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5 Jan, 9 tweets, 2 min read

When the tape of Trump's phone call surfaced, pundits quickly decided that Trump strategically recorded and leaked it himself. This made no possible sense. But it fit the pundits' ongoing narrative that Trump is some secret evil genius strategist that we're too dumb to understand

It's since turned out that – of course – Raffensperger's side recorded it. In other words, Trump really did idiotically make that call and unwittingly incriminate himself. Trump is the world's dumbest villain. So why do the pundits keep insisting he's a secret evil genius?

The only possible explanation is that the pundits and the media are so invested in milking the "Trump is a secret evil genius strategist" narrative for ratings, they're still unwilling to even consider the mountain of evidence that says he's highly inept as a villain.

You'd think that after Trump had corrupt control of the presidency for four years and STILL couldn't figure out how to even come close to rigging his reelection, the "Trump as secret evil genius" narrative would fall by the wayside. But the media is still pushing it for ratings.

When Trump is eventually rotting in a New York State prison sell, you wonder how many media pundits will still be insisting that "Trump finally has us right where he wants us." You think I'm kidding. Those headlines and tweets will come – and they'll come from liberal pundits.

One of our most important goals in 2021 is to figure out how to force the media and the pundits to stop pushing absurdly false narratives on us for ratings. This kind of dishonesty isn't just morally wrong, it keeps us too ignorant to know how to fight someone like Trump.

The good news is that ratings are determined entirely by YOU. When the pundits unite behind any prevailing narrative, always stop and ask yourself if it fits the available facts. Tune out any pundit, on TV or online, who's pushing the narratives that you can see are false.

And keep in mind that punditry has very little to do with left vs right, democrats vs republicans, pro Trump vs anti Trump.

TV pundits exist to get ratings. Twitter pundits exist to go viral. When they bullshit you, it's usually not for partisan reasons. It's to get attention.

If you all can collectively make the pundits understand that they're not going to hit their ratings marks by bullshitting you with what they think are ratings-friendly false narratives, then they'll have no choice but to simply try being honest with you. You have the power.

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No, Perdue isn't suddenly "winning" just because he's ahead in total votes counted. It just means some more red district votes got reported. If some more blue district votes get reported, Ossoff will go back "ahead"

At this stage, total votes counted is NOT how you gauge things.

There is nothing more misleading on election night than looking at total votes counted. It does not factor in whether the votes counted thus far are mainly coming from red or blue counties. It's the one number you should definitely ignore at this stage.

If you want to gauge the race, look at the which counties have the most votes yet to be reported. Then look at how red or blue those counties are, and calculate which candidate will pick up the most votes from the remaining uncounted pile.

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Tomorrow is a great opportunity for us to convince the people in the middle that our side is the best one.

We can't do it with defeatist lamenting about "authoritarianism" or a "coup."

We say "hey, look at these fucking idiot republicans, do you ever want them in charge again?"

Voters in the middle don't give a shit about what "authoritarianism" is. They'll never believe that either side is trying to be a "dictator" or stage a "coup." You're just talking to yourself if you're using these kinds of words. They have zero impact on anyone or anything.

What voters in the middle hate is incompetence. Idiocy. Embarrassments. Sore losers. They especially hate whiners.

If you want to get through to them, then paint Trump and the republicans as idiots, losers, and whiners tomorrow.

Don't be the whiners.

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We can cost a LOT of House Republicans their seats in 2022, simply by forcing them to either endorse or disown the deranged antics of Boebert and Greene. House Republicans will all lose some votes in their districts, no matter which side they choose.

This is essentially what the Republicans did to us in 2020. They made up fake caricatures of AOC and the Squad, then used it to attack every House Democrat facing reelection.

We can do the same to the GOP in 2022, except we don't have to make up fake versions Boebert and Greene.

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I was originally at 50-50 odds. Those odds began to drop when we allowed Trump's endgame antics to distract us from the runoffs. But now Trump has the Georgia GOP in disarray, so I'm back to 50-50 odds.

I do expect a close result. So it's possible we won't know the winner by the end of the night. If so, it'll be important to keep fighting for every vote to be counted. You know the drill

As always, panicking, fretting, and hand wringing are the opposite of being helpful.

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Today is Christmas Day for us. We got confirmation that Trump really does have no idea how to save himself, and as a bonus, a smoking gun for his criminal trial.

If your response to today’s news is to hang wring and lament, then you have no idea what winning looks like.

Politics is war. And in war, the only goal is to win. If you’re the good guys, you can then carry out a liberal agenda. But first you must win. If you want to enact positive change, there is no other way to approach it. You don’t lament and cry over a win. You gladly seize it.

The night Trump won in 2016, I said this would be a “four year war.” I said that in war, the losses are unacceptable on both sides, and that the winner is the side still standing when the other side falls. Well here we are. Unacceptable losses for us, but Trump has indeed fallen.

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