The Republicans' Tone-Deaf Dumpster Fire "Convention"

 

A grifting, pay-to-play Republican shitshow to keep the Malignant Fascist's needy ego inflated right before the solemn 9/11 anniversary and the mid-term disaster they're facing -- how on-brand:

The Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention is quickly becoming a Trump-style grift.

Puck reports that the National Republican Campaign Committee, which is hosting the September event, is asking for House members to pay a minimum of $25,000 to attend the two-day event in Dallas with a guest, with higher packages costing as much as $100,000. On top of that, the event is taking corporate sponsorship dollars, which are going to a nonprofit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors.

All this is for a convention that doesn’t include any actual party business, since no candidates are being nominated like in presidential election years. The whole thing appears to have been planned haphazardly, with invitations only going out in the last few weeks to Republican leaders and lawmakers, many of whom have other commitments. [Ed.: they have commitments to keeping their jobs by distancing from the tanking MF.]

“It’s yet another opportunity to shake down corporate America,” one Republican strategist told Puck, adding that it has turned into a “shit show.”

“Nobody understands why we’re doing a midterm convention. It’s just another show that Trump is going to put on to remind the voters that he is sitting there, and maybe they don’t want to be reminded of that,” the strategist added.

The convention is also taking place on September 9 and 10, right before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The images out of the event are going to be of the wealthy Republican elite partying right before commemorating one of the biggest tragedies in American history.

That’s a bit on the nose for President Trump’s second term, which has seen him focus on lavish, unnecessary projects and celebrations rather than the Americans struggling due to his unnecessary war in Iran and mismanagement of the economy. This convention, much like his Freedom 250 celebrations this summer, will most likely end up being an expensive, sparsely attended dumpster fire benefiting only himself and his wealthy allies.  (our emphasis)

Like the big Malignant Fascist- funded ad buys the Republicans are planning that purportedly will be only talking about the MF's "achievements" (Ed.: like the Iran quagmire, $4+ gas, $5.60 diesel, rampant corruption, measles and cyclosporiasis outbreaks, etc.), the "convention" was clearly ginned up as an opportunity for the MF to feel adored and relevant in front of a select audience.  Transparently operating as an adjunct to the Trump crime organization now, the shakedowns, graft, and Gilded Age displays we hope will only fortify public revulsion toward this collection of corrupt fascist bootlickers.  Hope.