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I will say this. When the Biden - Harris Administration signed the Chips and Science act that built manufacturing jobs there was no coverage. I am a copywriter and I kept thinking why did the Democrats never go to these states and talk to the people who got these new jobs and put that out on social media ? So Americans could see in real time the help the administration was providing for every day Americans. They could have filmed the building of the manufacturing site, filmed employees getting a good paying job told their story instead of just saying, "but, look at what we did for the American people." They could have used so many social media platforms to do that. The younger generation is all about the visual landscape and the Democrats missed that opportunity.

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The only person who has been doing this consistently throughout his tenure as Secretary of Transportation is Pete Buttigieg. He has revolutionized getting the message out whether it be going out to every major transportation related and government funded project and making sure his visit is filmed and available to the media. He has written the playbook for how to get the word out to the public on what their government is doing for them.

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That is correct Mary. However the coverage of Pete Buttigeig was maybe a few seconds of coverage on legacy media. If Pete Buttigeig would have platformed his visits on a consistent thread that would have been the way to go. I think he was really good at taking on Fox where he had more air time to push back. Love him !!

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Pete was brilliant on Jubilee 25, debating 25 undecided voters with clarity, empathy, and precision. The pace was intense, but he connected with their concerns effectively. We need to engage more on platforms like this to reach not only undecided voters but all voters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE1f3n_n9UA

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Hi Pattie, I will definitely watch the video tomorrow. I missed that.

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Hi Pattie, just watched this Jubilee with Pete. This made my point exactly when Pete was talking to the older gentleman about manufacturing saying he didn't see it. The Democrats missed that by miles for not getting that all over social media. I also feel that there was a good chance some or most of the younger voters sat this one out. They had zero passion about any of it.

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Excellent point! Democrats should be shouting these achievements from the rooftops! You're so right, it was a missed opportunity to control the narrative.

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Absolutely Pattie, the democrats allowed trump to control the narrative. They pushed back but not hard enough to make a difference.

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Hopefully Gen Z females tell Gen Z males to keep walking.

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Oh they're looking at what Korean women are doing already.

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Screw young men. It is obvious that they have NO RESPECT for women.

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While canvassing for Harris/Walz in a college housing area we rain into too many young male trump supporters. A few said; “my parents are republicans so I am, too”. Also, “my dad’s in law enforcement”, which to me was the more troubling.

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Yes, I personally know a lot of law enforcement people from my years as a reporter, and I just cannot understand how anyone in law enforcement could vote for a criminally convicted felon. The only reasoning I can come up with, is from Trumps own quote: "I love the poorly educated", so guess that had something to do with who came out and showed the felon some love.

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Yeah let's not have Governmen Class!!

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I have all my adult kids back at our house. I'm supporting 3 out four of them- -High cost of living. FORGET NEW HOUSES! We need APARTMENTS that are socially nice, attainable and safe for gen X and younger generation

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We Need Governmwnt Housing!

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So here’s the thing…..what I’ve learned is this…men of all ages and even WOMEN and both of all races RAN to Donald! Why?

Because he is the BEST LIAR EVER! HE TOLD THESE PEOPLE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR…OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN….EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ALL LIES FROM HIM!

Have you seen his newest TRUMP 2024 AD?? I took a nausea med and then watched it because I wanted to see what they are promising Americans…OMG!! The crap being fed directly by IV into ANY MAN WILLING TO WATCH AND BELIEVE THE CRAP IS STUPENDOUS!!

It’s a sick attack on anyone not white and male…yeah they actually say “MEN ARE SAVING AMERICA”…”MEN ARE TAKING BACK THE COUNTRY” …there are NO women included in their visuals …there’s a young woman hanging onto a young man at the end…

They tell the viewer there are storms (coming), there are clashes of good and evil (no surprise who the evil ones are)….this man has BUILT A DAMN CULT AND EXPANDED IT TO INCLUDE WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES ….maybe Hispanics and other races here are covering their own butts thinking if they vote for him he won’t attack them….sigh…

Men were and are eating that crap up…why…because HE’S TELLING THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR AND ONLY THAT….no real policy, no real specifics, no anything EXCEPT WHAT THEY WANT

TO HEAR….how do we fight THAT??!!

We can’t!

All we can do now is sit back and see IF HE KEEPS ANY IF HIS CRAP PROMISES….WILL THEY FIGURE HIM OUT IF HE DOESN’T?

Nope, he’ll just blame someone else…preferably demon Democrats….and they will accept his EXCUSES…WHY? BECAUSE HE IS THE LEADER OF A HUGE CULT!!

WTF do we normal human beings do with that???

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“We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”

Walt Kelly’s funny animal comic strip Pogo provided a surprising, but effective, setting for his incisive political satire.

During the War of 1812, the United States Navy defeated the British Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie. Master Commandant Oliver Perry wrote to Major General William Henry Harrison, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” Kelly’s parody of this famous battle report perfectly summarizes mankind’s tendency to create our own problems. In this case, we have only ourselves to blame for the pollution and destruction of our environment.

Today I'd amend this to "They are Us" meaning the first and most important thing normal human being do is to stop practicing me or you/us or them thinking.

We now live in a you AND me world and it is up to each one of us to create this for ourselves, to view and act in the world from there. Only the individual can create a context for themselves. That's what normal human beings can do that no organization or institution can do.

Context is decisive.

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Here in the UK, the local Liberal Democrats distribute a monthly newsletter in many areas, whereas the Conservatives & Labour (apart from sitting MPs) are seldom seen except in the six weeks or so leading up to an election. Is such a thing feasible in the US?

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whistling past the graveyard.......the future isn't going to be elections....it can only be resistance. There is no communicating values to people, who voted for the South African oligarchs....brought in by the Trojan Horse's Ass DJT....these so called young men GenZ knew exactly what they voted for, a rapist, racist, convicted felon, who told them he didn't need their votes.

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More evidence that wealth inequality and social media definitely need more attention. Many Trump voters aren’t on board with MAGA but they remember eggs being cheaper with trump. Incumbent governments, too, worldwide are taking a hit, which didn’t help Harris.

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IMHO democrats need to speak plainly and tell the truth about inflation and low wages. Corporations and tax codes reward the wealthy. We allow ourselves to be parceled up so the 1% can watch us argue with one another completely missing the game being played on us.

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We need to teach everyone about government and economics and how they work because the low educated populace are quite ignorant and stupid about it!!!!!

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Well, I think I accidently erased my first comment. High-school students are extremely intelligent, they have empathy, at least in my district. But the maggot right is undermining the School Boards. That is one maggots strategy, start with local government and work up. The local School Boards are under attack. Teachers n red states are quitting! Even in Calif there is a call out for teachers in rural areas.

My children had one semester Sr. year of just studying the constitution . and 1 semester studying econ. They know it. But what about other school districts? Do they teach about birth control in health? Are teachers told to skip that last unit on climate change in their biology book? do they skip over some black history moment in the highlighted margin? Education curriculum standards and style of teaching change every few years, and it can be good or it can be the whim on a new voted in school board or parent lead organization in charge of ordering the new textbooks. What is your local schoolboard doing? Have you sat in a local school board meeting? We're you there to state your opinion or just the crazies were there to push their agenda? I see in my high-school, students still read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Invisible Man, and added is Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, and why Does the Caged Bird Sing? All stories to show empathy and racial awareness. These students are the most non discrimitory generation I know! why? because they learned it in school, starting at an early age. But red states want to change that. proj 2025 wants to get rid of the national school board. They must fear like in Gallaxy quest, the school board person became president after all other above her were killed. If you are upset at young people be involved in what they learn, go to local meetings be a barometer for sanity. The first thing I learned in voting, you have to constantly defend for something , like enviornmental protections, but you only have to vote once to give it away.

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I agree with you on those points. If democracy has a weak foundation, it's going to collapse. Too much is happening at local school boards that's destroying education and our freedoms.

I have been in education for a long time and have seen good changes and then poor choices when conservatives become involved because they work tthrough fear.

I guess it's time to form our own "Underground " to continually fight for our democracy.

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Nah. Just issue straight razors to young women and train them on their effective use.

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I know the lack of focus oñ Palestine and Gaza many thousands citizens deaths and the lack of empathy but solid support for Israel definitely had a negative impact on the democratic vote. Even if Trump's lies on this this subject there were many young people impacted by this situation.

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so they voted for the guy in league with Bibi's slaughter who hates Muslims..got it

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They lack an understanding of history and diplomatic relationships

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It's the politics of anger.

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I agree with all of this. Can't MTN be a foundation level for a powerful new multimedia, multi-channel network of content providers to counter the massive right wing disinformation network. Thing is we need to locate somewhere in the range of half $1 billion of capitalization and we need an executive committee. I think one of Meidas brothers should be on it but I could easily name a diverse committee. All of them are highly skilled in this area.

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Too late now!

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