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A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Starting to feel as if the argument that 4 month isn’t enough time for a party to effectively pull off a presidential campaign actually means 4 months isn’t enough time for the media to effectively sell a bullshit narrative that solidifies false equivalencies in the public mind.
They spent all this time simmering the Biden is Old saucepan and suddenly whoops-a-daisy! and now Republicans are running around as confused as ants in a freshly kicked hill, some screaming “SHE’S A CHILDLESS TROLLOP AND SHE’S BLAAAACK”, others screaming “SHE LAUGHS TO MUCH!”
Thomas Franklin William Arnold@JuliusGoat To which I hope someone responds, "She wasn't hired. She was elected. Learn the difference."
Dave Wilburn 
I believe someone is besmirching ants, @futurebird
For the record, ants are far too organized for this kind of bullshit, and their society places high value on women and especially childless women.
Nicole ParsonsThe biased media narrative is familiar to any woman in the workplace.
"The women leaders in our study were considered too young or too old. They were too short or too tall, too pretty or too unattractive or too heavy. They had too much education or not enough or their degrees were not from the “right” schools. They suffered from disrespect and misperceptions due to race, color, or ethnicity. Whether they had children or were childless, the women were expected to work harder...
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.... than men to prove their worth. Women were held back from leadership opportunities due to being single, married, or divorced. There was no personality trait sweet spot, as introverted women were not seen as leaders and extraverted women were viewed as aggressive. The effect, then, means women leaders are “never quite right.”"
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a15652/gender-inequality-stats/
🔥Cassandra🔥@Npars01 One time I did management training and the expert strategies were things that women get punished for. I pointed this out to the trainer and they acknowledged it and said I could pay extra for the “women’s” course, if I wanted. But admitting the existence of discrimination in the “general” course, that was not on.
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊@Npars01 I have experienced all that. Concerning divorce, I feel in certain circles, people perceive something wrong with me because I am so (which is funny because I chose it). Those same people seem to breathe a sigh of relief when my ex husband comes along (e.g., at my child’s event because we co-parent)— as if somehow the man validates me or makes me whole.
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@JuliusGoat LOL. "Republican" sourpusses being scared AF of Kamala Harris's natural laughter makes absolute sense.
All their tremendous plots to bring down President Biden being run over by the bus driven by their leading convicted felon.
It's delicious!😋
#RuleOfLaw #KamalaHarris #Election2024 #Democracy #DefendDemocracy #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RegisterToVote #GOTV #VOTE #USPol #USPolitics #Law
Barry Schwartz 🫖@JuliusGoat Wait until they discover the kids call her Mammeleh. I wonder if she cooks a good potato kugel.
Mastodon MigrationPerfect! You nailed it.
Auscandoc@mastodonmigration @JuliusGoat Thought exactly the same
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@JuliusGoat British Election was 6 weeks long and even that dragged.
Ehproque has moved@Lazarou @JuliusGoat But Tories spent years campaigning for Labour!
Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦@Lazarou @JuliusGoat
Granted, presidential elections are a different kind of campaign to parliamentary elections, but the French snap elections were held 3 weeks after decision to dissolve.
Granted, presidential elections are a different kind of campaign to parliamentary elections, but the French snap elections were held 3 weeks after decision to dissolve.
Green Roc Thoughts@JuliusGoat Maybe that short period of time is intentional.
Propaganda seems to be more effective the longer it takes to cook, slowly cooking the lobster in the pot.
@JuliusGoat Canadian federal elections take a *maximum* of 50 days. Americans should be able to handle it in 100, right?
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@JuliusGoat the notion that we don't know who either candidate is or what they stand for after decades as public figures is wild. They're going to do their best to convince us that Trump is a changed man, though, all about unity.
MasterMischief@JuliusGoat Americans are aware of vice presidents, right?
Colin the Mathmo@MasterMischief Apparently not ...
CC: @JuliusGoat
@ColinTheMathmo @JuliusGoat Americans never fail to amaze me with their astounding ignorance.
Dizzy Flores@MasterMischief @ColinTheMathmo @JuliusGoat
Vice Presidents are frequently the equivalent of window dressing. They appear/exist for reasons that have little practical effect on policy. That is usually because they exist in the shadow of whoever is President.
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@JuliusGoat It's not just the time needed to sell the narrative, they need time to come up with it. Hillary Clinton had several years in the spotlight, during which the bs (and the truths) piled up in stacks at all relevant parties, ready to let loose when needed.
Janis@JuliusGoat Perhaps not so much bullshit narrative as enough product to make ends meet (and still afford the new loan payments), bullshit or otherwise. Generating single-use text that ends up in the proverbial landfill after the kids are in bed is a fabulous way to feed GoogleAds.
Phil Betts@JuliusGoat most of the rest of the world's democracies are like "yeah 4 months is enough. It's probably too much."...and shuddering at the thought of year-long campaigns.
Jessica F. McGrath@JuliusGoat As a Canadian, this baffles me. Our leadership campaigns are limited by law to the six weeks preceding a federal election.
Autoerotic Defenestration@JuliusGoat no shit.
In Germany, campaign posters can be put up in the public space 2 months before the election, and have to be gone two weeks after the election.
Outside of those 10 weeks, there is no real campaigning going on in Germany, which is quite frankly a rather peaceful state of affairs.
Gina B Fla@Ginafla @JuliusGoat it is :-D
also, even though the tv channels have a duty to show the parties' ads, I usually see about half a dozen political ads per election :-)
Shadow06@JuliusGoat ^^ This.
Marty Fouts@JuliusGoat In my youth, US election campaign season started on Labor Day of the election year. Often presidential candidates were not known until the conventions, held in July and August. It seemed to have worked just fine.
Even campaigns for the party nomination only started at the start of the election year.
I despair of the irony that as communications speed has increased the duration of campaigns has increased but I have no idea how to fix it.
Finite Banjo@JuliusGoat TBH composite polls like fivethirtyeight, rassmussen, 270towin, etc all show a Trump advantage on most days, so probably fine to wait until at least after the DNC Convention just to be fair.
Phil Haigh@JuliusGoat four months? The recent UK election has just six weeks of campaigning and most have eight or less.
vxo@JuliusGoat trust me they're working [lots of unpaid] overtime
icasticoThe largest problem in current presidential campaigns is they are overly long. That saps enthusiasm, supercharges cynicism, and is a total waste of energy and resources
Olympia Indivisible
Mike BuckleyI’m always baffled by how much time the US spends in campaign mode. It’s basically one year out of every four. Outside of the US that’s considered pretty weird!
laurent@JuliusGoat especially funny since most countries have much stronger limits in political campaign duration https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/21/450238156/canadas-11-week-campaign-reminds-us-that-american-elections-are-much-longer
Winter TrabexThe narrative originates from Hubert Humphrey's campaign in...I wanna say, 1968?
Martijn VosThe US is quite unique in requiring such an endless, drawn-out circus for their elections. Most countries can hold elections in a matter of weeks.
But then again, most countries are flexible about when the next election is, and a government falls halfway through its term, you quickly get new elections. In the US, election dates are cast in stone, and you know years in advance when the next election is, so you can start your campaign much earlier.
Virginicus@JuliusGoat Four months isn’t enough time for the campaign consultants to cash all their checks.
Eva Chanda@JuliusGoat
US campaigns are ridiculously long and costly compared to any other G7 country. This only benefits the big-money donors.
US campaigns are ridiculously long and costly compared to any other G7 country. This only benefits the big-money donors.
Christopher Zarrella@JuliusGoat The Europeans do it in weeks repeatedly. It's a stupid thing to declare it can't be done when the proof that it can is in front of our eyes.
Barbara Monaco@JuliusGoat US election cycles are way too long, pretty much year in and year out now Compare with the length of cycles in peer countries. It's relatively new in the US and it's harmful.
Wastes $billions
Helps make the voting public jaded, less inclined to vote.
Makes it easy for dark money to interfere with the election process
And, as you say, it gives plenty of time for creation and marketing of BS narratives.
Election reform desperately needed!
Maxilo Overit@JuliusGoat Their hands won't wring themselves you know.
Bot4Sale@JuliusGoat Ding ding ding get this person a prize!
Possibly AI-generated RybotCalbearo 🇪🇸🎾@JuliusGoat the media are very dependent on political advertising spending, and that has to be a driving factor in all of this. Most countries do not have political campaigns nearly as long as ours. The political campaigning definitely has a negative impact on the functioning of the government (e.g. directly effects legislative activity). I definitely think we would be better off in a lot of ways if we could have shorter and delineated campaign periods like is common in Europe. Unfortunately this would run afoul of free speech prohibitions.
samiamsam@JuliusGoat i think we need public funding and 6 weeks for campaigning
they each get a certain amount of money and nothing else
we need to get the money out of politics
MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲Everything looks good so far, doesn't it.