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PATRICK

(12,412 posts)
9. The narrative lean
Wed May 13, 2026, 03:46 PM
Wednesday

is reinforced by social media and cell phone. The drive and purpose is to generate obscure or wrong feelings to the exact benefit of the GOP overlords. Giving the rationales or facts contained within, wildly interpreted by divided groups, this is simple sheep herding. I had occasion to be stuck with my wife's cell phone and merely sampled the stench of this overall blind push to understand the madness of what pushed even intelligent people to be "outraged over Biden's stepdown", " disapproving of Kamala" both-siderism, centrist abandonment of the base, etc. so even blacks and minorities went to non-voting or actually voting for Trump! And actually wanted to sleepwalk through trump bluster part 2. Oh, and the price of eggs.

Not enough however to convince me that the fine tuning of trump's "victory" was total fraud, once again quickly acquiesced to by the Party that promised a fight and was "surprised" again. Personal speculation: I doubt that the internal analysis will mention that, like Hillary, once victory seemed assured our special special big donors softened the agenda. I see the Party participating in the media shitshow, but not getting it much less fighting it. Gerrymandering they know how to do! Many other vote suppression tactics still blow them away.

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