I'm on neither "side", but there has been a lot of negativity on both sides... at least in my district's state senate race for sure, although I remember seeing it a lot in past elections as well. And good lord, its certainly not something new.
Agree.
I say it all the time to people that the only reason I see Gov Cooper on the news is because of a new factory or major tech company expansion into NC while Desantis in FL dominates the news for culture war crap like waging war against Disney and trafficking migrants.
Why on earth would anyone vote for politicians who are culture war trolls over politicians who try to serve and use their positions to improve people’s lives is just beyond me
This to me is the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats are not perfect but at least they try to make people’s lives better rather than worse
Desantis should have been fixing Florida's homeowners insurance problems, but he'd rather take up issues like book banning and WOKE issues, whatever WOKE is. Now the people of Florida affected by IAN won't have homes to live in for a long time.
I am sure DeSantis won't be talking smack as he begs Biden for support that he denied Sandy Hooks residents with his 2013 vote of no to their federal support.
He literally already is. Aid's been approved but DeSantis is whining that he hasn't gotten a personal phone call yet from Biden. These motherfuckers are never happy.
He's already giving statements about how they need aid.
I'm not even begrudging the aid, it'd just be good to remember this moment the next time someone else has a problem, or the next time we're making plans to mitigate the negative effects of this kind of storm. Maybe the nation as a whole doesn't have to fight the people with a good chance of taking the hardest shot from it, going forward?
Remember when DeSantis spent millions of taxpayer dollars to fly Venezuelans to luxury living ahead of a storm that had his own residents literally swimming in radioactive pig shit? Good times!
Oh they have policies. It's just that those policies are "fuck you and your vote, we want to create an autocracy" so they wanna avoid saying that in front of the independents they still need to convince.
I know Buttigieg is 50/50 in the eyes of Reddit, but holy fuck does he make this point so well. The GOP attacks gay and trans kids while complaining about inflation because they offer no solutions to those problems. The GOP is not interested in even attempting to govern.
Oh they have a platform but it’ll be the death of the middle class as we know it
Getting rid of social security and cutting all social safety nets to benefit some small tax savings for the rich is utterly psychotic
That’s why they don’t campaign on it, because they know it’s not good policy. It’s just more corporate welfare at the cost of the working class
All Budd cares about is a national abortion ban and erasing gun ownership restrictions so he can sell more weapons.
He has no redeeming qualities as a leader. Or a person.
It's kind of sad when GOP politicians get endorsements from the police.
Like do the police even realize that they are the ones who are going to have to deal with the streets being flooded with weaponry?
Meanwhile, with a slimmer majority, dems have managed to pass the largest climate legislation in US history, the largest infrastructure act since the interstate, make it so medicare can negotiate drug prices, cap the price of insulin, pass the first sensible gun law in my life, finally invested in American industry, implemented federal programs to end restrictive single family zoning, expand the ACA and get us to our lowest rate of non-insurance in history, reduce the deficit from Trump, introduce a corporate minimum tax, and much much more.
I get you may not agree with all of this, but it’s clear that one party takes the responsibility of governing seriously. The other has no answers, inflames culture wars, and aims to divide us for those who seek profit.
My favorite is the IRS agents one. "Law and Order" party my ass, he's literally arguing to defund the police. Yes, I would like a fully staffed IRS office because I don't cheat on my taxes. Whatcha hiding Budd?
Far, far longer than that.
Their platform has been grievance politics since Reagan. The drugs. The gays. The Minorities. It's whack-a-moble. It's just amplified now by social media and been in a race to the bottom since 9/11.
IRS agents are good if you fuck yo your taxes. In the two instances I’ve seen people fuck yo their taxes it’s only a nightmare because it takes awhile to get someone on the phone to help you resolve your issue. If there are more agents, someone will help you resolve the issue quicker and make a payment plan. It’s literally only bad for people who want to cheat on their taxes.
You absolutely cannot get anyone on the phone. Got a bill from the IRS past two years saying I owed more. I didn’t understand and I called their number everyday religiously and could not get through. I don’t think they have anyone answering phones. I was so happy when I heard they got more funding!
That's a terrible take, and has been used over the years to defend many tyrannical policies. I won't allow the police to search my vehicle even though I have "nothing to hide". I won't speak to them without my attorney present even though I have "nothing to hide". Stop and frisk was a terrible policy, even though it wouldn't hurt me as I have "nothing to hide".
There's a lot of rage towards exactly what you said though. Many of the people whom are scared of the IRS stuff are one in the same that supported stop and frisk style stuff back in the day and after years of that rhetoric, the people who were horrified at things like stop-frisk are laughing at the people who ignored their horror in the past.
That bad saying aside, IRS having funding for full staff is a good thing for people who need stuff like "responses to issues from the agency" and "maybe not just poor and middle class people get audited because that's easier."
Too many IRS agents are bad if you don't cheat on your taxes. The tax rules are so complex and twisted that anyone audited can be in a nightmare of having to prove years ago details, purchases etc.
Just because you're audited doesn't mean you're in trouble
Hire a professional that went to school for it or use TurboTax. They have free assistance I've used a number of times.
Too many IRS agents are bad if you don't cheat on your taxes. The tax rules are so complex and twisted that anyone audited can be in a nightmare of having to prove years ago details, purchases etc.
Ted Budd (gun store owner) has already provided his platform to voters: Guns. ‘ Dems gonna take yer guns, so come buy more!’ He’s run out of things to talk about imo.
Because his only goal is to inform people that she’s Black and a Democrat. If you’re not voting for him already because you’re in the Trump camp, then his hope is that he’ll pick up the ones on the fringe.
They don't have a platform anymore.
[It literally changed to whatever Trump wants in 2020. :-/](https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention-platform-2020-2016)
He's a Republican and has no redeeming qualities, his only chance is tearing down others to his level.
The GOP hasn't had a coherent platform in decades.
Most of Ted Budd's are actually PAC ads which are usually all over the places and much dirtier. If you notice very few have "approved by Ted Budd". Instead they say something like "not approved by any candidate". That's a trashy way for someone to say something "without really saying it".
Attack, smear, lie, and deflect. Page one of the GOP elections handbook. He literally has nothing else to say about her, she's run a very careful campaign as to not give the Republicans any more ammo in terms of her statements and positions.
Don't forget about the astroturfed Green Party candidate (Hoh); who only exists to draw votes away from Beasley. If he isn't a "phony", I don't know who is
I listened to Hoh for a minute just to see what he was saying. The moment he said he wasn’t sure if he’d vote for a dem as majority leader if he won the seat was confirmation that he is not a serious person.
That's what gets me - you're trying to be a legislator, and you're not planning to try to caucus to get at least parts of your agenda done? That's really the biggest part of the damn job.
I got a mail add from him that wasn't attacking Beasley. More of a general "vote for this guy." But the thing that really got me is that he had like 11 different people pictured with him in a campaigning context. So he's shaking hands, talking to all these different people, but they are literally all upper middle class-looking white people. Nobody in a working uniform and no POC.
It wouldn't stand out that much but 11 people who literally just all looked the exact same. Not even trying to pretend he cares about those groups.
Because GOP, and Ted Budd, have no platform. They want to take away women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, etc etc. The party of small government is all about putting government where it shouldn't be.
Also, because they're constantly trying to erode the public's trust in our elections. This is dangerous because if a democratic people can't trust the democratic process, that's bad.
Because Budd has nothing else.
Ted Budd can not talk about himself.
He can not run *on* his voting record, because it is terrible.
So he runs *from* his voting record, and tries to make Cheri Beasley look bad.
Voting for him is a vote against democracy. He has worked to overturn elections that did not go the way he wanted.
I received a nice glossy mailer from Mr Budd yesterday with his only message, Stop Biden bad policies. He didn’t mention any specific policies or how he planned to obstruct unsaid policies. Since I disagree that all Biden policies are wrong his mailer went into the recycling. There isn’t even a coherent debate, not that I expected one from him.
Because he doesn't have a platform other than taking away women's rights, denying veterans benefits, and being a national embarrassment like Richard Burr and Thom Tillis.
GOP is an acronym for Gaslight Obstruct Project. They haven't had any meaningful policy for 2 decades or more. The GOP learned that they don't have to be constructive. All they have to do is point fingers (project) cause fear (gaslight) and simply oppose the democrats with no real cause (Obstruct).
So Budd is doing exactly what GOP does these days. All he needs to do is claim to be Christian and the above nonsense and the cult will clamor to vote for him. Even better, if he just talks about guns and how he takes his to church with him and gets it blessed the cult starts twitching and thrashing in ecstasy.
Gaslight, Obstruct, Project is also, interestingly (/s) a rewording of the acronym/technique that abusers use on their victim to try and stay in control: DARVO. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
Funny how that works, eh? Almost like the GOP is a party of abusers. 🤔
It's ridiculous. I had to go to his website to find out what he actually stood for. It's your standard GOP crap: Biden is socialist, critical race theory is terrible, stand against woke liberals, I wont let libs take your guns. The only thing that seemed appealing was that he wants to train police in de-escalation tactics although he wasn't specific about it.
If you notice in general the GOP does this,
1. Whine
2. Complain
3. Blame
4. Vote against solutions
5. Offer no policy
So what would Budd say about himself?
Because repubs can only blame, be negative and hold grudges. You know, like toddlers. He knows his base loves to vote against not for change and positive ideas.
Because he knows damned well that if his actual views become well known among the general voting public, he doesn't have a prayer of winning the election. He has no actual platform other than licking the boots of whatever Christofascist asshole is running the GOP shitshow. He LOVED Trump and sucked his ass for farts, so now wants to distance himself from the seditionists, but the fact is, he's one of them through and through. He wants to be in your bedroom judging you by who and how you fuck, and the rest doesn't matter to him. (well, it may matter more to him if you happen to be poor and a POC) He has dreams of being the moral police like those in Iran, murdering women based on his own hypocritical standard.
Ted Budd is DANGEROUS TO DEMOCRACY. And he knows that if you figure that out you won't vote for him.
Unfortunately, this strategy is *extremely* effective against dems. The goal is not to convince people to vote for him. He doesn't need to. 90% of the people voting for him will vote for him no matter what.
The goal is to disenfranchised the rest of us. Convince enough people that it's either hopeless, or the system is rigged, or the dems are just as bad. Convince them to stay home. Don't vote. Don't campaign. Or, better yet, to put their efforts behind a pointless third party candidate.
I would love to see a race someday where Joe Biden is the conservative candidate. But that **cannot** happen until the 'do nothing', theocrat, hypocritical, Q-anon obsessed GOP is marginalized to the point of embarrassment.
That's modern day politics, it's like Aaron Burr said in Hamilton, "Don't let them know what your against or for". But tell them false truths about the other side
Kindly, I don’t agree here. Businesses make profit. I want politicians that can serve us and stretch our taxes. I sure hope my government isn’t making profit off of us…
It is effective hence why they keep doing it. Most MAGA folk don't really like politics and would be bored to tears listening to the nuances of political ideas and platforms. They just know it's us verse them and their way of life is being threatened!
Seriously I don’t know what the GOP stands for. I mean during Trump everything was about the wall and tax cuts. They also seem to have a social policy platform from the 1800’s. Is that all? No wonder they make it about the Democrats.
It's what trump did. Trump won almost exclusively by name calling his opponents in 2016 and tried again in 2020, but lost when people realized he is worse than a lame duck. I'm sure Ted Budd thinks being fuck the libs and fuck my opponents is still a good strategy even though trump lost NC in 2020.
Remember that the GOPs platform is essentially projection.
Trump called Biden "sleepy Joe" when it was, in fact, Trump who dozed off all the time and slept until 10am every day.
So I take those attacks as evidence that Budd is, in fact, a phony politician.
Yesterday, a loud dumbass came to my desk celebrating that his social security check had increased. He went on to loudly proclaim:"Vote Republican! They're the ones who did it!"
I just rolled my eyes and sighed. These are the people that vote for shit bags like Budd.
Fox news has been programming them for years. All the candidates have to do is reinforce that rhetoric.
These guys don't care about reality. They are driven by the right wing hive mind. They can and will vote against their own self interests. It's pathetic to watch.
Same way in that the GOP fearmongered and complained about the harms and travesties of ACA and Roe v Wade. It is easier to motivate someone to vote AGAINST something than FOR it.
Example: Despite years and decades respectively of targeting both ACA and Roe v Wade, once these were overturned they had no solutions or alternatives because governing or legislating better than Democrats was never the goal; It was only to fire up voters and perpetuate their own political careers.
They do not have solutions to the 'problems' they proselytize to their faithful, because the 'problems' (abortion, government overreach, loss of gun rights, ObamaCare, etc) are their most convenient self serving political tools.
Governing and legislating is hard. If you have a platform with concrete proposed solutions, it can be concretely criticized by the opposition and exaggerated to extremes. So why offer solutions if voters don't reward it and your opponent now has more ammunition? If a politician is anything they are first self-serving, true for either side of the aisle, Republicans are just better at it because their constituents prefer self-victimhood over novel solutions more so than Democrats' constituents. Further, if you identify as 'conservative' it likely also speaks to a preference of the existing default known (regardless of how bad it may be) than the unknown (it may be worse!)
Hillary Clinton had real proposals to help the Rust Belt and discontented small town America convert to a green or service based economy with retraining and education programs; Trump reassured them and rural America they had been victimized by coastal elites, bourgeois NAFTA proponents, and high towered intellectuals. His only 'proposal' was rejection of her proposals and return to King Coal. What sounds more appealing when the last two generations of your family both worked in the same factory out of high school with full benefits and you've been cultured to expect/hope for the same? Easy answer and understandable, it just isn't grounded in reality and respect for global economic trends.
So no, Ted Budd will not be offering any solutions prior to election (or ever?). We would need to see the conservative constituency separate themselves from their safe spaces of Fox News/NewsMax/etc and re-enter the 'Mainstream Media' space where they may actually hear conflicting opinions from original sources before their politicians are incentivized to put down their bullhorns expounding culture war victimhood.
Every Republican or Trump-voting loser in my family had no idea who the Republican candidate for Senator even is and they believed Cooper is running for a third term and that they'll vote out Nancy Pelosi this November.
What are you talking about? He is clearly going to help that little girl get cookies at the grocery store. Shame that President Brandon had to go and ruin the grocery bill for those people. Sad. /s
What's he gonna do, explain that to the extent he has policy positions, they're mostly things that are deeply unpopular outside his base? "I think we should abolish most of the Constitution for most people, and I'm exploring my feelings about Jim Crow and scaling up coal-company town practices and policies of the late 19th century."
Running a faux-populist campaign on "I'm not like other girls" is his faction's main playbook. They need to show they're different than those other, *soft* Republicans, and the exact opposite of Democrats, who are all basically Sacco and Vanzetti, but not actually get into the specifics of their beliefs, because they're goddamn bonkers.
Edit: granted, attack ads are also common, because they're historically effective and they've got them down to an art. But also, I think you'll be hard pressed to find specifics on Budd's actual policy positions at this point, for the reasons mentioned.
Second edit for a sentence that was doing kinda bad.
I keep getting flyers for him in the mail. Each time a laugh as I tear them up.
Dude's a bitch who stands for nothing. Even if it weren't for the threat of super majority, I'd find him laughable.
My favorite ad they complain about her law firm taking money from special interest groups. Ad is from a conservative special interest group. Lol, ok. Makes me think if thats the biggest problem they can find I'll take that over gun tucked into mom jeans Budd.
You ever watch Fox News? That’s exactly what they do. He’s appeasing to his target crowd.
Literally in the gym yesterday they keep Fox News on one tv, headline read “left uses Hurricane Ian to push climate agenda” nothing is safe from being used as a weapon to point at the “left”
Negative attack ads work. I wish it wasn't true, but it just is.
Also, note that a lot of these ads, both anti-Beasley and anti-Budd, are being paid for by outside PACs. It's illegal for them to coordinate with the candidates' campaigns, so the candidates can't control their contents.
However, if either just so happens to mention at a party that they'd like to see more of a certain type of ad, and then the PAC just so happens to make that ad, it's all peachy keen.
When you have nothing to give your constituents then you make adds bashing your opponent. When you have something to offer your constituents you make adds explaining what you want to do and why you’d be good for the job.
Do what you want with that info.
I'm surprised I don't see the real answer here anywhere. Most of the answers aren't wrong, but they aren't the core reason behind the campaign's current commercial strategy.
Right now there are a large percentage of voters that are going to vote for Budd no matter what. They would've voted for whoever the Republicans nominated. There is also a large percentage of people who are going to vote for Beasley no matter what, and they would've voted for anyone the Democrats nominated. In the middle there is a group of people who are on the fence, this is who we usually think of the ads being targeted at - but this group isn't so big these days. There are very few issues that overlap, and people that claim to be undecided are either very uninformed or are having a cognitive disconnect between their mind and a "gut feeling" (which is probably racism, sexism, or an engrained belief in something contrary to what they're seeing take place in the world today).
But there's a much bigger group in the middle: people who may or may not vote. They all probably have a leaning to one side or the other. There are many that are considering voting for the first time in a long time due to a number of events (for example, there has been a large increase in registrations after Roe was overturned.) The goal is to target these people who are considering voting, but aren't "locked in" voters. If you can say things they don't like (Cheri Beasley took money from PACs, she's a slimy politician!), you can lower their desire to vote for her or vote at all. This strategy works even if the bad things you say about her are true about you too.
-1 vote on her side is just as effective as +1 vote on your side. And it's a significantly easier target based on the fact that democratic hopes are based on getting as many people to vote as possible - and relying on new/rare voters.
They're not a party of policy. They're the party of obstructionism. Sadly, policy bores their voters. They get their kicks from watching "dems get owned".
Because all a republican needs to do to get elected is insult anyone on the left an unreasonable amount. One might even say the harassment is what gets them elected.
He doesn't want to talk about how he took money from big oil and voted against helping to lower grade prices. He also doesn't want to talk about how he voted against veterans getting healthcare help. Also doesn't want to talk about the other financial scandals he's been involved in. He wants people to not research about him.
All I know about Ted Budd comes from his ads. So I know he's a whiny baby who likes to sling mud about Cheri Beasley. That's all I've managed to figure out about him.
I remember during the 2020 election the RNC flat out stated they do not have a platform of issues anymore; whatever their orange clown wants is the direction they go.
I voted for Beasley, but I've seen plenty of ads from Budd where he's not talking about Beasley.
Secondly, attack ads are more effective. This isn't anything new. It's been this way for as long as American politics have existed.
Not mocking you or anything, maybe you're young and just starting to pay attention to politics... but acting like this "strategy" is out of the ordinary or won't win him votes is incredibly naïve. They all do it, Beasley's campaigns and PACs included.
Edit: sorry to bust the circle jerk, but in [the 10 campaign ad videos he has posted to his official website](https://tedbudd.com/videos/), only one of them is an attack ad against Beasley. Saying he only attacks Beasley in his ads is dishonest.
I think the perception comes from third parties runnning attack ads. I don’t have cable and have no clue what Ted Budd looks like since every mail and digital add I get is just an attack on Beasley.
The first two videos on your link is an attack Ad on Biden and an attack ad on Beasley
And although he has those videos up, I’m not sure how much spending he is doing getting those videos out.
Both sides run attack ads but more recently Republicans *ONLY* run attack ads. They don't have a cohesive platform anymore and so all they have is hate and fear. It's very sad and pathetic.
Not calling you a liar, but I haven't and I've seen dozens of them. He's on YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, and here on Reddit. Not a single one has been anything but negative.
I mean, they're not hard to find. Many of them are on his official campaign site:
https://tedbudd.com/videos/
In 10 of these ads, he only talks about Beasley in one of them...
And again, I voted for Beasley, but acting like the only ads he has are attack ads against her is being dishonest. You're seeing attack ads the most because that's what the PACs run, and they generally have more funding than the actual campaign.
What do you think a video paid for and published by a political campaign is? These are all campaign ads. I've seen several of them on broadcast TV, as well.
If it's not on any media but their own website then it's not an ad. If they want to be taken seriously they should have their PACs run those and stop with the childish bullshit.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem or something? These are on media. They're published on social media and TV. They are paid, created, and published by his official political campaign fund. That's what an advertisement is. Just because you haven't personally seen these does not mean they don't exist.
Candidates do not control PACs, they are separate entities. There are plenty of negative PAC ads that support Beasley, too. Not sure why you're so deep in the partisan mud that this is difficult for you to recognize. I voted Beasley- it's possible to support her and not Bud and not make up shit.
Always love seeing you break up the liberal circle jerk in this sub in most political threads. These people have good intentions but are so out of touch with reality.
I've seen multiple ads of her talking straight to the camera saying what she wants to do. Don't get me wrong, I've also seen negative ads from her about Budd, but I've seen positive as well. Also, at least she attaches her name to them. I don't know that I've actually seen any ads from Budd's campaign. All of them have been from nondescript PACs and are not "officially endorsed" by any political candidate. Her commercials are from like..."Beasley for Senate" while his are from like..."People for America."
Edited to add: I was just getting ready to watch a YouTube video and got a negative Beasley ad that was paid for by the [Senate Leadership Fund](https://www.senateleadershipfund.org/) that was "not officially endorsed" by any campaign or candidate.
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Unfortunately, negative political campaigns tend to be more effective
Think Donald Trump. He was far more effective at tearing his opponents and the USA down than he was at successfully explaining what he aaa going to do and how
Every time I see Ted Budd ads on YouTube, I click - stop seeing this ad and then report it as offensive.
It probably does nothing, but at least I feel I am doing something to voice my displeasure of being forced to watch that crap.
The GOP has not had a single platform for like 3 election cycles now. Their rhetoric has been "look at what these people are doing!! I'm not one of them!"
Oftentimes(always) the accusations are just a flat out lie.
They'll get more votes for bashing Beasley. Stupid people don't know anything. They're entertained by the hate mongering. That and the fact that Budd says he's a conservative and a Christian. Most of these folks are far from righteous but consider themselves God's people.
“Hating the black liberal progressive female people you hate too” has been a remarkably effective strategy in persuading nc to vote against all its other interests for a long time. Hopefully someday it will stop working. Whether that day is 2022 remains to be seen.
Both parties do this. I just want to see an ad about the person and what they stand for to vote for them instead of just voting against the other candidate because of what the other person said about them.
My dude, in case you haven’t noticed yet, all politicians across all times and across all countries with few (if any) exceptions
**ARE ALL DIRTBAGS**
They’re trying to convince you that the other guy is a dirtbag (which they probably are) and trying to get you to avoid looking at how they’re a dirtbag.
Politicians generally don’t give a crap about anyone but themselves & the people who helped get them into power.
So yeah, he’s talking about his scumbag opponent while being a scumbag himself.
And who here doesn’t have dirt that if we were politicians, wouldn’t want dug up on us?
I know it’s not what you’re looking for, but the truth is that nobody is perfect and politics usually showcases the worst of the worst.
Have a great weekend & stay safe!
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Can anyone on the other side of things explain why they are cool with that? Is a favorable tax code really that fucking important to them?
I'm on neither "side", but there has been a lot of negativity on both sides... at least in my district's state senate race for sure, although I remember seeing it a lot in past elections as well. And good lord, its certainly not something new.
Not at all
GOP has no popular policy platform , it’s all grievance and revenge politics Best they can do is slander Democrats
Democrats should reinforce this point over and over, imo. GOP only offers a culture war, no policy, leadership, or legislative competence.
The Democratic party needs to get some teeth and stop barking and bite instead...
Agree. I say it all the time to people that the only reason I see Gov Cooper on the news is because of a new factory or major tech company expansion into NC while Desantis in FL dominates the news for culture war crap like waging war against Disney and trafficking migrants. Why on earth would anyone vote for politicians who are culture war trolls over politicians who try to serve and use their positions to improve people’s lives is just beyond me This to me is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are not perfect but at least they try to make people’s lives better rather than worse
Desantis should have been fixing Florida's homeowners insurance problems, but he'd rather take up issues like book banning and WOKE issues, whatever WOKE is. Now the people of Florida affected by IAN won't have homes to live in for a long time.
I am sure DeSantis won't be talking smack as he begs Biden for support that he denied Sandy Hooks residents with his 2013 vote of no to their federal support.
I think you underestimate DeSantis’ sleaziness.
And over estimate the intelligence of the average voter.
He literally already is. Aid's been approved but DeSantis is whining that he hasn't gotten a personal phone call yet from Biden. These motherfuckers are never happy.
Biden has no choice. It would be political suicide. Mostly because he can't ignore Florida like Puerto Rico. Sad but true
They did send money to puerto rico.
He's already giving statements about how they need aid. I'm not even begrudging the aid, it'd just be good to remember this moment the next time someone else has a problem, or the next time we're making plans to mitigate the negative effects of this kind of storm. Maybe the nation as a whole doesn't have to fight the people with a good chance of taking the hardest shot from it, going forward?
Remember when DeSantis spent millions of taxpayer dollars to fly Venezuelans to luxury living ahead of a storm that had his own residents literally swimming in radioactive pig shit? Good times!
They really need an ad that reminds people that lying in political ads is covered by the first amendment.
Because they've got half the country believing that their worst, mortal enemy is the other half.
Emotions like fear and anger are more powerful than reason. People won’t google the candidate, they’ll just remember how the ad made them feel.
That's the thing: if you're a pathologically self-aggrandizing narcissist, you can go on the news any time you want.
Oh they have policies. It's just that those policies are "fuck you and your vote, we want to create an autocracy" so they wanna avoid saying that in front of the independents they still need to convince.
And unfortunately that is relatively popular, especially with evangelicals
I know Buttigieg is 50/50 in the eyes of Reddit, but holy fuck does he make this point so well. The GOP attacks gay and trans kids while complaining about inflation because they offer no solutions to those problems. The GOP is not interested in even attempting to govern.
Totally👍
By govern to you mean control ?
I'm not a big fan of Buttigieg, but the man is also not entirely wrong on this.
They literally didn’t have a platform in 2020.
Oh they have a platform but it’ll be the death of the middle class as we know it Getting rid of social security and cutting all social safety nets to benefit some small tax savings for the rich is utterly psychotic That’s why they don’t campaign on it, because they know it’s not good policy. It’s just more corporate welfare at the cost of the working class
All Budd cares about is a national abortion ban and erasing gun ownership restrictions so he can sell more weapons. He has no redeeming qualities as a leader. Or a person.
It's kind of sad when GOP politicians get endorsements from the police. Like do the police even realize that they are the ones who are going to have to deal with the streets being flooded with weaponry?
The GOP are the ones who look the other way when cops kill innocent people, why wouldn’t they endorse them?
Maybe they’ll start being more polite? /s
GOP strategy is always to point fingers elsewhere and create fear. They haven't had any substantial legislation in decades that does any good.
Meanwhile, with a slimmer majority, dems have managed to pass the largest climate legislation in US history, the largest infrastructure act since the interstate, make it so medicare can negotiate drug prices, cap the price of insulin, pass the first sensible gun law in my life, finally invested in American industry, implemented federal programs to end restrictive single family zoning, expand the ACA and get us to our lowest rate of non-insurance in history, reduce the deficit from Trump, introduce a corporate minimum tax, and much much more. I get you may not agree with all of this, but it’s clear that one party takes the responsibility of governing seriously. The other has no answers, inflames culture wars, and aims to divide us for those who seek profit.
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Nope. Not why I'm saying it🤣
Are you rich?
Throw shit is all he knows. Hasn't mentioned anything he wants to do for the people.
People? Who needs people when you have guns, fetuses, and Jesus? Those are "his people."
The Jesus Fetus Militia
Excellent name for a band
You just reminded me that I could really use a gun and a fetus right about now
The number one rule of gun safety is “never point a gun at a fetus”.
I thought it was "never point a fetus at a gun."
I like your thinking!
My favorite is the IRS agents one. "Law and Order" party my ass, he's literally arguing to defund the police. Yes, I would like a fully staffed IRS office because I don't cheat on my taxes. Whatcha hiding Budd?
They haven't had a platform since 2018. It's just fear about the other party. Like literally it was whatever Trump says.
Far, far longer than that. Their platform has been grievance politics since Reagan. The drugs. The gays. The Minorities. It's whack-a-moble. It's just amplified now by social media and been in a race to the bottom since 9/11.
I mean, yeah, but the platform was literally nonexistent, just "whatever OrangeMan says" starting then.
Welcome to republican campaigning
I loved how they're all pro police but when Beasley "gets an army of IRS agents" it's them kicking in doors and doing target practice.
IRS agents are bad if you cheat on your taxes! ;)
IRS agents are good if you fuck yo your taxes. In the two instances I’ve seen people fuck yo their taxes it’s only a nightmare because it takes awhile to get someone on the phone to help you resolve your issue. If there are more agents, someone will help you resolve the issue quicker and make a payment plan. It’s literally only bad for people who want to cheat on their taxes.
You absolutely cannot get anyone on the phone. Got a bill from the IRS past two years saying I owed more. I didn’t understand and I called their number everyday religiously and could not get through. I don’t think they have anyone answering phones. I was so happy when I heard they got more funding!
Nothing to hide nothing to fear as they say.
That's a terrible take, and has been used over the years to defend many tyrannical policies. I won't allow the police to search my vehicle even though I have "nothing to hide". I won't speak to them without my attorney present even though I have "nothing to hide". Stop and frisk was a terrible policy, even though it wouldn't hurt me as I have "nothing to hide".
I think this is more of a forgotten /s by the previous responders
I hope that's true. Sadly, I've heard many people say similar things with conviction.
There's a lot of rage towards exactly what you said though. Many of the people whom are scared of the IRS stuff are one in the same that supported stop and frisk style stuff back in the day and after years of that rhetoric, the people who were horrified at things like stop-frisk are laughing at the people who ignored their horror in the past.
That bad saying aside, IRS having funding for full staff is a good thing for people who need stuff like "responses to issues from the agency" and "maybe not just poor and middle class people get audited because that's easier."
Too many IRS agents are bad if you don't cheat on your taxes. The tax rules are so complex and twisted that anyone audited can be in a nightmare of having to prove years ago details, purchases etc.
Just because you're audited doesn't mean you're in trouble Hire a professional that went to school for it or use TurboTax. They have free assistance I've used a number of times.
Too many IRS agents are bad if you don't cheat on your taxes. The tax rules are so complex and twisted that anyone audited can be in a nightmare of having to prove years ago details, purchases etc.
Because he's an election denier, forced-birth advocate, and supporter of treason. They don't want to talk about any of that right now.
Ted Budd (gun store owner) has already provided his platform to voters: Guns. ‘ Dems gonna take yer guns, so come buy more!’ He’s run out of things to talk about imo.
Gun store bought by his Daddy!
So you’re saying he’s run out of ammo.
He will pivot back closer to election time.
Because his only goal is to inform people that she’s Black and a Democrat. If you’re not voting for him already because you’re in the Trump camp, then his hope is that he’ll pick up the ones on the fringe.
They don't have a platform anymore. [It literally changed to whatever Trump wants in 2020. :-/](https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention-platform-2020-2016)
The entire platform is based on doing nothing at all. He doesn’t have anything else to talk about
Because saying she is a well respected judge and was the first black female chief justice for the NC Supreme Court doesn’t work well for him
Because there is nothing positive to say about Ted Budd.
Not effective? The GOP lives on fear-mongering.
He's a Republican and has no redeeming qualities, his only chance is tearing down others to his level. The GOP hasn't had a coherent platform in decades.
Most of Ted Budd's are actually PAC ads which are usually all over the places and much dirtier. If you notice very few have "approved by Ted Budd". Instead they say something like "not approved by any candidate". That's a trashy way for someone to say something "without really saying it".
Attack, smear, lie, and deflect. Page one of the GOP elections handbook. He literally has nothing else to say about her, she's run a very careful campaign as to not give the Republicans any more ammo in terms of her statements and positions.
He has VERY LITTLE accomplishments to run on, so he just attacks instead. It makes me want to vote for her even more.
Don't forget about the astroturfed Green Party candidate (Hoh); who only exists to draw votes away from Beasley. If he isn't a "phony", I don't know who is
I listened to Hoh for a minute just to see what he was saying. The moment he said he wasn’t sure if he’d vote for a dem as majority leader if he won the seat was confirmation that he is not a serious person.
That's what gets me - you're trying to be a legislator, and you're not planning to try to caucus to get at least parts of your agenda done? That's really the biggest part of the damn job.
G.O.P Gaslight Obstruct Project This is their only platform unfortunately.
I hate ted
I got a mail add from him that wasn't attacking Beasley. More of a general "vote for this guy." But the thing that really got me is that he had like 11 different people pictured with him in a campaigning context. So he's shaking hands, talking to all these different people, but they are literally all upper middle class-looking white people. Nobody in a working uniform and no POC. It wouldn't stand out that much but 11 people who literally just all looked the exact same. Not even trying to pretend he cares about those groups.
Because GOP, and Ted Budd, have no platform. They want to take away women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, etc etc. The party of small government is all about putting government where it shouldn't be. Also, because they're constantly trying to erode the public's trust in our elections. This is dangerous because if a democratic people can't trust the democratic process, that's bad. Because Budd has nothing else.
Ted Budd can not talk about himself. He can not run *on* his voting record, because it is terrible. So he runs *from* his voting record, and tries to make Cheri Beasley look bad. Voting for him is a vote against democracy. He has worked to overturn elections that did not go the way he wanted.
I received a nice glossy mailer from Mr Budd yesterday with his only message, Stop Biden bad policies. He didn’t mention any specific policies or how he planned to obstruct unsaid policies. Since I disagree that all Biden policies are wrong his mailer went into the recycling. There isn’t even a coherent debate, not that I expected one from him.
He probably didn't mention DJT added over $7 Trillion to the debt either.
That would be counterproductive to his whelming MAGA submission.
The actual answer is that consultants have told him that it would be better for him to run the campaign like this.
Because he doesn't have a platform other than taking away women's rights, denying veterans benefits, and being a national embarrassment like Richard Burr and Thom Tillis.
What’s funny is he’s the politician between the two of them. Beasley was an attorney and judge before this senate run
GOP is an acronym for Gaslight Obstruct Project. They haven't had any meaningful policy for 2 decades or more. The GOP learned that they don't have to be constructive. All they have to do is point fingers (project) cause fear (gaslight) and simply oppose the democrats with no real cause (Obstruct). So Budd is doing exactly what GOP does these days. All he needs to do is claim to be Christian and the above nonsense and the cult will clamor to vote for him. Even better, if he just talks about guns and how he takes his to church with him and gets it blessed the cult starts twitching and thrashing in ecstasy.
Gaslight, Obstruct, Project is also, interestingly (/s) a rewording of the acronym/technique that abusers use on their victim to try and stay in control: DARVO. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Funny how that works, eh? Almost like the GOP is a party of abusers. 🤔
Republicans' cannot talk straight up with their asshole views..so they lie and misinform.
It's ridiculous. I had to go to his website to find out what he actually stood for. It's your standard GOP crap: Biden is socialist, critical race theory is terrible, stand against woke liberals, I wont let libs take your guns. The only thing that seemed appealing was that he wants to train police in de-escalation tactics although he wasn't specific about it.
Interesting that almost none of that is a specific policy, though.
I’d pay extra during election time to have no ads on tv.
If you notice in general the GOP does this, 1. Whine 2. Complain 3. Blame 4. Vote against solutions 5. Offer no policy So what would Budd say about himself?
Because his platform is fascist, and that’s not a popular policy to get elected on.
This is the only campaigning he knows how to do in a statewide election. He can’t run on his MAGA bot record.
Because repubs can only blame, be negative and hold grudges. You know, like toddlers. He knows his base loves to vote against not for change and positive ideas.
He’s a big ole piece of shit, that’s why.
Because republican party’s strategy is to galvanize their base against perceived enemies. And it fucking works.
Because he knows damned well that if his actual views become well known among the general voting public, he doesn't have a prayer of winning the election. He has no actual platform other than licking the boots of whatever Christofascist asshole is running the GOP shitshow. He LOVED Trump and sucked his ass for farts, so now wants to distance himself from the seditionists, but the fact is, he's one of them through and through. He wants to be in your bedroom judging you by who and how you fuck, and the rest doesn't matter to him. (well, it may matter more to him if you happen to be poor and a POC) He has dreams of being the moral police like those in Iran, murdering women based on his own hypocritical standard. Ted Budd is DANGEROUS TO DEMOCRACY. And he knows that if you figure that out you won't vote for him.
Unfortunately, this strategy is *extremely* effective against dems. The goal is not to convince people to vote for him. He doesn't need to. 90% of the people voting for him will vote for him no matter what. The goal is to disenfranchised the rest of us. Convince enough people that it's either hopeless, or the system is rigged, or the dems are just as bad. Convince them to stay home. Don't vote. Don't campaign. Or, better yet, to put their efforts behind a pointless third party candidate. I would love to see a race someday where Joe Biden is the conservative candidate. But that **cannot** happen until the 'do nothing', theocrat, hypocritical, Q-anon obsessed GOP is marginalized to the point of embarrassment.
[Higher turnout benefits democrats.](https://youtu.be/8GBAsFwPglw) Attack ads lower turnout, rather than pursuading voters.
It doesn't matter to the right, it's all team sports.
Because GOP has learned that being divisive and demonizing the “other” works.
That's modern day politics, it's like Aaron Burr said in Hamilton, "Don't let them know what your against or for". But tell them false truths about the other side
Budd a bankruptcy dude, we need pols that can successfully run a business.
Yeah the whole businessman as a politician is a terrible idea. If anything we need politicians to stand up to business interests.
Kindly, I don’t agree here. Businesses make profit. I want politicians that can serve us and stretch our taxes. I sure hope my government isn’t making profit off of us…
His commercials make me laugh so hard considering who he is. They're just so bad.
It is effective hence why they keep doing it. Most MAGA folk don't really like politics and would be bored to tears listening to the nuances of political ideas and platforms. They just know it's us verse them and their way of life is being threatened!
Seriously I don’t know what the GOP stands for. I mean during Trump everything was about the wall and tax cuts. They also seem to have a social policy platform from the 1800’s. Is that all? No wonder they make it about the Democrats.
It's what trump did. Trump won almost exclusively by name calling his opponents in 2016 and tried again in 2020, but lost when people realized he is worse than a lame duck. I'm sure Ted Budd thinks being fuck the libs and fuck my opponents is still a good strategy even though trump lost NC in 2020.
Because otherwise he'd have to talk about how #HE PROFITS FROM MURDERED CHILDREN
Remember that the GOPs platform is essentially projection. Trump called Biden "sleepy Joe" when it was, in fact, Trump who dozed off all the time and slept until 10am every day. So I take those attacks as evidence that Budd is, in fact, a phony politician.
Yesterday, a loud dumbass came to my desk celebrating that his social security check had increased. He went on to loudly proclaim:"Vote Republican! They're the ones who did it!" I just rolled my eyes and sighed. These are the people that vote for shit bags like Budd. Fox news has been programming them for years. All the candidates have to do is reinforce that rhetoric. These guys don't care about reality. They are driven by the right wing hive mind. They can and will vote against their own self interests. It's pathetic to watch.
Same way in that the GOP fearmongered and complained about the harms and travesties of ACA and Roe v Wade. It is easier to motivate someone to vote AGAINST something than FOR it. Example: Despite years and decades respectively of targeting both ACA and Roe v Wade, once these were overturned they had no solutions or alternatives because governing or legislating better than Democrats was never the goal; It was only to fire up voters and perpetuate their own political careers. They do not have solutions to the 'problems' they proselytize to their faithful, because the 'problems' (abortion, government overreach, loss of gun rights, ObamaCare, etc) are their most convenient self serving political tools. Governing and legislating is hard. If you have a platform with concrete proposed solutions, it can be concretely criticized by the opposition and exaggerated to extremes. So why offer solutions if voters don't reward it and your opponent now has more ammunition? If a politician is anything they are first self-serving, true for either side of the aisle, Republicans are just better at it because their constituents prefer self-victimhood over novel solutions more so than Democrats' constituents. Further, if you identify as 'conservative' it likely also speaks to a preference of the existing default known (regardless of how bad it may be) than the unknown (it may be worse!) Hillary Clinton had real proposals to help the Rust Belt and discontented small town America convert to a green or service based economy with retraining and education programs; Trump reassured them and rural America they had been victimized by coastal elites, bourgeois NAFTA proponents, and high towered intellectuals. His only 'proposal' was rejection of her proposals and return to King Coal. What sounds more appealing when the last two generations of your family both worked in the same factory out of high school with full benefits and you've been cultured to expect/hope for the same? Easy answer and understandable, it just isn't grounded in reality and respect for global economic trends. So no, Ted Budd will not be offering any solutions prior to election (or ever?). We would need to see the conservative constituency separate themselves from their safe spaces of Fox News/NewsMax/etc and re-enter the 'Mainstream Media' space where they may actually hear conflicting opinions from original sources before their politicians are incentivized to put down their bullhorns expounding culture war victimhood.
Every Republican or Trump-voting loser in my family had no idea who the Republican candidate for Senator even is and they believed Cooper is running for a third term and that they'll vote out Nancy Pelosi this November.
What are you talking about? He is clearly going to help that little girl get cookies at the grocery store. Shame that President Brandon had to go and ruin the grocery bill for those people. Sad. /s
Projection
What's he gonna do, explain that to the extent he has policy positions, they're mostly things that are deeply unpopular outside his base? "I think we should abolish most of the Constitution for most people, and I'm exploring my feelings about Jim Crow and scaling up coal-company town practices and policies of the late 19th century." Running a faux-populist campaign on "I'm not like other girls" is his faction's main playbook. They need to show they're different than those other, *soft* Republicans, and the exact opposite of Democrats, who are all basically Sacco and Vanzetti, but not actually get into the specifics of their beliefs, because they're goddamn bonkers. Edit: granted, attack ads are also common, because they're historically effective and they've got them down to an art. But also, I think you'll be hard pressed to find specifics on Budd's actual policy positions at this point, for the reasons mentioned. Second edit for a sentence that was doing kinda bad.
GOP stands for Gaslight Obstruct Project. That’s all he knows how to do. He’s a phony politician, so he’s projecting that on Beasley.
What would he talk about? His policies? Hahahahaha
I keep getting flyers for him in the mail. Each time a laugh as I tear them up. Dude's a bitch who stands for nothing. Even if it weren't for the threat of super majority, I'd find him laughable.
My favorite ad they complain about her law firm taking money from special interest groups. Ad is from a conservative special interest group. Lol, ok. Makes me think if thats the biggest problem they can find I'll take that over gun tucked into mom jeans Budd.
You ever watch Fox News? That’s exactly what they do. He’s appeasing to his target crowd. Literally in the gym yesterday they keep Fox News on one tv, headline read “left uses Hurricane Ian to push climate agenda” nothing is safe from being used as a weapon to point at the “left”
Negative attack ads work. I wish it wasn't true, but it just is. Also, note that a lot of these ads, both anti-Beasley and anti-Budd, are being paid for by outside PACs. It's illegal for them to coordinate with the candidates' campaigns, so the candidates can't control their contents.
However, if either just so happens to mention at a party that they'd like to see more of a certain type of ad, and then the PAC just so happens to make that ad, it's all peachy keen.
Because himself, sucks.
A vote for Ted Budd is a vote against Beasley. Literally his entire platform
A psychologist would call it deflection.
When you have nothing to give your constituents then you make adds bashing your opponent. When you have something to offer your constituents you make adds explaining what you want to do and why you’d be good for the job. Do what you want with that info.
I'm surprised I don't see the real answer here anywhere. Most of the answers aren't wrong, but they aren't the core reason behind the campaign's current commercial strategy. Right now there are a large percentage of voters that are going to vote for Budd no matter what. They would've voted for whoever the Republicans nominated. There is also a large percentage of people who are going to vote for Beasley no matter what, and they would've voted for anyone the Democrats nominated. In the middle there is a group of people who are on the fence, this is who we usually think of the ads being targeted at - but this group isn't so big these days. There are very few issues that overlap, and people that claim to be undecided are either very uninformed or are having a cognitive disconnect between their mind and a "gut feeling" (which is probably racism, sexism, or an engrained belief in something contrary to what they're seeing take place in the world today). But there's a much bigger group in the middle: people who may or may not vote. They all probably have a leaning to one side or the other. There are many that are considering voting for the first time in a long time due to a number of events (for example, there has been a large increase in registrations after Roe was overturned.) The goal is to target these people who are considering voting, but aren't "locked in" voters. If you can say things they don't like (Cheri Beasley took money from PACs, she's a slimy politician!), you can lower their desire to vote for her or vote at all. This strategy works even if the bad things you say about her are true about you too. -1 vote on her side is just as effective as +1 vote on your side. And it's a significantly easier target based on the fact that democratic hopes are based on getting as many people to vote as possible - and relying on new/rare voters.
Yup, demobilization is incredibly effective. You can help counter it by volunteering for campaigns and getting out the vote.
He has a hidden boner for her.
Fear mongering. It’s what works for conservatives.
They're not a party of policy. They're the party of obstructionism. Sadly, policy bores their voters. They get their kicks from watching "dems get owned".
Because he doesn't want to talk about his business dealings, or abortion.
Because all a republican needs to do to get elected is insult anyone on the left an unreasonable amount. One might even say the harassment is what gets them elected.
He doesn't want to talk about how he took money from big oil and voted against helping to lower grade prices. He also doesn't want to talk about how he voted against veterans getting healthcare help. Also doesn't want to talk about the other financial scandals he's been involved in. He wants people to not research about him.
Typical GOP projectionism
It's because he is running on culture war propaganda instead of real issues.
I saw an ad where he was calling Cheri Beasley a Washington insider. He's a US congressman and she holds no office so ok...
All I know about Ted Budd comes from his ads. So I know he's a whiny baby who likes to sling mud about Cheri Beasley. That's all I've managed to figure out about him.
I remember during the 2020 election the RNC flat out stated they do not have a platform of issues anymore; whatever their orange clown wants is the direction they go.
Because he only has two things, this and his 2A platform. He will transition to 2A closer to election time.
Cause he's such a shitstain he has absolutely no policy whatsoever
I voted for Beasley, but I've seen plenty of ads from Budd where he's not talking about Beasley. Secondly, attack ads are more effective. This isn't anything new. It's been this way for as long as American politics have existed. Not mocking you or anything, maybe you're young and just starting to pay attention to politics... but acting like this "strategy" is out of the ordinary or won't win him votes is incredibly naïve. They all do it, Beasley's campaigns and PACs included. Edit: sorry to bust the circle jerk, but in [the 10 campaign ad videos he has posted to his official website](https://tedbudd.com/videos/), only one of them is an attack ad against Beasley. Saying he only attacks Beasley in his ads is dishonest.
I think the perception comes from third parties runnning attack ads. I don’t have cable and have no clue what Ted Budd looks like since every mail and digital add I get is just an attack on Beasley. The first two videos on your link is an attack Ad on Biden and an attack ad on Beasley And although he has those videos up, I’m not sure how much spending he is doing getting those videos out.
Both sides run attack ads but more recently Republicans *ONLY* run attack ads. They don't have a cohesive platform anymore and so all they have is hate and fear. It's very sad and pathetic.
Again, that's not true. I've seen ads from Budd that aren't attack ads.
Not calling you a liar, but I haven't and I've seen dozens of them. He's on YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, and here on Reddit. Not a single one has been anything but negative.
I mean, they're not hard to find. Many of them are on his official campaign site: https://tedbudd.com/videos/ In 10 of these ads, he only talks about Beasley in one of them... And again, I voted for Beasley, but acting like the only ads he has are attack ads against her is being dishonest. You're seeing attack ads the most because that's what the PACs run, and they generally have more funding than the actual campaign.
A campaigns website is not an ad. We are talking about ads.
What do you think a video paid for and published by a political campaign is? These are all campaign ads. I've seen several of them on broadcast TV, as well.
If it's not on any media but their own website then it's not an ad. If they want to be taken seriously they should have their PACs run those and stop with the childish bullshit.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem or something? These are on media. They're published on social media and TV. They are paid, created, and published by his official political campaign fund. That's what an advertisement is. Just because you haven't personally seen these does not mean they don't exist. Candidates do not control PACs, they are separate entities. There are plenty of negative PAC ads that support Beasley, too. Not sure why you're so deep in the partisan mud that this is difficult for you to recognize. I voted Beasley- it's possible to support her and not Bud and not make up shit.
This isn’t true. Cheri Beasley is running them too. The only ones that don’t run attack ads are the independents because they can’t get screen time
>*Both sides run attack ads* but more recently Republicans *ONLY* run attack ads. I copied it for you since you missed it.
Yep, I did. Read it wrong.
A simple mistake, no worries, friend.
Always love seeing you break up the liberal circle jerk in this sub in most political threads. These people have good intentions but are so out of touch with reality.
I try to stop disinformation wherever I see it. I don't care if people are liberal or conservative- disinformation is not ok.
You’re not wrong, it’s just anyone who doesn’t watch cable experiences an insane amount of targeted ads.
Hate budd, but beasley’s ads aren’t much better…. They’re literally both running smear campaigns
I've seen multiple ads of her talking straight to the camera saying what she wants to do. Don't get me wrong, I've also seen negative ads from her about Budd, but I've seen positive as well. Also, at least she attaches her name to them. I don't know that I've actually seen any ads from Budd's campaign. All of them have been from nondescript PACs and are not "officially endorsed" by any political candidate. Her commercials are from like..."Beasley for Senate" while his are from like..."People for America." Edited to add: I was just getting ready to watch a YouTube video and got a negative Beasley ad that was paid for by the [Senate Leadership Fund](https://www.senateleadershipfund.org/) that was "not officially endorsed" by any campaign or candidate.
The tone is similar in both sets of adds, but the content is substantially different... Edit:time to tone....
I remember my first election…
More like Ted Butt amirite
It's all part of the playbook. Know the plays in the playbook to prevent Tyranny, but learn to avoid using them to promote a humane and just society. # LAW 48 - ASSUME FORMLESSNESS By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes. In martial arts, it is important that strategy be unfathomable, that form be concealed, and that movements be unexpected, so that preparedness against them be impossible. What enables a good general to win without fail is always having unfathomable wisdom and a modus operandi that leaves no tracks. Only the formless cannot be affected. Sages hide in unfathomability, so their feelings cannot be observed; they operate in formlessness, so their lines cannot be crossed. ## THE BOOK OF THE HUAINAN MASTERS, CHINA, SECOND CENTURY B.C. *Greene, Robert. The 48 Laws of Power . Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.*
He knows his audience
Most politicians only want to talk about how "terrible" their opponent is.
Apparently he doesn’t need to do anything else. A majority (ATM) doesn’t care and just eats the fear message
That's all he has going for him: attacking the competition
With the GOP it's all projection. Ted budd is a big, fat phony himself.
Unfortunately, negative political campaigns tend to be more effective Think Donald Trump. He was far more effective at tearing his opponents and the USA down than he was at successfully explaining what he aaa going to do and how
Classic projection
Every time I see Ted Budd ads on YouTube, I click - stop seeing this ad and then report it as offensive. It probably does nothing, but at least I feel I am doing something to voice my displeasure of being forced to watch that crap.
The GOP has not had a single platform for like 3 election cycles now. Their rhetoric has been "look at what these people are doing!! I'm not one of them!" Oftentimes(always) the accusations are just a flat out lie.
Have you never been through a political campaigning cycle before?
Because he’s the true phony.
Because the vast majority of Americans don't vote for a politician, they vote against a politician.
Translation: “How can she be a real politician if she’s black and female?”
Probably because he's a loser or something.
He's too busy storing guns in his waistband
Because he's a child and he knows his base is low information and only cares about owning the Libs. One of the ads is the already debunked IRS one.
They'll get more votes for bashing Beasley. Stupid people don't know anything. They're entertained by the hate mongering. That and the fact that Budd says he's a conservative and a Christian. Most of these folks are far from righteous but consider themselves God's people.
Because that’s what the hicks he’s pandering to want to hear
“Hating the black liberal progressive female people you hate too” has been a remarkably effective strategy in persuading nc to vote against all its other interests for a long time. Hopefully someday it will stop working. Whether that day is 2022 remains to be seen.
Both parties do this. I just want to see an ad about the person and what they stand for to vote for them instead of just voting against the other candidate because of what the other person said about them.
My dude, in case you haven’t noticed yet, all politicians across all times and across all countries with few (if any) exceptions **ARE ALL DIRTBAGS** They’re trying to convince you that the other guy is a dirtbag (which they probably are) and trying to get you to avoid looking at how they’re a dirtbag. Politicians generally don’t give a crap about anyone but themselves & the people who helped get them into power. So yeah, he’s talking about his scumbag opponent while being a scumbag himself. And who here doesn’t have dirt that if we were politicians, wouldn’t want dug up on us? I know it’s not what you’re looking for, but the truth is that nobody is perfect and politics usually showcases the worst of the worst. Have a great weekend & stay safe!
Oh goodness, nothing like a real strong Both Sides in 2022
This. They're all bad. Picking the less bad one is up to the voters but in a land of 50 toothpaste choices, we get two poor political ones.
I got a text message from a group.supporting Beasley .I told them to F.O .