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BumRushDaShow

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12. You still need a "microphone"
Sun May 18, 2025, 03:41 PM
May 18

and that "microphone", let alone a MASSIVE amplifier for it, is something we DON'T have.

"Reframing" arguments is irrelevant when the media ignores the press releases from our side and none of them will show up at our press conferences (CSPAN shows some of them and "local media" may show up at events where we may be having town halls, etc).

We also have some of "us" who fall into the trap of accepting their framing but then do that because they find that this is the only way they are given air-time.

Last year, Soros Fund Management bought (and was approved for) majority ownership of Audacy, an entity that owns several hundred radio stations (many of them big name in the largest broadcast markets), as well as owning a whole internet platform of streaming programs, podcasts, etc.

What needs to happen is to set aside a specific set of "syndicated programming" for 24/7 running of selected "messengers", and like the Salem loons did with their stations, run OUR programming on those stations.

THAT is how you get "messaging" out there. You need "infrastructure" for it and we now have SOME infrastructure to start with.

(and ETA - when you have almost EVERY GOP Congressional loon going apeshit over approval of that Audacy purchase, you KNOW you have hit the bullseye )

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