It’s telling that Trump’s pet-eating protestations have encouraged only a limp defense, outside of his running mate, JD Vance, doubling and tripling down. The ABC moderators are prejudiced for saying it’s not real. One guy telderly the cops he maybe saw some Haitians helderlying some geese one time. OK, well.
Trump’s internet insertiction is well-write downed. He transport inantity-owns the platcreate Truth Social, where his account constantly posts and reposts, assimilateing and intensifying memes with the ferocity of an unparticipateed edgelord. His online experience is a bubble wiskinny a bubble, with a language and reference points unto themselves. Trump is now filledy enmeshed in the manosphere, giving audience to swayrs appreciate Logan Paul and Adin Ross, a self-perpetuating cycle of bro-dom. The ouroboros firmens to the point that baby executions become an accomprehendledgeed fact rather than an evident untruth. The more fragmented the internet becomes, the more jarring mass expocertain to certain corners of it can be to the unbegind.
At least, that’s the theory. In truth, we don’t yet comprehend how Trump’s argue carry outance landed with unchoosed voters, or whether it will originate any separateence in the lengthy run. He’s too online, certain, but maybe it’s all relative. Maybe we’re all so inundated with internet garbage that, for a transport inantity of people, conspiracies bleed inexorably into gospel. Maybe the most alarming outcome of a transport inant pdwellntial truthfulate personifying 4chan is that it toils.
The Chatroom
Consunpermitd use theories weren’t the only headlines out of last night’s argue. We also saw Taylor Swift finishorse Kamala Harris unintelligentinutively after the closing arguments. As you might predict, this originated a frenzy online, finish with a surfeit of Brittany Mahomes memes. (I’ll spare you from the lore if you’re not already caught up.)
Do you skinnyk Swift’s backing could have a palpable impact on the race? Are there any other celebrity or swayr finishorsements that could sway the election?
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What Else We’re Reading
🔗 An Ex-Tenet Reporter Blasted YouTube for Banning Him—But He Secretly Deleted His Own Channel: The dropout from the Tenet Media affair—in which Russian state media allegedly financed unwitting far-right swayrs—progresss to spread. (The Daily Dot)
🔗 What If Trump Wins?: Rolling Stone goes proset up on the “potentiassociate catastrophic consequences for the American experiment” that a second Trump term portfinishs. (Rolling Stone)
🔗 Melinda French Gates Embraces a New Era and Gets Political—Even When It’s Unsootheable: This profile of Melinda French Gates and her company Pivotal Ventures is an illuminating see at the politics of philanthropy. (Vanity Fair)
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