The problem with the egg price thing is that it’s literally a single minor inconvenience while the country’s government is collapsing into fascism, and thinking you’re going to beat back the fascists by talking about a minor inconvenience over and over just seems like bizarre delusion
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why are you now going on about egg?
NEWS FLASH: NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT EGGS WHEN THE COUNTRY IS ON FIRE!!
Stop fiddling while Rome is burning and grab a fucking bucket. Better - go after the fucking arsonists NONSTOP!
Fucking eggs??? 🙄
So yes, fucking eggs. Sorry, I don’t like it any more than you do.
Fucking idiots.
Sorry, but this wasn't _the_ reason. The right-wingers voted for Trump because that's what they always do. Biden and Harris didn't keep the coalition together because they ignored the propaganda war.
The 1990s were long ago.
https://bsky.app/profile/thimblestoo.bsky.social/post/3ljmin5syes2z
any time a pro labor, pro social movement gets traction, the corporate actors will rent extract us into a right wing backlash.
Because if we continue to interpret rent extraction as "inflation", punishing consumers for the profit margins they are paying...
And liberals CANNOT keep accepting the conservative framing that all problems are a result of immigration.
Immigration is saving social programs for ammericans since their labor is bejng taxed to support programs they will never collect from as a non citizen.
and, MAN did James turn into an asshole...
https://www.newsweek.com/james-carville-harris-loss-woke-politics-1982035
📣 Ending SS and Medicaid
📣 Tanking the economy for 99.9%
📣 Tax breaks for billionaires
📣 Illegal impoundment w/ Rep complicity
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
The problem with the gas price thing is that it's literally a single minor inconvenience while democracy is at risk, and thinking you're going to get people to accept fascism by talking about a minor inconvenience over and over just seems like bizarre delusion.
Shit gets real very fast once people get hungry.
Unfortunately, they refuse to coalesce around 1 to 2 voices that can provide real leadership right now.
2. 1/2 of their voters are okay or like the thing;
3. The other half put their hair on fire, run around in circles, and scream about the thing being so stupid that it is no wonder Ds are losing losers that lose.
https://bsky.app/profile/dbonowitz.bsky.social/post/3ljjokjtz522y
Trump was the one who mentioned the price of eggs. Republicans kept saying the reason to elect Trump was to lower prices. So people voted for him.
This is why it matters. People didn't vote for fascism. They voted for cheaper eggs.
Trump take egg.
Dems: Trump will bring fascism, keptomocracy
Voters: Yawn.
GOP: Eggs.
Voters: (looking past data of solid economy) We gotta vote for the businessman, duh.
It might be the issue that drops the penny.
Will. Take a day.
Touch grass. Reset your brain.
You have got to let this go. You can’t control what every democratic voter says or cares about.
You have been obsessing over eggs for days now. Take a nap. Read some nonfiction.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Most people can’t even admit that we are under a fascist regime right now.
Everyone can tell you shit is more expensive.
I’m not claiming that this remains true in the social media viral age and in the face of actual dismantling, but it’s not a crazy approach given the research.
Simply showing that 50% of what's in your grocery cart has EGGS in it would be a start.
The egg thing is about shitting on literally everything that touches Trump and the GOP's image.
It shouldnt be the only thing. But if someone is covering that part of the war, good. Someone else should focus on another front. Don't shrink the front
Good chance they don't even know the definition of the word fascist. Gotta start messaging in a way they can understand.
And that won them control of the entire federal government
they don’t have to care about elections now. People knew this before the election and we’re still fine with it
Anybody with any political knowledge knows that healthcare is a winning issue right now with private insurance. They won't say shit.
Will Got Bad Brain
If they tell them on blast that the problem is "POOL, right here in River City," the problem is pool in River City.
And, yeah, it's also a comically low-stakes issue.
He's robbing taxpayers & looting our country; we need to talk about that!
Tell them that over and over again.
Scold them for suggesting otherwise.
They'll love it.
It’s only one way to show people that these policies don’t do what they promised to do and it’s far from the only point being made.
Will is just obsessing over it for some reason.
Gonna have to take your head out of white neoliberals R Us and look around for a bit.
This entire post and convo by @whstancil.bsky.social was counter productive to the movement. His post did harm to the resistence, not people commiting to the #trumpdunk
We gotta fight fire with fire. You don't fight a war from start to end with the exact same tactics. You press weak points when and where they exist, and move onto the next one as they appear.
Getting people to blame Rs for pricing is the first step in them realizing that a lot more is going wrong. They shouldn't be doing anything exclusively.
Trump is taking egg, and that’s the total opposite of the Republican deregulatory ethos.
(his approval tanked over 10% points)
Will is right about Gas Prices or one specific price of an important good not being the political end all be all; this - very dumb - conventional wisdom for much of Biden's term with gas prices
Libs say "Trump take egg"
"No not like that"
If you just say, “I guess egg prices are what matters” you are, in effect, teaching them fascism is ok as long as the proverbial trains run on time.
What matters is the President is forming his own Revolutionary Guard with J6 rioters and he's pulled JAG from the military. He controls the FBI, ATF, DOJ, most media and a majority of SCOTUS. Good people sit in silence, intimidated. We are Iran, North Korea and we are Russia.
It’s a manifestation of utter disdain
But you go to the ballot box with the voters you have, not the ones you wish you did.
I think the bigger problem is that they won’t commit to hating them. Staffers constantly want Dems to forgive the general public for gambling away rights because they want to shake it up. Spoiled country of morons.
What a false dichotomy @whstancil.bsky.social gives us here! "If this singular act of resistance doesn't fix all the problems, it's worthless!"
Imagine not knowing "flood the zone" in 2025. Feckless. Dumb.
I get the sense that you think the voters who determine elections are all PhDs sitting around considering the finer points of Locke's writings on liberty.
It's all bs and branding and dems are really really bad at it.
Americans are consumers and they consume politics the same way they consume eggs.
Then they look online and see NYTimes and Washpost normalizing fascism. The only hope is independent media, we think.
That’s it.
Dems need to figure out how to not be boring as fuck while demonstrating they will help people.
Dems are in brand jail until they find a way to shake it or Republican policy personally reaches and harms everyone.
We criticize MAGA for doubling down on dumb things, and yet here #bluemaga is doing the same.
Grr this singular message isn't a silver bullet, let's all give up and infight and let the GOP control the narrative!
The problem is voters *do* care about those things, especially when those threats become real. Democrats just need to do a better job of communicating what’s at stake.
There is an air of "Well, isn't this what the peasants care about, with their drab, wretched lives and their lack of inside information about the stock market?"
We should collectively walk and chew gum at the same time. Major voices: decry corruption & policy disasters. Smurfs: TRUMP TAKE EGG
https://mashable.com/article/trump-take-egg-meme-explained
luv egg. omblet and fry and in cake and cooki
but no omblet. no cooki. so exponsiv!
bc
TRUMP TOOK EGG
😁 Basically.