Some thoughts on the NYT piece today about Luzerne County, PA. (Yet again, an article about why a remote place went to Trump; never a visit to places that went for Harris. It's 2016 diner safari time again.)
Yes, it's impossible to reason with some of these folks. That's a given. /1
Yes, it's impossible to reason with some of these folks. That's a given. /1
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Is there really so little happening in the world that the nyt needs to fill space with even more interviews with brain dead lunks in overalls between bites of pork chops and grits?
The election is over!
Find something new.
Isnt there a season of
Emily in paris
You can do a deep dive on?
*Seemed simple. Any organized attempt at solution > gripe posting the SOS every day. Then it hit me, complaints, not fixes, are the product.
And now we're structured so that no influencer push = no Dem base.
boy, have you misread the signs. the media has turned into the zeitgeist of the public, only promoting stories the public clicks on & dumping critical analysis for airhead blond anchors.
after all, that's where their money comes from, smart guy.
People either don’t care or turned off by reparations, identity politics and tangential issues for example. IMPO, I don’t care to know someone’s sexual preferences.
None the less it is dispiriting that people chose to vote for a criminal and predator instead of sanity and integrity.
My county had a 69% turnout, which was low for us…but I live in an academic/college town too
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/former-prosecutor-goes-prison-extorting-money
When that fails, black people and Jews. Then us.
Isn’t the real encampment of We the people going to be how much people get paid. Desperate people will do anything to survive
How many test run of crashing markets to wipe a savings of others out are the real mark?
Synapse on Fintech, Enron, plenty others noted by googling
You savings wiped out
Very addictive
This credit system is overpriced
It’s not just the goods it’s the credit too.
the destruction of hometown newspapers is a better point here. bur the people who do see to their issues further down the ballot tend to be Rs. so party ID is a factor here.
Voters repeated the same words to me verbatim. “Why hasn’t she done anything in 3.5 years? And she knew about Biden and didn’t say anything“ These people have been messaged transphobia. Whatever msg works, repeat it over & over again.
the Hispanic population is not a monolith. high numbers of Catholics is a factor. naturalized citizens from Venezuela and Cuba who are ELL will find anti-commie rhetoric appealing.
We've been teaching people about women's safety for 50 years and we are going to pivot to "eh as long as it's a *girl penis* in the locker room"?
Not gonna fly politically.
Allowing intact males into female locker rooms is a public decision.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1854329590220833268.html
What they HEARD was Fox news and Joe Rogan, telling them Democrats would draft their kid.
The actual problem - the pervasive right-wing propoganda - we don't know how to solve. So: "Dem messaging sucks!"
Right now, Dems' messaging is the tree that falls in the forest & no 1 heard it, so they think it never happened. MAGA media carry MAGA messages. MSMedia carry a sane washed version of them. Almost no 1 fully reports Dem messages.
https://upine.medium.com/time-to-solve-our-propaganda-problems-like-the-military-does-e97eda71ba7b
#FIGHTFORUSA
I keep asking this—and nobody answers!
Biden literally bailed out the Teamsters' pensions and they turned on him anyway.
How do you sound like the working class?
Sarah is all about helping the working class. She's been a marvel here in Delaware.
Voters sense that.
@laloalcaraz.bsky.social
From cartoonist Jim Benton...
Culture war hits hard in rural areas.
After all, the south still seceded even though Abraham Lincoln was a moderate on the slavery issue. /1
Biden elevated them from working class to middle class and they embraced fascism.
Totally depressed area.
Of course they’ll vote for trump.
Low education
Low wages
Over15% poverty rate.
Perfect trump
He’s one of us voters.
Good luck to us getting our message out….WHERE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GO TO REACH PEOPLE? I mean, it’s obvious what the problem is.
Same as 2016. Listen to these people.
It wasn't meant to be a description of anything happening today.
I’m all for Kamala Harris, but we have to be pragmatic.
This is more than self-selected media diets-they are living in a media-diet programmed unreality.