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date    = "2026-04-21T23:37:29+00:00"
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It's the 21 day mark. I've seen it before. It only takes 21 days to turn an
election on its head by [timing](/tdro/messages/politics/#tdro-messages-politics) the right fights (details are not especially important). 
Will a rabbit appear out of a hat?

There's an obscure book called ["Politricks"](https://books.google.bs/books/about/Politricks.html?id=tZDCAQAACAAJ) (some of you might have it). Its
author is in the election, and the way everyone talks about it is extremely
funny. I can't tell the serious from the jokey anymore.

{{< disclose `To put it another way:`>}}

If a work is subversive, a parody, or daresay satirical but not received
that way, then it turns into a kind of self referential dark comedy. 

  > Satire dies in 2034.  
  > The rise of the meritocracy is satire.  
  > The rise of the meritocracy dies in 2034.

{{</ disclose >}}