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crickets

(25,959 posts)
12. Looks like both the money and the attention evaporated quickly, eh?
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 05:58 PM
Mar 2022

It's as though the whole thing was astro-turfed all along...

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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. So strange
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 04:45 PM
Mar 2022

I'm beginning to think that some of these whackaloons like Steve Bannon are not as influential or deserving of major media attention as they are portrayed to be. Like, if the popular media just ignored Bannon and his ilk, would they have to get real jobs?

kimbutgar

(21,103 posts)
5. Why aren't those children in pre school?
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 04:49 PM
Mar 2022

That is child abuse to ask them listen to that nonsense coming from that idiot.

SWBTATTReg

(22,097 posts)
9. It just goes to show one that these thugs are so full of it, so full of themselves that they don't
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 04:54 PM
Mar 2022

see the reality on the ground, that no one else supports them for their BS.

Metaphorical

(1,602 posts)
11. It may be even bigger than that
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 05:50 PM
Mar 2022

This may very well be their "Are we the bad guys?" moment.

What is rural America seeing now on TV? They are seeing white, rural, working-class people - farmers, truckers, grocers - just like themselves - being bombed by the very people that they've been cheering on for the last six years. They are seeing children just like their own children, being left homeless or worse, just more casualties in a war of aggression, and they are starting to think for the first time in a while. They are seeing themselves in Kyiv, and they are beginning to believe that perhaps they've been lied to, deceived, played for fools.

You see, the problem with the Big Lie is that it's a Ponzi Scheme. In the end, reality always reasserts itself. and when it does, people move from being gullible to becoming angry. I think elections this fall will prove very enlightening.

keithbvadu2

(36,724 posts)
14. I hope the company that rented out the stage and set it up got paid in advance.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:41 PM
Mar 2022

I hope the company that rented out the stage and set it up got paid in advance.

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