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Tengrain 🇺🇦May 26

Consultants to Save The Day!

Dawg Save Us All Somewhere, audibly tan*, blown-dry, and capped tooth'ed Democratic Consultants are rubbing their hands together (Axios’ morning email thingie): "Groups of Democratic donors and strategists meeting at fancy hotels are commissioning new projects to win working-class voters "that can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places," the N.Y. Times' Shane Goldmacher writes. And so…

http://mockpaperscissors.com/2025/05/26/consultants-to-save-the-day/

Consultants to Save The Day!

Dawg Save Us All Somewhere, audibly tan*, blown-dry, and capped tooth’ed Democratic Consultants are rubbing their hands together (Axios’ morning email thingie): “Groups of Democratic do…

Mock Paper Scissors

Temporarily Doctor Doom

@Tengrain I read this, too and honestly, I think if you see Mike Johnson as a lion, there’s not much Democratic strategists and researchers, even Ms. Shenker-Osario, could have added this cycle.

I get that political operatives need to study whatever brand of huffed glue fires the synapses in the swing voter's brain because otherwise no one pays them but I hope they don't act like this is something anyone can control. Just have to run somewhat on whatever bullshit makes them mad in 3 years.

Tengrain 🇺🇦May 26

💯 and Shenker-Osario is really top notch.

Temporarily Doctor Doom May 26

@Tengrain Just to be clear I don’t agree with the “deer” characterization but swing voters. What a group.

Tengrain 🇺🇦May 26

I didn’t like the beginning; it frames the whole story as deer in headlights, which I think is misleading. That’s the media narrative.

Heimdall 🏳️‍🌈May 26

@Tengrain @TonyStark

Hakeem Jeffries and Jasmine Crockett are doing that, fighting for us. What some of these folks, at least, are saying is “Can we have someone fight for us that is white?”

samiamsam May 26

@Heimdall @Tengrain @TonyStark

my Rep Stansbury is great and speaking out and is white

Heimdall 🏳️‍🌈May 26

@TonyStark @samiamsam @Tengrain She’s excellent. I wonder why the media outlets don’t cover the Dems actually doing this?

Tengrain 🇺🇦May 26

@Heimdall @TonyStark

You might be right that this is another blind eye towards women and people of color and and the media AND consultants saying that they don’t count.

Roger Moore May 26

@Tengrain @TonyStark
The media narrative is the main problem. People accept the media narrative because that's what they hear, and the media tells the narrative their conservative masters want people to believe. We do need to break through the stranglehold the MSM has on people's political perceptions, but I don't think a left-wing Joe Rogan is the answer.

Temporarily Doctor Doom May 26

@VATVSLPR @Tengrain The answer is likely to be something boring like going and talking to voters in your neighborhood, but I guess that doesn’t sell podcast subscriptions or generate a lot of social media likes.

CassandraVert May 26

@TonyStark @VATVSLPR @Tengrain That's the answer to a different question. Talking to neighbors is great, but it won't fix the media narrative problem.

Temporarily Doctor Doom May 26

@CassandraVert @VATVSLPR @Tengrain As long as the media is owned by who it’s owned by, the problem isn’t going to fix. I don’t watch cable news anymore and I subscribe to a select number of independent blogs and journalists. Not the NYT, not WaPo.

The media won’t change unless their ratings cause them to or they’re sold.

People have to take this on themselves instead of waiting around. I can’t open my my media corporation.

Tengrain 🇺🇦May 26

@TonyStark @CassandraVert @VATVSLPR

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"We are the liberal media. “ - that’s what we OG Bloggers said in the early days, and that’s what everyone should say today.

Never underestimate your own impact.

Tengrain 🇺🇦May 26

@VATVSLPR @TonyStark

I think an all-channels approach is fine, but the idea that they can just whip up someone overnight to counterbalance Rogan is not a mature thinker.

It’s like studying posts that go viral, looking for keywords.

They fundamentally misunderstand the problem if they think that’s the single solution.

CassandraVert May 26

@Tengrain @VATVSLPR @TonyStark They fundamentally--or willfully--misunderstand quite a lot, so that wouldn't surprise me.

Just as I don't think Republicans are causing all this damage out of incompetence, I don't think certain "democrats" keep pushing bad marketing ideas out of incompetence.

Tengrain 🇺🇦May 26

I don’t know if this was part of the framing of the story, but the consultants meeting in “fancy hotels” to try to figure out how to reach the common man was notable to me.