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  1. https://kansasreflector.com/2025/02/12/with-trump-and-musk-driving-u-s-policy-kansas-farmers-have-been-played-for-suckers/

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    On the one hand, we see unprecedented efforts (that is, without the advice and consent of the Congress) by some entity called DOGE to slash government spending, and on the other we hear some of Trump’s cronies promise aid for farmers. The two cannot be squared. 

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    You know how many morons I have listened to that think running the country IS like running a regular business? We have so many dumb people. 

    A corporation's goal is to get as much money possible out of your pocket into theirs. 

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  3. 13 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    and clearly assign with the GOP with the tangible economic and quality of life problems regular people experience in everyday life. 

    Agreed, but I think a bigger issue is just getting the message through to people silo-ed in their own information zones that allows the GOP to claim credit to their constituents for things like infrastructure bills that they voted against.

  4. 3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    That’s true but with the caveat that the “messaging” is not the problem. The incoherence and irrelevance of the messaging is the symptom of a broken institution. Saying the Democrats have a messaging problem is like saying Alvin Ord’s needs to go back to the original bread. 

    Pre-apologies if you did and I missed it, and maybe I've misremembered a bit, but I seem to recall someone asking you how you would "message" a Democratic campaign, and again, I could be mistaken, you said it would take you a while or something to that affect.

    If you did and want to cut and paste, that would be great or if you wanna just whip something up, great as well. 

    I got my right-leaning sister to post "Fuck Abbott" on Facebook, so there's one. Not sure what your conversion rate is, but I'm all ears and willing to pass along. 

     

  5. 51 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

    and then go watch TV.

    DISH wouldn't come down enough when I had my yearly nearly 50 percent increase haggle. Cut it and as you mentioned, don't have time to put it on for background noise anyway. Two weeks or so to get adjusted, don't miss it 

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  6. 6 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    my parents never thought the 40 acres was a bastion of evil until fox news started in '96 - by 9/11 they were fully programmed even though they were apolitical for the first 50+ years of their lives

    the turn of the century or 9/11, either fits the bill

    I get that. I just see that more of an inflection point than "the start of it all".

  7. 12 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    and although there is no direct tie-in to the timeline it feels appropriate to post this because 2007 was the start of it all

    I feel it was started a lot earlier than that. Late 80s early 90s saw the proliferation of "news talk" radio popular amongst Working Joes and the 1996 Telecommunications Act signed by Clinton essentially paid for by Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) solidified corporate monopoly messaging and the freedom to hear Feel Like Making Love a brazilian times. 

  8. 2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    The Democratic Party in general has been terrible communicators for a long time now, and this has exacerbated the problem. 

    This is just such an oft-repeated undefined criticism. Obama was pretty prominent last campaign. That guy is a bad communicator? Was Walz? Compared to last year's rambling, people leaving early Trump rallies?

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  9. 5 minutes ago, immamac said:

    the problem is Americans don't hold their elected representatives accountable and those representatives are no longer doing their fucking jobs.

    If you get any broader and more general, you can do the conflate slide into "can democratic government do anything right?" 

  10. 1 minute ago, immamac said:

    Obama could have made it happen, but they didn't want to risk what would happen if they did when the pendulum swung. 

    You're illustrating my point. The Democrat Executive checks it's own supposedly dominant position over the Legislative, while the GOP publishes it's own rationalizing of the unitary Executive, and as we're witnessing, carries it out. 

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  11. 16 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Congress in it's current state is completely unfixable, and extremely harmful to our country.

    The reason that the Executive started consolidating is because Congress never did their fucking job and they had to start scrambling to get anything fucking done. 

    Again, had the bigger problem been an Executive Branch growing in power at the expense of the Legislative rather than the actual bigger problem, the Republican Party, Obama would have gotten his Supreme Court nominee. 

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