Non-MAGA media communicators keep saying what they “think” went wrong, whilst talking in circles, although with best intentions. I am telling you what DID happen.
WARNING: If you are a non-MAGA Left-Leaning media personality with a platform or worked in the Harris or Biden Campaign, this article WILL hurt your feelings. I don't care, facts are what they are whether you like it or not. First step to move forward is to realize what went wrong, own up to the mistake and don't do it again. I don't give a f*ck what you “think” - I'll tell you what you need to know. There is wisdom outside media-bubble echo-chambers. This election was cause and effect. The left media platforms had an open book test, and they failed to read the book. Here is how to prevent that from happening again. Not that it will matter anymore, but at least you will know.
MAGA Controlled the Narrative
The mainstream and independent media failed to understand the Human Factor. This was an open book exam, and the left communications media and the Harris and Biden campaigned failed to read the playbook used by MAGA. This is new to the USA, but very well known around the world. I’ve reached Podcasters, mainstream, and independent media folks speaking about politics to give them this playbook. They all failed to address this important factor or even to merely listen. It is a factor because it is a multiplier.
I am an independent, I don’t lean left nor right, I hold either side accountable. In my case, the echo chamber effect has no bearing because I don’t give loyalty to a party or an ideology, instead I give credence to what is correct against authoritarianism. Sadly, a lot of people don’t really know how to define what an “authoritarian” truly is. That includes a lot of these personalities I’ve mentioned about. And some who understand the meaning, don’t understand their methods. How I know, look at the score board around the world.
I’ve personally repeatedly reached to many podcasters and other media personalities with a larger audience to inform them about this strategy occurring around the world, and how to reverse it. They failed to reply, yet they would keep acting surprised every time the MAGA world would do something that was part of that playbook, and then reactively talked in circles about it – falling in line to the next trap in the playbook. I reached to them again; they kept ignoring it and the cycle repeated until the very moment I am typing these words.
I’m pulling you all on notice - to the folks on this page - except for the first one, because that is me! I reached to all of you, only ONE answered, none ever heeded my warning. I created this website https://www.infoincontext.com as a free educational resource and for every thousand visitors I get, millions of others did not get the message. Those in this page had an audience and an opportunity to spread the message, they did not answer. So, F*ck it, I’ll be starting my own podcast now, because coming January it will be a moot point anyway.
Why, because they don’t realize – except now that they are “losing” subs and dwindling engagement – a lot of that was FROM THEIR OPPOSITION! What they will be experiencing it is a “starve and beat down” process. The adversarial forces planted a lot of those subs and people reacting to show engagement, because every authoritarian needs a “foe” to be able to show a “two side” war, where they can push those as a legitimatized “conversation” to feed talking points to the less informed.
And when the adversary doesn’t need them anymore because they got their objective, then all those subs who never existed they are just taken down, they affect these non-traditional click-dependent media personalities financially and psychologically. That is not new around the world. That is why “media” celebrities that align with MAGA-like groups get millions of views and reaction in seconds. Duh!
I’ve been talking about this for years, and you’re welcome to fact-check me and read all my articles at https://www.halflifecrisis.com/ as they have a time stamp. I’ve also released two books about authoritarian propaganda and spoke essentially in every platform I could get a hold on to say exactly that. But I guess my clout was too dismal for these left folks to even dignify me with an answer. That included the Harris campaign. Well guess what? People who ended up voting MAGA felt the same level of contempt – so they voted for the person they thought was actually paying attention to them.
You took voters for granted
Voters are AMERICANS! Left of Right is an artificial construct for the political process – pandering to those who understand politics, the majority of Americans don’t. Even if they have a “party loyalty” and vote by default on what they “think has their best interests in mind” – because that’s their political identity, often do not understand it. And on a blind test of policies, they would often choose the candidate that is not aligning with their values.
Many MAGA voters voted for Harris policies, but Trump and his acolytes were able to convince them that Trump was the one spearheading those policies, even though Project 2025 and the rest of his official record was articulating exactly the opposite. But a person like Trump who sounds like he can “shoot the sh*t” with the audience then looked more “human” and “less like a politician” – despite the fact he is indeed a politician, who was previously elected. But that is not how a huge segment of the population understands the political process.
For them it is like watching a reality show. They like the fact these guys seem to be “owning the libs” or capitalizing on some “frustration” they have against the so called “woke” and those who are different than their bubble. That is where the left fails to reach people, despite touting themselves as the party of diversity. Sure, they look all-encompassing, but those “controlling the left’s narrative” are very much talking in circles.
And I know that if you are on the left this will make you feel angry at me. I don’t care, because the score board showed what the result of that strategy brought. I know for a fact that many people on the left or non-MAGA, even those Independents and Republicans who crossed the line to join the left were extremely frustrated. Why? Because there were the SAME faces talking in every podcast, and TV show, and interview… the SAME people showing up in “focus groups” – while millions of others offering very sensible comments and people reaching out with valuable data points were ignored.
I’ve never ever had been invited to any focus groups. Yet I did watch a lot of those focus groups, and I realized how misinformed a lot of those folks were. The hosts, instead of actually objectively INFORMING them, they were playing diverse “opinions” – often divorced as facts for millions of others to take as though it was a “valid” option. It was not, because then when those conversations left the stage and others parroted in their own communities, the lack of facts simply lost the essence in an actual debate. And that helped people “move to MAGA.”
Yes, the MAGA-right did do that, they would be issuing their folks some talking points and push them in rapid succession, particularly when it came to wedge issues. But the difference is that they propped these points on ALL their echo chambers. The non-MAGA did something similar too in many podcasts – but they were never truly united with the message. I often said, MAGA was like an ocean of unified information, and the left were like little puddles.
The podcast and media personalities in the left keep saying “I THINK” when they are giving analysis – I don’t give a f*ck what you think, I need to know what YOU KNOW! The “think” is not measurable, and it is by nature potentially fallacious. The “KNOW” means you’ve done your analysis and experimented to back up whatever the f*ck you are saying with hard facts that are undisputable – even if the person “who thinks” does not agree with you, because they don’t have all the same level of knowledge you do.
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The left’s echo chamber
Both mainstream and independent media largely projected on the Trump voters but forgot to look at their own idiosyncrasies. I’ve said it over and over again, we all can become victims of our grandiosity if we are not careful. Critical thinking and intellectual honesty are needed in order to understand if you’re falling into an echo chamber, or if instead you’re objective. What we see both in the Right and Left are people becoming cynical – not objective.
The echo chamber in the Left happens to have their “independent media” pseudo celebrities. Sure, they can often provide good content and be correct in reporting. The problem is that they are constantly reactive, not proactive. They act surprised when MAGA does something that is volatile, they talk in circles, and then instead of thwarting the next situation they repeated and fall into the same cycle of surprise and reactive reporting. Meanwhile MAGA controls the narrative every single time.
It is easy to fall into that trap. Traps are designed to snare people with ease. And the problem is that all these channels that are Left and progressive essentially just featured each other’s buddies and recycled talking points – but no actual solutions. Yes, there are also Left talking points, even if they don’t realize them. Then these are packaged by the MAGA counterparts and weaponize them – with calls for action. Which MAGA folks obediently mobilize.
The playbook MAGA uses is several steps ahead from the Left’s reactive strategy, and even the Left’s reactions were already factored in… several steps ahead. That is why the Left remains reactive to the moment I am typing this article. Now, I personally don’t give a sh*t if my readers lean to the Left of to the Right, because we are all Americans, and the authoritarians want to divide us. I want to unite us, because when we are divided then the adversarial forces win. And they are winning.
The problem is that unless you understand where you f*cked up, then you won’t be able to fix yourself and shift into the correct route. Most of the folks who voted for Trump are happy as fu*k that he won right now, some are already realizing that they had voting-remorse, and others will realize what the warning signs were. Is Trump going to prove us wrong? I don’t see that being the case, he has Project 2025, and all the indicators he had set in place for years are pointing to that.
The everyday-MAGA folks thinks this is a great thing for America, because they were worried about some issues that seemed to “affect them” directly – but failed to realize that a lot of those policies that they care about were part of the Harris doctrine. Yet, even on election day a bunch of everyday Americans were not even aware that Biden had dropped from the race back in July, and that Vice President Harris was the one running for the presidency. Yes, for those “consuming news” would sound like an impossibility. But that is why I said that the Left failed to understand the human factor.
I’m quite frankly tired of writing this type of stuff. I was hoping that by this time I would write about art, and other stuff I’d rather be talking about. But since the folks with large platforms, I’ve reached out to repeatedly, failed to even listen for a few minutes to learn about the playbook and spread the message that would not get their ass handed to us, then I am stuck talking about this sh*t.
I will shift into putting it into a video podcast format starting next week. Not because I think it will take off, but I do it for my own sanity. Much like I have documented in exuberant details the warning signs that have been thusly ignored, and I’ve been paranoid about – because THIS MAGA majority result and what comes next is what I was warning about… so I owe it to my daughter to do the right thing until the bitter end.
And the right thing is that I am done watching any of those other podcasts, they are talking in circles anyway. They tell their audiences that they want “to unite and reach out theme” – I have reached to them, they keep ignoring me, so being polite did not work. I’ll call them out to their face on camera and maybe they will listen. Because that is the problem they had an audience, and they wasted their opportunity to truly inform them. They were reporting the news, not being proactive to thwart the message MAGA was sending to the voters.
If you’re MAGA, and you think you have been given all the answers for the platform you voted for. Did you read project 2025, did you read Harris doctrine? Do you understand the underlining facts under every wedge issue in an encyclopedic manner? Or did you just voted for Trump because the “groceries seemed more expensive?” – Brace for shock then if and when the prices go up higher. Who are you going to blame for that? The libs? You ran out of scape goats; the Senate (and the current and possible next House of Representative) and the Supreme court are all MAGA. If they f*ck up, that’s YOUR team f*cking up… how will you hold Trump and acolytes accountable?
If you’re a lib, or a progressive, or a leftist, an independent, or otherwise non-MAGA. What safeguards are you setting in case the warnings about Trump – who now has immunity to commit crimes as long as it’s a so called an “official act” and MAGA will impose onto you and everything you ever loved? Trump only needed to win, and I’ll be very surprised if MAGA will give up his seat, I do predict that J D Vance will 25th amendment-kick-Trump-off-power sooner than later. What then? Vance’s rhetoric is exponentially more volatile than Trump’s – except he is a lot more articulate and is vocabulary is indeed north of 500 words.
You don’t have to like the results of the election, but this is what America chose. And when a person chooses without been given all the data points the correct answer will seem counterintuitive to them. The problem is that they won’t realize it until it is too late… unless the Trump administration proves all his opposition and non-MAGA wrong, but in my previous article I listed a bunch of concerning points to look for. And when they start coming to pass, we have the MAGA folks to thank for voting for all that, AND the left media who failed to use their platforms to reach those who have no idea about politics in a timely manner.
I did my part, I put my own money and my own time to educate. And many did get the message, but millions did not. I just needed help from those with a larger platform. They failed me as they failed the rest of the country, and then they woke up “shocked” and are calling themselves “the resistance” or whatever the f*ck they want to call themselves now, yet they still fail to hear to the wisdom that existed all along outside their bubbles. That is why I’ll start a podcast, not that it matters. But at least I will be unapologetic to call them out. HLC