wanted to note this tweet because its something i see a lot on here. look. marjorie greene is not poll testing anything. she's not airing stuff out from a focus group. neither is cruz or cawthorn. you're way way way overthinking this stuff. theyre shitposters. they shit post.
yes, the democratic/liberal message should get better -- or just exist -- but the idea that every gop member is as efficient and with it as the borg is a fantasy. they just throw shit against the wall and hope it sticks. their secret power is most of them are throwing shit.
i believe both sides in america think the other side is way more organized than they truly are, at the base level. the right is more like a bunch of loosely affiliated, hungry drug dealers than they are members of hydra or spectre.
if anybody in american politics is this organized its corporate people, who have the money and organization to get everyone robotically on message. but the gop shit posters are shit posting.
(i mean if you really think ted cruz is tweeting based on a focus group, then lemme tell you no focus group is gonna recommend that he beclown himself by going after big bird)

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how "neutral" reporting slips in its pov, continued. from this cbs report: biden said he would be normal, but he's not doing this press event. so he's abnormal, just like trump. is the weird message being communicated here. Image
in his first year in office, trump held *one* official press conference. for another 300+ day stretch his white house held no press briefing. but ya know, this is a huge problem for them.
youll also remember that at the beginning of his presidency, the mainstream press complained it had been "X" days since biden held an official presser, even though through that time he still spoke to the press. and now they complain because he doesnt play footsie like trump did
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Back in 2000 Gore and Bradley were having a white wig debate in Dem primary meanwhile in SC, Bush people (Rove) were like “John McCain has a black baby.”
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i personally consider myself a pretty middlebrow person. i am no snob and i dont live in the sewer but i have seen both worlds, frequently.
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biden: breathes

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u gotta play the game
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