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Like many Americans, I don’t see a game or a process that I recognize.
Like many Americans, I don’t see a game or a process that I recognize.


I’ve seen 13 previous elections that I can remember. I’m now watching something I can’t bring myself to believe. Something I’ve feared since before my essay on Kayfabe. And now it’s here.
I’ve seen 13 previous elections that I can remember. I’m now watching something I can’t bring myself to believe. Something I’ve feared since before my essay on [[Kayfabe]]. And now it’s here.


So I am just saying what I think I see.  
So I am just saying what I think I see.  
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|content=What I said before the Harris v Trump debate.
|content=What I said before the [[Kamala Harris|Harris]] v [[Donald Trump|Trump]] debate.


Kamala Harris is much smarter and more capable than she has appeared as VP.
[[Kamala Harris]] is much smarter and more capable than she has appeared as VP.


Donald Trump is too old.  
[[Donald Trump]] is too old.  


The game is rigged by a nexus between legacy media like ABC and party leaders to be a closed system.
The game is rigged by a nexus between legacy media like ABC and party leaders to be a closed system.


Donald Trump is not the same man who won in 2016. Not by a long shot. A near death experience is life changing. So is age in a world dominated by novelty and  new media.
[[Donald Trump]] is not the same man who won in 2016. Not by a long shot. A near death experience is life changing. So is age in a world dominated by novelty and  new media.


Trump does not fully understand the optics of fighting with women browner and younger than himself.
[[Donald Trump|Trump]] does not fully understand the optics of fighting with women browner and younger than himself.


“Optics create their own substance”
“Optics create their own substance”
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I think I’m doing okay with the above. Open to being told what I am missing or can improve.
I think I’m doing okay with the above. Open to being told what I am missing or can improve.


Just got some further encouragement for my model of this election cycle above from Donald Trump today.  
Just got some further encouragement for my model of this election cycle above from [[Donald Trump]] today.  


Exactly what I have been attempting to say. Almost too perfect:
Exactly what I have been attempting to say. Almost too perfect:
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|content=[[Kayfabe]]: when a work becomes a shoot.
|content=[[Kayfabe]]: when a work becomes a shoot.
 
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|content=The Washington Post is completely falling apart. Hugh Hewitt got fed up of the lies and disinformation being put out by his fellow journalists about Trump and walked out. There’s at least one guy there who still has a sense of journalistic responsibility to report the truth.
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|content=My buddy @JakeOrthwein has done an *extraordinary* job bringing this concept to YouTube:
|content=My buddy @JakeOrthwein has done an *extraordinary* job bringing this concept to YouTube:


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