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I wish I had any kind of celebrity in the right wing. Like Jason Miller will probably be set for retirement off of this one stunt, maybe he can even write a book and go on tour. People from these circles basically have a direct line to the wallet of most people over 50 in America; anyone have ideas for how we can get in on this hustle?

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Easy.

Tell people that everything from when they were young is "right" and that everything new in the last n years is "wrong".

You won't even need to do much research. Hand around people of the age that you're targeting, and just parrot their opinions.

(WARNING: This doesn't work if the people you hang around are perpetual learners and constantly challenge themselves. If they're the kind of person who takes language classes "for fun", run away -- their opinions will have nothing to do with your target.)

It's pretty easy, just drop any hangups you have about blatantly lying to people and go for it.

I don't think your stereotypes reflect reality. People 45 and older are statistically ambivalent on Trump - about 50% of them voted for Trump, 50% didn't. The same holds true when you look at just 65+ people: https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/natio...

According to your single exit poll of 15k people. Over 159 million Americans voted in 2020.

56% of Republican and GOP-leaning voters are ages 50 and older, up from 39% in 1996.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-20...

With all due respect you need a lesson in statistics. 15,000 people can be a great sample size, and saying that 56% of republicans are over 50 implies nothing about the percentage of people over 50 who are republicans.

Step 1, for the highest likelihood of success, is to get into the circle of someone pretty high-up the chain already, or otherwise to get someone with an audience to hand you a megaphone, metaphorically speaking. Beware that navigating your way up that chain may be... cut-throat, and you're more likely to end up overworked and exploited or tossed aside for convenience than joining others on the good side of the grift.

Otherwise, invent a character you think right-wingers would like and play the character on YouTube or similar. See how it goes. Low-cost, might work.

It's not like what right wing celebrities are doing is a secret. One could imitate them, but I'm sure the current celebrities will not enjoy the competition.

Begin by maybe getting the domain name "squeeeeeelreport.com", installing Wordpress, put some Christian and American flag paraphernalia up there as well. Then repost articles but comment on it as though you were one of them.

Don't forget to pepper each post title with SLAMS and DESTORYS and HAPPENING.

Downvoters: Am I wrong?

The part you're missing is claiming to have insider anonymous sources (see also left wing "sources familiar with the thinking of [subject]") who will release the information to us either at the perfect time in the future, or through an encrypted "drop" in "the block chain"

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