A tweet explaining why kamala really lost and it's absolutely spot on
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1/11
@micah_erfan
My takeaway from the results.
It looks like America has shifted right… a lot. Some of this has to do with frustrations over inflation, sure, but I think there’s more here.
Democrats have been running campaigns the old-fashioned way, and I think we need to acknowledge that it’s not cutting it. We raise money like crazy and mop the floor with Republicans in voter contact efforts, GOTV operations, and advertising. We also get way more major endorsements. But at the end of the day, it barely makes a difference.
Most voters get their news through social media, and on social platforms, we are getting washed. Since 2015, Republicans have been building up their infrastructure to control the airwaves, and right now, they do. Their content gets more impressions on nearly every platform, and on YouTube and Spotify, it’s not even close.
The only way to fix this problem is huge investments in our digital apparatus. We need more creators and lots of them. We need our own Daily Wire, TPUSA, Prager U, equivalents, etc.
Until that happens, we will be fighting a losing battle. Politics is a messaging war; we will only win if our message is stronger and hits more people than theirs.
2/11
@micah_erfan
Morning now.
Still absolutely convinced the digital media landscape is the primary culprit, followed by inflation fueled resentment.
I think there is also might be a narrative component. Our message needs to be stronger.
Trump ran on a really identifiable set of policies: Seal the Border, Drill Drill Drill, Mass Deportations, Tariffs, Huge Tax Cuts. I think these policies are pretty bad, but it’s clear voters did not.
By contrast, Kamala’s policies were primarily known only by wonks. Her only identifiable issue was abortion, while seemingly all others had close to 0 political salience amongst ordinary people. That’s a problem.
If we want to sell our candidates, they need big, easy-to-understand ideas that will resonate with the general public. They can have other ideas as well, but the centerpiece of their campaign should be big stuff.
Many people will say these big ideas need to be *their specific big ideas*. They will say that we need to shift in one specific ideological direction to have hopes of winning again, but I don’t think this is true.
I think what’s most important about the issues we make the defining element of our campaign is their intuitiveness with voters. That gives us a variety of options.
3/11
@kaden53535
I told u Cruz would win by more than 5
4/11
@micah_erfan
listen bro i’m eating ok
5/11
@JJFan18
Yeah idk
Paper ballots in 2020 that’s all I’m gonna say
Something didn’t smell right in 2016, something was smelling wrong in 2020 until paper ballots saved us at the end and now all out domination
Something doesn’t feel right but people are gonna blow it off and just say as you did “the country shifted right” and blame “old fashion campaigning” bc no one wants to even fathom that maybe just maybe *it* could happen here. Our hubris that it can’t happen here and fear of questioning an institution left us vulnerable to what I believe has happened.
But we’re gonna make excuses to explain it away cuz we can’t question results cuz then we’re hypocrites and sore losers which is exactly what the tantrums, Jan 6th and desensitizing of the term “cheating” was all meant to accomplish.
It can’t happen here tho and not even questioning it is how the bad guys win.
6/11
@currermell
No, it’s the policies.
Y’all went too far.
7/11
@barbarikon
This is not a 2015 problem. It has been building up since the 1980s with the rise of talk radio. I wrote snippets article in 1998 arguing that Democrats needed time to develop a media machine to counter the right-wing one or they’ll be decimated. There has been some progress but not enough. Maybe liberals just aren’t into this sort of thing.
8/11
@TonyDinSalemIL
I don't think that will solve much. A huge portion of America wants a white dictatorship that will protect their disproportionate wealth. They now get the added benefit of a culture war against against anyone who does not share their religion, social values, and ethnic preferences. They pick the media that supports their point of view.
9/11
@DownWestbound
Obama beat McCain and the Clintons because they ran 90s style campaigns and he used the digital tech of the time to his advantage. It seems as if they've lapped in us in that area since then.
10/11
@ColinDMcIntosh
Problem is, there’s zero major funding for media that pushes people left, and endless funding for media that pushes people right
11/11
@michaelward_CPA
We also need to figure out what the real composition of the country is right now. MAGA as a movement actually may be a majority (of anyone willing to exercise their vote) and we are a minority right now.
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
@micah_erfan
My takeaway from the results.
It looks like America has shifted right… a lot. Some of this has to do with frustrations over inflation, sure, but I think there’s more here.
Democrats have been running campaigns the old-fashioned way, and I think we need to acknowledge that it’s not cutting it. We raise money like crazy and mop the floor with Republicans in voter contact efforts, GOTV operations, and advertising. We also get way more major endorsements. But at the end of the day, it barely makes a difference.
Most voters get their news through social media, and on social platforms, we are getting washed. Since 2015, Republicans have been building up their infrastructure to control the airwaves, and right now, they do. Their content gets more impressions on nearly every platform, and on YouTube and Spotify, it’s not even close.
The only way to fix this problem is huge investments in our digital apparatus. We need more creators and lots of them. We need our own Daily Wire, TPUSA, Prager U, equivalents, etc.
Until that happens, we will be fighting a losing battle. Politics is a messaging war; we will only win if our message is stronger and hits more people than theirs.
2/11
@micah_erfan
Morning now.
Still absolutely convinced the digital media landscape is the primary culprit, followed by inflation fueled resentment.
I think there is also might be a narrative component. Our message needs to be stronger.
Trump ran on a really identifiable set of policies: Seal the Border, Drill Drill Drill, Mass Deportations, Tariffs, Huge Tax Cuts. I think these policies are pretty bad, but it’s clear voters did not.
By contrast, Kamala’s policies were primarily known only by wonks. Her only identifiable issue was abortion, while seemingly all others had close to 0 political salience amongst ordinary people. That’s a problem.
If we want to sell our candidates, they need big, easy-to-understand ideas that will resonate with the general public. They can have other ideas as well, but the centerpiece of their campaign should be big stuff.
Many people will say these big ideas need to be *their specific big ideas*. They will say that we need to shift in one specific ideological direction to have hopes of winning again, but I don’t think this is true.
I think what’s most important about the issues we make the defining element of our campaign is their intuitiveness with voters. That gives us a variety of options.
3/11
@kaden53535
I told u Cruz would win by more than 5
4/11
@micah_erfan
listen bro i’m eating ok
5/11
@JJFan18
Yeah idk
Paper ballots in 2020 that’s all I’m gonna say
Something didn’t smell right in 2016, something was smelling wrong in 2020 until paper ballots saved us at the end and now all out domination
Something doesn’t feel right but people are gonna blow it off and just say as you did “the country shifted right” and blame “old fashion campaigning” bc no one wants to even fathom that maybe just maybe *it* could happen here. Our hubris that it can’t happen here and fear of questioning an institution left us vulnerable to what I believe has happened.
But we’re gonna make excuses to explain it away cuz we can’t question results cuz then we’re hypocrites and sore losers which is exactly what the tantrums, Jan 6th and desensitizing of the term “cheating” was all meant to accomplish.
It can’t happen here tho and not even questioning it is how the bad guys win.
6/11
@currermell
No, it’s the policies.
Y’all went too far.
7/11
@barbarikon
This is not a 2015 problem. It has been building up since the 1980s with the rise of talk radio. I wrote snippets article in 1998 arguing that Democrats needed time to develop a media machine to counter the right-wing one or they’ll be decimated. There has been some progress but not enough. Maybe liberals just aren’t into this sort of thing.
8/11
@TonyDinSalemIL
I don't think that will solve much. A huge portion of America wants a white dictatorship that will protect their disproportionate wealth. They now get the added benefit of a culture war against against anyone who does not share their religion, social values, and ethnic preferences. They pick the media that supports their point of view.
9/11
@DownWestbound
Obama beat McCain and the Clintons because they ran 90s style campaigns and he used the digital tech of the time to his advantage. It seems as if they've lapped in us in that area since then.
10/11
@ColinDMcIntosh
Problem is, there’s zero major funding for media that pushes people left, and endless funding for media that pushes people right
11/11
@michaelward_CPA
We also need to figure out what the real composition of the country is right now. MAGA as a movement actually may be a majority (of anyone willing to exercise their vote) and we are a minority right now.
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
The End
I was disgusted when I seen that tweet about Dana White thanking all those podcasters, youtbers and streamers but it makes sense.
these people have worked hand in hand in making him appealable over the last four years to your normal white young college aged student.
then you have the cult of Elon being bigger than you actually thought it was
so he became more palatable to people who wouldn't have voted for him 2016 or 2020
nasty.
but lets not kid ourselves Kamala was already in a regime that people felt were failing, she talked about being a gut nut to hoover up some republicans votes and a reason she lost and why her numbers were lower in New York was because she alienated a lot of EastCoast elite left wing/liberal families who's children were gassed, pepper sprayed and arrested on their own college for protesting a genocide. thats even before you have the gigantic racism and misogyny reasons.
oh and cosying up to the fukkin Cheyney's didn't go down well
she was qualified but it was too much ground for her to make up
I do believe if the election was in that first month after she replaced Biden it would've been much closer
the longer her campaign went it felt the less people were convinced
these people have worked hand in hand in making him appealable over the last four years to your normal white young college aged student.
then you have the cult of Elon being bigger than you actually thought it was
so he became more palatable to people who wouldn't have voted for him 2016 or 2020
nasty.
but lets not kid ourselves Kamala was already in a regime that people felt were failing, she talked about being a gut nut to hoover up some republicans votes and a reason she lost and why her numbers were lower in New York was because she alienated a lot of EastCoast elite left wing/liberal families who's children were gassed, pepper sprayed and arrested on their own college for protesting a genocide. thats even before you have the gigantic racism and misogyny reasons.
oh and cosying up to the fukkin Cheyney's didn't go down well
she was qualified but it was too much ground for her to make up
I do believe if the election was in that first month after she replaced Biden it would've been much closer
the longer her campaign went it felt the less people were convinced
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Keep telling y'all black man's fear of mama is an omnipresent shadow in his life
That's one thing no one is addressing with this situation. Black men get scolded, shamed, blamed, and ridiculed everywhere they go. For a lot of black men this started in the home where they were black boys
Black men still turned up at 80% but at a much lower turnout and it's because a large section of black men are tired of the Mama energy
Some of y'all may have noticed early in Kamala's campaign she tried the "Mama don't play" angle and I think somebody got in her ear and told her to chill out with that shyt because she definitely eased up
I'm originally from SC. It won't be Nimrata lol
Walz probably would have been a better candidate than Kamala.
Thry were trying to angle the prosecutor vs the criminal thing but ppl don’t care about that shyt when you’re white
reserved_one
#Ambivertgang
The one thing the DMC party needs to do going forward is to stop treating black men like were special needs children. Even the Biden quote early on when he says “You’re not black if you don’t vote for me” was in bad taste. Then you got Kamala coming in wagging her finger at us and it’s like damn. Instead of taking down to us….maybe you talk to us instead? Why assault our intelligence?
Even with the black men that still supported it was going to be an uphill task. Kamala is not strong enough of a candidate to compete against Trump and the machine he has behind him. It’s like 2016 on steroids. The groundwork was being laid since 2020 after he lost.
Hispanics would rather side with a racist old turd than a mixed black woman. We know they will do anything to get the honorable white pass. We know White women will side with they’re cac men because white trumps everything else (no pun).
The “You’re a woman! Vote for me because I’m a woman” is just a weak strategy. I don’t see a woman of any kind being President in my lifetime. Hell, I thought I would never see a black man be president but Obama was anomaly.
At the end of the day, it is what it is. America despite being a true melting pot will always be dominated by racism and controlled by racists.
Even with the black men that still supported it was going to be an uphill task. Kamala is not strong enough of a candidate to compete against Trump and the machine he has behind him. It’s like 2016 on steroids. The groundwork was being laid since 2020 after he lost.
Hispanics would rather side with a racist old turd than a mixed black woman. We know they will do anything to get the honorable white pass. We know White women will side with they’re cac men because white trumps everything else (no pun).
The “You’re a woman! Vote for me because I’m a woman” is just a weak strategy. I don’t see a woman of any kind being President in my lifetime. Hell, I thought I would never see a black man be president but Obama was anomaly.
At the end of the day, it is what it is. America despite being a true melting pot will always be dominated by racism and controlled by racists.
OGBobbyJohnson
Veteran
fukk an election#PussiesOutForKamala
Stop bringing up black in this shyt.
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
This post is a perfect example why she lost. It regurgitates talking points and is short sighted. She worked in all three branches of government; meanwhile, people were asking her to answer questions in interviews.
Hillary lost because she started celebrating before the touchdown like Jimmy Horne Jr.
Both Hillary and Kamala suffered from similar campaign woes, notably a lack of substance outside of, "wait, you're not really going to vote for that are you?"
Everyone in this thread will continue working, offering Uber Eats and Amazon Prime, going out, jacking off to Internet porn, gassing up average girls with large bootys, taking care of their families, and so on.
Just like the previous 4-12 years.
Just like the previous 4-12 years.
Keep telling y'all black man's fear of mama is an omnipresent shadow in his life
That's one thing no one is addressing with this situation. Black men get scolded, shamed, blamed, and ridiculed everywhere they go. For a lot of black men this started in the home where they were black boys
Black men still turned up at 80% but at a much lower turnout and it's because a large section of black men are tired of the Mama energy
Some of y'all may have noticed early in Kamala's campaign she tried the "Mama don't play" angle and I think somebody got in her ear and told her to chill out with that shyt because she definitely eased up
Yea they need to talk these online feminists because that berating man shyt needed to stop yesterday.
Literally self sabotage to speak down on black men
