Welcome to the age of the political mass-text. Candidates in this year’s midterm elections are still sending mailers, putting ads on TV and knocking on doors to drum up support. But they’ve added a new, hard-to-ignore tool to their arsenal: personalized text messages sent to voters’ phones.
NYT
Candidates now are so lagging
that they must do all of their bragging
by texting away
before 'Lection Day --
which leaves voters with their heads wagging.
“Every consumer today drinks on average one bottle of beer less a week than they did 20 years ago,” Heineken’s U.S. CEO, Ronald den Elzen, told an industry conference last year. “If this is not a wake-up call that we have to do something, I don’t know what is.” WSJ
Alas for the foaming brown brew!
The young folk are saying 'adieu.'
The flavor of hops
to them is just slops --
they've all got a fancy corkscrew.
As Will Sommer’s QAnon primer in the Daily Beast put it: “The general story . . . is that every president before Trump was a ‘criminal president’ in league with all the nefarious groups of conspiracy theories past: the global banking elite, death squads operating on orders from Hillary Clinton, deep-state intelligence operatives, and Pizzagate-style pedophile rings. In an effort to break this cabal’s grip, according to Q, the military convinced Trump to run for president.”
Washington Post
It takes a consenting adult
to join a conspiracy cult;
with minds ill at ease
with more than just sleaze,
they need a ride on catapult.
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