OPINION: The Sydney Sweeney saga shows why Republicans keep winning and why Democrats will struggle until the media ecosystem changes, writes Rob Flaherty, former deputy campaign manager on Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign.
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Adam Something said it way better and in an entertaining video. Also he's not Springer Verlagsgruppe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijtY...
aug 8, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
The key point: bsky.app/profile/idio...
aug 8, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 8, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico is firmly ensconced in the colon of Donald ‘Pedo’ Trump.
aug 8, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Dem pols want to talk about Sweeney messaging and the media environment. Dem voters want to talk about raising the minimum wage and taxing the mega-rich.
aug 8, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Yikes, that is the correct diagnosis, one party is much better at long range planning.
aug 8, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
OPINION: One of Trump's appointments was just captured on bodycam calling for police officers to be killed, and it won't even make the news. THAT'S your problem.
aug 8, 2025, 2:37 pm • 9 1 • view
If he knows how to win elections, why didn’t he tell Kamala?
aug 8, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck you Rob. Trash.
aug 8, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
The only people talking about this are Republicans and the media. No one else gives a shit.
aug 8, 2025, 2:40 pm • 8 2 • view
Actually, the author totally missed the boat on what was actually said, "my jeans are blue" which could only be delivered by a blue eyed person. So this article sucks because the author didn't even watch the ad.
aug 8, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
No one cares about Sweeney except republicans. No one I know is talking about it, not my friends, family, or coworkers. News articles and conservative media are forcing this nonsense. Stop it.
aug 8, 2025, 2:32 pm • 20 2 • view
I believe liberals made it a fuss first because woke
aug 8, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
No, red pilled incels made AEO into a meme stock because they were drooling over Sweeney which is what made it a story.
aug 8, 2025, 2:40 pm • 13 0 • view
No they didn't. It's all astroturf nonsense.
aug 8, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
‘Woke’ 🤣 so retarted you fascists still use that phrase. Grow a pair and get of your knees trump gimp.
aug 8, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Nope! Most Liberals said "Sydney who?" while the GOP only noticed her because she is in the right age bracket for Trump to notice her.
aug 8, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I only heard of it from a (fellow) liberal because they were so irate about the trope of white supremacy
aug 8, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
So that one persons views declared that all liberals thought that. Sorry unlike MAGA Cultist most liberals do not follow the edicts of "the great Leader".
aug 8, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
This is an excellent article (the kiss of death in our culture, I am afraid) that deserves careful reading and action. Well done.
aug 8, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a non story . The media could focus on the boring topics like the costs of health care, child care, car insurance, housing, higher education etc but they are boring topics so they dive into this nonsense instead.
aug 8, 2025, 3:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Sidney who? She’s a blip Politico. Normal people don’t give one shit about her.
aug 8, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Your business model is addicted to bullshit. There is no controversy story, just compounded bullshit by RW actors and RW media (you)
aug 8, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
This is only important to Trump mouthpiece sites like yours. No one is talking about it, no one cares, but you are doing your part to distract from Epstein. That’s all this is. Pretty gross for a “news org” to work in the cover up of child exploitation.
aug 8, 2025, 3:38 pm • 2 0 • view
What saga??
aug 8, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
The moral of the fable is "Tell me what you brag about, and I'll tell you what you lack". Orange charlatan turned to be the dumbest cunny of all of them among the minions of the American Fascist Party ex GOP, ex Repubbies. This explain why he hasn't release his college records. They are deplorable
aug 8, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sorry but this is a completely superfluous analysis.
aug 8, 2025, 3:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Politico: "Remember, the Democrats lost because they get too mad about woke, not because they refused to condemn a genocide."
aug 8, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Democrats have only once in the 21st century had a catch phrase that actually worked. Yes we can. They need to hire some decent marketers.
aug 8, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Democrats don’t care. It’s the spin Republicans put out there that news companies like Politico echo that make the rest of the country THINK liberals give a rats ass about this.
aug 8, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 1 • view
Oh yes, let’s cite the “deputy campaign manager.”
aug 8, 2025, 2:33 pm • 4 1 • view
Not just a campaign manager. Rob Flaherty, a guy who founded a company that works with political influencers, thinks the solution to the Democrats' problems is to pump money into political influencers. Who could possibly be benefitting from this!? 🤷♂️ It's so fucking transparent.
aug 11, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep winning what? The economy is shit, Trump is out of his fucking mind, no wars have been stopped, no one can buy a house, he's making billions, he's having thugs pull people off the streets and tossing them into gulags and he's a goddman pedophile!
aug 8, 2025, 2:41 pm • 13 3 • view
How about if democrats smarten up and ignore shite that means nothing? How dumb do you have to be to be baited by a jeans ad?
aug 8, 2025, 2:33 pm • 4 0 • view
LOL it was the right wing misogynists got baited and bought the stock. Then the left pointed out how insidious this kind of language is and now brain dead opinion pieces like this are spinning this as a left issue when the right were the ones making a big deal about it in the first place.
aug 8, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
The point is if you ignore it, it dies on its own. Why give it oxygen?
aug 8, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
The left isnt giving it Oxygen. The right will do something terrible, then they they have dessert on how much they think we hate it. The control all of government and all major media at this point.
aug 8, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Next we will get an article telling immigrants just ignore JD Vances racist comments and that will keep you from getting black bagged off the street
aug 8, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The article misses one crucial point: the fight is asymmetrical if right-wing social media posters lie to discredit the left ("all of the Democrats think like these TikTokers") whereas the left tends to stick more to the facts to create social media momentum.
aug 9, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
Making up false accusations that raise outcry can be done at a higher pace than the lengthy rejections that follow from the ones being accused. In addition, to many people following the discussion there remains a final feeling that the accusations were not fully unjustified, even if they were.
aug 9, 2025, 4:40 am • 1 0 • view
No one is talking about this. Politics is getting tiresome.
aug 8, 2025, 2:36 pm • 4 0 • view
Why should I care
aug 8, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans cater to idiots. Democrats cater to smart people. There are more idiots in this country than smart people. Do the math and it’s very easy to see why the Republicans keep winning.
aug 8, 2025, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 8, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view