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As a recovering Democrat who also used to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, I fell for AOC’s campaign. When it was just snippets and sound-bites it was effective, but when you put it all together it looks absurd.

The last 3 years have been about breaking the spell that I have been under. I still don’t know who the Wizards are (Zionists/Freemasons/Illuminati ???)

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AOC came in hot with the Green New Deal. She looked like a moron suggesting that plan. Looks like they were looking for & got the useful idiot to get the ball going on the absurd climate policies that the other useful idiot (Biden) is enacting.

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Jan 19Liked by Mathew Crawford

I've worked in advertising business on the creative side (think Mad Men) for almost 20 years. I know good work when I see it. Her spot was incredibly well produced and written. She hits the target - "he doesn't live here and drink our water". She nails it with that. She ends the game with that statement. I'm hard pressed to believe she came up with this positioning strategy. The second I saw it, I thought, that's it for the incumbent.

Bottom line, you don't see ads nearly that good from candidates with way more money. She had a concept, "actors", basically everything that indicates high level thinking, writing and production. In my opinion, with your article's insights and the caliber of her "branding", I think you're heading in the right direction. This was clearly a highly orchestrated "production" from all levels.

Side note, for those of you who don't know. The advertising business is a cesspool for crazy leftist, so I'm not surprised.

Thank you Mathew for all your hard work. I read your Substack diligently.

Here's the link to her commercial for review just in case your interested.

https://www.qwant.com/?client=ext-firefox-sb&t=videos&q=aoc+commerical+congress+2018&o=0%3Arq3QXIVR0bs

Cheers!

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Jan 19Liked by Mathew Crawford

Saw someone on 4chan (I think - one of those unauthorized sites) assert that AOC was groomed and placed by the CIA ... who knows if it’s true but it certainly is plausible. Certainly can believe highly placed players look for talent to front their projects. She’s very photogenic. Her wardrobe is quite elegant. She’s definitely party material! I’d like to know if the assertions that she’s now a multi millionaire are true. It’s amazing that we’re supposed to believe that people give money to politicians with no expectation of a return on investment.

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AOC is most certainly a paid actor, is is Taylor Swift. The globalists are really heavily targeting the youth. Shades of Mao.

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Jan 19·edited Jan 19Liked by Mathew Crawford

From the link about Gandhi:

"Nelson Mandela credited Gandhi with inspiring his own nonviolent crusade for freedom"

Blowing up 19 high voltage transmission towers is non-violent? Nelson Mandela knew of, was using and praised Irishman Michael Collins' tactics of attacking infrastructure and going after the locals going along with it not the higher ups.

I am unaware of any ANC/Mandela tactics that were Gandhi non-violent tactics but both of Mr Collins' pillars of resistance make repeated appearances.

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My Chinese wife is still dumbfounded by how evil the US and 中国 truly are... Sometimes it gets hard to keep her spirits up. If humanity can lift itself out of the Dark Ages, and other myriad shitty times, then we can do it again.

I still remember how personally she'd react to criticisms of China. She took it personally. I'd then rattle off a dozen things more horrible about the USA's history. Then I'd remind her China's Great Leap Forward was possibly worse. Eventually she finally understood that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Unfortunately, the first few years of Red Pill life are hard until one can find White Pills. Any advice on White Pill hunting would be appreciated. Need to keep both of us sane and fighting.

Do not comply with tyranny.

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Jan 19Liked by Mathew Crawford

Here's a rule of thumb you can repeat to yourself any time you are tempted to latch on to the latest thing:

Everything and everyone promoted by the mainstream is fake and gay.

Q.E.D.

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Jan 19Liked by Mathew Crawford

Going down the rabbit hole of Lt. Michael Aquino,his death was very strange and odd indeed, as there was no announcement of his passing for almost a year. He supposedly committed suicide but that goes against all the tenants and principles of the Temple of Set he founded. There were some other very strange deaths and happenings in those circles at the time but that's a dangerous rabbit hole to dive into. Aquino would have been one to see his Mindwar framework come to full fruition and be utilized in the opposite way he intended.

https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread976579/pg1?fbclid=IwAR2cwZlrbBMQMepE9ukIvmziRArlZEw2QRdtoZAVa5oOGZ1Lh8zWBQr-_2M

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It’s all the Truman Show. All of it. Fake numbers. Fake people. Fake. Fake. Fake.

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Gosh, this was alarming (and I'm in the UK) and fascinating. Incredible work Mathew. Thanks for freely sharing.

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“Growing acute” ..????

I am amazed that an invasion by 10 MILLION foreign nationals in the last 3 years is NOT a major problem.

Mostly uneducated, non skilled Criminal Foreign nationals (CFNs) in this country receiving $100’s of BILLIONS of dollars is not a problem????

Huge Spike in Tuberculosis, measles, and Polio to mention a few of the diseases brought here by the CFNs. !!!!!

It’s already too late !!!

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Total clown show reality TV. Did you know TYT’s Cenk Uyghur is running for president?

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"Washington is Hollywood for ugly people" but pretty people sell more product.

Now that I have watched in realtime the abuse of comparing covid case numbers across time, unmoored from testing rate (or test sensitivity, or specificity), can I apply what I have learned to the border apprehension numbers presented to me? The apprehensions are unmoored from attempts, or attempt sensitivity?

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How fake is everything? I am still trying to grasp how the bigs got away with 9/11. THAT was when a substitute reality was inserted and the republic fell.

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