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Prairie Gates

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3. When your policy is just online trolling, it's hard to sustain the brick-and-mortar side of it
Thu May 7, 2026, 12:54 PM
19 hrs ago

That goes for the Iran War as much as it does for their goofy domestic policies.

They got elected because they were good at online trolling, and people were dumb enough to want that. It is clear that "Alligator Alcatraz" was an attempt to operationalize a simple online trolling tactic. But it's not so easy to make your idiotic trolling points into a real thing in the real world.

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