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@VisitEngland Planning a trip to the UK and I’m wondering what protections I need to invoke now while I’m in the US on my social media platforms to avoid arrestPlease advise would it be best to go through and edit the accounts or delete the accounts?
@VisitScotland@VisitScotland Planning a trip to the UK and I’m wondering what protections I need to invoke now while I’m in the US on my social media platforms to avoid arrestPlease advise would it be best to go through and edit the accounts or delete the accounts?
@mikiebarb Story on US AID today, good background historically. No mention of Mike Benz and his influence on Elon, covered by WAPO recently, also Rogan and Tucker interviews. Any reason for not mentioning?
@Acyn@WhipKClark My community note: Social Security payments will continue uninterrupted even in a government shutdown. This is because Social Security is classified as “mandatory spending” and is funded through payroll taxes and the Social Security Trust Fund, which operates independently.
The soon to be Prime Minister of Canada when asked whether he would support Israel striking the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear facilities:
“It would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”
There’s no such thing as happiness.
Rather, a fragile contentment with the way things are.
Broken by unhappiness, the pain of wanting something.
Until we get it or get over it.
Returning to an interlude of gratitude without reason, beauty without motive, love without demand.
Leaders come and leaders go, but don’t change the rules of the game.
Censorship is changing the rules of the game.
Lawfare is changing the rules of the game.
Importing voters is changing the rules of the game.
Time to change the people who are changing the rules of the game.
The Harris campaign's Trump Hoax Overload Strategy has been hugely successful.
Apparently, they know Trump has no effective defense against it. Debunk one hoax and six more replace it, while the corrupt media does no fact-checking against it.
Trump's most capable supporters can't help because they are neutered by media silos, including on X. Only Trump can break all media silos and reach all voters.
And Trump needs a reframe.
Defending against individual hoaxes, and making hoax lists, only works for his base. No one outside Trump's base sees that content or believes it when we tell them.
But the media has a soft underbelly that can be targeted. I learned of this in my own media training years ago: They can't resist reporting on how a public figure is using a strategy that has never been tried.
Journalists are human. If you let them write about the "new way" of anything, they love it. But they don't love writing about how someone did slightly better than someone else doing normal stuff. Too boring.
I recommend the following reframe:
1. Build an official Hoax Debunk site that explains the hoaxes, but IMPORTANTLY also describes HOW the hoaxes were performed. That's the magic sauce.
Several hoaxes involve edited video. Show how they did it. Show the whole manuscript. Others are examples of Democrats doing "bad mindreading." Some hoaxes are completely made up, and we know who started them. Others are crimes of "association." Some hoaxes involve blaming Republicans of what Democrats are doing, to take the heat off themselves, such as the "stealing Democracy" hoax.
2. Trump and his supporters need to refer to the Hoax Debunk page whenever a zombie hoax pops up.
3. Trump needs to spend some time explaining HOW THE HOAXES ARE CREATED in his public statements, or at least how any individual hoax was created.
WRONG: "The Fine People story is a hoax."
RIGHT: "If you want to lose all remaining faith in the media, go to [the hoax site] to see how that hoax was created with a fake edit. You can see the unedited video to see for yourself. When you're there, look at how the other hoaxes were created too. It's appalling that we have to live like this. We need honest media to have a great country."
4. We need a QR code to link to the Hoax Debunk page. Include it on every campaign image.
5. Preemptively predict how the Democrats will respond with even more hoaxes and fake fact-checking.
@friedberg I would like a clip of your last weeks podcast on the food industry margins. I suppose I could do it myself but thought, It might already exist. Thanks. It will be used for education purposes.