#Thiel embraced #Trump in 2016, speaking at the Republican National Convention, donating $1.25 million to support the campaign & even working alongside #SteveBannon on Trump’s transition team. 2 of his associates came along: #TraeStephens, who worked at his venture firm, #FoundersFund, & #BlakeMasters, COO of #ThielCapital, who would later run for the US #Senate. Another #PayPal & Stanford Review alum, #KenHowery, served as Trump’s ambassador to Sweden.

#SiliconValley #Republicans #Kleptocracy

This Arizona Race is one of the ugliest Republican primaries I’ve seen in years

Unsurprisingly, Blake Masters is involved.

Mother Jones

@DrALJONES

Just another boy who finds his "courage" somewhere other than in his heart.

#BlakeMasters

[The New Republic, DSR]:Finally, Some Good News: New Polls Show MAGA cultist Kari Lake Behind. The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent; Arizona Senate race to the Democratic candidate, Representative Ruben Gallego
Gallego has some of the best, clear-eyed perspective on U.S. Southern border strategy. Good interview. Worth listening to if you can.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-blast-with-greg-sargent/id1728152109?i=1000646850473

#arizona #AZ #karilake #senate #rubenGallego #kristenSinema #blakeMasters #gregSargent #dsr
@GregSargent

‎THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent: Finally, Some Good News: New Polls Show MAGA cultist Kari Lake Behind on Apple Podcasts

‎Show THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent, Ep Finally, Some Good News: New Polls Show MAGA cultist Kari Lake Behind - Feb 26, 2024

Apple Podcasts

Guess who's thinking about a comeback? Nazi Blake Masters may run for Debbie Lesko's (R-Crazeetown) seat. Ugh.

#BlakeMasters #Arizona #NoMoreNazis

One of the unstated motivations in this otherwise excellent piece from #WarOnTheRocks: most attacks on US flag officers are anti-democracy and anti-civilian-oversight.

Folks like professional gun fondler #BlakeMasters are unaware that the “conservative colonels” they want to replace all general officers with must be approved by Congress.

https://warontherocks.com/2023/04/how-the-anti-woke-campaign-against-the-u-s-military-damages-national-security/

How the Anti-Woke Campaign Against the U.S. Military Damages National Security - War on the Rocks

According to critics of the U.S. military, its civilian and military leaders are overly fixated on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at the

War on the Rocks
“It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms,” said the leader of the Republican Party.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a7m7/trump-abortion-midterms
#News #DonaldTrump #2022midterms #abortionrestrictions #electiondeniers #BlakeMasters #karilake #roev.wade
Trump, Who Got Roe Overturned, Blames Midterms Loss on Abortion

“It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms,” said the leader of the Republican Party.

GOP Turns to MAGA Flop Blake Masters for Election Strategy Advice

The Republican Party is inviting its mistakes to a midterm postmortem in the hopes of learning from them, apparently

Rolling Stone

In places such as #Arizona
it accounts for why GOP Senate nominee #BlakeMasters, who aligned himself with Mr. Trump’s false claims of election fraud and said he would support national abortion restrictions, not only lost independent voters by more than 30 points but also forfeited 14% of Republicans to his rival, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, who won.

By contrast, only 2% of Democrats backed Mr. Masters, AP VoteCast found.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-independent-voters-broke-for-democrats-in-the-midterms-11668249002

Why Independent Voters Broke for Democrats in the Midterms

GOP candidates closely aligned with Trump turned off some centrists and in-play Republicans

The Wall Street Journal
Nach dem Ende eines tagelangen Auszählungskrimis in Arizona kann die Partei von Präsident Biden weiter auf eine Mehrheit im US-Senat hoffen. Die endgültige Entscheidung fällt nun in den Bundesstaaten Nevada oder Georgia.
US-Demokraten behalten Senatssitz im Bundesstaat Arizona | DW | 12.11.2022
#USA #MarkKelly #BlakeMasters #US-Senat #Nevada #Demokraten #Republikaner #Arizona #Georgia
US-Demokraten behalten Senatssitz im Bundesstaat Arizona | DW | 12.11.2022

Nach dem Ende eines tagelangen Auszählungskrimis in Arizona kann die Partei von Präsident Biden weiter auf eine Mehrheit im US-Senat hoffen. Die endgültige Entscheidung fällt nun in den Bundesstaaten Nevada oder Georgia.

DW.COM