Given Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign finance laws and limits therein, any outside super PAC is forbidden from coordinating with the official campaign of the candidate. Over the years the use of super PACs to fund campaigns has become increasingly obvious as the lines were blurred. The DeSantis campaign and Never Back Down Super PAC took ‘obvious’ to an entirely new level within the 2024 election effort. Now, a complaint has been filed [SEE COMPLAINT HERE]
The coordination between the Never Back Down group and the DeSantis campaign has been brutally obvious. NBD even pays for almost all the campaign expenses and were not trying to hide the coordination when the Florida Governor was touring Iowa riding on the Never Back Down bus.
Additionally, DeSantis campaign managers even held donor fundraising events with the leadership of Never Back Down at the same venue, delivering speeches to the same audience, and generally being obvious with their enmeshed operation. However, it’s still illegal by FEC rules, and the complaint filed is most likely to lead to significant action by the FEC.
Prior to 2023 the most brutally obvious coordination was between Carly Fiorina and the super PAC “Carly for America” in 2015/2016. Factually, almost all of the Fiorina campaign expenses were paid by the CfA Super PAC. Interestingly, in June 2015 it was Ted Cruz’s “Keep The Promise” Super PAC that funded the $500,000 seed money for Carly Fiorina before Donald Trump even announced his candidacy [Doc HERE].
That Cruz to Fiorina seed money was one of the visible “tripwires” in our “splitter strategy” outlining how the professional Republican apparatus constructs the illusion of choice. Cruz was campaigning in 2015/16 for the same intents as DeSantis in 2023/24, that’s why the participants are identical.
Ted Cruz was funded in the ’16 race to create the path for Jeb Bush. However, despite our efforts to show how obvious it was, still too few people were willing to accept that both the RNC and DNC corporations control the political systems and end up selecting the candidates. Most GOP voters believed the Republican primary election was authentic and/or natural – it never was.
Fast forward to ’23/’24, and there has been a great awakening. Now, with the continued visibility of Donald Trump in politics, more people see how the two private corporations collude with billionaires and multinational corporations to select the acceptable Republican candidate. The cloud behind the “illusion of choice” has lifted, and thanks in no small part to the Never Trump movement, people can see how the GOPe control operation works.
I would make the argument the DeSantis 2024 operation was planned out long ago, around the time when DeSantis and Paul Ryan left congress (2018). That’s just how the professionally Republican operations work. They are always positioning their efforts long before anyone is paying attention. It is not coincidental to me that this was the exact same time when Nikki Haley left the Trump administration.
Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for the deaf/blind professional Republican apparatus who ignore us, the playbook used by the RNC club, billionaire donors, multinationals and DC control officers is failing. There has been a great awakening, and MAGA base voters moved faster and with more intensity than their Bernie Sanders counterparts on the other wing of the UniParty.
The MAGA base had the fortunate insight from the GOPe effort to destroy the Tea Party movement. All those abusive memories came back into play in 2016, and they still remain to this day. Presidential candidate Donald Trump represents the second party in the political dynamic, and the broad American working class have figured it all out.
Donald Trump represents We The People, and that’s ultimately why the professional DC system is trying to eliminate him.
They will fail, just like their DeSantis operation failed.
where are the fec conpmaints against coordination between shithole media, the adminstrative state, and the democrat party
Is it too much to ask that posters please make an effort to write posts that can be understood? Spelling, punctuation, etc. matter. Sorry, but this kind of stuff never used to fly here. I don’t have time or patience to be an interpreter.
I agree with you but spell check & other text enhancements have gone bonzo in the last couple of years.
So has rapid-fire no added value commentary.
Seems a deliberate effort to dilute the cerebral nature of our forum.
especially this
Just a guess, but it seems that the grammar mistakes may be from the use of small screen pocket computers.
Many of the look of on the fly text messages.
The FEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC.
Never hit “send” when drinking after diner.
this is globalism. multinational corporations police the world and kill people for their own filthy lucre and we pay for it with life and blood.
And these clowns want to lead the Greatest country in the world. They can’t even run a campaign without braking laws.
breaking*
On top of the feddies
In the dark Deep State sleaze
I lost my poor Meatball
After the fake COVID sneeze
His wife was so desperate
To be in the people’s house
She threw her poor Meatball
At the Bush guy, that louse
He rolled through the country
Through states at break-neck pace
But Trump voters kicked him
Right out of the race
Moral of this short story
Casey’s a covetous bish
She ruined her meatball
That pathetic weak squish
There is very damning information in the complaint, particularly about the aircraft “N2024D” and former NBD honcho Jeff Roe and his business Axiom Strategies. To answer a poster question above – yes, I think this complaint is linked to Roe’s departure from the NBD PAC a couple days ago.
Exhibit B to the complaint, a purportedly leaked document, is a great example of the mindset of the professionally political operative / double-crosser. After reading it and the complaint, you’d almost think that DeSantis was set up to fail from the start. The timing of this – just before the Iowa caucus – gives Haley some ammo to use there, and later in New Hampshire.
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Tucker Carlson just said he’s “not on the internet that much”, but can’t help but notice that Ron Desantis’ online surrogates are “nastiest, stupidest, most zero-sum people” he’s ever seen.
Video linked in tweet…
There’s a thread for that!
😁
Rich Baris:
“…I told people more than six months ago that Jeff Roe would get millions of dollars richer to waste $100M more wisely spent on GOTV/VRDs.
And destroy a bunch of careers in the process.”
Not as dramatic as the Wrath of Khan but it will do. Meatball is such a lightweight and not too bright is he? His hopes hinge on one of the greatest American President’s in history being taken out of the race. That’s not happening but if by some twist of fate it does we write his name in anyway.
Ronnie baby you are not a nice person, you are cheap, and not worth anyone’s’ time.
J6…
Narcissists always think they are more important than what they really are. He most likely will try and run again for something, he will get very little support especially here in FL.
Those who propped him up and set him to destroying himself will not support him again.
Runt is toast.
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“The people who represent @RonDeSantis
online are the nastiest, stupidest, and most zero sum people I have ever met in my life.” — @TuckerCarlson
slams DeSantis and his campaign while speaking in Arizona.
Brutal. But so true! #Trump2024
Since Meatball Rob has been incapable of taking down PDJT, this complaint will probably have legs to hasten his departure from the campaign trail.
Insightful as usual.
Love that Crenshaw made the Meme as I have been onto this creature since his first days in congress.
I think it’s waaaaayy past time for Ron! to….Back Down.
Between the way he’s propped up and the stilts he wobbles on, perhaps it’s time he simply falls down!
I also think the legislators in Florida need to be held accountable for changing laws making it easier for DeSantis to run and hide his itinerary.
THIS^^^^ never again
I wonder if FEC will give DeSantis their patented Democratic Immunity treatment because he’s against Trump.
With each passing day I become more fearful of the dark future that my grandchildren will face without me. My prayer each morning is that G od will give me the time, strength and wisdom to prepare them for survival in the madness that will happen in this land of ours in the not so distant future if President Trump is cheated out of the presidency once again. Surely, His will for this earth that He has created is not one of darkness and an earth where governments will remove Him from all public discourse and thought.
Yes, we fully know the ‘republican party’ these days:
“At this critical juncture in American history, when nothing less than liberty’s survival is on the line, the Establishment quislings running the Republican Party have done demonstrable harm to the country. When Obama’s IRS was illegally targeting conservative Tea Party groups, Mitch McConnell was silent. When Obama’s FBI was illegally spying on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Republican members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence were silent. When Andrew Weissmann was using Robert Mueller’s special counsel witch hunt as a weapon to obstruct Trump’s presidency, Paul Ryan was silent. When the Gestapo-FBI worked with Democrats to advance the preposterous narrative that the J6 political protest against mail-in-ballot fraud was actually an “insurrection” seeking to topple the U.S. government, nearly every elected Republican remained silent. When Merrick Garland’s Department of (in)Justice decided to spend the next three years hunting down patriotic grandparents, conservative journalists, and military veterans — most with no criminal records but rather lifetimes of service to their countries — as if they were “terrorists,” elected Republicans remained silent.
While J6 protesters are separated from their families and thrown into jail cells without any semblance of due process, there is silence. While J6 targets commit suicide to avoid the financial costs and emotional carnage leveled by an indifferent criminal “justice” system, there is silence. While Democrat prosecutors, judges, and juries work together to hand out decade-long prison sentences to Trump-supporters as punishment for their unapproved thoughts, there is silence. While Democrat prosecutors, judges, and juries work together to fine, disbar, financially ruin, or incarcerate anybody advocating for election integrity, there is silence. While Democrat prosecutors, judges, and juries work together to deliver harsher judgments against President Trump than the U.S. government has sought for some convicted terrorists, the silence is deafening. At the very moment in history when an opposition party has been most needed to avert America’s descent toward total tyranny, the Republican Party has been AWOL for all to see.
With no political party staunchly defending Americans’ liberty, the totalitarian virus spreads quickly.“
– J.B. Shurk, American Thinker
For a long time, I considered myself a conservative Republican. A political viewpoint and affinity based on admiration for President Reagan, who was in office when I was a teen. A loyalty eroded over decades, primarily by the Bush family. Bush 41 was a disappointment, but it was Bush 43 who really broke my loyalty. When he came into office with both houses of Congress I thought, “finally! We’re going to see what President Reagan could have accomplished with Newt Gingrich’s Congress.” Instead, we got Democrat lite, Medicare expansion, and wars, wars, wars. And the Patriot Act. But he pandered to Christians, yo!
The years after only dug the hole deeper. Watching John Boehner roll over and give Barack Obama everything he wanted, while he cried crocodile tears about being powerless to stop him only controlling 1/2 of 1/3 of the government. Seeing Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan fail to repeal Obamacare once they had a president who would sign it. Seeing the GOP work to undermine President Trump and throw the 2018 midterms, handing Congress back to the Democrats.
And all the conservatives who stood by and not only watched, but cheered it on as the Never Trump chorus?
I no longer consider myself either conservative or Republican. I regret only that while there are very few good Republicans, there are no good Democrats. I support President Trump and MAGA for Congress. That’s all. Good job, conservative inc! Good job, GOP establishment!
The bottom picture: A masterful work of storytelling. 🙂
Time to stop the BS. Good grief the country has so many useless election rules and laws and regulations it is nuts. Simplify. Limit the dollars allowed to be spent, seriously limit it. In person voting only, with proof of citizenship and residence. Paper ballots only. Counts done with members of both parties and an independent auditor present. No mail in ballots, the military being an exception. The mess could be cleaned up very easily. The question is, DOES ANYONE REALLY WANT TO CLEAN IT UP?
The simple answer?
Absolutely not!