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OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 06:42 PM Jun 2018

Next week could be scary or exciting

So I have some concerns about next week. The IG report is coming out on the Hillary email investigation. No idea what it will show, but you can count on trump supporters, Fox, Republicans, etc. to use anything it says to create massive distraction and go after anyone who was involved in that investigation.

The North Korea summit is also happening, and so many people are giving trump a lot of credit for that nonsense. CNN just showed his approval up to 44% thanks to NK and the economy.


Now we do get the Manafort and Michael Cohen sagas next week. But it just seems like an endless stream of right-wing propaganda that makes it so hard to keep the narrative on our side. Twitter is like an echo chamber of Trump praise from all the bots. And people buy into that crap.

I wish we had a better way to fight against right-wing propaganda.

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Next week could be scary or exciting (Original Post) OliverQ Jun 2018 OP
Turn it all off. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #1
Please tazkcmo Jun 2018 #3
my bad. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #4
Nope. tazkcmo Jun 2018 #5
"Democrat shirt" Stinky The Clown Jun 2018 #7
#53 Kilgore Jun 2018 #2
Two things you can do - Anti-propaganda shirts, anti-propaganda radio efforts EndGOPPropaganda Jun 2018 #6

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
1. Turn it all off.
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 06:47 PM
Jun 2018

Shut it all down. Nothing is going to happen soon bc nothing, in the end, is going to happen at all to the tr family. Don't get yourself wound up over stuff we can't control. Put a sign in your lawn. Wear a Democrat shirt. Piss them off where it hurts them, in public. It's the ugliest period in modern history. Life isn't supposed to be this hard in the USA.

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)
3. Please
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 06:57 PM
Jun 2018

It's " a Democratic t-shirt" not Democrat. The way you phrased it is the GOPee's way to slur the Democratic Party.

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)
5. Nope.
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 07:04 PM
Jun 2018

But then I live well below the poverty level so I haven't purchased new clothes in some years. Thanks for asking though.

Kilgore

(1,733 posts)
2. #53
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 06:57 PM
Jun 2018

The number of posts that "tomorrow, next week, next month" will be "pivotal, explosive, scary, exciting, or worrysome"

Wake me when something actually happens.

EndGOPPropaganda

(1,117 posts)
6. Two things you can do - Anti-propaganda shirts, anti-propaganda radio efforts
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 08:17 PM
Jun 2018

First, there is @certainot's effort:
https://www.republicanradio.org/

How Republican talk radio undermines democracy and the Republican Party while piggybacking hundreds of publicly funded schools. How to record and ...


You can reach out to your local in-state college radio station and ask them to drop the hate radio.
Or you can do the transcription thing on the site. Or just publicize the site!


Second, you can use yourself as a cheap billboard:

Reaching Fox voters is a way to weaken the president, until we can vote in 2018.

Good sources of progressive messaging apparel:
https://www.turnoutpac.org/ (Nice!)


https://weprotectthetruth.com/

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