I'm more suspicious it wasn't a BIGGER win.
Given that the left loves to sprinkle in a tiny amount of truth that they can utterly distort, I'm inclined to believe they tried to rig fortify the election with this "private lab" and they still failed, so out comes the sprinkle of truth mixed with a heaping mountain of projection.
You had to worry about the people who weren't in the cave, which was the audience we actually wanted, which was much larger."
Perhaps it would have been more apt to call them an island. You might make it easier for the cruise ship tourists to collect your game if you drop it in the ocean, and some people on the island might swim out to it if it's not too far, but if you drop it far enough (like on the mainland), the people on the island won't be bothered to go for it and the people on the mainland won't care.
but surely even low IQ consumer NPCs had to roll their eyes and start to question things when they saw all the papers with the same headline?
No. These "people" do not even understand conditional hypotheticals Why would they even question the authority of the almighty TV? It told them it was going to rain, and then it rained. However dumb you think they are, they are even less intelligent than that.
You may think those are the options, but we live in clown world. The options are right side (their side) and wrong side (you). Words have meaning if they need them to, and discard their meaning if they need them to. Words have no meaning if you need them to, and have meaning if it's inconvenient for you.
At least a few times I'd get punished myself because they didn't want to even attempt to sort out what had happened for fear of making an error.
This reminds me of one time in early grade school. I skinned my knee during a lunch break and went inside to have it cleaned up. While I was in there something happened outside (I never did find out what), and I guess none of the adults supervising were really paying attention. So they just bulk punished everyone. I had a pretty obvious alibi (I was literally getting bandaged away from everyone else) but once I came back they still punished me too just because they were punishing everyone.
Absolute insanity.
Skyrim is a whole different beast from Oblivion. The empire is rather inclusive of its provinces, meaning everyone is free to come and go. That means a lot of diversity (and we can see in Skyrim where that got them).
The provinces however, are all racist as fuck. Skyrim, Valenwood, Morrowind, Black Marsh, Summerset, all of them. The two noteworthy being Morrowind and Skyrim as they both have modern(-ish) titles so it's easier to see. Morrowind will never ever get a remaster (demaster?) just because of all the slavery that Dunmer are totally fine with.
I was never MAGA, I was always America First. MAGA is just a compromise, since the alternative was "America Never".