"A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,”
I’d love for reporters to start pushing politicians when they say dumb shit. Don’t just let them say it and then gawk at the camera like you’re Jim from the office or move on with questions.
“in what way are you concluding that Mr. Mamdani is a communist? Are you aware of the difference between communism and socialism, and could you explain how he is a communist?”
“what terrorist ideology? waits for answer In what way is this the ideology of a terrorist?”
Show that they have no idea what the words they spew mean. Show that they’re just using buzzwords that sound scary.
Too often they treat what these people say as if it the news itself. Unbiased, and a source of truth. Reporting has just become gossip repeating the worse people say.
This really is a big problem, “look at what this person said” type stories are basically how Donald Trump Rose to power, his words quoted as if they were the news itself, without any sort of filtering to fact checking. If he had simply been reported as lying without repeating the LIE his power would be significantly reduced
but how do you do that when the maga base all believe there is a big kabal against them. If the reporters just say the politician lied the base will claim the reporter lied.
either they need to call out the politician on the first lie and not let it go further until they respond with the explaination or you give them absolutely no air time, not even stating they lied. make them responsible or invisible.
Trump didn’t have his base when he first started out in 2015. At this point the play is to just wait until Trump dies of natural causes which probably won’t take long
His base always felt like the government was against them. This wasn’t new to Trump, he just really took that view and ran with it.
The problem is how to discuss very difficult to understand topics with a group of highly undereducated and very angry people. With the move away from an economy that thrived on pure effort into one that requires a deeper understanding, we now have a huge chunk of the population that feels left behind. The only problem is there isn’t a path for them to catch up.
And to make matters worse their political party has thrived on creating an angry, undereducated base. All of their policies actively harm their electorate and yet they keep getting votes.
The GOP base are like people who got bit by a racoon with rabies and instead of going to the doctor the lick the racoon’s face. Then they get angry at water because they are nuts.
We can actually pass reform to lower medical prices for everyone, get some sort of universal basic income, tax the rich and drop all taxes for the bottom percentage. Basically bring up those struggling so that GOP base has no reason to be maga. while they fight agains handouts red counties tend to take the most so they do actually take them.
I’d love for reporters to start pushing politicians when they say dumb shit. Don’t just let them say it and then gawk at the camera like you’re Jim from the office or move on with questions.
“in what way are you concluding that Mr. Mamdani is a communist? Are you aware of the difference between communism and socialism, and could you explain how he is a communist?”
“what terrorist ideology? waits for answer In what way is this the ideology of a terrorist?”
Show that they have no idea what the words they spew mean. Show that they’re just using buzzwords that sound scary.
And then give the facts.
Too often they treat what these people say as if it the news itself. Unbiased, and a source of truth. Reporting has just become gossip repeating the worse people say.
This really is a big problem, “look at what this person said” type stories are basically how Donald Trump Rose to power, his words quoted as if they were the news itself, without any sort of filtering to fact checking. If he had simply been reported as lying without repeating the LIE his power would be significantly reduced
but how do you do that when the maga base all believe there is a big kabal against them. If the reporters just say the politician lied the base will claim the reporter lied.
either they need to call out the politician on the first lie and not let it go further until they respond with the explaination or you give them absolutely no air time, not even stating they lied. make them responsible or invisible.
Trump didn’t have his base when he first started out in 2015. At this point the play is to just wait until Trump dies of natural causes which probably won’t take long
His base always felt like the government was against them. This wasn’t new to Trump, he just really took that view and ran with it.
The problem is how to discuss very difficult to understand topics with a group of highly undereducated and very angry people. With the move away from an economy that thrived on pure effort into one that requires a deeper understanding, we now have a huge chunk of the population that feels left behind. The only problem is there isn’t a path for them to catch up.
And to make matters worse their political party has thrived on creating an angry, undereducated base. All of their policies actively harm their electorate and yet they keep getting votes.
The GOP base are like people who got bit by a racoon with rabies and instead of going to the doctor the lick the racoon’s face. Then they get angry at water because they are nuts.
Economic marginalization is likely our only option. Pull subsidies and limit the damage they can do to the rest of us
We can actually pass reform to lower medical prices for everyone, get some sort of universal basic income, tax the rich and drop all taxes for the bottom percentage. Basically bring up those struggling so that GOP base has no reason to be maga. while they fight agains handouts red counties tend to take the most so they do actually take them.