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Your Government Needs You Angry At Foreign Tyrants So You Won’t Notice The Ones Ruling You
The Federalist ^ | 02/16/2024 | Sean Davis

Posted on 02/16/2024 10:17:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind

In response to reports that Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died in a Russian prison, your rulers in Washington want you to be angry. Your corrupt government, which is at this very moment working to put your Christian neighbors in prison for protesting abortion, wants you to be very angry at a foreign leader nearly 6,000 miles away so you won’t pay attention to what your leaders are doing to you in your own backyard.

Your government, which wants to disarm you and prevent you from defending yourself, wants you angry at a leader who has no power over you whatsoever. The government that censors you and lies to you about viruses it helped create wants your focus elsewhere. The government that sold your economy off to China and then destroyed the value of your currency wants you mad at someone else.

The government that banned you from going to church and then tried to fire you for not taking its worthless “vaccine” wants to whip you into a frenzy over literally anything else other than what it’s doing to you right now.

The government that opened your borders to invasion and looked the other way as violent crime enveloped your cities wants you to believe that crime on another continent is the only crime you should care about. And that the borders of a country half a world away are the only borders worth protecting.

America’s government would never treat its citizens like foreign tyrants do, you’re supposed to keep comfortably believing. It would never imprison an individual whose life and knowledge suddenly became a huge liability to the regime. And it would definitely never kill him in prison, wipe the video cameras that recorded his death, then claim he committed suicide.

And the American government would certainly never try to ban its chief political opponent from the ballot, try to bankrupt him with frivolous lawsuits, or attempt to imprison him to prevent him from winning an election. The American government would never tap attorneys appointed by the president’s hand-picked lawyers to absolve the president of a whole host of crimes committed by the president and his family.

On top of that, the American government would never imprison thousands of political dissidents for protesting against the regime’s history of rigging elections or refer to them as a bunch of filthy kulak wrecker insurrectionists. And you better believe the American government would never ally with corrupt oligarchs who owe their fortunes to monopolies protected by the government to censor the government’s political opponents to prevent them from talking about the corruption of the family running the government.

They’re manipulating you, gaslighting you, and trying to emotionally blackmail you into going along with their nonsense because those things are only supposed to happen in other countries. Stop letting them get away with it.


Sean Davis is CEO and co-founder of The Federalist. He previously worked as an economic policy adviser to Gov. Rick Perry, as CFO of Daily Caller, and as chief investigator for Sen. Tom Coburn. He was named by The Hill as one of the top congressional staffers under the age of 35 for his role in spearheading the enactment of the law that created USASpending.gov. Sean received a BBA in finance from Texas Tech University and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; deepstate; despotism; domesticenemies; government; tyranny
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1 posted on 02/16/2024 10:17:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Prince Machiavelli. Every government needs an external enemy in order to gain authority and instill fear and dependence upon its populace. We never seem to have a shortage of enemies or wars do we?
2 posted on 02/16/2024 10:24:32 AM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: SeekAndFind

True. Biden just gave a presser and the press are back to circling the wagons around him.


3 posted on 02/16/2024 10:27:39 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: SeekAndFind

You will certainly see evidence of this as the FR admin operatives flame you for calling attention to this fact.


4 posted on 02/16/2024 10:29:21 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: SeekAndFind

Zeepers are their agents.


5 posted on 02/16/2024 10:29:29 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Makes you wonder about the spammers here, doesn’t it?


6 posted on 02/16/2024 10:31:49 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have to say that just based on who benefits, the Globohomo Regime had a lot more to gain from this death than Putin does.

Let’s wait.


7 posted on 02/16/2024 10:32:26 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Ruling You”


Key words, with emphasis on the first.

So many of us took oaths against this, yet here we are.


8 posted on 02/16/2024 10:33:09 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind

I can both be angry at domestic tyrants and foreign tyrants .
It would be nice to be Canada and not have to worry about the foreign ones .


9 posted on 02/16/2024 10:33:35 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Canada is part of 5 Eyes.

They’re foreign enemies


10 posted on 02/16/2024 10:40:51 AM PST by delchiante
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To: SeekAndFind

[[Your Government Needs You Angry At Foreign Tyrants So You Won’t Notice The Ones Ruling You]]

Bingo- Obiden was just on condemning Putin for imprisoning his enemy after poisoning him- and i was thinking “What is the difference between what putin did and what obiden did by imprisoning peaceful protestors on Jan 6?- the only difference was that obiden’s regime didn’t poison the inmates, BUT, they put them in really crappy cells with molds and mildews- likely hoping that they woudl get sick and die

Obiden was ‘seething’ at Putin- but it was just like the Teapot Calling the kettle black


11 posted on 02/16/2024 10:45:13 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

I am perfectly capable of being angry at both.

Until we start implementing “real” solutions to our Countries bevy of tyrants, I take screed like this as more “old man yelling at clouds” type nonsense.

I’ve heard it all before.


12 posted on 02/16/2024 10:49:06 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I also thought that the “Press Conference” was a very carefully scripted event where all he did was read- which he is still mostly proficient at- in order to make it appear that biden is in full control of his mind- and the press was lapping it up- thinking that they were helping him spread the fantasy- Even their “Questions” to him were scripted where obiden knew beforehand what the questions woudl be, and his speech writers had the answers all written out so that biden would appear to be in control-

So the question is “If obiden is competent, then why is he too ‘old and feeble minded to stand trial like Trump has to? What obiden did was far far worse- What Trump did was perfectly legal- what obiden did was not!


13 posted on 02/16/2024 10:49:58 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

In December, Navalny was tweeting about the conditions of his imprisonment.

None of the J6 people are allowed to get on social media, and describe the conditions they are under.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alexei-navalny-arctic-penal-colony-1.7069337


14 posted on 02/16/2024 10:53:55 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind
Your Government Needs You Angry At Foreign Tyrants So You Won’t Notice The Ones Ruling You

Yep!

15 posted on 02/16/2024 10:54:58 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: SeekAndFind

If liberalism - zeepers

Can succeed here on the freerepublic

How much more so easily everywhere else

Just like they did

20 years ago here on the freerepublic

Gog zeepers usa

Magog zeepers nato

Rev 13


16 posted on 02/16/2024 10:55:55 AM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms⁸)
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To: SeekAndFind
Your Government Needs You Angry At Foreign Tyrants So You Won’t Notice The Ones Ruling You

Zeepers! I did Nazi that coming.

(Snicker)

17 posted on 02/16/2024 10:58:30 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: delchiante; HereInTheHeartland
Canada is part of 5 Eyes.

They’re foreign enemies

That is Correct.

18 posted on 02/16/2024 11:01:32 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: dvan

“War is the health of the State.”

Randolph Bourne


19 posted on 02/16/2024 11:02:42 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: dvan
Every government needs an external enemy in order to gain authority and instill fear and dependence upon its populace.

Textbook cult leaders' behavior.

20 posted on 02/16/2024 11:09:14 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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