# The Lincoln Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 10, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550 "2020-05-10T20:51:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/141 "2020-08-06T01:46:13Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > They know that will eat away at Donald. And Stephen Miller. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/142 "2020-08-06T05:57:55Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Another good one here, detailing how Jared Kushner is Trump’s Secretary of Failure: These Lincoln Project videos are so fast moving, it’s hard to see and hear them. This one, I had to single step, watching it frame by frame, to see it all. (Now I may go back to some of the earlier videos too and watch them frame by frame.) ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/143 "2020-08-06T10:12:17Z")
The background music is a bit too loud relative to the speech. It might work well in a spiffy home cinema set-up, not so much on more ordinary devices (a problem not unknown in a fair few TV programmes over here). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/144 "2020-08-06T23:00:49Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > They know that will eat away at Donald. > > And Stephen Miller. True. No love lost between those competing barracudas, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/145 "2020-08-06T23:08:06Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > True. No love lost between those competing barracudas, for sure. - With any luck, they turn on each other in a very public way. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/146 "2020-08-06T23:59:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > With any luck, they turn on each other in a very public way. Handicappers, even now, are taking bets on the relative viciousness with which various Trump associates will be turning on each other, once the danger that Trump can do anything about it is past. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/147 "2020-08-08T16:10:53Z")
I’m seriously hoping that if trump loses, that Pence will invoke the “Mad King protocol”. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/148 "2020-08-08T17:21:34Z")
Now then, I don’t think it will be actually necessary to have Jaime Lannister kill Trump. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/149 "2020-08-08T21:49:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > With any luck, they turn on each other in a very public way. Now, I’m picturing a slap fight between Miller and Jared. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/150 "2020-08-08T21:51:04Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > With any luck, they turn on each other in a very public way. > > Now, I’m picturing a slap fight between Miller and Jared. - Exactly. No point risking their manicures. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/151 "2020-08-10T12:41:22Z")
Here’s a good new LP ad- simply a David Cross bit with accompanying images and text: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumXdWEmi1E) ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/152 "2020-08-10T13:34:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The problem with the “Wake Up” video is that it presumes that Trump supporters’ views are grounded in reality. The Trump supporters I know live in a whole different world where Trump is a great president who saved America from the destruction Obama wrought upon it and who is showing the rest of the world who’s boss, and they will not acknowledge any evidence to the contrary. They are perfectly aware of that. Those trump-or-death folks (although now it is trump-_and_-death) are not the target. They want to sway trump voters who are ambivalent now. There are plenty of those. In the swing states we only need say 5% of those folks to vote Dem or stay home. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/153 "2020-08-11T21:15:01Z")
Not too much of a shock, but the Lincoln Project put out a Kamala Harris video within hours of the announcement: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CUwxqxlUXXY/maxresdefault.jpg "Kamala") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwxqxlUXXY) I presume they had several of these pre-made for the likely picks. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/154 "2020-08-11T21:19:40Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > I presume they had several of these pre-made for the likely picks. I imagine so, given the quality of the production. Much like media outlets have pre-written obituaries for famous people, I’m sure that this was put together some time ago, along with similar videos for the other possible choices. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/155 "2020-08-12T15:10:32Z")
“More Americans have died in the last three months than ever before.” Er…no. Pretty sure the number of Americans who died prior to the last three months is more than the number of those who have died in the last three months. /pedantry Also: “happy warrior”? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/156 "2020-08-12T15:42:48Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Also: “happy warrior”? I’ve heard the term before. Interestingly, usually referring to conservative politicians or pundits; people optimistically fighting for a better tomorrow, yadda yadda. I think Rush Limbaugh self-describes that way. Whether the language was intentionally picked to appeal to conservatives, because the guys writing it are steeped in that mindset or for some other reason, I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/157 "2020-08-12T15:44:38Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I’ve heard the term before. Interestingly, usually referring to conservative politicians or pundits; people optimistically fighting for a better tomorrow, yadda yadda. Heck, even Hubert Humphrey was nicknamed “the Happy Warrior,” apparently for his optimism and for fighting for the downtrodden. > **[Why Did "Happy Warrior" Hubert Humphrey Lose the White House?](https://www.thoughtco.com/hubert-humphrey-biography-4174360)** > > Discover the life and legacy of former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a social justice trailblazer who lost his bid for the U.S. presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/158 "2020-08-12T16:00:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Pretty sure the number of Americans who died prior to the last three months is more than the number of those who have died in the last three months. I’m thinking as the population gets bigger the total number of people who die get bigger. Percentage wise I am sure there are higher numbers out there, like maybe the civil war had some pretty high percentages. The total death number is fairly meaningless unless you put it in context of percentage of the population. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/159 "2020-08-12T19:31:25Z")
Its a shame no one from the media, John Swan for instance, has pointed that out to Trump or Trumpers. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/160 "2020-08-12T22:07:01Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “More Americans have died in the last three months than ever before.” Er…no. Pretty sure the number of Americans who died prior to the last three months is more than the number of those who have died in the last three months. Could it mean that more Americans have died in the last 3 months than any prior 3 month period? I might believe that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550.md?page=9)