The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    New Project for Lincoln Project! (It just fell in their lap)

    By artappraiser on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 2:02am |

     

    The Lincoln Project’s legal response to the false and defamatory statements made by Rudy Giuliani. @ProjectLincoln https://t.co/HSX0cktGxE

    — Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) January 31, 2021

     

    .@TheRickWilson @stuartpstevens @reedgalen @ProjectLincoln . We are going to get to sue the shit out of Rudy Guiliani. I’m so happy that I’m literally choked up.

    — Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) January 29, 2021

     

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    Can't read, but assume it's good.

    (Every bit of revenge Dan Rather can muster for Bush's National Guard AWOL+-gate...)


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/31/2021 - 2:49am

    they have a  very straightforward statement pinned to the top of their twitter account about the news about associate John Weaver:

    The Lincoln Project today released the following statement. pic.twitter.com/k9QkUsiFO5

    — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 31, 2021

    by artappraiser on Sun, 01/31/2021 - 5:56pm


    by artappraiser on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 6:46pm

    Give us your children til they're 5... (Huckabee edition)


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 2:56pm

    Expected intrigue @ Lincoln Project

    (I'm sure Republican operatives will do anything to stir the shit. A shame AMI/National Enquirer has been sidelined post-Trump dalliances)

    Maybe Rudy can find a hard drive?

    https://web.archive.org/web/20210212040617/https://twitter.com/ProjectLi...


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 2:26am

    and they were once top Republican operatives themselves so it will be interesting how they handle all this and who "wins" if there is such a thing as winning


    by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 12:32pm

    deep thoughts by Wesley Yang:

    culture wars be back big time, sigh...

    just saw some wag tweet that he wanted to cancel cancel culture, and there it is in a nutshell

     


    by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 5:25pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 6:41pm

    The party has run out of booze. Taxis are becoming scarcer by the minute. Time to get back to the hotel.


    by moat on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 6:50pm

    Ambulance sirens in the distance...


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 6:53pm

    lol you guys, it's like: you are there!


    by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 7:44pm

    scuttlebutt on Schmidt found retweeted by Haberman, most notably by Meghan McCain:


    by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 9:26pm

    more detail on the McCain thing:


    by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 9:34pm

    Screw that. Beating Trump was worth it. There are no boy scouts - including St. McCain.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/13/2021 - 1:16am

    Now it's "LP grift". We saw the ads, we liked the ads, they cheered us up when no one else seemed to be doing fuckall. But while Trump family seemed to be skimming nearly $1 billion off undisclosed unethical conflicts, it's now somehow a horrible that a *marketing* group of all things makes a profit on ads that people enjoyed immensely and at least seemed to be effective (living in the president's brain if nothing else). Compare this with Bannon telling donors their donation would be matched, which turned out to be an absolute lie, so much so that he was indicted but Trump pardoned him. (BTW, what's Bannon's involvement in Jan 6?)

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-grills-the-lincoln-project-co-f...


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/13/2021 - 9:52am

    how much is it worth to make Nicole Wallace laugh about Trump?

    I enjoyed the snark and even moreso the reveals of how the pros from Dover do their work. I can't speak for the donors and how they feel about it, since I was not one of them; I thank them for free access they provided. I suspect that many of them are of the variety that think you get what you pay for.


    by artappraiser on Sat, 02/13/2021 - 1:54pm

    Steve Schmidt & unexpected


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/13/2021 - 3:32pm

    Voter suppression's back!


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/15/2021 - 7:05am

    Does gerrymandering work?

    Gerrymandering Is Not an Existential Threat to Democrats | RealClearPolitics


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 2:15am

    Yeah I've been seeing lots of interesting sfuff on that by lots of smart people, on how the Trump branch of the GOP will use it now, including discouraging swingy districts now from voting at all. New and different suppression.

    BUT it behooves to remind there's no money for this project, much of the big business in this country have turned off the spigot, they want stability, they don't want populism and they certainly don't want insurgency. That bent may even begin to show in their own advertising. And you can only bleed the kookoo contingent so long, especially working class who will be paying back rent for like forever

    edit to add: of course there's a few businesses that benefit from Trump/Cruz/Hawley chaos method of governing, like guns and ammo manufacturers.


    by artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:05am

    I should aspire to being above schadenfreude I guess, but I have despised this organization since I found out who its founding members, the ones I knew anything about, are. 

     

     

     

     

     


    by A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:39pm

    Did you like Trump's presidency? Do you think conservative voters paid more attention to disaffected conservative voters/ad-men or liberals? What was the last good/memorable liberal-funded ad (online or TV) you remember?


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 4:47pm

    I don't feel like following you down a twisty rabbit hole on this one. So, I expect this to be the last I say on the subject for now. I did not say they were ineffective, though I believe they were. What I said, without giving the following reasons, is that I despise the crooked, unprincipled, grifting, cynical, money grubbing prick scumbags and I am glad for whatever extent they are being seen for what they are. You can like them and defend their work and their padding of their pockets as much as you wish to. I will hope for better political situations in which we don't feel any necessity of, and wouldn't have the stomach for, adopting them as allies. 


    by A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 7:23pm

    What was their "grift"? What didn't they announce from the start? The people who have to them seemed satisfied with their services. What was your encounter with them *before* Lincoln Project? Some think them a useful tool specifically because right-winger a won't believe the hippy anarchists.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 4:26am