Saru Jayaraman tried. As far back as January, the president of low-pay campaign group One Fair Wage recalls telling Democratic leaders in Washington DC that voters were worried about the cost of living.
Democratic media strategies haven’t changed since the 90s, and that’s a problem. Also, Trump did the independent media circuit and Kamala just didn’t. In the few sit down interviews Kamala did, her top priority was message discipline, not connecting with voters. Every answer sounded like a stump speech. For all of Trump’s lack of humanity, he came off as far more relatable than Kamala.
The entire campaign model used by the Democrats needs to be shredded. The consultants that have failed over and over and over need to be gone. Democrats need to deliver better for the working class, and they have to get much better at bragging about it. They can’t continue to dull their message so as not to offend wealthy donors.
Voters need a narrative, and narratives need an enemy. Republicans have no problem finding an enemy, they just pick a disadvantaged group and go at it. Democrats must take on the corporate and wealthy interests that are legitimately keeping workers down, and they must do it loudly. That’s the only narrative available to them. The strategy of beating up the targets the Republicans chose, but not as much, is a total loser.
Lmao this is like raising prices in october to ‘slash’ them for black friday sales. “Hey everybody, remember last month when grocery prices got up to 3 times as high as when i took office? I had some really good phone calls with my corporate donors and we agreed that itd be a good pr move if we could announce theyre going back ‘down’ to 2.75x as much!”
I mean, in the link Biden was taking credit for corporations’ press releases about not gouging prices as severely as they had been for the previous three years when Biden just sat back and watched.
The record oil production that he’s so proud of regardless of price is a different thing entirely.
You’re saying that Biden was taking credit for the corporations lowering the price of gas, while what happened was that Biden released a billion barrel of oil and then gas prices went down.
You’re saying that Biden was taking credit for the corporations lowering the price of gas
No, that’s not what I’m saying. Did you even read the headline of the link you posted? I was talking about the content of the link you posted, which doesn’t even mention gasoline.
You either didn’t read what you linked to, or you have decided that you want to lie about me and my position. And since we’ve talked before, I’m not going to make the mistake of giving you the benefit of the doubt again. You lied about my position, and since I replied to your diversion about gas prices, you’re going to continue lying and pretending that I was always talking about gas prices.
Biden called out supermarkets for price gouuging and got literally thousands of grocery prices lowered immediately afterward.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/24/icymi-target-walmart-and-other-grocery-chains-heed-president-bidens-call-to-lower-prices/
Yeah, but they didn’t have a 24/7 propaganda network pipe it directly into my brain, so its their fault.
Um, yes.
Democratic media strategies haven’t changed since the 90s, and that’s a problem. Also, Trump did the independent media circuit and Kamala just didn’t. In the few sit down interviews Kamala did, her top priority was message discipline, not connecting with voters. Every answer sounded like a stump speech. For all of Trump’s lack of humanity, he came off as far more relatable than Kamala.
The entire campaign model used by the Democrats needs to be shredded. The consultants that have failed over and over and over need to be gone. Democrats need to deliver better for the working class, and they have to get much better at bragging about it. They can’t continue to dull their message so as not to offend wealthy donors.
Voters need a narrative, and narratives need an enemy. Republicans have no problem finding an enemy, they just pick a disadvantaged group and go at it. Democrats must take on the corporate and wealthy interests that are legitimately keeping workers down, and they must do it loudly. That’s the only narrative available to them. The strategy of beating up the targets the Republicans chose, but not as much, is a total loser.
Gas prices have been lower than average too.
Still, Dems were unable to communicate this to voters
yesss truth. helpful, effective policies and standoffish PR
Lmao this is like raising prices in october to ‘slash’ them for black friday sales. “Hey everybody, remember last month when grocery prices got up to 3 times as high as when i took office? I had some really good phone calls with my corporate donors and we agreed that itd be a good pr move if we could announce theyre going back ‘down’ to 2.75x as much!”
Corporations: Here’s a press release saying we intend to lower prices.
Biden: I’m gonna take credit for their PR move.
what are you talking about?
Biden released a billion barrels of gas and gas prices went down.
I mean, in the link Biden was taking credit for corporations’ press releases about not gouging prices as severely as they had been for the previous three years when Biden just sat back and watched.
The record oil production that he’s so proud of regardless of price is a different thing entirely.
where?
You’re saying that Biden was taking credit for the corporations lowering the price of gas, while what happened was that Biden released a billion barrel of oil and then gas prices went down.
No, that’s not what I’m saying. Did you even read the headline of the link you posted? I was talking about the content of the link you posted, which doesn’t even mention gasoline.
You either didn’t read what you linked to, or you have decided that you want to lie about me and my position. And since we’ve talked before, I’m not going to make the mistake of giving you the benefit of the doubt again. You lied about my position, and since I replied to your diversion about gas prices, you’re going to continue lying and pretending that I was always talking about gas prices.
No. Go pull this shit on someone else.
“Go pull this shit…”
facts?
okay.
i will go pull “facts” again.
Thank you for confirming that my decision to not give you the benefit of the doubt was correct.
“Thank you…”
you’re welcome!
“…was correct”
you were incorrect, since
biden lowered grocery prices:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/24/icymi-target-walmart-and-other-grocery-chains-heed-president-bidens-call-to-lower-prices/
and
biden lowered gas prices:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-enraged-bidens-efforts-keep-gas-prices-lower-rcna153953
but that’s okay! you’ll be fine.