Amanda Carpenter
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Aug
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And they all know it, too. If you read the news stories on them, they all know he's not a good candidate. He's not doing the work.
Or just anything that isn't close to Trump's margins. Trump blew the seed out. If this is less than 10 points, I think the Democrats should really shove it in their face.
No, just everybody take care of yourself. I think I've said this pretty consistently. It's always my mantra. This is going to be a long four years. I do think, because I am optimistic about our ability to overcome it, but I do think right now through summer, if things go well, will be the hardest time. This is Oh Gott, das ist Optimismus.
Ich fühle mich nicht so gut, aber großartig. Ich hoffe, du hast recht.
Yeah.
I'm hanging in there. How are you doing, Tim?
You know, I think the only goal of the responses, any of the responses to the speech last night had to be make it a bigger spectacle than the speech itself. And none of them really succeeded in doing that. So... A little F for you. Yeah.
You know, I think... You're probably right that there was nothing in the room or even online they could have done in the moment. But I kind of wish that if they were going to try something, they had made a bigger deal out of it or at least been more organized.
This one-off holding up the signs, the pink suits, the sort of boring speech after, which was so late at night that who watches that anyway? It was probably a lose-lose. But if they were going to try, I wanted them to go bigger.
The target audience for that was no one under the age of 48, 47.
A few Never Trumper elder millennials, and that's about it. Which is fine. That's an audience that needs pandering to, too. Not my cup of tea. And I think not quite speaking to a lot of the Democratic bases right now. But that's okay. Not everything has to be for everyone.
You know, I think it's good to give them credit for trying stuff. And I saw that like Elon and a bunch of the right wing influencers were lifting it up, which means they were all lifting up, you know, visual images that were like shit that ain't true about Trump and talking about prices. So in that sense, I think it's good to like farm a little outrage.
Is it the most effective social media content? Probably not. But baby steps in the right direction is better than like baby steps in the wrong direction.
I think AOC pretty typically is one of the better ones in which it seems so authentic. You know, I think Chris Murphy's stick is not always for me, but it does seem true to him. And I appreciate that. Like he seems genuinely furious and is communicating that in a way that really works.
Other than that, I think we've still got a lot of like wide open field for people to step up, which is again, chaos is a ladder. Climate Democrats, just fucking climate.
Well, it's because when they're not mad, it makes us feel like the crazy ones for being mad. I don't want to be gassed. My rage is not misplaced. It is not invalid. It is totally legitimate. And if my elected leaders aren't showing that, or if they're like, oh, calm down. We're going to talk about the price of eggs. There's not an election for this shit for another 18 months. Be mad right now.
And then channel my fury into something good. But be mad with me. It will make me feel better.
This is since Trump's first inauguration days. We've been on eight years.
I think that we have to, like, we Democrats have to mentally and practically prepare to win big in 2026, which feels like an insane thing to say right now. And the way we do that is by preparing to field as many candidates as possible for as many of these races as possible. And that recruitment work is happening now. Now. in a district that a Democrat had never competed in.
In the, like, 50 years since they had drawn these maps, there had never been a Democrat on the ballot there. She ran. She won. Because as it turns out, in a year where there is a wave election, giving people an alternative will allow someone else to show up and, like, actually take power. We have had this happen so many times over the years.
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