From Rick Wilson, going to pin this one to our account for future:

“Don’t drink the poison.

In the next 20+ days, you’ll be offered poison many, many times. It will come from the Trump campaign, the mainstream media, fellow Democrats, and friends. The poison, in this case, will be that of electoral despair. The purpose of negative campaigning is never to change of mind or to alter a vote. The purpose of negative campaigning is to suppress votes and force you into a cognitive frame where staying home seems like a valuable and viable alternative to political engagement.

Don’t drink the poison. They’ll try to convince you that the campaign is over and that Trump is already victorious. They’ll spin 100 scenarios of why Harris can’t win even as her numbers improve.

Don’t drink the poison.

This race will be a hard fight until the very last. It will be ugly and loud. You will want to switch it off. That’s by design.
There will be revelations and surprises in the next three weeks. Some polls will show Trump up, some will show him down. Media prognosticators who’ve never been in a campaign will declare this poll is the decisive end to the campaign or this model shows Trump will inevitably win.

Don’t drink the poison.

The reality is simple: there are two campaigns being run right now. One Campaign is to motivate a new coalition of voters from the left to the center-right, from Bernie Sanders to Liz Cheney. That Campaign is pragmatic, professional, has fuel in the tank to win, and calls out to your better angels.

Please keep your eyes clear, stay focused on the fight, and never, ever, ever let them convince you that all is lost. The lies are all Trump has left, and he only wins if we believe them.

Don’t drink the poison."

@KamalaHarrisWin everyone should vote - for someone who isn't going to happily take up the reins of Biden's genocide. democrats are going to lose Michigan because they can't acknowledge or change course on that. why?
the strongest despair source is the party leadership itself, and each day they decide to do nothing about that.

@jplebreton @KamalaHarrisWin

Jill Stein? Fuck off

@jztusk i didn't vote for jill stein fuckface
@KamalaHarrisWin Some people have to take breaks for their mental health, but with democracy on the line here in the US, there's no excuse for staying home and not voting.

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Rick Wilson created the ad that attacked Cleland (D) on nat'l defense. Cleland, who'd lost an arm and both legs to a grenade in Vietnam! It was eventually pulled bc McCain and other R vets led an outcry against it. When asked about it Wilson said,

"they didn't calculate that I have no moral center when it comes to political ads, and I will destroy the innocent and the guilty"

I don't care how "wise" his advice might be. He's a self-admitted amoral sociopath. Wilson is poison

@kims @KamalaHarrisWin Very much this. I take a pretty dim view of big-budget advertisers who spend most of their time trolling Trump to begin with, but Wilson is just a scumbag.

Reminds me that there was a hilarious interview with Wilson done by Tooning Out the News on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The gag is that the interviewers are animated vapid TV twits who say extremely cutting things apparently by accident. Wilson is clearly expecting something silly and friendly here, and they utterly eviscerate him. He is literally speechless with anger by the end. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Link is to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNvuYPpX0C0

Rick Wilson squirms talking anti-Trump Super-PAC, The Lincoln Project

YouTube
@Mewness
This was fantastic! Thank you

@kims @KamalaHarrisWin

I want the votes of amoral sociopaths too.

"De Rick Wilson, voy a fijar este en nuestra cuenta para el futuro:

“No beban el veneno.

En los próximos 20 días, les ofrecerán veneno muchas, muchas veces. Vendrá de la campaña de Trump, los medios de comunicación tradicionales, compañeros demócratas y amigos. El veneno, en este caso, será el de la desesperación electoral. El propósito de la campaña negativa nunca es cambiar de opinión o alterar un voto. El propósito de la campaña negativa es suprimir votos y obligarlos a entrar en un marco cognitivo donde quedarse en casa parece una alternativa valiosa y viable al compromiso político.

No beban el veneno. Intentarán convencerlos de que la campaña terminó y que Trump ya es victorioso. Te darán 100 escenarios de por qué Harris no puede ganar incluso cuando sus números mejoran.

No beban el veneno.

Esta carrera será una pelea dura hasta el final. Será fea y ruidosa. Querrán apagarla. Eso es intencional.

En las próximas tres semanas habrá revelaciones y sorpresas. Algunas encuestas mostrarán a Trump en una buena posición, otras lo mostrarán en una mala posición. Los pronosticadores de los medios que nunca han estado en una campaña declararán que esta encuesta es el final decisivo de la campaña o que este modelo muestra que Trump ganará inevitablemente.

No beban el veneno.

La realidad es simple: hay dos campañas en marcha en este momento. Una campaña es para motivar a una nueva coalición de votantes de izquierda a centroderecha, desde Bernie Sanders hasta Liz Cheney. Esa campaña es pragmática, profesional, tiene combustible en el tanque para ganar y llama a sus mejores ángeles.

Por favor, mantengan sus ojos despejados, manténganse concentrados en la lucha y nunca, nunca, nunca dejen que los convenzan de que todo está perdido. Las mentiras son todo lo que le queda a Trump, y solo gana si las creemos.

No beban el veneno."

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@KamalaHarrisWin And nobody knows better than Rick Wilson. He spent his entire career teaching the worst of the worst how to do exactly that.

@shoq @KamalaHarrisWin Let's just say this particular election's got a lot of Strange Bedfellows: some Republicans will go a certain distance but not nearly as far as what's being offered them now, and it's absolutely silly to tell them to take themselves back to Trump if they don't want to be there.

We'll hash out our own differences later. But for now our goals align.

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Nothing will keep me from voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. In fact, I've already voted democratic up and down the ticket. But I must admit that I am feeling tremendous despair.

@JenniferSlack @KamalaHarrisWin I feel ya. There are a couple major diffs from 2020 in my neck of the woods (east of Houston). The first is I haven't seen Trump flags waving from folks' pickup trucks on the road (plenty still on fences or flagpoles in yards, and the ones who have them have doubled down and bought even more). The other is the lack of yelling their views at everyone they think might dissent... at least to their faces. I'm sure online or over the phone there is plenty of that.

Still folks wearing Trump gear going about their days, making quieter statements. Can't find anyone wearing KH/TW gear (of course, they haven't built a merch brand like the insecure Dump machine has over the years). I remember putting a Biden/Harris sticker on my car for the 2020 election and getting folks hollering Trump support at me and flipping me off. (Kinda says something about them when my 3x5-inch sticker was such an anger trigger, while they had a 3x5-foot (ish) flag waving around on their vehicle).

I would love to see Texas flash blue on election night because the quiet supporters came out in droves. I hope the apathy ends, because though the local election may be dominated by R folks, we can make a difference far wider.

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I think we've got this, and I'm SO looking forward to voting early when it opens here. 👍

@KamalaHarrisWin 👍⬆️👍⬆️👍⬆️👍⬆️👍⬆️
@KamalaHarrisWin I am protected by the vaccine of already having voted. :-)

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Having already voted, I now feel like I'm freefalling into an unknowable future and I am seriously not in love with the feeling.

@KamalaHarrisWin I voted already. I've done my part. I have volunteered and I'll sleep good at night.