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I don’t think wearing diapers or being able to walk would affect this pervert from trying to take advantage of ANY girl, young woman, or 35 year old woman assistant! He’s an adjudicated rapist and accused pedophile!

And nothing Ossoff said was untrue! Trump is hyper focused on his vanity ballroom, and Harp travels with Trump all the time. Hell she was with him in the catering truck in Turkey.

next you'll tell me that modernizing stagnant dem messaging via hyperbolic virality can actually shift electoral positions on key subjects!

DNC should immediately hand over all comms channels to whomever is in charge of Ossoff’s comms strategy. At last, some edginess, brass, and virality. I’m sure Schumer and Jeffries will issue strongly worded letters urging restraint.

There are a few too many Democratic insiders, journos and others on the left who act like messaging in a direct or aggressive way that goes viral is beneath them.

There are some comments saying that this is just Trumpism for the left (both laudatory/derogatory) and this is very frustrating because it's really different than what Trump does. Specifically, it's different because the thing Ossoff said was true whereas the stuff Trump says is not.

Like no, it's not specifically policy based, but it's really fucking weird that the President has an obsessive aide half his age who follows him around printing out praise notes for him and who he made sure was on the safe plane with him whereas the entire press corps was on the decoy.

All while he's desperately trying to ignore the stupid fucking war he started so he can build his stupid fucking ballroom. That seems fair to call out and it's a fair thing for the press to talk about!

What a weird distraction. It does not show the shallowness of the democrats, it shows the shallowness of the American people that they think resonate with this lame messaging.

I’m still hearing some pundits worry about “tone,” and “decorum.” Man, that shit died in 20-6 when Trump said Megan Kelly was bleeding out of her you know what. Voters want direct, blunt, and aggressive.

The algorithm doesn't want the truth; it wants a high-velocity narrative that fits in a scroll-hole. We’ve essentially gamified the Fourth Estate into a slot machine where the jackpot is just more outrage.

It's wild that no one is mentioning she's dressed/styled like his daughter, btw. Like either it's his usual Oedipus schtick, or she's literally just there to be a combination Ivanka/Ivana/Marla-shaped person he recognizes vaguely as "nice lady who takes care of me".

The innuendo suggesting there is something untoward is being created by the right wing outrage. That Ms. Harp carries a printer everywhere solely to bring positive "they love you, Mr. President" is the real story. Why did they go there? Those right-wingers should get their mind out of the gutter.

Fuck YEAH!  The Dems need a guerrilla media operation. Get into their spaces and pollute their info streams. We know the folks dwelling under rocks there are the most gullible people on the planet who will believe, LITERALLY ANYTHING! Stop letting MAGA control the narrative!

Democrats: *don’t talk about something, or talk about it for a day or two and give up* Media: *doesn’t really cover the story* Democrats: “What do you want us to do? Nobody cared about it.” So sick of the feigned helplessness.

Problem is that the RW propaganda machinery will exploit this to turn it into a net negative for Dems. They are right now spinnng it as “Osoff attacks young woman - is a misogynist”. We can’t win until we start to build the pipes to compete with the RW propaganda machine.

Problem is that the RW propaganda machinery will exploit this to turn it into a net negative for Dems. We can’t win until we start to build the pipes to compete with the RW propaganda machine.

But seriously, the orange demagogue's catering cart companions shows us the only ones on that plane he 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 trusts (I'd 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 go so far as to say 'cared for'😉). Everyone else on AF1 was expendable, 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 the press pool!😒 It was good to see that he left wormtongue miller behind on the plane.😁

Agreed. The story was originally supposed to be a hitpiece on Osoff (and still might be on the right), but the implications and speculations are salacious enough to be fuel for the industrial rumor mill of modern "news".

this pales in comparison to my plan of hiding under some jackets, emerging only to attack my own primary voters, and hoping everything works out somehow

Probably has a lot more to do with Democratic leaders like Schumer and Jeffries continuing to act as if the old rules still apply which is partly why the party had their asses handed to them in the last cycle.

What does this even mean? They have been literally the most obstructionist of any minority caucus EVER. Ever. They've shut down the government for months! It's just nonsense gobbletygook and the fact that you cant even defend the original point shows it

"The original point" was about using media leverage. Are you claiming Jeffries and Schumer not only have done this but have done it well?

It's on Democratic leaders to implement winning strategies for the entire party. It's not Jon Ossoffs responsibility to train the bosses.

If the Democrats created humoristic Lego characters mocking this girl and the orange moron, just like Iran did, that would be a blast and could inflict real damage to the republicans. Dems need to be creative using new communication methods.

Sarcasm aside, Democrats can. Ossoff is but just one example of Democrats who can. There are many. The problem is they are not in top leadership roles and the top leadership in the Democrats are anachronistically out of place for leading the party in current times but will not move aside!

Wow. How close are they? Lots of people say she changes his diapers and brings him fast food when she's not carting him around on the tarmac!

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You don’t think it’s the media who makes those decisions? This is an absolute sweet spot for them — a trivial incident of next to no value. The Dems have tried to use substance and talked about real crimes incessantly.

If only we had known. It’s not always enough to talk about infrastructure or your 5 part plan to fix the economy. Americans like a fighter and Trump opponents have long been too timid to get their hands bloodied.

She looks like she had plastic surgery to look more like Marla Maples and she seems to have borrowed Ivanka‘s wardrobe, spray tanner, hair bleach. She has no qualifications. Her brother says she is in an unhealthy relationship with Trump. She is constantly with him. What was said was pretty mild!

It’s Tuesday. I would put money on her being on some of the weekend politics shows getting softballs about how hard she works for her king and country

My favorite side-note to this "scandal" is that Ossoff didn't say anything untoward. All he said was "traveling with..." and the Right freaked out by extrapolating who-knows-what...

I mean to be fair, it’s very obviously implying something untoward. I don’t know the name of any president’s personal secretary, and if I did, it would be weird to call them by first name only. It was an effective troll by Ossoff

Right, but I have a disgusting mind - yet my first thought went to Harp-as-geriatric care nurse, not as his lover. MAGA still sees Trump as a virile alpha man 6'3" 230lbs. So I guess they're all f'd up over there, the whole lot of em!