Yeah I hope nobody here us sending $ to the Lincoln Project. There is usefulness to what they do but maximized if funded by conservatives.
I don’t think these ads hurt Dems, but it’s an enormous missed opportunity to explain what Biden will do for the voters. No one needs to be reminded that the orange man is bad in 2020, they need to know why they should bother to get out and vote for Biden. They need to be talking about healthcare, how to stop COVID, jobs, maybe throw out something for the BLM crowd. Of course, the Lincoln Project slappies don’t actually care about any of that shizz, so we get more Orange Man Bad videos.
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88 dollars is insane for that item but it is also a crazy specific number.
I don’t dismiss anything when it comes to Stephen Miller trying to reach out to his fellowship. Probably the most entrenched group in the administration is Miller and his lackeys.
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They did make at least one very pro-Biden ad, but of course it had nothing to do with policy. If one accepts that they believe in what they are doing (beyond merely making money from it), then I think their idea is that the current GOP really needs to lose big this cycle so they can rebuild it in their vision or whatever. But yeah, I doubt they’ll ever get around to like making ads about protecting DREAMers or whatever.
I have a buddy who hates Trump and maintains that “Trump is not a real Republican, I’m a real Republican”
It was the perfect spot for the wisdom of Marlo Stanfield.
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Tell him to give some money to the Lincloln Project.
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I always like how he says NOW 96% approval in the Republican Party even though it has been the same for 40 plus months.
Edit: guess I was wrong. Always thought it was same dumb number.
He actually gives to Dems. At least as of the last time the subject came up which was probably last year.
The Lincoln Project isn’t really on board with any of the good dem policies, as you said. I’m ok with them taking the attack ad route and allowing Biden to run only on message ads.
Also I think it’s easy for us to forget that an astonishingly large number of people don’t actually know about all of the insanely bad shit Trump has done and is currently doing. We are very tuned in to politics here and don’t miss a damn thing, but most people pay attention once or twice a year when the really big stuff happens. Laying it all out for them in dramatic 30-60 second ads can certainly be effective.
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Also, you know if Biden wins Rick Wilson is going become the next James Carville. We’re never going to be rid of this ass wart.
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I so want to believe in the myth of the “persuadable Republican”. They don’t exist. As soon as the consultants remind the voter about the perilous danger of a liberal activist justice landing on the Supreme Court, they will go right back to voting for Trump. It never fails. The marriage between single issue anti-abortion voters and the Republican party will never be broken. Deep State Take: SCOTUS will never completely overturn Roe v. Wade as this could be the one event that ends the marriage.
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Miller was probably able to plant a bunch of his nazi friends in the administration. I doubt he is the only full-blown white supremacist in the White House now. I am not counting Trump here who is obviously very racist but I think Miller is on another level.
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I agree that anti-Trump ads are not going to sway many voters. I disagree that they don’t have value though. The value comes from trolling Trump. Trump’s biggest electoral weakness is his inability to push a coherent message. The media is ready to fall in love with Trump again if he does. Instead, he spends 30 minutes of his first rally rebutting that he can’t walk/drink. I think in large part that was because of the Lincoln Project ad, which aired on Fox News DC.
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As long as they piss Trump off and keep him even further unbalanced.
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Yeah, I think this is my take, at least for now. The True Believers are gonna have their 41-2 %, but there is a huge pile of people who are protested out/lied to/Covid out and just want the noise to stop for a while. Covid has to be just killing trump in terms of rallies and his nonsense because jinning up the rubes isn’t working to nearly the extent as before - He got laughed out of Oklahoma for chrissikes. Until I see some sign that magically Arizona, Michigan and a few others show hugely increasing numbers, he’s dead. Which means that I’ve been wasting the time looking at the idiot, for at least we get closer in the fall, or something weird (Biden having a stroke, Covid magically disapearing) occurs that changes things.
MM MD
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Meanwhile, in reality, crime across NY state and in NYC are down an obscene amount. The last time I saw stats at the end of May it was something like 70 percent. The only category of crime that ticked up was DV.
