2 thoughts on “Why do people fall for this?”

  1. People fall for all sorts of stupid shit.
    Trump is the president after all.

    Brad Parscale is out as Trumps campaign manager not because he was doing a bad job but, because Trump was told that he was doing a bad job by Kushner and Ivanka the Goya Girl.

    It was Parscale and Bannon who ran the Cambridge Analytica logarithms that found 77,000 votes in three states giving Trump enough Electoral College votes to win the presidency in 2016.

    That tactic was successful in 2016 not because the Russians interfered in the election, but because Trump was an unknown quantity when compared to the other candidate.
    “What have you got to lose,” Trump would often ask.

    But it’s now 2020 and everybody knows exactly what they have to lose if Trump is re-elected.
    That includes that 30% of voters who continue to support Trump in a cultish way because they don’t like change.
    Many of them still can’t get over the fact that the Confederacy lost to the Yankees and that the South is never “going to rise again.”
    Or that gay folks can now get married.

  2. Driftglass had posted about being thrown into Twitter jail yet again, so I asked him whether this was his doing…

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