#Rachel Bitecofer

[porterdavis]

[tomorrowusa]

Negative campaigning works. Liberals need to get less squeamish about it if they don't want Dictator Don back in power. We made some progress with that in the 2022 midterms but we need it even more now.

The purpose of negative campaigning is not simply slinging mud at your opponent and hoping something sticks; it's slightly more subtle than that.

The point is to draw a clear distinction between yourself and the opponent. You draw that distinction by using a broad brush. Making the opponent politically unattractive takes less effort and goes a lot further than magnifying your own positive traits. Of course you can still point out all the good stuff you've done; but it's necessary to deeply contrast that with the catastrophe which the opponent would bring.

Political scientist Rachel Bitecofer wrote a book about "beating Republicans at their own game" and dropped by MSNBC to discuss how to apply negativity to 2024.

One thing she indirectly hints at is the need for repetition. Just saying something once and hoping that it sinks in shows a serious lack of understanding of advertising. Whether you are selling detergent or medicare for all, you need to repeat your message until it becomes part of the aural landscape.

Not everybody is a political junkie and if your message is not striking then it will not carry beyond your bubble.

So be credibly negative in a distinctive way and make sure your message is repeated often enough to leave an impression.

[calicojack1718]

Election 2024: Mocking MAGA Ridiculousness Key to Saving Democracy, Who Knew?

SUMMARY: The insightful political analyst Rachel Bitecofer offers some advice to Democrats who are trying to save our democracy by defeating Republican fascism in November 2024. Most of it revolves around how the Republicans have spent billions and decades building an anti-democratic information infrastructure to reify their misinformation and disinformation about the country, the media,…

[little-hilltop-library]

[garudabluffs]

Top Strategist has KEYS to CRUSH Trump and MAGA Once and FOR ALL

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

yeah let me walk people through so they understand I'm

5:26 not arguing at all that you have to lie because luckily for us Republican party as it stands today is a walking talking shit

5:32 show I mean the things that we're telling people they want to do are are put out an official campaign materials

5:38 by the Trump campaign okay so it's not like we're lying or making things up right so what the point of the book is

5:45 is to get under people to understand as you just said right we're liberals we

5:50 we're kind people we don't like to do this

Mar 5, 2024

America is dealing with an existential threat in the 2024 election. It’s not Republican or Democrat, it’s democracy or autocracy, and we can’t screw it up. Which is why I’m pleased to be joined by political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitecofer to talk about her new book “Hit Em Where it hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game”. This is a powerful conversation about winning when we don’t have the luxury of losing.

VIDEO 56:30

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/hit-em-where-it-hurts-urges-dems-to-go-on-the-attack-against-republicans/vi-BB1hW7t1

‘Debate and Switch’: Jimmy Kimmel Gets Trump Supporters to Reveal Blatant Hypocrisy in Wild Segment

Story by Joe DePaolo 2 min read

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/debate-and-switch-jimmy-kimmel-gets-trump-supporters-to-reveal-blatant-hypocrisy-in-wild-segment/ar-BB1iS18o

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Review: Hit 'Em Where It Hurts

Review: Hit 'Em Where It Hurts by Rachel Bitecofer from Crown Publishing #politics #democrats #progressives #winning

I love politics. I hate my political party. I’m a registered Democrat because I hate the GOP worse. The GOP’s moral cowardice towards Trump and their support of Eric Greitens pushed me from independent to registered Democrat. And that, in short, is how politics in the U.S. truly works. We don’t vote for our team; we vote against the other team. Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts by Rachel Bitecofer takes…

[the-forest-library]

May 2024 Reads

Ready or Not - Cara Bastone

Playing for Keeps - Jennifer Dugan

Right on Cue - Falon Ballard

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Alexandria Bellefleur

Happily Never After - Lynn Painter

Check & Mate - Ali Hazelwood

Love at First Book - Jen McKinlay

Lavash at First Sight - Taleen Vaskuni

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame - Olivia Ford

The Book of Doors - Gareth Brown

Harriet the Invincible - Ursula Vernon

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett

The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis

Summer: A Solstice Story - Kelsey E. Gross

Dalmartian - Lucy Ruth Cummins

Mr. Postmouse's Rounds - Marianne Dubuc

Mr. Postmouse Takes a Trip - Marianne Dubuc

Bunny's Book Club Goes to School - Annie Silvestro

Yours in Books - Julie Falatko

Be Prepared - Vera Brosgol

Perfect Example - John Porcellino

Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man - John Porcellino

King-Cat Comics and Stories #74 - John Porcellino

Hawkeye, Volume 4 - Matt Fraction

She-Hulk, Volume 4 - Rainbow Rowell

One Star Wonders - Mike Lowery

My Good Life in France - Janine Marsh

My Four Seasons in France - Janine Marsh

The Backyard Bird Chronicles - Amy Tan

90s Bitch - Allison Yarrow

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered - Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

The Land Before Time Management: ADHDinos - Ryan Keats

ADHD is Awesome - Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness

The Planets - Dave Sobel

The Secret History of Bigfoot - John O'Connor

The Age of Magical Overthinking - Amanda Montell

Everyday Vitality - Samantha Boardman

The Autoimmune Cure - Sara Gottfried

The Anxiety Reset Method - Georgie Collinson

Hit 'Em Where It Hurts - Rachel Bitecofer

Bite by Bite - Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Cooking in Real Life - Lidey Heuck

Seriously So Good - Carissa Stanton

Bold = Highly Recommend

Italics = Worth It

Crossed Out = Nope Thoughts:  Favorite fiction of the month: Ready or Not, which takes a whole bunch of tropes I don't love, but makes me love them. Loved the audiobook narrator, as well.

Favorite non-fiction of the month: Bite by Bite, which is a love letter to food and family. Check it out if you like Ross Gay.

Goodreads Goal: 192/200 2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads | 2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads

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PBS Propaganda Show ‘Deadlock’ Frames People Concerned About Elections As Nutters

‘Deadlock’ was a propaganda piece, designed to tell Americans that if your neighbors question the way elections are run, they are crazy.

If the PBS television special, “Deadlock: An Election Story” really wanted to have a conversation about how politically polarized Americans can find common ground, it should have had more political diversity on its panel.

“The current climate of American discourse finds us deeply entrenched and overconfident in our own beliefs,” said moderator Aaron Tang, a left-leaning law professor at the University of California-Davis said in a statement promoting the show. “Deadlock aims to illuminate how, for many of the difficult challenges facing our nation, the honest answers are nuanced and complex. Our goal is to spark open-mindedness and help people find the middle ground instead of retreating to our usual corners.”

But the show retreated the usual corners for two reasons: the premise of the discussion had a left-leaning tone, and the discussion featured mostly Democrats or left-leaning panelists, including:

Rachel Bitecofer, a Democratic political strategist; 

Adrian Fontes, the Democrat Arizona secretary of state; 

left-leaning Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., the James S. McDonnell professor of African American studies at Princeton University; 

left-leaning Astead Herndon, a national politics reporter at The New York Times;

Democrat Jeh C. Johnson, former secretary of Homeland Security and former general counsel to the Department of Defense; 

Elise Jordan, of NBC/MSNBC, an anti-Trump political analyst;

Katie Harbath, a Republican who has said she never voted for Trump and a former Facebook executive who supported the decision to ban Trump from the platform;

Russell Moore, editor in chief of Christianity Today and well-known author of anti-Trump missives;

Mick Mulvaney, former acting White House Chief of Staff for Trump who quit the administration; and

Republican Kris Kobach, Kansas’ attorney general.

Tang led panelists through an imaginary presidential election day in the imaginary battleground state of Middlevania, where the polls are very close. Panelists did some role-playing and said how they would respond to certain scenarios.

[maximilianarmada]

This was a low blow. Definitely homophobic. 

[porterdavis]

Of course, Trump demonstrated with his family separation policy that 'humanitarian' niceties means nothing to him.

[the-sayuri-rin]

wtaf

[bschoo]

Truly frightening.

[earthboundvalkyrie]

Feb. 25 - Neo-Nazi Groups Plan National Day of Hate

New Post has been published on https://www.ebvs.blog/2023/02/24/feb-25-neo-nazi-groups-plan-national-day-of-hate/

Feb. 25 - Neo-Nazi Groups Plan National Day of Hate

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

From CounterExtremism.com:

According to Telegram posts located by Counter Extremism Project (CEP) researchers, several neo-Nazi groups in certain locations in the United States are planning an antisemitic “National Day of Hate” on Saturday, February 25. The participants are identified as the National Socialist Movement, two regional active club chapters in Iowa and California, and a small New York-based group. Other groups around the country may also be participating. The announcement post on Telegram encouraged propaganda activities such as dropping banners, putting up stickers and fliers, and vandalism through graffiti.

While activities such as those listed in the announcement are bad enough, there is always the concern that some participants will decide to go beyond the suggested actions.

The Telegram announcement cites 4 groups as the participants, but, clearly, the purpose of the announcement is to get others involved as well. Police in Chicago and New York City have said that they are monitoring the situation:

The Chicago Police Department said in a statement on Thursday, “At this time, there is no actionable intelligence,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “We continue to actively monitor the situation.”

[…]

A similar statement by the NYPD circulating online said that officers should maintain “elevated situational awareness” on Saturday – the Jewish Sabbath – for violent extremism.

[…]

While an NYPD spokesperson said while there are currently no credible threats, “out of an abundance of caution, the Department will deploy additional resources to sensitive locations, including houses of worship, throughout the weekend,” according to local news.

I’ve written a few posts lately on the issue of creeping fascism, the growing assault by state legislative and executive bodies taking aim at progressive ideas in schools, workplaces and society at large. Here, the fascism isn’t creeping. This “National Day of Hate” is in-your-face fascism intended to keep the public – and in this case, especially our Jewish neighbors – afraid of the extreme right-wing.

Jews have long faced significant anti-Semitic hate. In just one recent example, a twitter user, Rachel Bitecofer, posted a video of a man at an intersection, yelling hateful messages through a bullhorn at any car he thought was carrying Jews. Other common actions have included the desecration of graves, graffiti and vandalism at synagogues and other Jewish centers, the distribution of flyers throughout neighborhoods and, of course, attacks and murders.

Their goal is fear, and the extremists know that the more we fear them, the more power they have. Yes, caution is necessary when combating hate, but fear is not. One of the best ways to combat activities such as this is to keep your eyes open and if you see people participating in hateful activities, report it. For Feb. 25th, when this specific initiative is planned, keep a special look out for synagogues and Jewish Civic Centers or other Jewish gathering places. If you aren’t able to do that – for whatever reason – please at least spread the word so others can. Let’s help shove the fascists back under the rock they crawled out from.

[scottiestoybox]

This is the world Der Santis and the Nazi republicans want to build in the US as a national force.

This is the America Republicans are making 👇 pic.twitter.com/So41wMMoBV— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) February 22, 2023   This is the America Republicans are making 👇 https://t.co/So41wMMoBV This is Orlando, just a few days ago. His name is Jon Minadeo from an antisemitic group. It happened at the Chabad in South Orlando, Feb 17, 2023. https://t.co/MInY3q938D— BBoxart 🏝️🧢…