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[KaraBulut]

^They should have included the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong. In 2017, Soon-Shiong met with Trump seeking a position in Trump's cabinet. In 2024, Soon-Shiong blocked the LA Time from endorsing Kamala Harris, leading to the resignation of several LA Times employees.

 

[Thad1527]

^ Who the heck is left? The Deseret News?

 

[KaraBulut]

^ Who the heck is left? The Deseret News?

From the conservative's viewpoint, all media is liberal-biased. That's why they have spent the last 40 years undoing 20th century laws and rules that were designed to limit outside influence on the Free Press.

After the Hearst years, there were some rules put in place to prevent another wealthy person or foreign corporation from owning major media outlets. Similar rules were in place to limit influence on the Free Press.

Some of those rules were eroded during the Reagan years.

Guess who got the rules weakened?

FCC Offers Murdoch a Way Out on Broadcast Ownership Rule

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to allow media mogul Rupert Murdoch to avert a costly restructuring of his television empire if he can show that the current ownership of his eight Fox TV stations is in the public interest.

www.latimes.com

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to allow media mogul Rupert Murdoch to avert a costly restructuring of his television empire if he can show that the current ownership of his eight Fox TV stations is in the public interest.

The decision underscored federal officials’ increasing ambivalence toward laws that limit foreign ownership of U.S. communications firms--laws that many now see as barriers to the creation of a global electronic village.

The unanimous vote capped a controversal 18-month investigation of allegations that Murdoch’s Australia-based media company, News Corp. Ltd., had run afoul of a federal law prohibiting foreign firms from owning more than 25% of a U.S. broadcasting company.

This is why Sinclair, Clear Channel and Fox are have become so important to getting conservative viewpoints (and Republican propaganda) into the zeitgeist.

Another key red herring argument: MAGA conservatives will whine anytime the government tries to address disinformation on platforms like Facebook or Twitter. Yet, when anyone writes anything negative about Israel or about Trump, they cry foul because Free Speech only applies to speech that they want to hear.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[KaraBulut]

Republicans in New Jersey believe that they are being invaded by drones originating from an Iranian "mothership" off the East Coast of the US.

Pentagon officials had to meet with the New Jersey legislature to reassure them that there was no "mothership" and the drones aren't coming from Iran.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/us/new-jersey-drone-sightings-investigation/index.html

"Help is on the way when Donald Trump is President!". "Are they angels coming down to rescue New Jersey from socialism?".

A New Jersey resident was able to capture an image of one of the drones:

 

[rareboy]

Republicans in New Jersey believe that they are being invaded by drones originating from an Iranian "mothership" off the East Coast of the US.

Pentagon officials had to meet with the New Jersey legislature to reassure them that there was no "mothership" and the drones aren't coming from Iran.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/us/new-jersey-drone-sightings-investigation/index.html

"Help is on the way when Donald Trump is President!". "Are they angels coming down to rescue New Jersey from socialism?".

A New Jersey resident was able to capture an image of one of the drones:

Some of this paranoia is very purposeful.

Americans again seem to be looking for external enemies as pretext for a lot of things. None of them good.

Under the next regime, expect the people in the Pentagon and other departments to use conspiracy theories and fear as a means to darker ends.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Some of this paranoia is very purposeful.

Americans again seem to be looking for external enemies as pretext for a lot of things. None of them good.

Under the next regime, expect the people in the Pentagon and other departments to use conspiracy theories and fear as a means to darker ends.

Also, expect them to create a lot of problems, chaos, and anarchy just so they can crack down on "socialists", "antifa", "BLM", protesters, any opposition.
It is the same tactic as the Reichstag fire; create a problem, blame it on your opposition, use it as an excuse to crack down on them. Bet on it.

 

[KaraBulut]

Some of this paranoia is very purposeful.

Americans again seem to be looking for external enemies as pretext for a lot of things. None of them good.

Under the next regime, expect the people in the Pentagon and other departments to use conspiracy theories and fear as a means to darker ends.

My original thought was that this was part of Days of Distraction, where the lunatic fringe are sent off on a "War on Christmas" paranoia diversion, to distract from actual dirty deeds.

Then I saw the interviews and I got flashbacks to Sen Ron Johnson's tirades about Benghazi.

This is very much like the deep-seated paranoia that we saw during the 1950s with the red scare and lavender scare.

It also reminded me of this incident back from 2015 during the Obama years when the Republicans were accusing Obama of having the military invade Texas, specifically that "The federal government is preparing a military takeover of Texas using secret tunnels built under closed Wal-Mart stores so troops can move silently about the state."

Obama's Invasion of Texas: Partisanship Becomes a Sport

The Jade Helm 15 paranoia shows that nut-jobs are driving the Republican Party.

www.newsweek.com

There was a time in modern history when the GOP was a party of ideas—agree with them or not, its leaders were dominated by smart people who assembled ideologically consistent policies based on facts, statistics and history. But, as Bruce Bartlett, a former senior policy analyst for Ronald Reagan, recently said, "Now it's the party of crazy people, ignorant Tea Party people—people who know nothing and are proud of it."...

But the real danger is not that swaths of Republican voters babble nonsense that would make an eighth-grader roll his eyes. Instead, it is that policy discussions frequently jump the track when GOP leaders treat the tinfoil hatters' latest obsession as worth anything other than derision. Whether these officials are demagogues seeking votes from the unhinged or—the more frightening possibility—believers of this toxic flapdoodle, the result is the same: Cradling the crazy has made many GOP politicians midwives to madness.

 

[Thad1527]

Oh, the congressman in question is South Jersey's Jeff Van Drew. He switched parties some years ago but has never been known for intelligence

 

[KaraBulut]

Oh, the congressman in question is South Jersey's Jeff Van Drew. He switched parties some years ago but has never been known for intelligence

New Jersey is another State known for billionaires buying politicians but they're not usually batshit crazy like in Florida or Texas.

Is he another one who drank MAGA Kool-aid and lost his mind?

 

[Thad1527]

Yup.

 

[rareboy]

My original thought was that this was part of Days of Distraction, where the lunatic fringe are sent off on a "War on Christmas" paranoia diversion, to distract from actual dirty deeds.

Then I saw the interviews and I got flashbacks to Sen Ron Johnson's tirades about Benghazi.

This is very much like the deep-seated paranoia that we saw during the 1950s with the red scare and lavender scare.

It also reminded me of this incident back from 2015 during the Obama years when the Republicans were accusing Obama of having the military invade Texas, specifically that "The federal government is preparing a military takeover of Texas using secret tunnels built un closed Wal-Mart stores so troops can move silently about the state."

Obama's Invasion of Texas: Partisanship Becomes a Sport

The Jade Helm 15 paranoia shows that nut-jobs are driving the Republican Party.

www.newsweek.com

Yes.

Days of Distraction. Jade Helms was the nonsensical conspiracy theory I was trying to think of and I still beleive it was largely an FSB/GQP psy-ops designed to appeal to literally the lowest IQ people in order to mobilize and give shape to their paranoia and fear.

Probably helped sell a shitload of guns and ammo, bottled water, camo and god knows what else these booger eaters thought they needed to survive the feds taking over their trailer parks.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

 

[ravenstone]

 

[KaraBulut]

That one won't age well.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

Rather ironic since it was Biden that managed the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and was instrumental in toppling Assad and defeating RRRXXZia in Syria.

 

[rareboy]