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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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.
Deuxcents
(24,625 posts)Baitball Blogger
(51,345 posts)Pool floats.
SheltieLover
(74,801 posts)BattleRow
(2,005 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,334 posts)DBoon
(24,445 posts)BOSSHOG
(43,994 posts)Of trump murdering humans in boats with zero evidence of anything. Maybe a quick scan of 34 felony convictions.
barbtries
(30,927 posts)it's an embarrassment of riches when it comes to making ads and billboards and such.
BOSSHOG
(43,994 posts)And republicans to be proud of.
KS Toronado
(21,813 posts)are saying about the boat bombings? Haven't seen anything on DU, but I could have missed it.
BOSSHOG
(43,994 posts)Of a government official. And an article about the absurdity of such boats delivering drugs to the US relative to fuel availability. Hes a murderer and the chief Justice of the Supreme Court doesnt care.
KS Toronado
(21,813 posts)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)They should have a story to tell
markodochartaigh
(4,556 posts)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)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)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!
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,930 posts)Exp
(656 posts)James48
(5,029 posts)To do exactly that.
How about a contest!
Ill sponsor a contest for the best use of video for a campaign ad - and give a prize.
I dont know what the prize will be- what do you think?
Post your entry below!
usonian
(22,059 posts)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)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)Or shots of agents brutalizing people.
Javaman
(64,763 posts)Let them eat cake moment
Harker
(17,070 posts)Trumpsky has a closet of skeletons that make millions cry.
SunSeeker
(57,090 posts)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
Callie1979
(992 posts)Orrex
(66,315 posts)underpants
(193,682 posts)Initech
(106,751 posts)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.
kacekwl
(8,743 posts)Attack time.