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NJCher

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16. It shocks me, too
Tue Dec 13, 2022, 08:09 AM
Dec 2022

That it is coming from the US.

It’s all about making money from the rubes. Ideology is second: making money is first. The money comes in through donations from trump’s save the country political claims. Bannon, of course, is up for a prison term from a build the wall scam.

The wall scam was sold to the rubes on the basis of keeping immigrants out, appealing to fear that immigrants would take their jobs. Instead, bannon took their money.l

At first I did not realize that it was U.S.-based, and I made a comment to my spouse about it. He, who also watches the news carefully, said that it was the fault of bannon running around the world promoting thieir right wing ideology.

The next day on the news I noticed that at least one commentator was tracing it to Trump and Bannon. And there are probably more, but I did hear this one.

Another item, in addition to what you list above, that I think it’s important to pay attention to, is social media and the ability to lie and spread disinformation so quickly on various platforms. This is free media for them. Prior to this, we had editors who acted as gate keepers.

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