Talk About Tennis 2.0

I think it goes back to the Tea Party and how that was never exposed as a virtual arm of the John Birch Society. The press chose to focus on the "economic anxiety" of these mythical sages who hang out in diners in the Mid West while not looking at the Koch's and their network and what the JBS has always stood for.

By normalizing fringe right wing extremist views by continuing to report on their antics out of context a public narrative was created that continues. Lies and fantasies have become "conspiracy theories" and treated as if they're valid beliefs.

For example, TFG freed 5,000 Taliban prisoners. Today McCarthy said something to the effect of there are 5,000 Taliban prisoners headed to our shores and there was no push back, to my knowledge, from the reporters he was addressing.

This, in my opinion, is why truth doesn't matter. Add to that lack of critical thinking abilities and the desire to be led as well as dominionism and Christian Nationalism, subjects the MSM hasn't ever touched, and you end up where we are.

It's really sad.

Not as sure as I was before that they'll remain loyal to him since they booed him recently, but they'll remain loyal to their ideology, they might just choose a new leader if he steps too out of line with what they demand. DeSantis, for instance.

We laughed hysterically about it at the time, but really, Kellyanne Conway hit the nail on the head when she muttered the words... alternative facts.

As long as the remaining Koch brother and others like him keep the spigot open we'll live in a world of alternative facts.

This was the best exposure of the Koch brothers the media ever did.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 8:06 pm As long as the remaining Koch brother and others like him keep the spigot open we'll live in a world of alternative facts.

The new Koch brothers are the Wilks brothers, Dan & Farris, that fund PragerU. PragerU, if you haven't had the pleasure, is a conservative YouTube channel that puts out short videos with conservative themes that are extremely biased, poorly researched, and are allergic to fact checking. The hosts/presenters of these videos are the usual cast of characters that were familiar with from other Conservative media. I'm not going to link the YouTube channel because I don't want to give them any more clicks than they get already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU

The Newsroom was really very good at being righteously educational. Too bad it was preaching to the choir.

This guy seems nice.

I don't use the word "extraordinary" a lot. This is an extraordinary Twitter thread.










Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
Watkins claims that Chansley was under "a great deal of familial pressure" not to take the plea because they believed Trump would be reinstated and pardon him.

"It took a lot of courage for a young man who was raised by his mother to say, 'No,'" Watkins claims.

The claim that Chansley's family wanted him to hold out for Trump to return to office and pardon her son is all the more interesting in that Watkins once proposed his pre-trial release to his mother.

The judge found she wouldn't be a good custodian. https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-sie ... -location/

The true believers don't understand that the former guy doesn't give two s**ts about them. I'll never understand why they think he does.

It is not that he doesn't give two s**** about his supporters. He viscerally hates them, because they are "poor". As you say, baffling.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:49 pm It is not that he doesn't give two s**** about his supporters. He viscerally hates them, because they are "poor". As you say, baffling.

Poor, yes. But easily controlled. There's the rub.