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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts) Sun Sep 22, 2019, 06:39 PM Sep 2019

These type of issues hit the news, the House leadership take their time...

to get to the bottom of it...and while that is happening, Trump lies, spins, delays, gaslights and creates a conspiracy theories to explain it all away. The Democrats lose control of the narrative. The general public gets tired of hearing about it, if they were ever paying attention. The fascist base have time to mobilize and spread the same lies and bee ess.

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These type of issues hit the news, the House leadership take their time... (Original Post) Thomas Hurt Sep 2019 OP

The bully pulpit is key to the news cycle. Dems must continue to tear holes in empedocles Sep 2019 #1

empedocles

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1. The bully pulpit is key to the news cycle. Dems must continue to tear holes in