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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Don't forget, Mensch is also a conservative and has about the
Tue May 23, 2017, 03:48 PM
May 2017

same relationship with the truth as Infowars. The big difference is that Infowars is powerful and influential and she's not. Yet.

If she develops a devoted following of people who've chosen her over the mainstream news sources that continually contradict her or ignore her "information," (can't continue to respect both, far too divergent), it's only reasonable to wonder what she will do with the power base she has developed.

The usual direction for these people is take their followers increasingly farther from a fact-based middle that queers their game by feeding them increasingly strong kool-aid until they arrive at a la-la-land where Democrats have become the enemy and it is merely a short slide from the far left to the far right.

Add to this that we know the Kochtopus and other big right-wing operations are actively trying to break apart the left by drawing vulnerable people from the left away, ideally to the far right, and there is real reason for concern. Whatever this one's up to, there are actually many operations flooding America with "free" kool-aid.

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the kind of news trump lives for....fuck infowars and the white house for allowing such shit spanone May 2017 #1
The Administration wants lots of noisy BS controversy to hide its incompetence struggle4progress May 2017 #2
Sickening get the red out May 2017 #3
Why would any MSM reporters attend any Whitehouse AJT May 2017 #4
Sick. mhw May 2017 #5
Don't forget, Mensch is also a conservative and has about the Hortensis May 2017 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author mhw May 2017 #10
Geezus. Conservative in the UK is not the same as Republican American conservative. mhw May 2017 #11
Yeah, she is Spider Jerusalem May 2017 #12
"LOOKOUT LOUISE!!" mhw May 2017 #14
She is NOTHING like an American right-winger. OilemFirchen May 2017 #15
She's a lot more like one than you seem to want to admit Spider Jerusalem May 2017 #16
Umm. Who needs to spin zany ct's about Trump..HE IS ZANY. mhw May 2017 #17
No. She simply isn't. OilemFirchen May 2017 #18
You don't know her very much at all Spider Jerusalem May 2017 #21
I don't know her at all. OilemFirchen May 2017 #22
Thank you. The viral hatred of this woman is fking bizaar. mhw May 2017 #20
Conservative is a BASIC PERSONALITY TYPE. Hortensis May 2017 #13
this is sick on so many levels. mercuryblues May 2017 #6
omigawd they make me so sick barbtries May 2017 #7
The victims are kids! One of the dead was just 8. greatauntoftriplets May 2017 #9
Jerome Corsi, the guy who stuck us with Bush for a second term? jmowreader May 2017 #19
Fuck Infowars. Initech May 2017 #23
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