• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    she signs on as VP and begins covering for Joe at various, tightly-scripted campaign appearances. the entire media apparatus comes together to insist all of us vote for her turn and during a live event, like an SNL appearance playing herself next to Kate McKinnon as her twin, when she is pumped full of B12 and medical grade amphetimines and pantomiming playing a duet on a piano, the curated crowd is glowing and chanting it's love for her, some critical neuron cluster for inhibition depolarizes and she starts singing the N-word in dementia-powered ecstasy.

    the control booth is too surprised and awestruck to dump out of it before the delay runs out, and a full 4 seconds of it hits the airwaves.

    the newscycle tries to convince everyone that it was a russian deepfake hack and that it didn't actually happen. but it did. and within 12 hours everyone with access to a screen has seen it.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      The entire studio audience along with cast and crew of SNL are blacksited

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        i could see them all completely falling in line with instruction, except some third string writer who caught it on his phone and blew the conspiracy wide open as a guest on The Adam Friedland Show.

        and then everyone on TAFS gets into a helicopter accident in Medford, NJ.

        Where I come from
        everybody dies in a helicopter crash.
        Me and all my friends live a simple life
        cookin' to death in helicopter gas.