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Ocelot II

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2. Without those clicks and likes and follows they don't make any money.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:33 PM
Monday

There’s nothing wrong with making money, of course, but we need to remember that the sensationalism is driven by a profit motive. We want to believe Trump’s downfall is imminent, so we eagerly hoover up every scrap of evidence that this might be true. I hope it is, but maybe it isn’t. I would rather have measured analysis than false hope leading to disappointment. Trump will be gone someday, maybe by politics or maybe by natural causes. In the meantime I will ignore tendentious Youtube slop.

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