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We're not gonna lose our humor or our joy over this. They can never take that away from us. End/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
We need to reach the young people and tap into their joy and hope and we need to fight the forces aiming to split us at the same time. It's not fair but we're the good guys and it's our lot. We can't be the bad guys and do bad guy things just to beat the worse guys. 8/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
were fighting us. The Trump team radicalized their followers and the anti Democrat team radicalized the dems who wouldn't show up for Harris. Dems couldn't fight all the radicalization this cycle. Every one of us saw friends of ours get rabid instead of getting happy. 7/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
So is that it? Do dems win with negative ads? Do we lean into being more grim and negative and scaring people into voting for us like Trump does? I don't think so. I don't think we're set up like that. We didn't win because we didn't radicalize people as well as those who 6/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
In 2008 and 2012 Obama won bc both times people chose between positive visions of the future from McCain and Romney and Obama was just better at being positive. Well, Trump is better at being negative than democrats are and that seems to be effective. 5/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Their ads were incredibly accurate and reflective of the two campaigns and the two prospective administrations. Harris campaigned on hope and joy and Trump campaigned on division and hate. People picked the latter bc being scared seems to be more effective than being pleased. 4/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
filled with political messaging, Harris offered us humor, levity and relatability in a twenty second spot whereas Trump's ads were absurd and grotesque lies designed to scare you and appeal to transphobia, racism, and sexism. He offered a grim vision of the future. 3/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
It was clever, funny, and relatable, I mean I see my Jewish friends and relatives talking about how pro Israel trump is and I want to send them to this head exam doctor too. But there was something else going on there... in the election season where I saw every ad space 2/
November 23, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Then either Americans want fascism or don't know what it is and refuse to learn. What does Harris say to that?

What do any of us say to that?
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
She probably voted for Trump and she voted for almost all of his picks anyway, this is some rich cheesecake
November 14, 2024 at 3:00 AM