How about we get some Dems to go on the Sunday morning talking heads and push back against the anchors who never push back on GOP’s blatant lies and gaslighting? Don’t pay attention to their questions, start asking your own and hold their feet to the fire on live television.
MSM won’t have them. Too afraid of being targeted.
The way this works is you need to be live.. Buttigieg is the master of this.. he'll script flip on them. Otherwise, they'll just never air it.. why do you think Dems get so little air time..
Absolutely.
Buttigieg has said more than once in interviews done since January that he doesn’t get invited to appear anymore.
Not surprised at all.. At every interview he's made the other person look like a jackass..
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Exactly
Did you see Kristen welker interview jd Vance??? She let him tell lie after lie with zero pushback.
Interviewing known liars…media is complicit.
I stopped watching Face The Nation because all they ever seem to have on are RepugniCONs with no pushback. WTF mainstream media, are y'all really that cowardly?
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That would be nice. 😊
Dems should do whatever it takes to counteract Republicans and yet they don’t
Or bring their butts to podcasts.
They need to do podcasts too but there’s a shitload of people who have watched the Sunday morning shows for decades and don’t realize what they’ve become who need to be made aware and going on a podcast does nothing to address that large audience.
The mainstream media rarely invites Democrats onto their networks. A skilled Democrat can easily outsmart a TV talking head any day.
Because any anchor who would get their feet put to the fire by such a politician in some kind of reverse-interview gotcha moment won’t have those people on. Are you under the impression that guests invite themselves on these shows?
Oh I get that. I worked in broadcast news for a decade. Step 2 is using BTC and other independent media to demonstrate how and why they were blacklisted. Step 3 is the DNC running ads on those morning shows with clips from both, showing how terrible the programming has become.
The problem today is that people are too siloed. I’m never sure if 95% of these “gotcha” moment clips I see on YT and social media even reach an audience outside of those who already agree. We’re in a place where facts, logic, and historical precedent mean NOTHING to about half of voters.
That's a terrific idea. I would especially like someone to challenge Margaret Brennan. She's a smug right-wing Barbie doll, not a serious journalist.
They’re far too chicken shit for that. The only one with the guts to do that is @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , and he politely owns them. Every. Single. Time.
These networks are owned by billionaires, in 2016 they never once reported on Trumps decades of criminal activity!!! Not once!!
Between the "Dems are fascists too" morons and the "what more do you want them to do?" clowns it's a wonder if we ever win again.
Yes Newsome style. Come on. Let’s go
Great idea, but..... no way does a Sunday morning talking head want someone 10 times smarter than them across the table. They'd likely never keep up.
Because that doesn't work for their "decorum"
It can - and should - be done.
How about we elect more Democrats and get Republicans out of power?
Why are the Democrats, with a few exceptions, so reticent?
... They don't want to do that though?
I can see Aaron Parnas going on the air being a full day ahead on the news they haven’t learned about yet (and will deliberately refuse to report) and embarrassing them. Joey Contino knows more about what’s happening in Ukraine than any of them. Can’t have that. Stay on script.
And how do we get traditional msm Sunday morning viewers to watch Parnas? How do we make them realize the show they’re watching is not the same as it was decades ago?
It wouldn’t work. The media is still sane washing the obviously deteriorating Donald as his dementia & CHF advance. They couldn’t keep pace with Parnas.
Dems should hire a Republican to teach how to message
If you're not cordial to the host, you're not asked back. Booking will make sure of it. It sucks because they're complicit and deserve accountability.
Sure, that’s why you don’t stop there. Step 2 is using BTC and other independent media to demonstrate how and why they were blacklisted. Step 3 is the DNC running ads on those morning shows with clips from steps 1&2, showing how terrible the programming has become.
There's like 5 Dems fighting back, the rest are sleep walking to a full on fascist takeover. The Dem "leaders" are the most useless sacks of shit in our government right now.
I get what you're saying, but the GOP are actually the " leaders" now. awe aren't going to be dealt a better hand by knocking Liberals and Progressives.
If you're still identifying as a liberal and not a progressive at this point, you don't understand what's at stake. We either go full throttled leftism or we end American democracy. The GOP uses every dirty tactic to block progress. I don't see the Dems doing a damn thing.
If you go full throttle leftist you also end American democracy. I ID as Progressive for the last 15 years, but some of the people who run as Progressives since then have been as disappointing as any other politicians, some have not. That's what I'm seeing.
Maybe we have different definitions of leftism. Yes, we've had some disappointments but when you actually run on leftist ideals and don't back down, you gain the support of the masses. Mamdani came out of nowhere and won a Dem primary in NYC because he stuck to his ideals and doubled down.
The definitions are pretty loose these days. So when I supported the Dems w/ time and money in order to push the ACA I IDed as Progressive as did the County Dem chair.
Look at polling, people want free healthcare, education, higher wages, less income inequality. These are all leftist ideals.
We have wanted these things & DEI since I started voting in 1974. The best strategy was to go with Dems then. It is frustrating AF sometimes. I hear you on that. I'm going w/ what my kids do & it's Prog/Dems. "Leftist" to Boomers & X is a derogatory GOP term for Dems ie. "leftist/Commies. "
The terms may not mean the same thing anymore but I'd still pick a Dem over GOP any day. I just think we need to stop supporting Dems who aren't willing to go full leftist/progressivism, or social democracy. Whatever the term is, they need to be populist and give the people what they want.
Yes! Perfectly stated. The " kids" I used to teach, (now in their 30's) w/ few exceptions, are going in that direction. When you're going through hell, keep going!!!! I love this younger gen. The MAGA kids tend to have the DX of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Not sure why, but they're agin' it!.
If they're not full on anti fascist, anti billionaire, willing to prosecute the fascists, then we need to ignore them because they're not serious.
Agree! And we need to keep voting in every single election from local to federal.
Progressives want everything their own way and if they don’t get it, they are quite willing to see everything burned down.
That is not my experience at all, but yes , every political group has some people who aren't thinking it through, including Democrats.
I know way too many people who didn’t vote for either candidate last November because ding dong Donnie is a fascist and Harris didn’t pass the purity test.
That is pretty annoying. I know a Progressive suburban white guy about 40 who is like that about Palestine, every Jew is a Zionist to guys like this, but for every hothead there are people like my progressive friends who work with the local dems to get candidates elected in a red state.
Yeah, and they're all idiots. Trump voters and non voters are all to blame for this shit storm we're in. With that being said, not like there was a record of people not voting this time so it's not about Harris passing a purity test, that wasn't the issue.
There wasn’t a record?
No, there was no record number of people NOT voting. In fact, the opposite is true. 2024 in politics, by the numbers : NPR
Not enough voted for Harris, and here we are.
155 million More than 155 million people cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election. It's second only in U.S. history to the 2020 election. Turnout in 2024 represented 63.9% of eligible voters, the second-highest percentage in the last 100 years,
naw it was going to happen anyway. How else were you going to afford the prison camps to0 put us alkl in?
That's just not true. Every movement has their fringes but the vast majority of us understand that trump is a fascist and Harris was the better choice. As a Palestinian, I voted for Harris. It's our fault that the prograsive way is objectively more conducive to a fulfilling human life. 😂
Unfortunately it is true. Harris wouldn’t say the right words or the right combination of words or she didn’t do this or she didn’t do that, and so Dems had to be taught a lesson and fascism was an acceptable consequence of that teaching. We watched it happen.
How bout them liberals that are refusing to endorse Mamdani? Seems like they're willing to let a Republican/independent win instead of endorsing him. Sounds like burning it all down unless it's their choice for candidate 🧐
How about Mamdani refusing to endorse Harris? Still sounds like progressives and leftists preferring to burn it all down unless they got their way.
What? Lmao. JFC no wonder the left is losing. Why would a random NYC assemblyman have to endorse Harris? That makes absolutely no sense. What a silly comparison. How is NY senators and congressmen not endorsing the Dem candidate for Mayor the same thing as an assemblyman endorsing Harris? 🤪
LMAO, looks like I struck a nerve. Of course he needed to endorse Harris. It was one of the most important elections of our lifetime and literal fascism was the alternative. You’re carrying on like a mayoral race depends on congressional endorsement (never), so why doesn’t it work the other way?
If you don’t think it was important for him to endorse Harris, then you’ve basically admitted you’re playing fan politics.
This is laughably inaccurate. Are you being paid to sow division or are you just an asshole?
Is it? Which Dems are fighting back? Are they fighting back in-between voting for his nominees? Or in between letting departments shut down? Or in between cutting funding for child cancer research?
What do you mean by fighting back? We didn’t empower them with the votes to fight back, so it’s a touchy-feely word for performance optics. Departments shutting down and funding being cut is a Republican failing, not a democratic one. Nominees are getting confirmed no matter what. 53>47.
Please give me your list of five Dem names and why/how they are fighting back?
or at least get them to join the protest since they're on paid vacation.
That just becomes people screaming over each other. That tactic was defeated over a decade ago. Screaming over the truth is still working.
I can’t watch those dumb shows. They’re straight up REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA.
They can't cause they have no real policies that they want known, they have shifted to pro big government, pro war, pro racism, pro sexism, pro corpate, pro censorship. The 2025 dem is a 2008 extremist right winger. If they don't make serious changes we are going to end up with another term of this
Nope. Not even the slightest bit. They're simply not fighters.
Do these Dems exist? Jeffries makes me wonder.
They exist. Jeffries ain’t it.
Yes!!