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Last summer, after Old Joe Biden was forced out of running for reelection and Kamala Harris was anointed as the Democrat candidate for president, the far left’s propaganda arm (that is, the establishment media) made a massive push to make this failed vice president and longtime party hack seem new and exciting. A key part of this effort was a gaggle of young “influencers” who took to Instagram and TikTok with an enthusiastic pro-Harris message. It was sincere, it was spontaneous, it was exciting — or at least that’s what it seemed to be. Now (I know, knock me over with a feather) it turns out that the whole thing was faked: the entire Harris bubble was the artificial creation of a bunch of leftist billionaires.
RealClearInvestigations blew the whistle on this astroturfing enterprise in a lengthy recent exposé, detailing a concerted efforts to portray Harris as if she had “Gen Z-friendly hipster appeal.” This involved “influencers” making “neon-matcha green pro-Harris videos synced to beats from singer Charli XCX’s album ‘Brat’ released last year,” as well as flooding the interwebs with “memes celebrating Harris as the voice of queer and black youth, in contrast with the Republican agenda of white supremacy.” Yeah, not only did they create a fictional Harris, but they conjured up a fake opposition to her in the bargain.
The campaign went heavy on sexual excess, with a heavy helping of hysteria: “Digital creator Amelia Montooth, in one viral TikTok video, kissed a woman and tried searching for pornography, actions her sketch suggested would be banned if Harris lost the election.” Apparently presenting Harris as the porn candidate wasn’t enough, and so “another TikTok and Instagram series backed by the donors, called ‘Gaydar,’ featured interviews quizzing people on the streets of New York City about gay culture trivia with little election-related content,” but the pro-Harris subtext was unmistakable.
Then there was a caravan featuring “an inflatable IUD” that traveled to Philadelphia, Washington, Raleigh, St. Louis, and elsewhere. “The tour, which featured content creators producing posts along the way, was designed to bring attention to claims that Trump would ban contraceptive devices.” Yeah, of course he would.
Harris never quite gelled as the front woman for twenty-first century amorality; RealClearInvestigations notes that she was “a career politician favored by the Democratic Party’s establishment,” and so never quite fit the bill as an icon of activist movements.” But this wasn’t for want of trying: “the sudden influencer buzz seemed to transform the stodgy former prosecutor into an icon of the cultural zeitgeist.”
There was plenty of money available for this quixotic effort. All the Harris fake enthusiasm and sexual libertinism fearmongering was “quietly funded by an elusive group of Democratic billionaires and major donors in an arrangement designed to conceal the payments from voters.”
RealClearInvestigations discovered that Way to Win, “one of the major donor groups behind the effort, spent more than $9.1 million on social media influencers during the 2024 presidential election.” The money went to coaching “influencers” on “phrases, issue areas, and key themes to ‘disseminate pro-Kamala content throughout the cycle.’” No fewer than 550 “influencers” were on the payroll, getting “talking points that were rapidly distributed” on key issues that would help sell Kamala to the American people. The social media wonks worked hard for their money, producing an impressive 6,644 posts on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, and X.
Liz Jaff of Way to Win was confident that it would work, telling donors: “We know what messaging works.” She “touted the use of an AI-based focus group tool developed by Future Forward, the Harris campaign’s primary SuperPAC,” explaining that once the talking points were developed, “we then convey that to the influencers who take that into their own words,” so that the whole thing would seem organic. It wasn’t, of course: “We then test those videos and see what needs to be boosted.”
The dinosaur media, meanwhile, was pitching in with propaganda such as Time Magazine’s Aug. 26, 2024 cover, featuring an artistic rendering of Harris looking strong, heroic and resolute, with the caption “Her Moment.” New York Magazine offered “Welcome to Kamalot,” a seriocomic cover depicting Harris sitting atop a giant coconut as the likes of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, AOC, George Clooney and other leftist luminaries hail her from below.
The bottom line is that for all the marketing firepower, AI acumen, and billions of dollars behind the selling of Harris, it didn’t work. The artificial enthusiasm dissipated as quickly as it began, as artificial enthusiasms will do. The 2024 election thus stands as a triumph of the independence of the human spirit over those who spend their lives and fortunes on fooling and manipulating people. May there be many more such victories.
It’s hard to believe that IUD balloons, a bunch of gay stuff, including big, gay Tim, live abortions at the DNC, and brat summer didn’t have mass appeal. I’m guessing all that degeneracy had the effect of driving more people to Christ than democrats to the polls.
Going full retard “woke” against the populist Trump was a dumb move. But that’s the D-Bags for you. Generally they’re stupid people but experts at subversion. Most of them could lie and sleaze their way out of a beating.
Actually I believe many knew she was unelectable but used her campaign to line their pockets with the millions and millions spent on it.
Yes but that happens in every election, even the ones were the candidate is eminently electable. “Sleaze” is a synonym for “politics.”
Last years election the Globalists tried to steal another lection but Failed but they will do it again
Yes, they’re gunning for the midterms. The real mail in ballots to fake people are being prepared, drop boxes are ready for D-Bag operatives and of course, the fake registered voters are legion.
Oh, yeah. There are reportedly 30 million fake ballots the D-Bags can use at will in national elections. I don’t know if it’s true but I do know 21 million votes for Alzheimer Joe suddenly appeared out of nowhere in 2020. Trump won in 2024 and the claim that the D-Bags let him win is obvious bullshit so I don’t know what’s really going on. I do know the D-Bags have at least 21 million fake ballots so the current 30 million figure is believable.
It was clear before the election that hilarity harris was just about as popular as rino romney was in 2012. (Both are nothing but public actors pushed into place by the globalist establishment) I’ve never met anyone who actually liked either one. There was no way she could be elected. Even with billions in fake media hype, the many “malfunctioning” voting machines, rental trucks full of fake ballots showing up at 2am, and thousands of dead voters who happen to live in empty parking lots, she still lost. So the question remains: Who were the billionaires besides soros?
The fact is; nobody knows because of yet another pile of red tape on the books at the Federal Election Commission that allows “influencers” to hide who gave them money. (How convenient for the global elites)
This is why people hate congress and the swamp they sit in. They’re supposed to represent us, but all they really do is take bribes, scratch backs, party it up with our enemies and share insider trading tips.
Romney made some sense. It took more than one sentence or even interview to see the problem. Harris was less articulate than Porky Pig’s sign off trying to say, That’s all folks!”
“Who were the billionaires besides soros?”
Reid Hoffman, the Rockefellers and five others listed on Newsmax. There were about twelve more but only eight donate billions instead of millions.
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” Erroneously attributed to P.T. Barnum, but nevertheless an appropriate comment on the Democrats of today. Or perhaps we should go with the sage words of card sharp Amarillo Slim: “If you can’t spot the sucker within the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” In any case, the Dems have too much on the table to fold their hand. They’ve become easy targets for those who understand the political game.
“There’s a cock-sucker born every minute.” should be the forever-more slogan of the George Clunatics. °°
This article shows that such can run for president as knee-did.
Mr. Spencer it must truly be hard to keep a straight face when you write this nonsense. I should like to know what values are being upheld as a result of the 24 results — illegally arresting innocent people, tearing up the constitution, driving the economy into a recession, depleting people’s life savings, paving over the rose garden even…..the tilt toward Russian inspired fascism continues…….and you think all is rosy.
“paving over the rose garden”
suggesting a patio in the rose garden for public events held there hardly constitutes a threat to “your” democracy.
As for depleting people’s life savings?
Where did you get that load of crap?
Demokkkrats have hollowed out Americans pocket books since 1913. Every member of my family remembers being screwed by Demokkkrats and their constantly screwing Americans.
“arresting innocent people”
Demokkkrats love to arrest innocent people. Trump has started arresting criminals.
Typical crime-lover – you call murderers and rapists innocent – and you do not care about your neighbors who are victims of Demokkkrat-thug violence.
“tearing up the Constitution”
Restoring the Constitution. Biden flooded our streets with criminals and forced us to pay for it …
Terrorists pretending to be “judges” and want to stop Trump from removing murderers and rapists from our streets … are “tearing up the Constitution.”
Trump is trying to save America from a Demokkkrat authoritarian tyranny rising from its ‘benign’ level into a full-blown dystopian, genocidal gulag state.
If Trump fails, many of us will be lucky to die a natural death.
G-d love ya’
Is that sign off meant the Southern way?
What values were upheld by Crooked Demented Joe and Never Functioning Kamala?
Go back to Politico, MSNDC or whatever cesspool you crawled out of, trolltard.
Why don’t you just claim President Trump is “a threat to democracy” (America a Republic) should fear, or “Trump and Musk work for the oligarchy?”
Idiot. You D-Bags come up with one disinformation meme after another but they don’t work since Trump came marching back in. You never run out of new ones but AMERICA DOESN’T CARE. We hate you and proved that last November.
If I ever saw you I would smash your wimpy D-Bag face.
Fact is that even the democrat elite hated Kamala, knew she was worthless. But they had to try to win with her anyway.
After the election was called two friends proclaimed that America just isn’t ready for a black woman president, as if that was the reason she lost. I didn’t bother to mention that she was a moron, that she was completely incoherent, incompetent and lazy, that she couldn’t divorce herself from the worst admin in history despite much prodding by The View to do so. And did I mention that she’s a moron?