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53% and Other Fantasies [1]

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Date: 2025-02-24

By David Glenn Cox

Dear Elon,

Please list five reasons (bullet points) why big burly men in uniform shouldn’t drag you kicking and screaming to a cell in a tropical place for a time to be determined by your continued breathing? Failure to answer this Email within 24hrs. will constitute a plea of guilty and a forfeiture of all your assets to me.

Thank you for your prompt attention!

I would like just for shits and giggles to give you a blatant example of modern American Propaganda. AKA “don’t make him angry!” The Washeteria Post says, 53% of Americans disapprove of the King’s actions! Oh shock, surprise and tripping over my jaw. STOP IT! Think about this number very carefully. 53% of Americans disapprove, but not by a wide plurality.

That figure of 53% is no different than the El Generalissimo receiving 94% of the votes in the latest election with 2% abstaining. It is a figure designed to MUTE debate. It’s only 53% nobody really minds all that much with what’s going on. Willing to report the news, at least, a little bit of it. (A tiny bit)

If you had told me 63% disapprove, I might believe you. 73% disapproval and I’d probably believe you. 83% I might not believe you right off, but I could be convinced. The King is outraged but not enough to take action or seek retribution. The King declares the poll to be “fake news.” Dig this! He’s right!

A story as vast as Pearl Harbor and as contrived as 9-11 and only 53% of Americans disapprove? Excuse me, I’ll be right back when I stop laughing. Sure, sure, the orange man on the TV is talking about destroying our way of life and replacing it with corporate Fascism. And only 53% of Americans disapprove. Not like it’s some groundswell of angry Americans flooding Republican Town Halls with pitchforks and roofing pitch. It’s only 53%! This just in to our newsroom: Martian’s attack and only 53% of Americans disapprove.

But sir, You know, we’re a big city newspaper with paychecks and reputations. We have to say something! “Then you say something, but don’t you dare say nothing!” The water is neither too hot nor too cold, it’s just right. Understand? You can be a little dissatisfied with the situation for now. For now, you can be 53% dissatisfied but no more! Any more than that would constitute a large public objection. See?

I’d like to see the documentation for this poll or at least a look at the bar napkin where it was first created. The Republican Town Halls show this poll to be a farce. Sometimes you just can’t capture anger in a number. But you can always capture a lack of anger. A mirror story where they report the news in reverse. The story is? Surprise! No story! You expected people to be upset. But Ho hum, 53%. No one cares! Go back to sleep. And the best part is they want YOU to pay them for the privilege of being lied to.

No one cares if the King build’s concentration camps. No one cares if the King destroys our foreign policy and aligns us with the worst despots and desperados on the planet. No one cares! We’re the Washeteria Post and we should know! We’re a very prestigious Masthead, famous for our independent journalism in days gone by. Sort of like England is known for King Arthur, a long time ago.

That’s why the boss bought the place for that famous Masthead. Without it, it’s just some asshole’s opinion. 53% of Americans disapprove of their government being turned upside down and looted. Personally, I’m offended, that 53% number insults my intelligence, but I understand what they were shooting for! “Democracy dies in the darkness!” It’s also raped and made to walk the streets in high heels at night to earn money for the boss.

Do you understand? The media is controlled, (North Korea controlled) and they have exposed themselves when they told you only the contrived truth, they wanted you to know. Which was obviously untrue. The King didn’t just take over the White House. The King has banned the Associated Press for not bending a knee over the Gulf of America. Yeah right! That was the reason, the Gulf of America. Some people will believe anything. I bet they laugh their asses off over that one. So, then I said, Either you pay up and call it the Gulf of America or you’re out of here!

Obviously, the AP refused to pay their tribute to our transactional King. And so, were removed from the guest list as a source of possible irritation to the King. In days gone by, media outlets stood up for the rights of other media outlets. Knowing their right was also your own right. This time nothing. None stood up to the King as he denied the Associated Press their lawful right to do their job. None even mentioned it. But it was all about the Gulf of America! God, this is embarrassing sometimes.

The Washeteria Post is trying to spread oil upon the waters for the King allowing him to do even more. That’s called an accomplice to a criminal conspiracy in criminal circles. Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, pretending to be an independent arbiter while working for the King the whole time. Operating the Volkischer Beobachter while pretending your name isn’t Goebbels.

What else are they lying about? Election results maybe?

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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