A trans person didn’t deny your health insurance claim, a giant corporation did. An asylum seeker didn’t raise your rent, a billionaire’s private equity firm did. Our focus must be taking on the billionaires & corporate greed. - ThreadSky

repcasar.bsky.social • 173 days ago

A trans person didn’t deny your health insurance claim, a giant corporation did.

An asylum seeker didn’t raise your rent, a billionaire’s private equity firm did.

Our focus must be taking on the billionaires & corporate greed.

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cruz61.bsky.social•172 days ago

That would have happened under a Harris/Walz administration, but here we are.

mistermeyer.bsky.social•154 days ago

That giant healthcare corporation is also the reason why your compensation goes up but your pay doesn't.

A different corporation handles your HR requests and denies your PTO, or docks your pay.

Your boss decides to pay these corporations to make you miserable.

antipunitive.bsky.social•136 days ago

bit of a wishful to-do list innit?

what've you actually done in the last 4 yrs to sort all this?

why haven't you put in free healthcare n social housing to stop greed, suffering, n all the deaths it causes?

you're just day-dreaming of my fave mythical creature:
THE ETHICAL CAPITALIST.

weetispotpie.bsky.social•153 days ago

And who may I ask is letting them get away with it?

sinter-klaas.bsky.social•172 days ago

You made the nice list Greg. Keep using your voice to advocate for decency and compassion. Kindness spreads joy to the world.

Happy holidays 🎅🏻

nyonnnnn.bsky.social•172 days ago

If we have a shortage of housing supply and demand increases as a result of mass illegal immigration that will absolutely raise people's rent. You know that though, you just don't want to say it.

turnerjoy.bsky.social•154 days ago

By your bad logic lowered prices would attract “illegal immigration”, probably more so because they aren’t usually paying top dollar rent

patek-svendsen.bsky.social•172 days ago

A good pick pocket always has you looking the other way when they take your wallet.

andyrose12.bsky.social•154 days ago

more of this please

investigate Medical Loss Ratio fraud and force transparency

ajpennyfarthing.bsky.social•172 days ago

This!

jeffrethecat.bsky.social•154 days ago

And knowing that billionaires aren’t going to save all this money for the country out of the goodness of their hearts. They are going to try to privatize everything so that they can make a profit basically skimming profits off the top. These guys are mobsters.

floofymaki.bsky.social•171 days ago

Thank you for not throwing trans people under the bus like alot of others are doing!

turnerjoy.bsky.social•154 days ago

What do you think avoiding to defend trans people is, if not that?

jesusdontcare.bsky.social•172 days ago

A system which enables unfettered capitalism did. Fixed it for you.

radicalcroissant.bsky.social•154 days ago

Go harder, FFS:

Giant corporations deny you life-saving health care.

Private equity firms owned by billionaires raise your rent.

Corporate monopolies gouge prices and nickel and dime you to death.

Let's smash corporate greed and get billionaires out of our lives and out of government.

andybell.bsky.social•154 days ago

The important component of his messaging is specifically to highlight the contrast between GOP culture war tactics and the actual mechanics of power that it’s distracting from. I don’t think the statements you wrote are wrong or ineffective - but it’s worth exploring how to 2birds1stone it

radicalcroissant.bsky.social•154 days ago

I disagree; it will either fly over the heads of the people on whom such tactics work, or read as patronizing. Keep the message focused: corporate greed & oligarchs are running, and ruining, America. It's true, and above all simple, clean.

radicalcroissant.bsky.social•154 days ago

Trying to enlighten people about distraction techniques that are used to pick their pockets is a subtle & complex message that makes sense to us but won't play widely. Score the oligarch point b/c the messages that work are simple, single issue mantras.

radicalcroissant.bsky.social•154 days ago

Civil rights is a separate issue, keep it separate: "it's unamerican to persecute a harmless minority group because they're different. America exists because people fled persecution in England by tyrannical king. Don't let a South African oligarch con you into turning on your fellow Americans."

radicalcroissant.bsky.social•154 days ago

What are you scared of, winning?

nomasnomore.bsky.social•154 days ago

Meanwhile….

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/06/trump-us-cabinet-billionaires

freeyourmind42.bsky.social•165 days ago

Please run for President in 2028! And please directly call out the systems of control enabling the billionaire class (corporate media, campaign contributions converted into political power for judicial appointments, controlling k-12 w.r.t. labor history, etc. - enabling more capital concentration).

noah4texas.bsky.social•172 days ago

This 💯🙌🏼

bsdtectr.bsky.social•173 days ago

Need to tell a lot of your fellow elected Democrats this message.

freeyourmind42.bsky.social•165 days ago

They know. They’re captured by donors.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•172 days ago

And ask them why the hell they haven't stood shoulder to shoulder and pledged to act as a bulwark against fascism as they promised to do

kim65.bsky.social•154 days ago

No shit 😕

lou55.bsky.social•145 days ago

I used to be progressive but I moved away from that because it didn’t seem like progressive could actually lead on concrete issues. I would love to change my opinion on that!

lizziestarbuck.bsky.social•171 days ago

Ok but what kind of odds can you give yourselves considering trump’s complete control over all branches of government and the presses complete capitulation to him?

metrosexualredneck.bsky.social•153 days ago

How about we also focus on corruption within the ranks both parties! Y'all are the ones that make the laws that allow the health insurance companies and PE to do what they do! So either you suck at your job or on the take?!! Which is it?

jaaro.bsky.social•153 days ago

Progressives haven't had real power within the democratic party since LBJ lol

2the7thgen.bsky.social•154 days ago

Excellent. Finally a Dem who’s willing to do what it takes to WIN. 💙
#Resist
#ResistTheOligarchs

slip-sliding.bsky.social•151 days ago

I THOUGHT that's what we were doing...we just got our asses kicked because those WE THOUGHT were fighters were just positioning themselves for a good spot when we lost the fight...never trust a millionaire to go after the wealth and power of other millionaires...for them it's self defeating....

redmaple2324.bsky.social•154 days ago

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
💙👊

nehoy.bsky.social•154 days ago

Exactly. The response to "Trans people are the villains," MUST NOT engage with or even acknowledge the statement or you've already conceded.

Vilify the villains to the degree they've demonized anyone and everyone else.

joshhaber.bsky.social•172 days ago

The billionaires are coming from inside the house.

joshhaber.bsky.social•172 days ago

Sorry. I didn’t mean The House. I was just referencing that 70s horror movie, “When A Billionaire Calls.”

softshellthac0.bsky.social•154 days ago

K. What’d you do this week to do that, CONGRESSMAN?

jjdianem.bsky.social•173 days ago

I voted for you!💙

doxy-cycling.bsky.social•154 days ago

Now how do we actually get this messaging in front of the people who need to hear it the most?

realbigdeal3.bsky.social•154 days ago

But thier contempt for trans and asylum seekers is greater than the people fleecing them.

chickpea7.bsky.social•153 days ago

Every time Democrats are nice to any group, RW and MSM demonize those groups and Ds for being nice to them. Then Democrats scramble to distance themselves from those groups instead of figuring out how to combat the demonization. Rinse and repeat. And that's why we can't have nice things.

therealblackadder.bsky.social•172 days ago

thexedtx.bsky.social•154 days ago

More of this!

jlandr.bsky.social•154 days ago

Messaging gaining traction just in time for no one to be able to do anything about it. Good stuff. Let's keep this up for the next 4 years, only for a moderate change candidate to win and not being able to enact anything due to some parliamentarian bs

meknotty.bsky.social•150 days ago

Sound less like controlled opposition for the Dems, please

joshmanning.bsky.social•173 days ago

Yessir.

titog08.bsky.social•172 days ago

Facts!!

williamhaugh.bsky.social•166 days ago

dee-33.bsky.social•154 days ago

Sounds great but y’all handed the keys over to the billionaires. You weren’t talking about this a month ago. Now we are going to reap what we have sown. It won’t be pretty.

turnerjoy.bsky.social•154 days ago

Because despite all their confessions, I mean accusations, they are the ones that needed Trump back for attention and dues

hottiesforharris.bsky.social•173 days ago

BERNIE IS THAT YOU Casar Sanders 2028!!!!!

liripipe.bsky.social•154 days ago

A reminder that we continually must — in the next administration and for so many good reasons — “watch where their hands are.” #bottomline #economictyranny

rasushrestha.bsky.social•161 days ago

A thousand percent yes. 🙌🏽

balzac-asimov.bsky.social•172 days ago

I hope you're going to stand up for Rep-Elect McBride on the floor

kitterlecathy.bsky.social•172 days ago

These trumpanzees will never believe or understand this.

gghurley.bsky.social•154 days ago

Thank you Rep Caesar!

gghurley.bsky.social•154 days ago

Sorry Casar. Did not check autocorrect before sending. Excited for the future!

torrleonard.bsky.social•153 days ago

Anti-trans ads *work*:

https://bsky.app/profile/torrleonard.bsky.social/post/3lcoszfyygk2o

keoweeghost.bsky.social•153 days ago

We have to keep older democrats from getting mired in the culture wars. We can't pretend like common human decency is even up for debate.

dadthots.bsky.social•150 days ago

Now if only Democrats didn't support the health corporations and private equity firms doing these things, we might get somewhere. Otherwise this re-frame is window dressing.

doestahr.bsky.social•172 days ago

'Bully the Rich' #showme_yourmask

ajpennyfarthing.bsky.social•172 days ago

Eat the rich. Because they are in charge of food prices.

faegolem.bsky.social•172 days ago

Compost the rich, you don’t want what ever brain parasite that made the rich so fucking greedy and stupid

doestahr.bsky.social•172 days ago

Good point. I have some hungry fungii that would do that trick.

ajpennyfarthing.bsky.social•171 days ago

😂Woot!

gabester33709.bsky.social•172 days ago

Truth. This is the message that never got out before election day.

apixianthewise.bsky.social•153 days ago

Toooooooooooo late.

siouxcq60.bsky.social•166 days ago

👏🏼💕👏🏼💕

writingdcm.bsky.social•154 days ago

Shit if they did I’d probably be like ok that’s cool I deserve it humanity has been pretty awful to you also you deserve all the money you making like damn

liberalarkie.bsky.social•172 days ago

I remember back to "Occupy Wall Street" and no political leaders of either party was there. Only Bernie. If the Democrats had ever gotten on board we would not be where we are now. With the Democrats raising over 1.2 billion, their is too much money in control of the DNC.. They just do not care.

turnerjoy.bsky.social•154 days ago

You might want to check back into how what Occupy and Bernie supporters are doing now

jordanhoggard.bsky.social•172 days ago

Agreed but where is the action? Lip service is just that. How many monopolies did the Biden admin break up? What did the Biden admin do about inflation caused by corp profits? Billionaires got rich and more powerful under Biden. What are the Dems going to do different?

heybrianparis.bsky.social•173 days ago

The messaging is not “billionaires and corporations” it’s “the people ripping you off.” Speak to the people you want to reach.

nearestexit.bsky.social•169 days ago

100%

ajpennyfarthing.bsky.social•172 days ago

Billionaires and corporations are the people ripping us off. Billionaires United against us all in this vital election. And they want to jack up prices and put folks without homes in for-profit prisons. It’s easy to understand.

heybrianparis.bsky.social•172 days ago

Yes, I know. But if you want to reach the Trump voters who vote against their best interests, you need to localize the threat and make it personal. I’m talking about the language we use. “Billionaires” and “corporations” is too vague.

nearestexit.bsky.social•169 days ago

Yes! Language is so important. And they have to stop using economists' terms to talk about the economy. Every day people don't think like that. They think about the cost of food, rent, healthcare, etc. And h unemployment may be low, but that doesn't mean people are making enough $.

ajpennyfarthing.bsky.social•172 days ago

I’m thinking greedy bastard billionaires works. But I get your point about corporations. Especially when we know some corporate entities stay out of the Citizens United fray. I also like the use of oligarchs. That seems to hammer home the difference.

lexys.wtf•154 days ago

This is an improvement to the message for certain, the sad thing is his message is already vastly superior to the standard Dems though of basically "Vote against the Republicans" without something to vote FOR

We also need that 2nd part here. Tell people how you're going to improve their lives

lexys.wtf•154 days ago

BUT keep it simple. I think something that gets lost is just how tuned out most people are so if you want to reach them you have to speak simple and give them something to vote for not just against.

captaincornbred.bsky.social•172 days ago

Our dem friends still don't get it.

ajpennyfarthing.bsky.social•172 days ago

If you didn’t vote Dem in this election, I don’t get it. At all. But you may catch on to the people screwing you out of tax cuts and taking women’s health back to the 1800s. No civilized country does this to their own citizens.

captaincornbred.bsky.social•172 days ago

I agree 100%, I personally don't understand the appeal of Trump at all. But it seems that campaigning on false promises "to fix stuff" and take away rights of minorities really sells.

dotsmom.bsky.social•154 days ago

This is great messaging. Fight them with facts! Congratulations on your new position - super excited based on posts such as this :-)

gilliflower.bsky.social•172 days ago

Wish you were in my district. Keep the good fight going!

llbrown.bsky.social•153 days ago

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