@alekhines_gun @friendlycretin @agraybee No, sometimes what I say while canvassing and what I say on Twitter are different.
English
Michael Thomas Carter
4.7K posts
Michael Thomas Carter
@_michaeltcarter
Man about town | Storyteller.
New York, USA Katılım Şubat 2011
2.2K Takip Edilen1.4K Takipçiler
@friendlycretin @agraybee You’re right. He didn’t likely walk off. He validated it.
Michael Thomas Carter@_michaeltcarter
@jambojeremy Why are you invested in pro-war messaging from the Democratic Party?
English
How is campaigning supposed to work when voters make up things the candidates never said.
Michael Thomas Carter@_michaeltcarter
I canvassed an 80 year old woman in Arizona who said she wasn’t voting for Kamala because she “didn’t want me to get drafted.” The hawkish rhetoric and signals like campaigning with Cheney did NOT help Harris.
English
@capitolhunters @SamGR_77 If you tell me your real name I’ll tell you what high school I went to (not sure what that’s worth to you, and I doubt you have heard of it).
English
@_michaeltcarter @SamGR_77 You will soon enough. Which private school?
English
I canvassed an 80 year old woman in Arizona who said she wasn’t voting for Kamala because she “didn’t want me to get drafted.” The hawkish rhetoric and signals like campaigning with Cheney did NOT help Harris.
Rotimi Adeoye@_rotimia
I’ve shared this, but I was canvassing for Harris in Bucks County, PA. Knocked on the door of a woman who said she was thinking about voting for her, but then Harris started campaigning with Cheney and her son died in Afghanistan, that was her red line, so she was voting Trump.
English
@capitolhunters @SamGR_77 What are your views? And yes, I went to private school, but that’s irrelevant. So did Joe Biden 🤷🏻♂️. Also, you have me at a disadvantage, what is your name? Would love to make your acquaintance.
English
@_michaeltcarter @SamGR_77 The only views you've written about in this thread sound like Russian talking points. In your published writings you say that politics must be understood through a lens of "class conflict", making it even more relevant whether you went to prep school, something you didn't answer.
English
@capitolhunters @SamGR_77 It’s telling that you try to anonymously question my credibility instead of directly engaging with the substance of any of my views. I must assume you are incapable of doing so. You shouldn’t need a PhD in “security studies” or whatever to have an opinion on world affairs.
English
@_michaeltcarter @SamGR_77 "They aren't gonna take Crimea" - so you are a military expert from when? They don't teach that in the Columbia English department. Is that standard DSA policy now?
English
@LACEdaFlyFellow So you don’t think we should have withdrawn from Afghanistan? Hot take.
English
@_michaeltcarter What, other than rolling over, will reduce tensions?
Biden was antiwar and ended Afghanistan and the drone wars, then Putin took advantage to invade Ukraine.
He gave Qatar and Iran previously frozen funds and Hamas invaded.
A scary US is more pro-peace than a cowardly US.
English
@LACEdaFlyFellow @jambojeremy Her dad was, which is why she was in Congress! Did I say I hate the Democratic Party? It’s strange how certain accounts seem to want to purge the Democrats of anyone who wants to change course when we lost against Trump twice with the same strategy. Biden tacked left and won!
English
@_michaeltcarter @jambojeremy Was Liz Cheney involved in any US war?
If you hate the Democratic Party then go and canvas for the greens.
What moronic gibberish is this?
English
@capitolhunters @SamGR_77 Weird attempt to invalidate my views without engaging with them but okay…I’m not “shitting on Ukraine.” I’m sharing an experience that suggests Democratic rhetoric and foreign policy had negative effects politically. Which I had while supporting Dems! Physically! In the AZ heat!
English
@_michaeltcarter @SamGR_77 Pro-Russian faux-leftists very confident they are acting for the 'working class' in shitting on Ukraine but not cognizant enough to realize they are being manipulated has a pretty good track record of correlating with Ivy / prep.
English
@LACEdaFlyFellow Yeah I go through my responses elsewhere in the thread, which went considerably beyond clutching my pearls. What were concrete positions Kamala held that would have reduced global tensions with other great powers?
English
@_michaeltcarter That’s like saying dems have surrendered the anti-socialist lane.
Your role as a canvasser is not to clutch your pearls when someone says something as egregiously false as “Kamala wants to draft you” it’s to clarify candidates’ positions.
English
@TotalDepravity0 @_carmen_dioxide People are misinformed or ignorant all over! Though I agree Arizona’s right wing has a particular affinity for denying reality.
English
@_carmen_dioxide @_michaeltcarter I 100% believe this. Arizona’s stupid people are built different
English
@trouble_man90 @_carmen_dioxide I talked about the history of Republican interventionism (Iraq, Afghanistan), Trump’s connections to Netanyahu, and said I wasn’t worried about Harris doing that but if I did get drafted I’d burn my draft card. She was amused, but not convinced. We ended the convo cordially.
English
@SJH08584719 Who are “you guys”? Canvassers for Kamala Harris? organizers willing to work for a flawed candidate because of the stakes? Trump won the Repub nomination as the only R against the Iraq War. He has a history of capitalizing on this weakness from establishment pols.
English
@_michaeltcarter And why did voters think that you dipshit? Maybe because the media and right wingers played that angle up. You guys are the worst and always stupid as fuck or just playing dumb, what credible case did Trump make that he wasn’t?
English
@MPDreamGhoul That plus a policy of allowing the Israeli government to commit genocide! And a policy of not even contemplating a negotiated settlement in Ukraine, thereby letting Fox and the Republicans to falsely portraying themselves as pro-peace!
English
@_michaeltcarter What counts as hawkish? A throwaway line about a lethal military (which it should be) and 2 appearances with Liz? Jfc
English
@clguffey I did push back! But it wasn’t obvious then. Trump was still going around talking about making peace and thousands of children were being incinerated by American bombs sent by the Biden admin. So you can see why Fox News had a lot of material to work with!
English
@_michaeltcarter As a canvasser, you didn’t feel the least bit of obligation to push back against a fairly obvious misconception?
English
@_carmen_dioxide Well, each canvass and each voter is different as you know! Since you have canvassed, you know that people bring lots of different priors to these conversations. This was just one anecdote to support a broader point!
English
@_michaeltcarter I have canvassed. Including for Kamala. I didn’t encounter anything like this.
English
@Sosickayall Well, did you canvass for Kamala Harris? Do you organize at all? I’m not gonna take pointers from the onlookers in the bleachers.
English
@_michaeltcarter lol as if you know a thing about me.
What I’m not gonna do is sit on this app and lie about my canvassing for Kamala Harris when all I was really doing was sabotaging her.
We ALL have serious problems with EVERY candidate. But some of us are smart enough to know which …
English
@hypatialee05 @jambojeremy Dems and their messaging are the part Dems can control!
English
@_michaeltcarter @jambojeremy Weird how your explanation focuses solely on blaming Dems & their messaging. 🙄 People believe what they want to believe. That's why propaganda works. 🪞 You "did your best" to assuage voter concerns and you are in this 🧵 attacking those who question you
English
@_michaeltcarter Sounds like a totally real thing that happened.
English
@SamGR_77 I’m not advocating for that! I’m advocating for not elevating hawkish Republicans, actually following the law with respect to Gaza, and at least saying that you want to pursue a settlement in Ukraine (they aren’t gonna take Crimea at this point).
English
@_michaeltcarter Probably good that Biden didn't hand Ukraine over to the Russians and engage in gross Zelensky hating, Putin loving foreign policy because he was scared of what Theo Vonn and Tucker Carlson would say.
English
@LACEdaFlyFellow No! That’s what made it so surprising! I called my dad that night and told him I was worried that the Dems had surrendered the anti-war lane to the right wing (at least rhetorically). I think it was a major factor, which is borne out by the right-wing infighting after Iran!
English
@_michaeltcarter Did you mention the draft?
English