The highlight of this article is watching Vincent Perez. Anchia was a close second.
Watching Republicans speak; girl how do you do it? 🤦🏽♀️ I just want to 🤢. I couldn’t, so God bless you for doing it for us. 🙏🏼. Keep it up because I do look forward to your article! Lastly, just continue to be you no matter where you get your money from. ☺️
😂😂Let me know if you do. I have a candidate that needs plenty of money for her Congressional race. Loved it all. I know Steve Toth is a heckler to society in general but is he really as clueless as he seems????
He's dumber than a doornail. I saw him on a right-wing podcast clip on Facebook last week, and he was talking about "Democrat racism." He meant racism against white people. 🤦🏻♀️ And this dipshit is running for Congress.
The Texas GOP isn’t legislating anymore. They’re staging Revelation on a budget. Instead of dragons and beasts, we get urine policing, horse dewormer in Walgreens, and Handmaid cosplay at the mic. Men fake crying while women die in ER parking lots. That’s not governing. That’s sadism with a gavel.
“Really? This is your platform? Less THC, more dead moms, and ivermectin for everyone?” It’s not policy. It’s improv night at the fascism club. The cruelty is the bit, and Texans are the punchline.
None of these bills will fix a thing. But cruelty polls better than competence. It’s cheaper than fixing the grid, quicker than funding schools, and easier than keeping hospitals open. They serve up outrage like it’s brisket and hope nobody notices the power went out again.
Democrats can talk shit, and some of them are finally funny. But snark doesn’t flip chambers. Organizing does. The GOP is betting you’ll get tired before they do. Exhaustion is their strategy, not a side effect.
So the real question isn’t how many more Handmaid pageants we can watch. The real question is how long before Texans realize silence isn’t neutrality. It’s consent.
...For five years, Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump youth group founded by Kirk, has run an online influencer program. Turning Point USA’s PAC has raised more than $3 million since 2023, according to federal election disclosures. The group’s website says it has partnered with hundreds of creators. Turning Point USA did not respond to requests for comment.
Separately, according to an analysis of campaign finance filings, the National Republican Congressional Committee has spent nearly $500,000 on work with Creator Grid Inc., whose website says it “connects Republican candidates with the internet’s most powerful conservative influencers.”
Trump campaign communications adviser Dan Scavino takes photos of the audience at a July 27 campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)
Firms working on influencer campaigns in politics view it as the next frontier in political campaigning. Email defined the 2008 election, social media was embraced widely in 2012, and campaigns sought to leverage SMS text messages in 2016, said Josh Cook, president of Good Influence. Influencers on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are defining 2024.
“We see it as a natural progression of where attention is,” said Cook, who served as President Barack Obama’s Pennsylvania digital director in 2012. “For the dollars to follow, that makes sense.”
Cook declined to comment on specific clients, but the firm works with YouTubers who talk about the news and TikTok accounts focused on the LGBTQ+ community as well as on teachers and parents.
Payments for influencers can range widely based on the campaign, the size of their following and the engagement they receive on their posts.
People First has paid anywhere from $200 for what is known as a micro-influencer to up to about $100,000 for influencers with millions of followers for political posts this year, Davis said, adding: “It’s harder to get people to talk about politics, so sometimes there’s even a premium on that.”
Danielle Butterfield, the executive director of Priorities USA, said she expects to pay between $5,000 and $15,000 for a single post, and ...
The highlight of this article is watching Vincent Perez. Anchia was a close second.
Watching Republicans speak; girl how do you do it? 🤦🏽♀️ I just want to 🤢. I couldn’t, so God bless you for doing it for us. 🙏🏼. Keep it up because I do look forward to your article! Lastly, just continue to be you no matter where you get your money from. ☺️
Yes, yes, and still waiting on that Sorors money. 🤣🤣
😂😂Let me know if you do. I have a candidate that needs plenty of money for her Congressional race. Loved it all. I know Steve Toth is a heckler to society in general but is he really as clueless as he seems????
He's dumber than a doornail. I saw him on a right-wing podcast clip on Facebook last week, and he was talking about "Democrat racism." He meant racism against white people. 🤦🏻♀️ And this dipshit is running for Congress.
😡
Exactly.
The Texas GOP isn’t legislating anymore. They’re staging Revelation on a budget. Instead of dragons and beasts, we get urine policing, horse dewormer in Walgreens, and Handmaid cosplay at the mic. Men fake crying while women die in ER parking lots. That’s not governing. That’s sadism with a gavel.
“Really? This is your platform? Less THC, more dead moms, and ivermectin for everyone?” It’s not policy. It’s improv night at the fascism club. The cruelty is the bit, and Texans are the punchline.
None of these bills will fix a thing. But cruelty polls better than competence. It’s cheaper than fixing the grid, quicker than funding schools, and easier than keeping hospitals open. They serve up outrage like it’s brisket and hope nobody notices the power went out again.
Democrats can talk shit, and some of them are finally funny. But snark doesn’t flip chambers. Organizing does. The GOP is betting you’ll get tired before they do. Exhaustion is their strategy, not a side effect.
So the real question isn’t how many more Handmaid pageants we can watch. The real question is how long before Texans realize silence isn’t neutrality. It’s consent.
I love Texas +20! Just hope it’s counted fairly. They are already cheating in plane sight.
Is there something wrong with me that such disfunction in Austin amuses me? Nah-- I think it's just your writing.
Keep it up please, Michelle! I'm not sure what I'd do if I had to take those buggers' actions sans the ridicule.
(Contrary to my late repost & this comment, I shared this just after midnight when I saw it.)
$8,000/month? Chump change
...For five years, Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump youth group founded by Kirk, has run an online influencer program. Turning Point USA’s PAC has raised more than $3 million since 2023, according to federal election disclosures. The group’s website says it has partnered with hundreds of creators. Turning Point USA did not respond to requests for comment.
Separately, according to an analysis of campaign finance filings, the National Republican Congressional Committee has spent nearly $500,000 on work with Creator Grid Inc., whose website says it “connects Republican candidates with the internet’s most powerful conservative influencers.”
Trump campaign communications adviser Dan Scavino takes photos of the audience at a July 27 campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)
Firms working on influencer campaigns in politics view it as the next frontier in political campaigning. Email defined the 2008 election, social media was embraced widely in 2012, and campaigns sought to leverage SMS text messages in 2016, said Josh Cook, president of Good Influence. Influencers on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are defining 2024.
“We see it as a natural progression of where attention is,” said Cook, who served as President Barack Obama’s Pennsylvania digital director in 2012. “For the dollars to follow, that makes sense.”
Cook declined to comment on specific clients, but the firm works with YouTubers who talk about the news and TikTok accounts focused on the LGBTQ+ community as well as on teachers and parents.
Payments for influencers can range widely based on the campaign, the size of their following and the engagement they receive on their posts.
People First has paid anywhere from $200 for what is known as a micro-influencer to up to about $100,000 for influencers with millions of followers for political posts this year, Davis said, adding: “It’s harder to get people to talk about politics, so sometimes there’s even a premium on that.”
Danielle Butterfield, the executive director of Priorities USA, said she expects to pay between $5,000 and $15,000 for a single post, and ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/26/social-media-influencers-election-money-campaigns/
https://www.piratewires.com/p/is-the-right-wing-dark-money-in-the
words to live by: https://youtu.be/YoIw3XSA-lU
BOLO: Marc Veasey and Allsion Campolo
a short note: Here in Tarrant County, Democrats, be it the party, or CEC or any candidate or pct chairs or the Chair, Allison Campolo
made no mention of Labor Day or labor on Labor Day