(46,148 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,495 posts)wonder when the kids are going to get involved . don jr , etc.?
Thunderbeast
(3,819 posts)The dems MAY re-capture the House, but keeping the Senate will be a very heavy lift. While winds may be in our sails nationally, the electoral map has too many blue seats to defend while red seats are deeply entrenched and mostly safe.
Unless young voters start believing the existential threat of a christo-fascist takeover, November will be sad indeed. I have not met anyone under 40 who likes either candidate. Whether they hold their nose and vote Biden (or vote at all) can not be counted on to deliver 270 electoral votes.
I am terrified that emboldened Republican state legislatures will block certification in states that Biden wins under the pretense of fraud (again). The fake challenges are now baked into the process.
In short...the dream of a semi-permanent majority and the demise of the radical conservatives is way too optimistic. Those voters will be there to follow the next dog-whistling autocrat.
Commentators said the same thing in 2008 with the Obama victory.
Wonder Why
(7,029 posts)Omnipresent
(7,450 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,140 posts)Are they making this easy? Their flank is fully exposed.
Traildogbob
(13,018 posts)Verify MTG was the capital bomber, I dont know why not. She is all about destroying both parties and creating one dictator party. Why bombs were placed at both Dem and Repub areas.