To: Bill of Rights FIRST
Even americanthinker.com is coopted by one or more at least somewhat (or more) unfortunately.
2 posted on
05/22/2021 3:03:13 PM PDT by
Bill of Rights FIRST
(If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
Below are sites supposedly allowing free speech and conservative thought, listed in order by traffic rank, as reported recently by Amazon-owned Alexa.
3 posted on
05/22/2021 3:04:47 PM PDT by
UnwashedPeasant
(Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
They all wish and strive to be known as ‘conservative’, but they also wish to survive.
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
co-opt verb
\ kō-ˈäpt \
co-opted; co-opting; co-opts
Definition of co-opt
transitive verb
1a: to choose or elect as a member
members co-opted to the committee
b: to appoint as a colleague or assistant
2a: to take into a group (such as a faction, movement, or culture) : ABSORB, ASSIMILATE
The students are co-opted by a system they serve even in their struggle against it.
— A. C. Danto
b: TAKE OVER, APPROPRIATE
a style co-opted by advertisers
Which definition do you mean?
5 posted on
05/22/2021 3:06:35 PM PDT by
Fungi
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
See my “Hit and Run” ping list. Pretty much every “Hit and Run” poster has a blog that is completely a cut and past job from other bloggers who are, likely, cut and pasted from other sources.
The “Hit and Run” spammers like to post their cut and paste threads as clickbait (a sentence or two) as if they are original sources and then run off until the next spam opportunity.
6 posted on
05/22/2021 3:06:59 PM PDT by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
All News and especially FOX are nothing but simple Left Wing Propaganda now.
7 posted on
05/22/2021 3:07:57 PM PDT by
R0CK3T
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8 posted on
05/22/2021 3:09:32 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
Doesn’t matter much as they accomplish nothing.
9 posted on
05/22/2021 3:09:56 PM PDT by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
Welcome to Free Republic. Nope, of course this place isn’t infiltrated.
10 posted on
05/22/2021 3:10:52 PM PDT by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan previously held a fundraising event for Liz Cheney (March 2021). Former House Speaker John Boehner previously held a fundraising event for Ohio Rep Anthony Gonzalez (March 2021)…. And now Paul Ryan announces he will host a fundraising event for Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger.
WASHINGTON DC – Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is set to headline a fundraiser on Monday for Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), an ardent critic of former President Trump and one of 10 House Republicans who voted in January to impeach the former president. (more)
What do Liz Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez and Adam Kinzinger have in common?
If you notice they are all members of the shameful 35 HOUSE DeceptiCons, you are correct.
The issue with Kinzinger should be, essentially, moot. Illinois is losing one congressional district due to the 2020 census figures and a drop in population. The Democrats control Illinois and will more than likely re-district the state to get rid of Kinzinger’s (republican) district. So Paul Ryan fundraising for Kinzinger is more a matter of financial positioning for something else as opposed to retaining his seat in the 2022 election. In essence, Kinzinger is toast.
Previously I thought Kinzinger was likely to become a CNN contributor (although it could be Fox News), as an interim position before he goes back to DC and begins K-Street lobbying, likely on behalf of some defense contractors. However, it could also be Fox News, which would align with Ryan’s support (Ryan is a Fox News board member).
For those who have followed national politics for a while these networks and alignments are clear and transparent. However, if you are new to the understanding you will see more connective tissue if you just keep the 35 members above in mind when you read political stories. A lot more will come out before the 2022 mid-term election, and we need to continually reference the background to get an understanding.
It doesn’t do any good to replace DeceptiCons without replacing or nullifying DeceptiCon leadership. I plan to write about this more very soon, but keep in mind when we flipped 67 House seats in the 2010 mid-term election and the response from the DC system to that outcome. In 2011 Obama and Holder initiated the IRS targeting as a direct result… and the DeceptiCon leadership (Boehner, Ryan, Cantor, McCarthy, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Blunt, Barrasso, etc. ) supported it.
The BIG UGLY purge needs to be a purge of DeceptiCons writ large, and a complete purge (or nullification) of the DeceptiCon leadership groups. It is going to take a lot of education of MAGA voters to help them to see who the DeceptiCons really are. For an example just look at how many of them support Nikki Haley.
DeceptiCons are by their nature Deceptive Conservatives…. AND they have a lot of conservative media support, A LOT.
It is important for MAGA voters to get deep in the weeds and understand the networks, the alignments, and how those cliques connect to specific interests in conservative media. Unfortunately, when you do that level of network connection and sunlight YOU become an enemy of the GOP system.
We ain’t called The Last Refuge by accident.
The DeceptiCon Paytriots hate us as much, if not more, than they hate Democrats.
13 posted on
05/22/2021 3:24:22 PM PDT by
Bratch
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16 posted on
05/22/2021 3:43:22 PM PDT by
A Cyrenian
(MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
Lots are just “garbage for clicks” sites.
Very disheartening.
Had hoped they’d have found a new profit method by now.
21 posted on
05/22/2021 3:58:58 PM PDT by
mrsmith
(US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
Easy answer: How many have done and/or are doing stories on Ranked Choice Voting enabled voting machines?
24 posted on
05/22/2021 4:16:41 PM PDT by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
FR is the Gold Standard - other sites exist solely to augment the news and discussions here. :)
34 posted on
05/22/2021 4:51:28 PM PDT by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
They're all fedposts, honeypots, grifters, or useless amateurs.
Run for the hills!
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
OANN is the best of the TV networks (I believe all the others lean leftward).
Freerepublic is the best of the internet news 'gatherers'.
Breitbart is pretty good - and consistent.
40 posted on
05/22/2021 5:11:49 PM PDT by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: Bill of Rights FIRST
OK. Stealth COOPTERS are very hard to detect.
50 posted on
05/22/2021 6:11:45 PM PDT by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
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