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Someone in Hollywood needs to make the Mrs Miniver for the Ukrainian war. I realize propaganda only goes so far but...the documentaries are hard hitting and all, but the narrative is strong for a positive film to lay out the human tragedy that is ongoing.

huh

Seeing Ivanka trending on twitter. Did she endorse Kamala?

Bill knows

is this as low as this has gotten? I mean now that he's on Twitter fully validating the need for a Truth Social platform...

Tough to sell in a world of Dirty Harry wanna-bees

if Harris gets a meaningful bounce out of her convention she's got this in the bag. This is metaphorically the ground that the GOP has to win on or else. I agree that HAMAS fans are going to make trouble. Navigating that will be key. What would be effective counter-programming would be a white nationalists march that ran into that HAMAS protest and got into a tussle.

Nah, i mean Internal Dem volatility is the path for the LaCivitas/Wiles team to get traction again. Point to the messy/chaotic dems. Maybe arrange a crisis in Chicago.

MB, you are putting a lot of ammo out there for the MAGA comeback.

Timmy nails this

$37m ad buy with 2/3rds in Georgia....hmmmm...

This is a very interesting read

One idea would be to have the ex-Presidents on a video discuss what they thought about the position and its responsibilities. Then have them intersplice Trump's most ridiculous norm-breaking acts. So maybe showing each president laying wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then have John Kelly looking into the camera describing the notification of a parent like himself when a soldier dies, then have others describe how Trump didn't want to see wounded warriors or travel to the military cemeteries, then have the footage of the ex-presidents at McCain's funeral, then have the ex-presidents sitting on a porch talking about that sacred duty. Then end with John Kelly saying "My son wasn't a sucker" But, that's just one idea.

It will likely occur at a rally and/or on TV. Putin does have a foreign army on his territory so he might up his offer of support because its the fastest route to victory over NATO and the United States.

Not unexpected but good to see The mobbed up Vegas casino owners will still shower money on Trump.

Nice

Huge fan of that episode.

I agree Biden's act was played out.

And he started desegregation … after Truman desegregated the military

Paul McCartney famously was derided by John Lennon for "silly love songs"

I concur it is defensible. My priors are not Taters' prior of course. I come out of that world where nails need hammers. Many people in that line have regrets now. Accepting that Iraq was foisted on people for terrible reasons which I don't necessarily agree with but which had a terrible result. This was a failure of vision and strategy particularly because the management of it was done by overrated hacks (Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and Paul Bremer) who thought it could all be done on the cheap. I clearly recall in 2000 prior to the election that I was part of a consultant team working on Rumsfeld and co's "Non-linear logistics" for the SecDEF and looked at it all and thought...this is gonna get a lot of people killed in a world where tactical airlift can be shot down as easily as it can. I wasn't even comprehending the decade's worst killer of US troops: the IED. W's sins came with remorse. There is a difference. Trump killed hundreds of thousands who would otherwise have lived without his idiocracy. Trump is a Russian useful idiot (at a minimum). A perfect version of a W presidency would have been him going into Afghanistan in 2002 -- somehow getting Pakistan to hand over UBL and us figuring out how not to stay in those countries but that wasn't going to happen. UBL and KSM were going to strike the US in 2001 so, it was inevitable that 9/11 was going to happen in some form to Bush or Gore. Not, having a 2500 (Afghanistan) or 4500 (Iraq) US military casualties and many tens of thousands of wounded besides over 20 years would be hard to put up against the numbers of preventable dead from COVID in that one year.

I mentioned this to a couple friends at work, whenever one of the insufferable MAGAs starts talking about guys in girls bathrooms or the high cost of eggs. Just drop this small mind dagger on them. Perhaps in concern troll fashion: "Ya know, Trump can't win without Florida and he was really mean to Desantis...so....". Then just let their small minds spin around the conspiranoia of how tough Trump was to Desantis and how Desantis because he is a governor has the power (in their minds) to switch votes as he feels like. The delicious pain they will feel will be short-lived because very quickly after this they will be fed some awesome propaganda about how Trump kills baby seals to give him strength and he's really ripped and shredded under the fat suit he wears.

Lurking out there is Desantis revenge.

Yeah…phony