Headlines marking the passing of Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ are a window into the past, when for a brief moment during the 2008 presidential campaign he became a well-known face in debates over economic policy that Nicole Hemmer argues have been feeding a right-wing myth for decades.
Guy wasn’t even a plumber
Guy wasn’t even named Joe
Guy wasn’t even a guy
Guy wasn’t even a the
He was the George Santos of plumbers.
They had no choice but to sell a myth: they have no truth to sell.
I remember like 3 days later it was in the news that it was all fake. Yet, here we are!
Fun Fact: the elite used the exact same strategy to drum up support for:
The US Revolution. One of the Adams brothers owned a newspaper and would pen letters pretending to be uneducated laymen and forced the editors to publish them under fake names.
Isn’t this essentially what the Federalist Papers of Hamilton fame were too?
Now do Ken Bone. I dare you
Did he pick a side? I don’t remember him being used by either party.
He was undecided.
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I know you meant well Mr Bot, but your summary is pretty bad this time.
