Andrew Hoke
Here for the elucidation
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- Perhaps they would feel more pressure if they hear constituent callers encouraging them to join the No Kings Party 😀
- Rather than run scared from these attacks, successful Democrats defeat them. How? Using technique we've tested & implemented in winning campaigns: exposing how MAGA traffics in deliberate division, scapegoating, & fear mongering to hide its true agenda. drive.google.com/file/d/1zlaJ...
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View full threadThey respond to narratives (think wrestling story arcs - nuance is kryptonite). Their narrative of society and the place they see for themselves in it was poisoned, and then they were offered a new narrative with a good place for themselves. We're repeating the first half and are due for the second.
- The narrative they jumped into is now revealed as trash, but they will stay with it until a new narrative is presented them that shows them a good place for themselves. I'm not sure what that can be, how to present it, or who can, but that's what's needed to bring them around.
- just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative. Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
- I've been using 'creepy haters', but 'gross weirdos' is good too. The important thing is that whatever you call them be not something they would proudly wear on a shirt. For best results, don't accuse one directly - call out the creepy hate and let them opt into that frame to defend it.
- Allowing white South African refugees into the country while simultaneously deporting everyone with Latino ancestry they can get their hands on is just glaringly, ridiculously racist and evil.
- Especially in the destruction of the idea of refugees: these are not in any danger, so are not refugees. The word sure stuck though.
- The palace-in-the-sky jet gift from Qatar to Trump isn’t just a bribe—it’s a surveillance dream. A flying fortress of kompromat potential. Who’s debugging it? Who’s paying? How do you vet a foreign-gifted jet when the recipient is the President? Oh. Right. They don’t care about national security.
- I think they're more likely to install lighting and live-streaming equipment than they are to debug. Such ratings! They'll name it Epstein.
- an overview of the administration’s most egregious attacks on the constitution and some thoughts on why conservatives are perfectly fine with them www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
- The Jack of Shit's role in the organization is to catch the heat - the heel wrestler who receives all the outrage, leaving none for those who cheer him (who are rewarded by the outrage of everyone else). We should deny them this utility by blaming the whole movement for everything they do.
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- We should push the news industry to ditch executives and turn to a worker/customer co-op model. The free press must also be free from the influence of tycoons.
- sometimes as a joke instead of saying "excellent" my dad will say "excrement"
- I'm now picturing Monty Burns throwing one of these into a discussion, and I'm liking it.
- Hahahahaha oh my god. These people are so ridiculous.
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View full threadAlso, by the presumption that the only reason to seek the office is as a stepping-stone to better job offers, so he must just be doing this to 'raise his profile'. They see it as selfish because they are themselves so deeply steeped in selfishness.
- Also, I'm starting to think the reason we never saw any Democratic countermessaging to the Republican's immigration rhetoric is because they wholeheartedly agree, just aren't willing to say so. For reference, here's the low-hanging fruit of that countermessaging:
