Kill the white man!
Pound that message.
That’s quite the title isn’t it?
We have a criminal President. He’s going to keep right on criminaling. He’s good at it. Remember that if there’s nothing else you take away from reading this post. Remember this too. There is NO widespread corruption, fraud, waste, abuse, and illegal activity being found by the Führer Trump or President Musk.[1] PERIOD.
I was stationed in Germany back in 1970. There was a lot of racial tension then in the service. I roomed with a couple of brothers. I was their barber. Couldn’t cut a white guy’s hair to save my life but I could handle a very modified afro that would still pass inspection.
One night there was a pirate radio station playing in another guy’s area while I was writing letters home. Over and over again some guy was saying “Kill the white man! Kill the white man! We must rise up and kill the white man! Kill the white man!” I was engrossed in writing letters home at the time and just tuned it out mentally or so I thought. There was no one else was in the room for me to holler at to “Turn that crap off!” so I just kept writing.
After a while I found myself thinking that, “Yes, we must kill the white man.” I even wrote the words in a letter that I was working on. Whoa! That’s when I decided enough of that, got up off my butt, went over and turned the damn radio off. I had to scratch out the kill the white man words. No sense in causing needless worry to loved ones back in the states. Not being mentally disturbed, I never acted on killing the white man.
I probably didn’t listen to that for more than an hour and it was just background noise to what I was doing. Yet that earworm crept into my thoughts.
The messaging was effective.
Pound the message.
One of the hard lessons I learned is that in spite of what people say, negative campaigning/messaging works. Period. That’s why Führer Trump does it. Every. Day. It is who he is. It is who he has always been. It’s his nature.
Back in the day when I campaigned for office in the union and civic world with words written on paper, a.k.a. pamphlets, door knockers, cards, etc. the ‘rule of thumb’ was that the handout would last long enough to make it to the first trash can the person passed unless the person that had it in their hand was a litterer. (I just made up that part about littering.)
As a society we’ve been conditioned for quick gratification and sound bites. People aren’t really interested in fact checking or reading a lot of words. If you’ve made it this far you are phenomenal. The average attention span now is slightly over 8 seconds. Goldfish have a 9 second attention span.[2] The average American only spends 15 minutes a day reading.[3] People receive 90% of their information visually. Think about all the MAGA glued to Fox Pravda and Trump for hours on end.
Seeing is what they’re believing.
People in general believe what they’re predisposed to believe. Digging deeper and being informed requires effort. Reading requires effort. It’s far easier to have someone tell you what to believe. For web traffic that happens to bounce in I lost over half of them way back at the beginning of this post.[4] The average post should be around 300 words in order to keep people engaged.
Are you still with me? You are not average. You are exceptional.
That brings us to President Trump.
As President Trump will continue pounding out his messaging of lies every day. He gets his message out in 8 seconds. The nation is coming apart. America has to be saved! Pound the message! Government is the enemy. The ‘Deep State’ is the enemy! Dems are the enemy! Pound the lies! Hate the immigrants! Corruption is everywhere! Pound the message! Shoot the immigrants! Pound the lies! Immigrants are criminals! The press is the enemy of the people! Rich Jews are the enemy! Everything bad is Biden’s fault!
Every chance Trump gets he pounds the lies. Pound the message. Give him everything he wants! Only Daddy Trump can save us! Trump is everything good. Trump is a genius!
America needs to be a never defined great again but MAGA will know it when they see it.
Pound the message!
Keep on lyin’!
The biggest mistake that President Joe Biden made from day one is that he didn’t do what Trump and all of his surrogates did and are doing now. The convicted sexual abuser holds press conferences ALL the damn time. Since he isn’t governmenting he has time. He delivers the same message all the damn time. EVERY surrogate MAGA Senator and Representative delivers the same message. I don’t care what question they were asked they give the same talking points that their Führer Trump does. Right-wing fascist propaganda outlet delivers the same message. Every. Time.
The felon President Trump has been hate messaging to a receptive audience since 2015.
Hate and lies sell. MAGA is buying.
[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/13/trump-musk-claim-government-fraud-without-showing/
[2] https://www.armsacres.com/blog/average-human-attention-span
[3] https://www.statista.com/topics/3928/reading-habits-in-the-us/#topicOverview
[4] https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/how-people-read-online-why-you-wont-finish-this-article.html
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