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[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So apparently, the heritage foundation held a seminar where they ran various Scenarios , like in a war room, and one of the scenarios entailed Barbara Streisand being kidnapped to sway the election and all sorts of batshit crazy stuff.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

If only being stupid as hell and like 30 years behind popular culture made these people any less dangerous

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did they test this because someone yelled out “what about the Streisand effect?”

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Who the fuck knows what goes on in that black void they call a soul.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/12/heritage-foundation-mike-howell-election

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Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, made the comments at an event in Washington sharing the results of a hypothetical exercise mapping out several implausible scenarios that could take place after the election. The outlandish scenarios involved Barbara Streisand being kidnapped by Hamas, antifa-BLM protesters taking over a detention facility and the FBI arresting Donald Trump after winning the election.

The effort was designed to muddy the waters over the threat to the 2024 election posed by Donald Trump, who has repeatedly refused to commit to accepting the election results and tried to overturn the 2020 vote. Instead, the Heritage Foundation, which is also behind the extreme Project 2025, wanted to suggest that it was Joe Biden who could try to overturn the result of the election, echoing the ex-president’s repeated claims that it is actually Biden who is the threat to democracy.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus christ these fascist pieces of fucking trash are straight up DELUSIONAL.

[–] RidderSport 4 points 2 months ago

This is the kind of wild imagination you usually lose by growing up