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BillBrasky Memorial Political Chat Thread

TownieDeac said:
I’d also say you need to engage in a fair amount of (to borrow from tilt, which I find a little condescending) “vibes based” rhetoric too. Telling people the economy is doing great with unemployment rates and interest rates and stock market rates is fine for the voters you’ve already captured. It’d be nice to really hammer home that their grocery bill has been driven up by corporate greed, price fixing scandals, etc. The so called kitchen table issues. Lord knows republicans are unafraid to appeal to those “vibes based” thinkers.
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That is playing right into Trump's hands. People already know that most of the inflation is artificial. As you point out, (1) grocery inflation is artificial due to corporate price fixing. (2) Gas inflation is artificial to force conversion to electric. (3) Home inflation is artificial due to a variety of factors, many of which are artificial. Those are most people's 3 primary expenses, and they know this current rise is mostly for bullshit reasons. But if he comes out and says that, all Trump has to say is who let all this artificial inflation happen? All of the underlying factors are fake, but the result is real, and Biden has been impotent to stop or control it. It is all under his watch.

That seals Trump's victory. Especially when Trump adds the 4th index of American inflation: Chic-Fil-A. Why does it now cost $75 for a family of 4 to get some CFA? We told the mofo that this was going to happen with his idiotic minimum wages. So vote for me to get back to normal.

We are going to get 4 more years of Trump, which is awful. But if he focuses on this then Biden has no shot. He is the Matt Ryan of Presidents, it was unfathomable that he could piss away this much of a lead when all he had to do was be reasonably competent in one consistent area. But he managed to do it.
 
TownieDeac said:
The average American voter not only doesn’t read Politico, they don’t read Twitter, or have any consciousness whatsoever of this whole Stancil vs the left discourse...

I think your flat disregard for the take, simply for being on Twitter, is a bit elitist, and it’s worth addressing the message and not the medium.
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I think you're right about the first part.

But I don't think dismissing twitter takes as unserious is elitist. Lots of people that read Twitter tend to assume that's the only place where discourse is happening.
 
our family of 3 spends about $25-30 at CFA. heaven help us if we have another kid I guess.
 
I’ll give 2&2 the benefit of the doubt and assume most of that was satirical, such as “Home inflation is artificial due to a variety of factors, many of which are artificial.” Whole post really hammers home how bad at comedy the RW is.
 
wakephan09 said:
I think you're right about the first part.

But I don't think dismissing twitter takes as unserious is elitist. Lots of people that read Twitter tend to assume that's the only place where discourse is happening.
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I mean “that Twitter guy” to take from Kory, could be some illiterate serial killer or could be a serious academic. You’re just projecting a bias onto the application because you don’t like what it has produced societally. And again you can debate the merits of the message rather than the platform or the narrative that surrounds it, is the point.
 
Firing up the CFA app I see the #1 combo meal is $10.55. Looking for 1 desert I see a shake is $5.59. That total with tax is $17.70 so, gotta say, $75 doesn't sound far fetched for 4.
 
Would you like to see some other permutation to get to (or at least near) $75?
 
TownieDeac said:
The average American voter not only doesn’t read Politico, they don’t read Twitter, or have any consciousness whatsoever of this whole Stancil vs the left discourse. But they are probably aware that the welfare programs they benefitted from under Trump ended under Biden, and in their political consciousness it’s more than possible they assign Biden blame for not publicly doing more about that, rightly or wrongly so.

I think your flat disregard for the take, simply for being on Twitter, is a bit elitist, and it’s worth addressing the message and not the medium.
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fair

I have a larger beef with the medium because I'm a critical media scholar and I didn't communicate that well

probs time for me to take a break from here anyway since I'm not really adding anything
 
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