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Today's Tiedrich rant: the polls and the press want you panicked and demoralized. don't buy into it
Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/the-polls-and-the-press-want-you
today, were going to talk about polls. but before we do, everybody take a deep fucking breath. remember flooding the zone with shit?
that was one-man leper colony Steve Bannons plan for how Trumpism wins. heres how it works: create information chaos. drown everyone in a sea of misinformation. put out dozens of stories a day, with each new one contradicting the last. confuse the shit out of people to the point where no one has any fucking clue which end is up. eventually, the public will give up, and check out. whatever, just make it stop.
this year, wingnut pollsters have adopted Rotty Steves strategy. theyre flooding the zone with shit polls polls that show Donny is winning, when hes not. the goal? to make you give up and stay home on election day.
youre being gaslighted. dont you dare fall for it.
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that was one-man leper colony Steve Bannons plan for how Trumpism wins. heres how it works: create information chaos. drown everyone in a sea of misinformation. put out dozens of stories a day, with each new one contradicting the last. confuse the shit out of people to the point where no one has any fucking clue which end is up. eventually, the public will give up, and check out. whatever, just make it stop.
this year, wingnut pollsters have adopted Rotty Steves strategy. theyre flooding the zone with shit polls polls that show Donny is winning, when hes not. the goal? to make you give up and stay home on election day.
youre being gaslighted. dont you dare fall for it.
FakeNoose's comment: Thank you Jeff Tiedrich! You're singing my song.
Today's rant is so right-on-the-money, and Jeff provides many illustrations of how the US news media is trying to brainwash us. By "us" I mean the liberal-Democratic voters who will gladly cast our votes for Kamala and Tim. (I've already voted by mail in Pennsylvania!)
It's a worthy rant from Tiedrich ... please read the rest on "Everyone is entitled to my own opinion."
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Today's Tiedrich rant: the polls and the press want you panicked and demoralized. don't buy into it (Original Post)
FakeNoose
Oct 15
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calguy
(5,767 posts)1. I was just about to post Jeff's wise words about polling
Thanks for beating me to it.
JustAnotherGen
(33,544 posts)2. One of my faves
On Threads!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,727 posts)3. I can't understand how they think
sowing confusion and misinformation is good.
Elessar Zappa
(15,888 posts)5. The idea is that eventually people give up
and start accepting the bullshit.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(115,268 posts)4. Yep