The Lincoln Project was supposed to convert Never Trump Republicans to Democrats. They failed miserably. They did nothing but collect donations from Democratic voters and pay themselves tens of thousands in consulting fees. urgh. - ThreadSky

angryblacklady.bsky.social • 47 days ago

The Lincoln Project was supposed to convert Never Trump Republicans to Democrats. They failed miserably. They did nothing but collect donations from Democratic voters and pay themselves tens of thousands in consulting fees.

urgh.

Reposted from Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖

They make way more money when they can grift people on fear and outrage. This administration is gonna be a bumper crop for them.

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mystify23.bsky.social•47 days ago

Meidas, Lincoln, folks sure know how to make money in dark times

josiegs.bsky.social•47 days ago

I ain't watching Mondays shitshow!! It's MLK day. Social media should be flooded with images of the great Man and all his historical quotes.
It's my choice AS A WOMAN not to watch a racist rapist spew more lies on TV... FU Lincoln Project!

chodeyfosterr.bsky.social•47 days ago

Typical republican shit

ringoosu.bsky.social•47 days ago

i think that means they're working as intended.

johnnyapplememes.bsky.social•46 days ago

Y’all were right all along.

otisredfoot.bsky.social•47 days ago

As someone said after the election, all the republicans voted republican as they always do. There wasn't even a a shift from R to D. How much time and money was wasted, as usual, trying to woo the mythical waffling Republican. Never Trumpers are still Republicans in sheep's clothing.

atownknubian2512.bsky.social•46 days ago

I absolutely agree! I really don't want to think we were played, but I feel we are always getting played. As older adults, some of us have made ourselves too comfortable around them, that we invite betrayal and we don't see it coming.

otisredfoot.bsky.social•46 days ago

I'm all for them attacking Trump but bottom line is they aren't Dems. They aren't going to help vote in Medicare for All or ERA or help minorities. What they don't like is the party shifted from Bush/Cheney to Cleetus/MAGA

wheresronald.bsky.social•47 days ago

White people made choices.

surfacemaximus.bsky.social•47 days ago

Have you seen the unbelievable chart of allllllll the brown and black men who voted for T? It’s shocking

otisredfoot.bsky.social•47 days ago

I know a lot of Latinos voted that way because they are a mostly conservative bunch and Catholic.

wheresronald.bsky.social•47 days ago

Truly, fascinating stuff

otisredfoot.bsky.social•47 days ago

This is what happens when you frame things as race or culture war instead of what's really happening which is a class war. Either way you cut it, we're F'ed.

huktonnfonix.bsky.social•47 days ago

Add a few 0s.

byways.bsky.social•47 days ago

So they didn’t fail if that was their goal all along.

exmemoriam.bsky.social•47 days ago

What do you mean if.

byways.bsky.social•47 days ago

Exactly!

mcvillaseca.bsky.social•47 days ago

What?!?! They grift?!?! Say it ain’t so!!!

theabh.bsky.social•47 days ago

Did you honestly believe there is such a thing as a good republican? Especially ones who worked for George W. Bush the worst president of all time who actually stole an election?

mcvillaseca.bsky.social•47 days ago

Did I say that? No, I did not. Reagan began the pull to right. And it’s gone downhill ever since. Good GOPers have retired as they can’t stomach MAGA. We can only point to individual actions like McCain’s 👎🏻 on that awful healthcare bill.

theabh.bsky.social•47 days ago

Then don’t be surprised when a bunch of republicans turn out to be charlatans

mcvillaseca.bsky.social•45 days ago

We know who they are.

dinah15.bsky.social•47 days ago

Nicolle Wallace seems to have convinced everyone that she has renounced Satan, and all his works; but her new husband Michael Schmidt made his bones with the Clinton email exaggerated controversy.

theabh.bsky.social•47 days ago

There are no good conservatives

dinah15.bsky.social•47 days ago

Not enough of a historian to really argue the point, but I have some regard for Eisenhower.

dinah15.bsky.social•47 days ago

Not anymore, which is a pity.

theabh.bsky.social•47 days ago

Never were

aruss-updates.bsky.social•46 days ago

Lincoln Project was *never* meant to convert Never Repubs to Dems.

It was meant to convert Repub voters to Dem voters for president. Or at least get Repub voters to stay home versus voting for Repubs.

Did that happen? I’m asking honestly. I don’t know. Rough data suggests they didn’t accomplish.

susanalia.bsky.social•47 days ago

I thought they were Republicans trying to save Republicanism - but I guess it still tracks. “Money for me not for thee!”

teemarc.bsky.social•47 days ago

Never trusted them bastids.

theultrasecret.bsky.social•47 days ago

The LP is built to blast online ads into the ether. These aren't reaching anyone in the literal or figurative sense.

huktonnfonix.bsky.social•47 days ago

Even when they do something that isn't online, it's somewhere where it doesn't make impact (by design of course). Putting a billboard in Times Square to make fun of Trump isn't going to change anyone's vote in New York.

wafglobal.bsky.social•47 days ago

Politics has become a giant grift. It is an ecosystem unto itself.
Podcasts, advocacy groups, political parties, social media platforms, YouTube channels all profit off the false dichotomy of us vs. them.
Nothing actually changes but individual's bank accounts.
Maybe that's the point...

raisingonebrow.bsky.social•47 days ago

"Don't you dare look away! That's my caviar money!!"

I...really don't know if fancy people like caviar anymore so this might not hold up

seanorange.bsky.social•47 days ago

Pretty sure the latter was their plan from the jump.

kizzykins.bsky.social•45 days ago

Damned right! Those prissy Republicans, who put Reagan and George W. Bush in office, suddenly turned into Crusaders for democracy. They’re a bunch of white, male, elitist frauds.

deborahlawrenchale.bsky.social•44 days ago

I like The Lincoln Project. I know they are conservatives, but they present important ideas & education. I don't hate conservatives for being conservatives. I hate #TraitorTrump's conservatives & #FascistConservatives for their beliefs which The Lincoln Project doesn't share.

30footspirit.bsky.social•47 days ago

They strategically make ads to enrage DJT & often play them just in the Mar-a-Lago area. It does piss him off, works in that regard. But other than that, it does jack shit, no actual helpfulness.

fireangelbrc2fl.bsky.social•47 days ago

I always think back to the Correspondence dinner in Trumps 1st term when Micelle Wolf called out all the media saying something to the effect of, you say you hate him but he sure hasn't hurt your book sales.

surfacemaximus.bsky.social•47 days ago

She was The Best!

natashaa08.bsky.social•47 days ago

annarompage.bsky.social•47 days ago

In hindsight, it appears there are more nuns that are sex workers, than there are Never Trump Republicans

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