Pete Quily
@pqpolitics.bsky.social
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Political & news acct. of information omnivore & adult ADHD Coach Pete Quily Int, Cdn, BC, & Vancouver politics & news volume varies. My ADHD acct is @petequily.bsky.social https://addcoach4u.com https://adultaddstrengths.com
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pqpolitics.bsky.social
Donald Trump is the easiest guy in the world to bribe. All you need to do is give him some gold plated crap and he will do what you want.
mrsquirrel.bsky.social
JD Vance ABANDONS Hegseth as he’s CAUGHT with SYRINGE
YouTube video by Keith Edwards

🚨Tough guy Hegseth is getting botox injections because he wants to be a pretty boy too?? 😂😂😂 - EB

www.youtube.com/watch?v=euRj...
JD Vance ABANDONS Hegseth as he’s CAUGHT with SYRINGE
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
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mrsquirrel.bsky.social
JD Vance ABANDONS Hegseth as he’s CAUGHT with SYRINGE
YouTube video by Keith Edwards

🚨Tough guy Hegseth is getting botox injections because he wants to be a pretty boy too?? 😂😂😂 - EB

www.youtube.com/watch?v=euRj...
JD Vance ABANDONS Hegseth as he’s CAUGHT with SYRINGE
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
www.youtube.com
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pritzkerposting.bsky.social
Pritzker calls out JD Vance on his tidal wave of lies and follows it up with a Nobel Prize insult to Donald Trump
pqpolitics.bsky.social
And use the troops to intimidate people from voting or to help steal the election for tyrant Trump
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chicagotribune.com
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s ultimate goal is to bring in the National Guard to cities like Chicago to militarize the country’s Democratic-controlled enclaves as a form of political payback.
Gov. JB Pritzker points to Trump inconsistencies in deployment of National Guard to Chicago
The federal government has emphasized the Guard’s mission would only be to protect federal immigration enforcement agents and property.
www.chicagotribune.com
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cooperlund.online
Given that we know how online JD Vance is, we must also consider that he is actively going on ABC to reference this meme so he can smirk about it in groupchats later. Call me old-fashioned but I think that the office of the Vice President should be above that.
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Smart ones will get out earlier

Some in denial or minimization will wait until it’s too late
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beefeaterfella.bsky.social
🔥It is reported that there may also have been a strike on the "Kafa" 220 kV electrical substation near Feodosia

🔥The people of Feodosia and nearby villages have woken up and are sending us photos and videos

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beefeaterfella.bsky.social
Reports from Crimean Telegram:

⚡️Reports from Feodosia say that the oil depot was hit once again.

⚡️The glow over Feodosia is visible from Alupka

🔥The oil depot in Feodosia is burning very brightly

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pqpolitics.bsky.social
Donald Trump is a #StochasticTerrorist

Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable

Done this many times since 2015
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas...
Stochastic terrorism - Wikipedia
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pqpolitics.bsky.social
That’s why some of the other anti-fascist researchers left US for Canada earlier
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thefarce.org
YOU HAVE TO PREACH TO YOUR CHOIR

They are the only ads that really matter. And you can’t buy them, you have to attract them by elevating them in magnetic ways.

This is what Trump is better at than any politician in American history, sadly. (Obama was pretty good, too, but only in election years.)
Trump took this basic formula and injected it with steroids. He throws “eating the dogs and cats” at the wall, or promises Mexico will build one at the border, and sees what sticks. Trump won over “persuadable” voters in 2016 and 2024 not by discerning their issue preferences and moderating his message to suit them but by motivating and equipping his base to carry his tune. When you are a low-info voter, seeing people you’ve known forever wearing the MAGA hat tells you that this is what people like you believe. And so you do. Trump’s campaigns have been driven by unleashing, not admonishing, his base and recruiting trusted messengers rather than trying to persuade people principally with ads.
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thefarce.org
It ignores that no one much cares what these ads or politicians say. We only care what others—those we love in reality or parasocially—say about a candidate/party.
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thefarce.org
Pollingism/Popularism is how you get a committed, overwhelming belief that the way to win elections is to spend a billion dollars on a bunch of safe ads when summer ends.
More confounding still, during election season, Pollingism proponents advise spending hundreds of millions of dollars on end of cycle ads, as if voter eligible Americans make up their minds based on what politicians, or their aligned PACs, pay to say. Instead, what people believe about politicians comes from what is said about them by messengers who are far more trusted. The virtues a politician extols about themself or their political positions are suspect. Anyone other than die-hard partisans discount this as self-interested. Because it is.
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thefarce.org
Pollingism/Popularism has to operate in a vacuum.

When you're just trying to match voters' "thoughts," when you ignore your own values and what your opponents are saying EVERYWHERE, you inevitably end up becoming "the second best Republican."
So, for example, if your polls tell you the majority of voters want a crackdown on the border, you have your candidate say “I will get tough on the border” in an ad that moved in-survey vote choice. Once again, assuming the candidate doesn’t have their own set views and therefore feels comfortable parroting any survey-tested refrain. But your opponent puts out their own ads, blathers on podcasts, posts on social media and – critically – gets their choir to repeat that your candidate is ready to turn said border into a sieve and lure newcomers with fat checks on “real Americans’” dimes. A message your candidate puts out that gets drowned in rebuttal from the opposition will not seem credible. Meanwhile, you’ve accepted the opposition’s frame that “immigration” equals “border,” without attempting to reframe the electoral conversation on better terms, like attacking MAGA’s monstrous plans for abductions and disappearances, or elevating shared values about freedom and keeping families together.

Politics is a shouting match, not a soliloquy — not just in the sense of who gets heard, but also who gets believed. Testing for a delivery mechanism we do not possess (forced viewing or listening by a captive general public), with presidential disapproval (not willingness to take action or opposition to some specific bill) as the metric, Pollingism now advises avoiding language it deems “hyperbolic,” while masked agents disappear people, soldiers occupy our cities, and the president turns what was a Department of Justice into his department of persecution of political enemies.
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thefarce.org
So let's contrast that with Anat's radical yet sensible alternative: MAGNETISM.

"In short, the first step to winning an election is making it about what you can win on. Strategic campaigns begin with the question: How do I force the issues and conversations that most benefit my side to the fore?"
An alternative worldview understands voters as inherently social beings, driven by unconscious cues, whose opinions, beliefs, and behaviors are formulated within the context of relationships and dominant discourse. The repeated refrains of friends, family, and trusted messengers, as well as voters’ identities, hold the greatest sway in their actions, electoral and otherwise. This model views political persuasion, even in the sprint of electoral campaigns, as occurring through diverse mechanisms — including offline interactions, persistent media narratives, and social movements. This approach, which I call Magnetism, prioritizes establishing the right conversation — rather than reacting to terms set by the opposition or the moment-in-time polled preferences of voters.

Magnetism is the notion that if you want people to come to your cause, you must be attractive. This, of course, requires having a cause to which to draw people. And, like any magnet, it also means having a polarity that distinguishes you from your opposition. For Magnetism to work, you meet people at the place of their broadly shared values, not their podcast-promoted prejudices, and bring them with you toward your desired policies and the candidates who will enact them.

In short, the first step to winning an election is making it about what you can win on. Strategic campaigns begin with the question: How do I force the issues and conversations that most benefit my side to the fore?
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thefarce.org
(This is my point, not Anat’s.

She gets into the problems of how Pollingism/Popularism is tested and how it fails to account for what actually moves voters [values]. It's beyond me and crucial for her audience. And no one knows testing better than her.

I just want to pull how how it hits the gut.)
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thefarce.org
"A Message Nobody Hears Cannot Move Them"

Pollingism/Popularism avoids the central problem of the information landscape.

A. About 70% of Americans avoid the news and only get their info about it ambivalently & ambiently
B. The other 30% (us) are overserved and pulled right by a hijacked media
Meanwhile, Pollingism optimizes for what momentarily “moves” an engaged respondent after a one-time read or listen, nearly always without exposure to the opposition messaging that generates an unrelenting din in the real world. These tests tell us what would do best if we had a captive audience to ourselves that actually listened uninterrupted and was handed a ballot immediately, without getting bombarded by the opposition’s counter arguments from all directions first.

Messages that tend to rise to the top “in channel” are those that sound like a reasonable adult giving you a solid argument. This rarely works to get you to stop scrolling long enough to receive a message in the first place. Nor do these tests tend to produce messaging that people can recall, let alone get excited about repeating — an absolutely essential element of success Pollingism doesn’t just ignore, it generally dismisses.
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thefarce.org
Most voters, especially those who decide elections, actively avoid anything to do with politics!
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thefarce.org
The problems with Pollingism/Popularism are infinite, but start with the premise: We should match what "voters think."

This is the premise that voters are solely seeking out candidates who match their own views.

Forget that this is the opposite of leadership. It's the opposite of how life works.
Pollingism proponents believe that data “shows what voters really think, not what people who work in politics wish they thought.” (Nevermind that the proponents making this claim work in politics.) In their minds, the data have set them free from their biases, including holding fixed stances on right and wrong. The trouble with this is that data aren’t conjured but rather solicited and analyzed according to the assumptions of data collectors. In other words, you only get answers to the questions you ask. And you only get reactions to the ads you produce. And you only assess impacts in the artificial environments you construct. And you only apply findings according to your theory of how humans come to judgments.
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ploop52.bsky.social
This guy, who scams millions out of their money and their attention parading as an oracle, can barely make heads or tails of a really simple story. Really pathetic.
pqpolitics.bsky.social
Republicans: They are being mean to ICE

Meanwhile: ICE pepper spraying the air hole of a man in frog costume

"Mean" is relative in their book

www.youtube.com/watch?v=snDo...
9 Hilarious ICE Protest Tactics That Went VIRAL
YouTube video by Ariana Jasmine
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