What do the GOP have left but fear mongering, intimidation, lies, bigotry and voter suppression to keep their base from learning the truth? The Georgian state election laws have shown how far the GOP will go to continue their power grab. And yet, rich fatcats like Koch who have funneled money via dark agencies have a problem. Even the Republicans like the fact that making dark monies more transparent is also included in the Election-Reform Bills. Koch and other dark money groups are looking for new dirty tactics to fight election reform.
The New Yorker has the leaked presentation, which admit that the election reform message is a winning message, and the top 3 ways to counter the message, is under 10 minutes ... HERE.
On a leaked conference call, leaders of dark-money groups and an aide to Mitch McConnell expressed frustration with the popularity of the legislation—even among Republican voters.
The presentation by Kyle McKenzie, the research director for the Koch-run advocacy group Stand Together, on a January 8th call among conservative opponents of House Resolution 1.
In other words, screw what the voters need or want… crush it before it makes its way through… Yo that end, GOP and Fox are working hard to call the Election Reform bills a corrupt power grab…
Fox has pages and pages online covering it… and no doubt the talking heads will soon be all over it as well. Note that the "Stop the grab. Stop the fraud" new slogans are simply extensions of the big lie...”Stop the Steal.”
Republicans are launching a full-court press against the congressional Democrats’ wide ranging election and campaign finance reform bill.
"It’s political corruption," the announcer charges in a new commercial that is part of a major ad blitz by the National Republican Senatorial Committee starting Monday. "Stop the grab. Stop the fraud."
Biden is urging that both election acts be passed, while of course the GOP are saying they are an atrocity and power grab. Sadly, few on the right read what is actually in the acts or know or care about Georgia and actual Republican power grabs in states.
In the statement, Biden called on Congress to pass H.R. 1, or the “For the People Act,” which would reform ballot access and campaign finance. It would require states to offer same-day voting registration as well as two weeks of early voting, among other things. The House passed the bill earlier this month but it faces an uphill battle in the Senate amid heavy Republican criticism of the bill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the bill is about “rigging the system.”
Biden also urged Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would bring back Voting Rights Act protections that the Supreme Court took down
Did you know how KOCH monies are hidden
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is an advocacy front group, part of the Koch network. Largely funded by money funneled through groups tied to Kochs, such as Americans for Job Security, Center to Protect Patient Rights (now called American Encore), and Freedom Partners
See the KOCHtapus chart here…
A finger in every pie… EG: Did you know Tulsi Gabbard is on the Koch brother s' advisory board for foreign affairs. She also “forgot” to add her Republican/Koch financial information in her submissions to run for president.
REMINDER that the dark money is the corruption: EG: Charlie Kirk, whose TPUSA (Toilet paper USA...) gets non-profit status for being an “educational” organization, and gets Koch Foundation backing, yet is a political organization. It is ludicrous. It was so lucrative he launched Faklkirk with the ever stained Falwell jr… turning point Action! Gotta get that sweet cash… Kirk also bragged he sent 80 buses to the stop the steal on Jan 06. He is complicit in the insurrection.
Even more infuriating is that Charlie Kirk dropped out of college to follow the grift… and as a reward, he was given a post in Dec. 2020 on the new ‘Patriotic Education’ board to counter what they feel is Liberal education… FFS!
DK’s Charles Jay on the Republican tactics:
Caught on Tape: Ted Cruz Says GOP Must Go All-Out to Block HR1 Because Party's Future Is At Stake
Monday, Mar 29, 2021 · 10:46:02 PM +00:00 · List maker NOT List taker
Blast from the Past of the Charlie Kirk TPUSA shaky start in owning Liberals as part of their tax exempt “Education” of the public that Koch enterprises charity Foundation funds.
Charlie Kirk and his associates wore diapers on Kent State University campus during “Free Speech Week ” to own liberals. They were trying to convey that Liberals need safe spaces so must be babies. It was a humiliating fiasco… for Charlie Kirk.
The IRS should have taken away their status then and there… but of course it didn’t.
The heckling they received got national and international attention however… so Koch Industries TPUSA headquarters put out a statement disavowing the event put on by its supposed FOUNDER himself, Charlie Kirk…
The irony that was: Kirk’s mandate is to call out lack of free speech on campuses, yet, at a free speech event, the founder gets chided by regional chapters for not getting their permission for the event, including a public statement deriding the event while also saying they advocate for free speech, but only if you managed to own the Libs and take away theirs… is NOT how free speech works. Sigh.
TPUSA is not required to list its donors but we are aware it is funded by people like:
Kochs Network, family foundation of Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner who donated $100,000 to Turning Point in 2014, six-figure donations coming from the Ed Uihlein (U-line) Foundation, Daily caller (Ben Shapiro) and more who were unimpressed by the childish stunt. --—>
The GOP, Koch, Billionaires and their the web of deceit, misinformation and corruption is so interconnected, it would take a thousand diaries to reveal. But yeah, it is the liberals “rigging the system.” /S
See DK’s Dartagnan’s post: Owning the libs' isn't really funny, but it is a hallmark of fascism
‘The whole point of “owning the libs” is to project an in-your-face disregard to norms of decency and morality that most people have grown to expect from our civil society.
In this mindset, “Fuck your Feelings” becomes a litmus test of moral nihilism towards others, a requirement to confirm one’s party loyalty and be part of the “club.”
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“Owning the libs” may seem funny and even harmless to those who practice it or profit by it, but the reality is that a party whose messaging now relies solely and exclusively on establishing a “litmus test” that deliberately and intentionally abandons moral constraints and human decency as a unifying principle is hardly breaking new ground. In fact, it’s following a tired and familiar path, conditioning its followers to dehumanize those who oppose them politically, while instead embracing autocracy and, ultimately, fascism.
The chaos is also a great distraction from the the rich fatcats,CNP, Federalists and the GOP agenda. Who needs a platform when you just need mudslinging as a performative art, chaos and psychops?