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[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 56 points 5 hours ago (23 children)

Another way to view this is that the poor are voting republican now. Trump won those making less than $100,000 handedly while Harris won those making above. Probably because he's offering them a solution to there problems, deport the immigrants and bring manufacturing back. His plan is dumb and won't work but at least he's putting something forward unlike Harris who says everything will stay the same.

The democrats are slowly becoming the party of the out of touch elite, and memes like this don't help. The democrats need to be putting forward solutions to those problems, and trump has shown it doesn't matter if they're viable or will actually help. If these "dumb poor people are rubes who will fall for anything" give them something to fall for. Say your going to tax the billionaires at 50% and use that money to pay for Healthcare and child care, don't cozy up to them so you can raise another billion dollars to lose another election .

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Say your going to tax the billionaires at 50% and use that money to pay for Healthcare and child care, don't cozy up to them so you can raise another billion dollars to lose another election .

That was basically Harris' tax plan.

What Would Kamala Harris's Tax Plans Mean For You? | Kiplinger - https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/kamala-harriss-tax-plans-2024

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter what your platform is if it's not communicated effectively to the median voter

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 29 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

How do you communicate effectively to someone with their fingers in their ears screaming nananananananana? Please advise, oh political oracle.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You go on Joe Rogan for one. Kamala ran the last presidential campaign that will ever rely so heavily on the legacy media apparatus. This whole cycle proved that they are only broadcasting to themselves and real people are elsewhere on podcasts, twitter and YT.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

She did go on Call Her Daddy.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

With all the fucking TV ads and mailers the campaign spent billions on. If the average voters is just covering there ears then why spend so much on advertising or why even campaign at all? Yeah some people are like that but they're deep in the maga cult, there's still a large amount of people open to both sides if the messaging is right that decided this election. Harris' messaging didn't work though.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I mean the marketing was effective. A lot of people including Donald trump thought he was going to lose. Just not effective at getting people who support Biden to get off their ass.

[–] yogi_pogi@lemmy.world -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, now that you made fun of the prior commenter, we have convinced the world and now Kamala is president?

Bernie is fucking right.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] yogi_pogi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You lumped a huge percentage of people as putting their fingers in their ears.

Maga is going to vote maga. And there's a huge chunk that didn't vote or were surprised Biden dropped out. Those folks didn't put their fingers in their ears. Like Bernie said, they were ignored.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

People who were surprised 5 months after Biden dropped out didn't have their fingers in their ears in your version of the world? I think you and I mean very different things by that phrase.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Who do you think the people putting their fingers in their ears are, in this case?

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 hours ago

Check out leopards eating faces for the next few years..those people, whether it's moms surprised the education department is again going to punish their kids, Muslims surprised trump hates Muslims and wants them eradicated, EV company owners who think being allowed to support means being part of the narcissists inner circle, Latinos shocked that their friends or family members there illegally won't get special protections no matter how many times McCarthy rears his head.

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