... is what is happening in America's political culture.
In the past, we dirty proles didn't have direct access to our elected officials. We heard from them through the information gatekeepers in the press. At the same time, the press had a vested interest in showing the politicians enough respect to keep them coming back to their news programs or giving quotes to fill column-inches in the newspapers.
Reporters, editors and news show hosts couldn't pull down the politicians' pants with impunity. If you got a reputation for being snide and insulting, your sources dried up and your management fired you because you couldn't fill airtime or newsprint.
X has changed all that. Dig this.
'We're just trying to get disaster relief to the people who need it.' pic.twitter.com/imrICRJ32q
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) December 19, 2024
That smug, sneering delivery of utter tripe is coming from an old school pol who is accustomed to talking to her toadies at NPR, CNN, MSNBC, etc. She hasn't yet come to grips with the fact that she is now speaking directly to the public, a public which is peppered with interlocutors who know far more than she does and have a much higher IQ.
That's a recipe for a spanking. She was given that spanking in ample measure. 6000 quote tweets and 19,000 comments later, it's safe to say she was dragged to oblivion by the public. The old model of information distribution had her talking to respectful reporters who may or may not have understood basic math and the mechanics of lawmaking. In the new model, she's talking to a swarm of educated citizens whose hybrid information sources have armed them to the teeth to defeat her infantile, insipid blackmail.
She still has that grotesque smile so common to the progressives, though.
Not much longer, methinks.
Bonus Take
If the Democrats think their winning message is to scornfully talk about Elon Musk while making transparently dishonest arguments like this, more power to them. Elon runs a company that launches massive rockets and then catches them in mid air. These cretins have brought us to the brink of financial ruin because they simply refuse to do their most basic task, budgeting.
2 comments:
Unfortunately, I can't agree completely. While I agree she was hiding behind disaster relief to pass one last pork filled spending spree, I don't think her days are numbered.
Looking at the election results. She got 58% of the vote for Vermont's only representative. Bernie got 63% or so. Things might be changing a bit, as the governor and lt gov are both Republican/Libertarian. But I bet she's in congress for a long time to come, "fighting the good fight" or some such. I bet she becomes the front runner for the senate when Bernie dies, since you know he'll never retire.
I think you're right, particularly in her case. She looks like she's in a solid blue seat and is therefore safe. What I'm suggesting is that the model of communications has changed. Wouldn't you think that the way they form their pitches change as well?
Yelling about billionaires buying the government and how Elon is the devil worked when you were talking to Joy Reid and no one else. Today, however, Joy has almost no reach and the best platform for comms is X. If you go on X and try to sell this nonsense, you get epically dragged.
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