This isn't even the first time this has happened.
The vicious irony is that the exact people that will hand-wave away the bog-standard transparency of a third party recording and/or observing a meeting between major world leaders as nothing suspicious are the same people that root for a surveillance state and say "What's the problem, you have something to hide?"
Like I said earlier , the high road's a trap, respectability politics is a losing battle in the current climate. The electorate wants to see a gladiator match and the Dems are sending milquetoast philosophers.Originally Posted by ARBM
That's not at all to say they need someone crass and lumbering to match the other side; They just need people that stop fucking pulling their punches in the name of civility and will cut hard and deep with the fact checks and insults these dunderheads keep leaving themselves wide open for. A quick wit that throws lingering soundbites and a bit of comedic sass right back at the face of slack-jawed Republican logic is the best weapon to make the public come around to how deeply stupid and uncool most conservative tenets are. Being careful not to step on toes, letting ridiculous statements and bold-faced lies just pass by with nothing but a haughty, dismissive laugh, and trusting the electorate to separate fact from fiction is a loser's game. It's a self-imposed handicap that the other side clearly isn't reciprocating.
Spell everything out for your audience and show them the blood of your enemy. Treat them like they're idiots that will furrow their neanderthal brows in confusion and disgust at a match that ends in a technical decision and not a clear knockout. Because, by and large, that's what they are.
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