I was listening to an episode recently where they talked about the Lincoln Project for a very long time. But they seemed to focus on the guy actually producing the ads and only once, while reading an excerpt from a bio, did they mention that the tea-party was koch funded. And then they go right back to talking about these ads as if they were a divine and inspired vision of some guy that just so happened to be a former tea-party dickhead.

The people who funded the tea party and rightwing protectionists. Globalism as a boogie man isnt just about thinly-veiled antisemitism, it's also about Koch, Malone and Kroenke not wanting to have to compete with foreign private equity in their scheme to take over every industry. These guys funded and promoted the tea party with their fossil fuel money and media empires. And now the Lincoln Project is the same exact rhetoric and being produced by the same exact people and it seems like people want the story to be the content of the ads instead of the rightwing dipshits behind it.

The way they talk about USPS is the same. They keep talking about whats happening to the USPS as though that has anything to do with how or why it's happening or how we can stop it. Fedex and UPS have been $10+ million a year for decades in an effort to privatize the industry and trump is just the only guy dirty enough to take the heat for it.

Fedex Owner - Frederick W. Smith

Lobbying Totals: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=d000000089&fbclid=IwAR1i048MvcLwAzOsSw3q4hZlEqEIpd_RlbnleTG9xYSJ091Tae8Ss75zMXI

UPS Owner - David P. Abney

Lobbying Totals: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lobbying?id=D000000081&fbclid=IwAR0JKZf1fWDHewDxfZNTA5rbcoBhUWtPMAeFfSb9aFiQSijZ1LJJeNY6Ln4

if the media (which the chaps are a part of) was framing this as "Look at these two actual people using their money to take away a public good" it could actually change things. I think we need to go on the offense and make every single political issue about the financials beneficiaries.

What the donors want is politics. What politicians say they believe is just pop culture.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    What’s common knowledge? That the Kochs funded the tea party? Is it common knowledge that the Kochs are probably funding the Lincoln Project? And that none of these movements are JUST the kochs? It’s the Kochs, Devos’, Malones, Kroenkes, etc…

    Yes, all of that is common knowledge.

    You thinking that koch-like figure in a movie is the same as actually vilifying the real life man

    I don't think that. I'm pointing out that if you're vilified in a mainstream movie for distorting politics with your money, then it's common knowledge that you distort politics with your money.

    We need to name-names on every issue, every single time.

    That would be tedious and unnecessary, because again, what you're describing is something everyone listening already knows. And for the few people who don't know, they still pepper it in every now and then.