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If someone ran with no social media presence - just a website and old school campaigning - I'd definitely pay attention.I think staying off twitter, facebook and what have you would be a plus
If someone ran with no social media presence - just a website and old school campaigning - I'd definitely pay attention.
I'm more interested in the inverse. Why run a campaign at all? Want to see someone campaign from a front porch? Totally possible these days, all someone needs is a phone and computer. Want to connect to the people? The people will message you and you message back. Want to meet people? Coordinate it on social media.
Why have live debates? Video livestream.
Why have conventions? Electronic voting for candidates. Want to get the power out of the hands of the party powerbrokers? Then make it happen with technology.
Why have the mainstream media influence voters to the media's point of view? Focus on spreading a message through social media. The mainstream media runs a scripted, edited narrative - social media can be administered and moderated by the host website, but the signal gets out faster than the bots/mods can stop it, usually.
The future is in social media. What's concerning is the mainstream media's/big tech's manipulation of social media mostly for financial gain. All the "censorship" on social media has to do with ad revenues and lending.
It’s just a satirical shirt for the loony left seeing those two names together. I think some here are taking it a little too seriously.If that's the ticket, then I'm voting for him. At this point, I'd vote for anyone over our current occupier of the White House.
That's an interesting perspective. I hear you about skipping out on mainstream media and basically agree. Of course, I don't support electronic voting for party candidates for the same reasons I don't support it for the election. But then, I don't support parties, so I might solve conventions a little differently...all of which means that my phrasing was generally inaccurate.
Here's my thing - I joined facebook in 2004, canceling my account in 2013; if I can help it, I'll never use it again. I've never joined twitter/IG etc, and frankly should quit youtube/google, but am too lazy. If the only/best way to learn what a candidate is up to is to re/join one of those platforms, I'm not interested.
Much of what you've described could be handled through a modern website. If followers want to post in all these other places I'd never say they shouldn't, but don't make me give Zuckerberg and co. any more traffic; if someone's that interested in a position of leadership, they can show they've got skin in the game by paying for some bandwidth.
All that said, I'm more interested in policy positions, written as sentences, than 2am iNcOmPrEhEnSiBlE TiRaDeS and cat pictures. I'm also a significant minority, so I'll go back to yelling at clouds.
Losing ticket in the making. Holding out for pense and that nasty bitch.
I love when I see memes like this because I know the person who made it will be lucky to pass a 5th grade class. "Skynard"?
I'll vote for any repub who can win. If we survive these 4 years with dems, we'll never survive another. I don't need politically pure people, just Rs!
Well, some won't fail to try.I'm sure that Rs won't disappoint by putting forward a Rino barely different from D ticket.
and his lunch bag of dicksPierre Delecto, .....
Pierre Delecto, unity ticket.
With Ron Mexico in the cabinetUnity ticket? So Pierre Delecto / Carlos Danger 2024?
Pence is dead to Trump's base. I think he's smart enough to know that and won't even try. Desantis and a woman/minority VP sounds like a winning ticket.You won't see Pence running for anything in 2024 or later. He alienated a lot of people with his post Jan. 6 comments about President Trump and the non existent "insurrection."
At this point it is DeSantis' nomination to lose. Noem might be the VP.
It's way to early to predict who might win the Republican nomination, but I'm convinced it won't be Pence.
The NRA is free of another grifter, and good riddance!
Pence is dead to Trump's base. I think he's smart enough to know that and won't even try. Desantis and a woman/minority VP sounds like a winning ticket.
He's in position to be a lot more than that in 2024.Desantis/Noem maybe. That's if she stops taking pot shots at him. Nikki Haley is also dead to the Trump base. A lot can change between now and then, but right now Trump is in a position to be the King maker in both 2022 and 2024.
Just like Uncle Joe, Ted is also fond of underage girls.I’d take Nugent for President right now if I could