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What? What!?! I Could Not Have Read That Right!

Arahant
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About once per week, I leave my cave and get out in the world to experience all of the bad drivers and crazy people outside my cave. As I was driving back home from my appointment, I saw a billboard. It was an electronic billboard that often has ads for legal cannabis. But this time, it had headshots of two women and an Israeli flag. The only part I could read said, "The Pro-Israel Team You Can Trust." One of the women looked like Kamala Harris. That could not be right. She's about as pro-Israel as I am pro-gluten. I was hoping the sign would not change for long enough for the light to change and for me to move forward and see it better, and it was indeed touting Kamala Harris and Elissa Slotkin, the Totalitarian Party candidate for US Senate.

What the what? Thus, I went searching. Here is one article. Apparently these ads are being run by a PAC that is supposedly tied to Elon Musk. Now, that connection was reported by the MSM, so no guarantees it is true. But if so, this is hilarious. They are tying the Democrats to Israel here in Michigan, home of a rather large Muslim population. If this is trolling, I don't know how well it will work, but it surely gave me pause, and once I knew, quite the laugh.

Carry on, Elon, or whoever is doing it. Carry on. We'll accept it down here under the bridge.

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Discussion (19)

  • Gary McVey@GaryMcVey
    On principle, I'm against shrewdly deceptive ads that try to mask who's sponsoring them. We get a lot of them in Los Angeles. In 2018 and 2022, there were Democratic-sponsored postcards for local Republicans with their faces Photoshopped with Donald Trump's, seemingly positively: "Joe Doakes is for TRUMP. TRUMP wants DOAKES". The idea, of course, is to repel voters--Trump ain't too popular here--while taking the small chance that people like me will take the card at face value. "Oh, Trump likes Doakes? Great!" But there are some satirical ones that are brilliant. This year, someone on the Right came up with a poster image of a smiling, diverse crowd of people proudly holding up their photo IDs, with the tag line, "Don't Let Trump Cheat!" EDIT: r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes - Don’t let them cheat
  • Percival@Percival

    In Wisconsin, Sen. Tammy Baldwin is campaigning for "Trump-Tammy" voters, which is mighty big-hearted of her, considering in 2016 she said "Donald Trump might be one of the most offensive, hateful and unacceptable presidential candidates we've ever had. So what does that say about the people who support him?"

    Kinda hard walking that tightrope isn't it, Tammy?

  • Arahant@Arahant
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    Gary McVey (View Comment):

    On principle, I’m against shrewdly deceptive ads that try to mask who’s sponsoring them.

    In principle, so am I. But this is very interesting. I am sure that Kamala would agree that she is Pro-Israel in front of a group of Jews. Is she going to deny it in public? It seems as if it costs either way.

  • Gary McVey@GaryMcVey

    When I was 12, I was one of the kids dropping leaflets on neighborhood doorsteps for Sen. Kenneth Keating, mentioned in one of this week's R> posts about the Cuban Missile Crisis. I got to meet Keating at a mobbed street event; a more-than-decent guy, with the unhappy fate of running against popular, newly minted New Yorker Bobby Kennedy in the year after JFK's assassination.

    And the unhappier fate of being on the ballot with Barry Goldwater, highly unpopular in NYC. So all his literature pushed "Vote LBJ-Keating".

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