82 Days to the Election: Silence

Wes X
2 min readAug 15, 2024

Trump’s cracks are showing…A lull….voting early…

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Today is the first day in months that a political related hashtag is not trending at the top of X’s list. There’s no frenzied discovery of some “conspiracy” that everyone, including attorneys, police and the media, overlooked. You have to scroll below the fold before anything juicy shows up. The first hashtag is #socialsecurity and a short sample of the posts deal with Trump’s past interviews about cutting entitlements. Sticking with his “expert businessman” branding, there’s a clip of him in several different news segments by multiple news orgs explaining how we’ll never balance the national debt without cutting entitlements.

The hive mind on X deems what’s “important.” Today, for some reason, the message stuck. It was a clear play to stick the Donald with his own words to point out his hypocrisy. Clearly showing this hypocrisy will jolt the Q-tips in this country to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket. They will get an image in their head–whirlwind scenes of being unable to pay rent, being kicked out by the landlord or the bank foreclosing on the house and then forced into roaming the street homeless trying to avoid being whipped by illegal immigrants and ultimately suffering a painful, lonely death.

Which is prescient because Trump has been prancing around lately talking about not cutting…

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Wes X
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