We are one hundred days out from the November 3rd election.
Normally, the first one hundred days of power for the president are the most significant. What do they call it? The honeymoon period, or something like that.
You know, a time of grace where - normally - a president and his incoming administration are given the benefit of the doubt. I don’t want to talk about how this insufferable boor and his minions were treated from Day One. They deserved it.
That’s not the point of THIS diatribe.
We need all hands on deck from now until Election Day and I am going to spitball a few things all of us can do off the top of my head.
Yesterday, I reminded everyone for the umpteenth time to use your megaphone with your representatives. As often as possible. Daily is terrific. Every now and then is good. Eloquence or knowledge is not necessary. I use Resistbot but there are plenty of other methods including the good old U.S. Mail. Postcards work. It does not have to be fancy letterhead nor do you need to use the King’s English.
If you are on the Evil Empire of social media platforms, you should cowboy, cowgirl or cow person up and start exposing all of the “persuadables” in your public news feed with hard-hitting video content from Meidas Touch, Don Winslow, Really American and The Lincoln Project. You should be spreading these videos far and wide on every social media platform you visit.
I know many of you fear being political on a site that also engages your family. Post them without comment. Turn off the comments. Put your fingers in your ears and go - lalalalalalalala - until the election is over.
The transnational crime family in the White House is going to flood everybody’s news feed soon enough with their propaganda. I know it is already happening, but I mean - literally - flood. The troll farms all over the world are then going to amplify their narrative. We need a counter narrative done well. The sites above are doing that.
Now, I know Randy Rainbow and Sarah Cooper and the late night talk show hosts are humorous but video scenes of paramilitary goons beating a Navy vet, the same militia creeps “disappearing” ordinary citizens and our baffled leader muttering, “Person, woman, man, camera, tv” as if it were the explanation of pi, drive the point home.
I don’t remember a single GOP political ad that tried to win over converts by being funny. GOP ads try to scare the living shit out of you.
Watch The Great Hack. There are “persuadables” out there.
Join your local Indivisible group. They are all over the country. They will keep you informed as to what is going on in your community.
If the pandemic continues and you are without work, go to one of the swing states and volunteer to Get Out the Vote. Take a friend with you. Make it a fun road trip. Rick Wilson, a down and dirty political operative who usually works for the GOP, wrote in his book that we should forget about the states not in play. He warned Democrats to remember it is ALL about the Electoral College. We have to win some of those states we lost in 2016.
You can also GOTV via text message. Wow! From the comfort of your couch while you binge watch Community! Check out Demcast or Resistance Labs.
We have one hundred days to make a difference. One hundred days to defeat and, hopefully, humiliate not only the callous oaf and his family of ne’erdowells in the Oval Office, but every conservative running for office under the banner of white supremacy, disaster capitalism and fuck #MeToo-ism (*See Ted Yoho R-FL.)
One other thing you can do if you can’t bring yourself to do ANY of the others:
Donate - at least - $17.76 to worthy candidates or causes.
That’s what a Patriot would do.
Meidas Touch https://meidastouch.com
Really American https://reallyamerican.com
The Lincoln Project https://lincolnproject.us
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