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0rganism

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6. Pretty soon, shit like this will get glossed and glazed with a "reality show" look & feel

Reply to FoggyLake (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 02:13 PM

Mar 2025

I wouldn't put it past F47 to have some audience engagement system either, where secretaries get voted off the cabinet by a supposed vote-by-text-message, according to a catchy script. They'll have their pointless little challenges and phony feuds, too. Government by kayfabe.

Apparently kayfabe is the secret sauce to enchant the public, it gets right into our amygdales and works its magic.

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Is anybody watching the cabinet meeting on TV right now? [View all] FoggyLake Mar 2025 OP

I could only take about five seconds of it, but the shitty lighting makes him look even shittier Walleye Mar 2025 #1

Ty for taking 5 secs for the team! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #8

No, and you can't make me. Sneederbunk Mar 2025 #2

That's just a casting call for the next remake of Judgment at Nuremberg Submariner Mar 2025 #3

The journalists on MSNBC have been breathlessly pumping senseandsensibility Mar 2025 #4

Is he giving them a sales pitch for his Trinket, trading card, hotel, golf club, trophy wife businesses? Ping Tung Mar 2025 #5

Pretty soon, shit like this will get glossed and glazed with a "reality show" look & feel 0rganism Mar 2025 #6

Rather than ketchup on the walls,... magicarpet Mar 2025 #7

Made it through a couple of minutes. boonecreek Mar 2025 #9

Is Hegseth there? KT2000 Mar 2025 #10

Are the WH press corps too cowed to ask him about senseandsensibility Mar 2025 #12

It's the Roy COHN model - COHN would have big parties "If you're indicted you're INVITED" - and UTUSN Mar 2025 #11

But his low information voters love this shit Johonny Mar 2025 #13

They each had a story Tickle Mar 2025 #14