The gay former transportation secretary says the GOP’s Epstein shutdown should dominate headlines, just like Republicans made trans athletes their obsession.
Why are dems endlessly talking about what messaging they should do? Build a fucking messaging apparatus like Fox News and do it. We shouldn’t even hear about the strategizing, we should just hear the drum beat.
I get where you’re coming from with this, but I’m not convinced that fighting fire with fire is a viable solution here. We need to put some bite back into journalistic integrity laws, not just create an opposing misinformation machine.
You make a good point. But the issue here is that, the leaders should be leading and not just talking about what leaders should do.
They always seem to get lost in their own noise.
Voices like Bernie, AOC, et al. will often start taking real action and garner positive national attention, but it regularly falls apart because the party as a whole seems uninterested in falling into line.
Nobody is supporting their good ideas because they keep waiting to get together on their perfect ideas, but spoiler that basically never happens. (They can be barely effective if they control the presidency and Congress, with Congress aligning to the president’s agenda, but without that perfect environment they are effectively ineffective.)
Why are dems endlessly talking about what messaging they should do? Build a fucking messaging apparatus like Fox News and do it. We shouldn’t even hear about the strategizing, we should just hear the drum beat.
Because it’s all about the optics. They don’t actually do any of those things, they just want people to think they are.
I get where you’re coming from with this, but I’m not convinced that fighting fire with fire is a viable solution here. We need to put some bite back into journalistic integrity laws, not just create an opposing misinformation machine.
You make a good point. But the issue here is that, the leaders should be leading and not just talking about what leaders should do.
They always seem to get lost in their own noise.
Voices like Bernie, AOC, et al. will often start taking real action and garner positive national attention, but it regularly falls apart because the party as a whole seems uninterested in falling into line.
Nobody is supporting their good ideas because they keep waiting to get together on their perfect ideas, but spoiler that basically never happens. (They can be barely effective if they control the presidency and Congress, with Congress aligning to the president’s agenda, but without that perfect environment they are effectively ineffective.)
The left can do what fox news does but only talk about the truth and still be just as effective the majority of the time.
Fox News is effective specifically because of their misinformation though.
They canceled Colbert