It's Mourning In America

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Great ad BUT - when an anti-tRUMP ad includes any

images of minorities I believe that allows the goober Deplorable to fixate on that and imagine that person must be worse off than they are so tRUMP must be doing a great job.

”If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It reminds minorities that his policies are killing them.

[uponit7771]

16. +1, this is exactly what I've been telling people in Chi and ATL ...this is meant to kill black folk

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. The goober deplorables are lost anyway. It's the wobbly middle that is convinceable. . . . nt

[Dave Starsky]

11. His followers are a fucking death cult.

Remember that story we all had to read in the eighth grade? The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson? Remember how shocked you were at the ending, and at the behavior of the townspeople? Well, welcome to Trump's America.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Dead-enders. . . . nt

[erronis]

14. Thanks for that reference to "The Lottery" - I had forgotten about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery

The story also speaks of mob psychology and the idea that people can abandon reason and act cruelly if they are part of a large group of people behaving in the same manner. The idyllic setting of the story also demonstrates that violence and evil can take place anywhere and in any context. This also shows how people can turn on each other so easily. When or where it is set specifically, is never said, leaving some to consider it science fiction.[5]

Alongside the mob mentality, the story speaks about people who blindly follow traditions without thinking of the consequences of those traditions.[6]

[Auggie]

7. This ad is a call to people who sat out the last election ...

you'll never get the base to change. But the disengaged of 2016? The protest voters? These folks will defeat Trump.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. No argument from me.

[progressoid]

4. "Trump bailed out Wallstreet but not main steet."

I'm not sure that is going to sell to a lot of voters since the recovery act is seen as bi-partisan.

[erronis]

15. From my limited vantage point, most working-class Americans don't feel supported by trump or the (r)

(r)epuglicons.

PPP that went to major public corporations.

Unemployment claims that are limited and frequently unaccessible.

The democrats wanted to help the states to weather this crisis - equitably. dump and the (r)epuglicons want to use any funds to reward and punish.

[Pepsidog]

5. Never Trumpers know how to create an effective ad, that's for certain.

[ffr]

8. Democratic marketers take note. This is how you frame conservatives, as weak, ineffective, greedy.

This kind of message will break through to even enough cult members to give them pause. They've destroyed America with their political experiment.

There is Mourning in America. Just look at everything that tRump does. From is failed real estate deals to his condemned park in New York.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Wow, it's real. Such a metaphor. Everything he touches dies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_State_Park

Donald J. Trump State Park is a 436-acre (1.8 km2) state park located within the towns of Yorktown and Putnam Valley in Westchester County and Putnam County, New York.The park consists of undeveloped property that was donated to New York State in 2006 by developer Donald J. Trump.

Maintenance of the park was halted in 2010 due to budget constraints, and the park remains largely undeveloped as of 2015. Most of the buildings have been demolished, only a few foundations and the existing tennis court remain as of 2017.

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. I wonder what kind of tax write off he took for that

He purchased it in the 90s (when he was going broke) for $2 Million and donated it in 2006 saying it was worth $100 Million.

[iluvtennis]

10. Wow, great ad.

[andym]

18. A great pun on Reagan's "Morning in America"

And this ad is by a conservative group. How ironic, given that there is a connection between the false promises of hope in "Morning in America" in the 80's and the consequences of Reagan's politics resulting in Trump's Mourning in America today 35-40 years later.

[Cha]

20. Right.. and from The Lincoln Project.

[Cha]

19. How Ironic.. the Lincoln Project.. this is Excellent! Retweeted

Mahalo, DSB

[misanthrope]

21. The phrase brings this to mind nowadays