“DJT knows there is a lot of money in talking about his own antics endlessly, without actually saying anything instructive or illuminating; reacting over reporting.
His mindless posts are designed to feed the outrage machine, where influencers have passed themselves off as pundits without any real experience or motivation, other than self-enrichment and amassing large followings.
By retweeting his content and clips and passing it off as ‘resistance’, influencers unintentionally allow Donald Trump to control the narrative.
We would be better served metaphorically cutting off the oxygen supply to his tortured narcissistic brain. He craves attention, so why grant him his wish? (It’s one of the reasons I have never used his picture in my ‘Noel’s Notes’ articles and never would). His mottled visage is poison to the soul, and its constant use feeds his disease.
Anyone who thinks social media is the answer to the Democrats political future, or a panacea for saving our dying democracy, is in for yet another rude awakening. We need to continue to take to the streets in numbers so large they cannot be ignored.
Boots on the ground are better than endless bots and digital banter. We need general strikes and boycotts, more protests and less podcasts. If the current online media environment was effective we wouldn’t be so deep in this mess. They’ve made a cottage industry of online ‘resistance’ - and it only feeds the beast.
You must not put all your eggs in one basket when that basket has a giant hole in the bottom of it that was put there intentionally by the oligarchs who truly wish you harm. The algorithms are firmly in the hands of the tech bro billionaires who platform Christofascist right wing trolls and manosphere sex-traffickers in the interest of amassing wealth, at the expense of our well being and safety.
The key to Trump’s hustle; the reason he has gotten away with so much, for so long, is there is a lot of money to made amongst the chaos he creates. The illusion of resistance has become big business - and nobody knows this better than him.”
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