All the stunts and lies are meant to steal your joy. Create joy by doing something today for Harris and Walz.

[usonian]

I don't care one bit about "Target Practice Trump" (TPT) and what's his name.

THIS





They're REAL PEOPLE, not Cosplay Bond Villains.





What to do? Ask Wednesdays.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219468263

[lamp_shade]

1. Thanks. I'm smiling ear to ear. Feels good.

[Coexist]

2. I'm going to see Tim Walz tomorrow!

[pat_k]

3. Yes! Yes! Yes!!

I echo this in something I posted a yesterday: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219465776#post12

The aim is to crush hope and joy and thus immobilize. . .

. . .and return people of decency into hopeless cynicism that suppresses the will to act.

Perhaps our most difficult task is resisting the efforts to turn our attention from hope and action to the horrors of the trump show. The most productive thing those who oppose trump can do is to ignore the man and his accolytes -- truly ignore them as the pathetic creatures they are. Don't even put his mug in our ads. Don't bring attention to the latest bit of crazy. Dismiss as the same shit without comment. Only that way do we disarm him. Find a hopeful speech. Feed our own sense of our power through action or inspiring ourselves with books like "Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society" by Alberto Alemanno.

[Amaryllis]

8. You should post that as its own op on a new thrread !!! it is excellent

[usonian]

11. Thanks for adding joy to my post.

[pat_k]

15. I wish MSNBC would designate one day a week

. . .as no Trump day/no horserace day. Absolutely no discussion of Trump or what his people are doing or saying. No images of Trump or Vance or other crazies. If a guest or host slips and says something about him just say "we've seen it all before" and move on. No stories about polls, good or bad.

Just one friggin day a week, drop the talking head formula. Talk to people on the ground. Take it on the road. Do stories on people phone banking, canvassing. Do stories showing the nation the faces of various campaigns -- we the People. Ask people what personal experiences motivated them to do what they are doing. What are their hopes and dreams. Talk to new activists and veterans. Go behind the scenes with elections officials. Focus on voting systems in a given state -- importance of verifying your registration. Present analyses of what the child tax credit did during the pandemic and talk to real people about what it meant to their lives and how bringing it back will help. Focus on a couple families. Don't just quote a one sentence statistic. Present analysis of the GI bill and how federal aid for homeownership, education, health insurance, etc. transformed the country. Talk to people from different walks of life about the effect on their lives. Present the numbers -- cost as a percentage of GDP. how we paid for it, and how it increased the tax base. Draw comparisons to how Kamala's credit for first time homebuyers could change lives with concrete examples. Maybe segments like Balmer's on real immigration numbers.

I don't know, but it seems to me there are so many inspiring or informative things that could be covered on the "no trump no horserace" days (need a clever name). I've emailed various MSNBC addresses with the notion. If you like the idea, perhaps do the same. Having a "special reports" day with creative segments that are a complete break from the usual formula could be a boon to viewership too.

[Wednesdays]

4. Thanks for the plug!

Keep in mind, everybody, that I post a new thread every day! Keep those threads kicked!

[DBoon]

5. Republicans are "Joy Vampires"

They are the undead who leave their coffins under the darkness of sanity to drain the joy out of ordinary people and energize their own hate.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I put my Harris-Walz bumper sticker on my car today.

[DoBW]

7. here ya go ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219469817

[usonian]

10. Thanks and welcome to my thread.

I wanted to acknowledge your post but had to hit "Post" and snap some neat clouds.

[DoBW]

14. roger roger

[Biophilic]

9. Talk about hitting the bullseye.

I noticed this afternoon that I had lost that Harris-Walz lift. I was down in the Donald dump once again. Damn those people. Thank you, thank you. I’m not feeling great yet but at least I know I need to spend more time with Kamala and Tim. Shove trump and his crew back into the dump.

[krkaufman]

12. Just inappropriate

I don't care one bit about "xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx" (TPT) and what's his name.

Hopefully the OP will be edited or deleted.

[proud patriot]

13. I hope everyone checks out Wednesdays thread

excellent resource

[Blue_Roses]

16. Thank-you for this!

It's a huge reminder to try and shut out the noise, the chaos, and remember where our (mine) focus should be. It's so easy to get dragged into these sensationalized articles and rhetoric.

This post was a very nice change. Thank-you, again!