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#mudslinging

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Orange painted man doesn't give a shit about Lesotho, some water off the coast of Louisiana, Crimea, Panama, immigrants, or even fentanyl.

All he cares about is looking tough. His extremely needy ego demands that he boast of being the greatest. Everything real is just collateral damage.

"Democrats are really going to regret not standing up to Trump, not just because they’ll lose voters, but because they’ll lose a democratic system where having more voters is the way you gain power."

Brian Klaas‬ ‪

everyone shouts "cowardice!!! cowardice!!!"

but it takes nerves of steel to stand motionless as a psychopath raises a Samurai sword over his head fully intending to split your skull in two

which has been the Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries policy since 2016.

I pretty much always disagree with old man Chuck Schumer.

I pretty much always agree with young woman AOC.

but age and gender are NOT the relevant factors here. You can be old and smart. You can be male and correct about issue x or y.

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The result, after decades of mud landing on Democrats, is that the public believes they are far worse than the actual criminals.

The way out of this mess is to engage in politics. Do the work. Hurl the mud. And they don't even have to lie. Just telling the truth is enough.

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At its core politics is a fight for control of public opinion. One of the main weapons in this fight is called mud-slinging. It is the art of using your opponents' weaknesses against them.

For the last 40 years the Cons have been slinging mud fast and furious, without so much as taking a time out to drink some Gatorade.

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