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Godhumor

(6,437 posts)
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 08:53 AM Aug 2016

The Republican Establishment HATE Breitbart

Considering it more harmful than good.

This shake up, weirdly enough, is not something the RNC will be celebrating. Trump is quickly closing off his support channel to the party apparatus.

This is the very definition of a human tire fire.

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Godhumor

(6,437 posts)
2. I've already seen one Republican source say this shows Trump is about to go
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 09:11 AM
Aug 2016

Scorched earth in the campaign.

He did not mean it in a good way.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
11. When a political party nominates such an unhinged candidate, this is the result.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 01:14 PM
Aug 2016

But, hey, the "base" loves their loser!

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
12. That's the only thing that worries me. I'm really praying the remnants of dignity the press has
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 01:25 PM
Aug 2016

will make them sit up and fight rather than pander for sensational ratings.

In a way Hillary is the perfect person to run against him because of what she's already had to deal with, but if Trump has one talent it's manipulation, and if no one puts a massive effort into calling out his lies and manipulations he can just say whatever he wants and people either buy it or are intimidated by it.


We have to be smart, strong, and GET OUT THE VOTE.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
3. He will be saying the establishment repubs are the reason he lost.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 09:22 AM
Aug 2016

Not dipshit's fault, but the media, and the establishment.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
4. Trump is building a media empire, funded by a campaign.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 09:47 AM
Aug 2016

I think others here at DU are correct when they observe that what Trump is actually doing is founding a television network based a cave's worth of pure batshittery. I take particular note of Michael Moore's observation that Trump's campaign was effectively founded as a negotiating tool to get more money for his stupid reality show.

When NBC cut the rope on him, Trump took his act on the road, and discovered yet another way to get others to pay for his terrible ideas. That seems to be his only real talent.

Cosmocat

(14,564 posts)
8. YEP
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:27 AM
Aug 2016

he will continue to cull the marks he has on his line now, run against the entire establishment, keep a lot of his war chest until after the election to establish the trump party (in name or otherwise or other form) and then find a way to open the spiggots to this personal accounts from that.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,838 posts)
9. No wonder Pence, a former radio talk show hose, came on board.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:54 AM
Aug 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence
Pence left the Indiana Policy Review Foundation in 1994, when he began a career in talk radio. He hosted The Mike Pence Show, which was based in WRCR-FM in Rushville. Pence called himself "Rush Limbaugh on decaf" since he considered himself politically conservative while not as outspoken as Limbaugh.[15] The show was syndicated by Network Indiana and aired weekdays 9 a.m. to noon (ET) on 18 stations throughout the state, including WIBC in Indianapolis.[16] From 1995 to 1999, Pence also hosted a weekend political talk show out of Indianapolis.[

JHB

(37,160 posts)
7. Screw'em, they built it
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:18 AM
Aug 2016

How many outright frauds has the Breitbart hogwallow promulgated?

How many establishment Republicans pushed against it?

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