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This is an novel attempt to hack the laws around required disclosures associated with first-party poltiical campaign ads. It may not violate the campaign laws it is designed to hack around and it may not violate the deceptive advertising laws underlying the FTC guides on disclosure of paid social media advertising and endorsements, but it certainly is not normal for political campaigns.

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Politics is a dirty dirty street fight. As they say NASCAR “If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin'”

Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging more corruption than we already have...?

Modeling our election campaign laws after NASCAR is probably not the best idea.

I dunno, I’d love to see the country in a permanent left turn instead of what we’ve done for the past 50 years.

I chuckled, but there are actually three road courses in the NASCAR Cup Series.

That permanent left turn just results in the burning of a lot of energy to end up in the same place you started. Oddly enough, going back to how things were 50 years ago is what many conservatives are asking for.

Economically (e.g. tax policy-wise), that sounds like a good start. Socially, no thanks.

Why does it seem like most "conservative" foot soldiers these days are diametrically opposed wrt. those two sides of "conservatism", favoring the aspect that doesn't actually have anything to do with the economic health of our nation?

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