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0rganism

(23,971 posts)
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 11:25 AM Oct 2018

2018 midterms: their next move will be a call for a "return to decency"

after installing a serial rapist on the SCOTUS and empowering the vulgar traitor tot as much as possible, their labeling of the people motivated enough to turn out in person to petition the government as an "angry mob" is a tell for the next play.

they can sense it -- people are getting scared, for various reasons, and in such circumstances many will frown upon things perceived to upset the routine. i expect the next wave of GOP ads to feature notions like "restore civility in Congress" and "support Decency". the sheer undiluted hypocrisy of such mantras will be entirely lost on the bulk of the electorate, who will be serenaded often with reminders of how a Great Judge was dastardly accused of ancient unverifiable misconducts by vicious mercenary women paid by George Soros. they will decry the Democrats as "uncivil" and "uppity".

expect it. not sure what we can do about it -- it will probably work to chisel just a little more off of that generic ballot lead.

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2018 midterms: their next move will be a call for a "return to decency" (Original Post) 0rganism Oct 2018 OP
Oh goody. Turbineguy Oct 2018 #1
Decent like the Neonazis in Charlottesville? Decent like the adultering pussy-grabber? DetlefK Oct 2018 #2
i certainly hope the electorate has a memory longer than Trump's toad 0rganism Oct 2018 #3
What do we do about it? Preempt it! Buns_of_Fire Oct 2018 #4
how? 0rganism Oct 2018 #5

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
2. Decent like the Neonazis in Charlottesville? Decent like the adultering pussy-grabber?
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 11:58 AM
Oct 2018

Decent like calling kneeling football-players "sons of bitches"?

Decent like putting toddlers into cages?

0rganism

(23,971 posts)
3. i certainly hope the electorate has a memory longer than Trump's toad
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 01:18 PM
Oct 2018

but if i were a gambler, i wouldn't drop a lot of money into that pot.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,197 posts)
4. What do we do about it? Preempt it!
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 01:33 PM
Oct 2018

Don't wait for the latest Frank Luntz brainstorm -- put them on the defensive for a change!

0rganism

(23,971 posts)
5. how?
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 01:40 PM
Oct 2018

i'm sympathetic to this approach but i don't see how we do it without a comparable media infrastructure.

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