 So we've talked about Cara Eastman before in the program. She recently won her primary in Nebraska's second congressional district I brought her on the program. She's a phenomenal candidate But ever since she won her primary her Republican opponent has been trying to frame her as this kooky like radical socialist and He's making a fool of himself. He literally retweeted someone who shared an image of Cara Eastman Which basically proclaims her to be far left and in that same image includes Bernie Sanders AOC and Nancy Pelosi Because Nancy Pelosi is definitely associated with the far left So I mean, there's no nuance there is really no Curiosity here to try to figure out what the far left is. I mean, this is just it's shallow hacky attacks And he doesn't really care right Don Bacon her opponent knows that his supporters will eat it up But it's become a meme at this point. It's it's it's stupid, right? You have no substantive arguments that you can make against your opponent because she's better than you on every single policy issue So all you can do is fear monger about the far left and he doesn't so much that her team decided to respond in I think a Perfect way. So she tweeted this out friends. We have a very important announcement today We are launching a collaborative internet game that all of us can play together. This game is called bacon bingo Here's some backstory and the rules of the game in my run for Congress I'm running against a huge Trump fan named Don J bacon Predictably he and the local Republican Party called me a socialist and a radical extremist and just about any combination of 1950s Joseph McCarthy word salad fear mongering you can think of this has never bothered us But because they do it in literally every tweet we created a fun game so we can all play along Here's how we play if the accounts Don J bacon DCRP online or NEOP use any of the following words and phrases cross them off on your bacon bingo card When we get a bacon bingo, we will have a massive online party Okay, I think we're all set game on. Okay, so let's take a look at bacon bingo the generic smear edition Okay, so the first thing I love is that in the middle instead of just they're just being like a free space She includes free stuff So that's a brilliant move, but I mean all of these things are what Republicans have called for a leftist So we have comrad cara bankrupt the government George Soros big government Socialist socialism leftist handouts radical communist Antifa extreme rioters squad government takeover Extremist un-American anarchist socialized healthcare AOC of Nebraska. That's a good one agenda Venezuela in fantasy and coastal elite. Okay Takara and her team You get the slow clap get the slow clap for that That is a plus trolling and that's exactly what you have to do because it's so Stupid it's so idiotic. It's so hollow That you can't really respond to that unless you're making fun of it, right? So the way that you kind of defame their arguments and you let them know that you couldn't care less is By meaning them make fun of what they're saying because this really is the playbook of Republicans when it comes to progressives They don't necessarily know how to respond to progressives because progressives are glued to the policy substance. I Mean we talk about health care Medicare for all a green new deal You know intelligent ways to respond to climate change, you know a living wage Housing these are all things that Americans want to hear about because these are issues that affect them directly When you just casually throw around, you know radical or communist You look like a fool because first of all you don't know what that means You don't know what socialist means You don't know what communist means and you're banking on your supporters also being ignorant But when she makes fun of him like this that is such a powerful way to kind of show what a parody the GOP is What a joke they've become they have nothing you have Donald Trump all the time You know denouncing the quote-unquote radical left as this party lurches closer and close closer towards fascism You had Matt Gaetz literally suggest that we should hunt down Antifa like we do the terrorists in the Middle East so they're advocating for the extra judicial murder of Americans. Meanwhile, they're denouncing the radical left No, you're the radicals And you know what's interesting is that as they cry louder and louder about the radical left left-wing ideas become more popular Not just among left-wing people or the American people, but even Republicans I mean polls are starting to show that if not, you know an outright majority of Republicans a plurality of Republicans Support Medicare for all because guess what it's a common-sense solution To a health care crisis that we've been dealing with that people are dealing with even Republicans like everyone wants health care It's not just a left-wing thing to want Republicans need health care to Republicans need education. They really do Republicans need food Republicans need housing. So, you know, you're appealing to a very specific crowd and trying to claim that Kara is trying to turn us into Venezuela, which is a hilariously stupid smear. No She's actually speaking to the specific needs of people in Nebraska. She's talking to people This is a grassroots candidate who won her primary Because she is addressing the specific concerns of the people of Nebraska So for you to make a fool out of yourself, there's nothing that Kara can do but meme him So, I mean, this really is a plus trolling here This is what progressive campaigns have to do to respond to Republicans because there's such a joke You can't take them seriously. You can't try to like Articulate some kind of response that's meaningful or substantive to someone who yells Venezuela at you You just have to make fun of them because it's stupid and that's how you respond to Stupidity you troll them you make memes out of it. You make fun of them