Project Lincoln tweet: "Not knowing isn't an excuse, it's an indictment."

[Mrs. Overall]

Link to tweet

The Lincoln Project
@ProjectLincoln

The president "didn't hear" the man shout "White Power." The president "didn't see" the brief about Russia. The president "didn't know" about Juneteenth.

Not knowing isn't an excuse, it's an indictment.

[Nevilledog]

1. Absolutely!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Oh so true!!

Ignorance has never been a excuse.

[gademocrat7]

3. A stinging indictment.

[Mersky]

4. Yeah, he knew.

He knew all of it. The art of his deal is playing dumb. Has spent all his life mastering the, “I didn’t know” or “ never heard of it/him” in order to get away with immoral utterances and actions.

He will not take responsibility for anything, because we’re all just dupes begging to be taken advantage of.

[KS Toronado]

5. TRE45ON has been playing ignorant of everything most of his life, Sad for such a Stable Genius

Come Jan 2021 he's gonna find out the hard way you can't fool all of the people all of the time

[oldsoftie]

15. i sure hope so. Or Nov '19

[StClone]

6. Indictment of his followers' perspicacity too

Trump says he is super and always knows nothing is that possible?

[czarjak]

12. Wrong, but damned proud of it! Built-in.

[Joinfortmill]

7. He knew

[calimary]

8. ATTENTION, Democrats: THIS is how you do it.

Always aim below the belt. ALWAYS. Why try to spare them hurt feelings (or better yet, political damage that sticks)?

Until the bad guys start playing nice again, and playing by the rules, and playing in the name of widely-recognized FAIR PLAY, we can't afford to. And I think we better get used to doing it that way.

NO mercy. NO pulled punches. NO being nice. NO going easy. NO being diplomatic. Go ahead and SAY IT. You'll be saying what everybody else is thinking, except you're just making it formal and official and on the record.

ALWAYS think in terms of what words and wordings will fuck them up. Will force them into corners - the more uncomfortable the corners the better. Something they'll have to answer for or about, that they'd MUCH rather not. Stick it in their faces and force it down their throats. That they'll have a whale of a hard time justifying or arguing around or trying to change the subject from. That they DON'T have a comeback for.

And if they do, we have to start thinking WHAT that is, and HOW to respond to it and cut their comeback retorts off at the knees. You can usually find fault in their secondary or responsive "logic." You can usually find LOTS of vulnerability to punch holes in. Because they stand with That Guy Who Lies All The Time. So that by definition makes them liars, too.

[StClone]

9. Yes treat them like the scum they are and once elected

Do the right things for those who voted you in!

[oldsoftie]

16. With trump you HAVE to. A bully only understands bullying.

You cant beat him with taking the high road. Others, yes. Someone like Romney isnt going to call a reporter a nasty woman

[Ohio Joe]

10. K&R -nt

[Marcuse]

11. Indictment

[TheBlackAdder]

19. This is my favorite Sargeant Schultz scene, when Colonel Kink finds out who he is in civilian life.

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[efhmc]

13. 94.7K now.

[Hekate]

14. I'd like to shake that man's hand. KnR

[SiliconValley_Dem]

17. powerful riposte to their lame excuses

[Mr. Ected]

18. I think I foresee Trump's next pivot

Hey, of course I knew about all those things, I just SAID I didn't.

I WAS JOKING.

"So, Mr. President, if you in fact knew about those things and were just joking, why didn't you act upon the information?"





"it was just a joke. okay? just a joke"

[djacq]

20. TLP is on Trump like White on Rice.

[Cha]

21. RT.. it's also a Pack of LIES.

[uponit7771]

22. K&R, Recall Trump saying he wasn't briefed on CV19 too

[CaptainTruth]

23. At the risk of being alerted on ... I desperately wish Democrats were this good at messaging.

And I'm not talking about these particular things in this specific context, I'm talking about everything, always & ongoing.

I truly think the lack of ongoing sustained effective messaging is the biggest shortcoming of the entire Democratic political organization. We have superior policies that produce superior results & our opponents are some of the most corrupt failures in history, so effective messaging should be EASY. Republicans hand it to us on a silver platter all the time (see Lincoln Project message above for a perfect example) but I feel like our party leadership fails to take it seriously. They seem to think all we have to do is do good things for the American people & the majority will support us, but as we do that the GOP & right-wing media run messaging circles around us, establishing & dominating the narrative.

We have to start taking messaging seriously & realize that in today's media-saturated culture surrendering the narrative is akin to surrendering your cause.

[white cloud]

24. Axe Handle Saturday

The president "didn't hear" the man shout "White Power." The president "didn't see" the brief about Russia. The president "didn't know" about Juneteenth.

And RNC doesn't remember the "Axe Handle Saturday in August 13, 1960, Jacksonville FL."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ax_Handle_Saturday

[KPN]

25. Amazing that about 40% of Americans don't plainly see this obvious point. THE MSM

doesn't do much to help in this regard. Have I heard a journalist utter these words (not knowing isn't an excuse, it's an indictment) yet? Nope. (sigh)