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Some of us will have seen this Harvard-Harris poll during the week. I wrote a piece on it: “Why America Trusts Donald — Disinfolklore.” Facebook is one of America’s most trusted institutions, along with the army, the FBI, the CDC, and the police — broadcasting Disinfolklore chosen by the algorithm to suit our own particular minds, stories that convey meanness and delusions. Most Americans believe America is on the right track, or at least not on the wrong track too badly. That’s a reference to how 40% of Americans believe America is on the right track.

Some of you attentive listeners will know I write a lot about right and ṛg and its origins. Those 40% are probably authoritarian followers. They believe it — and the RT sound is also an authoritarian follower’s sound. Those 40%, or at least a good smattering of them — some estimates suggest 30% of any group will be higher on the right-wing authoritarian scale — they believe America is on the right track despite some of our conversations in previous episodes. This is the power of Disinfolklore, Facebook’s power to wrap America and all of us up into a Disinfolklore universe.

However, Volodymyr Zelensky, despite all the anti-Ukraine Disinfolklore, is more trusted than anyone else alive in America — apart from the right-wing, far-right commentator Kirk’s widow, the ex-model whom Donald hugs quite a lot. Notice: Erica Kirk. You’ve got that RK sound twice in her name — Erica, Kirk. You have it once in Kirk, obviously, in Charlie Kirk’s surname. This demonstrates that Disinfolklore is not all-powerful, if Volodymyr Zelensky after this relentless Disinfolklore is on 13% positive.

There are only four people in this Harris poll whose favourable and unfavourable ratings matched out in positive numbers. Drum roll. Fourth was RFK Jr. — God help us — on 2%. Kirk himself was on 14%. Volodymyr Zelensky was on 13%. And the late Kirk’s widow was on 16% — percent who thought they were favourable.

So: “Why America Trusts Donald” — Disinfolklore and Facebook’s vision, its change in strategy, seems to be matched. If both sides, or all sides, now trust Facebook to properly brainwash them, then that’s a win if you’ve got shares in Facebook.

Chanting “genocide” — the mantra “genocide” now performs the same role as “lock her up,” “Brexit,” “Russia, Russia, Russia,” “Hunter Biden.” It serves to close off discussion, hypnotise, signal the left’s right arm. Meanwhile, Russia forcibly transfers 20,000 Ukrainian children and the left is silent. Perfect Russian troll: distract and detract. If you only oppose one supposed genocide yet ignore an actual genocide on your own continent, you’ve been trolled, hypnotised by Russia’s useful idiot leftist elite. I’m sorry if that offends anyone. I’m an artist.

MAGA will never run out of Epstein distractions. This riffs off what I mentioned two weeks ago — my idea that really we’re in the metaphor of that show *Lost*, which I experienced earlier and realised after a couple of seasons that you never get to some apex. You never get rewarded for your commitment. The plot always just keeps extending and extending.

I think there’s an infinity of ways MAGA will find information alibis to support the idea that “Troll Epstein Russian Donald Mafia Don” doesn’t constitute enough to sink Donald. If we’re waiting, as many of us are, on the edge of our seat for that one final action which will tip it all over the edge and everything will return to how it was before this nightmare movie — sadly, the data doesn’t support this. The data supports the idea that there’s an infinity of stories to constantly roll, royal and troll us. That doesn’t mean I don’t foresee an end to MAGA and to this nightmare. It just means it’s not going to happen in the news space.

I’ve written before about “Unified Reich.” In May 2024, it was very clear when Donald tweeted a meme with the words “Unified Reich” exactly what he was signalling, and some of us pick