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The unity talk is for the sane, reachable, voters, not the cray-cray republican party people, they were always going to argue in bad faith and lie, and hinder. Biden is a president of us all, not just the ones who voted for him like assmouth did. But that doesn't mean he will cater to the destructive, Republican party element.

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He actually offered Tulsi Gabbard a position, she turned it down because she was still cosplaying being a Democratic type person. Oh, not a real Dem, no.

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That is something that has always been true of the good politicians.

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'cept that ain't what he is sayingHe's saying the rest of the family needs to come on over and whoopass on that ex

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I disagree that Dems are actually being caught flat footed. The GOP has a tightly intertwined media ecosystem, which as stated above, is predictably going to attack anything that Dems do or say. Right? We're also agreed that there's no scenario where the Dems can do anything, including surrender on policy, that's going to make the National Review and the other sites mentioned in the article do anything other than attack. So, the spin on those websites or the press (which wasn't able to budge Tr**p's favorability one way or the other) isn't where or how we measure messaging success. He's not pointing the unity message at the GOP so much as he's pointing it at American people willing to listen. I see it as an extension of the debates when he would look directly into the camera and talk the people. Will this work? Who can say. We're not out of the woods; we're only out of the Blair Witch's house. But you can't call it what the Dems always do, because I haven't seen evidence that they're going to wait for the GOP to let them enact policy. In the meantime, compared to past presidents of the last 40 years, only Bush Sr. and Obama had higher average approval ratings at this point. EDIT: I saw your other comment. I too am a comms person. I've worked in PR for 20 years. The only thing more important than messaging is targeting. Strong messages to the wrong audience (GOP politicians and "conservative" "journalists") is pissing in the wind.

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President. Biden has been executive ordering the hell out of right wing policies. Who gives a shit how the right whines. The important thing is that he gives America what we voted him in for. Sooner or later the right will have to compromise. This makes Joltin’ Joe look strong and Americans love strong.

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Yes I don't know why people don't get that.

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You would prefer him saying "fuck you" to everyone who is not a committed Dem, like assmouth did, when he was squatting in the oval office and was only president to those who voted for him? He's not talking about unity with the white supremacist party-leaders, he's talking people that have gotten suckered into believing the Republican propaganda machine and Independents who deserve to be represented too.

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Thank you, well said.

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They want to keep their tax-cuts.

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Yes the man who helped impeach Clinton for a consensual blowjob, was banging his own secretary, in his limo, at the time.

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Yes, His "Contract ON American" and its no compromise, only demonize, the Democratic side, got us to the present mess.

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That started with rich Republican Richard Mellon Scaife, funding smear jobs on her thirty years of them. everything from a real estate deal that they lost money on, (Whitewater) to Uranium One which was easily proven wrong. Unfortunately, some fanatics didn't want to believe they were ginned up lies.

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I hate how our side falls for their crap instead of realizing that.

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