If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth.
Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did.
If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM.
The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter.
Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media.
The doom loop was underway with perhaps 60 Minutes as one of the more dramatic examples, even after CBS tried to save her, most glaringly by excerpting one answer to replace a word salad response to another. But the citizen journalists on @X quickly caught and outed this fraud and demanded a transcript.
As many who supported Kamala began to realize that they have been misled, they became open to Trump as an alternative, but they didn’t want to rely on the media to understand him because they did not want to be misled again.
They wanted to hear the candidate in his own words and that is where @lexfridman and @joeroganhq long form podcasts came to the rescue. When Kamala was offered the same opportunities to explain herself, she rejected them. And the voting public could only draw a negative inference.
When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public.
The other outcome I hope happens is the implosion of the Democratic Party. The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president. It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate. The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate. These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy. With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy.
The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic. It needs a complete reboot. The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people.
Honest Abe said it best:
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
@RoaringKitty How come when i google the count i get one result there 210/230 same with BBC (I’m in the uk) but CNN and the Guardian are saying 182/246
It’s not like one is behind the other as one number is ahead.
Is this bias media ? Are they trying to get people out their chairs? From UK
The staff don’t seem to be aware of the trading standards rules in this country. And wouldn’t honour the price… I’m sure you have been honouring plenty of transactions everyday who pick up from the shelf but just pay the balance
What you going to do about this?
#ScamAlert
@asda your Fleet express store is acting very shady. Just tried to buy two Starbucks double shot drinks. Get to the till and the total seems off £2.20 each but shelf says £1. Shop staff said the price keeps changing…. So there solution is to just leave it.
honestly what is the secret to getting #Glastonbury tickets? @seetickets@glastonbury year after year no luck but other people seem to do them back to back every year?
@glastonbury@nationalexpress was sold out over 25 mins before the refreshing page stopped refreshing. this is flat out just wasting peoples time.
this system doesn't work, i guess the money still comes in so the organisers don't really care.
Ill try Sunday but its the last year i will bother
@realrobbridges@seetickets@glastonbury nah it doesn't one year one person in the group managed to get a screen and then it failed to transact and that is as close as we got.
so if you do get in you might not even have a ticket you have queued for.
people will 'winge' when year after year its a hopeless endeavour.
@seetickets@glastonbury this why Boomtown grows and Glastonbury is full of once a year posers driving down from Chelsea.
did Glastonbury yearly as a kid from 1987 at 6 weeks old... cant get a ticket as an adult though.
I clicked a button saying cancel.
They then bring up a next page with this message which looks like a conformation. Letting me know I still have use until renewal date.
What you don’t realise
Is under the images of
Stuff I can still
Watch is a ‘continue to cancel’
Sneaky
Do not use @NOW I thought I had cancelled and even took a screenshot. Turns out to Actually cancel I had go through about 5 pages of continue to cancel crap.
Bills are high enough don’t need ti pay another 3 months of something I haven’t used because I thought I had cancelled
#netflix don’t keep moving the actual cancel button 5 pages of are you sure.
I was sure ! I thought I had done it.
I read after you’ve cancelled you can watch until. Clever this led me to
Believe I had.