Paid For By You: Propaganda, Pay-to-Play, and the Grift Economy

Yes.

I was watching the news on.

I usually watch the news through my local podcast.

Roku, so it's like an app that I watch it so I don't have to watch commercials.

But our Roku was down for whatever reason, so we turned to like the local channels on the actual news station.

So I had to bear and watch commercials.

It was so much fun.

It was especially fun running across a commercial that was extremely pro-Trump, sending out the message, look how good of a job I'm doing, so patriotic, America first.

We're anti-communism, we're anti-Marxism.

And I was like, oh, gosh, whatever, you know.

And I thought that it was going to be paid for by some kind of, you know, campaign or super PAC.

But no, it was paid for.

Guess who? The U.S.

government.

Actually paid by us.

We are the U.S. government, right? It's our tax

dollars used for that.

Yes, it was run for our tax dollars was used for nationwide propaganda, propping up the current sitting president during a midterms.

That violates so many laws, first of all.

And second of all, WTF? Yeah,

it's really outrageous.

All the ideas they come up with, right? I don't know if you know about this super PAC called MAGA Inc.

Have you ever heard of that? It is his super PAC where when people donate to him, giving all the emails and give me money and give me money and all that stuff, right? It goes into a certain super PAC.

It's called MAGA Inc.

And I believe after... 2020 took place and the insurrection at the Capitol.

Yes.

I was watching the news on.

I usually watch the news through my local podcast.

Roku, so it's like an app that I watch it so I don't have to watch commercials.

But our Roku was down for whatever reason, so we turned to like the local channels on the actual news station.

So I had to bear and watch commercials.

It was so much fun.

It was especially fun running across a commercial that was extremely pro-Trump, sending out the message, look how good of a job I'm doing, so patriotic, America first.

We're anti-communism, we're anti-Marxism.

And I was like, oh, gosh, whatever, you know.

And I thought that it was going to be paid for by some kind of, you know, campaign or super PAC.

But no, it was paid for.

Guess who? The U.S.

government.

Actually paid by us.

We are the U.S. government, right? It's our tax

dollars used for that.

Yes, it was run for our tax dollars was used for nationwide propaganda, propping up the current sitting president during a midterms.

That violates so many laws, first of all.

And second of all, WTF? Yeah,

it's really outrageous.

All the ideas they come up with, right? I don't know if you know about this super PAC called MAGA Inc.

Have you ever heard of that? It is his super PAC where when people donate to him, giving all the emails and give me money and give me money and all that stuff, right? It goes into a certain super PAC.

It's called MAGA Inc.

And I believe after... 2020 took place and the insurrection at the Capitol.