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by jefe_ 2085 days ago
I don't know what their endgame is but it seems they timed the release well strategically. Two hours earlier, Trump tweeted that he was ending stimulus negotiations, which led to a big market selloff into the close. Any selloff of FAAMG attributable to the breakup big tech announcement will be unnoticeable, but may accelerate or extend an overall decline which could pressure some connected fiscal conservatives to call for continuation of stimulus talks, and prompt some leans-right voters to consider market decline. So much of the messaging all around seems bizarre that I've started to assume it's simply 'optimized,' and it registers with some subset of voters, making them more likely to vote. If it all seems disjointed, you're not the audience, you check both boxes of 'will vote' and 'vote decided.'