Weird headline … if the motivation is “somebody-other-than-Trump”, shouldn’t that result in more donations to other Republican candidates? At least until we’re through the primaries?
I also wonder how much is from corporate donations and PACs vs. individual donations. Trump is unhinged enough to scare wealthy conservatives…business interests favor stability and the status quo, and the finance industry has a special place in its heart for credit card Joe. (As a twisted bonus, gridlock in Washington is considered good for the stock market.) And if we’re measuring in dollars here, the opinion of one CEO or board is going to count thousands of times more than any of our donations.
The media is interested in a horse race. Horse races sell ads. Therefore, they need to make Biden seem unpopular with mainstream Democrats (so there’s somehow Controversy over whether an incumbent President should run) and they do that by painting him as being purely a Not-Trump. Because the alternative is that Biden runs in 2024 without any drama and defeats Trump like he did in 2020, and foregone conclusions don’t sell advertising space, even if they’re good for the country.
Plus, of course, you have grifters like the people pulling RFK Jr’s strings and Cornel West and whoever else, who need to seem relevant in order to get “low-information voters” (idiots) to donate to their campaigns which are Definitely Not book tours in disguise.
For what it’s worth, my understanding is that the election is so far out that most average people haven’t begun donating yet. This is mostly PAC and corpo money.
To clarify, most individual donors are check bundled as part of “not pac” Pac activities. Look at the donor lists and dates where there are hundreds at the individual donor limit, and all received during the same day… it happens all the time for all the politicians that are for sale. (I guess everyone but the handful of house members ala: Katie Porter has said they’d take PAC money…)
We’ve got 2 types of politicians now, Populist Polar Penguins, and Middling Milquetoast Mouthbreathers. If you don’t want the Penguins you gotta vote for the Mouthbreathers that will get the most votes. And vice versa. The parties are just outfits the funding sources put on their puppets every election cycle, they love it though since they get to share the strings on either one.
I feel like I did when I was a kid, and Pro Wrestling was obviously fake, but saying that outloud was going to get me kicked out of every backyard WWF match in the neighborhood. There’s a big group of people that look at politics and don’t see the obvious pagentry and don’t draw the stupidly clear lines between the haves and the poltiical campaigns around the nation or if they do “it’s only the other guy that’s faking it!”
“You’re right, Macho Man is faking it, but so is the Hulkster.”
Weird headline … if the motivation is “somebody-other-than-Trump”, shouldn’t that result in more donations to other Republican candidates? At least until we’re through the primaries?
I also wonder how much is from corporate donations and PACs vs. individual donations. Trump is unhinged enough to scare wealthy conservatives…business interests favor stability and the status quo, and the finance industry has a special place in its heart for credit card Joe. (As a twisted bonus, gridlock in Washington is considered good for the stock market.) And if we’re measuring in dollars here, the opinion of one CEO or board is going to count thousands of times more than any of our donations.
The media is interested in a horse race. Horse races sell ads. Therefore, they need to make Biden seem unpopular with mainstream Democrats (so there’s somehow Controversy over whether an incumbent President should run) and they do that by painting him as being purely a Not-Trump. Because the alternative is that Biden runs in 2024 without any drama and defeats Trump like he did in 2020, and foregone conclusions don’t sell advertising space, even if they’re good for the country.
Plus, of course, you have grifters like the people pulling RFK Jr’s strings and Cornel West and whoever else, who need to seem relevant in order to get “low-information voters” (idiots) to donate to their campaigns which are Definitely Not book tours in disguise.
For what it’s worth, my understanding is that the election is so far out that most average people haven’t begun donating yet. This is mostly PAC and corpo money.
“Always was…”
To clarify, most individual donors are check bundled as part of “not pac” Pac activities. Look at the donor lists and dates where there are hundreds at the individual donor limit, and all received during the same day… it happens all the time for all the politicians that are for sale. (I guess everyone but the handful of house members ala: Katie Porter has said they’d take PAC money…)
We haven’t seen any indication yet that the R candidate will be anyone other than Trump.
Even the R hopefuls are trying to be Trump to try to pick up the pieces if Trump is unable to run
We’ve got 2 types of politicians now, Populist Polar Penguins, and Middling Milquetoast Mouthbreathers. If you don’t want the Penguins you gotta vote for the Mouthbreathers that will get the most votes. And vice versa. The parties are just outfits the funding sources put on their puppets every election cycle, they love it though since they get to share the strings on either one.
I feel like I did when I was a kid, and Pro Wrestling was obviously fake, but saying that outloud was going to get me kicked out of every backyard WWF match in the neighborhood. There’s a big group of people that look at politics and don’t see the obvious pagentry and don’t draw the stupidly clear lines between the haves and the poltiical campaigns around the nation or if they do “it’s only the other guy that’s faking it!”
“You’re right, Macho Man is faking it, but so is the Hulkster.”
“YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU MOTHERFUCKER!”
Very nicely written