This, right here, is how you make an anti-GOP attack ad.

[WilliamPitt]

[edhopper]

1. Wow

hope it goes viral.

[mercuryblues]

2. Wow

is right.

[GeorgeGist]

5. I saw that

[es35]

61. Here is good anti-GOP bumper sticker for all of us

Life is not good

When the rich can buy our democracy

[calimary]

64. Welcome to DU, es35!

Last edited Tue Oct 14, 2014, 11:41 AM - Edit history (2)

Glad you're here! It's a HUMDINGER of a campaign commercial. Evidently put forward by a Democratic-leaning outfit called the Agenda Project:

http://agendaproject.org/what_we_do.html

Man, I'm gonna watch these people. They just hit one all the way to Mars. It occurred to me that if I have to narrow the focus of my campaign donations - since there's no way I can afford to support every campaign, candidate, and worthy cause/organization that I wish I could, a group like THIS is what to support. If we can win decisively on the propaganda war front, maybe a lot of those individual campaigns and causes and candidates and organizations might be furthered - anyway. Just systemically.

THIS is the kind of one-minute spot that "catapults the propaganda" in the OTHER direction, for a change - the way WE want it to go. It goes straight for the jugular of the whole republi-CON/reagan era world view - how government is only there to cut. Gummnt BAAAAAD. Starve the beast. Shrink it down so small you can drown it in - well, a puddle of Ebola. Happy NOW, grover norquist? All we've heard for the past 30+ years is cut cut cut, more cuts more cuts more cuts. Cuts in funding and tax cuts for the rich which are all financed by still MORE cuts in funding. No government! Government bad! Government off your back! Cut it back! Cut it back! And then cut it back some more! And unfortunately, sometimes it's with a myopic meat-axe like the sequester, and you get thoughtless, reckless, short-sighted, idiotic cuts, penny-wise/pound-EXTREMELY-foolish cuts and the NIH and CDC daring to point out that we might have had a vaccine for this scary new disease by now if it wasn't all about cuts cuts cuts cuts cuts and more cuts in research funding - over a DECADE...

That's the the mindset, the thinking (the STINKING thinking) that has to be reversed. Shut down. Done AWAY with. We have to take our fellow citizens' BRAINS back. Their thinking and reasoning. They've been conditioned and brainwashed into this shit being gooo-ooood. And look what's happened!

Let's see, as long as we're at it, what else?
There might be more staffers at these hospitals, to better spread and facilitate the "buddy system" approach to protecting health care workers from exposure to virus.
Texas is getting to be just fine with gravel roads. GRAVEL roads!
Our infrastructure is slowly but surely deteriorating - that means bridges, highways, and city streets.
We still have levees needing attention. Forgot Katrina so soon? This could become even more critically important in the years ahead, as global warming promotes more melting of the polar caps and a rise in ocean levels.
Our children are going hungry.
Our infant mortality is up.
Our youth can't afford college, loans are sky high, and programs to assist are always on the endangered species list.
Our state budgets can't absorb the problems that come from tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, wild and catastrophic and increasingly unpredictable weather conditions, droughts, algae blooms, toxic dumps, freak explosions, mudslides, landslides, forest fires, oil spills, lightening strikes, and other problems, let alone Ebola. And what about that other virus now, too?
Our poor are falling farther behind with fewer resources to help them.
Our health care infrastructure is strained to the max as privatizing encourages cuts in staffing so those left on the job have to do more with less.
Our post offices are in the cross-hairs.
Let's sneer at the exhorbitant folly of studying volcanos - until a big one blows up unexpectedly in Europe and cripples the airline industry first on that continent and soon enough, across the globe. RIGHT, bobby jindal?
Hospitals can't stay open.

We could go on all night like this, listing all the stuff.

Penny-wise, POUND-FOOLISH!!!

We have to roll THAT back. THAT is what has to change. THAT is what has to be --- wait for it --- CUT.

Otherwise we can never really hope to see many decent candidates voted into office or causes advanced or policy issues gain higher priority. We have to change the public mindset. We have to ruin the GOP brand. Truly. We have to shit on THEIR brand. Make it stink to high heaven! Turn it into something that people speak about with a curled lip (the way the bad guys DID do quite a hose job on the word "liberal&quot .

MAN, is this EVER a case of attacking somebody at their strength (kkkarl rove's favorite strategy).

This needs to run on every TV station in America. And this needs to be - just the beginning.

on edit - add: HERE IS WHERE YOU CAN DONATE, if you feel so inclined (my last few bucks. Went HERE this morning):

http://apaction.com

http://agendaproject.org/give

[stopwastingmymoney]

68. +1

Damn that was good! Excellent post.

You're absolutely right, our side (party?) has sucked at messaging for a long time. One great thing about social media, even a small group has the ability to reach a large audience.

[aquart]

74. I especially love that it plays off the panic fomented by the right wing.

[12AngryBorneoWildmen]

88. Excellent 'Nutshell'!

Will share.

[calimary]

89. Thought of another one: "REVERSE THE CURSE!"

The "CURSE" is the legacy of ronald reagan. With it, we are CURSED. America is CURSED. We are dealing with a curse that's worse than ANY Ebola affliction. And it's spread faster and farther than even Ebola has. It has infected our country for THIRTY YEARS. Study the Powell Memo to see how they did it, how the curse began, how they spread it, how they nurtured it and grew it and helped it spread like the cancer it's become.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

This Agenda Project ad is the first offensive move I've seen, coming from ANYWHERE in our side, that attempts to address the underlying foundation of what's happened, the underlying greed and willful short-sightedness, and what (and how) the GOP is fucking this country for the sake of a very elitist and uber-wealthy few. It needs to be said, read, and SPREAD!!!

THIS is how we fight. THIS is how we fight back. THIS is how we smack the enemy across the teeth with a fucking radioactive poison-tipped 2x4. THIS is how mean, nasty, ruthlessly, and take-no-prisoners-aggressively we HAVE TO fight, at this point, if we're gonna save this country. I'm gonna do everything I can to help and to spread the word.

[aquart]

73. No man should be so rich he has nothing left to buy but his government.

[gratuitous]

3. But it's so mean!

Blaming people's deaths on political decisions - that's just so mean (when Democrats do it). Where's the balance? Why don't they talk about how many jobs were created by the budget cuts? Why don't they talk about how the tax dollars for research might involve fetal stem cells, which would encourage abortion (somehow), and then those slutty-slut-sluts would just have more sex so they could have more unwanted pregnancies, and then they could have more abortions? Not even one word about fat lesbians, either!

Quit being so me-e-e-e-e-ean!!!11!!Eleventy-one!!

[Frustratedlady]

8. Mean would be if the ad had a cell door slam at the end...kind of a reminder

of where the Republicans should be for having messed with people's lives when it comes to sending the military into wars for false reasons, dictating women's healthcare, letting our infrastructure crumble and now, this situation with ebola and other health issues.

They should go down in history as the meanest and laziest Congress in history.

[jmowreader]

43. They DO talk about how many jobs were created by the budget cuts

You just didn't hear it because none were.

[Dan de Lyons]

84. IRS Form 1120 - corp tax - shows the tax-cutters to be liars

Tax cuts increase the final net corporate profit that goes to stockholders. Tax increases reduce the final net profit. It is clearly obvious on the tax form:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1120.pdf

(Hope this link works all right - I've never done this before.)

On the other hand, the more a corporation pays out in salaries and wages, the lower is its taxable income. So a lower tax is paid. Profits are less. Just the opposite of what happens when there are tax cuts.

Ask a Republican to explain it. I surely must be mistaken.

[jmowreader]

93. Kind of the right idea but not really

The RW theory: if the government gives a company a tax cut, the company will spend its new benevolence on hiring.

And if the government gives the rich a tax cut, companies that report taxes on their owners' personal tax forms will spend their benevolence on hiring.

Reality: Businesses create jobs (as opposed to replacing workers who quit, died or whatever) for one reason only: there's more work than current staff can handle. They don't hire people who will have nothing to do, which is what the "tax cuts create jobs" meme suggests.

Before we go on, there was one tax cut that did create jobs: Kennedy's. He backed us out of wartime taxation at the dawn of the machine age. The cut was simultaneously large enough to allow serious private investment to happen - and small enough to let the government go on shooting men into outer space and covering the nation with four-lane divided highways. The conditions surrounding that cut will never happen again.

The government is the biggest consumer in America, and their spending has three distinguishing marks: they spend in the private sector, they buy American and they buy a lot. The government doesn't buy a car - they buy ten thousand of them. They don't buy a can of beans, they buy four truckloads. Government spending causes shifts to be added at factories. And tax cuts stifle this beneficial spending. Go through the government's U3 and U6 stats: every time there's a tax cut, unemployment rises.

The far right claims an individual can spend his money better than the government can. Wrong answer: not even the Walton family can buy enough cars to make Ford add a night shift, but the government does it every year.

Since they don't hire with tax cuts, you may wonder what corporations do with these riches bestowed by the benevolent feds. In many cases, they use them to trash the economy. Corporations invest, and in many cases they invest in the Mitt Romneys of the world. In others, they buy companies themselves. Ever wonder why there hasn't been a new brand of anything but craft beer in years? A long time ago, a company that wanted to sell sausages would hire a sausage chef, dream up a name and build a factory. Now they buy out another company, fire the workers and move the sausage machine into their own factory.Jobs are lost and communities devastated.

Responsible government spending, which is the majority of it, does more for the economy as a whole than tax cuts can.

[kentuck]

4. I'm gonna pass this on to Alison.

She needs all the help she can get against the blocking Turtle...

[Kingofalldems]

6. Boom.

[whathehell]

7. Excellent. n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

9. This should be playing in all 50 states.

[Liberalynn]

34. This

[malaise]

42. All fugging day and night

+1,000

[Eleanors38]

48. But, the WaPo won't like it, and Party "leadership"

will leave a pool of dirty yellow water around their just-so polished shoes.

[asjr]

10. I have never seen my country (U.S.) in such a mess--by Repubs.

What they have done to our country is beyond belief. They have become traitors! And they delight in telling lies about our president. If I thought I could I would file a lawsuit against the Repubs. in the House. Their criminal activities go beyond anything I have ever seen. The first one I would put in Jail would be the sleazy turtle from Kentucky. He is as ugly inside as outside. I am a senior citizen in an Assisted Living building. I am female and 82 yrs. old. My first inkling of really bad actions happened with Ronald Reagan. I couldn't believe we had elected a lackluster idiot for a president. He ad-libbed information while reading sarcastic idiotic lines put in front of him. Republicans and their helpers in SCOTUS are killing us.

[yeoman6987]

27. I just hope voters agree that Republicans are awful

And don't give them the Senate.

[blkmusclmachine]

11. Bout damn time. Guess it's tough to say bad things about your GOP pals in the DC Club, eh, DC DEMS??

[SoapBox]

23. I'm wondering which of the spineless jellyfish Dems will complain...

It's too mean against our, friends, across the aisle.

Get some brass, Dems.

[strawberries]

95. It's not mean

but the speakers are old not in age, but time and you just hear the words cuts cuts cuts, but nothing specific. I think that is why it has not gone viral

[louis-t]

12. Damn, that cuts to the chase.

Awww, I shoudn'a said that.

[nashville_brook]

13. but we're at "zero risk" of ebola in the US

/sarcasm

[SheilaT]

14. Yes.

That should be shown everywhere.

[samsingh]

15. kick for the truth!

[Arugula Latte]

16. But, but, Saint Ronnie told me government was always the PROBLEM!!!

[JHB]

24. The five most frightening words in the English language are...

"Ronald Reagan showed us that..."

Nothing good ever follows that.

[Liberalynn]

35. You said it.

I blame him for opening the door for the puke idiots who followed.

[jmowreader]

94. He left something out

"Government is the problem, and I'm the government."

[Tommymac]

17. K & R & Tweeted Let's make this viral. eom

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. Thom Hartmann played it on his radio show today.

[stage left]

19. K&R nt

[Skittles]

20. CORRECT

[hifiguy]

21. Grim truth, brilliantly and unapologetically presented.

[SoapBox]

22. Yes...Yes...Yes!

These are the types of ads that I've wanted to see for years.

It's about damn fucking time.

[NutmegYankee]

25. Wow! What an awesome ad!

PLEASE tell me this is going on TV.

[BillZBubb]

26. I like it! The truth is the truth.

[moondust]

28. Think of the billionaires, dammit!

Government programs require taxes, and when billionaires have to pay taxes it slows down the accumulation rate of additional billions. It's redistribution! It's just not fair!!!! It's UnAmerican!!!! Freedom!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigwillq]

29. Great ad.

K and R

[eggplant]

30. Just imagine if a rich donor (D) ponied up...

...to run this wall-to-wall the week before the election. In all markets, in all districts. Everywhere.

Think Citizens United would continue to be the law of the land?

[mucifer]

31. It has many more negative votes than positive ones on youtube

people are so stupid.

[TBF]

41. You mean paid trolls are stupid -

who do you think sits and clicks on that all day?

[Liberalynn]

82. I was thinking the same thing

That and the everyday pukes who don't want to acknowledge that actions have consequences.

It amazes me how many of them don't want to be called heartless, greedy, mean, and bigots even though their votes and personal behavior demonstrates they are all or most of those things.

[NewJeffCT]

45. time to DU youtube then?

[JEFF9K]

101. YouTube voters and commenters tend to skew Republican, in my view.

My anti-Ayn Rand video has about 118 likes and 198 dislikes out of over 17,000 views.

AYN RAND & ATLAS SHRUGGED IN UNDER 10 MINUTES

[orpupilofnature57]

32. Cut the S-it

[Ineeda]

33. Perfect way to turn the tables on the

"be terrified, all the time, about everything" crowd. Oh yeah -- Benghazi, tan suits, coffee-cup salutes, etc.

[proReality]

36. With these figures, it's time for more letters to our editors. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

37. I think he needs to be made to apologize.

I mean, Democrats who tell the truth always have to apologize, so why doesn't this guy?

[PatrickforO]

38. OUTSTANDING!!!!

Finally. Let's hope that thing goes on in prime time in all fifty states.

I saw msm coverage of Grimes in KY and she really flubbed an answer. She was asked if she voted for Obama.

The correct, non-issue, non-controversial answer would have been, "Of course. I'm a Democrat."

However, what she chose to do was evade the answer in an awkward, clearly motivated by staffer coaching way.

WHEN will we OWN the good things Dems have done in spite of GOP obstructionism in Congress?

[7962]

51. I saw that. How can one be so inept on such a simple question?? Good lord. nt

[ReRe]

56. I seen the "debate"

(er, pre-election concession.) McTurtle made it all about "Obama", and she was left with nothing to stand on.

[City Lights]

39. Wow!

That is brutally honest! Hope it airs often!

[Major Hogwash]

40. More of this!!!

The Republicans are going to cut our throats if we don't get them out of Congress!!!

[calimary]

44. Fuckin' A, brother.

THAT should be playing EVERYWHERE.

Around the clock. I'm sick of being hit up for donations, after I just donated. But I'd GLADLY give again, even if I only have a little left over, to keep this baby on the air!

It's the real legacy of "st. ronnie." PENNY-WISE, and POUND-FOOLISH!!!!!

[napkinz]

46. about time! K&R!!!!

nt

[blackspade]

47. Holy shit!

That was an ad.

[bread_and_roses]

49. Telling it like it is. Make another for SS/MA/Medicare/WIC/...

... for FS, for for for ... for roads & bridges, for meat inspectors, for OSHA, for for for .....

[Enthusiast]

76. +1 You nailed it.

[New Orleans Strong]

50. And yet...

...an (R) next to one's name is STILL not a ''Scarlet Letter''. These cretins are poised to rule the roost - chicken jokes here - in a few short weeks. People are going to vote this country into an unlivable FOX set. Vote people. Vote. Please, please vote.

[calimary]

69. Welcome to DU, New Orleans Strong!

Good to have you with us! I know what you mean! It's just astounding. What on EARTH would lead anybody to think that, for example, a louie gohmert is in ANY way fit for public office? What on EARTH?????? What in the world would lead anybody to think that joe barton, or blake farenthold or pete sessions is worthy? Or paul brown or phil gingrey or jack kingston or - EEEEUUUWW - darrell issa? Or virginia foxx or marsha blackburn or heaven forbid - michele bachmann? And that's just in the House of Reps. Who ON EARTH thinks scott brown is fit to go back to the Senate? Forcryingoutloud?!?!?!?!? Who thought that jerk saxby chambliss was fit for the Senate? Or Dear God, ted cruz??? Somebody's bad joke after a long night of drinking and barfing? SHEESH!!!!! Hell, some voters wanted to send oliver fucking north to Washington DC awhile back! And it's a cast of never-ending thousands. We never seem to see the bottom of the barrel. There always seems to be somebody worse than the guy or gal you always thought sucked the most.

[CherokeeDem]

52. I'll add my WOW!

That is a powerful message.... wish that was running everywhere...

Thanks for sharing, Will.

[Chemisse]

53. This is great!!

[cantbeserious]

54. Agreed

eom

[bvf]

55. Powerful.

I hope this spreads far and wide. On TV too, but that may be too much to hope for (and I hope I'm wrong).

[ReRe]

57. Truth sells.

Get this on every TV in the land. Play it night and day. Make it perfectly clear to the electorally brain dead Americans that the Emperor has no clothes! Republican lemmings need to snap out of their trances!

K&R

[greytdemocrat]

58. The only problem is...

Dr. Tom Frieden just denied on Fox the cuts were directly responsible.

Saw him say it on that Fox gal Kelly's show. She mentioned

this ad and that was his answer.

[GusBob]

59. very very powerful

[Liberal_Dog]

60. Very Powerfull

K & R

[Wounded Bear]

62. Well, their spending increases aren't much better...

on the MIC and subsidies to Big Oil and Pharma.

[The Wizard]

63. Make them talk about it. (NT)

[joshcryer]

65. Why are we blaming the Republicans?

I was told just the other day that focusing on Republicans accomplishes nothing. It's both the Republicans and the Democrats fault, duh.

[rhett o rick]

66. I so agree. Blaming Republicans alone is not helpful. The blame goes to conservatives.

While the Republicans are all conservative, there are a lot of Democrats that also are conservative AND VOTE THE SAME AS REPUBLICANS.

A vote against Pres Obama's nomination for Surgeon General can come from a Republican but also can come from a Conservative Democrat. And guess what? The votes count the same. If all the Democratic Senators voted to support Pres Obama's nomination, we would have a Surgeon General. But the votes don't follow party lines. The votes follow ideology lines.

[joshcryer]

67. The Blue Dogs voted for the ACA.

Which many here still decry as right wing even though it objectively paves the way for single payer.

So your concern is noted, but I'm not going to compromise with Republicans, thanks.

[rhett o rick]

81. Good point. It wasn't just Republicans that prevented Single Payer, it was Conservatives,

Conservatives in both parties.

We would have a Surgeon General except that the conservatives from both parties are opposing our Democrat President's nomination. The Republicans alone couldn't stop confirmation and should share blame with those DINOs that are choosing to side with the Republican Party and against the Democratic President.

Let me put it another way. Some so-called Democrats are standing hand-in-hand with the Republicans and giving a thumbs down to our President and you want to only blame the Republicans. No blame for those Democrats that vote the same as Republicans.

Conservatives are who we are fighting. Conservatives support the 1% and are killing the Democratic Party.

[spanone]

70. fucking and A

[Stellar]

71. Whoa!

Excellent....I'll be emailing this one out.

[aquart]

72. Perfect.

[Enthusiast]

75. This thread has hundreds of recommendations!

And rightly so.

[liberal N proud]

77. The cost of Austerity

[MFM008]

78. wow

Just wow.

[fredamae]

79. Fighting Fire with Fire

Finally-someone "puts it out there"-you know-the Raw, Blunt and Painful Truth.


If anyone challenges the accuracy of this ad-I'm gonna give them these links to allow them the opportunity to see the public records themselves-their Voting records. It's the least I can do...the whiners will come.

http://clerk.house.gov/legislative/legvotes.aspx
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm

[alfredo]

80. Spread this on social media

[DinahMoeHum]

83. Kick the GOP and the Teabaggers in their balls. . .

. . .and keep kicking until there's nothing but hamburger where their balls used to be.

[gordianot]

85. But that would attack tender Republican sensibilities and threaten Bi-partisnship......

Wait Republicans have no sense and are universally partisan hacks which is required to remain a Republican. I doubt though for those who vote for Republicans very many have the ability to link budget cuts to the CDC and NIH (add no Surgeon General) to a threat to public health.

[sinkingfeeling]

86. They should be running that ad country-wide, but I haven't seen it.

[ljm2002]

87. Great ad!!

Let's see more like this!

K&R

[dixiegrrrrl]

90. Posting vids like these, William,

is great, esp. for us who do not have television, thus can't see the campaign ads.

[grahamhgreen]

91. They kill people too by fighting Medicare for all

[uponit7771]

92. In the face

[99Forever]

96. I have to wonder why this isn't running ...

.... many times a.day in every district in this entire nation.

[santamargarita]

97. K&R

[napkinz]

98. kick

nt

[napkinz]

99. ...

[napkinz]

100. cut cut cut