It makes me physically ill to watch these clowns pretend to do journalism. They have to attack you, Matt, because otherwise what does that say about them? That they were complicit in all of it, that they work for the administrative state. They should hang their heads in shame. I would call them whores but that's an insult to whores.
It makes me physically ill to watch these clowns pretend to do journalism. They have to attack you, Matt, because otherwise what does that say about them? That they were complicit in all of it, that they work for the administrative state. They should hang their heads in shame. I would call them whores but that's an insult to whores.
Yes! Exactly! They won't cover it because they're in on it! And while my favorite term is 'presstitute', while doing a little research into the word I came across 'Whorespondent', which is also top-notch.
It really is a damning indictment of the mainstream media that they seek to impose professional consequences on journalists who donтАЩt agree with or parrot every liberal piety. Taibbi has already been right-coded for straying from the left-wing consensus, and his lack of deference to his "betters" employed at establishment lie merchants puts him at odds with the anti-majoritarian party line that progressive journalists, who endorse a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that attenuate our norms of open debate and intellectual diversity in favor of ideological conformity, have fervently policed since TrumpтАЩs election.
And the 'parrots' know that as soon as they deviate on ONE SINGLE THING, they will be excommunicated from the tribe -- a real problem if your identity is wrapped up in your political positions.
Thus you have people arguing to disarm Americans while arming Ukraine to protect freedom, or any other of non-sensical positions that only exist because of peer pressure.
It may not go back far enough but "follow the money" started when Walter Duranty excused totalitarianism with his "you can't make an omellete without breaking eggs" while he watched Stalin crush the Ukraine. The "parrots of today" are no different.
One of the things I recently learned about the Ukraine famine was that starving people were gathering at train stations to beg for food. The government's response was to mandate the window coverings be used when going through these areas -- out of sight, out of mind!
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is defending the city's decision to start the process of encrypting police radio transmissions, a move that will block the public from listening to those transmissions in real time.
A coalition of media organizations, including ABC7, is asking the mayor to reconsider the decision. Among the reasons is the impact it will have on the release of real-time information to keep the public safe during an emergency.
Just as today, the untermenschen were in Eastern Ukraine (Russian speakers) in WWII. The NAZI Collaborators were in Galicia and Western Ukraine, killing Poles and Jews and volunteering to be NAZI concentration camp guards (jobs to which few Germans aspired).
Some things never change. UkroNAZI-enabling US has taken Hitler's mantle. "American Democracy". Like Yemeni genocide.
michael888 тАФ YouтАЩre a little confused. ALL Slavs were untermenschen to the Nazis. It was a тАЬracialтАЭ classification, not a political one.
Which is not to say that some Soviet POWs, like John Demjanjuk, who was falsely accused of being Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, didnтАЩt choose to serve the Nazis rather than starve to death. (The real Ivan turned out to be what the Nazis called volksdeutsch, a German who happened to be born outside of Germany.)
The highest rate of Nazi collaboration among conquered populations was in the Baltics, where the wounds of the recent Soviet invasion were still very raw. And, as Arkady Vaksberg tells us in Stalin Against the Jews, the genocidal Soviet dictator liked to order Jewish underlings to carry out his worst atrocities тАФ in case he might need scapegoats.
In John TolandтАЩs Hitler, we learn that Jewish villages welcomed the advancing Germans as liberators. After all, what did they know? For several years, during the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Soviet government had been praising the Nazis as тАЬfraternal socialist alliesтАЭ.
Stalin intentionally starved to death about 4 million Ukrainians. I don't know if that's your definition of "crush," but it's a pretty big deal, don't you think?
Well his relative Jimmy sang "Ya gotta start off each day with a song, even when tings go wrong......" People in the Ukraine didn't take this advice. Maybe someone should crack an egg over Walter's head. (Kidding, I'm a non violent person.) And I know he's not related to the great Jimmy Durante. Kidding again.
The unfortunate thing is that many ordinary people, if not most, would agree with their assessment of Matt, and I've already come across it. They are aligned with MSNBC, or CNN. Someone claimed Musk is all in it for the money, and Taibbi jumped on his money bandwagon. I wonder if he was a troll because he was abusive in terms of his responses to my posts, and almost demanded I agree. Authoritarian SOB. Gave it right back to him. I always find that people who attack independent journalists which provide a truthful perspective on things are attacked, and hated by those who are paid to lie since money owns their soul. Screw them.
I'm so proud to read these comments, and know there are people out there smart enough to see all of this for what it is... But, my God, for journalists to *go after another journalist for reporting the truth*. It's truly Orwellian.
Orwellian yes, but now common place. They're paid to be lying "patriots." and these lying "patriots" ultimately sell out the people they pretend to inform and claim they want to protect.
State Media is now run by the Federal Government since the abolition of US law against domestic propaganda-- the "modernization" of the Smith Mundt Act, giving the State Department (and thus the CIA and other Intelligence Agencies) control of the Official Narratives. As Twitter Leaks showed, soon all of social media will also be controlled by the Federal Government; they cannot have political opponents challenging or interfering with Official Policies. How much of this is due to "lying patriots" and self delusion is arguable. More likely it is careerism and wanting to be on the winning side. The ends justify the means, and might makes right.
People want to be entertained, so most so called news shows are just that, entertainment. They create drama. laughter, disgust. They attack the opponent and illicit a laugh or a nod, or a groan of disgust and most people are fine with that. Very few have the attention span politics demands, or the background to provide them with some sense of perspective. For many it is no more then a religion, so people just pick out their gurus, and have faith they are being told the truth. If the Federal government takes over the media totally most people won't notice, or care.
The bigger problem we all face is that *neither political party* wants what you just described (federal government controlling media) to change. It benefits both of them in different ways, at different times. Ultimately, power hungry politicians like good ole' Mitch McConnell see it as nothing more than a tool to help achieve their ends. *THAT* is the problem. I keep telling people the DNC and the RNC are both a massive problem because they are the core of each political party, and the way they set their agendas has little to do with what the American people want, and far more about how to get and retain power and control.
The great thing about the Twitter files is we are now learning the mechanism behind *how* the federal government achieves this. The U.S. has a massive tech industry dominated by capitalists, but run by far left people whose culture is set predominantely in the Bay Area. All private industries avoid regulation like the plague. The social media space is no different. I can visualize the regulatory threats made to the people on these boards (remember all the congressional hearings for Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and the like, and how they all but evaporated once Biden got into office?) and the Vijaya Gaddes and Yoel Roths of Silicon Valley freaking the fuck out, wondering how they were going to thread the needle... ultimately, we now know how the story ended, and how they tried, and until Musk dropped 40 billion on Twitter, succeeded!
That's what blows my mind about people's ability to ignore the implications of this... The number of "bodies" Musk has already and is continuing to uncover from *one* social media company. How can a person *not* be curious about what's happening at every other social media company???
In any case, the basic truths we can glean from these realities are these: 1. The tech industry does not want to be regulated. 2. Most people, even ones who publicly praise Democratic ideals, will bow to authority when it means their job/reputation/livlihood is on the line, (even if doing so means gaslighting an entire country). 3. We can safely assume our "reality" is regularly shaped by arbitrary whims of people who either were or are still in the federal government, and every citizien should resist it, and strive to think for themselves.
I'm ambivalent. It is good to see others voicing reasonable and intelligent, genuine pushback on this garbage. But distraught that its so entrenched that pushback is necessary. That the status quo has diminished to the point of disenfranchisement. Worrisome.
Sinclair Broadcasting attempted to create an unbiased news network without embellishing or editing footage. The reporters were given free reign to ask questions while in the field but not interjecting ideological spill or slant. The broadcast news would remain neutral. Pundits, guests and audience ( on shows that had an open forum)could interact without being badgered or interrupted . Every faction of the American spectrum was allowed to express their thoughts, ask questions and interact respectfully but without hostility.
They began an ad campaign that was well received. So many Americans were sick of the left/right presentations on seperate channels with edited, truncated film clips, based solely on bashing the other side, pushing a narrative that shut out any dissenting voice or platform that veered from singular bias and redundancy.
I was thrilled. CouldnтАЩt wait. Anticipated that long overdue catharsis that comes with conversation versus angry shoutdowns and divide.
Sinclair was advertising the MSM networks and Fox. CanтАЩt recall whether NewsMax was available. OAN liked the concept and hoped to air the shows .
However, when CNN, MSNBC and Fox realized the concept was gaining steam, they were able to somehow shut it down before it launched. Proving that this divide was purposely orchestrated to push viewers to one side or the other by maintaining an ever widening gap to keep the bipolar duplicitous establishment status quo .you had either chocolate or vanilla, period. Fuck the plebes who craved strawberry. That brisk, healthy springtime The breath of fresh air that makes us feel happy and free.
The Kleptocorporate multinational globalist mockingbird NWO monopoly won that round and several more. But the walls started to crack and the censorship, banning , lockdowns, masking, surveillance, street violence and alienation is backfiring. Finally! Because the brave people who were becoming increasingly skeptical and began questioning our own judgement .. How did we get here? This is no longer just politics as usual. Something far darker and far more deviant was becoming too big and too threatening way too fast.And Substack, Rumble, Rogan became this weird Underground Railroad where for the first time, we ventured outside of our mental confines and began to forge a new alliance and still be ourselves, but better.
Ergo , the duopolous , duplicitous, soulless overlords have become scared and sloppy and more hateful, aggressive, divisive and dangerous. Now itтАЩs our turn. тАЬ We The PeopleтАЭ against THEM! The whole rotten, toxic, corrupt evil megalomaniacal demonic fascist elite cult of psychopaths. The Cult of Death and Hatred for all Things Living. The DAVOS/Bilderberg/UN/NATO/EU/US /NGO Kleptocorporate multinational Transhumanist Technocracy. Mass murdering Malthusisian Mengelian Maoist Machiavellian Fourth and Final Reich.
Gail you really write so well! It doesn't surprise me that the network didn't come to fruition and I'm not even sure you needed the other networks to help shut it down. A non biased news forum isn't a money making business, but cultivating people's biases is. Years ago the news cycle wasn't 24/7, a source of non-stop entertainment, and there was a genuine sense of responsibility to convey the truth. It was their job. No more. Our government encourages division as well, divide and conquer, as they say. The democrats certainly used Trump to divide a country proclaiming themselves to be on the right side of things. I gave up Gail, and you just have to wade through the crap to get at the truth., and most will make that a difficult chore. Substack is indeed a refuge from all of that.
Absolutely hideous. The US/NATO war with Russia to cover up the Russia Hoax and the 2014 False Flag used to cover up the Ukraine proxy corruptitude and selling our uranium to Russia and the backdoor deal allowing Russia arms sales to Iran in exchange for the JCPOA. Trump/Flynn was the greatest threat to the Deep State global mafia. Ditto Tulsi, who Bannon was eyeing for a top ranking appt to the Trump admin.Putin would have decoupled from Iran if a deal was reached to ensure Russian sovereignty.
The first Trump impeachment was about stepping on the Master Plan (of which VP Biden was Viceroy in Ukraine). The corruption was blatant, and Ukraine was a huge honey pot for the Establishment to launder money, and provoke Russia into WAR (and US war profiteering; wonder how much that happens in Russia?)
When you have so much of the State Department and their contractors from East European backgrounds re-fighting WWII against Russia (on NAZI Germany's side of course), you have to wonder who is running our country and for what purpose?
TheyтАЩve done so time and again. Sharyl Attkisson, James Rosen, Lara Logan, OтАЩKeefe, Assange, Andy Ngo, Ian Miles Cheong, Jon Solomon, Posobiec, Kim Iversen, Larry Klayman, Sara Carter, Richard Pollock, Ami Horowitz, Miranda Devine, David Marcus, Chris FarrellтАж It no longer matters which side of the aisle or neither. Only if the honest journalism exposes the truth. ItтАЩs just that heinous.
We're fighting for freedom, fairness, and sanity -- but the crooks among these guys are fighting for their lives. As they are exposed, and as their criminality becomes too difficult to fool the majority anymore with fig leaves, they will do ANYTHING to avoid an SBF-level fall from power and grace. Remember that, as this hybrid stealth war (that they unilaterally started against us years ago) really heats up -- and hedge accordingly.
"Trump is a criminal, an unfit ignoramus, a malignant lying narcissist"
Joni Ellsworth, you may think this means something about Trump supporters, but you're wrong. Trump won despite his character flaws (exquisitely exaggerated by the media) -- not because of them. And in late 2016 and early 2017, as I well recall, there was scattered in the press some miraculous soul-searching beginning, just a bit, here and there, to understand the real reasons most people voted for Trump. But then, of course, the TPTB got to work, nipping these revelations in the bud, in their place cultivating widespread, full-blown, monomaniacal TDS. Sadly, I see you've got a case of this; my sympathies, best wishes for your recovery.
Brad has pointed this shining example of what it means to cross TPTB, confirming my first comment above. But all you have in response, ironically, is mindless hate.
Yup, and I don't even care for the man. In particular, would absolutely love to hear you try to argue why Trump "didn't actually win." Please do educate me.
In 2020 he lost the Electoral College vote and the popular vote. There was no massive fraud. Numerous investigations and court challenges came up empty. A majority of voters did not vote for him. Biden received at least four million more votes. And I'm no Biden fan. And I know all politicians lie. But Trump is the worst liar and phony ever to be тАЬ electedтАЭ. Even in 2016, a majority of voters rejected him.
He lost the 2020 election by over seven million popular votes. Over fifty court challenges came up empty. There was no election fraud in the amount of votes that would have changed those results.
Yes, we should. But Constitutional Amerndments are a heavy lift, and the smaller states will still support the electoral college.
In 2016 (as opposed to 2020 - important distinction), he did win, under the anti-democratic rules we have. "Democratic" means the person with the most votes (or, ideally, a majority) gets the job. Giving it to someone who got a lot fewer votes is anti-democratic (regardless of party). And I say that even though I despise Hillary and would hate to see her elected. I voted for Jill Stein, so at least my hands are clean on that one.
Hillary lost for lots of different reasons, and one of them was because she didn't even bother visiting rust belt states like Wisconsin. You probably know full well that the intention of the electoral college is so that a few high population states don't entirely dictate election results. If the electoral college was repealed then Hillarys successors would never step foot in flyover country. And that would not be a good thing for the usa long term even if the candidate you like wins. Better would be to reform the opaque primary system so the elites don't have complete control over who we get to vote for.
Charlexs Newlin, you are wrong. The candidate with the most votes wins the presidential election in each state. The states-that-are-united (i.e., the USA) was never intended to decide elections via one big vote. Our system is not "anti-democratic." Please stop confusing people on this question.
My new year's resolution was to stop following "news reporting," because it just gives me heartburn. But I have to say, the news about "classified" stuff at the Biden UPenn "Think Tank" is so reflective of the "democracy" we live in right now. Corrupt to the core. And apparently its only reason for existing. Not for freedom. Not for fairness. Not inspiring or aspiring. Certainly not for, us.
So what's in the closet at UPenn. Over-classified docs that don't amount to a hill of beans, the discovery of which wasn't outed until after the mid-terms (for some reason)? Or, government docs that if made public would make the Biden Government Syndicate detract from the Scranton Joe persona? Or maybe a little trace evidence that they are in the bag for (fill in the blank) China, Ukraine, Soros, every NGO, the EU, BLM, and on and on.
This, is the story. There are NO rules that apply to Our Betters. And the coastal media are on board with the belief that they and their friends are Our Betters. Nothing they do really looks bad or is out of line. We have a serious problem in our country. To quote our eloquent Pres, "I'm not joking."
While I agree totally with you, why do you watch them?
These are the people in the Milgram Experiment that would have electrocuted their own loving mothers. They suffer from a disease of consciousness that may be termed a form of possession in the sense of DostoevskyтАЩs тАЬDemonsтАЭ (aka The Possessed).
Demons? Really? IsnтАЩt that over the top? Yes and no. Carnival show demons levitate and speak in deep strange voices through their victims. TheyтАЩre great for movies and folk tales. But the real demons are anthropomorphic expressions of disembodied but intelligent energies, they work silently and Invisibly eating like flies on shit at the edges of human consciousness, parasites inside the mind of the host, destroying everything before they move on to another host. Like addictions to meth or heroin or gambling. They devour their host and turn it into their puppet. Ecce Homo.
Yeah, it really isnтАЩt about clicks for money, because theyтАЩre clearly failing in that respect. ItтАЩs about propaganda for the centers of power. How exactly they get enlisted into this is not entirely clear, but the Twitter files give a little peak behind the curtain.
And we know that at least with respect to Covid, they were paid directly by Uncle Sam to serve as propagandists. IтАЩm not aware of a money trail that enlists MSM to unfailingly support the military industrial complex, but there is clearly some mechanism that exists to achieve that goal.
And I would love to see the тАЬexтАЭ-spooksтАЩ tax returns. Are they just so ideologically committed to the system that they remain loyal? Or are they still raking in tax dollars to serve as propagandists and ensure their co-workers in the newsroom do the same? Lots of questions about how the MSM sausage gets made. Clicks for dollars doesnтАЩt explain it at all.
Too many people confuse and conflate materialism with capitalism. That has the effect of hiding the deleterious effects of the former and creating unwarranted criticism of the later. Corporate media whores are all about the perk$.
What I want to know is Who funds todays MSM outlets, subsiding and influencing reporters and coverage sub rosa. There have to be substantial financial deals with the IC / DNC. They seem deputized as confidential human resources in service of The State. Something terrible has happened to independent thought within these organisms.
It was the 'modernization' of Smith-Mundt that basically opened the door for infiltration of the media. No doubt they're getting huge checks -- not to mention the 'covid' money and their recent attempt to literally fund the 'correct' journalists out in the open.
I saw an article in the Columbia Journalism Review some time back about how much money the Gates foundation was distributing to press organs and it was pretty mind-boggling.
Here is that CJR story. Incredible how much money the corporatists are spending in the name of improving journalism. It is destroying the institution it professes to rescue.
I donтАЩt ever watch CNN or MSNBC and I had no idea of the extent to which the intel agencies had infiltrated them (and others, IтАЩm sure). This is insidious and just plain wrong.
How can CNN even be considered a тАЬnewsтАЭ organization. We need to rethink the concept of a free press & journalism. In some ways this is worse than Pravda.
We need to call a spade a spade (I know) - CNN is a partisan propaganda organization, and they donтАЩt belong in press conferences.
Your comment made me think of that CS Lewis quote about тАЬa tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victimsтАЭ is the most oppressive. IтАЩm a margarita or two too deep to type it outтАж but worth looking up if youтАЩre unfamiliar.
The best remedy is to not watch them at all, and simply get you news analysis from Substack, and you daily fix from scanning the tabloidy headlines at Citizen Free Press.
It makes me physically ill to watch these clowns pretend to do journalism. They have to attack you, Matt, because otherwise what does that say about them? That they were complicit in all of it, that they work for the administrative state. They should hang their heads in shame. I would call them whores but that's an insult to whores.
Yes! Exactly! They won't cover it because they're in on it! And while my favorite term is 'presstitute', while doing a little research into the word I came across 'Whorespondent', which is also top-notch.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/its-no-surprise-medias-ignoring-the
It really is a damning indictment of the mainstream media that they seek to impose professional consequences on journalists who donтАЩt agree with or parrot every liberal piety. Taibbi has already been right-coded for straying from the left-wing consensus, and his lack of deference to his "betters" employed at establishment lie merchants puts him at odds with the anti-majoritarian party line that progressive journalists, who endorse a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that attenuate our norms of open debate and intellectual diversity in favor of ideological conformity, have fervently policed since TrumpтАЩs election.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/matt-taibbi-and-bari-weiss-are-conservative
And the 'parrots' know that as soon as they deviate on ONE SINGLE THING, they will be excommunicated from the tribe -- a real problem if your identity is wrapped up in your political positions.
Thus you have people arguing to disarm Americans while arming Ukraine to protect freedom, or any other of non-sensical positions that only exist because of peer pressure.
It may not go back far enough but "follow the money" started when Walter Duranty excused totalitarianism with his "you can't make an omellete without breaking eggs" while he watched Stalin crush the Ukraine. The "parrots of today" are no different.
Yet we never seem to get that omellete, do we?
One of the things I recently learned about the Ukraine famine was that starving people were gathering at train stations to beg for food. The government's response was to mandate the window coverings be used when going through these areas -- out of sight, out of mind!
I thought of that when I read this:
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-police-scanner-encrypted-radio-news/12571741/
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is defending the city's decision to start the process of encrypting police radio transmissions, a move that will block the public from listening to those transmissions in real time.
A coalition of media organizations, including ABC7, is asking the mayor to reconsider the decision. Among the reasons is the impact it will have on the release of real-time information to keep the public safe during an emergency.
On the flip-side, Stalin did make the "omellete" quite a bit bigger too - by adding nice chunks from Poland, Romania, Hungary / Slovakia. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/13/cc/0913cc23fdef6eec59b37524d8130766.jpg
That was his Western Omelet.
LOL LOL LOL
Stalin didnтАЩt crush Ukraine . Ukraine aligned with Hitler. Two faces of evil with American appeasement
Holodomor=1932
Operation Barbarossa=1941
Ukraine never had a thing to do with Hitler prior to the invasion-and still got treated as Untermenschen.
Just as today, the untermenschen were in Eastern Ukraine (Russian speakers) in WWII. The NAZI Collaborators were in Galicia and Western Ukraine, killing Poles and Jews and volunteering to be NAZI concentration camp guards (jobs to which few Germans aspired).
Some things never change. UkroNAZI-enabling US has taken Hitler's mantle. "American Democracy". Like Yemeni genocide.
michael888 тАФ YouтАЩre a little confused. ALL Slavs were untermenschen to the Nazis. It was a тАЬracialтАЭ classification, not a political one.
Which is not to say that some Soviet POWs, like John Demjanjuk, who was falsely accused of being Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, didnтАЩt choose to serve the Nazis rather than starve to death. (The real Ivan turned out to be what the Nazis called volksdeutsch, a German who happened to be born outside of Germany.)
The highest rate of Nazi collaboration among conquered populations was in the Baltics, where the wounds of the recent Soviet invasion were still very raw. And, as Arkady Vaksberg tells us in Stalin Against the Jews, the genocidal Soviet dictator liked to order Jewish underlings to carry out his worst atrocities тАФ in case he might need scapegoats.
In John TolandтАЩs Hitler, we learn that Jewish villages welcomed the advancing Germans as liberators. After all, what did they know? For several years, during the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Soviet government had been praising the Nazis as тАЬfraternal socialist alliesтАЭ.
Stalin intentionally starved to death about 4 million Ukrainians. I don't know if that's your definition of "crush," but it's a pretty big deal, don't you think?
Right. And the holdomor was bad weather and locusts. Very ignorant comment and fairly disgusting, especially if you're Ukrainian.
The soviet attack on ukraine started long before Hitler became chancellor in 1933 so i have no idea what you are talking about
Duranty was despicable. Perfect for the current regime.
Well his relative Jimmy sang "Ya gotta start off each day with a song, even when tings go wrong......" People in the Ukraine didn't take this advice. Maybe someone should crack an egg over Walter's head. (Kidding, I'm a non violent person.) And I know he's not related to the great Jimmy Durante. Kidding again.
The unfortunate thing is that many ordinary people, if not most, would agree with their assessment of Matt, and I've already come across it. They are aligned with MSNBC, or CNN. Someone claimed Musk is all in it for the money, and Taibbi jumped on his money bandwagon. I wonder if he was a troll because he was abusive in terms of his responses to my posts, and almost demanded I agree. Authoritarian SOB. Gave it right back to him. I always find that people who attack independent journalists which provide a truthful perspective on things are attacked, and hated by those who are paid to lie since money owns their soul. Screw them.
I'm so proud to read these comments, and know there are people out there smart enough to see all of this for what it is... But, my God, for journalists to *go after another journalist for reporting the truth*. It's truly Orwellian.
Orwellian yes, but now common place. They're paid to be lying "patriots." and these lying "patriots" ultimately sell out the people they pretend to inform and claim they want to protect.
State Media is now run by the Federal Government since the abolition of US law against domestic propaganda-- the "modernization" of the Smith Mundt Act, giving the State Department (and thus the CIA and other Intelligence Agencies) control of the Official Narratives. As Twitter Leaks showed, soon all of social media will also be controlled by the Federal Government; they cannot have political opponents challenging or interfering with Official Policies. How much of this is due to "lying patriots" and self delusion is arguable. More likely it is careerism and wanting to be on the winning side. The ends justify the means, and might makes right.
People want to be entertained, so most so called news shows are just that, entertainment. They create drama. laughter, disgust. They attack the opponent and illicit a laugh or a nod, or a groan of disgust and most people are fine with that. Very few have the attention span politics demands, or the background to provide them with some sense of perspective. For many it is no more then a religion, so people just pick out their gurus, and have faith they are being told the truth. If the Federal government takes over the media totally most people won't notice, or care.
The bigger problem we all face is that *neither political party* wants what you just described (federal government controlling media) to change. It benefits both of them in different ways, at different times. Ultimately, power hungry politicians like good ole' Mitch McConnell see it as nothing more than a tool to help achieve their ends. *THAT* is the problem. I keep telling people the DNC and the RNC are both a massive problem because they are the core of each political party, and the way they set their agendas has little to do with what the American people want, and far more about how to get and retain power and control.
The great thing about the Twitter files is we are now learning the mechanism behind *how* the federal government achieves this. The U.S. has a massive tech industry dominated by capitalists, but run by far left people whose culture is set predominantely in the Bay Area. All private industries avoid regulation like the plague. The social media space is no different. I can visualize the regulatory threats made to the people on these boards (remember all the congressional hearings for Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and the like, and how they all but evaporated once Biden got into office?) and the Vijaya Gaddes and Yoel Roths of Silicon Valley freaking the fuck out, wondering how they were going to thread the needle... ultimately, we now know how the story ended, and how they tried, and until Musk dropped 40 billion on Twitter, succeeded!
That's what blows my mind about people's ability to ignore the implications of this... The number of "bodies" Musk has already and is continuing to uncover from *one* social media company. How can a person *not* be curious about what's happening at every other social media company???
In any case, the basic truths we can glean from these realities are these: 1. The tech industry does not want to be regulated. 2. Most people, even ones who publicly praise Democratic ideals, will bow to authority when it means their job/reputation/livlihood is on the line, (even if doing so means gaslighting an entire country). 3. We can safely assume our "reality" is regularly shaped by arbitrary whims of people who either were or are still in the federal government, and every citizien should resist it, and strive to think for themselves.
Wow, thanks for the reference- https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736 Smith Mundt Act
I'm ambivalent. It is good to see others voicing reasonable and intelligent, genuine pushback on this garbage. But distraught that its so entrenched that pushback is necessary. That the status quo has diminished to the point of disenfranchisement. Worrisome.
Sinclair Broadcasting attempted to create an unbiased news network without embellishing or editing footage. The reporters were given free reign to ask questions while in the field but not interjecting ideological spill or slant. The broadcast news would remain neutral. Pundits, guests and audience ( on shows that had an open forum)could interact without being badgered or interrupted . Every faction of the American spectrum was allowed to express their thoughts, ask questions and interact respectfully but without hostility.
They began an ad campaign that was well received. So many Americans were sick of the left/right presentations on seperate channels with edited, truncated film clips, based solely on bashing the other side, pushing a narrative that shut out any dissenting voice or platform that veered from singular bias and redundancy.
I was thrilled. CouldnтАЩt wait. Anticipated that long overdue catharsis that comes with conversation versus angry shoutdowns and divide.
Sinclair was advertising the MSM networks and Fox. CanтАЩt recall whether NewsMax was available. OAN liked the concept and hoped to air the shows .
However, when CNN, MSNBC and Fox realized the concept was gaining steam, they were able to somehow shut it down before it launched. Proving that this divide was purposely orchestrated to push viewers to one side or the other by maintaining an ever widening gap to keep the bipolar duplicitous establishment status quo .you had either chocolate or vanilla, period. Fuck the plebes who craved strawberry. That brisk, healthy springtime The breath of fresh air that makes us feel happy and free.
The Kleptocorporate multinational globalist mockingbird NWO monopoly won that round and several more. But the walls started to crack and the censorship, banning , lockdowns, masking, surveillance, street violence and alienation is backfiring. Finally! Because the brave people who were becoming increasingly skeptical and began questioning our own judgement .. How did we get here? This is no longer just politics as usual. Something far darker and far more deviant was becoming too big and too threatening way too fast.And Substack, Rumble, Rogan became this weird Underground Railroad where for the first time, we ventured outside of our mental confines and began to forge a new alliance and still be ourselves, but better.
Ergo , the duopolous , duplicitous, soulless overlords have become scared and sloppy and more hateful, aggressive, divisive and dangerous. Now itтАЩs our turn. тАЬ We The PeopleтАЭ against THEM! The whole rotten, toxic, corrupt evil megalomaniacal demonic fascist elite cult of psychopaths. The Cult of Death and Hatred for all Things Living. The DAVOS/Bilderberg/UN/NATO/EU/US /NGO Kleptocorporate multinational Transhumanist Technocracy. Mass murdering Malthusisian Mengelian Maoist Machiavellian Fourth and Final Reich.
Gail you really write so well! It doesn't surprise me that the network didn't come to fruition and I'm not even sure you needed the other networks to help shut it down. A non biased news forum isn't a money making business, but cultivating people's biases is. Years ago the news cycle wasn't 24/7, a source of non-stop entertainment, and there was a genuine sense of responsibility to convey the truth. It was their job. No more. Our government encourages division as well, divide and conquer, as they say. The democrats certainly used Trump to divide a country proclaiming themselves to be on the right side of things. I gave up Gail, and you just have to wade through the crap to get at the truth., and most will make that a difficult chore. Substack is indeed a refuge from all of that.
The federal government outsourced virtually everything else it does, so why not surveillance and propaganda?!?!
Absolutely hideous. The US/NATO war with Russia to cover up the Russia Hoax and the 2014 False Flag used to cover up the Ukraine proxy corruptitude and selling our uranium to Russia and the backdoor deal allowing Russia arms sales to Iran in exchange for the JCPOA. Trump/Flynn was the greatest threat to the Deep State global mafia. Ditto Tulsi, who Bannon was eyeing for a top ranking appt to the Trump admin.Putin would have decoupled from Iran if a deal was reached to ensure Russian sovereignty.
The first Trump impeachment was about stepping on the Master Plan (of which VP Biden was Viceroy in Ukraine). The corruption was blatant, and Ukraine was a huge honey pot for the Establishment to launder money, and provoke Russia into WAR (and US war profiteering; wonder how much that happens in Russia?)
When you have so much of the State Department and their contractors from East European backgrounds re-fighting WWII against Russia (on NAZI Germany's side of course), you have to wonder who is running our country and for what purpose?
TheyтАЩve done so time and again. Sharyl Attkisson, James Rosen, Lara Logan, OтАЩKeefe, Assange, Andy Ngo, Ian Miles Cheong, Jon Solomon, Posobiec, Kim Iversen, Larry Klayman, Sara Carter, Richard Pollock, Ami Horowitz, Miranda Devine, David Marcus, Chris FarrellтАж It no longer matters which side of the aisle or neither. Only if the honest journalism exposes the truth. ItтАЩs just that heinous.
Or maybe they just think he's a dick. Who knows? Don't overthink things, Brad.
The irony is that the is nothing "liberal" about these people.
Oh, man, "whorespondent" is my new favorite word! Thanks.
Mine too!
"Presstitute" and "Whorespondent" are both very clever!!!
I like the Sorros, Schwab, Gates "philanthropath" label too. Works a generation or two ago too...Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Mellon...
I'm going to have to go with "Narrative Nazi".
I call them тАЬReality VacuumsтАЭ. Their efforts to suck up reality and spit out their own version reveals they are truly truly evil.
But we already have Asshole. Who needs anything better.
As in: "And then there's this asshole..."
I wouldn't be insulting honest sex workers by comparing them to this dreck.
Where does one find one of those?
Not at MSNBC nor CNN.
Another good one I've heard is 'Urinalist.'
LOL awesome!
I don't know Commander. Isn't that comparison just a little unfair to the working girls of this country?
LOL I do often make a note of that, but in this case Sasha already had it handled. ЁЯШВ
Can we get cuntporter in the mix?
Wonderfully said! I'm adopting both terms next chance I get.
We're fighting for freedom, fairness, and sanity -- but the crooks among these guys are fighting for their lives. As they are exposed, and as their criminality becomes too difficult to fool the majority anymore with fig leaves, they will do ANYTHING to avoid an SBF-level fall from power and grace. Remember that, as this hybrid stealth war (that they unilaterally started against us years ago) really heats up -- and hedge accordingly.
Yes! We saw how the elites reacted to a Trump win and a populist challenge to their power. Disgusting.
Except that Trump is a criminal, an unfit ignoramus, a malignant lying narcissist, and he didn't actually win.
"Trump is a criminal, an unfit ignoramus, a malignant lying narcissist"
Joni Ellsworth, you may think this means something about Trump supporters, but you're wrong. Trump won despite his character flaws (exquisitely exaggerated by the media) -- not because of them. And in late 2016 and early 2017, as I well recall, there was scattered in the press some miraculous soul-searching beginning, just a bit, here and there, to understand the real reasons most people voted for Trump. But then, of course, the TPTB got to work, nipping these revelations in the bud, in their place cultivating widespread, full-blown, monomaniacal TDS. Sadly, I see you've got a case of this; my sympathies, best wishes for your recovery.
Brad has pointed this shining example of what it means to cross TPTB, confirming my first comment above. But all you have in response, ironically, is mindless hate.
You're a brainwashed moron.
So what I said about Trump is untrue?
Yup, and I don't even care for the man. In particular, would absolutely love to hear you try to argue why Trump "didn't actually win." Please do educate me.
She is an Election Denier.
A threat to democracy.
In 2020 he lost the Electoral College vote and the popular vote. There was no massive fraud. Numerous investigations and court challenges came up empty. A majority of voters did not vote for him. Biden received at least four million more votes. And I'm no Biden fan. And I know all politicians lie. But Trump is the worst liar and phony ever to be тАЬ electedтАЭ. Even in 2016, a majority of voters rejected him.
>> Except that Trump is a criminal, an unfit ignoramus, a malignant lying narcissist
You could say the same thing about virtually every politician in DC. And you have probably voted many times for some of them.
>> he didn't actually win
He did win. It's time to move on.
He lost the 2020 election by over seven million popular votes. Over fifty court challenges came up empty. There was no election fraud in the amount of votes that would have changed those results.
He won the election. We have an electoral college. Deal with it.
Yes, we should. But Constitutional Amerndments are a heavy lift, and the smaller states will still support the electoral college.
In 2016 (as opposed to 2020 - important distinction), he did win, under the anti-democratic rules we have. "Democratic" means the person with the most votes (or, ideally, a majority) gets the job. Giving it to someone who got a lot fewer votes is anti-democratic (regardless of party). And I say that even though I despise Hillary and would hate to see her elected. I voted for Jill Stein, so at least my hands are clean on that one.
Hillary lost for lots of different reasons, and one of them was because she didn't even bother visiting rust belt states like Wisconsin. You probably know full well that the intention of the electoral college is so that a few high population states don't entirely dictate election results. If the electoral college was repealed then Hillarys successors would never step foot in flyover country. And that would not be a good thing for the usa long term even if the candidate you like wins. Better would be to reform the opaque primary system so the elites don't have complete control over who we get to vote for.
Charlexs Newlin, you are wrong. The candidate with the most votes wins the presidential election in each state. The states-that-are-united (i.e., the USA) was never intended to decide elections via one big vote. Our system is not "anti-democratic." Please stop confusing people on this question.
Whoa. Cool. You mean Truth (capital "T") wins out. Like it.
Right on.
My new year's resolution was to stop following "news reporting," because it just gives me heartburn. But I have to say, the news about "classified" stuff at the Biden UPenn "Think Tank" is so reflective of the "democracy" we live in right now. Corrupt to the core. And apparently its only reason for existing. Not for freedom. Not for fairness. Not inspiring or aspiring. Certainly not for, us.
So what's in the closet at UPenn. Over-classified docs that don't amount to a hill of beans, the discovery of which wasn't outed until after the mid-terms (for some reason)? Or, government docs that if made public would make the Biden Government Syndicate detract from the Scranton Joe persona? Or maybe a little trace evidence that they are in the bag for (fill in the blank) China, Ukraine, Soros, every NGO, the EU, BLM, and on and on.
This, is the story. There are NO rules that apply to Our Betters. And the coastal media are on board with the belief that they and their friends are Our Betters. Nothing they do really looks bad or is out of line. We have a serious problem in our country. To quote our eloquent Pres, "I'm not joking."
While I agree totally with you, why do you watch them?
These are the people in the Milgram Experiment that would have electrocuted their own loving mothers. They suffer from a disease of consciousness that may be termed a form of possession in the sense of DostoevskyтАЩs тАЬDemonsтАЭ (aka The Possessed).
Demons? Really? IsnтАЩt that over the top? Yes and no. Carnival show demons levitate and speak in deep strange voices through their victims. TheyтАЩre great for movies and folk tales. But the real demons are anthropomorphic expressions of disembodied but intelligent energies, they work silently and Invisibly eating like flies on shit at the edges of human consciousness, parasites inside the mind of the host, destroying everything before they move on to another host. Like addictions to meth or heroin or gambling. They devour their host and turn it into their puppet. Ecce Homo.
Oh I don't watch them.
Nope do not watch any of the alphabet idiots
Why watch them?
The Godfather said it best: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
And while we're at it, Matt, you need to scream that they're committing "VIOLENCE!"
I think psychopaths and sociopaths now rule the US (maybe they always have?)
No need for external influences like demons or Russians.
Loved: "These are the people in the Milgram Experiment that would have electrocuted their own loving mothers."
But, supernaturally, they would have felt bad about it. Right?
Well if you do not watch them you will be living in a different reality than 90 percent of everyone else and that is lonely.
Desmet's 10%-ers have responsibilities. Let's live up to them.
They aren't doing journalism. They are doing capitalism: clicks = bucks.
They are doing propaganda. Which they consider to be their job.
Exactly. They aren't in the news business. They are in the politics business. They have been prepping for this since Government 101 at Hahvahd.
Yeah, it really isnтАЩt about clicks for money, because theyтАЩre clearly failing in that respect. ItтАЩs about propaganda for the centers of power. How exactly they get enlisted into this is not entirely clear, but the Twitter files give a little peak behind the curtain.
And we know that at least with respect to Covid, they were paid directly by Uncle Sam to serve as propagandists. IтАЩm not aware of a money trail that enlists MSM to unfailingly support the military industrial complex, but there is clearly some mechanism that exists to achieve that goal.
And I would love to see the тАЬexтАЭ-spooksтАЩ tax returns. Are they just so ideologically committed to the system that they remain loyal? Or are they still raking in tax dollars to serve as propagandists and ensure their co-workers in the newsroom do the same? Lots of questions about how the MSM sausage gets made. Clicks for dollars doesnтАЩt explain it at all.
Yes. I'm sure that excessive devotion to capitalism is the problem at MSNBC.
Too many people confuse and conflate materialism with capitalism. That has the effect of hiding the deleterious effects of the former and creating unwarranted criticism of the later. Corporate media whores are all about the perk$.
The moment that Trump started taking away their local tax deductions from their federal taxes, was the moment they started to freak the fuck out.
Wait 'til a real populist IRS starts counting corporate limousine rides and complimentary "staff" lunches as taxable income...
And not succeeding very well judging by their audience losses.
What I want to know is Who funds todays MSM outlets, subsiding and influencing reporters and coverage sub rosa. There have to be substantial financial deals with the IC / DNC. They seem deputized as confidential human resources in service of The State. Something terrible has happened to independent thought within these organisms.
It was the 'modernization' of Smith-Mundt that basically opened the door for infiltration of the media. No doubt they're getting huge checks -- not to mention the 'covid' money and their recent attempt to literally fund the 'correct' journalists out in the open.
I saw an article in the Columbia Journalism Review some time back about how much money the Gates foundation was distributing to press organs and it was pretty mind-boggling.
I vaguely remember NPR got 2 million.
Here is that CJR story. Incredible how much money the corporatists are spending in the name of improving journalism. It is destroying the institution it professes to rescue.
https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
Thanks for this. Boy was I off. NPR received 17.5 million from GatesтАЩ coffers since 2000.
Spooky
American Pravda.
I donтАЩt ever watch CNN or MSNBC and I had no idea of the extent to which the intel agencies had infiltrated them (and others, IтАЩm sure). This is insidious and just plain wrong.
How can CNN even be considered a тАЬnewsтАЭ organization. We need to rethink the concept of a free press & journalism. In some ways this is worse than Pravda.
We need to call a spade a spade (I know) - CNN is a partisan propaganda organization, and they donтАЩt belong in press conferences.
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At least whores donтАЩt pretend to be beacons of virtue. Which is a hundred times more virtuous than the monsters claiming heroism and patriotism.
Your comment made me think of that CS Lewis quote about тАЬa tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victimsтАЭ is the most oppressive. IтАЩm a margarita or two too deep to type it outтАж but worth looking up if youтАЩre unfamiliar.
Right on, Sasha. At least whores don't lie about who they are and what they do.
The good expensive ones do. At least to the IRS.
What Sasha said. тмЖя╕П
тАЬIt makes me physically ill to watch these clowns ...тАЭ
Now you sound like a triggered left wing college student at the prospect of a conservative on campus!
Good point!
The best remedy is to not watch them at all, and simply get you news analysis from Substack, and you daily fix from scanning the tabloidy headlines at Citizen Free Press.
You're lying through your teeth!
NOBODY watches them except clips kids like Matt brings us! Admit it! LOL
I can't watch them. Even when I hear them on someone else's show I fast-forward. It makes me too mad.
damn, I missed the circle jerk