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Jakes Progress

(11,122 posts)
34. So you got nothing but excuses.
Mon Feb 26, 2024, 01:49 AM
Feb 26

Last edited Mon Feb 26, 2024, 07:16 PM - Edit history (1)

I'm not paid to do their job. If I were, I would learn how to do it.

Your examples would only lead to one of two conclusions. One that the Democratic Party has nothing that the public wants to hear, that the public doesn't like what the Democratic Party stands for. Or that the people you mentioned are not very good at arguing our point of view. I think the people you mentioned are fully informed, but don't present their points in ways that attract the attention of people who are so stupid that they still claim to be undecided. Newsom did a credible job, but Sullivan, while he appeals to the liberals in the crowd, only turns off those who could be swayed. He is just an attack dog.

The examples you give show the problem. The OP was about how Georgia's jack ass governor spouted crap on a CNN story. None of the examples you gave called him out. None of them called out CNN for not calling out his stupid raving. In 1950, you could just talk about your ideas and hope the camera liked you. But if you think that doing the same thing we have been doing is working, then go ahead and ignore the Stacey Abrams and her kind that are actually motivating voters and turning around elections. Just take a few minutes off from fund raising to read a script in the studio.

Again. I'm not paid, and it's not my job, but I think the point is to call every lie specifically with names and facts instead of just saying over and over that the republicans are "not being very truthful" or are "misstating the facts". Call them liars and cowards and toadies and puppets. But for each name you call them, give the things they did or said that makes them such. And name the liars.

I don't think DNC is doing a very good job of motivating voters. You think they are. We disagree.

( I saw NBC and CBS, but couldn't take another dose of Sullivan. It would have been good to hear what Duckworth said about immigration. Did she call out abbott and his razor wire? Did she talk about the "convoy" of maga truckers who took off work and drove south to defend our border from the streaming hordes only to end up grousing about the wasted gas money because there was nothing going on at the border. It was abbot's lies. Taxes motivate voters. Did she tell how the republican governors are sending guardsmen to the Texas border to fight back the non-existent hordes using thousands and thousands of tax dollars from their state?

Yes, all illegal immigrants are evil criminals Johonny Feb 25 #1
I assume the Georgia Governor takes responsibly for all crimes committed by legal Georgia residents? Freethinker65 Feb 25 #2
You are right, and that is exactly what needs to be thrown back at the republicans. We should JohnSJ Feb 25 #4
press is intentionally campaigning for the republicans Submariner Feb 25 #3
+++ JohnSJ Feb 25 #5
Thank you for posting this. Have already shared it. Dem2theMax Feb 25 #18
EXACTLY. More specifically campaigning for their shared corporate oligarchs. ancianita Feb 26 #36
K&R BootinUp Feb 25 #6
The press is intentionally campaigning for Republicans. ananda Feb 25 #7
OK, so how many women were killed by US citizens last year while jogging or walking? patphil Feb 25 #8
For GOPers, it has NEVER been about solving problems. Just using them to hammer Dems! PTL_Mancuso Feb 26 #39
We could ask the families Tickle Feb 26 #40
Believe the mainstream TV news is corporate, so richdj25 Feb 25 #9
This is the argument being made hueymahl Feb 25 #10
Blame the republicans for murders in their retrospective states, blame republicans JohnSJ Feb 25 #12
This guy came in, in 2022. NT Tickle Feb 26 #41
Trump did this when that girl was shot in SF. LeftInTX Feb 25 #11
Clinton had the Carville immediate response team. Jakes Progress Feb 25 #13
Democrats are way too patient. It's a shame the founders didn't give them at least decade-long terms. jaxexpat Feb 25 #16
What do you want them to do? All Mixed Up Feb 25 #26
Doesn't work like that. Jakes Progress Feb 26 #31
Okay. You've got nothing - just complaints. All Mixed Up Feb 26 #32
So you got nothing but excuses. Jakes Progress Feb 26 #34
I'm not gonna read all that. All Mixed Up Feb 27 #42
So I'm wrong, but you don't know about what. Hmm. Jakes Progress Mar 1 #43
Blaming Republicans for failure to pass the bipartisan immigration bill is a tenuous argument for our side progressoid Feb 25 #14
For one thing, politics is all about the present. LiberalLovinLug Feb 25 #17
If politics is all about the present progressoid Feb 25 #30
Republicans Are Evil Liars and the Media will not help us LymphocyteLover Feb 25 #15
Guys, you want to listen to some unbiased news? True Blue American Feb 25 #21
Thanks-- I hadn't heard much about that station LymphocyteLover Feb 25 #23
Yes True Blue American Feb 26 #37
I have watched NewsNation, I guarantee Abrams would have highlighted the immigration status Silent Type Feb 25 #27
Republicans get the white man pass BaronChocula Feb 25 #19
Governor Kemp blamed Biden! True Blue American Feb 25 #20
yup, and so are most of the republican deplorables JohnSJ Feb 25 #25
I heard the suspect was a 'non-citizen resident', which is sinkingfeeling Feb 25 #22
According to the reports I've seen, he is described as an "undocumented" migrant onenote Feb 25 #24
K&R spanone Feb 25 #28
They love telling these stories moniss Feb 25 #29
They also didn't mention that, after Trump was defeated, Mblaze Feb 26 #33
they care about this death Skittles Feb 26 #35
Sinclair Broadcast Group owns 284 TV Stations... Mr. Mustard 2023 Feb 26 #38
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