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BumRushDaShow

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6. The problem with sites like that
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:00 PM
May 18

it becomes "data intensive" and results in a "tldr;" result and response to it.

We unfortunately saw that when the Harris/Walz campaign attempted different ways to warn about Project 2025 (which we are now seeing implemented in its full glory).

It basically comes down to how they talk about having "too many lines on a Powerpoint presentation" (and you lose your audience). Some crave data-intensive presentations and others only want to see one page with a few lines that gets to the point.

This was oddly the original intent of Twitter when it first came out - to distill what you had to say down to 140 characters and that was it. It was obviously expanded later but it forced people to "get to the main idea", which was a rare gift indeed for those who could do it (the ultimate "sound bite" )!

And with respect to your example of "weather" - people in the state of AR under Huckleberry Hound Sanders are experiencing it first hand - the denial of disaster aid. Those red-state loons are hard heads and maybe eventually they will "break" (or I expect they may just slither away and disappear, never to be heard from or will vote, again). Similarly KY just got hit again with tornadoes. Will see if Spawn of Ron Paul and Turtle will "do something about it" or will just cave.

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