Posts Tagged ‘astroturf’

“No Threat” Weekend

By mike flugennockWednesday - October 29th, 2025Categories: 2028 Election, DC Local, elections, media, Party Animals

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“Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People held up some signs saying the president is orange and that if Kamala were president they would be at brunch, and then went home.

The whole thing was just one big pep rally for the Democratic Party, designed to accomplish nothing beyond getting American liberals excited about the prospect of someday voting for Gavin Newsom…”

–Caitlin Johnstone on Substack, 10.19.2025

For real, Ms. J. I almost feel personally insulted every time these flyers hit the streets in my neighborhood for their goddamn fake-ass astroturf “movement” which seems to roll into town at least once per quarter, as if trying to make a fundraising goal. My first thought was “Christ, weren’t these assholes just in town this summer?” – and we’ve got a whole fresh load of astroturf being rolled out next week, and we haven’t even had a chance to wash the stink off the Mall from the last “No Kings” flag-kissing festival.

Hell, there’s a whole freakin’ raft of these phony-ass outfits that have suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a summer downpour bouncing around now, and they’re all fronting for the DNC – No Kings, FiftyFiftyOne, local clowns like the Free DC Project – and obstructing real revolutionary change.

LOOK THE HELL OUT for these time wasters.

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Pussy Hats II: This Time, It’s Brunch

By mike flugennockFriday - October 5th, 2018Categories: elections, media, Party Animals

Imagine my delight when I learned that the Million Hillary March was going to be returning here to Washington, DC next January – a fresh, new blue wave of vindictiveness, bitterness, denial, exploitation, and all the goddamn astroturf you can handle. Why, the very thought of all this vibrant feminist energy makes me want to charge into the streets and ask to speak to the manager.

Imagine also my amusement to discover that this chickenshit outfit has actually published an “oral history” with the assistance of their comrades at Condé Nast, which is about as grassroots as you can get, kids. Two whole epic years of demonstrative Liberal indignation, laying astroturf, and accomplishing absolute zero – now, there’s some serious-ass oral history. Hot damn, hold me back.

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“NewBlue” Dark Money Detergent

By mike flugennockMonday - February 6th, 2017Categories: elections, media, Party Animals, Trumpism

Oh, sweet friggin’ jayzus, what are those wacky Third Way Democrats up to now? Why, they’ve launched another 501(c)4 “dark money” astroturf outfit, the “New Blue” campaign which, to most regular folks, sounds like a really good name for a brand of laundry detergent — like, twenty million dollar laundry detergent.

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