Posted on 09/13/2024 10:12:49 PM PDT by Red Badger
Truth often sounds like fiction, especially when it does not fit the listener’s model of the world and what they believe to be in the realm of possibility. If you lived in Germany in 1933, you might hear news the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was arresting political opponents and putting them in a newly built prison. Unless you knew those people personally, you might dismiss the news as a conspiracy theory designed to hurt Hitler. Later, in November of 1938, when you heard the news of Jews being rounded up and sent to the same prison, you might dismiss it as well. So the smoke screen worked.
Perhaps you heard Donald Trump report illegal immigrants are eating cats and animals in Springfield, Ohio. You may have scoffed at him as insane for bringing you that news, news a credible news agency should be covering. But, instead of investigating, the debate moderator from the ABC channel suggested to a national audience that Trump made it up. And Kamala Harris flashed a horrified, “you sad, insane old man” look in Trump’s direction. Just what the DNC ordered, but it’s far from the truth. Trump was right and he fell into the trap of sounding insane by reporting what is strange behavior, unless you are familiar with Haiti and voodoo. Facts are stranger than fiction. Haitians practicing voodoo actually drink the blood from the cats while they are alive until the cat dies from blood loss as part of a common Voodoo practice.
Now I sound insane.
Conspiracy identifiers’ claims sound so outlandish that they make them sound insane, and so the actual conspirators are given cover to continue their conspiracy. The conspirators are often the first to paint the person sounding an alarm as insane. Conspirators count on and tend to fuel disbelief as a smoke screen for their actions. Our cooperative mainstream media, who abandoned their role of investigating claims to determine truth, has placed our country in grave danger. They actively participate in silencing and mocking any party who steps in to fill their investigative role or alter the accepted narrative. When there is an absence of an inquisitive press to challenge authority and the official narrative, societies soon collapse or are overthrown by forces intent on seizing power.
In 2020, anyone criticizing Anthony Fauci’s mask mandate was called a conspiracy theorist. The medical paper claiming masks are effective against viruses was quickly debunked by peers in the medical field. The 3M N95 masks, so called because it filters up to 95% of the particles 300 nanometers in size or larger, could not stop the Covid virus that is three times smaller than 300 nanometers. The N95 is also usually worn with eye protection to protect the mucus membranes of the eyes from exposure. Fauci never suggested protecting the eyes. The blue masks worn by everyone are not at all effective and on their box clearly warns “not to be used for medical purposes”. But all these facts opposed Fauci’s mandate that the public follow his orders, and mentioning any of them got you labeled a radical conspiracy theorist by the mainstream press and banned from social media.
The Lancet retracted the article Fauci used as “fact” to remove Hydroxychloroquine from use on Covid-19. The press spread disinformation about Ivermectin, boiling this Noble Prize-winning drug down to a horse de-wormer. Yes, there is an equine version for that purpose, but like many drugs, Ivermectin does many things. Both drugs were effective against the virus, but they stood in the way of the FDA rules for Emergency Use Authorization of the new vaccines. Their presence as effective treatments meant Anthony Fauci couldn’t get Emergency Use Authorization to push an experimental “vaccine” to which he owns patient rights. With those two drugs out of the way, Fauci could proceed with his vaccine sales. The mainstream media played along with Fauci, ignored science, called anyone opposing Fauci’s vaccines and masking mandates conspiracy theorists who are anti-science, and collected millions in ad revenue from Pfizer. Meanwhile, Fauci didn’t treat one Covid patient, and attacked those leading the life-saving efforts and developing effective Covid treatment protocols. (Never forget the loved ones in nursing homes and hospitals unable to even touch their loved ones and dying alone because of Fauci’s lockdowns and arbitrary 6-foot rule.)
What has existed and is growing in strength is a manipulative mainstream media dedicated to serving its corporate and DNC interests. Gone is an objective, investigative mainstream media. In the case of Covid, mainstream media’s lack of investigation and questioning of the official narrative likely cost hundreds of thousands of lives, destroyed businesses, and created financial and emotional hardship for most of America.
In the case of the 2024 election, allowing mainstream media to misrepresent Trump and throw this Presidential election may cost millions of lives and our country. Trump’s report of illegal immigrant atrocities was accurate, but it counters Harris’s claims that all is well with her border policy that brought them here and her narrative that Americans are more dangerous than immigrants. Both stories ABC helped propagate. At this point, Americans are more dangerous – to Harris’s political pursuits – because they will likely oust her from office based on her performance as Vice President and Border Czar. Illegal immigrants are safer to her because they can stack the vote in her favor with illegal votes. But to suggest that this is her plan, despite strong evidence of DNC maneuvers to enable the cheat, makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, doesn’t it?
The First Amendment recognizes our God-given right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press because the Founders understood the role of free communication in holding elected officials accountable. To its credit, the alternative media shines a light on issues affecting our freedom and allows Americans to engage in a national dialogue when the mainstream media seems intent on suppressing that dialogue. Americans of both parties should demand accountability and action from the mainstream media and an end to the censorship of alternative media and the dissenting American public.
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Yes, but the Founders didn't realize the importance of having fact-checkers review all speech, including free speech.
The founders and our current nation have nothing in common with
The founders would not like any of us nor understand us.
We have nothing in common with them on any level.
Cats & Covid & the mainstream media cheerleaders....and the losers - me & you.
Peek under the #EneMedia’s covers and you find our CIA and most everyone
else’s intelligence agencies, and their co-opted lackeys, tirelessly working
towards their goal of making certain we flounder and fuss under endless lies,
insults and misdirections.
It’s the current state of political science, and now they have AI to assist on the net.
I pray we manage to overwhelm the coming steal. (Likely our last chance.)
(Otherwise, Epstein’s clients will get to continue to be used to run this #&*%-Show.)
~Easy
Many don’t.
Some still have things in common with them.
You may feel you are correct, but your feelings are not correct to lump every single person in the country today into the nothing in common camp.
To write an article like this without sources and references is an exercise in useless self-aggrandizement.
Democrats have been using the term “conspiracy theory” for a while to describe anything they don’t like that someone says about them, and want the truth of it to be repressed. It works only until the degree where it becomes publicly undeniable.
It’s built into his character: P-DJT surely has the “receipts” to show he was right all along.
We’ve seen the dead Canada Goose being carried along a town sidewalk—a protected bird species—except to the “Undocumented”.
I look to the live witness of the dead cat’s owner. Maybe pictures of the proposed meal or Voodoo sacrifice?
As a Miamian, I can attest to Haitian/Santeria Voodoo on the sidewalks where I worked before retirement.
Yes, they did... but you have to put on your secret Benjamin Franklin tri-color decoder glasses to see it.
Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
-PJ
“Now I sound insane”
Not really, Vudun (Voodoo) is carnel, i.e. fleshy in practice.
“The meaning of VOODOO is a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti”- Merriam-Webster
Someone should write an article on this topic.
When you speak of the newest trends and hottest news before the rest of the crowd, they sometimes think you are crazy...because the news often sounds unreal.
Yes. I'm reminded of that every day.
I gave up by the end of the first paragraph... I rarely read anything from american thinker anymore for the same reason. Its like 2 nerds trying to impress each other with how many different verbs and adjectives they can possibly fit into each sentence...
Aaaand...another fine rant goes out with a whimper. The dreaded "should." The finger pointing at the media.
Not that it would have stung less if it had been, "Americans should demand accountability and action from the government." That would be equivalent to "Americans should demand accountability and action from the protection racket they're funding."
But to blame the media, which is simply reflective of American minds, stultified and indoctrinated in government schools you meekly paid for -- quit fretting, the First Amendment will soon be eradicated anyway, and after that, no one will hear you blame the government.
Protection rackets don't care what you think or if you think. "Just hand it over and nobody gets hurt" -- that's the new "live free or die."
Gaslighting with group conformity and peer pressure.
It’s how communist indoctrination works.
It’s also how cults control their members.
Live near Springfield, learned a new term”Roof Ranbits”. (The dog could have been a goat, dressed they look alike)
That’s why I reread Thomas Kuhns’ 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.”
By looking at facts and thinking logically, we can be on the front edge of a paradigm shift and not get caught holding onto our old knowledge as an ego possession, defending it to our death.
Trump and Musk both share in this futuristic perspective.
Just remember we were assured that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation. By unnamed “security experts”.
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