5644: America Versus Communism; Path To Zero

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How are Donald Trump’s voting‑rights attacks affecting voter turnout and election outcomes?

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Yeah, I mean look, I do think that every time Donald Trump Trump does something to attack people's right to vote, to attack our democracy, our constitutional norms, it it does have a political consequence and a backlash against him. We've seen that repeatedly. We've seen attacks on the right to vote in Georgia in recent years, particularly on communities of color and black voters in Georgia, that resulted in a surge in voting from those communities because people don't like having their rights taken away. And I think there's There's a lot of irony in what Donald Trump is doing here. You know, the the polling does suggest that the voters who are more energized to vote are those who oppose Trump's policies.

Unknown 0:37

And the ones who are less energized, the ones who are sort of more low propensity voters that tend to come out when Donald Trump is on the ballot, are those who the Republicans frankly need if they hope to salvage what is looking like a bloodbath in the middle. terms and the irony here is if you make it harder for people to vote, if you make it harder for people to vote by mail and otherwise, the people who are gonna actually crawl over broken glass to vote are the ones who are more energized and the ones who might give up are the ones Trump most needs. So I think the the thing we might discover on election night is that all of Trump's machinations actually came back um to kinda to kind of bite him in the

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Yeah. Feed your social media feed. What do you see? Influencers everywhere trying to sell you everything. Beauty products, beverages, online betting, crazy headbands. The ads are supposed to look organic and authentic. Hey, I just found this great product and I needed to share it with you. It works because it started out I love the B-roll of people just looking through phones, by the way. It works because it started out actually being organic. Organic, just a bunch of folks who wanted to gain followers by sharing their lifestyle. It did not take long though for brands to notice the power, thereby creating the influencer economy, an economy that's been so successful in retail, hospitality, and wellness, that it should be no surprise politics would get in on the game.

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Because what is politics if not ad sales? What should a surprise what should not be a surprise though, especially in politics, is not just where the money is coming from, but that there's money involved at all. Super PACs don't ha always have to disclose specific donors, but they do have to disclose that someone is paying for something. Apparently that is not the case though on social media. New reporting from Semaphor shows dozens of videos featuring paid actors posing as journalists, each claiming to report the news. Fair warning, this is going to make you angry, and it should. Today we need to talk about the strangest thing happening in American real estate. I gotta tell ya, Democrats are in full

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blown panic mode right now because the socialists just went on live television and calmly declared war on their own party's establishment. All right, the videos. The videos often feature Democratic lightning rods like AOC, Gavin Newsom, and Zoran Mamdanny. The scripts they're reading appear to be written by AI and the people reading them are just paid actors. These videos are not necessarily aligned with a political party or even a nefarious influence campaign by a foreign government. Often it's just pure clickbait from content production companies that stand to benefit financially because clicks mean cash. Other times there though there is a specific agenda at play. The New York Times wrote about a left wing social media star named Josh Green who used his platform to push dozens of progressive content contenders.

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With so many followers, he's had access to major politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Mayor Zoran Momdani of New York. But what the Times says he doesn't always reveal is that he's been paid for his support from at least seven politicians or outside groups supporting them. Green told the Times he doesn't see a problem with the cash, arguing he accepts money only from candidates and campaigns that he would support anyway.