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19 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
fox news poll released last night shows *increase* in people saying gov't should do more to alleviate problems and *decrease* in saying the govt is doing too much Image
fox's own poll shows the fox solution to high gas prices - deregulation and drilling - only has 34% support Image
despite hundreds of hours of propaganda on fox, fox's own poll shows plurality of people support vaccine mandates and trust the vaccine Image
fyi despite its bs, fox's polling is actually usually pretty decent -- and they are polls of everyone, not just fox viewers
for instance, despite the coverage on fox at the time of a trump surge/win, fox's own polling showed biden ahead Image

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Oliver Willis Profile picture
21 Nov
I see this attitude a lot and it’s a bad attitude. Not everybody votes for the reasons you do. They don’t see it your way. Lecturing them like this won’t shame them into magically voting. So put time and resources into efforts to get them to vote.
I happen to agree that a lot is on the line every time we vote. But a significant number of voters don’t feel this urgency and they won’t if all you do is yell at them about it. It never works, and all it does is make you feel smug.
Some people need voting to feel like a circus show. Maybe we think that’s stupid and they should “just know they need to vote.” If we make them entertained and that gets them to vote, aren’t we better of rather than lecturing them about why they should have known better?
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19 Nov
IMHO pointing to Democratic wins in 2008, 2018, and 2020 as examples of Democrats successfully fighting the gop noise machine have it wrong. Those wins all came after colossal GOP fuckups that made it easier for Dems to draw clear contrasts.
I think the only election I’d cast as a “pure” defeat of the noise machine lately would be 2012, where they threw everything at Obama for years and failed. But as I said in 2016 when I thought Clinton would win, the left has not set itself up to really fight yet.
I think liberals suffer from this triumphalist idea that after these wins they beat the final boss and everyone can stop pointing out that Freddy is very much alive. As @EnBuenora has noted to me, Dems get very mad when you don’t join in the team spirit celebration.
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18 Nov
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.
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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18 Nov
Hahaha she’s a horrible monster but this is a good burn
Republicans are better at slagging republicans than most democrats in congress. One of my favorite things in politics is when Republicans do their presidential primary in S Carolina. It makes Dem on Dem campaigning look like amateur hour.
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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17 Nov
im biased but i feel like libs should do a whole week of elite/liberal detox. watch fox news, wrestling, read right wing sites, etc. then come back to me with your genius ideas of giving people policy papers so they come to rational political conclusions.
im just saying that years of watching wwe prepared me for reporting on trump and the surrounding circus way better than any fancy books i ever read (except maybe the rise and fall of the third reich)
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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17 Nov
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.
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