Selling the Presidency
Sizzle and Steaks; Chicken and Feathers
Every four years, Americans suspend their beliefs, anesthetize their intelligence, and ignore their unique experiences for the intellectually paralyzing Rituals of the Presidential Election Season. Broken promises, shredding Constitutional constraints, self-immolating economics, free-range murder, and mayhem by those elected to ‘protect our rights’ are ignored, accepted, or forgotten long enough to be sold an extension of governmental disaster.
And there are no better salespeople than politicians and the leeches attached to them.
There are several guiding principles in Sales. We’ll look at two in play this Election Season.
The Harris-Walz campaign is successfully employing the essence of #1:
“Sell the sizzle, not the steak”
Plain and simple as it is, some can’t grasp it. Maybe they’re Vegans.
Harris-Walz understands they are, in fact, losers, charlatans, bold-faced liars, prevaricators of the lowest predations. They and their campaign are run by the same puppeteers who continue running the last disastrously successful days of the ill-gotten Biden-Harris administration, won in much the same way.
Dazed, scared, and locked down by government-enforced lies, chided for supporting the re-election of a successful but mean-tweeting President, voters with suspended rational thinking accepted the imposed requirements for Safe Voting. Simultaneously, they were sold the Basement Campaign of a kind, elderly statesman, safely confined by the same health concerns.
Voters bought the Sizzle of a ‘safe and sane’ senior citizen-politician over the non-stop MSM onslaught on the Mean Orange Man who only brought the Steak of economic and employment stability along with a side order of world peace.
The Biden-Harris machine must have been surprised at their success, but only after engineering (alleged), massive vote fraud carried out in Real Time while being stridently denied by a complicit MSM and boldly thwarted by the new Lawfare.
The success of the Sizzle-Steak principle was so nice, they’re doin’ it twice!
For 2024, the teleprompter and idling aircraft have replaced the basement and under-attended rallies. The Harris-Walz tag team hits the stage with the same script from last time still loaded in the teleprompter. Gaping maw smiles and pointless finger points fill the screen, meaningless clichés fill the air to wild applause from the Aggressively Ignorant and Thoroughly Relieved. When the teleprompter flashes Final Applause, the Dippity Duo are whisked away, away from an (allegedly) curious Press, jetting off to the next venue/same show. The MSM covers it all as the Second Coming, even though the Messiah was an anathema to be jettisoned mere weeks ago.
No worries! The make-over was finished in record time; the Sizzle of “Kamalaflage” was firmly in place.
Polls were up! Voters were giddy! All Systems Go! Sizzle-Steak Works!
Meanwhile, the new Trump-Vance juggernaut was rapidly becoming naught.
Despite a Near-Death Experience with a suspiciously botched assassination attempt, the Golden Golem cum Bandaged Ear rose above the RNC Coronation Convention to declare the start of the journey back to the White House. Worshipful MAGA Hats were orgasmic; 47 was mere months away!
Then came the harsh reality of the second guiding principle of Sales:
Using a feather is erotic.
Using the whole chicken is perverted.
Similar but different to Sizzle-Steak, the gentle “feather,” reminding the electorate of again attaining the old excitement of financial calm, the joy of rapidly recovering employment, a secure border, and quieted war machines was all that was needed to build an overwhelming November landslide as the scandalous Biden-Harris debacle Frankensteined its way into the weird Harris-Walz shadow dance.
But no.
The Great He could not contain his former Show Biz self. Rather than deploy the deft application of the erotic Feather, he perversely went Full Chicken with personal attacks on any and all who would dare diss him, allies included. Rambling, redundant, yet massively attended rallies cheer his survival while hoping and begging for the policy particulars that will hammer the final nails in the Harris-Walz Clown Show coffin.
“No Tax On Tips” was a great start, now mired in the astounding hubris of Harris-Walz plagiarism, again supported by an incurious Press.
Polls are becoming “less firm”. Formerly undisputed States are “back in play.” While still within the margin of error, weakening poll results are never a good thing – unless you’re the Other Guy.
Are the MAGA Trumpets in for a November Disaster? Could the Same Old Dems pull it off – again? Do Voters really want 4 more years of American destruction? But wait! Maybe the polls are “over-sampled” with Liberals and Democrats! Is the Trumpster just giving the Weird Duo ample room to flame out at the Debates? Or is there yet another October Surprise up the Puppeteer’s sleeve?
Why not? Any of the above and more would be just another one of the mindless ‘Rituals of the Presidential Election Season.’
Who had Candidate Switcheroo and Attempted Assassination on their Bingo card this time?
Harris-Walz: Steady as she goes…tragically for America, the wind is at your back.
Trump-Vance: Lose the Steak and Chicken; get the Sizzle and Feather. Pronto.
Voters: Do something!
BW
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I don't think anything will change the minds of the vast majority of voters, who made up their minds years ago, whether they would ever vote for Trump, nobody is voting For Harris. Those who hate him won't change their mind, so it ends up being all about turnout.
Do they hate Trump enough to come out and vote to stop him, he's easy to hate considering his stupid comments and the press will amplify every one of the dumb things he says.
They know people don't like to loose and that people are less likely to vote if it means they are picking a loser. Kind of like sports, when a team has a bad season they tend to have lower ticket sales. The media needs to keep the idea alive that the Dems will win, they couldn't do that with Biden. Would you show up to root for team Biden knowing he would get crushed or stay home and pretend you didn't have a team?
And if they have to cheat to win, it's must be at least somewhat believable too, hence the full court press.
As for Trump it doesn't matter what he says to his base, the press will find a way to slam his as an extremists nut job, same thing goes for anyone he chose as a running mate. Although there is no doubt he makes it easy for the press to attack him as a hater and that does hurt his chances with independents, who haven't made up their mind. If neither Harris or Trump can move the needle, independents might just sit it out.
I'm super curious to see how voting will go now that it's not a covid election. Locking people at home in front of the boob tube and sending them all ballots absolutely pumped up the voting base of both sides, but did it stick or was it a one off? Did one side get a bump that sticks and the other doesn't? Do voting numbers go back down to pre-covid numbers, half way down, etc.
If I had to guess, I'd guess the numbers will not be covid level numbers, but only time will tell.
> Using a feather is erotic. Using the whole chicken is perverted.
I've never heard that, and I will now look for any opportunity to sprinkle that wisdom into conversations. I fear I might go "whole chicken" with my enthusiasm, though. Oh, cruel irony! :-D