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Generic Other

(29,078 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 03:03 PM Feb 2020

I make videos on Youtube: PLEASE HELP

I can make more, but I need ideas and links to Trump at his worst. Memes. ANYTHING we can use against him.

I have the skills, but I know many of you at DU can help me if you will. I will credit you. I won't monetize because I only have 450 or so subs, but I do have social media to share my work with like DU, Twitter and FB. You guys have supported me over the years (and sent a few trolls my way but eff them).

I just need fresh ideas and collaborators.

A new White Rose Society.

Let's use our free speech before we lose it for good.

Please help me brainstorm.

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I make videos on Youtube: PLEASE HELP (Original Post) Generic Other Feb 2020 OP
A compilation of... lame54 Feb 2020 #1
Good one! Generic Other Feb 2020 #6
Holy batman! Lindsey quotes! Generic Other Feb 2020 #12
Here's one I thought of last night nykym Feb 2020 #2
Another good idea Generic Other Feb 2020 #7
Yes lame54 Feb 2020 #9
All the shit he's said about the military, and military personnel. denbot Feb 2020 #3
Oh yes. Generic Other Feb 2020 #8
Someone posted a list of things Trump has done to the military here. It's not current though dustyscamp Feb 2020 #19
Ideas are everywhere on this board... LunaSea Feb 2020 #4
Now that sounds fun Generic Other Feb 2020 #10
Great idea! LunaSea Feb 2020 #13
One minute? Generic Other Feb 2020 #15
Shorter is sweeter, LunaSea Feb 2020 #20
Good point Generic Other Feb 2020 #22
Like- LunaSea Feb 2020 #14
That's a great one! Generic Other Feb 2020 #17
link your channel edhopper Feb 2020 #5
My last video Generic Other Feb 2020 #11
That's good edhopper Feb 2020 #16
Thank edhopper Generic Other Feb 2020 #18
Never forget Generic Other Feb 2020 #21
Have you read any of Lakoff or neuromarketing? JudyM Feb 2020 #23

lame54

(39,317 posts)
1. A compilation of...
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 03:08 PM
Feb 2020

All the repugs who said the worst things about Trump

What do the republicans really think about Trump

Lindsey
Cruz
McConnell
Rubio
Etc. Etc.

Generic Other

(29,078 posts)
12. Holy batman! Lindsey quotes!
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 04:28 PM
Feb 2020

"As a party, we are better to risk losing without Donald Trump than trying to win with him. Enough already with Mister Trump."

Twitter post (August 2015)
"It’s like [choosing between] being shot or poisoned."

“I’ve got a ticket on the Titanic. So I am like on the team that bought a ticket on the Titanic after we saw the movie. This is what happens if you nominate Trump.” – to reporters on Capitol Hill, Feb. 25, 2016

3) ON CHOOSING BETWEEN TRUMP AND CRUZ:
“It’s like being shot or poisoned. What does it really matter?” – Capitol Hill press conference, January 21, 2016

“You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.” – CNN interview, Dec. 8, 2015

nykym

(3,063 posts)
2. Here's one I thought of last night
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 03:26 PM
Feb 2020

Get video of tRump and his rant towards Colin Kaepernick.
(Donald Trump said Colin Kaepernick should leave the United States and “find a country that works better for him” after protesting the National Anthem. Trump ...)
with a split scrreen showing tRump dissing the National Anthem at he supper bowl party.

Generic Other

(29,078 posts)
7. Another good idea
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 04:08 PM
Feb 2020

I would not have come up with that, but there's a few ugly quotes from him on this topic, aren't there?

denbot

(9,948 posts)
3. All the shit he's said about the military, and military personnel.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 03:37 PM
Feb 2020

Including his taking credit for Obama’s veterans care expansion.

LunaSea

(2,933 posts)
20. Shorter is sweeter,
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 03:39 AM
Feb 2020

but a greater challenge. Take the time you need, think of all the cool free bits you can swipe from
archive.org and reconfigure and mix with current news footage.
Go wild.

Generic Other

(29,078 posts)
18. Thank edhopper
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 08:03 PM
Feb 2020

I appreciate the feedback. The freeway blogger and his friends put up the signs. I just wanted to showcase all their efforts and mine.

JudyM

(29,665 posts)
23. Have you read any of Lakoff or neuromarketing?
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 04:49 PM
Feb 2020

I guess as a starting point for suggestions I’d point you to that... focusing on how to get through persuasively to the audiences you want to target. There’s so much open field because our communications are not being done professionally... IMO our various political leaders are focused on other things when potent messaging matters so much... we desperately need great messaging.

If you can bear to watch faux news, you’ll get ideas from that the for trying to reach folks who are well-intentioned but brainwashed. They repeat the same themes constantly, so just figure out a neuro way to break through their running memes (almost entirely derisive takes and false facts). What would these viewers find persuasive? Are there any neutral references outside sources they’d believe? Why do they believe climate change is a hoax, for example, though scientists are uniformly sounding the alarm? If you could figure out that one and punch it with a vid, that could make a big difference.

And/or you could focus on getting out the vote for folks who either never vote or only sometimes vote. What would get through to them? Believing their vote matters - proving that in a vid - and, importantly, believing there’s a difference between the Dems and rethugs... so many people shrug off politics, saying it doesn’t make a difference. That’s an argument we’ll have a harder time making if Bloomberg is our nominee, but whatever, we have to make that arg.

Emotions... start the vid by opening the viewer’s hearts... compassion... then the message is more likely to get in. Appeal to whatever your target audience’s likely values are.

Just throwing down some thoughts here... the vid you have posted is good for what you’re trying to communicate, so what else do you want to communicate?

Best one ever from my perspective was Eminem’s mosh. In case you haven’t seen that, check it out!

Good luck! This is important stuff and with time and talent you can make a difference!

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