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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Umm ✹🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: That Didn?t Age Well
Date: 10/03/26 2:40 PM
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"The evidence shows, and we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that Hearn willfully destroyed property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool." Jeannie Pirro

Unfortunately that statement aged just fine. That statement wasn't meant to be factual or anything like that. That statement had two purposes. One, appease the boss, which it did. Two, convince the uneducated and uninformed that the Reflecting Pool did not fall apart due to incompetence of leadership and instead deflect blame elsewhere (i.e. liberal terrorists or Antifa.) In that regard it worked as well. At least some (perhaps small, but still) percentage of the population believes that the Reflecting Pool repairs were sabotaged and destroyed. While it reinforced the theme in the Nutter's brains that liberals are violent and destructive.

Pirro wasn't trying to factually convict Hearn. She was just spreading the propaganda to take advantage of the ignorant.
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