Posted on 05/13/2022 7:11:43 PM PDT by NetAddicted
The Washington Post is out with some amazing reporting that says President Joe Biden’s recent use of “MAGA” and “Ultra MAGA” to insult former President Donald Trump “was the result of a six-month research effort by liberal groups”:
Biden's attempt to reappropriate "MAGA" and "ultra MAGA" was the result of a six-month research effort by liberal groups. My latest w @michaelscherer. https://t.co/foVeidRgZn
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) May 13, 2022
From the Washington Post:
Biden’s attempt to appropriate the “MAGA” brand as a political attack was hardly accidental. It arose from a six-month research project to find the best way to target Republicans, helmed by Biden adviser Anita Dunn and by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal group.
The polling and focus group research by Hart Research and the Global Strategy Group found that “MAGA” was already viewed negatively by voters — more negatively than other phrases like “Trump Republicans.”
In battleground areas, more than twice as many voters said they would be less likely to vote for someone called a “MAGA Republican” than would be more likely. The research also found that the description tapped into the broad agreement among voters that the Republican Party had become more extreme and power-hungry in recent years.
First up, this means Jen Psaki appeared to lie when she said the president came up with the slogans on his own for “a little extra pop”:
🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/HYhrta0OyX
— Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) May 13, 2022
But more importantly, why is the Biden administration surrounded by such idiots? That’s the best they could come up with?
Six months of research. And they came up with "MAGA."
Maybe you guys can focus on inflation for a while? https://t.co/CkTCwDzRbB
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) May 13, 2022
Truly embarrassing…
Democrats have nothing to run on, so they spent SIX MONTHS message testing their new "ultra MAGA" nickname for Republicans.
Families are stuck with rising costs, expensive gas, crime, and an open border… but at least Biden has a nickname for Republicans. https://t.co/JTzXRgOQfd
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) May 13, 2022
Fellow focus-grouper Frank Luntz took a shot at them as well:
A six-month research effort to come up with attack lines rather than plans to address Americans’ most pressing concerns.
Here are the top 3 issues this year:
1. Inflation 2. Healthcare 3. Crime
👉🏻 https://t.co/T5OHhdc41w https://t.co/r2wVisd3TG
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) May 13, 2022
Maybe they want to lose the House and Senate?
You have Dem pollsters telling their members that "inflation" isn't coming up in their surveys and these guys spent 6 months to come up with "attack MAGA."
These guys are just begging for a red wave. https://t.co/Kp9cB2oJ0I
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 13, 2022
This is actually worse than the Pro-Choice Caucus talking points we told you about the other day:
are these the same geniuses who thought "pro-decision" was better than "pro-choice"? https://t.co/MIGjpxaKt4
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) May 13, 2022
Oh, they got paid:
I have, and I mean this seriously, absolute respect for the people who got paid to do this research. https://t.co/1LckFSibi0
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) May 13, 2022
What’s even funnier is that Trump LOVES it:
Trump “absolutely loved” co-opting Biden’s new nickname for him — “the great MAGA king” — and has privately mocked Biden and Democrats’ “ultra MAGA” taunt as coming from bad branders, who don’t understand the art of marketing. https://t.co/foVeidRgZn pic.twitter.com/GkrOlQ5e7o
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) May 13, 2022
Good job, Joe:
In which Biden and Dems try to reappropriate “MAGA” — and then Trump and Republicans try to re-reappropriate it back. The ULTRA MAGA Wars 👇 https://t.co/tnzdFTLBWD
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) May 13, 2022
And did nobody in the Biden administration pay attention to what happened in Virginia last November?
Virginia experience should tell you how this strategy works against anybody who reads to voters as quas-normal. https://t.co/krsfhlerk3
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) May 13, 2022
*** Abbott torches Jen Psaki in an 11-tweet thread after she allegedly falsely accused the company of killing two infants -- The White House — over 24 hours later — finally corrected its tweet on when vaccines were available BUT added a brand new misleading statement -- It looks like Biden’s new Minister of Truth will need to take action against the Lincoln Project and Nikki Fried for this fake DeSantis 2024 email
This is Brandon’s “MAGA”
M ake
A mericans
G rovel
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If there are enough people hanging around, looking (with keen eyes) over the shoulders of the election workers ... to the point of making them nervous ... If polling places are carefully checked for internet connections during the vote, if voters receive a receipt detailing their vote, if "drop boxes" -- ALL of them, if there are any -- are attended by watchful citizens, a steal would be much more difficult, and much easier to prove if questions arise.
Protecting the vote should be Job One. Everywhere. And if it isn't somewhere, you know exactly who's cheating.
A receipt detailing vote? Like, for whom the vote was cast?
A receipt would mean someone recorded how you voted. That is not needed. Just have an electronic system that prints off the results and you scan that into another machine. Or even the old levers/counters system would be better.
It’s only a matter of time before Psaki is caught in her MSNBC office with a trans girl and a donkey.
Not that she’d get fired, though.
“It’s only a matter of time before Psaki is caught in her MSNBC office with a trans girl and a donkey.”
_________
I wonder if she’ll get a secret door lock button too?
How many hard working high priced lawyers and sociologists required 6 months to come up with that?
This las opened a world off possibilities.
There is maxi-mega, mini-mega, micro-mega, asymetrical-mega, rhetorical-mega, mostly-mega, hrper-mega, lemon-mega, rotational-mega, megacan or megacrat, mega-juice,p mega-mega, floppsy-mega, subterranean-mega, in or outbound-mega, mature-mega, blueberry-mega, under mega-ish skies, I get a mega out of you, Ill be down to get you in a mega, Honey.
There’s just megatunities on offer.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Basket of Deplorables were worn out, I guess.
A bunch of real rocket surgeons if it took them 6 months to come up with a line we’re going to bludgeon the with worse than “deplorable”.
Democrats live in the Ultimate bubble... As much as they think they're not influencing people in their 'focus groups' - they are... It's one of the reasons they've been wrong on almost everything having to do with Trump and with the rest of us who want to see American Great Again...
That said, there's no reason to tell them ...let them fight their straw-men until they lose everything.
I like Ultra MAGA man (super hero?), but I LOVE Trump’s “Return of the MAGA king” post. If anyone knows where I can buy that t-shirt, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
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