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igantic number isn't it because they're just continually going. So it seems to me that if the numbers we're looking at is hundreds, the low hundreds of drones, then Russia gets what it wants. Am I right? Somebody says they've done 1,500 missile strikes that Russia has and the missiles are just being a small percentage of the blow-up stuff they're sending over there. The exploding stuff. All right…
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So here's something I have some questions about. There's apparently a hashtag slash movement called Dark MAGA. Hashtag Dark MAGA. It involves themes in which Trump-related images are being treated as just red and black scary-looking images. And I've heard it described and I have a real question here. So here's where my skepticism is turned up. I've heard it described as a movement that's waiting for Trump to return to seek vengeance on all those who hurt him or were Republicans I guess. Now certainly there are plenty of Republicans who have that mindset. Can't wait for Trump to get reelected. But you know the swamp didn't get that cleaned out last time did it? I don't remember a lot of swamp draining going on. Not a lot of that happened. In fact the swamp drain to Trump looks like what happened.
But this is how it was described by one tweet. Was this CNN? I think CNN said this. Behind the movement, this Dark MAGA movement they're calling it, there's no single identifiable group or a clear ideology. G-Net, whoever that is, said many of the messages posted by Dark MAGA supporters incite violence and contain misogynistic and or racist comments. Dark MAGA.
Now you might remember that in 2016 I called out the word dark as something that was probably expert made. And I had guessed that maybe Robert Cialdini who has advised Democrats for president in the past such as Obama, they pro
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bably, somebody like him came up with that because it's so sticky. You can make everything fit into it. It's like oh Trump said this. Well that's kind of dark. Oh a Republican said that. Oh that's a dark image. And that if you just get this idea of dark in people's minds, dark just brings with it all the scary stuff right? So it seems to me it would be a branding mistake for pro-Trump people to u…
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