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Samrob

(4,298 posts)
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:22 PM Nov 2022

So happy Dems are gearing up for "rapid response" to GOP lies they will be telling after Jan 3

And please be aware that Dem rapid response will be successful and effective ONLY IF MEDIA allows the forums, space, and time for public access to the Dem responses.

I have advocated for rapid response teams for Dems ever since Bill Clinton employed this method during his campaigns and all through his terms. I thought we lost a step during the the 2016 campaigns or rather, the MEDIA kneecapped HRC by giving most all the time to DT and GOP lies.

Biden teams is smart to be planning for reframing and refocusing the GOP bullshit. I hope they are planning for prime time responses as well.

Dark Brandon is the BOMB!!!

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Fullduplexxx

(7,858 posts)
1. The hacker, who recently leaked the DNC's opposition file on Trump, also posted what appears to be a
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:33 PM
Nov 2022

The hacker, who recently leaked the DNC’s opposition file on Trump, also posted what appears to be a donor spreadsheet of more than 17,000 names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, event names and dollar figures marked “Amount.” A sampling of phone numbers tested appeared to accurately match voicemails of the listed names. 
,,,

“The plan begins with setting the tone in Cleveland before the convention kicks off with activities previewing the most likely and outrageous falsehoods we expect to hear at the [convention],” the documents read.

...

The DNC hack already produced an opposition research report on Donald Trump. Guccifer 2.0 claims to be Romanian, but experts question his knowledge of Romanian from his attempts to speak his supposedly native tongue. Security experts also doubt that he is actually a single person; his hacking techniques bear the signatures of two separate government-affiliated Russian intelligence groups that appear to have performed separate phases of the attack. 

https://thehill.com/homenews/286784-dem-strategy-to-counter-gop-convention-leaked/

mopinko

(70,087 posts)
2. i hope they also plan their own investigations.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:47 PM
Nov 2022

u know that party is crawling w graft. didnt bobo come in broke, and now worth M's?
flyspeck every disclosure form, every financial statement, like an autopsy w/o benefit of death.

if we were like them, we'd use that info to own them. but i hope w at least haunt them.
if some dems get tarred too, so b it.

MichMan

(11,912 posts)
5. They should hire an army of private investigators to dig up dirt on the Republicans and their family
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 02:36 PM
Nov 2022

Maybe have it coordinated through a PAC. They want to go after Joe's kid, do the same back to them.

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
3. I wish they'd go on the offensive.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 02:14 PM
Nov 2022

Non stop offensive on any idiot GOP person on a commitee. DEM's should own the news cycle, not constantly play catch up.

MichMan

(11,912 posts)
4. When the Hunter BS investigations start, here is one strategy to use
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 02:34 PM
Nov 2022

Hunter and Joe have a joint press conference where they reiterate that they have never had any discussions between them about Hunter's business activites and refute the Republicans talking points one by one.

calimary

(81,220 posts)
6. Well, I HOPE they do!
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 03:31 PM
Nov 2022

But this isn’t the first time we’ve heard all about a Democrats’ “rapid response” plan that didn’t pan out. Barely made so much as a ripple in the pond.

Do they mean it, this time?

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,999 posts)
8. Counter-propaganda works when it is Targeted, Fast, True, and Easy
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 04:03 PM
Nov 2022

1) Targetted at the same audience that got the lie. Can be done through large media outlets. Don't have to get blocked on (un)Truth Social trying. Even magats know untruthsocial and twitter do not have all the reality.

2) Fast response: most of the lies they will tell are highly predictable. With content prepared (notice the "pre" in prepared), it can be got out very quickly. If done well, many people will see the debunking before swallowing the naked lie.

3) True: must be unassailable accurate and precise.

4) Easy to Comprehend: Direct, simple talk, with links and references at the end to actual facts (item 3).

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
9. the best counteroffensive for dems is to stop ignoring the GOP RW radio advantage and if not, this
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 04:40 PM
Nov 2022

nor any other dem strategy at messaging or counter messaging is pretty useless. EVERY major attack and lie by RW gets repeated on or starts on RW radio.

1500 coordinated radio stations are always louder than anything dems can do and it's all free and endorsed by hundreds of school and pro sports teams

they'd be better off using their donations to hire a few IT and AI ladies to apply the MIT Media Lab prototype using AI to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze all the major blowhards and whatever the locals are doing in every state. there is no better indicator of what the cons are planning or doing.

the lies they're trying to counter usually piggyback years of rw radio repetition. these guys are not going to do much even if they get help on tv.

GenThePerservering

(1,813 posts)
10. Sorry, but
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 05:24 PM
Nov 2022

IT and AI "ladies"? First of all we're women, not little 'ladies', and second of all, men can type and do dull collation, too.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
11. i was going to put 'guys' but women and girls could do it too and whatever time i thought i might
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 05:58 PM
Nov 2022

save has clearly been wasted many times over

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