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applegrove

(118,865 posts)
Mon May 18, 2020, 02:52 PM May 2020

Karl Rove Apparently Now Advising Trump

Karl Rove Apparently Now Advising Trump

May 18, 2020 at 9:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 269 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/18/karl-rove-apparently-now-advising-trump/

"SNIP......
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/president-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-response.html|
New York Times]: “At a meeting with political advisers this week that included Karl Rove, the top strategist for former President George W. Bush, Mr. Rove warned Mr. Trump that he had fallen behind in the task of damaging Mr. Biden.”

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Karl Rove Apparently Now Advising Trump (Original Post) applegrove May 2020 OP
Bad for us, as he tends to 'win,' elleng May 2020 #1
He can't beat COVID-19... Alacritous Crier May 2020 #11
Hope so, elleng May 2020 #12
no scum too low for trump to recruit spanone May 2020 #2
He's been busy damaging himself underpants May 2020 #3
Oh, that's all we fucking need. louis-t May 2020 #4
Cockroaches will inherit the earth Loge23 May 2020 #5
His strategy with voting: shunt the votes through a private server prior to releasing the diva77 May 2020 #6
"Turd Blossom" fits right in with MyOwnPeace May 2020 #7
lol Celerity May 2020 #14
OMG!!!!! That is spectacular............ MyOwnPeace May 2020 #15
yes, Harry Shearer is a wonderful comedian Celerity May 2020 #16
The same Karl Rove Proud Liberal Dem May 2020 #8
turds of a feather eShirl May 2020 #9
Starting a "re-election war"? moondust May 2020 #10
kick diva77 May 2020 #13

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
5. Cockroaches will inherit the earth
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:22 PM
May 2020

Karl Rove still in the news is all we need to know: there's no way to eradicate the cockroach.

diva77

(7,671 posts)
6. His strategy with voting: shunt the votes through a private server prior to releasing the
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:25 PM
May 2020

results. The mail-in ballots will be tabulated with optiscans that contain proprietary software/hardware. If there is a call for a recount, there will be great obstruction to any handcounting; at best, you will get ballots run through the same proprietary tabulators.

All that and other PR dirty tricks.

Stay tuned...

K&R for exposure

MyOwnPeace

(16,946 posts)
15. OMG!!!!! That is spectacular............
Tue May 19, 2020, 04:18 PM
May 2020

I'm sure 1/2 of Texas and most of Kentucky and Tennessee would lose their lunch on that one!

Celerity

(43,638 posts)
16. yes, Harry Shearer is a wonderful comedian
Tue May 19, 2020, 06:34 PM
May 2020

Saturday Night Live, This Is Spinal Tap, and of course, The Simpsons

Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, etc.







Proud Liberal Dem

(24,450 posts)
8. The same Karl Rove
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:56 PM
May 2020

who recently accused Obama of the equivalent of a "drive-by shooting" with his commencement address remarks/swipe at Trump? Yeah, I know that he was effective as "Bush's Brain" back in the day, but what has he done lately?

moondust

(20,018 posts)
10. Starting a "re-election war"?
Mon May 18, 2020, 04:25 PM
May 2020

Starting a war in 2003 played a part in getting GWB re-elected in 2004 because everybody knows "you can't change Presidents in the middle of a war."

Was that a Rove strategery?

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