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America, the Single-Opinion Cult
Racket News ^ | 4/27/23 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 04/29/2023 3:19:48 PM PDT by CFW

Not long ago I was writing in defense of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. When she first entered Congress as an inner-city twenty something who’d knocked off longtime insider Joe Crowley with a Sandersian policy profile, her own party’s establishment ridiculed her as a lefty Trump. Nancy Pelosi scoffed that her win just meant voters “made a choice in one district,” so “let’s not get carried away.” Ben Ritz, director of the Progressive Policy Institute, an offshoot of the old Democratic Leadership Council, groused, “Oh, please, she just promised everyone a bunch of free stuff.”

This was before AOC decided to be the next Pelosi, instead of the next Sanders. The above sit-down on MSNBC shows the transformation. Having shed the mantle of an outsider who shook the old guard with online savvy, she appeared in soft light for a softball “interview,” by a literal Biden official (Inside With Jen Psaki is as close as you can get to a formal dissolution of the line between White House and media). In it, she seemed to argue for the outlaw of Fox News. “We have very real issues with what is permissible on air,” she said, adding people like Tucker Carlson are “very clearly” guilty of “incitement to violence,” a problem in light of “federal regulation in terms of what’s allowed on air and what isn’t.”

(Excerpt) Read more at racket.news ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aoc; carlson; censorship; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; fox
This is a Matt Taibbi opinion piece on the change of liberalism over the past few decades and touches on several instances and subject from AOC to Carlson. It tells a lot about how Taibbi's views have changed over the years.

His article ends with this paragraph:

"What we have instead is an increasingly pissed-off population that needs to look about eighty results down in every Google search to find its point of view represented. Who thinks that situation is going to hold?"

1 posted on 04/29/2023 3:19:49 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

ChatGPT will kill Google search.


2 posted on 04/29/2023 3:22:50 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: CFW

AOC is unqualified to run a hot dog 🌭🌭🌭🌭 stand

He should have seen that from the beginning

She’s beyond an idiot and only idiots are enamored with her

Glad he’s waking up


3 posted on 04/29/2023 3:23:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

“She’s beyond an idiot and only idiots are enamored with her”

I think she qualifies for a designated care-taker. Of course, that applies to about half of those in both houses of Congress, in addition to our President and Vice-President.

How in the world we ended up with the least qualified people such as Biden, Harris, Fetterman, and the “up and coming” AOC in charge of our country, I’ll never understand.


4 posted on 04/29/2023 3:27:09 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

19th amendment ...


5 posted on 04/29/2023 3:29:50 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: CFW
How in the world we ended up with the least qualified people such as Biden, Harris, Fetterman, and the “up and coming” AOC in charge of our country, I’ll never understand.

I think that's because mainly sociopaths (and worse) appear to seek higher office.

6 posted on 04/29/2023 3:31:35 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: bankwalker

Repeal it.

L


7 posted on 04/29/2023 3:32:46 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

First we need to remove the inmates that are running the asylum. Voting ain’t gonna cut it ...


8 posted on 04/29/2023 3:35:42 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: CFW

AOC needs to be challenged to a debate every single day. A five year old could beat her.


9 posted on 04/29/2023 3:37:55 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: CFW
"How in the world we ended up with the least qualified people such as Biden, Harris, Fetterman, and the “up and coming” AOC in charge of our country, I’ll never understand."

Public schools. They have the kids for 6 or 7 hours each day to fill their heads with leftist crap. The same reason the trannies are targeting kids. Indoctrination starts early.

10 posted on 04/29/2023 3:54:01 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: silent majority rising
AOC needs to be challenged to a debate every single day. A five year old could beat her.

We don't have debates. We have sound bite wars, twitter storms, screaming matches, and outrage porn. Many Americans don't have the attention span for anything else.

AOC can easily win those, because they don't require logic or facts, just hysteria and strong lungs.

11 posted on 04/29/2023 3:56:03 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: CFW

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12 posted on 04/29/2023 3:56:07 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Angelino97

That is my point. Wherever she is, someone needs to verbally challenge her to a debate, until she does.


13 posted on 04/29/2023 4:08:12 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: CFW
How in the world we ended up with the least qualified people such as Biden, Harris, Fetterman, and the “up and coming” AOC in charge of our country, I’ll never understand.

See F.A. Hayek's book, THE ROAD TO SERFDOM, Chapter 10:

"Why The Worst Get On Top."
14 posted on 04/29/2023 4:15:50 PM PDT by Colinsky
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(How in the world we ended up with the least qualified people such as Biden, Harris, Fetterman, and the “up and coming” AOC in charge of our country, I’ll never understand.)

I’m coming to the conclusion that America is under God’s judgement and that there’s a curse upon America.

Look at the unrelenting stupidity of the Obama administration and the Biden administration. Look at the attacks on patriotic President Trump basically working for free.

Look at Obama’s rainbow White House - a national abomination flying in the face of Almighty God.

Since Tom Daschle and John Edwards cursed America, nationally, with Isaiah 9:10.

And Obama wrote it, in some sense, on an I-beam for the new WTC.

Nothing has been right since 09/11/2001. Last seemingly normal year I saw was 2004.


15 posted on 04/29/2023 4:48:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

“I’m coming to the conclusion that America is under God’s judgement.....”

That is a reasonable conclusion.


16 posted on 04/29/2023 7:12:19 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: SaveFerris

Watch the clip included at the beginning of Taibbi’s article with AOC and Psaki. Psaki feeds her the narrative to promote and AOC confidently went with it stating that FOX and Carlson, along with other conservative hosts of opinion shows, should be silenced for the safety of our country, given that they promote violence. I doubt that AOC has watched a single episode of anything on FOX much less Tucker Carlson’s commentary on current issues before forming her “intelligent” opinion.

The two of them are so sure they are right on this issue, they can’t understand how anyone could disagree.


17 posted on 04/29/2023 7:20:49 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

Those two women put the bat in ‘moonbat’


18 posted on 04/29/2023 7:44:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hatteras

“ “How in the world we ended up with the least qualified people such as Biden, Harris, Fetterman, and the “up and coming” AOC in charge of our country, I’ll never understand.””

Public schools. They have the kids for 6 or 7 hours each day to fill their heads with leftist crap. The same reason the trannies are targeting kids. Indoctrination starts early.

Your answer is correct but also incomplete. Socialist media is a big contributor too. It’s like a 1-2 punch to our kids intellectual advancement.

We’ve been asleep at the switch and need to reign this stuff back. Keep telling everyone in your circle of influence, we have to win this fight.


19 posted on 04/30/2023 6:44:52 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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(That is a reasonable conclusion)

It’s definitely not a conclusion I ever desired to reach.

But it seems virtually inescapable.

✝️🙏🛐


20 posted on 04/30/2023 10:54:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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