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   From: udyr7615@gmail.com   
      
   >   
   >The Republican Party Is Trump Steaks   
   >APRIL 6, 2022   
   >   
   >It's been an inauspicious start for   
   >TRUTH Social, the former president's   
   >new Twitter knock-off, helmed by   
   >bovine ex-Congressman Devin Nunes.   
   >   
   >Like the other Trump schemes-airlines,   
   >steaks, board game, university, magic   
   >pills, magazine, etc. etc. etc.-from   
   >the jump TRUTH had all the marks of a   
   >media buzz Potemkin Village that allows   
   >the first family of grift to cash in,   
   >but doesn't deliver anything of value   
   >to the marks who got swept up in the   
   >hype.   
   >   
   >In the past few weeks that blindingly   
   >obvious assessment became stark reality,   
   >as the reports piled up about the site's   
   >"emptiness," that MAGA power users are   
   >not flocking to it and how the Trump   
   >family isn't even tweeting (tooting?   
   >truthing?) on their own platform. This   
   >week two key "executives" charged with   
   >actually, you know, building the   
   >technology quit, without even creating   
   >an app for Android phones. The Daily   
   >Beast reported some disastrous analytics   
   >which showed the site performing worse   
   >than social media behemoths like "Wizz,"   
   >"Bloomer-random video chat," and   
   >"Eggplant Roulette." (Only one of those   
   >sites is made-up).   
   >   
   >As a standalone the story of Trump   
   >launching a failing business that   
   >screws people over doesn't really get   
   >my fingers tapping. That's a dog-with-   
   >dentures-bites-man tale if there ever   
   >were one.   
   >   
   >What is interesting, and underappreciated,   
   >is just how bought in the entire Republican   
   >party infrastructure has been on promoting   
   >the former president's latest bunco scheme.   
   >   
   >In this instance the RNC was requesting   
   >that I tell them my TRUTH username. The   
   >committee then asked me to pitch in a few   
   >bucks to show that I STAND WITH TRUMP,   
   >conveniently pre-checking a box that would   
   >make said donation recurring and warning   
   >that if I unchecked I would not be doing   
   >my part to SECURE TRUMP'S LEGACY.   
   >   
   >https://www.thebulwark.com/the-republican-party-is-trump-steaks/   
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