American Politics from 2019 on

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Bill includes this rural patient help. However, this is what allows NY doctors to give patients in Texas abortion pills.

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Trump and his team said the same lies over and over, even in TV ads. "you child goes to school as a boy and they turn him into a girl..." Harris said...many things.

Fabrizio: Because they just didn’t really have a coherent message. And they changed. I mean, one of the untold stories of this race — perfect example, last week of the campaign. They ran 162 different unique creatives on digital, TV.

How many did you have?

Fabrizio: 50. And by the way, we spent about the same amount of money.

LaCivita: But if you were looking at it from TV, just broadcast, we had two [commercials]. That’s it. That’s it!

What did your data show was your most effective ad against her?

Fabrizio: There were several. Well, first, usually any ad where she was talking, was effective. Using her words. And there were a ton. In fact, there was so much, we couldn’t use all of it.

Was the trans stuff more effective than her not having an answer on The View on differences with Biden?

Fabrizio: Two different things.

Do you think that she hurt herself by not doing more to reassure the center?

Fabrizio: I think at some point, they became hamstrung by their own base. And they became hamstrung by their loyalty to Biden.

Did that surprise you by the way, that she couldn’t break from Biden?

LaCivita: It’s a really tough position to be in.

Fabrizio: She’s the sitting vice president.

Did your data show that she would be rewarded, politically, from breaking from Biden?

Fabrizio: The problem was it would have undercut Democratic enthusiasm and motivation.

Did your polls show that?

LaCivita: Yeah. When you talk about if she had gone to the center — they had no intention of ever going to the center because they’re incapable of doing that. If she was going to run the center, she would have picked [Pennsylvania Gov. Josh] Shapiro to be her running mate.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... a-00195206

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How to destroy America: make people work three jobs. Then feed the disinforamtion.
https://www.threads.net/@the_petty_aunt ... fwC9bfkJEw

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Trump and his team said the same lies over and over, even in TV ads. "you child goes to school as a boy and they turn him into a girl..." Harris said...many things.

Fabrizio: Because they just didn’t really have a coherent message. And they changed. I mean, one of the untold stories of this race — perfect example, last week of the campaign. They ran 162 different unique creatives on digital, TV.

How many did you have?

Fabrizio: 50. And by the way, we spent about the same amount of money.

LaCivita: But if you were looking at it from TV, just broadcast, we had two [commercials]. That’s it. That’s it!

What did your data show was your most effective ad against her?

Fabrizio: There were several. Well, first, usually any ad where she was talking, was effective. Using her words. And there were a ton. In fact, there was so much, we couldn’t use all of it.

Was the trans stuff more effective than her not having an answer on The View on differences with Biden?

Fabrizio: Two different things.

Do you think that she hurt herself by not doing more to reassure the center?

Fabrizio: I think at some point, they became hamstrung by their own base. And they became hamstrung by their loyalty to Biden.

Did that surprise you by the way, that she couldn’t break from Biden?

LaCivita: It’s a really tough position to be in.

Fabrizio: She’s the sitting vice president.

Did your data show that she would be rewarded, politically, from breaking from Biden?

Fabrizio: The problem was it would have undercut Democratic enthusiasm and motivation.

Did your polls show that?

LaCivita: Yeah. When you talk about if she had gone to the center — they had no intention of ever going to the center because they’re incapable of doing that. If she was going to run the center, she would have picked [Pennsylvania Gov. Josh] Shapiro to be her running mate.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... a-00195206

It's amazing how much potential threat and power over legislators < 0.002% of the population represents eh?

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But a handful of Democrats did not go along with the plan. A progressive senator from San Francisco was the most vocal critic, arguing that a constitutional convention could wind up empowering a conservative agenda. And now, with the country in flux and a former president known for defying the laws of political gravity and pulverizing long-standing norms soon to be sworn back into office, he's launched a new push to blunt Newsom's flashy maneuver and rescind California's call to amend the Constitution.

“There is no way that I want California to accidentally help these extremists trigger a constitutional convention where they, you know, rewrite the Constitution to restrict voting rights, to eliminate reproductive health access and so forth,” said Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/potential-ri ... 44328.html

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Go along with what plan?

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Go along with what plan?

A consitutional convention. It's allowed but has never happened.

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Zappa predicts today. Video clip.
https://www.threads.net/@geneouye/post/ ... jHP_r_Xpmg

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A book summary. I wrote this a year ago in Finnish. Now in English. May have a few Google bugs.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2024/1 ... media.html
The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Media Was Used for a Right-Wing Revolution

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Half of these I would throw out. Don't care for Newsom.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ty-leaders

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Andrea Junker :verified:
@Strandjunker@mstdn.social
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.

Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

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rich folk are made to be VERY rich
and the poor VERY poor

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Book.

Autocracy, Inc by Anne Applebaum

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. The propagandists share resources—the troll farms that promote one dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another—and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.

Unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, this group doesn’t operate like a bloc, but rather like an agglomeration of companies: Autocracy, Inc. Their relations are not based on values, but are rather transactional, which is why they operate so easily across ideological, geographical, and cultural lines. In truth, they are in full agreement about only one thing: Their dislike of us, the inhabitants of the democratic world, and their desire to see both our political systems and our values undermine.

That shared understanding of the world—where it comes from, why it lasts, how it works, how the democratic world has unwittingly helped to consolidate it, and how we can help bring it down—is the subject of this book.