I was wondering whether it would be worth the effort to try and get a similar message out.
Something like “We should actually be voting D in this election. Give the Dems exactly what they think they want so their terrible socialism will be exposed and then we can finally really take our country back!”
It’s not that different from “I actually hope Trump wins a second term. Burning it all down is the only hope for a progressive future.”
We just saw a Republican commercial in GA. My son (turns 12 next weekend) started making up his own dialogue:
[deep, scary voice]
“Jon Ossoff went to her house and slapped her child. Do you want someone to lead you who slaps childs?”
House Dems passed marijuana legalization bill and Biden campaigned on legalizing it.
Need to be pushing that for the runoff: if you vote Perdue or Loeffler then it won’t get legalized.
Your kid sounds awesome.
This will somehow be outlawed on 1/6/21, truly shocking the state legislature didn’t do it already.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1335063847627997184?s=21
That’s some elite humor right there. The kid is wise beyond his years.
Has there been some talk about this on unstuck about this elsewhere? I’m a little surprised I haven’t seen it.
It seems like this is the exact move that many have been longing for the House to do. Pass popular legislation and force Mitch to put the kibosh on it.
Now they just need to repeat with other stuff.
I know the real reason for outlawing it is suppression, but what is the stated “reason”?
I really hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s a reason so many campaigns use fundraising emails and texts like this.
Yup…you got it. It fucking works. It works better than nice, polite, positive asks, it works better than policy briefs, it works better than campaign updates. Scaring the shit out of people, yes, even democrats, gets the most money out of them.
The minute I got hired, my very first question to our CM was if we could get that shit changed. She shared cold hard numbers with me, and i died a little inside.
Just opt out if you can. They aren’t gonna change.
In Miami it was:
“voting sites are supposed to be apolitical, and there is a BLM banner hanging from the building”
“there’s too much commercial advertising in the building and we don’t want to be seen as endorsing goods and services”
“we’re not sure if the buildings will always be available once sports return to a normal schedule, so we shouldn’t disrupt voter habits by making them go to a different location this time”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article246724651.html
I believe you. The world can be one way even if I want it to be the other.
They will probably come up with a reason in Georgia. In North Carolina they would just say “this will hurt Deomocrats”. Reason enough. And honest too.
All the redstates let them do it because all the teams were threatening boycotts if they did not allow them to do it. These teams boycotting would probably be massive revenue loss to these states, plus the team owners probably put the screws to the states. Probably ALL the team owners did.
So they were basically forced too.
They could definitely take it back though now that the climate has chilled, I doubt these teams will threaten to not play now that things have calmed down and Trump is out of office. A lot of very well meaning people don’t realize the rot doesn’t end at Trump.
I woman rang my doorbell a little while ago. Republican Party of Georgia.
She asked if I was planning on voting in the runoff. I said yes, for the Democrats. She asked why. I didn’t feel like coming up with a specific list, so I just told her, “I don’t stand for anything Republicans stand for.”
I was hoping that would be the end of the conversation, but I could tell she was going to say something. I figured, ok, I’ll give her a minute, let her try to sell her candidates. Maybe we can agree on something!
Her response: “Just so I understand, you are for socialism and against freedom?”
I was tired, I just woken up (went to bed late, got woken up early, went back to bed until after noon). I wasn’t in any mood to deal with this shit. There are plenty of other retorts I could have given, like “Yes,” or “Explain what freedoms you won’t have,” but all I did was pause as I realized what she said, give her a look of combined disappointment and “you’ve got to be shitting me,” and slowly closed the door while saying, “You’re just…wrong.”
My son was in his underwear, so he was hiding around the corner. He came out cracking up.
Seems like an incredibly bad way to approach door knocking. These people legitimately believe this shit and are legitimately stupid as fuck.
Lol if anything that approach will motivate more Democrats to vote.
Id of gone with stay of my roads.
Maximum troll would be to say you’re voting for the Dems to punish the GA repubicans for not supporting Trump enough. Tell her you know how to read Trump tweets correctly and you know that’s what he wants you to do. And then WWG1WGA or whatever.
Knocking on doors during a pandemic just seems bad in general.
But even in normal times, I’d have enjoyed fucking with her more. Assuming she caught me at the right time, which clearly wasn’t the situation for you.
My strategy of choice would be for them to explain what socialism is and why Medicare isn’t socialism. Then insult whatever stupidity comes forth.
If time permits, I’d go on to freedoms to burn flags and such.
Way back in college there were a couple of Mormon missionaries chatting up folks outside the Student Union.
The guy at the other end of a stone bench from me basically had the two Mormon guys questioning their own faith. I wish I had a recording.
I think “you’re shitting me” is fine. She did her job of letting you know that you were really for socialism and against freedom.