**The Lincoln Project Thread**

[LkrFan]

These MFers pissed David Dennison off to the highest degree of pisstivity. Had him tweet storming at 1am. :lol

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1257264160213217285?s=19

Truth (bombs) hurt, I guess :lol

What will they come up with next?

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1257628385464983552?s=19

5.2 million views (and counting). I could see them strategically post ads like this as we get closer to the election. :tu

[baseline bum]

It's an amazing ad, but would have been better saved for October or November. Also inaccurate since the death count was nearly 70,000 by the time it released.

[LkrFan]

It's an amazing ad, but would have been better saved for October or November.

George Conway said there's more to come :toast

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1257699747856613382?s=19

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1257687800071311360?s=19

:lol

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1257644984825794561?s=19

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1257643529431650309?s=19

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/richsignorelli/status/1257643184617914370?s=19

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/RonSteslow/status/1257633694967267333?s=19

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1257451551196667917?s=19

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/NHJennifer/status/1257375474357096449?s=19

[Splits]

1257738558644813829

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/RonSteslow/status/1255173699902361601?s=09

He rates his response a 1:lol?

[Splits]

lol they threw in the "I was never involved in a model... at least not this kind of model"

[LkrFan]

May 5, 2020. 4:13pm EST:

70,272 Trump deaths (and counting)

[LkrFan]

lol they threw in the "I was never involved in a model... at least not this kind of model"

:lol

[baseline bum]

George Conway said there's more to come :toast

Their other ads have been pretty shitty. This was the one good one.

[baseline bum]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/05/trumps-unhinged-rant-about-new-attack-ad-shows-his-weakness/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most
Trump’s unhinged rant about a new attack ad shows his weakness
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
May 5, 2020 at 8:48 a.m. CDT


President Trump’s relentless focus on the most dire public health and economic crises in modern U.S. history must be excruciatingly stressful to him, which is surely why he took a short break Monday night to unleash an insane rant about a digital ad.

That rant comes as new reporting indicates that Trump is rebooting his reelection strategy, to move past the coronavirus and on to his plans to rebuild our economy in spectacular fashion.

But if you unpack the argument in Trump’s rant — yes, there really is an argument there — it actually points to profound weaknesses in his new reelection message, in a way that makes a real statement about the past decade of U.S. politics.

Trump’s Twitter explosion was directed at a brutal new ad created by the Never Trump Republicans at the Lincoln Project. Trump hurled childish insults at the group, which includes George Conway, husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.

Trump raged that he is a winner, while they are “LOSERS" who represent the GOP that Barack Obama beat in 2008 and 2012. In the 2016 primaries, Trump seethed, they “got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer.”

In contrast to those losers, Trump fumed, he delivered for the GOP: two Supreme Court justices and the “biggest EVER Tax & Regulation cuts.”

But this very boast on taxes and regulations shows why Trump’s reelection case is so weak. It’s a reminder that as president, he fully embraced GOP plutocracy and sold out on the sham economic populism that, by his own mythology, enabled him to outdo all those Republicans. He is revealing the corrupt bargain he has since made with conservative economic elites.

The original idea was that Trump would win reelection in spite of that enormous betrayal. He would coast on the good economy he largely inherited, and falsely give his policies credit for it, thus obscuring their true plutocratic nature, paving the way for more plutocracy to come.

But the coronavirus has reduced those designs to smoldering ruins.

The new ad from the Lincoln Project captures this in extremely stark and vivid terms:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yG_-K2MDo

Trump is raging about “Mourning in America,” a play on Ronald Reagan’s upbeat 1984 reelection ad depicting America rising out of the ashes of the 1970s.

A more apt comparison is to Trump’s 2016 ads. The Lincoln Project spot repurposes imagery — rusted-out factories, stagnating small towns — that Trump used to portray “American carnage” in the industrial Midwestern and Appalachian heartlands.

But the new spot uses this imagery against Trump. It depicts the extraordinary economic calamity we’re sliding into, in part because the coronavirus rampaged out of control — requiring much more stringent economic lockdowns — due to his catastrophic failures.


The new strategy

As Bloomberg reports, this is forcing an overhaul of a reelection strategy premised on the good economy. The new line? Trump will rebuild the economy again, after having supposedly done so before:

The new campaign message is that he can rebuild the economy better than presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who the Trump camp argues co-piloted a sluggish rebound from the 2008 financial crisis, according to two officials familiar with the strategy.
But this is a terrible argument. First, whatever legitimate criticisms there are of the Obama-Biden economic rescue, by just about every available metric Trump inherited the good pre-coronavirus economic trends from the last presidency.

One irony here is Trump hoped to run his own “Morning in America” campaign. He has constantly claimed he took over a smoldering economic hellscape and magically transformed it into a spectacular economic juggernaut.

But it will now be harder to pull off this lie. He will likely be held accountable for what he’s presiding over, as presidents often are. Voters may unfavorably compare the catastrophic status quo with the end of the Obama years.

Meanwhile, Trump has entirely squandered whatever “economic populist” cred he once enjoyed — making this reboot harder to pull off.

Trump’s 2016 argument was that he was not a Paul Ryan-style Republican. Trump would safeguard social insurance for the elderly, secure massive infrastructure spending and take on economic elites. He would use government power to protect people — or at least his voters — who were vulnerable to market forces, in a way other Republicans would not.

But he tossed all that aside. Trump’s massive corporate tax cuts were a boon to the rich and did little for workers. He badly undermined worker protections and tried to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s protections for millions. Trump and Republicans are still trying to destroy those protections amid a pandemic.

Indeed, Trump’s answer to the current catastrophe looks something like what Jedediah Britton-Purdy terms “disaster nationalism.” It’s a fusion of neo-Social Darwinist relaxation of social distancing, putting ordinary Americans and workers at terrible risk (see the ongoing carnage in meatpacking plants) with more tax cuts, shredded regulations and ethno-nationalist scapegoating of immigrants.

By contrast, former vice president Joe Biden is campaigning for a large expansion of health-care protections, plus various worker-focused proposals such as beefed-up labor market regulations and a $15-per-hour minimum wage. He’s vowing much more hands-on federal management of our reopening.

This isn’t the end of the story. As some writers — see Ryan Cooper and Jamelle Bouie — have noted, the unprecedented scale and nature of the crisis invite a debate over a far more robust social democratic transformation than either party represents. We’ll see whether Biden can craft a big enough agenda and argument.

But one thing that’s clear is that Trump is in an awful position to wage this battle. He has thrown away the very qualities that (by his own lights) enabled him to outdo those other Republicans. And the very things he boasted of in his rant — tax cuts and deregulation — confirm this perfectly.

[DMX7]

Trump doesn’t know the difference between mourning and morning? :lol

[DMC]

https://twitter.com/RonSteslow/status/1255173699902361601?s=09

He rates his response a 1:lol?

Ok Perico

[boutons_deux]

Trump doesn’t know the difference between mourning and morning? :lol

He's illiterate, so he limps along with Donnybonics, and his own tone-deaf, anti-vernacular, anti-idiomatic, malapropism-istic English dialect.

[hater]

meh stupid partisan shit

2 idiot groups bickering on top of 80 thousand dead americans

[Spurs Homer]

meh stupid partisan shit

2 idiot groups bickering on top of 80 thousand dead americans


to be fair-

trump made it political- when he held nazi press sprays and attacked governors and forced them to bid against each other and against the federal govt

then rewarding red states and filling their stockpiles- while making blue state governors kiss his fat ass to save their citizens

when he got rid of scientists who would tell the truth and promoted the ones who played his politics while misinforming the american people - he made it political

[LkrFan]

Ok Perico

:lol

He's illiterate, so he limps along with Donnybonics, and his own tone-deaf, anti-vernacular, anti-idiomatic, malapropism-istic English dialect.

:lol

[LkrFan]

Trump doesn’t know the difference between mourning and morning? :lol

:lmao

[LkrFan]

to be fair-

trump made it political- when he held nazi press sprays and attacked governors and forced them to bid against each other and against the federal govt

then rewarding red states and filling their stockpiles- while making blue state governors kiss his fat ass to save their citizens

when he got rid of scientists who would tell the truth and promoted the ones who played his politics while misinforming the american people - he made it political

Well said. If 44 did that he'd get lynched in the Oval Office tbh.

[LkrFan]

meh stupid partisan shit

2 idiot groups bickering on top of 80 thousand dead americans

Are you absolving 45 of blame?

[hater]

Are you absolving 45 of blame?

you make it sound as if nobody would have died had someone else been president

entire US government and medical system failed

not just Trump

sure Trump fucked up but no Trump and the we still are over 50k dead

[LkrFan]

you make it sound as if nobody would have died had someone else been president

entire US government and medical system failed

not just Trump

sure Trump fucked up but no Trump and the we still are over 50k dead

I disagree son. He knew as early as November 2019. Actually, 44 told America in 2014 this was possible, and I'm certain it was part of their transition meetings.

44: reads intelligence reports
45: does not read

Instead of listening to his intelligence experts, he ignored their warnings...for months, then told his base it was a Democratic hoax and that "one day it will just disappear" etc, etc.

Sure, it was inevitable that COVID-19 would reach American soil, but we wouldn't be nearly as bad as 71,220 Trump deaths (as of 12:14am EST). By contrast, Mexico has only 2,507 deaths. Go figure.

Had he acted sooner and not just blindly trusting China President's word, we'd be in much better shape. But no, he didn't and now America represents 33% of the positive COVID-19 cases IN THE WORLD.

If course he's to blame. When a company goes down, do you blame the CEO or the janitor?

[Splits]

When a company goes down, do you blame the CEO or the janitor?

Of course, you blame the previous CEO (Obummer) or the one who just missed out on the job (ding!).

[LkrFan]

Of course, you blame the previous CEO (Obummer) or the one who just missed out on the job (ding!).

:lol

[Reck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQnRz4Nf1A

:lol Trump making them a legit threat.

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1267278651583848448?s=09

[Chris]

Russia project

[ChumpDumper]

Rent Free Project

[Blake]

Russia project

So Putin is trying to trash Trump now?

[spurraider21]

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[TSA]

Russia project

Actual foreign agents of Russia :lol

[Will Hunting]

I’m happy that they’re trying to take Trump down, but some of these Lincoln Project Republicans are sanctimonious assholes. It was Steve Schmidt’s idea to put Sarah Palin one heartbeat away from presidency in order to appeal to the same cousin-fucking white supremacist redneck demographic that Trump appeals to. He’s plenty responsible for the normalization of right wing demogagues like Trump.

[spurraider21]

I’m happy that they’re trying to take Trump down, but some of these Lincoln Project Republicans are sanctimonious assholes. It was Steve Schmidt’s idea to put Sarah Palin one heartbeat away from presidency in order to appeal to the same cousin-fucking white supremacist redneck demographic that Trump appeals to. He’s plenty responsible for the normalization of right wing demogagues like Trump.
oh yeah. even rick wilson who has been proudly nevertrump since the election has a long history of being a POS

[Trainwreck2100]

I’m happy that they’re trying to take Trump down, but some of these Lincoln Project Republicans are sanctimonious assholes. It was Steve Schmidt’s idea to put Sarah Palin one heartbeat away from presidency in order to appeal to the same cousin-fucking white supremacist redneck demographic that Trump appeals to. He’s plenty responsible for the normalization of right wing demogagues like Trump.

Like i said previously the lincoln project is going to have the most predictable heel turn in history if biden wins. They're a bunch of republicans trying to get their seats at the table back that they lost to Trump

[Chris]

Actual foreign agents of Russia :lol

These idiots don't care as long as the production is good :lmao

[ChumpDumper]

These idiots don't care as long as the production is good :lmaoWhat's wrong with being registered as representing a foreign government in the past?

It's not like he lied about it. He'd be managing Trump's campaign if that was the case.

[spurraider21]

Actual foreign agents of Russia :lol
correct me if i'm wrong, to your knowledge

they have 7 co-founders, one of whom is john weaver.

around May 10, 2019 john weaver filled FARA paperwork registering as a foreign agent, doing consulting for some russian nuclear company, TENEMEX, (https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6677-Exhibit-AB-20190510-1.pdf). JSC Tech = TENEMEX

less than a week later, Weaver backed out of that arrangement, claims to have not received any money

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lincoln project was then established about 7 months later, in December 2019 by 7 co-founders, including weaver

and that is the extent of Project Lincoln's "ties to russia"... prior to its creation, one of their 7 co-founders had been registered as a foreign agent for a period of less than a week and immediately withdrew within a week.

from that you claim the Lincoln Project = "actual foreign agents of Russia"

am i missing anything?

[ElNono]

Actual foreign agents of Russia :lol

:lol you mean like Flynn? foreign agents bad now?

[ElNono]

correct me if i'm wrong, to your knowledge

they have 7 co-founders, one of whom is john weaver.

around May 10, 2019 john weaver filled FARA paperwork registering as a foreign agent, doing consulting for some russian nuclear company, TENEMEX, (https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6677-Exhibit-AB-20190510-1.pdf). JSC Tech = TENEMEX

less than a week later, Weaver backed out of that arrangement, claims to have not received any money

1129048493363027970

lincoln project was then established about 7 months later, in December 2019 by 7 co-founders, including weaver

and that is the extent of Project Lincoln's "ties to russia"... prior to its creation, one of their 7 co-founders had been registered as a foreign agent for a period of less than a week and immediately withdrew within a week.

from that you claim the Lincoln Project = "actual foreign agents of Russia"

am i missing anything?

The Russiagate conspiracy

[RandomGuy]

These idiots don't care as long as the production is good :lmao

Isn't that the standard. Foreign help is perfectly fine, whether you are begging for it in a press conference, or extorting allies for bribes for your campaign.

[RandomGuy]

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/mitt-romney-trump-election-2020-212436754.html


“Number two, I think [Trump] will tack more towards the middle in his communication than he has so far.”

:rollin :lmao :rollin :lmao :rollin :lmao

muh pivot

I really have no words for how dumb that is. just speechless.

facepalm.gif

[RandomGuy]

I’m happy that they’re trying to take Trump down, but some of these Lincoln Project Republicans are sanctimonious assholes. It was Steve Schmidt’s idea to put Sarah Palin one heartbeat away from presidency in order to appeal to the same cousin-fucking white supremacist redneck demographic that Trump appeals to. He’s plenty responsible for the normalization of right wing demogagues like Trump.

100% these people bear direct responsibility for Trump.

Watched a really interesting essay on how the Right establishment used the racist Trumptard demographic for years to help get elected, viewing them as useful idiots, but keeping them for the most part out of power. The idiots had other ideas in mind and took over, making the mainstream into the outsiders.

That is what gerrymandering gets you. "safe" districts means you have to cater to those extremes to win.

[Will Hunting]

100% these people bear direct responsibility for Trump.

Watched a really interesting essay on how the Right establishment used the racist Trumptard demographic for years to help get elected, viewing them as useful idiots, but keeping them for the most part out of power. The idiots had other ideas in mind and took over, making the mainstream into the outsiders.

That is what gerrymandering gets you. "safe" districts means you have to cater to those extremes to win.
The GOP didn’t go from being the party of Eisenhower to the party of Trump overnight. The Lincoln Party hacks played a big role in that transformation.

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1286641236812746752?s=19

[Will Hunting]

Democrats would have a much easier time using the Trump/Epstein connection as a way to claim moral high ground if the DNC wasn’t wrapped around the finger of someone who was even closer to Epstein than Trump was.

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1286646973743935488?s=19

:lol

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1287044505112391681?s=19

[baseline bum]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1286646973743935488?s=19

:lol

I wouldn't give those cocksuckers a cent. Too bad a potential 46 won't tell them to go fuck their mothers should he win in November.

[ChumpDumper]

Karen called during cocktail hour.

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[Monostradamus]

The GOP didn’t go from being the party of Eisenhower to the party of Trump overnight. The Lincoln Party hacks played a big role in that transformation.
Basically everyone in The Lincoln Party would be voting for Tom Cotton if Trump dropped out. They’re still garbage, just not Trumptard level garbage.

[Nbadan]

Politics is not like anything else, well, maybe gang warfare......the enemy of your enemy is your friend

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1288075979471167488?s=19

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1288075979471167488?s=19NY P:lolst and P:lols:lolbiec trying to talk about hacks.

Every time you and they whine about it, you confirm their effectiveness.

[spurraider21]

Actual foreign agents of Russia :lol


correct me if i'm wrong, to your knowledge

they have 7 co-founders, one of whom is john weaver.

around May 10, 2019 john weaver filled FARA paperwork registering as a foreign agent, doing consulting for some russian nuclear company, TENEMEX, (https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6677-Exhibit-AB-20190510-1.pdf). JSC Tech = TENEMEX

less than a week later, Weaver backed out of that arrangement, claims to have not received any money

1129048493363027970

lincoln project was then established about 7 months later, in December 2019 by 7 co-founders, including weaver

and that is the extent of Project Lincoln's "ties to russia"... prior to its creation, one of their 7 co-founders had been registered as a foreign agent for a period of less than a week and immediately withdrew within a week.

from that you claim the Lincoln Project = "actual foreign agents of Russia"

am i missing anything?
?

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist/status/1319935468960702465?s=19

Times Square is probably one of the most visible areas in the world. Oh they big mad :lol

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1319818697444216832?s=19

[SnakeBoy]

1320916786691395584

:lol

[Will Hunting]

:lmao Lincoln Project just made an ad for the constitution party candidate in South Carolina to siphon votes away from Graham

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1321137960058679302

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1351583953157840899?s=19

:lol

[Spurs Homer]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1351583953157840899?s=19

:lol



:lmao:rollin:lmao:clap:clap:downspin::downspin:

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1418194125807964169?s=19

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1418556502026170368?s=19

MAGA Brady kicking it with 46 in the white people's house? :wow