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Inside the "mind" of a Republican (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2021
OP
And The Washington Times was bought by a Korean cult. George HW Bush had an interesting relationship
Midnight Writer
Feb 2021
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Throck
(2,520 posts)1. Nice :)
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)2. He looks like the son of that sleazy doctor Bornstein
Delarage
(2,186 posts)4. I think this is how they see the world
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|Thekaspervote
(32,819 posts)5. This SCOTUS ruling from 7/20 talks about the Ntl Compact Vote Law
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)6. Interesting link!
I learned that "The Epoch Times" (which has appeared on the newspaper rack at a local supermarket) is run by a Chinese religious sect (read: cult).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
The Epoch Times has promoted an array of pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories[75][76] and became one of Trump's closest media allies and defenders.[76][22] The paper financially benefited from its promotion of Trump conspiracies, increasing its revenue nearly fourfold during the first three years of Trump's administration (from $3.9 million in 2016 to $15.5 million in 2019) as it catered to Trump's most ardent supporters, to whom the paper marketed itself via targeted social media advertising.[77] The publication championed Trump's Spygate conspiracy theory in its news coverage and advertising, and the Epoch Media Group's Edge of Wonder videos on YouTube have spread the far-right, pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory,[18] and embraced false "QAnon" claims.[78] An NBC News report found that two of Edge of Wonder's hosts have been a creative director and chief photo editor at The Epoch Times respectively. The newspaper promoted Edge of Wonder videos in dozens of Facebook posts through 2019.[18]
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After Trump was defeated by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, The Epoch Times consistently sought to question the election results.[82] The organization produced a 93-minute video that falsely suggested widespread fraud in the counting; one interviewee, attorney Lin Wood, falsely alleged that China had bought an American election vendor.[83] Versions of the video on YouTube, the Epoch Times website and NTD were viewed hundreds of thousands of times.[83] After Trump's election loss, The Epoch Times created a network of seven new YouTube channels to pump out election disinformation and other false claims, including lies about the Nashville Christmas Day bombing.[76] Only one of the seven YouTube channels disclosed its ties to the Epoch Times or Falun Gong.[76] In the two and a half months after their creation, the disinformation channels garnered tens of millions of views and at least 1.1 million subscribers.[76] One of the channel ("Eye Opener With Michael Lewis" portrays itself as an independent effort by the host "and a few friends."[76] After the videos' false and misleading claims were reported on, YouTube removed several of the videos in accordance with the site's policy against election disinformation.[76]
The newspaper helped publicize the January 6, 2021 Trump rally in Washington. D.C. that led to the storming of the Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob. Afterward, one of its columnists suggested that the riot was a "false flag" operation,[82] and Michael Lewis's Epoch Times-linked YouTube channel echoes the same lie, suggesting that the Capitol attack was orchestrated by "antifa" as part of an "old Communist tactic."[76]
Midnight Writer
(21,841 posts)7. And The Washington Times was bought by a Korean cult. George HW Bush had an interesting relationship
with the Moonies. They mobilized their followers to support him, gave him millions in donations.
Bush once was a special guest of a Moonie mass marriage, where hundreds of couples were paired off by the Reverend Moon and forced to marry.
The GOP has been fishing the loony bins for voters for a long time.