Simon Rosenberg - Trump is NOT strong
I trust many of you are keeping up with Simon Rosenberg's Hopium Chronicles on Substack? His Substack is not a year old yet and he has become essential reading, IMHO. He's also become a regular guest on Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show.
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In every possible way I would much rather be us than them
Simon Rosenberg
Feb 22, 2024
Trump is far weaker than 2020, the GOP party itself is in shambles, and theyve grown far uglier, extreme and dangerous. Right now the Republican is an unprecedented shitshow - I mean, cmom:
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Fiendish Thingy
(15,619 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)jaxexpat
(6,831 posts)* Something smelled about the 2004 election but we were told to just accept it and let it ride for the sake of the nation.
PTL_Mancuso
(276 posts)Such as: The death of Michael Connell, Karl Rove's Chief IT guy, just before he was to go before Congress to answer questions about vote-rigging in Ohio, etc.
[link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-it-guru-dies-in-plane-crash/|
Michael Connell,45, of Akron died Friday when his plane crashed near a vacant house in Uniontown while attempting to land at nearby Akron-Canton Airport.
But the fatal accident is also raising questions about Connell and his work for key political figures and lobbyists, which has targeted him in investigations over missing White House e-mails and a lawsuit alleging electronic voting fraud.
Following Last Friday's fatal accident, CBS Affiliate WOIO reported that Connell, who had recently been subpoenaed to testify in relation to a lawsuit alleging vote rigging in the 2004 Ohio election, was warned at least twice about flying his plane because his plane might be sabotaged.
. . . [part of article skipped by me] . . .
Connell's central role in building the IT infrastructure of the White House and his association with Karl Rove has brought him into the controversy surrounding missing White House e-mails relating to the firing of U.S. Attorneys and other topics, and the fate of e-mail communications sent by Rove and other administration staffers which were sent via a Republican Party Web site, gwb43.com, rather than through a whitehouse.gov address.
Connell built the gwb43.com site, which shares mail servers with GovTech.
Connell's Internet expertise also led him to be subpoenaed earlier this year to testify in an Ohio federal court regarding alleged voter fraud in the 2004 election. Despite exit polls showing a lead by Democratic nominee John Kerry of more than 4 percent, Mr. Bush won the state's vote by 2.5 percent, along with its crucial electoral votes.
Much has been written about problems at the polls in Ohio that year, where voters in many (predominantly Democratic) precincts were forced to wait hours because of a shortage of working voting machines. A lawsuit being pursued by attorney Clifford Arneback seeks to answer questions about this and other ballot problems. [For example, in Franklin County Mr. Bush received 4,258 votes in a precinct where only 638 voters cast ballots.]
Search around! You'll find lots of other memory-holed (by our vaunted free press) Rove-ian rat-fkkery that threw the election. I'm sure many of you were reading/writing stuff related to the vote here on DU during those times!
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)I am all ears...he is a brilliant Democratic strategist..my task for today was to find Hopium Chronicals.. ..
ShazzieB
(16,412 posts)I see so many posts here from people who are frantic with worry about him winning in November (for very real reasons), and I always want to reassure them but haven't quite known how.
The thing is, I'm not sure everyone realizes just how weak TSF - and the GOP - are. Rosenberg lays it out very clearly here, and I think the worriers would benefit from reading what he has to say.
TSF is weak, he's in really bad shape, snd it's only going to get worse. At the rate he's going, he'll be gibbering like a monkey by summer. The GOP is collapsing from within, and I can't see how his campaign or the party will have enough money to mount the kind of campaign that he'll need to maintain any credibility.
Yes, I know he still has adoring worshippers who hang on his every word, but I think their number is dwindling and will shrink even more as time goes on. He's going to need a lot more people than them to vote for him, and I don't see that happening. There are way too many people, and I don't just mean Democrats, who don't trust him and/or absolutely can't stand him for a variety of reasons.
Yes, we will need to work hard to GOTV and all, but I'm honestly not all that worried, and reading this article has made me feel even better about things. I hope tons of other DUers will read it as well.
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)Uh, that shit ain't sellin' baby.
He is decomposing right before our eyes.
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