Easy Sunday: Another request from the Mar-a-Lago White House

The less people know, the more the Trump Mar-a-Lago White House likes it.

I got another request for help. Could this be legit?

Yesterday's guest post author might be getting played by the Trump transition people. Or I'm the one getting played. Or this might be 100-percent legit. 

My correspondent needs to stay anonymous. Her D.C. firm carries influence because they find remunerative "consulting" jobs for officeholders displaced by elections or infighting. They can "fix" things because of the web of favors they dispense and receive. One of their jobs is floating trial balloons while maintaining enough separation to provide deniability if the balloon pops. 

She reached out to me, presumably at the request of the Trump transition people. They are riven with factions, which makes me wonder what is real or fake, sincere or parody, as if anything done by the Trump White House isn't parody-level amazing. The rival groups are jockeying for power against each other. My anonymous guest post author might be getting punked, sent on a wild goose chase to embarrass a rival faction. But that faction may emerge the winner. The improbable is all too possible. Nothing I see in the Mar-a-Lago White House is any weirder than nominating Matt Gaetz, Haitians eating dogs, Rambo-Trump NFTs, or golden sneakers. Parody is impossible now.

A premise of my blog -- that most voters choose candidates based on gut feelings for a brand, not rational self-interest -- seems to have caught the attention of someone. 

Guest Post by Anonymous, a letter from the Mar-a-Lago White House

The White House

Mar-a-Lago HQ

Office Of Low Propensity Voters and Low Information Voters

 

Re: Opportunity To Contribute to Office of LPV-LIV

 

Mr. Sage:

 

My colleague in the Department of Guest Experiences (DOGE) passed your name on to me and highly recommended your blog as a resource for American exceptionalism (now called America First). Yes, we have gotten America on the right track, our challenge is how to keep it there. Mar-a-Lago HQ has tasked me with elevating the spontaneous and honest non-partisan, low-propensity and low-information voter over the tyranny of strict partisanship.

 

The ideal LPV-LIV seldom votes in presidential years, never votes in midterms or local elections, and doesn't need the media to tell him what to think. (The LPV-LIV preferred pronouns are "he" and "him" which are traditionally considered gender neutral.) Unfortunately, as a counterbalance to continued media election interference, a renewed battle against the fake media and political elites will be necessary—not only must these elites be denounced, they must be discredited. Any denigration of LPV-LIV by the media within 90 days of any federal election will be the subject of new rules with the Federal Election Commission. This embodies the sacred spirit of the 15th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibit voter tests for literacy and knowledge. President Trump stands firmly against any new form of Jim Crow laws that would persecute LPV-LIVs through media-mandated "fact-checking" or so-called "electoral literacy" requirements. 

 

The presumption of our great democracy is that the illiterate and marginally informed have a dignity and wisdom unrelated to, if not protected from, information transmitted from outside their family, group, ethnicity, or churches. We embrace immigrant voters who can't speak a word of English—they can neither understand Fox News nor MSNBC, The New York Times nor Breitbart; they can watch a few videos, listen to some friends, and they're ready to cast their ballot. This is the bedrock tradition of the low information voter that must be preserved to sustain America's best interests. President Trump intends to uphold this great principle of American democracy—vote what you feel, not what you think.

 

OLPV-LIV represents a Renaissance in patriotic thinking. The media is no longer regarded as the enemy of the people for the simple reason that it has been defeated. Their journalistic expertise is still an asset but should not be co-published with editorial agendas. The First Amendment doesn't guarantee a right to commingle fact and opinion, and we're actively exploring legal paths to disentangle these. If The New York Times wants to publish both facts and opinions, then it will need two distinct publications. Few would subscribe to media outlets if they contained only opinion—it is the commingling of true news that allows those opinions to be heard at all. Creating a requirement that readers click either "news" or "opinion" editions separately will not be much of a burden on the First Amendment. 

 

LPV-LIVs shouldn't be belittled if they refuse to waste more than five minutes daily on 3 to 5 "shorts" on YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok. Reading a few tweets is more than enough to meet our civic responsibilities. The great Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA showed America that LPV-LIVs can be the backbone of any electoral campaign. Voters don't need to be "involved"; they just need to have some feelings and reactions to what seems smart and what seems dumb. The woke mind virus, DEI, CRT, and Green New Deal all have infected millions with propagandistic, red-scare "text."  Text that is counterintuitive, largely un-American and better communicated in video or minimalist format.

 

We welcome your readers' comments, whether supportive or hateful, thoughtful or reactionary. The future belongs to those who feel, not those who are belittled if they don't read "enough".

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