The Lincoln Project

A new poll says 82% of white evangelicals still support Trump.

The Lincoln Project's latest 7/8/20:

Names

R2 that one is good!

R2, holy shit. The other ones were hilarious but this is really blood-chilling. - and makes a very important point - Trump couldn't have done any of this shit had the rest of them not lined up to lick his ass.

If the ad about evangelicals is meant to wake them up it’s a complete waste of time. They genuinely believe that God sent him to The White House to save Christian America. It does not matter what trump says or does as long as he supports them and stacks the courts, which he has done.

The Lincoln Project knows this so I don’t know why they bothered.

these are GOP and they are BLOWING the dems out of the water as far as election publicity.

IOKIYAR. Democrats are NEVER allowed to question christian faith. And the second one, "Learn their names ", would be considered a threat if it came from democrats. Fox would play it 24/7 and tell all their viewers that dems are trying to kill them.

The ONLY reason these are effective is because they come from other Repugs.

Names is stunning.

That's war.... they are tearing the Republican Party apart.

Seriously, that floored me. Mitch must be raging tonight. Collins, disappointed and concerned. Fucking amazing.

Hopefully they make sure this one is aired in the states where those senators are running for re-election this cycle.

Of course Evangelicals support him. Lying, thieving and incest aren’t dealbreakers for them.

Abortion on the other hand, that’s the redline.

R10 they like abortions on the downlow for the right people. It’s really nasty fag butt sex that gets them riled up.

7/11/20

Law and Order

“...a billion dollar criminal enterprise “

Not mincing words.

That might be the best one yet. Damn, those people are fasting at cranking these out

7/12/20

One Day

7/14/20

Walk of Courage

I like this most recent one about courage; it seems sweet & hopeful rather than all gloom & doom

"A new poll says 82% of white evangelicals still support Trump."

But they only make up 38% of the population. Not enough to get elected dog catcher

There are a lot of people who identify as Christian but not evangelical, who thought the evangelicals were also Christians. They are now beginning to wake up to the fact they are just grifters.

That ad is aimed at that group.

Not the Lincoln Project, but very good.

I like the Lincoln Project ads, but the evangelical ad that OP linked is way too subtle to reach its intended audience. Yeah, we get it. However, the people who need it the most have already been duped by the pseudo-religious swindlers and don’t do subtle very well.

7/15

Fauci

Excellent.

Nice

I love that they point out the obvious but what no others will, "trump failed"

The Fauci ad is excellent!!!

Donald the dope📌

John Weaver, one of the founding team of The Lincoln Project, was a registered lobbyist for Russian nuclear energy company Rosatom as recently as last year. He lobbied against potential nuclear sanctions against the Russian Fedeation.

Rosatom is the main figure in the infamous "Uranium One" controversy under the Obama administration .

Meanwhile, just another Wednesday at the white power house.

I'll see your white power signal in front of the official White House seal and raise you goosestepping to, and saluting from the podium.

I love the Names ad it is chilling

@ r29, Miller looks like he's right out of central casting for a SS character in a Nazi movie

I actually got chills and feel sick to my stomach watching this. It's terrifying. Will we ever be rid of these kinds of people. I hope Reagan is burning in hell for opening the door to the religious right into our politics, among everything else he should be burning in hell for.

I couldn't watch all of it, it's a waste of time. The Evangelicals do not care, Trump could fuck their grandma and then murder her and they would celebrate and throw money at him.

7/15

Story Hour (reading excerpts from Mary's book)

Evangelicals are a politically monetary sect of the GOP.

None of the posters here can see R28. Poetic, isn't it?

Isn't Stephen Miller Jewish?

R37, he is indeed. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Isn't Stephen Miller Jewish?

How can you tell?

Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I'm surprised that a Jewish person is also into White Power. I thought white supremacists hated the Jews more than they hated people of color.

Who's the guy reading the book at R34? He has a great voice, but what's wrong with his skin?

Of course Evangelicals support him. Lying, thieving and incest aren’t dealbreakers for them.

Abortion on the other hand, that’s the redline.

Agreed; that & they are obsessed with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer & "The Squad" who they are convinced will burst in their homes, take away their precious guns, force them to watch PBS & listen to NPR & send their children to some type of LBGTQ re-education camp where they will emerge as pint sized drag queens. So while it's true you'll never convince all of them, you just have to peel away enough to erode what's left of the "repug" base.

[quote]they are obsessed with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer & "The Squad" who they are convinced will burst in their homes, take away their precious guns, force them to watch PBS & listen to NPR & send their children to some type of LBGTQ re-education camp where they will emerge as pint sized drag queens.

Not to mention they are terrified that someone will make them actually read and comprehend the most holy bibble.

What's surprising R40 is how many of the people in Trump's orbit are Jewish, despite the White Power connection.

That includes his staff, his confidantes and his key donors.

Growing up, Trump's family hung out with the other NYC real estate clans, all of whom are Jewish and many people assumed he was too (back in the day when he just owned hotels) because he fits the negative stereotype of the spoiled obnoxious spoiled son of a Jewish business owner to a tee.

So it's not surprising that many of his inner crcle are Jewish even though he is widely despised in the broader Jewish community, which still leans heavily Dem.

What's surprising [R40] is how many of the people in Trump's orbit are Jewish, despite the White Power connection.

This makes me think of Clayton Grigsby, the world's only Black White Supremacist...

Trump could eat abortion burgers for lunch and they would still love him. They are amoral, white supremacists.

R33, If he killed their grandmother they would say "Trump helped granny get to heaven"

Why can we never label their behavior as "deplorable"? HIllary gave us a great word, it should be used with regularity.

Any news on Cash for Corpses? No?

[quote] Any news on Cash for Corpses? No?

Of course we all know that if it had been Obama instead of tRump, the Repukes would have held hearings on this scandal every single day in both the House and Senate.

^Yes, and justifiably so.

I have a close relative, Jewish like me, who’s, at a minimum, a White Supremist sympathizer (&, of course, devoted to Trump) & convinced a racial war is looming. When this inevitable war commences, “Black people won’t care if you’re on their side,” she has said to me. To no avail, I’ve tried to tell her that she shouldn’t be so sure that white supremists will claim her as one of their own.

The Lincoln Project raised nearly $17 million in the second quarter, with donations from some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors. It has earned a reputation as an irritant to Mr. Trump, running ads during some of the famously voracious television consumer’s favorite shows.

Lincoln Project contributors included David Geffen, the film producer, who gave $100,000; Joshua Bekenstein, a co-chairman of Bain Capital, who contributed $100,000; and Ron Conway, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, who contributed $50,000 after previously contributing $50,000 in the first three months of the year.

R49, I don't know why your comment reminded me of Mrs. Roy Moore, We're not anti-Semitic, one of our lawyers is a Jew!

7/17

Find Something NEW

I didn’t really like the ivanka one.

The Ivanka spots all portray her as an air-headed, spoiled baby. Fine with me.

They do r40. That’s what makes Jarwood and Miller so baffling. Even more baffling is Russia, Saudi Arabia and Israel all being on the same side vs the NATO democratic alliance. Saudis, the Reds and Israelis all can’t stand each other. The world is being run by the mentally ill right now.

The Saudis and (especially) the Israelis are not allied against NATO R56

7/18

Wall

I’ve seen them all and most are excellent (I agree that the vids on Ivanka are weak, fluffy and one dimensional) but this one was powerful enough and the sound track catchy I ended up watching it on repeat multiple times, sent it to friends and made a donation.

The Wall at R58 is tbe best one yet and also talks to Republicans

And yes, the one at R59 is good too, but mostly because they get that Trump can't destroy America on his own. He needs collaborators.

@ r40, "Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I'm surprised that a Jewish person is also into White Power. I thought white supremacists hated the Jews more than they hated people of color. "

Self-loathing Jews taught Log Cabin Republicans everything they know

7/19

Wake up!

Who ever thought Republicans would produce a spot about John Lewis that would be so respectful and inspiring? Trump certainly has brought the country together

r62 Karen has a cameo at 1:04! She'll probably sue for residuals.

7/19

How It Starts

Loved that R65

And MeidasTouch already cut an ad out of the Chris Wallace interview

This is why we need them:

[quote] [Trump's] campaign posted an advertisement online showing an elderly lady in her home at night trying to call 911 during a break-in only to be put on hold because the police had been defunded. “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America,” the ad said.

Democrats would never run an ad like that.

I think the question we should all be asking the Democrats, national ones like Pelosi and our local ones if we have some is WHY the Democrats are too spineless to run ads like this? I'm so fucking sick of all of them. Of course I'll vote for every one of them that I can vote for but what about people on the fence? No one feels excited to vote for cowards. It's bad enough the Ds. They can get millions more vote if they courted the poor but no, they're too afraid of the right to do that and too greedy on their own to do an FDR or LBJ kind of campaign.

I'm terrified that Trump and McConnell and the rest are going to stay in office because we all know when push comes to shove the Democrats suck.

R67, no, but Democrats should pay The Lincoln Project to run an ad like that.

I can’t believe I haven’t seen the following as yet:

Night: Riots, buildings burning, people in gas masks shouting in the background. Tear gas smoke, cars burning. A large font over this scene says, “Trump says this is what you have to look forward to if Joe Biden is President. But this is what actually happened when Trump was President. Biden had nothing to do with it.

“Do you want four more years of THIS?” (Background) *screams, glass breaking, mysterious federal agents dragging people away with their faces covered up*

Fuck that R69

Any Gestapo interrogation scenario of a nice white man or woman who was seemingly minding their own business.

Make is seem like what it is - fascism

Biden should be running positive ads about why people should vote for him. What is my vision of America? The Dems should be running ads to highlight his accomplishments, including clips from Republicans in Congress praising him . PACs should be doing the attack ads.

R71, Biden has run some really good positive ads, about bringing back manufacturing to the U.S.

R71 = Tom Perez

7/21

Trumpfeld

I view the Lincoln Project with conditional approval, from arm's length. I like some of their messages, while others are kind of ineffective messes (ex.: OP's choice and the recent "This is how it starts" one). But overall, I fear what will happen when Trump is gone and they turn their attention to Democrats. For that reason, I'm not going to voice any support for them publicly now.

43% of polled Americans think Trump is more mentally sound?

ugh. Do Americans get free Big Gulps and Big Macs for being stupid?

"Damn! An anonymous poster, R75, is not going to voice support for us publicly! He will quietly post nice things about us on Datalounge though, so that's sort of a win. Still, I was hoping he'd loudly announce his support for us in public. Oh well...."

^^pointless bitchery.

I get the pointless part.

All about the Lincoln Project.

From the article ^^:

"The Lincoln Project and its GOP exiles, writer Eoin Higgins argued on July 12 in the newsletter Welcome to Hell World, are an example of a “memory hole” in action: Everything that happened before Trump (like the Iraq War or the existence of the Bush administration or the killing of Trayvon Martin) has been forgotten by liberals allying with the group and sharing their ads in service of getting Trump out of office.

[quote]The fact is that the coalition is made up of people who until very recently were happily ensconced in the GOP—meaning that it’s not the policies pursued and beliefs espoused by Trump that are the issue. It’s just his delivery. This is not an abstract issue. The president is part and parcel of the entire Republican project and its logical conclusion after five decades of cultivating an increasingly enraged white base filled with economic and cultural grievances for which the GOP has blamed on the uneven but inexorable march to greater equality in American society.

"Higgins also detailed examples of Lincoln Project members using offensive and bigoted language on Twitter — for example, founder Rick Wilson repeatedly calling people “retards,” attacking Muslims, and mocking news coverage of Trayvon Martin’s killing in 2012."

And further:

[quote]Higgins told me the Lincoln Project’s ads were an appeal to liberals who believe that conservatives are their ideological opponents but not their enemies. “The commercials are part of a general effort by LP to present Trump as an aberration, a mistake, something out of the right-wing mainstream,” he said, “rather than the logical endpoint of the GOP and the direct ideological heir of the movement that began in earnest with Ronald Reagan.”

[quote]When I asked him about the ads themselves, he said, “Frankly all they do is make me angry by pretending there’s any major difference between Reagan [or] George W. Bush and Trump other than style.” He added, “I’m clearly not the target audience.”

[quote]He compared efforts to create alliances between liberals and the Lincoln Project to those who suggest alliances between the left and alt-right figures. “I find it unacceptable for mainstream liberals to ally with this group of bigots. Doing so is dangerous as it both drives the Democratic Party even further to the right and mainstreams the abhorrent views of the group’s leaders to an audience of presumably more left-leaning folks.”

r51.

How can we ally ourselves with that horrible godless Communist Stalin!

The only difference between him and Hitler is that one is a national socialist and the other is a Soviet socialist!

[quote] How can we ally ourselves with that horrible godless Communist Stalin!

Stay away from my man!

Are we just going to pretend that Stalin didn't kill all those Ukrainians and everyone he thought was a Trotskyite!

And his friend Luria--just as awful!!

Roosevelt would be betraying America and everything it stands for to strike a temporary alliance with that man!

The MARQUIS de Lafayette!!

Are you serious! We are going to ally ourselves with a fucking MARQUIS!!

Here we are, fighting against the King and the whole notion of an inherited nobility and Washington wants to bring in some flouncy-wigged French nobleman to help us?

He can just march the fuck out of here with Baron von Steuben--another supporter of inherited nobility.

7/23

Failure

"And his friend Luria--just as awful!!"

Berea?

I hope they have a plan to buy time on network or local television. That's where the grassroots hangs out. Failure was as strong as Names and Names was a hard hitter.

R88, we can NEVER forget.

Europeans and east asians are now returning to nearly normal lives, if an outbreak reoccurs there they will be able to handle it. TRUMP literally destroyed the United States by letting this get so far out of control

R2 Wow! This is the most serious Lincoln Project ad I've seen. Their usual ads include humor which makes sense since they're trying to grab and keep people's attention. R2 grabs you by the throat. It's an excellent piece and I hope voters do remember the names.

Do you think the Dumpkin has ever seen any of the Lincoln Project ads?

We know he has R52-- he has commented on them.

R52 Thanks. I'll have to try and find his comments. I'm sure their priceless!

Trumpfeld. Complete with laugh track.

Biden came out a couple days ago with a policy paper that would fund universal pre-school , new day care facilities, a grant to low income families to pay for child care, and help carers for the elderly. Money would come from (simplifying) a real estate tax and going after the 1%. This is exactly what people need to hear now.

It's a great plan and all R96 but right now I think all people want to hear is "The Bad Orange Man Is Going To Go Bye-Bye"

A "real estate tax"? There's never been a federal tax on real estate. That will not go over well.

It'll go over great if the tax is only on the top 1%, even the 2%. I hope this country is getting more "Eat the rich" by the day.

7/24

Maxwell

lincoln project needs to air these aids on TV

r98, I didn’t explain it correctly:

[quote]Biden’s campaign says the plan will be paid for by “rolling back unproductive and unequal tax breaks for real estate investors with incomes over $400,000 and taking steps to increase tax compliance for high-income earners.”

One of the things I hear that Biden's been smart about is figuring out who "the rich" really are.

The old standard had been incomes over $200K-$250K

But in high-cost areas like San Francisco, where $100K is amazingly poverty level, $200K is far from "rich" no matter how much money is sounds like, especially to someone from a low cost of living area. (Talking about a family of four on that income, not single gay man)

So the $400K cut-off will help him immensely in the suburbs of big cities

"The choice in 100 days is clear. A good man or a bad man. An honest man or a liar. A decent man and a statesman vs an international laughing stock. The choice is between renewal and decline. Between life and death. Between liberty and authoritarianism."

7/24

Maxwell 2

Two in one day.

When late night shows are jumping in to mimic TLP, you know Trump is up

Not sure many DLers will get this, but some of you have nieces and nephews who watched Dora I suspect.

This one is very good, but I don't think it is from The Lincoln Project.

Another from Don Winslow who takes no prisoners

7/27

Conservative

7/28

Memories

I hope they hammer away at that fucker every day for the next three months.

Short but sweet. One of my favorites..

Newest spot takes on Susan Collins

7/30

Wake Up

^Thast was brutal!

Who are the actors?

Looks like Goop!

UGH!

Is that Stephen Root?

Yes I think so.

The latest: We Will Vote

This should run on Fox given how many Republicans have condemned Trump for suggesting this.

Wow, they, The Lincoln Project, are amazing. How do they keep doing one better than the one before it and that one was great. WTF can't Democrats have the talent and the balls to do this? I don't care what they do after the election. If TLP can get Trump and his Putin's ass sucking GOP cronies out I'll be forever grateful to them.

Impotus Americanus

Get it trending to ruin his weekend Homosexuals

Here's the YouTube link because Twitter and Datalounge are often not friendly

(R121) Trump should be impeached again for attempting to postpone the election. Americans voted during the Civil War, for God's sake.

That was the argument the founder of the Federalist Society made yesterday R125

They are all turning on him now. Even the once True Believers.

More will follow.

[quote]Americans voted during the Civil War, for God's sake.

Including some Dataloungers!

2,600

^That is fucking hilarious!

No wonder Trump wants to ban TikTok.

Meidas Touch on Gym Jordan

I think I just saw what could be my favorite anti-Trump commercial yet, and it's CNN. Check it out....

The amazing thing about TLP is that the sheer volume of great ads they turn out.

Cheetoh gives them plenty to work with, but still.

This one Mom is great, especially the "hide in a bunker" reference at the end.