patrick.net

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/macarthur-fellowship-leftist-patronage-network

How To Build a Patronage Network

The MacArthur "Genius Grant" is one of many leftist patronage networks that fund demoralization agents - call to action at the bottom

Founded in 1981, the MacArthur Fellowship Program awards ~25 Americans “Genius Grants” each year. The prize is $800,000 with no strings attached. There is no application or transparency on its selection process. Anonymous and confidential nominations are invited by the foundation and reviewed by an anonymous and confidential selection committee of about a dozen people. The main criteria is purely subjective: "Exceptional creativity and promise for important future advances… an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential.” Translation - leftists grooming leftists.

Almost to a man, the neocons are the descendants of Ashkenazi jews who fled the Russian Empire in the late 19th century. They hate Russia, and want it destroyed, much like the Morgenthau (guess his ancestry) Plan for Germany after WWII:

A plan drawn up by the US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr (b. 1891, d. 1967) which envisaged a postwar Germany as an agricultural, deindustrialized country which would be divided into a northern and a southern half, with the Rhineland, the North Sea coast, and other important strategic or industrial areas coming under international control.

Map of Casas de Migrantes, most operated by various chapters and sects of a famous international organization.
https://www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/map-2020-of-migrant-houses-shelters-and-soup-kitchens-for-migrants-in-mexico/




https://www.migrantes.com.mx/
https://www.scalabriniani.org/en/rete-case-del-migrante/

(Nothing in this post should be taken as Anti-Catholic. More and more reading about the Reformation, actual Church History, Theology, etc. has warmed my attitude towards Catholicism generally, though I disagree with several distinctives of Catholicism.)

https://slaynews.com/news/wef-dictating-canada-climate-change-policies-documents-show/

WEF Is Dictating Canada’s ‘Climate Change’ Policies, Documents Show

The documents were unsealed in response to an Order Paper Question sent by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis.

The documents reveal Trudeau’s “Environment and Climate Change” (ECCC) department paid the WEF to produce a report to draft the government’s environmental agenda.

The report included the economic policies for Canada’s ever-increasing carbon tax.

Big one missing there, that's been their go-to throughout history, war.

https://notthebee.com/article/paid-protester-hire-7-foot-300-pound-giants-intimidation

This "incentivized activism" company is looking to hire 7-foot, 300-pound "giants" to attend protests

In search of adding an undeniable aura of intimidation to protests and rallies, a Beverly Hills-based company is currently scouting for "giants."

The job advertisement by Crowds on Demand — which provides "incentivized activism" (LOL what a euphemism) for companies and groups — is looking for individuals over 7 feet tall and weighing a minimum of 300 pounds.

Crowds on Demand is looking to enlist up to 20 of these towering figures to create an "undeniable intimidation factor," bring a "giant to the gate," and help ensure their "protests are taken seriously and can achieve their intended impact."




The protest giants must be BIG but not too big to fit on an airplane. One of the perks of the job is being flown around for events and protests, and don't worry; extra legroom will be accommodated.

Some key "giant" responsibilities include:

Be a huge presence at protests, rallies, and events as part of a coordinated group.
Use your physical presence to contribute to the overall impact and visibility of the event. ...

According to the LA Times, when Crowds on Demand founder and CEO Adam Swart said they are looking for giants for an "intimidation factor," he actually meant it "in the positive sense."

https://crowdsondemand.com/who-we-are/

So they literally pay people to show up at protests and intimidate others.

I have to say it's disappointing that Adam Swart is a Jewish name.

Crowds on Demand says

"undeniable intimidation factor," bring a "giant to the gate,"

A couple of David's with rocks will take care of them pretty quick.

I know a couple of "operators" (for those unfamiliar with the term https://coffeeordie.com/origin-of-operator) and they are not huge guys but hard. When you hang out with them they seem like the nicest guys in the world, but you know they are trained killers. Back when we were in AFG one of them said, "My job is to engage in firefights with the Taliban".

Skill overcomes size in a fight.

NuttBoxer says

Big one missing there, that's been their go-to throughout history, war.

Good point.

https://www.aussie17.com/p/germanys-developing-scandal

In a scandal dubbed the "#RKIFiles," over 2000 pages of documents (printer ink alert: half of which are blackened/retracted!) from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)—you know, the cornerstone of Germany's disease control—have been released. What they reveal is as close to a bureaucratic faceplant as you can get.

Here's the situation: Although the leaked documents indicate that the pandemic risk was deemed moderate to low, Germany aggressively imposed an economic shutdown. This action led to widespread business closures, a significant economic downturn, and numerous other detrimental effects resulting from the lockdowns, suggesting that the remedy was much more damaging than the problem itself.

And why? Because, if you can believe it, they were allegedly following "orders from outside." The natural question that follows is, "Who in the world has the audacity to order around a sovereign nation?" ...

Let's not mince words: this is a travesty of accountability. If these decisions were puppeteered by external forces rather than being anchored in solid science, it's not just a German problem—it's a glaring red flag for the majority of countries globally that took instructions from some “supranational” force, as Mike Yeadon said.

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1781484602756124759

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/our-side-actually-has-a-numerical

For me, it’s not difficult to see what the world’s real rulers are trying to achieve. They’re trying to obtain more power and control for themselves. In fact, they’ve largely already achieved this goal. The terrifying thought is they are far from done.

We know they are not finished because their most conspicuous initiative at the moment is their quest to slay the petulances of “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

The correct definition of misinformation/disinformation is any speech which challenges what authority figures say is the truth.

The world’s real rulers don’t want their pronouncements challenged as this would pose a grave risk to their continued rule and their ability to implement myriad programs that will effectively defeat, once and for all, human freedom.

As long as persuasive dissent doesn’t go viral, the Powers that Be know they will achieve their objectives, which are authoritarian world government much closer to the communist utopia envisioned by thinkers like Marx, Mao and Lenin.

But real communism is not the real goal either as communism was supposed to make every person equal. The modern form of communism, not unlike all previous forms of communism, ensures the world’s elite organizations will remain ultra powerful while the proletariat will beg for crumbs.

Who are the world’s elite organizations?
They are every important organization - those with great influence (and police-state powers) - including all governmental agencies and departments as well as international government organizations like the UN, WHO and European Union.

They are also all the major “crony” corporations which benefit from close ties to government and non-governmental organizations.

Plus, foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation, which have more money than many nations and certainly more ideological commitment to deploy their resources to implement their agendas.

A simple method to define the establishment organizations would be to simply identify the world’s key authorized narratives and then ask yourself what organizations zealously support these initiatives (aka “The Current Thing.”)

In the last four years, any organization that vociferously supported all the Covid protocols would be examples of “captured” organizations which enthusiastically supported the Current Thing.

But these same organizations also support all the other ascendant political movements, such as the fight against (allegedly) man-made Climate Change, numerous wars or “interventions” to advance “democracy,” central bank digital currency and ever-more mRNA “vaccines.”

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/on-demand-thursday-april-25-2024

At the risk of offending folks who may think they sympathize with this week’s campus campers and their silly protest tents, hummus s’mores, and schwarma roasts, I would like to offer an alternative working hypothesis. To set the table, allow me to show you just how far we’ve come: you can now rent protestors right on the Internet. Behold “Crowds on Demand:”




It’s not bad work, if you can get it. How else do you expect kids with degrees in feminist themes in filmmaking to pay off their student loans? The team at Crowds on Demand promises all you need is money and a goal, and they’re ready to meet all your astroturf needs. They’ll even provide the ideas:




Crowds on Demand “delivers phenomenal experiences” including “even the most logistically challenging events.” Logistically challenging events? You mean, like CHAZ-style tent cities-on-the-green?

I’m not saying this was procured by Crowds on Demand. Who knows? The point is, if you can now one-click protests on the Internet, just imagine the kinds of resources to which the intelligence agencies and the political parties have access.

My best guess would be businesses like Crowds On Demand were formed by veterans of shady government-adjacent enterprises doing the exact same thing.

And don’t forget our foreign enemies.

Like China.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/does-the-cia-run-america-5639704

We’ve all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States, including many media venues. Maybe that’s been true for decades, and we just didn’t know it. If so, let’s just say that it would explain a tremendous amount of what has otherwise been clouded in secrecy.

How would this be possible? Knowledge is power, and secret knowledge is full control. Even fake knowledge means power and control, as we found out in the phony Russiagate investigation early in President Donald Trump’s term. They hounded the new administration for years under a completely fake scenario in which Russia somehow got President Trump elected.

Yes, that was an intelligence operation all along, one directly designed to overthrow an election, a “color revolution” on our own soil.

How dare an agency not elected by the people and evading oversight and public accountability put itself ahead of the Constitution and the rule of law? It has been going on for many decades as the agencies have gained ever more power, even to the point of forcing a full lockdown of the United States and even the world under a false pretense.

None of this is verifiable precisely because of the secrecy involved. It’s not as if the intelligence community is going to send out a press release: “Democracy in America is an illusion. We know because we control nearly everything, plus we aspire to control even more.”

The incredulous among us will shoot back: Look at what you are saying! Your conspiracy theory is non-falsifiable. The less evidence you have for it, the more you believe it. How in the world can we argue with you? Your position is not really plausible, but there is nothing we can do to convince you otherwise.

Let’s grant the point. Still, let’s not dismiss the theory completely. Based on a New York Times piece that appeared last week, it contains more than a grain of truth. The article is titled “Campaign Puts Trump and the Spy Agencies on a Collision Course.”
“Even as president, Donald J. Trump flaunted his animosity for intelligence officials, portraying them as part of a politicized ‘deep state’ out to get him,” the article reads. “And since he left office, that distrust has grown into outright hostility, with potentially serious implications for national security should he be elected again.”

Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the “deep state,” what is?

Further, it has been proven many times over that the deep state is in fact out to get him. This is not even controversial. Indeed, there is no reason for these journalists to write the above as if President Trump is somehow consumed by some kind of baseless paranoia.

Let’s keep going here.

“Trump is now on a possible collision course with the intelligence community. ... The result is a complicated and possibly destabilizing situation the United States has never seen before: deep-seated suspicion and disdain on the part of a former and perhaps future president toward the very people he would be relying on for the most sensitive information he would need to perform his role if elected again,” the article reads.

Wait just a moment. You are telling us that all previous presidents have had a happy relationship with the CIA? That’s rather interesting to know. And deeply troubling too, since the CIA has been managing regime change the world over for a very long time and is now directly involved in U.S. politics at the most intimate level.

Any president worth his salt should absolutely have a hostile relationship with such an agency, if only to establish clear civilian control over the government, without which it’s not possible to say that we live in a constitutional republic.

And now, according to the NY Times, we have one seeking the presidency who does not defer to the agency and this is destabilizing and deeply problematic. Who does that suggest really rules this country?

Is the NY Times itself guilty of the most extreme conspiracy theory imaginable, or is it just stating facts as we know them? I’m going to guess that it is the latter. In this case, every single American should be deeply alarmed.

Crazy huh? As for the phrase “never seen before,” we have to push back. What about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, and Calvin Coolidge? They were all previous presidents, according to the history books that people once read.

There was no CIA back then. If you doubt this, I’m pretty sure that your favorite AI engine will confirm it.

One must suppose that when the NY Times says “never seen before,” it means in the post-war period. And that very well might be true. John F. Kennedy defied them. We know that for certain. The mysteries surrounding his murder won’t be solved fully until we get the documents. But the consensus is growing that this murder was really a coup by the CIA, a message sent as a lesson to every successor in that office.

Think of that: We live in a country today where most people readily admit that the CIA probably killed the president. Amazing.

It’s intriguing to know at this late date that the Watergate “scandal” was not what it appeared to be, namely an intrepid media holding government to account. Even astute observers at the time believed the mainstream narrative. Now we have plenty of evidence that this too was nothing but a deep state attack on a president who had lost patience with it and provoked another coup.

All credit to my brilliant father who speculated along these lines at the time. I was very young with only the vaguest clue about what was happening. But I recall very well that he was convinced that Richard Nixon was set up in a trap and unfairly hounded out of office not for the bad things he was doing but for standing up to the deep state.

If my own father, not a particularly political person, knew this for certain at the time, this must have been a strong perception even then.

You hear the rap that these agencies—the CIA is one, but there are many adjacent others—are not allowed by law to intervene in domestic politics. At this point and after so much experience, this comes across to me like something of a joke. We know from vast evidence and personal testimony that the CIA has been manipulating political figures, narratives, and outcomes for a very long time.

How involved is the CIA in journalism today? Well, you might suppose that as a traditionally liberal paper, the NY Times itself would be highly skeptical of the CIA. But these days, they have published a long string of aggressively defensive articles with titles such as “It Turns Out that the Deep State Is Awesome” and “Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe.” We can add this last piece to the list.

So let’s just say it: The NY Times is CIA. So too are Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Slate, Salon, and many other mainstream publications, including major tech companies such as Google and Microsoft. The tentacles are everywhere and ever more obvious. Operation Mockingbird was just the beginning. The network is everywhere, and the practice of manipulating the news is wholly normalized.

Once you start developing the ability to see the markings, you simply cannot unsee them, which is why people who think and write about this can come across as crackpot crazy after a while.

Have you considered that maybe the crackpots are exactly right? If so, shouldn’t we, at bare minimum, seek to support a presidential candidate with a hostile relationship with the intelligence community?

Indeed, that ought to be a bare minimum standard of qualification. There is simply no way we can restore civilian control of government and constitutional government until this agency can be thoroughly reined in or abolished completely.

Patrick says

To set the table, allow me to show you just how far we’ve come: you can now rent protestors right on the Internet. Behold “Crowds on Demand:”

I've linked to Zionist groups doing exactly this. Certainly could be done for the other side as well, just saying we only have proof of one side doing it.

Missing central banks and Satanists, either can be the queen, not much difference...

Patrick says

Patrick says

We’ve all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States

Re-reading The Franklin Cover-Up, I didn't realize how clearly the CIA was linked to the SnL collapse. Ostensibly you have the Contras, but I think the cocaine and money laundering were equally about reducing America to 3rd world status, a long time objective of the deep state.

NuttBoxer says

I think the cocaine and money laundering were equally about reducing America to 3rd world status, a long time objective of the deep state.

EXACTLY! Uncorruptible government has no use for a CIA, NSA, or FBI. All these agencies are set up to manage corruption, not eliminate it. More specifically, they are levers to multiply honeypot/personal corruption for deep state advantage.

https://slaynews.com/news/intelligence-official-exposes-cia-coup-against-trump-undercover-video/

A U.S. intelligence official has been caught in an undercover sting operation, in which he’s filmed exposing a coup against President Donald Trump that’s being run by the upper echelons of the CIA.

The undercover video, from O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), features Amjad Anton Fseisi – a project manager for cyber operations at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA).

During the sting, Fseisi even waves his Green Badge ID in front of the camera to reveal he has high-level intelligence community security clearance credentials which are illegal to possess by anyone not officially employed by the CIA or NSA.

In the video, Fseisi details an illegal plot by the intelligence community to undermine and spy on Trump.

He says that, during Trump’s presidency, top intelligence officials, including then-CIA Directors Gina Haspel and Mike Pompeo, intentionally hid information from Trump.

According to Fseisi, intelligence officials claimed Trump would pass the information to Russia.

He also revealed that intelligence officials have been spying on Trump and continued to do so after he left office. ...

“The footage supports earlier reports by investigative journalists that the American intelligence community ran an illegal spy operation against Trump’s 2016 campaign, which led to the FBI’s ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ probe and Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion, which found no evidence.”

Patrick says

During the sting, Fseisi even waves his Green Badge ID in front of the camera to reveal he has high-level intelligence community security clearance credentials which are illegal to possess by anyone not officially employed by the CIA or NSA.

The funny part was the CIA saying he can't be a contractor because he doesn't have a green badge, while he is showing his in the video.

The_Deplorable says

And it was always the Old Yankees Reprobates from Calvinism, the same ones (Chase, Morgan) who gave us the Fed.

Check out Alan Dulles.

Never forget the real reason McCarthy was kneecapped politically - he went after a Boston Brahmin heir in a high position.

AmericanKulak says

it was always the Old Yankees

And I get the impression that now the Old Yankees have decided to exclude the Jews from their cabal.

https://palexander.substack.com/p/how-did-we-get-here-edward-bernays

Unless otherwise noted, page numbers refer to the 2004 Ig Publishing edition, ISBN 0970312598 (The text begins on p. 35, after an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller.)

On Propaganda:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

p. 37

In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons [...] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.

p. 37–38

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

p. 39

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

p. 48

Who are the men, who, without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to despise, what to believe about the ownership of public utilities .. about immigration who tell us how our houses should be designed, what furniture we should put into them, what menus we should serve at our table, what kind of shirts we must wear, what sports we should indulge in, what plays we should see, what charities we should support, what pictures we should admire, what slang we should affect, what jokes we should laugh at?

p.59

The new profession of public relations has grown up because of the increasing complexity of modern life and the consequent necessity for making the actions of one part of the public understandable to other sectors of the public. It is due, too, to the increasing dependence of organized power of all sorts upon public opinion. Governments, whether they are monarchical, constitutional, democratic or communist, depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in fact, government is government only by virtue of public acquiescence. Industries, public utilities, educational movements, indeed all groups representing any concept or product, whether they are majority or minority ideas, succeed only because of approving public opinion. Public opinion is the unacknowledged partner in all broad efforts.
The public relations counsel, then, is the agent who, working with modern media of communications and the group formations of society, brings an idea to the consciousness of the public.

p. 63

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it?

Page 71 (1928 edition?)

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn. His mind retains the patterns which have been stamped on it by the group influences.

Page 73 (1928 edition)

But when the example of the leader is not at hand and the herd must think for itself, it does so by means of clichés, pat words or images which stand for a whole group of ideas or experiences. Not many years ago, it was only necessary to tag a political candidate with the word interests to stampede millions of people into voting against him, because anything associated with "the interests" seemed necessary corrupt. Recently the word Bolshevik has performed a similar service for persons who wished to frighten the public away from a line of action.
By playing upon a old cliché, or manipulating a new one, the propagandist can sometimes swing a whole mass group emotions.

Page 74

It is chiefly the psychologists of the school of Freud who have pointed out that many of man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress. A thing may be desired not for its intrinsic worth or usefulness, but because he has unconsciously come to see in it a symbol of something else, the desire for which he is ashamed to admit to himself...This general principle, that men are very largely actuated by motives which they conceal from themselves, is as true of mass as of individual psychology...Human desires are the steam which makes the social machine work. Only by understanding them can the propagandist control that cast, loose-jointed mechanism which is modern society.

Page 75 as quoted in Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism edited by Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf, p.40

While, under the handicraft of small-unit system of production was that typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand. A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. This entails a vastly more complex system of distribution than formerly.

Page 84

No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

Page 109

One reason, perhaps, why the politician today is slow to take up methods which are a commonplace in business life is that he has such ready entry to the media of communication on which his power depends.
The newspaperman looks to him for news. And by his power of giving or withholding information the politician can often effectively censor political news. But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources.

Page 120

Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear.

Page 123

On public opinion:

When Napoleon said, 'Circumstance? I make circumstance‚' he expressed very nearly the spirit of the public relations counsel's work.

p. 51

Domination to-day is not a product of armies or navies or wealth or policies. It is a domination based on the one hand upon accomplished unity, and on the other hand upon the fact that opposition is generally characterized by a high degree of disunity.

p. 133

Let us assume that our problem is the intensification in the public mind of the prestige of a hotel. The problem for the public relations counsel is to create in the public mind the close relationship between the hotel and a number of ideas that represent the things the hotel desires to stand for in the public mind.

p. 168

The public relations counsel, therefore, is a creator of news for whatever medium he chooses to transmit ideas. It is his duty to create news no matter what the medium which broadcasts this news.

p. 171

The only difference between "propaganda" and "education," really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

p. 212

Patrick says

And I get the impression that now the Old Yankees have decided to exclude the Jews from their cabal.

Possibly. Is it Scapegoat time? "It wasn't I the King who started and lost the war/spent the money on a huge vanity project. Blame my Tax Farmers!"

Another point of connection: Dr. John Money was raised extremely strictly in a super dogmatic Church and rebelled (though he himself may have been molested... the old Pervert Pipeline, sadly)

Patrick says

https://palexander.substack.com/p/how-did-we-get-here-edward-bernays

If you haven't already, read Propaganda by Edward Bernays.

https://archive.org/details/propaganda-edward-l.-bernays/mode/2up

His argument is that the masses will be controlled regardless, so people may as well take up the mantle and control them - but ethically - in that book. Bernays though became entirely evil later. He's the bastard that setup the propaganda for the overthrow of Iran (Operation Ajax) and the overthrow of Guatemala (Operation PBSuccess).

We repeat this bullshit all the time, and nobody sees it, because nobody knows about those 2, very well documented, coups. Every fucking coup the US does, leads to a shitload of bloodshed, every one, and then years of animosity.

Bernays was certainly, unquestionably, the nephew of Sigmund Freud.

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

He worked for dozens of major American corporations, including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and nonprofit organizations. His uncle was psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

There's no question or "alleged" about it. He used his uncle's work to manipulate the public, much to Freud's dismay. Total psychopath.

We have a bit of fortune that only total morons will do propaganda, but we have the misfortune that complete total morons inhabit our nation. Idiots control our nation, the dumbest of the dumb. It's stupid people driving even stupider people, that drag the rest of us along, and there's no escaping the herd. Most of you can see this with the "covid pandemic", but before that - Assad gassed his own people, Qaddafi was about to cause a humanitarian crisis, Hussein was working on weapons of mass destruction, and we couldn't wait for the final proof to come in the form a mushroom cloud. Lately, Russia hacked our election, Putin attacked Ukraine for no reason at all.

These are propaganda slogans - marketing. Edward Bernays book is about marketing. He marketed products to start with, then he marketed wars. They realized they only need the stupidest of us to support a war to make a war so our propagandists suck - they hire sociopathic morons slightly smarter than the average American which is merely a moron, but not sociopathic. They can't fool me, and if they fool the rest of you... That's impressive to me.

But I have that nagging question - is everybody around me an uneducated idiot, or are they sociopaths? I can't tell. How can they not see this? Over and over again they are "tricked". Are they tricked?