I need to calm down because I am going insane watching history be completely rewritten in real time.
If you read the news and watched the mainstream media tell the story, just six weeks ago the President of the United States Joe Biden was the best version ever, doing handstands while reciting Homer in Greek and driving his advisers to exhaustion by knowing more and quizzing them relentlessly about facts and policies he knew better than they.
Six weeks.
Now, the fact that Biden is president is almost completely memory-holed. I saw a version of his schedule earlier this week and there was only one thing on it, and that was meeting a winning sports team. Seriously.
Biden — who held just one public event this week — is currently lounging on the beach in Delaware.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 10, 2024
He has spent 40% of his entire presidency on vacation.
Who is running the country? pic.twitter.com/NAva2BLPMm
Kamala Harris was a drag on the ticket because, well, she is an idiot with the political instincts of a naked mole rat. She was Border Czar, opposed fracking, was 100% on board with Bidenomics, and the Democrats desperately needed to get rid of her.
Now she is a joyful warrior, the rebirth of Jack Kennedy and a Barack Obama-level political genius, and is all for a tough border. Every single policy position she ever took has been rejected and replaced with literally nothing--there is no policy section on her website--and the media is patiently waiting WEEKS to even speak with her because they are afraid that she will look like the idiot she is if she is asked a question.
The media's willingness to play along with the gaslighting and memory-holing of Harris' record over the last four years is truly jaw-dropping. pic.twitter.com/wD5yr1M6tN
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 11, 2024
The Associated Press even wrote an analysis that argued it was smart for Harris to avoid talking to the media. A media conglomerate wrote an approving article about avoiding talking to reporters.
I kid you not. It is insane.
Donald Trump was shot a month ago, and the media decided not to use the most iconic photo of the century, at least since 9/11, because it might help Trump. They have essentially memory-holed the entire assassination attempt, watched the Secret Service and the FBI commit PERJURY before Congress, avoid answering questions, give only one press conference on the matter. The media are happy as clams because writing about the attempt might help Trump.
There is massive evidence that something very, very hinky happened on July 13th and before--but nobody seems curious about it besides Republicans in Congress.
And now we learn that Tulsi Gabbard was put on the Terrorist Watch List, and the MSM, again, seems incurious.
After all, the media knows they have a role to play in saving democracy, and if it takes assassinating a presidential candidate and the Stasi suppressing dissent, they are all for it.
Eli Lake wrote a piece for The Free Press yesterday comparing 2024 America to Orwell's 1984, and it is a good read. My only criticism is that he has more faith that America won't become even more Soviet. The Tulsi Gabbard incident is really scary to me. If they can do that to a former soldier Lieutenant Colonel, and former Congresswoman, what can they do to the rest of us?
My wife keeps joking that the FBI or Secret Service will soon be knocking on our door, and it is only half-joking. I secretly wonder, too, in my more, and still infrequent, paranoid moments. But those paranoid moments are getting more frequent by the week. I comfort myself with the knowledge that I am a bit player in the media ecosphere and not worth silencing.
InsanityThings have gotten so insane that Richard Dawkins has been booted off Facebook because he questioned whether men really should be beating up women at the Olympics. Unapproved thoughts must be squashed.
🚨🇬🇧FACEBOOK CENSORS RENOWNED UK BIOLOGIST FOR OPPOSING MALE ATHLETES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS@RichardDawkins :
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 10, 2024
“My entire Facebook account has been deleted, seemingly (no reason given) because I tweeted that genetically male boxers such as Imane Khalif (XY undisputed) should not… pic.twitter.com/VOyuiuo8Y4
Dawkins has had it easy compared to others in the United Kingdom, who are being sentenced to months or even years in prison for Facebook or Twitter posts that are unapproved. Pedophiles are let free while people expressing frustration at Islamists killing children are going to jail. People who posted "inflammatory" comments are already prosecuted and sentenced days or weeks after saying the wrong thing.
Paedophile Jay Fleming, 26, found with 2000+ pics & vids of children being raped & sexually abused, has walked free from court.
— Emily Wilding Davison (@Wommando) August 10, 2024
Judge Khan said if he hadn't pleaded guilty he'd go to prison for 18 months but "you had the good sense to admit what you did"https://t.co/IEsPpesKqJ
Brits in the transnational elites are thrilled with all this, and the Labour government is musing out loud about extraditing Americans and others for posts that they deem offensive. Literally going after Americans who are here and asking the US government to send them over there to get prosecuted. If Kamala Harris becomes president, could this happen?
UK Police Commissioner wants to extradite and prosecute Americans for their speech online. The authoritarians are out of control in the UK.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 10, 2024
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I don't know whether the United States government would comply, but honestly, I am worried.
UK is beyond insane now and I have no desire to go there again … America is sadly heading in that direction….
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) August 10, 2024
I thought ignorance was no excuse for breaking the law and especially for raping a child.
these WOKE apologists who have handed everything over to radicals ( who… https://t.co/O6PKfIQ9Po
Am I catastrophizing? At this point, none of our governments deserve the benefit of the doubt. If I had told you that Tulsi Gabbard would be placed on the terrorist watch list and be stalked in airports, pulled aside for special scrutiny, and have armed agents following her on airplanes, I would have seemed nuts.
Federal Air Marshall Whistleblowers Outraged: Tulsi Gabbard on Watchlist
— Ashley Nicole🌺 (@antiwarmisfit) August 5, 2024
Quiet Skies is a TSA surveillance program with its own compartmentalized suspected terrorist watchlist. It is the same program being weaponized against J6 defendants and their families.#StandWithTulsi pic.twitter.com/SuypzGFoC7
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