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mackdaddy

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9. New media like tic-toc, podcasts like Joe Rogan, YT, Instagram just flooded the market.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:34 PM
Nov 8

And this was all backed by billionaires Musk who turned twitter/x into a maga sewer and Thiel who started Rumble, also a MAGA haven. This is Fox and OAN on steroids, and in addition to them.

Huge swaths of the populace never watch network news or read papers. They get their 'news' on their phone.

And a huge swath of what were Democratic voters for Biden, up to 20 million just did not vote because they bought the 'they are all the same' BS or just will not vote for a female leader.

The Republicans were pulling some of the same old voter purge tricks, but the missing Democratic voters left a majority for Trump. And oh boy are we going to pay for it.

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