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[–]FThumbStay thirsty, my friends 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Khanna said that the Democrats need to improve their messaging and sell their agenda to the American people before the election.

"More gas! We need that gas light to burn much brighter!!"

[–]unagisongsBurn down Reddit! 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People don’t realize how close we are. The dam’s about to break on the establishment control of the party.

This is just another distraction to keep dummies on the hook. Ro Khanna is the one of the pressure relief valves to give the illusion of dissent. Everything he has been saying to the press have been approved by the Biden Administration.

[–]rondeuce40DC Is Wakanda For Assholes 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Wonder if the typo on Cenk was on purpose. I want to start calling him Hey Uyguy now. He bears a certain resemblance to two Goonie characters after all, Sloth and Chunk.

[–]stickdog 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Ruh, Ro.

[–]fugwb 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Come on all you Charlie Browns! This time it's for real!

[–]risistill me 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Perfect!

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

In other news, frogs are about to grow wings in order to keep their asses from slapping the ground every time they jump, and "progressive" Democrats have commissioned a study, to prove to the American people once and for all that *you can, in fact, pick your nose with boxing gloves on if you progressively expand the circumference of your nostrils to accommodate them.

The secret to success for the Democratic party is their ability to convince millions of Americans that by putting in the work of taking as many baby steps as you can today, and progressively adding to those steps as your stamina allows, you will eventually arrive at a bus stop, where like minded people congregate in order to board a blue bus that will take them closer to a destination that has yet to be determined, but is infinitely better than any destination the red line is traveling to.

The key takeaway is don't stop thinking about tomorrow, because it takes a village to raise a child who understands that we can keep hope alive by standing stronger together, and working toward a future to believe in where the Democratic party strives to ensure it's owners that *nothing will fundamentally change.

The Circle D Corporation has no problem with messaging. They know the demographic they're tasked with managing like the backs of their hands. Winning elections and serving the needs of society is of secondary importance in maintaining the security firewall Government Inc. protects it's institutional investors from the people with.

Win or lose, the Uniparty goes back to work the next day like nothing ever happened, secure in the knowledge that the American people are content with eating shit, but knowing them well enough to understand that they're particular about the color of the bowls they eat it from, and the volume of shit they contain.

Same as it ever was...

[–]risistill me 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

At some point while I was a Democrat, the DNC polled Democrats on its lists about what was wrong with the Dem Party. At some point, the RNC conducted what it called an "autopsy" of the Republican Party.

Guess what the results were on both occasions. The need to improve their messaging.

More Kool-Aid, STAT!

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The message they're sending by feigning concern about messaging, is that they're concerned about messaging because they care what people think.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. They don't need to care beyond the optics of caring, because they know how well trained the populace is in choosing either the red, or blue team because those are the only viable options they have for winning not a goddamn thing for themselves with.

Their owners Demockracy's been saved from the people for another election cycle, the reds and the blues are still in charge of managing their owners government, and the people are presented a new slate to fill with the most effective bullshitters they can find between election cycles, to replace the bullshitters who bullshitted them so effectively the last time.

And the wheels on the bus go round and round, but you already know that.

[–]risistill me 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Agree. Also, implicit in the "Our (only) problem is messaging" is this:

We're not America's problem; you all are.

There are no problems coming from our end. The only problem in America is that you all just can't seem to perceive how great we are. Oh, if we could just find a way to make you see it, everything would be wonderful, including our finally getting the credit we so deserve.

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Democrats and Republicans? We all know, perfectly WELL we ALL know, that both are agents of our Common Enemy… yet in our conjured, shared madness we agree to pretend that one is worth fighting for, and the other must be fought against. Neither has an answer, let alone THE answer… Pick one… It doesn’t matter which… Then rage against the other…

Thus do our Ruling Elites command us…

Too much the Fool to even know… I will never tell you who I am…

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What a touching cri de coeur!

[–]3andfro 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The key takeaway is don't stop thinking about tomorrow, because it takes a village to raise a child who understands that we can keep hope alive by standing stronger together, and working toward a future to believe in where the Democratic party strives to ensure it's owners that *nothing will fundamentally change.

Nailed it!

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

*you can, in fact, pick your nose with boxing gloves on if you progressively expand the circumference of your nostrils to accommodate them.

Master wordsmith!

[–]Maniak🥃😾 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fake. You simply have to stick an icepick in those gloves and there you go!

If you find just the proper angle, you too can become a lobotomized shitlib \o/

[–]chakokat 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

😄

[–]JohnQNetizen 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Great news! If we stick with the Dems just a little bit longer, they will (finally!) metamorphosize into a true "People's Party",one that will embrace policies that promote the interests of ordinary citizens, as opposed to their financial benefactors. I also have it on good authority that this time Lucy will finally hold that football rock steady, and Charlie Brown will no doubt kick it into the next time zone.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]SudoBreakSandwich 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

political fan fiction

[–]chakokat 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Khanna said that the Democrats need to improve their messaging and sell their agenda to the American people before the election.

“We’re not communicating at the volume, speed, interest, vitality that we need to,” Khanna said. “Biden has been a much better and more progressive President than I thought, but the communication isn’t even where Obama’s was. There isn’t a modern-day communication strategy.” (bold mine )

It’s revealing revolting that Ro Khanna said this with a straight face:

"Biden has been a much better and more progressive President than I thought...”

[–]NetweaselContinuing the struggle 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It’s revealing revolting that Ro Khanna said this with a straight face:

"Biden has been a much better and more progressive President than I thought...”

Now, it's possible for that to be a true statement. Just how bad did he think that Biden was going to be?
Biden might have been "better and more progressive" than the incredible shitshow Ro thought Biden was going to be.

[–]chakokat 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

😄

Hi there,

I see that you still parse better than anyone I know.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

We have people swearing this is true in smaller subs...

[–]chakokat 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Crazy.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Gag me with a spoon.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Stinker.

[–]3andfro 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

They're still about the sizzle, not the steak, believing if only they could find the right messaging they could "sell" their agenda. Wrong answer. Right answer: try giving voters what they keep telling you they want and stop doing what they tell you they don't want.

But no. It's all psychology-aided marketing to try to make an unpalatable product "agenda" look, smell, and taste good. Variation on the theme with this old story about the limits of advertising: https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/57808.html

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They're still about the sizzle, not the steak, believing if only they could find the right messaging they could "sell" their agenda.

They haven't changed in at least two decades:

“It’s not about soul-searching,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. “It may be about how we can educate the American people more clearly on the difference between Democrats and Republicans.”

[–]3andfro 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

hence "still"

I grew up with Roosevelt Dem parents. Took me decades to realize how far the Clintonite Dems had strayed from that party.

“The Democratic party under Clinton, in essence, became the Republican party, and the Republican party was pushed so far to the right it became insane,” Hedges says. “But on all of the substantial issues—in terms of empire, in terms of globalization, in terms of the assault on civil liberties—there is no difference." --Chris Hedges, in America, the Farewell Tour

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Wait, isn't Ro Khanna considered... right, just that, as I glance down at Centaurea's post while typing.

How can "establishment control of the party" be broken if the entire party is the establishment?

[–]Centaurea 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The dam’s about to break on the establishment control of the party.

Those words were uttered by Ro Khanna in a Sept. 29 interview with Cenk Uygur. Those two notoriously anti-establishment progressives. 😆

Khanna said that the Democrats need to improve their messaging and sell their agenda to the American people before the election.

Right. Because focusing on "messaging" is such a non-establishment thing to do.

Whatever would the Dem establishment's well-paid consultant class do if "anti-establishment" types like Ro and Cenk have their way?

Answer: the same thing they do now. Make megabucks from their highly remunerative consulting contracts with the DNC for messaging, focus-grouping, and PR strategizing.

(To note, in many cases these highly-paid consultants are themselves members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the same body that awards to them their highly remunerative contracts. It's a big club, as Carlin said.)

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Khanna said that the Democrats need to improve their messaging...

"Messaging" sounds so much nicer than "propaganda" 😺

[–]Maniak🥃😾 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

The walls are closing in. This time for sure. Just trust 'em and vote harder for the good ones who are just about to save democracy on your behalf.

[–]shatabee5 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's happening!!!!

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот[S] 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Sure it is. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you in Kyiv.