Ron Filipkowski is sounding the alarm

[senseandsensibility]

He is saying that the Biden and Harris campaigns and FEMA can not rely on just a handful of spokespeople to counteract the FIREHOUSE OF LIES coming from maga about their disaster response. He is warning that they are already late to the party and need to hit these lies hard and often.

They have the money to get their message out. The truth is helpful to them, but so is showing that cheato and vance are liars. Let's go!

[Blue Full Moon]

1. What are they waiting for.

Hoping that people won't believe the lies is a mistake.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Well, Biden could take a few moments to address in this in his press

conference happening right now.

[central scrutinizer]

3. There's hundreds of thousands who have lost everything

It’ll be easy for Fox “journalists “ to find disgruntled impatient citizens to “interview “ who will heap blame on Biden/Harris.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Of course and there's little the campaign can do to counteract that

but the firehouse of lies coming directly from the cheato campaign needs to be addressed repeatedly.

[Cha]

5. YES! TY & Ron Flipkowski!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Counter-prop must be: 1) accurate, 2) clear (simple), 3) fast response, 4) targetted at audience of orig propaganda. .nt

[senseandsensibility]

8. True

Clarity and simplicity have been challenging for Dems in the past. I just heard Kamala "clap back" at the lack of endorsement by firefighters in no uncertain terms on MSNBC. The term union buster was used. Hope to hear more of this.

[Sugarcoated]

7. Came across a tick tock video somebody reposted on Facebook

A guy criticizing the government response. I'll go get it and repost it here so you see what I'm talking about, but the comments are off the charts crazy. All kinds of conspiracy theories about the government trying to take over a certain area of North Carolina because they want the uranium mines or, I don't know, I can't really explain it but the Facebook accounts of these dozens of people looked very fishy. It really and truly look like Russian propaganda, and they're pushing it hard

[Sugarcoated]

10. Read the comments connected to this video

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/LRSkMcQWi2Kg3VsM/

[Betty Boom]

20. Don't give them clicks, please

I’m not going to click on that as I don’t believe in giving toxic misinformation like that clicks. That’s what they want

[senseandsensibility]

14. I do appreciate you posting this link

so that DUers can see exactly what Filipkowski is referring to. I hope you'll understand, though, that I don't want to click on it. That's a reflection on me, I'm afraid, and my very low tolerance for that sort of thing. But I can imagine. I'm sure it's beyond crazy.

[Martin68]

9. I totally agree. The lies gain traction because they are repeated so often and people want to believe them.

If we don't do a better job refuting them and getting a convincing case for the truth out there, we are in trouble.

[RainCaster]

12. Social Media owns this problem

My guess is that much of this is coming from Russian troll farms. Facebook, Xitter and others ("truth" social) are the ones responsible for filtering this crap. And they have failed.

[PortTack]

27. Agree...I would only add ...let's not spread this here on DU.

[Sugarcoated]

13. Some people on social media

whose accounts don't look like constituents, or even authentic, are pushing crazy conspiracy theory shit, taking advantage of the disaster. They troll my rep, Madeleine Dean's fb page. She posted about her mother dying of ovarian cancer and they are swarming the page with dishonest attacks. The maga candidate running against her, David Winkler, is trolling her page as he frequently does. He's a really disgusting bully who tries to disseminate conspiracy nutbaggery
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/UYh9t8RENLMD6c4G/

[WarGamer]

15. they want to make this the "Biden-Harris Katrina"

And they've got every last one of their paid liars out screaming it, over and over.

[senseandsensibility]

16. True, and I think RF is trying to say

that we're not "screaming" loudly enough in reply.

[BoomaofBandM]

17. We all need to back them up.

[senseandsensibility]

28. Yes, all hands on deck

until election day! DUers with social media accounts, (not me), listen up!

[clutterbox1830]

18. Biden should do a press conference on state of hurricane efforts and where to donate.

Trump does press conferences all the time just to do a stump speech and the media falls for it all the time.
At least a Biden conference will be informative.

[PennRalphie]

19. Prime time press conference

It’s needed now. Biden and Harris pledging to help the people. So many rumors going around. FEMA out of money. Not allowing helicopters to rescue. Get in front of this now.

[senseandsensibility]

21. A good use for the bully pulpit

I agree!

[BattleRow]

22. Who was it that said to never let

a disaster go to waste?
L BJ was right there in the floodwaters after Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans in 1964, announcing via loudspeaker,

"I am your President."

Btw,he was a Democratic.

[PortTack]

24. And who was in GA yesterday, or the day b4 serving food to disaster victims??

https://www.postandcourier.com/hurricanewire/kamala-harris-augusta-hurricane-helene-federal-disaster/article_9f6c1130-80cd-11ef-b065-2b20871e3dd8.html

[PortTack]

25. Link your story! That's not the case!!

[PortTack]

23. Seems to me the Harris campaign is doing a great job! I believe by being present, which they are, they're pushing back

When one tries to counter every lie they tell…who’s the one that looks pathetic?!!

Voters understand who lies and who tells the truth.

[LuvLoogie]

26. Here is a TikTok link to a great rant addressing Helene B.S.

I downloaded it and uploaded it to Facebook and made it shareable.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFyYtLGD/

[PortTack]

29. Thx for posting the TikTok clip...unlike many here, I do watch and follow lots of ppl and candidates on tiktok

And, this is exactly the kind of thing I see there!

[LuvLoogie]

30. It's a great platform.

And yes, there are a lot of lying trumplickers on TikTok, but there are a lot of good guys too.

[Wiz Imp]

31. That was incredible

I then went and watched a bunch of her other videos and I think I'm in love - she is so good at cutting through the bullshit and explaining things in a way that even MAGA cultists should understand (unfortunately, most of them won't anyway.)

[LuvLoogie]

32. THIS is why Scalise wants TikTok banned.

It's too bad Dems fell for the Chinese spy bullshit.

[LuvLoogie]

33. Yeah, she's pretty fucking awesome.

So many good voices on there.

[Wiz Imp]

34. I looked at her background and see that she used to work for Americans For Prosperity

and even worked for the campaign of Steve King, the reprehensible racist from Iowa. But she is very open that at some point she started to self-reflect and question why she was supporting some of the things she did. From, there she realized she had been wrong about a lot of things and has now become an outspoken opponent of the MAGA mindset. She claims to be in the middle, but what's clear is she has no time for the MAGA cult. Her videos about the culture in small towns in South Dakota are chilling but it's great she's getting the message out to a decent audience.

[LuvLoogie]

35. There are a lot of folks

deconstructing their right-wing upbringing. They become passionate when they begin to see through the lies.

[Skittles]

36. late to the party?

THEY ARE DOING THEIR FUCKING JOBS