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lees1975

(3,859 posts)
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 12:54 AM Mar 2023

Why Republicans won't win in 2024

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/03/why-republicans-wont-win-in-2024.html

Look what we got from CPAC this week. Nothing. They offer nothing except griping about other people's liberty. The fact that a lot of Republicans seeking the nomination for President bypassed this forum says a lot about their perception of its effectiveness. Frankly, most of the media attention it got, including the coverage on MSNBC, and on the Sunday morning shows, was way overblown. Why cover something like that? It wasn't news, they could have just replayed any of a dozen Trump speeches from the past couple of months and got the same thing. That's not a campaign aimed at getting votes, it's one aimed at trying to keep the shrinking base from getting smaller.

My optimism prior to the 2022 election was boosted by Michael Moore, who defiantly declared, just a week or so before the election, that the Democrats were not going to "lose" and that there would be no "red wave." He was right. My optimism toward 2024 is being boosted by a Democratic Congressman from California by the name of Eric Swalwell, who is pushing for an aggressive thrust into the rotten veneer of the GOP by aggressively calling out their corruption. Check him out in an appearance he made on Medhi Hassan's program on MSNBC tonight when the clip becomes available. The future of the party rests with Democrats like him. Among the Repubicans, he's at the top of the "most hated Democrats" list, and he's there for a reason. That should tell you all you need to know.

But the key piece here is that I believe Trump will be facing indictments and trials that will eventually bring him down with convictions and sentences. I have no insider information, I just have trust that America is still America, and that our justice system will work and the will of the people will result in fair trials and convictions for all the crimes he committed. And when he goes, it will bring down what has been propping up a lot of the hangers-on for a while. People like Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, the fawning sycophants like Greene, Gaetz and Boebert, will fall into the political hell he created right along with him.

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PortTack

(32,767 posts)
3. I totally agree. Whether it's desatan or tfg...they are politically dead. They just don't know it!
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:17 AM
Mar 2023

And we the “woke’l let em sleep!

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
4. The GOP was so fucked up during the pandemic, but now they are trying to act like they were heroes.
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 03:00 AM
Mar 2023

We need to remind the media and voters of the GOP's careless attitude toward COVID: resulting in the deaths of Americans and people around the world. trump was a complete idiot. desantas was a self-centered bastard. The list goes on.
It was all about money to them.

KS Toronado

(17,235 posts)
6. Last week F**ker Carlson did a segment
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 03:25 AM
Mar 2023

on the covid vaccine that this country was shipping 20% of our newly manufactured vaccines to third
world countries and that proves President Biden cares more about people in other countries than U.S.
citizens. And their MAGAt viewers eat this shit up without realizing that no one over here was ever
turned away from getting a free covid vaccine shot. Plus they forget FO卐 told them it's no worse
than a common cold and NOT TO GET VACCINATED. MAGAts are really stupid.

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
8. During the pandemic when they were spouting off all their crap about masking and anti-vax...
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 03:35 AM
Mar 2023

I KNEW that when it was all over, they were going to lie and try to rewrite history to make them look like heroes.
It's now begun.
I hope the DNC is on top of this.

PortTack

(32,767 posts)
9. Several studies showed a direct correlation to red rural counties that weren't quite as red in
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 06:03 AM
Mar 2023

Midterms due to increased deaths among the unvaccinated. If they are that dumb then who am I to get in their way?!

KS Toronado

(17,235 posts)
10. I can see if you had a loved one in the hospital with covid
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 07:02 AM
Mar 2023

and all the Doctors & Nurses are telling you "they should have taken the vaccine, etc, etc", yea those people
would be questioning why in the hell they believed Тяцмp & FO卐.

KS Toronado

(17,235 posts)
5. Plus all the dirt Dominion has dug up on FO卐
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 03:06 AM
Mar 2023

lying to their viewers should hurt them. Billboards in red areas reminding voters of that fact should help
us in the long run also.

lees1975

(3,859 posts)
12. It's in the blog piece, first factor they talk about
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 12:49 PM
Mar 2023
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/03/why-republicans-wont-win-in-2024.html

The biggest culture war issue of all came completely unraveled in 2022 with the Dobbs decision being handed down from the Supreme Court prior to the election. The issue of abortion rights has always come with a significant number of complications and exceptions and even some conservatives recognize that the medical ethics alone makes laws without exceptions have consequences for all women, not just those considering an abortion.

And in a democracy where religious liberty is a constitutional guarantee that works both ways, the belief that life begins at conception is rooted in religious principle. Can the government force women to accept consequences their own conscience wouldn't choose? Can it establish an exclusively religious principle, that life begins at conception, as law? Clearly, a majority of Americans do not think so. Most conservatives raise abortion to the highest priority when they vote and it became apparent in the 2022 election, with the impact of the Dobbs decision, that just as many of those who hold the opposite view have also raised it to one of their highest priorities when choosing a candidate.

lees1975

(3,859 posts)
13. Most news broadcasts mentioned the slim crowd at CPAC, and showed the rows and rows and rows
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 01:00 PM
Mar 2023

of empty seats. But they didn't really spend a lot of time pointing out Trump's speech issues, his blank-outs, tremors, lost trains of thought, and evidence of dementia. Edit those things out, and it's a rehash of the same old same old. He's lost what edge he may have had behind a microphone.

A friend of mine who works in Fort Washington, MD, and who frequents restaurants in National Harbor said that the wait times for tables on Friday and Saturday were much shorter than normal, when bigger conventions are there. They got right in at Fiorella's at prime time on Saturday.

lees1975

(3,859 posts)
15. We did not have election deniers in 2016
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 06:42 PM
Mar 2023

That didn't happen until afterward, when the buffoon lost the popular vote.

Nor had we been introduced to Jewish Space lasers, cameras that could detect bamboo fibers in ballots and woke issues like CRT and Q Anon had just got off the ground.

lees1975

(3,859 posts)
17. Yes we do and they're one of the reasons
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 07:48 PM
Mar 2023

an article like this will be more accurate in 2024 than it was in 2016.

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