Assumes facts not in evidence. I’m not on Facebook or TikTok*, but I am on Instagram and Threads, and joebiden is on both, posting frequent zingers about Trump posts.
People who have him on ignore or mute aren’t going to see them, though. And while people could turn off the radio to not hear FDR, they were a lot less likely to do it than the average person is now to shun someone they don’t like on social media, and ignoring someone on social media is more effective than avoiding all news coverage of an FDR fireside chat.
*I used to be on Twitter, but I don’t see why Biden would want to be on that wretched hive of scum and villainy, X.
My dream is multiple pro-Biden PACs, each of which has enough money to convince Fox to air their ads, and every commercial break between now and the election is just one anti-Trump ad after another, each focusing on a different line of Trump Bullshit.
I haven’t seen any. To be fair, I haven’t seen any directly from Trump or the Trump campaign. But I do get a lot of posts from various media outlets about the election, and almost all of them are about Trump. The only time I’ve seen posts where Biden is mentioned is when it’s an article about he’s behind in the polls.
Just looking at my Facebook feed, the ninth item down is a message from Joe Biden. Now granted, Facebook’s feed algorithm is very mysterious and different people see very different things. But I assure you, he’s there.
Excellent – seriously.
(But, as others have noted, the 21st-century fragmentation of media makes this challenging. There will never be another Walter Cronkite, for example.)
For the second year in a row, President Joe Biden is passing on the opportunity to sit down for a Super Bowl interview that could reach millions of Americans on Sunday — a move his advisers say is part of their larger communication strategy.
Biden’s aides believe many voters — already exhausted from a bruising political season — simply want to tune into the game. And that seeing the president pop up while waiting for kickoff might turn them off.
I thought when Obama used to do it, it made him look really human and relatable. Then again, Obama had a kind of cool charisma neither Trump nor Biden have.
You’d think Biden would benefit from such a thing. He has long had a “good ol’ Uncle Joe” reputation that served him his whole career and helped him work bipartisan deals as a senator. I’d hope that would be a benefit here too. But his advisers think otherwise.
I’m not a professional PR person in politics so I’m not going to second guess folks who are.
Better, I think, to issue a statement like, “I know folks just want to kick back and watch football. It’s not the time to talk politics, it’s time to relax and enjoy the game, so that’s what we’re gonna do.”
Short enough not to be intrusive, plays to his Uncle Joe persona, and still rides the Super Bowl attention.
