The Democratic political action committee known as the Lincoln Project launched a campaign of harassment targeting lawyers who represent the Trump administration in its efforts to investigate the 2020 election on Tuesday.
The effort began with a tweet identifying two attorneys by name, with their pictures, and their phone numbers that read “make them famous.” Twitter took down the tweet for violating its terms of service.
Hours later, failed GOP strategist Rick Wilson, a leader of the anti-Republican PAC, told the Washington Post that this was just the beginning, that the group would be going after the law firm Jones Day for further harassment including targeting clients of the firm in a effort to harm their business. Their justification for this bizarre and dangerous behavior is that Jones Day was hired to assist in the Trump campaign’s efforts.
Rick Wilson is a real piece of shit, it would seem.
Chris Hayes recently suggested that everyone who works for Trump should be subjected to a "truth and reconciliation commission" which then prompted AOC to call for making a political enemies list.
The woke Dems sure are showing who the sane ones with the moral high ground are, eh?
The Lincoln Project, a liberal Super PAC founded by shlubby white dudes who weren't very good at sports growing up but compensated for that as adults by owning people on Twitter, went an abysmal 0-7 in key Senate races this cycle despite spending almost $12 million in support of Democratic candidates.
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The Lincoln Project spent a total of $2.4 million trying to unseat Lindsey Graham, who ended up winning by more than 10 percentage points. The group's track record in other key Senate races was just as embarrassing. In every state where the Lincoln Project spent at least $200,000, the Republican candidate won.
The group spent $4.3 million on the Alaska Senate race, for example, in the form of attack ads against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R., Alaska) and ads supporting the Democrat-aligned independent candidate, Al Gross. The race was finally called on Wednesday, with Sullivan winning reelection by 20 percentage points.
The Lincoln Project joins Michael Bloomberg‘s political organization as a prominent example of liberal groups that spent an extraordinary amount of money on the 2020 election, yet accomplished next to nothing.
Here's how the Lincoln Project fared in other close races Democrats were hoping to win in order to regain control of the Senate, an outcome that now seems increasingly out of reach:
Montana: $2.7 million spent; Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.) won reelection by 10 percentage points. Maine: $1.7 million spent; Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) won reelection by 8 percentage points. Kentucky: $464,000 spent; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) won reelection by almost 20 percentage points. Iowa: $226,000 spent; Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) won reelection by more than 6 percentage points. North Carolina: $197,000 spent; Sen. Thom Tillis won reelection.
If the goal was to spend millions of dollars to pad the bank accounts of some shlubby white dudes and to produce some sick owns of Trump on social media, Lincoln Project donors certainly got their money's worth. If the goal was to actually accomplish something meaningful, then no, they certainly did not.
But nothing compares to the record of the #NeverTrumpers at the Lincoln Project, the New York Jets of political action committees that attracts tons of broadcast and social media attention based almost solely on its ability to troll in the most self-righteous (and self-serving) ways. Part of that attention included a profile last month on the highest-rated broadcast news magazine in the country, the venerable “60 Minutes” on CBS.
The #NeverTrump group includes former 2008 McCain presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt, “Republican strategist” Rick Wilson and George Conway, the husband of former Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. Overall, the group spent more than $67 million in an attempt to impact various 2020 races.
Result: President Trump received more votes than any Republican in history, amassing more than 73 million votes and breaking the previous GOP record he set in 2016. As far as biting into Trump's base, which apparently was the “Republican” group's core mission, the president received support from 91 percent of Republicans, according to a Fox News voter analysis, up from four years ago. Whoops.
But the real failure occurred in the Senate results, where the Lincoln Project threw $12 million at seven Democratic candidates in key races in an effort to flip the chamber back to the Democrats. Final score on that front: Republicans 7, Democrats 0.
The Lincoln Project’s GOP operatives raised huge money from liberals by asserting that they would peel away Republican support from Trump. However, on Wednesday, Washington Post reporters poured cold water on the idea that Never Trump groups succeeded in doing that.
“Despite pleas by ‘Never Trump’ voices, the president secured a larger share of Republican voters nationally, 94 percent in 2020, than four years ago, when he won 88 percent and third-party candidates received more support,” they wrote.
This point was backed up by pollster Ben Tulchin, who in this week’s Daily Poster subscriber live chat reviewed data showing that Trump actually increased his share of the Republican vote.
You can feel their desperation, their desire to remain relevant, outside of their twitter fanboys who swoon whenever they insult Trump or his idiot fanboys.
One of the founders of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has admitted to "inappropriate" behavior after several men accused him of sending them "unsolicited and sexually suggestive messages," according to Axios.
So then he tries to make his excuses SNIP
"The truth is that I'm gay," Weaver added. "And that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place."
It's the gay gene that's at fault?
This almost last paragraph makes no sense to me
The allegations began to surface on Saturday after author Ryan James Girdusky sent a cryptic tweet claiming that one of the founding members of The Lincoln Project has been "offering jobs to young men in exchange for sex."
Offering blow-jobs in exchange for sex? This must be a computer generated article
And hats off to the people at the Lincoln Project for helping bring this all to light, as opposed to ignoring it and pretending they never heard of Weaver. Oh, wait...
ETA: Lol, an hour ago the Lincoln Project tossed this out there:
We didn't know! We're upset, too! And we didn't say any of this earlier because we hoped the story would disappear, but then it got picked up by the NYT and we realized it wasn't going away, so we penned this lame and late apology...
Last Edit: Jan 31, 2021 13:43:11 GMT -5 by robeiae
Another example of Rove's methods involves a former ally of Rove's from Texas, John Weaver, who, coincidentally, managed McCain's bid in 2000. Many Republican operatives in Texas tell the story of another close race of sorts: a competition in the 1980s to become the dominant Republican consultant in Texas. In 1986 Weaver and Rove both worked on Bill Clements's successful campaign for governor, after which Weaver was named executive director of the state Republican Party. Both were emerging as leading consultants, but Weaver's star seemed to be rising faster. The details vary slightly according to which insider tells the story, but the main point is always the same: after Weaver went into business for himself and lured away one of Rove's top employees, Rove spread a rumor that Weaver had made a pass at a young man at a state Republican function. Weaver won't reply to the smear, but those close to him told me of their outrage at the nearly two-decades-old lie. Weaver was first made unwelcome in some Texas Republican circles, and eventually, following McCain's 2000 campaign, he left the Republican Party altogether. He has continued an active and successful career as a political consultant—in Texas and Alabama, among other states—and is currently working for McCain as a Democrat.
There are some people saying that Weaver's predatory nature has been something of an open secret. Others are saying that this is ridiculous, that it was very much a secret thing. That's going to be a hard line to hold; it's looking like Weaver had some enablers and the that the Lincoln Project crowd--who were "in the know" repub operatives in the decades before Trump--is home to some of those enablers.