We Lost the Battle for the Republican Party’s Soul Long Ago

[jfish26]

Alabama results tonight are encouraging.

Forgive me, I don't know what you feel is/was encouraging.
Maybe Marilyn Lands winning? I admit I am kind of surprised she won so easily - but I really shouldn't be. Being that I have been told/read the majority of Americans support abortion rights.
Good for her. Good for her district and our country.
As I have said too often, no one has to have an abortion if they choose not to have one - but for a woman to not be able to chose to have one - legally, I feel that's not right.

She went from 45% in 2022 to 65% in 2024. This is another point in a now-significant data set that the Dobbs effect is quite durable and possibly semi-permanent.

Put differently - people are tired of the shit, and getting very good at seeing through the schtick.

[Shirley]

^^^

Very, very encouraging.

It was the first real "test" of how voters would respond to the IVF ruling in Alabama, and reproductive rights more broadly. Lands made Dobbs/women's reproductive rights/IVF/access to contraception, etc. front and center of her campaign, and won in a district republicans have held for years. In addition to Tom Suozzi's strategy on immigration he used to defeat Santos in the Feb NY special election, expect to see Lands' strategy of living and dying re women's freedom to control their own bodies repeated all over the country, unless it stops working... (I'll take the over.)

Meanwhile, back in the "small government", "personal freedom" party:

From the SCOTUS to McConnell and all across the nation, Republicans who are more concerned with winning in '24 than promoting forced birth are figuratively screaming their heads off behind the scenes, telling their Christo-Fascist Republican cultist brethren to back TF off, and stop sabotaging their chances by pushing for abortion restrictions, not to mention their "personhood" for zygotes* bills.

Unless, of course, you think the wishes and needs of this:

take precedence over the wishes and needs of women?


*zygote, fertilized egg cell that results from the union of a female gamete (egg, or ovum) with a male gamete (sperm)

[KUTradition]

is that child porn?

[Overlander]

is that child porn?

The worst kind, pre-term fetal porn.
Shirley could have photoshopped a tasteful 1 piece on that zygote...but chose not to!

Fucking pervert!

[japhy]

That thing has huge balls relative to it's circumference.

[Shirley]

is that child porn?

The worst kind, pre-term fetal porn.
Shirley could have photoshopped a tasteful 1 piece on that zygote...but chose not to!

Fucking pervert!

Excellent point, and my bad. I should have more respect for my fellow wo/man.

[Sparko]

Could have been hidden with a small Trump bible .gif too.

[KUTradition]

ok, misery, your turn…

https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politic ... 54300.html

[Sparko]

Given fetal gun rights, which I believe Randy vehemently supported in a multi-page KCrim filing, this makes sense to me. I am willing to extend Union rights to it too. Employing a fetus is probably the next step for Iowa anyway. In Missouri, many fetuses are Sommeliers in training.

[Overlander]

Given fetal gun rights, which I believe Randy vehemently supported in a multi-page KCrim filing, this makes sense to me. I am willing to extend Union rights to it too. Employing a fetus is probably the next step for Iowa anyway. In Missouri, many fetuses are Sommeliers in training.

In Missouri, if a fetus hasn't gotten someone pregnant....it is falling behind.

[japhy]

When it comes to Rubefucking, no one does it better than the flagship of the Rubepublican fleet, trumpty plumpty.

An auditor has raised doubts about the ability of Donald Trump's publicly traded company to stay in business, according to a new regulatory filing.

Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social platform, reported it lost $58.2 million in 2023 while generating total revenues of $4.1 million, according to the Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump Media listed its largest expense for the year as interest payments totaling more than $39 million.

The filing includes a note from an independent accounting firm, Colorado-based BF Borgers CPA PC, warning that Trump Media's "operating losses raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern." The firm has worked with Trump Media since 2022.

The note is dated March 25, the day before Trump's company started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol DJT, surging at first and earning comparisons to so-called meme stocks.

Shares of the company fell more than 21% to $48.66 on Monday. Its market value stood at more than $6.5 billion.

A spokesperson for Trump Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In the filing, the company acknowledged that it expects to operate at a loss for the "foreseeable future" as it works to expand Truth Social's user base and attract more advertisers. It said it would be "premature" to predict when it will attain profitability and positive cash flows from its operations. It said it would need bridge funding of between $5 million and $60 million.

I sure hope they let DJT cash out his stock before it hits $0.00

[jfish26]

When it comes to Rubefucking, no one does it better than the flagship of the Rubepublican fleet, trumpty plumpty.

An auditor has raised doubts about the ability of Donald Trump's publicly traded company to stay in business, according to a new regulatory filing.

Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social platform, reported it lost $58.2 million in 2023 while generating total revenues of $4.1 million, according to the Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump Media listed its largest expense for the year as interest payments totaling more than $39 million.

The filing includes a note from an independent accounting firm, Colorado-based BF Borgers CPA PC, warning that Trump Media's "operating losses raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern." The firm has worked with Trump Media since 2022.

The note is dated March 25, the day before Trump's company started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol DJT, surging at first and earning comparisons to so-called meme stocks.

Shares of the company fell more than 21% to $48.66 on Monday. Its market value stood at more than $6.5 billion.

A spokesperson for Trump Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In the filing, the company acknowledged that it expects to operate at a loss for the "foreseeable future" as it works to expand Truth Social's user base and attract more advertisers. It said it would be "premature" to predict when it will attain profitability and positive cash flows from its operations. It said it would need bridge funding of between $5 million and $60 million.

I sure hope they let DJT cash out his stock before it hits $0.00

He is getting so desperate. Trying to squeeze some nickels to throw at Habba's chest by way of something like this that is highly and complexly regulated is...a choice.

[japhy]

Bold admission....hurry Rubes, buy the stock while you still can!

Buy it like it's gonna be gone tomorrow!

Former President Donald Trump’s social media company is not relying on traditional performance metrics—and doesn’t plan to anytime soon, according to a regulatory filing Monday that also disclosed losses that sent the stock tumbling.

While social media giants like Facebook parent Meta typically report numbers such as monthly active users to gauge how much engagement a platform is generating, Truth Social parent Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) pointed out that since its inception, management hasn’t used such data. Meanwhile, its auditor filed what is colloquially termed a “going concern” notice—boilerplate language for companies with low revenues and high losses that there is a “substantial doubt whether it can continue operating” in such fashion, in other words, it may not be a viable company.

For its part, regarding KPIs, the company said that those metrics “are not critical in the near future” due to the early-stage development of the Truth Social platform.

“At this juncture in its development, TMTG believes that adhering to traditional key performance indicators, such as signups, average revenue per user, ad impressions and pricing, or active user accounts including monthly and daily active users, could potentially divert its focus from strategic evaluation with respect to the progress and growth of its business,” the company said in the filing. “TMTG believes that focusing on these KPIs might not align with the best interests of TMTG or its shareholders, as it could lead to short-term decision-making at the expense of long-term innovation and value creation.”

"short term decision making at the expense of long-term innovation and value" .....hey can trumpty plumpty dump his stock yet?

[ousdahl]

short-term decision-making at the expense of long-term innovation and value creation


to be fair tho, I dunno if this tendency is exclusive to Trump

[DCHawk1]

short-term decision-making at the expense of long-term innovation and value creation


to be fair tho, I dunno if this tendency is exclusive to Trump

It's the ethos of the markets these days.

[ousdahl]

Yea.

To be fair tho, I dunno if this ethos of the markets is exclusive to these days.

[DCHawk1]

Yea.

To be fair tho, I dunno if this ethos of the markets is exclusive to these days.

Post 2008-09

[japhy]

Everybody does it!

I love that, but didn't Trump Shuttle go down in 1992?

The Rubepublican Party figurehead has been a rubefucking innovator for decades.

[ousdahl]

Yea.

To be fair tho, I dunno if this ethos of the markets is exclusive to these days.

Post 2008-09

You think?

I’m here trying to recall the stuff that happened economically around 2008-09, and wondering if that stuff was at least in some part due to short-term decision-making at the expense of long-term innovation and value creation.

[jfish26]

Yea.

To be fair tho, I dunno if this ethos of the markets is exclusive to these days.

Post 2008-09

I think you can look further back, beyond even the dotcom bubble. The course of events following the Boeing/McDonnell-Douglas merger is an obvious example.