As depressing as it is to have to remind Americans what Trump was and is, we cannot flag. There are votes out there for the getting and the way to get them is to let them see and hear what MAGA actually says on a day to day basis. It’s our responsibility, individually and collectively, to awaken them to the danger.
I try. But people can’t unthink the debate. It’s discouraging. I just come home feeling depressed.
I ask them, why would 40 of 44 Trumps cabinet members REFUSE to support him? Why do those people who worked with him and know him BEST consider Trump UNFIT and even a DANGER, to be President? Why would his loyal previous VP refuse to support him?
They don’t care.
His own Vice President likened Trump to Hitler and now he is supporting him. They are hypocrites.
Then that person isn’t worth spending more time one. There are two ways we get voters: Persuasion and Turnout.
If you’re feeling down in trying to persuade voters, change your tack to turnout. Find an organization that reaches out to infrequent Democrats and independent voters and urge them to go vote.
Grassroots organizations like Turnout PAC or the Biden-Harris campaign have tons of opportunities here. Try writing postcards, canvassing, or phone banking through call or text. Whatever you like doing, do that because you’ll do more of it.
Don’t fall to despair. This is a close and winnable election that we need to put in the time and effort to win. We can do this and one debate didn’t change that.
Field Team 6 is busily registering Democratic voters, Postcards to Swing States, BlueWave Postcard Movement...google Volunteeer GOTV postcard writing organizations or drop by Jessica Craven's Chop Wood; Carry Water Substack for great suggestions on donations or volunteering.
There are so many issues (nearly all of them) in which the Democratic position is morally superior as well as far more popular than the Republican position. Stress the positions you are most passionate about (be it climate & the environment, healthcare, Social Security & Medicare, abortion rights, Ukraine, economic injustice, voting rights, the preservation of democracy), for any general statements to the wider public; and when you're speaking to any individual, find out what they're passionate about, say, the economy, unemployment, fiscal responsibility, the debt, energy production, crime, law & order, justice, and speak to their concerns & how Democrats are better. The irony is that on most issues in which Republicans have a better reputation or image in the public mind, the Democratic record has been significantly better. But make sure you know the facts well on these issues & can provide evidence supporting your position before speaking about them.
Usually it’s the economy, inflation and the price of groceries and gas. One man who is anti Biden works for the secretary of defense (in software) complaining of this.
The ironic thing, Biden doesn’t control the gas prices. The BRILLIANT Biden move: “The US made $4 billion selling oil this year on President Biden's unprecedented releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve”.
Biden, NOT Trump, is the good businessman. Trump is an ENTERTAINER.
True, and when anyone talks about inflation or high gas prices, remember the following contributors: the Republican Wealthcare Plan signed by Trump that slashed taxes on corporations & the very wealthy, causing our debt to soar; Trump's government shutdowns; Trump's trade war against the world & subsidies to industrial agriculture conglomerates; Trump's reckless mishandling of the pandemic; Trump calling on Putin & MBS to cut oil & gas production so as to raise prices on gasoline: long supply chains as a consequence of the pandemic; Russia's invasion of Ukraine & resulting sanctions; price gouging by fossil fuel & food companies... None of these was Biden's fault.
Why *can't* people "unthink the debate"? Serious question here. Because the media keep harping on it? Follow-up question: Why are these people apparently unaware of anything that's happened *since* the debate? Because the media undercut any coverage of it with reminders about the debate.
People's reactions to the debate tend to be *emotional*. Talking about Trump's many failings appeals to the rational side. Rational arguments tend to lose to emotional ones. People who saw the debate and know next to nothing else about the accomplishments of the Biden administration or of Biden's public appearances since are sure Biden is unqualified to be president. Planting doubt in people's minds -- that the debate performance means Biden is unqualified to be president -- is an alternate strategy. Talk about the Gish gallop and what's happened since the debate. Then leave it there, for these people to work out on their own.
I don’t want to live in a country filled with hatred, violence and fear. Join me and support Biden/Harris, so they can continue what they started. Don’t sit back. Your help is needed! Tell everyone you know, donate, join action teams. Let’s do whatever it takes! Our Democracy depends on it! Vote 🗳️ up and down the ballot.
I agree with you, Scott, but don't count on mainstream media to suddenly remember what their job is. CNN is a perfect example of MSM thinking that the orange menace has had a change of heart and actually wants to unite the country. That's not only laughable, but irresponsible.
Scott, I feel so totally sad and beaten down by recent events. I don’t know if it’s the summer heat here in Arizona, my age, or the climate in the country/world, but I have never felt this hopeless in …. well... ever! Each day is harder and harder, to get out of bed, to function, and I’ve been an optimist all my life…..I feel like I’m stuck in quick sand and cannot get out…and I am slowly sinking. 😑
Thank you, I appreciate you and you give me strength! I will keep trying not to give up. Funny how time flys by, but these next four months feel like they are a million likes down the road! Thank you again! 💙
Oh no, I’m so sorry to hear that. I walk every day, and have for many years and often, I walk twice a day.. (it’s easy here in Arizona) Besides the heart health benefit, it helps my stress level exponentially! Stay healthy! ✌️
Direct anxiety and worry into positive action; it's a guaranteed win/win. In doing helpful things, you feel better and every little bit helps--together we can move mountains! Write postcards, volunteer at your local Dem HQ's, if you can, donate to Dems in close contests, phonebank, offer rides to the polls, remind people to check their voter registration (R's have been busy purging voter registration rolls). We can all help a little.
I'm glad you expressed your feelings. As I read the thread, I see that you got good support from others. To me that is an example to others of how people can support each other.
So good all the way around.
So perhaps considering paying the giving and receiving forward?
Thank you for saying this! For those in the media who are currently putting the Dems through the wringer, please note that there are NO Democratic militias standing down and standing by.
There is ONE party putting guns in everyone’s hands and calling for civil war.
And it’s neither Dems nor Independents, nor Greens.
We, the true Democrats, will not back down, ever! This phase of our developing democracy is not only an electoral choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. All 2024 elections are choices between Democracy & fascism.💙🇺🇸 #VoteBlueEveryElection #VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica #NoFascistUSA
I have a friend who brought to a small gathering yesterday afternoon a single page AI of the major planks in P2025. We had never talked politics before, and she was careful to note that she had asked for verifiable information, not a political interpretation. Turns out that AI gave her EXACTLY what is being reported and read to the public about this manifesto/plan to destroy our democratic way of life and our government. There was no debate at this gathering, just immense concern expressed. Not everyone will read the entire tome, but having available a one-page summary of it is helpful in some instances.
the magapublican party wants government of the bullies, by the bullies and for the bullies. We can't let it happen. Fight the bullies at the ballot box so we don't have to fight them in the streets.
We’re all getting texts and emails from Joe and/or Kamala asking for donations. Sending money right now, during the RNC circus in Milwaukee, will not only help J and K, but it will also give your own soul a boost, in that you’re doing something that will force the other side to take notice of our unflagging support for our standard bearers. I just sent in some funds, and I’m definitely feeling better now!
Go to mamabearenergy2 on Tik Tok and she’s reading 8-10 pages a day for the hard heads out there that don’t get it and those who get too overwhelmed by it! I believe 1:30 CT ? Her name is Billie Nelson she’s defiant about the red team 😁😁😁
She was on Twit-X same handle you really NEED TO SEE HER IN ACTION lol…. Surprised the big-e didn’t boot-her lol. Now you will get som pep talk just from her attitude—I’m sayin!
Thanks, Scott. We need to continue to let people know what Project 2025 is all about… fear & hatred, using lies to blind the eyes of their MAGAs by blaming Democrats for the faults and corruption of the Republican leadership, starting at the top with Trump and his SS. We don’t want this to be another 1932.
As depressing as it is to have to remind Americans what Trump was and is, we cannot flag. There are votes out there for the getting and the way to get them is to let them see and hear what MAGA actually says on a day to day basis. It’s our responsibility, individually and collectively, to awaken them to the danger.
I try. But people can’t unthink the debate. It’s discouraging. I just come home feeling depressed.
I ask them, why would 40 of 44 Trumps cabinet members REFUSE to support him? Why do those people who worked with him and know him BEST consider Trump UNFIT and even a DANGER, to be President? Why would his loyal previous VP refuse to support him?
They don’t care.
His own Vice President likened Trump to Hitler and now he is supporting him. They are hypocrites.
They don’t care.
There are large numbers of people who don’t know. Sharon is right. Keep pressing Project 2025 and enlighten every person you can.
Then that person isn’t worth spending more time one. There are two ways we get voters: Persuasion and Turnout.
If you’re feeling down in trying to persuade voters, change your tack to turnout. Find an organization that reaches out to infrequent Democrats and independent voters and urge them to go vote.
Grassroots organizations like Turnout PAC or the Biden-Harris campaign have tons of opportunities here. Try writing postcards, canvassing, or phone banking through call or text. Whatever you like doing, do that because you’ll do more of it.
Don’t fall to despair. This is a close and winnable election that we need to put in the time and effort to win. We can do this and one debate didn’t change that.
YES WE CAN! I BELIEVE THAT! 💙🗳️💙
Thank you! I love the support here!
You’re VERY welcome 😊 Onward and up ⬆️ and down ⬇️ the ballot we go to VOTE 🗳️!!!
Field Team 6 is busily registering Democratic voters, Postcards to Swing States, BlueWave Postcard Movement...google Volunteeer GOTV postcard writing organizations or drop by Jessica Craven's Chop Wood; Carry Water Substack for great suggestions on donations or volunteering.
The Poor People’s Campaign is doing some of the best turnout work anywhere. They deserve all the support we can give them.
Ask them to google Project 2025. That isn’t our words, that’s what tfg’s next administration will do.
I have. They don’t want to know.
head in sand is a disease spread throughout the right
Try someone else, I have met some like that too. We can’t win them all, but we can keep trying.
There are so many issues (nearly all of them) in which the Democratic position is morally superior as well as far more popular than the Republican position. Stress the positions you are most passionate about (be it climate & the environment, healthcare, Social Security & Medicare, abortion rights, Ukraine, economic injustice, voting rights, the preservation of democracy), for any general statements to the wider public; and when you're speaking to any individual, find out what they're passionate about, say, the economy, unemployment, fiscal responsibility, the debt, energy production, crime, law & order, justice, and speak to their concerns & how Democrats are better. The irony is that on most issues in which Republicans have a better reputation or image in the public mind, the Democratic record has been significantly better. But make sure you know the facts well on these issues & can provide evidence supporting your position before speaking about them.
Good advice.)
Usually it’s the economy, inflation and the price of groceries and gas. One man who is anti Biden works for the secretary of defense (in software) complaining of this.
The ironic thing, Biden doesn’t control the gas prices. The BRILLIANT Biden move: “The US made $4 billion selling oil this year on President Biden's unprecedented releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve”.
Biden, NOT Trump, is the good businessman. Trump is an ENTERTAINER.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/us-crude-oil-profit-strategic-petroleum-reserve-releases-crude-joe-biden-2022-12?op=1
Be sure to watch this too. Have seen nothing about this anywhere else.
https://youtu.be/0TPNXCu8Tb4?si=ddjkSL9c8SFVUhJO
True, and when anyone talks about inflation or high gas prices, remember the following contributors: the Republican Wealthcare Plan signed by Trump that slashed taxes on corporations & the very wealthy, causing our debt to soar; Trump's government shutdowns; Trump's trade war against the world & subsidies to industrial agriculture conglomerates; Trump's reckless mishandling of the pandemic; Trump calling on Putin & MBS to cut oil & gas production so as to raise prices on gasoline: long supply chains as a consequence of the pandemic; Russia's invasion of Ukraine & resulting sanctions; price gouging by fossil fuel & food companies... None of these was Biden's fault.
Get out the vote! ONE-THIRD of those who could DID NOT VOTE in 2020.
Most of those would be Democrats.
DO THE MATH.
REGISTER DEMOCRATS. It's urgent.
https://www.fieldteam6.org/
Why *can't* people "unthink the debate"? Serious question here. Because the media keep harping on it? Follow-up question: Why are these people apparently unaware of anything that's happened *since* the debate? Because the media undercut any coverage of it with reminders about the debate.
People's reactions to the debate tend to be *emotional*. Talking about Trump's many failings appeals to the rational side. Rational arguments tend to lose to emotional ones. People who saw the debate and know next to nothing else about the accomplishments of the Biden administration or of Biden's public appearances since are sure Biden is unqualified to be president. Planting doubt in people's minds -- that the debate performance means Biden is unqualified to be president -- is an alternate strategy. Talk about the Gish gallop and what's happened since the debate. Then leave it there, for these people to work out on their own.
I fully agree Mark!0
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That’s why as Painful as it is we watch the RNCConvention and report back here and everywhere else we go and tell them everywhere what’s happening!! 💙
I don’t want to live in a country filled with hatred, violence and fear. Join me and support Biden/Harris, so they can continue what they started. Don’t sit back. Your help is needed! Tell everyone you know, donate, join action teams. Let’s do whatever it takes! Our Democracy depends on it! Vote 🗳️ up and down the ballot.
Well said Monica!
I donate!
Good for you, Janine. Everything we do helps.
Damn very well said
I agree with you, Scott, but don't count on mainstream media to suddenly remember what their job is. CNN is a perfect example of MSM thinking that the orange menace has had a change of heart and actually wants to unite the country. That's not only laughable, but irresponsible.
MAGA REPUBLICANS ARE A CULT
The MAGAts are FOR violence.
Exactly. MAGA is made up of big personalities with little substance. Their whole identity centers on being angry and combative.
Absolutely right
Scott, I feel so totally sad and beaten down by recent events. I don’t know if it’s the summer heat here in Arizona, my age, or the climate in the country/world, but I have never felt this hopeless in …. well... ever! Each day is harder and harder, to get out of bed, to function, and I’ve been an optimist all my life…..I feel like I’m stuck in quick sand and cannot get out…and I am slowly sinking. 😑
We will be ok Joanne! It may look dark but the light is coming. For sure!!!
I hope so..I don’t think my heart can take a second trump presidency…and I really don’t think our country can survive one either…
We won’t give up! There’s still a long campaign road to go. I totally get what you are saying Joanne.
Thank you, I appreciate you and you give me strength! I will keep trying not to give up. Funny how time flys by, but these next four months feel like they are a million likes down the road! Thank you again! 💙
I already had a heart attack over all this. I was doing too much reading & texting; not getting enough exercise.
Oh no, I’m so sorry to hear that. I walk every day, and have for many years and often, I walk twice a day.. (it’s easy here in Arizona) Besides the heart health benefit, it helps my stress level exponentially! Stay healthy! ✌️
Hey, please take care of yourself!
Hi Joanne,
I appreciate your reaching out. As I read the thread I see that others offered their support and that you were open to receiving it.
I believe that those who helped must feel good about doing so.
It's a circle of asking for help and receiving it in which both parties can find some solace.
Thank you and be well,
Susan
Direct anxiety and worry into positive action; it's a guaranteed win/win. In doing helpful things, you feel better and every little bit helps--together we can move mountains! Write postcards, volunteer at your local Dem HQ's, if you can, donate to Dems in close contests, phonebank, offer rides to the polls, remind people to check their voter registration (R's have been busy purging voter registration rolls). We can all help a little.
I'm glad you expressed your feelings. As I read the thread, I see that you got good support from others. To me that is an example to others of how people can support each other.
So good all the way around.
So perhaps considering paying the giving and receiving forward?
Wishing you well.
Thank you for saying this! For those in the media who are currently putting the Dems through the wringer, please note that there are NO Democratic militias standing down and standing by.
There is ONE party putting guns in everyone’s hands and calling for civil war.
And it’s neither Dems nor Independents, nor Greens.
We, the true Democrats, will not back down, ever! This phase of our developing democracy is not only an electoral choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. All 2024 elections are choices between Democracy & fascism.💙🇺🇸 #VoteBlueEveryElection #VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica #NoFascistUSA
BOOM Harriet!
I copy that and I CONCUR!!! 💙🇺🇸
Every one needs to read Project 2025 and the Epstein report. Go and vote!
Absolutely read Project 2025! And check out all docs related to Trump and Epstein!
I have a friend who brought to a small gathering yesterday afternoon a single page AI of the major planks in P2025. We had never talked politics before, and she was careful to note that she had asked for verifiable information, not a political interpretation. Turns out that AI gave her EXACTLY what is being reported and read to the public about this manifesto/plan to destroy our democratic way of life and our government. There was no debate at this gathering, just immense concern expressed. Not everyone will read the entire tome, but having available a one-page summary of it is helpful in some instances.
Wow that is a great idea Ellen!
Wow that’s fantastic!
I need a copy of the Epstein “repor”.??? Anyone???
I don’t have Epstein “report” is their one out there I could read? I do have P25 and HF stuff.
the magapublican party wants government of the bullies, by the bullies and for the bullies. We can't let it happen. Fight the bullies at the ballot box so we don't have to fight them in the streets.
That is very disturbing but totally makes sense.
We’re all getting texts and emails from Joe and/or Kamala asking for donations. Sending money right now, during the RNC circus in Milwaukee, will not only help J and K, but it will also give your own soul a boost, in that you’re doing something that will force the other side to take notice of our unflagging support for our standard bearers. I just sent in some funds, and I’m definitely feeling better now!
Definitely donating!!&
Go to mamabearenergy2 on Tik Tok and she’s reading 8-10 pages a day for the hard heads out there that don’t get it and those who get too overwhelmed by it! I believe 1:30 CT ? Her name is Billie Nelson she’s defiant about the red team 😁😁😁
She was on Twit-X same handle you really NEED TO SEE HER IN ACTION lol…. Surprised the big-e didn’t boot-her lol. Now you will get som pep talk just from her attitude—I’m sayin!
I have d
Spot On!!
Thanks Robert!
Thanks, Scott. We need to continue to let people know what Project 2025 is all about… fear & hatred, using lies to blind the eyes of their MAGAs by blaming Democrats for the faults and corruption of the Republican leadership, starting at the top with Trump and his SS. We don’t want this to be another 1932.
Yes Nick you’re RIGHT. We need to spread awareness about this issue EVERYWHERE!!!