Let me get this straight: it wasn't about the price of eggs after all?
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@wdlindsy
I recently got emails from various democrats saying they were going on “listening tours.”I want to shake them and say, “No listening tour! Go on a shouting tour! Double down on key values. Start a FOX equivalent. Get your messaging aligned! Don’t pause, don’t worry about being nice, and don’t hedge and dodge every time some GOPer lobs an insult at you! Ffs!”
Or if they are going to do all this listening, don’t listen to white people. We are (generally speaking) a mess
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"We can confidently predict that within a month of Trump’s second inauguration, the economic stats won’t have changed significantly, but Republicans and probably idiots in the mainstream media will be kvelling about the bright new economy the Great Man has ushered in. Even if he follows through on those inflation-boosting tariffs."
~ Doktor Zoom
#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs
/7Many Republican Voters Decide Joe Biden's Economy Pretty Good Now, Thanks To Trump
When Walmart prices increase, they'll like that too.
(www.wonkette.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Jonathan V. Last points to a 2002 YouGov report about the gap between Americans' perceptions and reality:
"Here are some of the percentages that Americans (on average) think their fellow citizens are:
Transgender: 21 percent
Muslim: 27 percent
Jewish: 30 percent
Black: 41 percent
Live in New York City: 30 percent
Gay or lesbian: 30 percent"
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
/8Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"If you go down the list of characteristics YouGov asked people about, you see a persistent mistake in one direction: Americans vastly overestimate the numbers of people in minority groups. And by 'minority groups' I’m talking not just about racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. They wildly overestimate all kinds of minorities."
#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
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@Katma I'm with you. Totally agree.
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Tuckers Nuts Resistreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
🥥 May Eye pleez say it again, William?
Eye greatly appreciate what you are doing on the Fediverse by posting excellent non-corporate links and news comments Mastodon.
We might not see them, if left to our own devices.
Rawk on, sir! 🥥
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to MrEdgarBass last edited by
@MrEdgarBass Well-stated. Succinct and right to the point.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Tuckers Nuts Resist last edited by
@jstatepost I'm very grateful to you. I'll keep trying!
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Piousunynreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy My view is, the self righteous GOP attack on any and all people of difference, includes women, who are not a minority?
#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation #peopleof difference
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, huge numbers of Republicans who previously believed that the economy was 'getting worse' and that U.S. elections are not 'free and fair' no longer believe those things, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll."
~ Andrew Romano
#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The survey of 1,612 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Nov. 14 to Nov. 18, found that fewer than half of Republicans (48%) now say the economy is getting worse. But immediately before the Nov. 5 election, nearly three-quarters of Republicans (74%) said the economy was going downhill.
That’s a sudden 26-point shift."
Magic! The price of eggs magically no longer matters.
#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"It is also a mistake to talk about 'what went wrong' by ignoring the fact that Trump's campaign platform had three culture-war pillars: racism, sexism, and white supremacy.
Those policy pillars are manifesting themselves in Trump's nominees for senior positions in his administration. To publish an analysis of 'why Democrats lost' while ignoring Trump's campaign themes is a recipe for delusion."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
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FinalCallreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Flip the trump switch and suddenly life is wonderful?
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....americans are easy...
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Christo. London, Englandreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
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It's crazy. Controlling people's perception of the economy is how they steer it.
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@TheEffekt Well-noted and well-stated.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Christo. London last edited by
@Christo_459 I suspect that the ideology of white supremacy is a failure from the outset. Trying to hinge human worth on accidentals like pigmentation and fictions like race is a failure of imagination and intellect.
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@solownh So it seems. Hofstadter was right on target with his commentary about anti-intellectualism in American culture.