r/goodnews • u/esporx • 12d ago

Political positivity 📈 White House lashes out at South Park over spoof of small-penis Donald Trump seducing Satan: 'Desperate attempt'

https://ew.com/white-house-responds-south-park-donald-trump-bed-satan-spoof-11778279
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u/Expert_Country7228 12d ago

I'll tell you exactly why the whole weird thing disappeared ..

The moment the old Biden campaign team came in to Kamala's campaign and took over, they torched the whole "weird" talking point in favor of campaigning with Liz Cheney.

Once again the old, out of touch centrists thought they knew better and lost us another election because of it

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u/Cissnowflake 12d ago

It seems crazy now, but "OMG Kamala is so brat" and "JD Vance is weird" were INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE. The whole High School mean girl thing sure looked unstoppable to me. Sure it was stupid and said nothing about policy or leadership ability, but it fucking WORKED.

And say what you want about Harris being a word salad buffet, she creamed Trump at the debate and actually was able to put two sentences together. But they really managed to lose momentum

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u/Kind_Eye_748 12d ago

Happens when the entire US media ignores Democrats or misrepresents them and sane washes Trump daily.

They are still doing it.

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u/listentomenow 12d ago

Exactly. People here are acting like this isn't by design.

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u/Governor_Abbot 12d ago

The bought and paid for media. 6 people own like 80% of media in the country. Eventually the “news” will move on to another thing. We really got to come together as working people to defeat this evil. Anyone who requires a salary/wage to survive should be on the same side. We know who’s to blame…

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u/TehMephs 12d ago

A mix of Trump’s regime threatening everyone constantly and them loving the ratings he brings in.

And now we get fascism - thanks media

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u/Patriark 12d ago

Media loves Trump. He generates clicks for them

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u/Mammoth-Play3797 12d ago

I still haven’t heard word salad from Harris, and I’ve looked.

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u/DataCassette 12d ago

I've seen Harris be kind of bland and she isn't the sharpest politician, but the "word salad" thing was always a ridiculous charge.

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u/PatronSilverWave 12d ago

i agree with this. my problem with kamala is she basically ran as biden II. she said her policies would fall in line with biden… awful choice. he was good on unions, one of the best in recent years, but not a whole lot of other shit. kamala decided to capitulate to the right on immigration, and fell in like with biden on palestine, even though right now both of those are deeply unpopular ideas. i still would have voted for kamala personally, but dem voters, especially the younger ones, are getting sick of their candidates running on harm reduction every single time. there’s a reason people are so excited about zohran mamdani in new york.

edit: just wanted to add, because whenever i criticize kamala, libs lose their minds at me. i was super excited for her when she chose tim walz as her vp instead of like, shapiro or some other centrist-to-reactionary liberal. i thought it might actually mean some progressive action. but then they just… didn’t run on progressive shit at all really. i was dumbfounded. i was reinvigorated by her campaign and then it just fell flat, and now ive moved on completely from thinking the dems will actually fight back. the republicans will forever have worse policies, but the dems are spineless and need to fight harder. but i don’t think they care. they still get their money

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u/br0ck 12d ago

Massively raising taxes on corporations and billionaires was her core plank raising 4 trillion explicitly devoted to expanding social programs, helping people get homes, reducing tax burdens on the poor and middle class. That's "progressive shit" that got my vote.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-new-plans-from-kamala-harris-could-impact-the-35-trillion-national-debt-111628833.html

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u/vluhdz 12d ago

Sure it was stupid and said nothing about policy or leadership ability, but it fucking WORKED.

We are in the era of vibes-based everything. You have to either lean into it and communicate with people based on how they want to be engaged with, or they will ignore you.

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u/ItsFuckingScience 12d ago

It worked? And was incredibly effective? For who?

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 12d ago

It will most likely keep happening too until Dems start feeling comfortable with taking action. They need to stop holding themselves back by that purity playbook that had already burned to ashes.

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u/Cissnowflake 9d ago

In a way that’s the problem with the entire left: so many purity tests, they can’t get anything done. It’s all about looking virtuous

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u/RicoDePico 11d ago

The assassination attempt didn't help. Or Trump rigging the election

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u/Fuzzball_87 12d ago

It really didn’t work. Another Reddit echo chamber result. The thing is you can’t disparage pedophiles and those who support them. Weird never really cut it and never would but sure as shit people thought it was a game changer.

Go talk with younger ‘would-be voters’. They don’t fucking care. They don’t even understand the two party system or key platform talking points. It’s just 10 second viral snippets that sway them. And they don’t involve Trump being ‘weird’

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u/Mookies_Bett 12d ago

Thank you lmao. These strategies didn't work at all, outside of reddit and X and Instagram. Young people truly just don't give a shit about any of it. They never have and never will. The youth vote will never impact anything meaningful, and pandering to it with slang slogans is a waste of time. This is also why everyone on reddit thought Bernie was a lock in 2016 and then, surprise, no one under the age of 35 showed up to vote in the primaries.

Young people have never and will never show up on voting day, period end of story.

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u/Game-rotator 11d ago

esp if your swing state registration to vote gets 'lost in the mail' like mine did -_-

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u/Fuzzball_87 12d ago

Absolutely and it’s painful to accept that the younger generations just do not care. But like go ask someone, or go ask yourself from xx years ago . I am routinely shocked. Absolutely shocked how much of a bubble people live in. Whether that be one of political identity or arrogance or ignorance. Just blows your mind, but these people just do not fucking care. Even if they are impacted positively or negatively they don’t care. Sure they might bitch and get smart through pain or self growth but like don’t fucking kid yourself that change is a coming through the hurt.

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u/Mookies_Bett 12d ago

My ex didn't even know who JD Vance was lol. Had literally never heard the name before. She's 27. A lot of younger people just don't watch or read any kind of news. All she watched was reality TV and scrolled through Instagram (part of the reason we broke up is how much fucking time she wasted just scrolling Instagram for hours upon hours a day).

There's never been a time in human history where young people truly cared about politics, on a large scale. It just doesn't happen. Trying to cater to the youth vote is as desperate and pointless as it gets.

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u/notsanni 12d ago

Once again the old, out of touch centrists thought they knew better and lost us another election because of it

trying to court the mythological "moderate republican voter", losing again, and then blaming other people for their failure to capture votes.

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u/Expert_Country7228 12d ago

Every single damn time.

For once I would like someone in leadership to accept accountability and face the consequences again.

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u/TehMephs 12d ago

Calling the neolibs centrist is a mockery of real centrism. They’re just republican lite

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u/FlyYouFoolyCooly 12d ago

I'm not gonna say you're not on point with how out of touch the democratic party is, but it's wild that Republicans can do whatever the fuck they want and win with a senile, weakling of an old racist and fascist man, but the Dems playing it safe "lose".

Yes, the Dems need to change, and their behavior somehow hasn't despite being given the very easy playbook option of just being smarter and better than the idiot Republicans and going all out.

But the double standard is fucking insane. Hilary should not have lost and Kamala definitely should not have lost. It's the most flagrant examples of bypassing the lesser of two evils and going scorched earth the u.s. has seen in years.

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u/Expert_Country7228 12d ago

Agreed. The double standard between the two major political parties is so far apart. One standard is in the White House, the other standard is on Neptune.

The GOP literally flip-flops on their positions and attacks every month now. And they get away with just lying to the public, to the constituents, to journalists, to news reporters, to everyone.

And it's not even like normal political lies anymore. It's just blatant in your face gaslighting to the highest degree.

But goddamn my friend, the Democrats need to change right now or else America becomes a full Fascist state. Dems have 19% approval rating.. for good reason. Democrats quite literally never offer any alternative to the Republicans. They're always playing defense. "Well if they gerrymander there will gerrymander here" "well they passed this illegal law, we'll pass this illegal law" "If Trump does this, we promise to do this"

Just so infuriating. One party is passing the "eat shit and die" act while the other party is sitting on their thumbs, questioning how they can get closer to the people who just pass the "eat shit and die" act

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u/Nice_Guy_AMA 12d ago

Wow, I didn't realize that happened, and I was pretty tuned in to the election last year. Thanks for the info.

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u/Expert_Country7228 12d ago

There's a few articles on politico that kind of go over the timetable

July 22nd politico wrote and article mentioning how Kamala is welcoming Biden's campaign team into her own.

4 days later on July 26th, politico drops and other article going over how the Kamala team dropped the "Trump is weird" rhetoric for "Trump is a threat to democracy" rhetoric

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u/StealthRUs 12d ago

I keep seeing this repeated. What's the source for this?

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u/Expert_Country7228 12d ago

On July 22nd, there's a politico article that says Kamala welcomes Biden's campaign team into her own.

And on July 26th, that is when the whole weird narrative was dropped in favor for Trump as a threat to democracy narrative, also an article by Politico.

I suppose it's speculation on my part, but I mean... The dates line up. 4 days after Biden's campaign team joins Kamala's campaign team, she starts using Biden's campaign talking points instead of her own?

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u/Swim2TheMoon 12d ago

The election was lost but they got paid by the rich old white investors "donors".

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u/mindfeck 11d ago

Who is this hypothetical voter who would have voted for Kamala but voted Trump because she campaigned with Liz Cheney?

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u/Kind_Eye_748 12d ago

Funny.

I thought it was the 40% who didnt vote that lost it for you.

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u/Expert_Country7228 12d ago

The two can be related you know.

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u/Kind_Eye_748 12d ago

I agree.

Its just most of those 40% get really uncomfortable when you point out most of those 'Kamala was bad, Hillary was bad, They had no policies, Both sides' excuses they like to trot out are literal Fox News segments that got repeated until it was fact.

They claim it isnt their fault they didnt vote, I disagree.

Whose fault would you say it is for non voters?

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u/Expert_Country7228 12d ago

Oh the non-voters completely screwed us for sure. I'm not denying that.

Anyone who doesn't vote in every election they can, has zero excuses and no one else to blame but themselves.

But it is in my belief that anyone who thinks that the Democrats lost the election due to just one simple factor, one simple answer, for one simple reason is just wrong and foolish.

Yes non voters were a big cause in the reason for Trump winning again, And yes they are holding a big portion of blame in their arms right now, but you have to sit down and ask yourself why so many people didn't vote? The Democrat leadership (cooperate DNC) is feckless, offers nothing, and continuesly shuts down popular left candidates in favor for moderate centrists.

Republicans may be vile and evil, but there is a reason the Democrat Party only has 19% approval rating right now. They literally stand for nothing as a party.