This has to be figured out if we have any chance of turning this around.
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John Sipher
“Many voters headed to the polls convinced that border crossings are higher than ever before (they are not), violent crime rates are rising (untrue) and inflation is soaring (ditto). We will never know how much this garbage may have swayed voters…”
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Do not engage with trolls/racist/sexist MAGAsites/ bots/ immigrant/chistofascistc/or gender oppressors. It's like mud-wrestling a pig: you will lose since the pig gets more practice & the pig enjoys it & has no self esteem left to to lose
Lies and propaganda won it.
It’s the same reason that infomercials work and Shamwow sold millions of
units and the Kardashians are a thing:
People believe what they see on tv. And if what they see on tv are lies told on a loop, they’ll believe it.
We aren’t going back, but Fred is right, we need to figure it out.
And while we’re at it, we get a more politicians to get their noses out of the air and come onto the podcast sphere to drive a unified and simple narrative.
I mean, there woulda been a chance.
I think too many have been bamboozled into thinking this election wasn't a hijacked debacle Bought & paid for They'll learn soon enough I imagine
Since the election I have become more and more convinced that they are too stupid and lacking of empathy to learn any other way but touching the hot stove.
DEMS NEED TO UP THEIR GAME NOW
2. Recognize that numbers don’t reflect actual experiences. Inflation may not continue to rise but the effects have been trickling down
3. Concede some middle ground on fringe issues. No one wants to compromise but pick and choose your battles
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"ALL THE 💩 THE GOP TELLS US TO PRINT"
- that insisted on normalizing Trump
- refused to report the truth
- obsessed on "her emails" and "he's old" while ignoring Trump's mental and physical decline, ties to Russia, history of failures and sexual assault
- refused to confront reality
- honestly analyze policies?
This is what I'm telling friends and family around the world. The problem is misinformation ... whereever it is. Fox, X, Facebook, Joe Rogan, etc.. It's made Americans stupid and horribly ill-informed.
There was cheating on a large scale.
https://bsky.app/profile/kamalladreams.bsky.social/post/3lbdaagrc7s2m
Lots of folks didn't want the idiot but they couldn't vote for a Woman!!
Very disappointing when compared to rest of the World! 🙁✌🏽
Incidentally, or not, RNC Research has nearly 700k followers and their sole job is to spread disinformation.
The same is happening with the Reform party in the UK and we are not countering it - we are not learning lessons from the US.
It's not complicated.
Won't be fast or easy. It took their lie machines decades. Truth will win if we can keep hope alive.
How convenient.
In the mean time, blame Trump voters every chance you get. Swaying a few percent will allow us to survive.
These were all tools of voter suppression.
OVERTURN PEOPLE UNITED
MAGA has been a social revolution, and Dems are still playing by old rules.
The Harris campaign just didn’t press this enough.
Trump had his stupid chart and people saw it
The dems have never reached that level of energy in a ground game, and it also cost the GOP nothing.
It would probably take a concerted several decade effort in adding logic and critical thinking skills to k-12 curriculum.
Most of their lies aren't even good and fall apart with a little scrutiny.
https://newrepublic.com/series/51/mainstream-media-sanewashing-trump-migrants
Undoing that brand perception is really going to take some work and a completely different skill set than the Dems currently employ.
On simply stupid
Most media will enforce or at least not counter the false narrative.
They spread the lies and misinformation and/or normalized Trump and MAGA propaganda.
They both-sides-ism-ed lies and truth, propaganda and reality, and they can now go fuck themselves on the jagged edge of my absolute refusal to watch, read, or click on their content anymore.
Why were so many needing to be convinced of Harris's policies and yet they never held Trump to that standard?
One could make the argument that the George Santos & the tRUMP win 🏆were based on the same deluge of misinformation from the MSM Infauxtainment Misinformation Industrial Complex.
MSM is blaming Democrats for GQP Fascism.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox
Only Lawrence on MSNBC consistently reported on the facts & what the Biden WH was doing.