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misanthrope

(9,268 posts)
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 06:14 PM 9 hrs ago

The Gatsby video from Mar-A-Lago is a gift for the Democratic Party if they can use it

Combine it with footage of ICE agents terrorizing citizens, or children crying as their parents are seized, or excerpts of elderly Americans talking about difficulty purchasing food, or medication, or health insurance. Or of the destruction of the White House.

It is all. Right. There.

Just use it, assemble it and disseminate it.

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The Gatsby video from Mar-A-Lago is a gift for the Democratic Party if they can use it (Original Post) misanthrope 9 hrs ago OP
Just do it Deuxcents 9 hrs ago #1
Speaking of gifts, we should all send the same gift to Trump for Christmas. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #2
... SheltieLover 9 hrs ago #3
The The grift that keeps on giving...or grifting. BattleRow 8 hrs ago #6
Oh! JustAnotherGen 6 hrs ago #24
just like Mit Romney's quotes were used againt h DBoon 9 hrs ago #4
Maybe some video BOSSHOG 9 hrs ago #5
there's so much there there, barbtries 8 hrs ago #7
So much for his supporters BOSSHOG 7 hrs ago #13
Has anyone seen what the Venezuelan newspapers KS Toronado 8 hrs ago #8
I recall some condemnation BOSSHOG 7 hrs ago #12
Did a search on "Venezuelan newspapers saying about trump's boat bombings" KS Toronado 7 hrs ago #20
And why haven't we heard from the 2 survivors who were sent back? Callie1979 7 hrs ago #18
Here is an article from El Universal markodochartaigh 6 hrs ago #28
While I understand what you're saying and agreeing with the philosophy misanthrope 6 hrs ago #25
Find those girls BidenRocks 8 hrs ago #9
that's a big if WhiskeyGrinder 8 hrs ago #10
Go for it! Exp 8 hrs ago #11
I need a video editor! James48 7 hrs ago #14
The Epstein Ballroom video is stunning (It's entirely AI, no foolin) How about using it? usonian 7 hrs ago #15
The ice raids is what keeps them supporting Trump JI7 7 hrs ago #16
Right, that's why I wanted to focus on the terrorized children's faces misanthrope 6 hrs ago #26
That party by the great Fatsby is the Javaman 7 hrs ago #17
Gatsby had a closet of shirts that made Daisy cry. Harker 7 hrs ago #22
Meidas Touch has been posting video. The Democratic Party needs to use these clips! SunSeeker 7 hrs ago #19
So Melania left NYC for the weekend? Wow Callie1979 7 hrs ago #21
Can't possibly have the impact of a strongly-worded letter, can it? Orrex 6 hrs ago #23
Clueless. Pics and videos underpants 6 hrs ago #27
Democrats need to turn the tables on the "democrats are elitist" talking point. Initech 6 hrs ago #29
Please. kacekwl 6 hrs ago #30

BOSSHOG

(43,994 posts)
5. Maybe some video
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 06:21 PM
9 hrs ago

Of trump murdering humans in boats with zero evidence of anything. Maybe a quick scan of 34 felony convictions.

barbtries

(30,927 posts)
7. there's so much there there,
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 06:57 PM
8 hrs ago

it's an embarrassment of riches when it comes to making ads and billboards and such.

KS Toronado

(21,813 posts)
8. Has anyone seen what the Venezuelan newspapers
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 07:05 PM
8 hrs ago

are saying about the boat bombings? Haven't seen anything on DU, but I could have missed it.

BOSSHOG

(43,994 posts)
12. I recall some condemnation
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 07:27 PM
7 hrs ago

Of a government official. And an article about the absurdity of such boats delivering drugs to the US relative to fuel availability. He’s a murderer and the chief Justice of the Supreme Court doesn’t care.

KS Toronado

(21,813 posts)
20. Did a search on "Venezuelan newspapers saying about trump's boat bombings"
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:12 PM
7 hrs ago

Gave me nothing except Venezuelans are mad at dumpie/United States and one article why dumpie wants
regime change, current President embarrassed dumpie when he picked the wrong winner. I've picked the
wrong winner in a lot of races or games, but I sure don't want to kill anybody over my poor guessing.

In 2019 during Mr Trump's first term in office the US President recognized Venezuela's then-opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's interim president.

"At the time Juan Guaido called for the military to defect and recognize his government over Nicolas Maduro. Well it failed," Dr Sabatini said.

"It was deeply humiliating for Donald Trump. He even invited Juan Guaedo to come to his State of the Union address, recognized him as the president, saluted him and then it all collapsed."

Dr Sabatini believes Mr Trump doesn't want "to lose" and that is why he has been careful to avoid saying this is about regime change. "He said it's only taking out narco-terrorists, that means if indeed this fails to produce a regime change that he secretly wants … he does have an escape hatch and can say 'mission accomplished'."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/trump-blowing-up-boats-as-maduro-arms-venezuelans/105947824

Yellow highlight is mine.

Callie1979

(992 posts)
18. And why haven't we heard from the 2 survivors who were sent back?
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:12 PM
7 hrs ago

They should have a story to tell

markodochartaigh

(4,556 posts)
28. Here is an article from El Universal
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:48 PM
6 hrs ago

which is a paper that used to be more to the right but was bought out and has drifted toward an accommodation with the government. It is very heavy on facts without hyperbole or rabble rousing language. It points out the international condemnation as extrajudicial executions, quotes Maduro saying that the US wants to steal the immense oil wealth of the country and start a new eternal war. The article states that the US justifications are questionable and mentions UN reports which show that Venezuela is not a center of cultivation, processing, or trafficking of narcotics, and that the route by which most narcotics are trafficked to the US is the Pacific. It mentions that the UN High Commission on Human Rights has condemned the killings.



https://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/219355/escalada-de-tension-en-el-caribe-ee-uu-asume-buevo-bombardeo-letal-y-desafia-el-derecho

misanthrope

(9,268 posts)
25. While I understand what you're saying and agreeing with the philosophy
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:37 PM
6 hrs ago

It isn't terribly effective as an opposition ad. It isn't personal enough, just black-and-white shots of vehicles at a distance and then explosions. It is too easy for it to be discounted with the drug war spin.

You need something up close and far more humanized, the worried or pained faces of people who look like they could be neighbors or relatives. The effectiveness lies in the contrast between their visible suffering and the indifferent frivolity of the Mar-A-Lago bunch.

BidenRocks

(2,477 posts)
9. Find those girls
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 07:11 PM
8 hrs ago

Check their ID.
This is too Epstein not to screw up somewhere and have a minor working.

Even if it was legal, I want to see chump tap dance.

EPSTEIN!

James48

(5,029 posts)
14. I need a video editor!
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 07:35 PM
7 hrs ago

To do exactly that.

How about a contest!
I’ll sponsor a contest for the best use of video for a campaign ad - and give a prize.

I don’t know what the prize will be- what do you think?

Post your entry below!

usonian

(22,059 posts)
15. The Epstein Ballroom video is stunning (It's entirely AI, no foolin) How about using it?
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 07:50 PM
7 hrs ago

In this OP
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220734392



Or, for a static image ....


Slightly modified (easy for computer artists to do)

JI7

(92,892 posts)
16. The ice raids is what keeps them supporting Trump
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 07:53 PM
7 hrs ago

even uf they are being affected by other things.

I think showing their economic conditions would work better than showing the Ice raids.

misanthrope

(9,268 posts)
26. Right, that's why I wanted to focus on the terrorized children's faces
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:40 PM
6 hrs ago

Or shots of agents brutalizing people.

Harker

(17,070 posts)
22. Gatsby had a closet of shirts that made Daisy cry.
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:13 PM
7 hrs ago

Trumpsky has a closet of skeletons that make millions cry.

SunSeeker

(57,090 posts)
19. Meidas Touch has been posting video. The Democratic Party needs to use these clips!
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:12 PM
7 hrs ago

Meidas Touch posted this video from Trump's Gatsby party showing strippers cavorting in giant champagne glasses:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/831714729237366/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

Initech

(106,751 posts)
29. Democrats need to turn the tables on the "democrats are elitist" talking point.
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:53 PM
6 hrs ago

This was, by far, the most grotesque and insane display of extreme wealth, arrogance, and elitism I've ever seen. It was literally the ultimate "fuck you" to poor people if there ever was one.

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