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…

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Show threadTemporarily Doctor DoomMay 26

@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.

Show threadTengrain 🇺🇦May 26

@TonyStark

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.

Show threadRoger MooreMay 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.
Show threadTemporarily Doctor DoomMay 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.
Show threadCassandraVertMay 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.
Show threadTemporarily Doctor DoomMay 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.

Show threadTengrain 🇺🇦

@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.

May 26 at 11:55pmWeb