Scoop: Inside the secret talks to overhaul the GOP platform (Jared's on it!)

[babylonsister]

39 mins ago - Politics & Policy
Scoop: Inside the secret talks to overhaul the GOP platform
Jonathan Swan


For the past six months, top Trump campaign officials, reporting to Jared Kushner, have been working on a radical overhaul of the Republican Party platform.

Driving the news: The Trump campaign's Bill Stepien has been leading the process, working with campaign colleagues and the Republican National Committee. As with all significant campaign matters, they've been reporting back to Kushner.

The president's son-in-law and top adviser has told confidants he wants to shrink the GOP's extensive platform of policy beliefs and principles down to a single card that fits in people's pockets. That's a huge change. The 2016 platform runs 58 pages — the product of extensive debate and heated negotiations.

Kushner told colleagues he wanted "something like the 10 principles we believe in," per two sources familiar with his comments. He asked Stepien to find historical examples of Republican platforms that look more like a "mission statement," per a source familiar with one of their meetings.

Another source familiar with the discussions pointed to the GOP platform of 1856 as an example of a platform that is similarly short. The source used this example to argue that the idea of a one-page platform isn't so new or radical after all.

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[SoonerPride]

1. A platform so small you can drown it in a bathtub

I’ll be happy to hold it under water

[dweller]

13. maybe they can fit it

on a TP square ..

more fitting to flush it

✌🏼

[justgamma]

2. I read their platform

years ago and was really frightening. The next time I read one, they had left out all the horrible details. I can't imagine how they would shrink it onto a card.

[Mike 03]

3. No criminals want to put their crimes in writing.

We need to remind voters of their plans for social security and medicare, and their no-plans for health insurance.

[Walleye]

4. Remember when we were going to file our taxes on a postcard?

[safeinOhio]

8. That was my first thought

when I read this.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Purely from the viewpoint of politics, that's a clever idea

Especially for their base and the undecideds they hope to attract.

[Maeve]

6. Two words----deck chairs

[Faux pas]

7. It

should be "Fuck All of You, Drop Dead!" Love,
the hump regime

[NotASurfer]

9. Quasibloato has a three point platform

(1) scary brown people (2) nasty women (3) build the wall

Lather, rinse, repeat

Ten principles s too many for him to retain. And presumes principles

January 20 cannot come soon enough!

[Kaiserguy]

10. I can sum up what they stand in a 23 words

Destroy everything decent.
Steal all the money.
Rig the vote.
Lie a lot.
Pack the courts to help do all of the above.
That is what the Republican party is all about.

[dmr]

16. You forgot an important pledge -

Above all else:

LOYALTY

• You must at all times remain steadfastly and earnestly loyal to Donald J. Trump.

• Of this LOYALTY, you must be very VOCAL with praise of:
•his accomplishments,
•his devine leadership,
•his unquestionable strength,
•his superb intelligence.

[keithbvadu2]

24. LOYALTY - This new republican platform would fit on a postcard.

Oath of Allegiance - Pre and post 1934
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fuehrer-oath

(before August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will at all times loyally and honestly
serve my people and country
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."

The Fuehrer Oath
(effective August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will render unconditional obedience
to the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler,
Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht,
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."

[dmr]

25. What a heartbreaking contrast.

Even more so knowing it became a reality, but after a lot of blood was spilled, it didn't last.

This is something that cannot be repeated. We MUST defeat Trump, AND win back the Senate.

[vapor2]

11. Great, if it's anything like his Middle East peace plan or

the stockpile belonging to him only. An utter failure and grifter.

[onethatcares]

12. where could they even start?

Tax cuts, screw the workers, Tax Cuts, more to the wealthy, Tax Cuts, starve the children, Tax Cuts, Starve the elderly. Tax cuts, starve education. TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS TAX CUTS.

See, that wasn't so hard. What's nice is we can take those cards and fill in the blanks after this mess.

[csziggy]

14. They have to keep it short so Dolt45 can comprehend it. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. The NEW and IMPROVED GOP Commandments:

(1) Thou shalt have no other gods before Trump.

(2) Honor Trump. To hell with your mother.

(3) Remember Trump's birthday, to keep it holy.

(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image of Trump which is not licensed.

(5) Thou shalt not take the name of Trump in vain.

(6) Thou shalt not kill anyone wearing a MAGA cap.

(7) Thou shalt not commit adultery with an ugly person.

(8) Thou shalt not steal from anyone who has contributed to the Holy Campaign.

(9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, provided they live in the same gated community.

(10) Thou shalt not covet. This is negotiable, see Lord Kushner for details.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Three word platform:

Greed Over People

[msongs]

18. two words oughta do it - heil trump nt

[ananda]

19. Make the rich richer and screw the rest.

That's the GOP platform.

[pecosbob]

20. Kushner told colleagues he wanted "something like the 10 principles we believe in,"

1. Cut my taxes.
2. Fuck the poor.
3. Eliminate the federal government.
4. Fuck the poor.
5. Eliminate free education.
6. Fuck the poor.
7. Wall Street collapses...tax the poor.
8. Fuck the poor.
9. Sell all federal lands to speculators and miners.
10. Fuck the poor.

[Takket]

21. its a smart move for the GOP actually........

they deal best in slogans, hyperbole and "common sense" principles that resonate with people as long as no one actually takes the time to delve into them and realize that they are total bullshit.

people these days have short attention spans and basically zero critical thinking skills. for all the talk in this country about how people don't trust politicians and think they are bullshitters, they will swallow ANY load of bullshit that is spoon fed to them. Look at "her e-mails" and build the wall. don't ask me where i'm getting money from congress, i'm going to build the wall, and oh hell, mexico will pay for it.... these ideas are BEYOND ABSURD, completely in-actionable, and people KNOW IT, and they STILL swallow it. .

Democrats of course can't get away with it....... ask Warren and Sanders how universal healthcare plays with voters and the media without literally handing them the entire piece of legislation you intended to propose to Congress.

but for the GOP... honestly.... what kushner is proposing, a bunch of vague ideas and principles, whatever it takes to get to 270 electoral votes... makes sense.

[maxrandb]

22. Here comes another "Contract for Murika"

No worries, the media will treat a Retrumplican Post-It note with the same seriousness of a researched, peer reviewed doctoral paper.

If I was graded on the same curve the Retrumplicans get, I'd be Chief of Thoracic Surgery at The Cleveland Clinic.

[oasis]

23. My dog just did something they can fit in their pockets. nt

[struggle4progress]

26. "The GOP stands for grabbing pussy, snatching small children from their parents, ending enforcement

of environmental laws during an emergency they created and call a hoax, supporting neo-nazis as fine people, appointing incomptent judges, offending America's allies, and blowing dictators"