Mastriano isn't just sent by God to lead an army against the evil Democrats, he is a true QAnon believer.

QPeople prefer hope and fantasy in lieu of reality and responsibility. Just ignore that their hope is they aren't crazy, and they need others to vent their own hatred, but it's a closed loop.

Once you accept and believe in one fantasy, the next one is easier to believe. We need to find a way to sell something to these people. Like bananas at $99 each cure cancer, or will make the libs implode. They're ripe for the pickin'.

We need to flood them with patently ridiculous accusations so that they begin to doubt their own info sources.

It's a tall order, but I'm all in for it

together or separately, distort their sense of time, tell them we're 5 years past TDFG now get over it, ask them the same questions why why why, just insinuate they are stupid, refuse to engage on their terms. These are psychological techniques. It's what the troll farms as you mention, did to America in 2016.

big money. How does something like this get a foothold using volunteers? Could you give me an example of a double barrel question that can't be answered separately? I believed that compound questions could be answered separately. Is there a difference between a double barrel question and a compound question?

To really confuse someone, the questions should sound reasonable separately, and be related (of the same or similar subject) together, but each of them separately should be just about unable to be answered by the intended target. Delivered rapidly you have really rendered them speechless. The questions aren't meant to be answered, they're meant to confuse.

I had this done to me twice, which is what sent me to research two-sided questions, and the term double-barrel popped up. Formulate one? I've have to think it through, write it down, and practice a lot. So let's think it through.

"Mr. MAGA, will Trump in 2024 be able to mitigate the differences between libertarians and free market von Mises economists (that's part one), OR would it be better for Trump to send an emissary to the Middle East to seek favorable loan rates for his son-in-law? (part two)"

I'd have a hard time constructing a pausible answer to either one, AND the two are not related, but the question makes it sound like they are.

Starting with Fox News and the hate radio networks. I don't know how we could do this, but there are plenty of folks smarter than me. Maybe make it a crime to repeatedly disseminate unsubstantiated claims as facts as being dangerous to national security. Or file massive slander lawsuits that if won would bankrupt them. Certainly boycott all advertisers on those platforms.

It must be done, and quickly before we all lose our minds. The Repukes are already past any help.



"Whoop-Ass" is the massive lawsuits we need to file against the hate/disinformation media.

One that is more than a single election cycle so that it will live on. Our big tent sometimes has so many voices that we have a hard time unifying ourselves and then unifying the nation with us.

Our many voices are good, but we need a vision that all, or at least most, of our voices agree with and relate to, one which appeals to our common humanity so that it reaches people outside of our big tent. Things that we all share as human beings and as Americans.

Finances are a commonly shared issue that can form a vision of the future for all of us. We could use more light shown on how wealthy Republican backers buy elections to benefit themselves at the expense of average citizens, e.g. tax cuts for the wealthy that leave the rest of us paying more for services.

That focus is a fine line to walk regarding messaging because the RWers will try to paint us as Socialists and Communists over it. I'd counter that with an image of them as the nobility and royalty of the past which we rejected in 1776.

The ONLY people who will be voting for MastriaNO for governor are the hardcore GOPeers (Google Oz and urine). I live in Butler County, which has a +27 GOP registration advantage. The number of yard signs for Shapiro almost matches the number for Mastriano. This is the first time in my life that I have seen this many signs for Democratic candidates (the aforementioned Shapiro for governor, Fetterman for Senate, and Dan Pastore for Congress (HoR) in my district), in Butler County. Unless someone is a an actual DINO, no Democrat will be voting for Mastriano. Shapiro did a masterful job of running ads during primary season basically saying Mastriano should be the GOPee nominee and Republicans took his bait. One also has to wonder what Shapiro, who is the state AG, knows about any possible criminal activity concerning Mastriano and 1/6. Shapiro can't publicly say anything but it really makes you wonder.

Which is very very unusual since this is a solid red county.

I'm a native of PA, a former almost neighbor of yours from Erie County. As far as I can see, it is the urban areas that will carry Shapiro and Fetterman. Pittsburgh metro area, Philly, maybe Erie. Erie was solidly Democratic while I was growing up there, but shifted, especially after native son Ridge entered politics. Working and middle classes in Erie were hard hit by the Rust Belt decline and are not so solidly Democratic as in the past.

I have an online subscription to the Erie Times and as a western NYer, I'm also not very far from PA. So I get PA political ads popping up on my screen. They are all Republican ads trashing Fetterman on crime. I've been wondering how effective they have been.

As well as his stroke.

Oz is a pathetic carpet bagging POS, but seems nice to the idiots vs Matriano being a full out chrisofacist loon.

So, the race is a bit closer than anticipated.

counter the Republican negative ads with their own substance and messaging to pull farther ahead in the next few weeks.

It is a specific entity being defamed and harmed by these outright lies.

but they have a desire to oppose someone. They are in combat mode a good deal of the time and they are addicted to outrage. They will buy into anything if it gives them the opportunity to be angry and sometimes an excuse to be violent.

We've seen this throughout history in mob mentality. Some people need little reason to rise up against something or someone, but the issues don't really matter to them. It is the fight that they're seeking. It sometimes reminds me of drunken bar room brawls, often started just because someone(s) needs a good fight.

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