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Gregorio Enrique Sandoval's avatar

Gee, that must be why Trump has always been doing so badly in all the polls, why his rallies in and visits to deep blue states draw only the same handfuls of people who show up at Hillary, Biden, and Kamala appearances in those same states, and why he’s never managed to make inroads into the captive minority populations of the Democrat Party in a way that would scare the shit out of them because of what that means for voter turnout. < /sarc >

Of course, the reason for the “out messaging” by the Dems could be what is the exact opposite of the above.

It could be because they are desperately trying to pour it on in an attempt to stop the hemorrhaging of support for their party.

Here’s the bottom line: it’s not what they are saying or how much they are saying it, it’s the context in which they are saying it.

An increasingly large number of people of all demographics are ever more fully aware of the bullshit that is the Democrat Party.

Increasing their number of ads only reinforces, it doesn’t change, that awareness.

Suddenly flip-flopping positions or trying to steal Trump’s ideas only increases the awareness of their fundamental duplicity.

It’s like this: People who have actually caught their significant other cheating on them will NOT be swayed by increased numbers of protests to the contrary.

Why? Because they know what they know.

They will not disregard what they know because the unfaithful one is telling them that their knowledge is unreliable.

Why?

Because they know the only ones who stand to benefit from their treating their own knowledge as unreliable are the ones who have already demonstrated themselves to be unreliable.

They will not be convinced by the increased volume of pledges of undying love and fidelity pouring out of the pie-hole of those who lied to them.

Why?

Because they’ve already seen them shit all over that love and fidelity.

So with the increased volume of “messaging,” what has changed? Not the past. Not the manipulation. Not the lies.

But what HAS changed is the reaction TO that messaging: Increased disgust. Increased certainty of the true depth of the unfaithfulness. Increased word to those near and dear to them to steer clear of the cheaters and not to believe a word they say.

And THAT is when the increased messaging of the Democrats actually benefits those opposing them.

Why?

Because they are actually demonstrating what those opposing them have been saying and their former supporters have been seeing.

When the Democrats crank up the volume of “We are the party of law and order.” Those hearing them will think, “Yeah, the corrupted law of Letitia James and Judge Engoran, of Alvin Bragg, the DOJ, and Judge Merchan, of Fani “Gorilla-grip Pussy” Willis, of unlawfully-appointed Jack Smith unlawfully using a DC grand jury to supply charges for a Florida jurisdiction, George Soros-bought state attorneys-general, DAs, and prosecutors letting hundreds of thousands of rioters and thieves in 2020 off the hook. The “order” of “the agenda of our party over all others,” especially the order of our communities getting disrupted and impoverished by the tens of millions your party has been bringing in by planes, trains, and automobiles.”

When the Democrats ramp up their claims that “our economy is strong,” those hearing them will think, “Your economy is strongly against our welfare. How do we know? Because your inflation is resulting in our poverty.”

When the Democrats loudly scream about Trump being an “existential threat to democracy” and that they have made democracy safe, those hearing them will think, “Trump won in 2020 and it wasn’t vote fairies in the middle of the night stealing the election from him. And you guys talking about “democracy” shit all over the votes of the Democrat primary voters who voted for Biden and you’re just handing the presidential candidacy for President and all the money donated to the candidate of their choice to the woman who dropped out before the first Democrat primary in 2020? That’s not “democracy.” That’s just more anti-voter Democrat theft.”

So, sure, there are some true believers who will accept whatever those oppressing them say, but as others have said when being told a rich but unpopular candidate is spending way more in advertising than they are, “Make them spend it all.”

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Lone Star's avatar

Trump needs to get precise and specific regarding how he is going to accomplish his goals.

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