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Scrivener7

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13. But that's the genius of republiQan messaging. We don't hand them anything. They
Thu May 7, 2026, 07:23 PM
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use social media and republiQan owned media to take a minor issue (for example: her emails, trans people in bathrooms) and magnify it into a monster. Then they claim we are the ones making it a major issue. We NEVER DO THE SAME TO THEM. Compare coverage of Benghazi to that of the senseless murder of 160 Iranian schoolgirls - in your name and mine - and you'll see what I mean.

We have a million more opportunities to do it to them. Start with the billion dollar ballroom while cutting Medicare and Medicaid. We don't have the traditional media, but the traditional media is becoming less and less influential. We COULD compete in social media if we chose to. Use bots like they do. Use influencers like they do, only we tell the truth and not lies. They recently revealed their extensive use of text chains to spread a talking point like wildfire and then everyone sticks to it. We can do text chains.

We have to get with the program and avail ourselves of these tools. Otherwise, they'll keep dominating the news cycles and hanging stupid shit around our necks that no republiQan cared about until they were told they had to by republiQan talking heads.

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