Yep.

They're MUCH more focused and disciplined on MESSAGING.

Democrats have MILES to go on smart, effective messaging.

Hate that it’s so, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still urgently and absolutely necessary!

Seems to me Dems are slow to catch on, about this tactic. They seem to have dismissed messaging as merely so shallow and superfluous, surface-only, cosmetic, insignificant, and unnecessary - when it is VITAL!

It is VITAL! CRITICAL! And URGENT AS ALL-GET-OUT!

Yes, it’s just packaging. But when you’ve got masses of people captivated by the ol’ “shiny object” mentality, exteriors are EVERYTHING! Packaging is EVERYTHING! It’s VITAL that the surface treatment, the entryway, be “sexed up” as the advertisers and marketing people would say. Sad, and completely superficial, to say. But that’s what we need to get better at doing. It’s not just WHAT we’re selling. It’s HOW it’s sold.

And unfortunately, Dems stayed asleep while the GOP worker bees were BUSY-BUSY-BUSY building a messaging infrastructure. All throughout the late 80s and 90s.

1) Building and building. Planting, planting, and more planting of seeds that got very well tended and nurtured. First, destroying or otherwise rolling back all regulatory restrictions, limitations, and guard rails to the construction of media monopolies - to do what? Propagate the MESSAGING.

2) And building the support structures for generating and refining all that messaging: multiple “think tanks,” “institutes,” and “foundations” that could house the newly discovered players who could be assembled for writing and strategizing staffs, groomed to go on the air and on camera and in the Op/Ed pages and bookstores - they’d staff up with talent who could write cleverly and strategically (or learn how) to generate the messaging for those strategically-groomed talking heads who’d spread the messaging.

3) AND they’d be schooled in how to interrupt, motormouth, and otherwise dominate the chit-chat. How to make sure any opposing spokesperson was crowded out or out-shouted or over-ridden - not only to keep the desired messaging on full and up front, but also prevent opposing messaging from getting any air or sunlight.

This HAPPENED! And our team slept through the whole thing. Our side is only now waking up.

No kidding. "Back to normal"? When was that?

I’d have to ask “define ‘normal’.”

Biden trying to reinflate the States ...

And facing having to pick up all the pieces of the broken buildings.

Yep. That’s about it.

Oh for peet (moss's) sake...

Frankly sports-anything has never held much interest for me.

Football, for example, to my mind is just organized brutality. Never did get the appeal of a bunch of over-muscular individuals running around knocking each other down.

Bookmarking for later.

Sure sounds like it.

Hang in there, Los Angeles!

I'm surprised they're sharing this.

I’d expected they’d want to keep that covered up.

That quote about religion being "the opiate of the people" comes to mind.

Sigh...