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Old 07-19-2021, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1416686788199034880

there is absolutely no way that Biden wrote any of this document. He cannot formulate a coherent thought let alone compose one in prose.
Our government has been hijacked and we sit here and do nothing but complain about it. We deserve to lose our freedom if we are not willing to fight for it.


Pretty sure this is the document.


https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-conten...03/NSC-1v2.pdf
POTUS’ don’t write most of the things that bear their name.

For some, like Reagan, nearly every word spoken, including simple Happy Birthday messages, was scripted, never mind the documents published under his name.

Same can be said of most bills written and documents published by Congress critters.

Alex Jones makes a good living selling vitamin/ mineral supplements, survival packages and (until ordered to stop) Covid cures. He drives traffic to his and sponsor products with daily doses of fear mongering, outrage and at times, intentionally fake news. When challenged in court, Jones falls back on his psychosis as an excuse.

 
Old 07-19-2021, 11:52 AM
 
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Recreational outrage is a form of entertainment. The ammosexuals need to see the spectre of someone coming for their precious in every shadow, they want to justify their arsenals by thinking of themselves as freedom fighters and they want to be told that nothing bad can come from their hobby - like the occasional massacre.

Alex Jones delivered that in spades. And if bereaved parents got ground up in his outrage mill, well - not a problem for him nor his listeners.
Thanks for the reminder.

Hard to visualize such people. Glad I'm a recluse.
 
Old 07-19-2021, 11:56 AM
 
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isn’t Alex Jones always ticked off?
 
Old 07-19-2021, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Chicago Area
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It's sad that they kicked Alex Jones off of pretty much everything. That guy was funny!! Such a nut!! Highly entertaining. If you wanna watch him now, you have to go out of your way and most people can't be bothered.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAA...nel=NickLutsko

That said, the world has gone so insane that the following sources that have no business being right ... keep on being right about things. Things have gone that far off the rails:
  • Alex Jones
  • The Babylon Bee
  • The Onion News
 
Old 07-19-2021, 12:22 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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When they go after the messenger and not the message with a perfect defense, you know your over the target and it has them panicked...
 
Old 07-19-2021, 12:23 PM
 
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That said, the world has gone so insane that the following sources that have no business being right ... keep on being right about things. Things have gone that far off the rails:
  • Alex Jones
  • The Babylon Bee
  • The Onion News
The difference being that The Onion and Babylon Bee are happy to admit they're satire - and they do not **** all over bereaved parents to make a buck. Nor does anyone take them seriously. Alex Jones is well aware that he's playing a role, but a disturbing amount of his audience isn't.

People who lost children in Sandy Hook had to hide their kids' graves thanks to people like Alex Jones and his boneheaded followers. I sincerely hope they take him for every dime and that he ends up living under a bridge somewhere - a place where he'd undoubtedly feel very much at home.
 
Old 07-19-2021, 12:24 PM
 
Location: King County, WA
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Should we care?
 
Old 07-19-2021, 12:26 PM
 
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When they go after the messenger and not the message with a perfect defense, you know your over the target and it has them panicked...
When a chef consistently serves up crap sandwiches, you stop eating at his restaurant. And somehow, no one says "Waaah! You're attacking the chef, not the food!"
 
Old 07-19-2021, 12:28 PM
 
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Should we care?
He's slightly demented and in it for the money - but he has an audience. Heaven knows what they might do.

Did the Allies take Lord Haw-Haw himself seriously? No. But they had to take the effects of his propaganda seriously, even so.
 
Old 07-19-2021, 12:39 PM
 
Location: Chicago Area
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The difference being that The Onion and Babylon Bee are happy to admit they're satire - and they do not **** all over bereaved parents to make a buck. Nor does anyone take them seriously. Alex Jones is well aware that he's playing a role, but a disturbing amount of his audience isn't.

People who lost children in Sandy Hook had to hide their kids' graves thanks to people like Alex Jones and his boneheaded followers. I sincerely hope they take him for every dime and that he ends up living under a bridge somewhere - a place where he'd undoubtedly feel very much at home.
The Left has massively overstated things about Sandy Hook, but I never said the man wasn't an idiot. Litigation in courts will have to sort out whether the man broke the law and we'll see how that shakes out. It is by no means wrong to question something like Sandy Hook. As we saw with Russiagate, the Lab Leak Theory and so many other things, the general lack of people being allowed to ask questions leads to bad outcomes.

I do think you'd be surprised how many people tune in for every Infowars show, who also take everything with a healthy grain of salt.

There are many groupings of ideas that masquerade as absolute fact, when they're are just a sensational pack of likes. Examples:
  • Alex Jones and Inforwars
  • The Flat Earth Society
  • Antivaxxers
  • The 1619 Project
  • The New York Times blatantly lying about the Holodomor way back in the 1930's.
  • All the various groups who think that the Jews are the root of all evil.
  • Leftist gender theory.
  • Climate Change Deniers and Climate Change Alarmists -- both extremes are completely disconnected from reality.
  • Pretty much everything that North Korea and China tell their citizens.
  • Cults like Heaven's Gate and Jonestown.

When you censor what you think is misinformation, the people who believe in it just take that as confirmation that the people lying to them were actually telling the truth. "What are those evil people so afraid of?? They really do have something to hide!! Alex Jones (or insert name here) was right!!" Americans are particularly susceptible to this because we've lived free -- including free to be morons -- for such a long time. Banning "misinformation" will not end well because nobody is ever 100% right about pretty much anything.
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