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“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” —Tom Smothers

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Great quote!

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And from someone who was probably not the most conservative.

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The NYT is to the left what the Koran is to Muslims. It is a wholistic document that the faithful and devout believe is the revealed word of God and has to be completely believed and adhered to. In the Koran, Jews, gays, and lesbians are an abomination to Allah and therefore must be killed as they are found. Every reference to Christians is pejorative and they and all other infidels are to be destroyed, or at least subjugated. The left is just like this, but towards conservatives, traditionalists, libertarians, Republicans, aka infidels, and leftists who still believe in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Western society. (These leftists are considered apostate and are even more guilty than the infidels, as they have received the revealed word of God from the NYT but do not believe it, somehow).

So, the leftists are on their own jihad and are totally fanatically committed to it, no matter the destruction and evil they perpetrate on others, and themselves.

Danny Huckabee

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Great analogy. As recently as Obama, I still held the NYT to be what it once was, because I had always trusted it. The underlying subconscious or unconscious paradigm I didn't realize I believe in was that, sure, there are fringe psychos and politicos, evil even, but that the main "tree of liberty," still existed and that progress was being made, the arc of justice being long, and sometimes longer, but that foundational values were a kind of rootball. It was Dr. Kory on Dark Horse in June of 2021 that obliterated that unconscious paradigm for me. The censorship industrial complex also creates narratives, and metanarratives, and realities, and the boomers and old school liberals are under a laser focused attack, which does have the trust in legacy media as one of its unconscious axioms. If cognitive dissonance starts to occur, the metanarrative rushes in to halt it and swoop people up into a false reality. I had a fight with my friend, whom I called a Moonie and he said I had a tin foil hat. (I'm obviosuly failing at being diplomatic lol) Just today I was trying to use the bloodbath propaganda as evidence to prove to him he is being propagandized. But the metacrisis, plus the false metanarratives, keep people in a state of fear and many liberals and progressives are atheists, which makes them more vulnerable, as they cannot stand in a higher set of principles.

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“Always trusted it,” “what it ‘once was’” — I have decided that was one of our problems. I have decided everything I thought I knew to be true about our history is suspect, at least might be questioned.

Wasn’t the NYT guilty of faulty reporting of the Holocaust? Wasn’t it always run by leftists, were there any reputable journalists of the past who weren’t left-leaning? Speaking as an upper Millennial.

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"unconscious paradigm". That describes the vague feelings I've been having since 2016! Everything you mention makes sense. Skepticism is very slowly replacing my innate tendency toward naiveté.

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Well put. Thank you

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Tell me this, John. Seriously. In the past few years, where on earth did you run into a “moderate liberal?”

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I think he met Mike Pence...

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Hard to believe but there are a few of them out there that I have met. But definitely not the norm.

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John, it just seems to me they are sticking with Biden’s far far left agenda, even though they voted for “good ‘ol Joe” and were absolutely hoodwinked. Just like the jab, they refuse to admit they were hoodwinked, very much to the detriment of everyone.

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Steve, I think what you are describing is embraced by about 90% of the libs I have encountered, but it could be even higher than that. Also what I have observed is that this view seems to have nothing to do with intelligence or IQ level. Its bewildering to me.

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Ego has to be in the mix!

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There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING, about Biden (or whomever is operating the animatronic known as "Joe Biden") that is "far far left," or left, at all. Old Joe is a corporatist warmonger, always has been.

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Hahahahahahahaha! That too!!

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As is ALL mainstream news from cable, TV, social media, magazines and radio.

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I subscribed to WaPo and NYT for several years, holding them up to other sources. They were never great, but then they took a violent turn into the ditch four years ago and I quit them both. Not even for $2 a month would I go back.

It makes you wonder if the "followers" of the NYT ever did really think for themselves--as we used to assume, or did they always let news sources think for them, and consider the material the Times fed them to be illumined discourse and swallow it whole? The NYT poses itself as the paper of record, yet it was set up as a key organ of Operation Mockingbird. This became widely known to those who poked behind the curtain.

We humans are herd animals, and people in power will take advantage of that, herding them this way and that, even if they test high on an IQ test. True intelligence and perception are a wholly different thing than schooling or IQ.

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I've thought for some while that the true root of all the discord, polarization, etc. is human nature itself.

“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an un-uprooted small corner of evil.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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Conquering the Dark Side within is necessary to move forward as a shining light for others.

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My newly acquired Airedale puppy would not pee on the NYT. I had to purchase the WSJ to continue the housebreaking routine.

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Slow down there youngster! Sure the Millennials may have inched ahead of the Boomers as the largest generation, but there are still about 70 million of us kicking and we aren't all brainwashed zombies! Zombies come in all shapes, sizes and ages, and being urban and a consumer of propaganda is probably a more important contributing factor than age.

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Yes I’m a baby boomer and I have nothing to do with all these lies. I still believe in common sense and free thinking. As the saying goes. Don’t believe a thing you hear and only 50% of what you see. I’m not jabbed on any meds and don’t believe a thing these crazies say. YES IM A BABY BOOMER A CANADIAN AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS TO STAY FREE!!!!

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What about the Boomer Irish Americans? What the heck happened to them?! They are about as big of a solid voting block of blind-voting die-hard Dems as anyone. I feel Iike I’ve spotted a rare butterfly when I meet a conservative Irishperson of a certain age.

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That seems like more of a cultural problem than an age one. I don't hang out with a lot of Irish Americans, although I married one long ago. Seems like a lot of the ones I knew back then were competing to get the most shit-faced from alcohol and many succeeded. I don't think your Boomer-age cohort were the hippies that John is talking about back in the day. Not their drug of choice!

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My parents generation are yellow dog democrats. They ate processed cheese and bologna, read the New York Times, took every pill prescribed by their doctors, and were never any of the things you described. To the contrary, very much appealed to authority.

My dad is the only one out of eight, including steps, between my husband and me, that had any discernment the past four years.

But then, my dad has always leaned more conservative. He still eats processed cheese.

My mom paid for her lack of discernment with three massive strokes.

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I think we need to look into what is really in that processed cheese. Gee wiz!

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I sincerely apologize for the 'wrong-think' I had reading your post ...

'Sorry'

pb

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What happened to them is 'mass psychosis'. The process is outlined here:

https://michaelwarden.substack.com/p/the-witch-the-war-and-the-virus-part

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No ... what happened to MSM ... is that they have been 'controlled' ... by very evil people .... 'out to destroy us' people ... for over a century ...

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I don't disagree, but the two are not incompatible. One is the cause of the other.

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<< These are the same people who were highly critical of the Iraq War in 2003, were fastidious about organic food and “wellness” instead of Big Pharma health “solutions,” and who regarded free speech as a core liberal value. What happened to them? What can account for their abandonment of their previous worldview? >>

John, you're describing something real, and I think about this a lot. I would propose that the wellness-type values and free speech were not anything they were especially committed to. The test of whether you love free speech is advocating for the expression of view you may despise.

As for wellness, this is just one trend after the next. Maybe these were the same people certain vitamin C would cure everything. Or was it vitamin D. Maybe it was Coenzyme Q10. This is all the same magical thinking that leads to the belief in vaccines. It is still a drug-based model. For that matter, so is "health food," because the presumption is that the substance makes the difference and not a whole-life approach, or state of mind.

Are you aware of the field of moral psychology, which has determined (approximately) that the political concept "conservative" translates to "disgusted person." So the measure of conservatism is one's disgust (which translates into biological matter, body fluids, etc.). So all someone has to do is get people disgusted and they morph into conservative.

Finally, we need to look at digital conditions. This has changed how people think of themselves and everything else. I was fortunate to know Eric McLuhan, son of Marshall. He wrote to me once, “The body is everywhere assaulted by all of our new media, a state which has resulted in deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world. In the age of disembodied communication, the meaning and significance and experience of the body is utterly transformed and distorted.”

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Baby Boomer here.

So many people of my generation are chained to the NY Times. I'm embarrassed to say I was one of them until two and a half years ago. That's when I started following Dr. McCullough, Dr. Kory, Dr. Lawrie, Dr's. Weinstein & Heying, and other courageous truth-tellers.

After the whole weapons of mass destruction - Judith Miller - Scooter Libby debacle, I should have questioned the wisdom of relying on the NYTimes for news, but I didn't.

For the past couple years I have made numerous attempts to convince people the NY Times lies about nearly everything of substance. Most people in my circle remain unconvinced.

As I see it, there are two reasons the NY Times has such a grip on our society:

1. The writing in the NY Times is top-knotch. People have trouble believing propaganda comes in such an eloquent package.

2. The NY Times has snob appeal. If you read the NY Times, you are perceived as part of polite society. You are upper-crust.

All that said, I will continue my efforts to get people to wake up. For example, today I'll be sending people links to this excellent substack post.

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I have a liberal "friend" who is so proud that he reads the NY Slime and the Washington Compost. He didn't take it too well when I told them he was ingesting pure lies!

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I agree 100%. I was a Times reader until four years ago when I started following some of the same truth-tellers. I have had the same unsuccessful experience with my friends and family for the reasons you eloquently articulate. Such a shame they are blind to truth.

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They licked their finger and stuck it in the air to see which direction the wind was flowing and thought it best to go with the winds of change. The same people who used to persecute me and call me a faggot (which I am not) now persecute me and call me a homophobe.

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Great that you're fighting for the truth! Interesting, and good, that so many that are fighting like you, like Kennedy, Wolf, Kory, Malone, Kirsch, Tamimi, and so many others are from the left. This gives me hope, though we are still in a death's struggle against the orcs of the Uniparty.

BTW, did you see the video of Obama going into 10 Downing earlier today. No doubt to give Sunak his march orders in the Great Reset.

Remember what Churchill said: never, never, ever, give up the fight!

Danny

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Yeah ... sadly ... I hate to 'burst your bubble' ... Churchill was a 'bought and paid for' drunken aristocrat ... 'hired' to start WWII ... behind Chamberlain's back ... I would have torn down every statue of Churchill in London ... and replaced them with statues of Tommy Robinson ....

That was ... until the same people that bought Churchill ... bought Tommy Robinson ...

(They buy ... a lot ... of people ... they buy a lot ... of everything ... including media companies)

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I think about how he and FDR sold Eastern Europe to the Soviets… I don’t know much about it, and that’s the problem. We were taught very narrowly. And the NYT was the Gospel. Even at a Catholic Jesuit school (the more recent, Marxist variety of Jesuits)

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Yeah ... I named the head of the American Teachers Union in my Police complaints ...

The transcripts of Churchill and FDR's telephone conversations about Pearl Harbor - where 2500 U.S. servicemen were sacrificed .... along with some older warships (but no aircraft carriers!) .... 2000 miles off the U.S. mainland ... as 'bait' to a deliberately oil starved (an act of war) Japan ... are sealed forever in U.S. archives ... and 'lost' in the British archives ...

Many records of Churchill are sealed in the British archives until 2050 (Rudolph Hess until 2042) ...

It 'says' a lot ...

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I follow Tommy on Telegram and I don't see where he has been bought out. He was just arrested last week at his daughter's birthday party and thrown in jail for the weekend. For my money he is the best reporter out there! Do you have evidence of your claim?

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Yes - I'm still a fan of Tommy ... but I don't avidly follow him as I did .... probably in the pre-'Covid' period ... I have only seen a couple of clips of him in the last year or so ...

But a few years back, 'big money' was 'backing Tommy ... at least for a period ... I think he left the UK for while ... and a lot of people noticed the influence ... and felt Tommy was being naive ...

It's been more a case of me following 'Covid' since ... without the time to follow him as I did ... but it was a case of me, and others, being disappointed with what he seemed to be embracing ...

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It still Doesn’t answer the question for me is how anti CIA, ACLU loving, war hating Libs switched on a dime. I find it unfathomable. Gay stuff was like that too. One day everyone hated gays. A year later everyone was thrilled their som was gay. About 30 years ago I knew some gay activists. They laid into me about gay marriage. I was somewhat opposed. But I have enough libertarian in me to within a half hour of discussion say ‘yeah, if you want to, go ahead’. Which I reiterated to fellow open minded Canadians. Who jumped all over me. NO ONE WAS PRO GAY MARRIAGE. No one. About ten years later everyone switched. Overnight. And weirdly they refused to admit they used to think the opposite. ‘I have always been pro gay marriage. Always.’ No one was. Obama saying to Mitt ‘Mitt, the 90s are calling. They want their foreign policy back.’ Re Russia. Now? Russia is our enemy and always has been. Same group that sneered at Mitt Romney are all in with ‘stopping Russia in Europe so we don’t have to fight them here’.

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We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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I think it has something to do with the 72 'jabs (now 75) that kids had to have ... between birth ... and 16 years old ... to go to school ...

What a brilliant 'concept' those destroying us, implemented for our children ... but not theirs ...

Pure genius! ... Evil genius that is ...

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It is really unfathomable, isn’t it?

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Liberalism has more in common with totalitarianism than does the system that Trump advocates.

Totalitarians promote all power to the government.

That’s why liberals trust that vaccines mandates are correct.

Calling Trump a Nazi is actually a form of projection ( a psychological defense mechanism ).

Trump wasn’t going to mandate anything.

The liberals have more in common with The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, than any Trump supporter, due to the nature of socialism and the belief that government should rule the people.

Calling someone’s opinion that is different from yours, propaganda or disinformation is just one justification that is used to justify government interference in speech rights.

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Mainstream Media and much of Alternative media is and has been Predator Controlled for at least the last 100 years.

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1898, so-called "Spanish American War"....125+ years....

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Ow, thank you

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