Happy Cinco de Mayo to you too! And may I respectfully suggest that people vote for Jill Stein? The two party system isn't working, and she would make an amazing President of the USA.
I would like to see a change, but unfortunately Americans, and the American media, have the attention span of a sand flea.
Biden said in the last few days that he's not going to campaign on Ukraine - he got his $95 billion for his wars of choice. And what do those in Ukraine think? This is from an Australian living in Dnipro in central Ukraine who regularly still travels through Ukraine on business. This is from his recent post on the Duran:
"In one service station I ran into 4 soldiers from one battalion, a Dnipro region battalion i won't say which, but these men were destroyed. They came from a group of around 100, it had been reduced to under 20, and withdrew as they ran out of equipment. They were returning home, without orders, they were simply quitting. I bought them coffee, lunch etc and gave them my business card and asked them to contact if I could help in the future. One man was in tears, both his father and brother were in his batallion, both killed. This is as fucked up as the world can be. Manpower is now Ukraine's catastrophic issue."
It's Easter in Ukraine and Russia, and my wife is making Easter calls she can, many of whom are of course no longer in Ukraine.
So let me wish all who welcome Easter today, and a wish for peace for all.
I am glad you friend and family made it out - it was a particularly scary time! I also have friends and family in Russia too.
The civil war (as my wife calls it) should have ended in 2015 with the Minsk accords, but Kiev never implemented any of it, and the US and the UN never pushed for it to be followed.
The closest to any of it for me was martial law under Poroshenko after the Kerch strait incident.
It infuriates me that it wouldn’t have even started had the election in this nation not been stolen. Not one person would have died, except for those on the gallows, the deserving ones. Two Val’s, obeyme, powers, vindman, I could go on and on. Pdt had them in his sights. They were going to be tried for treason, crimes against humanity, and executed. Or at least exposed as the evil they are, and never allowed near the levers of power again.
the aggression and hate come from our social conditioning. we make each other that way. we can unlearn it though, and with time, we can break the cycle.
Yes, good news is happening in surprising places - not that I wouldn't like to have some of it travel my way in Keene, NH where my one of my die-hard Democratic Party TDS-afflicted neighbors told me last night that the student protestors were actually protesting because they were Trump supporters....But back to some enlightened news/insights with a good twist...The source is from either Moon of Alabama or karlof1's Geopolitical Gymnasium analysis subject 'Hudson RT's Worlds Apart & A Cradle Report' which summarizes arguments from Hudson and Escobar.....Core argument is that 'Outlaw US' and Israel behavior is actually 'frantically' resuscitating the two-state solution.....and the substack article explains the reasons for the revival.....Worth a read.....https://karlof1.substack.com/p/hudson-on-rts-worlds-apart-and-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1779344&post_id=144256381&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1lzegk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Heh! Well, all I can say is you either know them or you don't. They like to THINK they're well-meaning, anyway, and that turns out to be important after all.
It's kind of hard to make genocide feel well-meaning.
Actual "liberals" aren't allowed in US politics anymore. When the corporate-owned media call someone like Biden a "liberal", what they mean is that he's (maybe) a tad more liberal, or perhaps more accurately, slightly less reactionary, than the GOP. Meaning, he might support "a woman's right to choose" or maybe even "gay marriage", neither of which significantly hampers Wall Street's ability to bleed the proles dry.
Yes I think increasingly even normies are sick of the endless wars, restrictions on freedom and other demands from the "moderate centrist" establishment. It is harder and harder to hide the truth particularly from young people who closely track where real unfiltered news, and other information is coming from.
I don't see anything good coming. We are on a path that delights the 1% class. The police are allowing right wing thugs to beat up peaceful protestors and state media is ok with it. Congress has proclaimed that protesting against genocide is anti-Semitic and some members are calling for very harsh punishments. Don't look for the Constitution for help with a pro-1% SCOTUS. And don't forget that the government can spy on us without warrant and the Patriot Act has a very broad definition of domestic terrorism. The USof Israel has passed the tipping point and I see no backing down. Please talk me down.
PS: The state-media is biased for the 1% class and the only way we are getting a peek at the truth is via social media. Looks to me like Twitter is already turning bad and Tic-Tok is soon to go.
Lol! I would expect no other response from you, Thom. Our ruling class doesn't understand what is happening here. They're simply not that bright, and they've had it too easy for too long.
I think you're flat-out wrong about SCOTUS, but we're going to KNOW soon enough, so it's not worth arguing about.
Yeah, yeah, they can spy on everything. But can they really notice and tag EVERYTHING? There's so much information out there they can't possibly keep track of it all, and half of it's cat videos or the like.
As for the Patriot Act, fuck 'em. The more who defy it the sooner it will break down. I figure they already have access to all the dirt on me, which pales in comparison to the dirt on our leaders, so I'm not going to worry about it anymore.
That makes me wonder how much dirt they have on all of us here! I've been too many countries now considered unfriendly, and I suspect the immigration process for my family provided a lot more. There's a huge amount of data that I just had to provide for the step from provisional permanent resident to permanent resident - but oh, well.
We've seen Congress define anti-Semitism as anyone protesting against Israel. Then they came real close to criminalizing anti-Semitism with Repubs wanting to add stiff punishments. The no warrant spying makes it too easy for the government to eliminate leaders of an opposition movement.
* Fed, state, and local law enforcement using fake social media accounts
* Paid informant provocateurs on social media
* Private surveillance contractors infiltrating groups and group chats
Those are just a few off the top of my head, but the point is, they do have huge databases with tons of data on just regular people like us. Still true that they can’t possibly look at it all, but you can bet that cops have been accessing that data to find dirt on every one of those protesters.
there’s an article in The Intercept that i urge everyone to take a look at called The Honey Trap about how the FBI and local police teamed up to attempt entrapment against some activists in Colorado Springs in 2020. they used open source intelligence from Facebook to identify activists ahead of a tenants rights demonstration.
Always glad to oblige. I don't know who is running the country but we know it ain't Biden. Seymour Hersh pointed out that the US and Russian cooperation re. Iran missile attack on Israel was done without Biden's knowledge.
We've seen things getting worse and worse and I can't see it turning around. The Dem party isn't even bothering to pretend they are the People's party. The police allowing the right wing to brutally attack peaceful demonstrators is a first and I think, a peek at things to come. Would love to hear how you see this straightening out.
It seems our kleptocracy has factions. There will be some who just don't want to see their country wrecked by those who obviously don't know WTF they are doing.
As for Israel, some are already seeing support for that writhing mess will lose customers, others won't until they see their bottom line get hit.
I'm optimistic because their systems is built on sand, the enemy is attacking the competent white men they need to prop their crumbling empire. Day by day they their reckless action are making them more and more enemies.
Indeed, the empire is crumbling. The brainwashing is not working any more, and many are seeing the country for what it actually is for the first time in their lives. Vote if you wish, do not me dissuade you from doing so, but voting cannot save the empire from its collapse.
After the collapse? Perhaps the republic can live again. We shall see.
Empires always collapse. Ours is no different, and all the warning signs are there to be read by those who bother to look. Perhaps the republic, or a better version of it, can live again. I don't know. I do know I now might actually live long enough to see the Empire collapse.
Thanks, but I'd rather not see the empire collapse! Makes me imagine your basement issues but a hundred times
worse. I think of the dollar collapsing, and I remember friend's stories of the collapse of the Soviet Union, when a month's salary became enough for a tube of toothpaste.
Neither your druthers nor mine will make any difference. The collapse has already begun. We just don't know how it's going to go yet. If we can get through it without nuking or being nuked by anyone, we can get through it.
First I don’t think it can be stopped. It’s way passed the tipping point. Secondly are you saying that allowing children to be murdered with our weapons is ok if it keep the empire alive?
BTW, Barbarian, I did not see the video embedded in your article. If you find it on Twitter, use this site to download it then upload into your article. Takes just a minute or less.
Thanks, but I copied straight from Rumble. They don't show a picture with a Play button when you post a link like YouTube does, but I always link to Rumble over X because Rumble isn't censored. The link, which is embedded in my text, does take you to the Rumble video.
No, you do not understand. I am not talking about linking to X. I am talking about downloading the video to your computer and then uploading it into your article directly. So your readers can view it inside of your article.
You can also take a screenshot of the video screen, then put up that image and add a link to that. I've done that when it's something that it won't let you embed.
Also, I found out that you can upload PDFs and a few file formats, only you have to drag and drop them. There's no add a file button anywhere.
I was able to upload The Spars Pandemic Scenario, the UCF version, and a copy of an old Readers Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom. 😉👉
You can also upload videos, but you might have to rip them first.
C'mon, guerilla warfare wins EVENTUALLY. IMHO our problem will be that, when the shooting starts, we won't know who's on our side; those doing the shooting will probably agents provocateurs, hired by BlackRock.
I prefer a revolution, but they will turn it into just more us v them, if their propaganda servers are allowed to exist. First casualty is truth, so we must make the lies not broadcastable.
They never stop doing everything they can to make us hate each other for what they are doing to us, because they know their con game is up if most of us start paying attention to them instead of whoever they tell us to hate.
I was 27 … 2000 … when disillusionment visited me. In 1996, I graduated college, worked in 3rd Party politics, but it took presenting facts to the Massachusetts Board of Education, which resulted in my threatened arrest and conviction for wiretapping (I.e. I recorded a public meeting so they couldn’t deny the truth) to disillusion me. Hope for your county left my heart nearly a quarter century ago.
I will never go back. No vote is better than voting for these criminals.
That non-stop clattering noise you hear in the background are all the masks of the American Empire falling off like leaves from a diseased and rotted out tree. As we facilitate and encourage the starving and bombing of children in Gaza, the cowardice evil, greed, and poisonous delusion of supposed democracy and the "American Way" is exposed.
It's nice to see that some people can change their views. I had someone arguing with me last night on Substack, telling me that no matter how much evidence I produce, she will never change her mind
It's unpleasant to admit that one was completely suckered. Some people seem to have too much ego to admit that they were wrong, too. Some of them are in high office.
I saw that same look on a coworker's face when I said the same thing about NPR. She was all making excuses for Biden and Israel until about six weeks ago.
Now she's saying Israel has lost the right to exist by committing a genocide. This is a straight Democratic, VBNMW voter. At least, she was.
Occasionally someone breaks free from the propaganda system. It has an enormous grip on people. The main problem with abused people is convincing then that they have been abused.
A tsunami of revulsion... Yes, that's the perfect analogy of things to come. For those of us who have experienced that revulsion a long while back, we've forgotten how intense it is and how sick to your stomach you feel. I'm amazed that neolibs who consume only mainstream media would have caught on to this reality so quickly, but maybe it's the "forbidden fruit" of TikTok that is giving them these insights?
Everybody's tipping point is different, and it often comes after going to a news source that isn't normal for one, and THAT usually happens when another human being makes them aware of that new source.
With our now former Westchester Democrat, it was images she saw on TikTok, images of children who had obviously been buried alive. She said she has a Gen Z son; probably learned about TikTok from him. So she stepped out of the NPR/MSNBC/NYT box for a bit and that did it for her.
So I’ve been there for fifty years,watched dear Walter lie through his teeth in that grandfatherly voice, so sincere. I started paying attention straight outta high school fresh outta Vietnam, and everything we were told then was lies. All of it.
We haven't had majority rule for most of my life, but I can say things were better when we had something to that.
I'm a democrat, sort of Athenian-style. Please note that I am your political enemy. Cheers!
The devil's always in the definitional details, isn't he?
Difficult for you?
Happy Cinco de Mayo to you too! And may I respectfully suggest that people vote for Jill Stein? The two party system isn't working, and she would make an amazing President of the USA.
Absolutely - third times a charm!
She is my choice!!
If I was American, she would be my choice too!
Yikes. Glad you aren’t American.
I would like to see a change, but unfortunately Americans, and the American media, have the attention span of a sand flea.
Biden said in the last few days that he's not going to campaign on Ukraine - he got his $95 billion for his wars of choice. And what do those in Ukraine think? This is from an Australian living in Dnipro in central Ukraine who regularly still travels through Ukraine on business. This is from his recent post on the Duran:
"In one service station I ran into 4 soldiers from one battalion, a Dnipro region battalion i won't say which, but these men were destroyed. They came from a group of around 100, it had been reduced to under 20, and withdrew as they ran out of equipment. They were returning home, without orders, they were simply quitting. I bought them coffee, lunch etc and gave them my business card and asked them to contact if I could help in the future. One man was in tears, both his father and brother were in his batallion, both killed. This is as fucked up as the world can be. Manpower is now Ukraine's catastrophic issue."
It's Easter in Ukraine and Russia, and my wife is making Easter calls she can, many of whom are of course no longer in Ukraine.
So let me wish all who welcome Easter today, and a wish for peace for all.
Thankfully my Ukrainian friend and his family got out.
It saddens me greatly to see all the Russians (I have Russian friends too), and Ukrainians dead when this war could have ended in March/April 2022.
I am glad you friend and family made it out - it was a particularly scary time! I also have friends and family in Russia too.
The civil war (as my wife calls it) should have ended in 2015 with the Minsk accords, but Kiev never implemented any of it, and the US and the UN never pushed for it to be followed.
The closest to any of it for me was martial law under Poroshenko after the Kerch strait incident.
It should never have begun, but I do know what you're talking about. The flow of the grift clearly takes precedence over human lives.
It infuriates me that it wouldn’t have even started had the election in this nation not been stolen. Not one person would have died, except for those on the gallows, the deserving ones. Two Val’s, obeyme, powers, vindman, I could go on and on. Pdt had them in his sights. They were going to be tried for treason, crimes against humanity, and executed. Or at least exposed as the evil they are, and never allowed near the levers of power again.
Wishing you a blessed Easter (late), which must be hard. Maybe this is the event that will be long thought of as future holidays will recall.
I thank you and this kind woman for this Important information! So much is hidden or muddled with lies or disinformation.
- W E L L , 🙏🏼—- G O D I S ALWAYS G O O D …. !!!!!
AND, HE IS CREATING HIS OWN COMPLETE IMAGE, AND, LIKENESS IN M A N THROUGH MAN’S CO-OPERATION , AND, CHOOSINGS …!!!
If God made us they made us too aggressive and hate-filled. "All we need is love."
the aggression and hate come from our social conditioning. we make each other that way. we can unlearn it though, and with time, we can break the cycle.
Yes, good news is happening in surprising places - not that I wouldn't like to have some of it travel my way in Keene, NH where my one of my die-hard Democratic Party TDS-afflicted neighbors told me last night that the student protestors were actually protesting because they were Trump supporters....But back to some enlightened news/insights with a good twist...The source is from either Moon of Alabama or karlof1's Geopolitical Gymnasium analysis subject 'Hudson RT's Worlds Apart & A Cradle Report' which summarizes arguments from Hudson and Escobar.....Core argument is that 'Outlaw US' and Israel behavior is actually 'frantically' resuscitating the two-state solution.....and the substack article explains the reasons for the revival.....Worth a read.....https://karlof1.substack.com/p/hudson-on-rts-worlds-apart-and-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1779344&post_id=144256381&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1lzegk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Please define a well meaning liberal from a non well meaning liberal.
Don't box us in. Liberal/conservative are a tossed salad today.
Heh! Well, all I can say is you either know them or you don't. They like to THINK they're well-meaning, anyway, and that turns out to be important after all.
It's kind of hard to make genocide feel well-meaning.
Actual "liberals" aren't allowed in US politics anymore. When the corporate-owned media call someone like Biden a "liberal", what they mean is that he's (maybe) a tad more liberal, or perhaps more accurately, slightly less reactionary, than the GOP. Meaning, he might support "a woman's right to choose" or maybe even "gay marriage", neither of which significantly hampers Wall Street's ability to bleed the proles dry.
Yes I think increasingly even normies are sick of the endless wars, restrictions on freedom and other demands from the "moderate centrist" establishment. It is harder and harder to hide the truth particularly from young people who closely track where real unfiltered news, and other information is coming from.
I don't see anything good coming. We are on a path that delights the 1% class. The police are allowing right wing thugs to beat up peaceful protestors and state media is ok with it. Congress has proclaimed that protesting against genocide is anti-Semitic and some members are calling for very harsh punishments. Don't look for the Constitution for help with a pro-1% SCOTUS. And don't forget that the government can spy on us without warrant and the Patriot Act has a very broad definition of domestic terrorism. The USof Israel has passed the tipping point and I see no backing down. Please talk me down.
PS: The state-media is biased for the 1% class and the only way we are getting a peek at the truth is via social media. Looks to me like Twitter is already turning bad and Tic-Tok is soon to go.
Lol! I would expect no other response from you, Thom. Our ruling class doesn't understand what is happening here. They're simply not that bright, and they've had it too easy for too long.
I think you're flat-out wrong about SCOTUS, but we're going to KNOW soon enough, so it's not worth arguing about.
Yeah, yeah, they can spy on everything. But can they really notice and tag EVERYTHING? There's so much information out there they can't possibly keep track of it all, and half of it's cat videos or the like.
As for the Patriot Act, fuck 'em. The more who defy it the sooner it will break down. I figure they already have access to all the dirt on me, which pales in comparison to the dirt on our leaders, so I'm not going to worry about it anymore.
That makes me wonder how much dirt they have on all of us here! I've been too many countries now considered unfriendly, and I suspect the immigration process for my family provided a lot more. There's a huge amount of data that I just had to provide for the step from provisional permanent resident to permanent resident - but oh, well.
We've seen Congress define anti-Semitism as anyone protesting against Israel. Then they came real close to criminalizing anti-Semitism with Repubs wanting to add stiff punishments. The no warrant spying makes it too easy for the government to eliminate leaders of an opposition movement.
I miss the time when our Constitution had a fourth amendment.
* Open Source Intelligence
* Fed, state, and local law enforcement using fake social media accounts
* Paid informant provocateurs on social media
* Private surveillance contractors infiltrating groups and group chats
Those are just a few off the top of my head, but the point is, they do have huge databases with tons of data on just regular people like us. Still true that they can’t possibly look at it all, but you can bet that cops have been accessing that data to find dirt on every one of those protesters.
The point is that they don't have to look at it all. Just that on those that might be leaders.
there’s an article in The Intercept that i urge everyone to take a look at called The Honey Trap about how the FBI and local police teamed up to attempt entrapment against some activists in Colorado Springs in 2020. they used open source intelligence from Facebook to identify activists ahead of a tenants rights demonstration.
...or so they said, anyway....
Always glad to oblige. I don't know who is running the country but we know it ain't Biden. Seymour Hersh pointed out that the US and Russian cooperation re. Iran missile attack on Israel was done without Biden's knowledge.
We've seen things getting worse and worse and I can't see it turning around. The Dem party isn't even bothering to pretend they are the People's party. The police allowing the right wing to brutally attack peaceful demonstrators is a first and I think, a peek at things to come. Would love to hear how you see this straightening out.
It seems our kleptocracy has factions. There will be some who just don't want to see their country wrecked by those who obviously don't know WTF they are doing.
As for Israel, some are already seeing support for that writhing mess will lose customers, others won't until they see their bottom line get hit.
I'm optimistic because their systems is built on sand, the enemy is attacking the competent white men they need to prop their crumbling empire. Day by day they their reckless action are making them more and more enemies.
There will be pain, but they will lose.
AGREED. Here's MY push-back: https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/end-poverty-demand-a-ubi-equal-to-what-congress-pays-itself
The Dems lost me when all they could offer after Trump was that pos Biden.
They lost me in 2016,I Demexited after the stolen primary.Have never gone back.
Indeed, the empire is crumbling. The brainwashing is not working any more, and many are seeing the country for what it actually is for the first time in their lives. Vote if you wish, do not me dissuade you from doing so, but voting cannot save the empire from its collapse.
After the collapse? Perhaps the republic can live again. We shall see.
Empires always collapse. Ours is no different, and all the warning signs are there to be read by those who bother to look. Perhaps the republic, or a better version of it, can live again. I don't know. I do know I now might actually live long enough to see the Empire collapse.
That would be nice.
Thanks, but I'd rather not see the empire collapse! Makes me imagine your basement issues but a hundred times
worse. I think of the dollar collapsing, and I remember friend's stories of the collapse of the Soviet Union, when a month's salary became enough for a tube of toothpaste.
Imagine Americans dealing with that world -
Neither your druthers nor mine will make any difference. The collapse has already begun. We just don't know how it's going to go yet. If we can get through it without nuking or being nuked by anyone, we can get through it.
First I don’t think it can be stopped. It’s way passed the tipping point. Secondly are you saying that allowing children to be murdered with our weapons is ok if it keep the empire alive?
Baking soda works better than toothpaste, doesn't contain SLS/SLES & lots of other nasty chemicals, & is cheaper, FYI.
BTW, Barbarian, I did not see the video embedded in your article. If you find it on Twitter, use this site to download it then upload into your article. Takes just a minute or less.
https://twittervideodownloader.com/
Thanks, but I copied straight from Rumble. They don't show a picture with a Play button when you post a link like YouTube does, but I always link to Rumble over X because Rumble isn't censored. The link, which is embedded in my text, does take you to the Rumble video.
No, you do not understand. I am not talking about linking to X. I am talking about downloading the video to your computer and then uploading it into your article directly. So your readers can view it inside of your article.
Go here: https://morgthorak.substack.com/p/alan-dershowitz-we-must-unleash-lawfare
See that video of Dershowitz? It came from X. It's a rich treasure trove of video you can use right in your own articles.
I confess to being technologically challenged sometimes.. I'll have to experiment with it to learn it, and thank you for showing it to me.
Just paste the URL of the X page with the video into the Twitter Downloader page and it will let you download it.
No worries, we all get confused sometimes. 👍🏻
You can also take a screenshot of the video screen, then put up that image and add a link to that. I've done that when it's something that it won't let you embed.
Also, I found out that you can upload PDFs and a few file formats, only you have to drag and drop them. There's no add a file button anywhere.
I was able to upload The Spars Pandemic Scenario, the UCF version, and a copy of an old Readers Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom. 😉👉
You can also upload videos, but you might have to rip them first.
I can? I suppose I can at that. Thank you!
The Tsunami may come in the form of a civil war. The zombies are totally unrepentant.
Then let it come.
I hope you're well armed. I think my ancient Winchester and S&W police special would have limited usefulness.
C'mon, guerilla warfare wins EVENTUALLY. IMHO our problem will be that, when the shooting starts, we won't know who's on our side; those doing the shooting will probably agents provocateurs, hired by BlackRock.
I prefer a revolution, but they will turn it into just more us v them, if their propaganda servers are allowed to exist. First casualty is truth, so we must make the lies not broadcastable.
They never stop doing everything they can to make us hate each other for what they are doing to us, because they know their con game is up if most of us start paying attention to them instead of whoever they tell us to hate.
I was 27 … 2000 … when disillusionment visited me. In 1996, I graduated college, worked in 3rd Party politics, but it took presenting facts to the Massachusetts Board of Education, which resulted in my threatened arrest and conviction for wiretapping (I.e. I recorded a public meeting so they couldn’t deny the truth) to disillusion me. Hope for your county left my heart nearly a quarter century ago.
I will never go back. No vote is better than voting for these criminals.
That non-stop clattering noise you hear in the background are all the masks of the American Empire falling off like leaves from a diseased and rotted out tree. As we facilitate and encourage the starving and bombing of children in Gaza, the cowardice evil, greed, and poisonous delusion of supposed democracy and the "American Way" is exposed.
It's nice to see that some people can change their views. I had someone arguing with me last night on Substack, telling me that no matter how much evidence I produce, she will never change her mind
Keep on trying you are planting the seeds of doubt.
It's unpleasant to admit that one was completely suckered. Some people seem to have too much ego to admit that they were wrong, too. Some of them are in high office.
She was clearly brainwashed. Could not fathom that what she was told on MSNBC was not a universal truth
I saw that same look on a coworker's face when I said the same thing about NPR. She was all making excuses for Biden and Israel until about six weeks ago.
Now she's saying Israel has lost the right to exist by committing a genocide. This is a straight Democratic, VBNMW voter. At least, she was.
Occasionally someone breaks free from the propaganda system. It has an enormous grip on people. The main problem with abused people is convincing then that they have been abused.
coulda been a troll
A tsunami of revulsion... Yes, that's the perfect analogy of things to come. For those of us who have experienced that revulsion a long while back, we've forgotten how intense it is and how sick to your stomach you feel. I'm amazed that neolibs who consume only mainstream media would have caught on to this reality so quickly, but maybe it's the "forbidden fruit" of TikTok that is giving them these insights?
Everybody's tipping point is different, and it often comes after going to a news source that isn't normal for one, and THAT usually happens when another human being makes them aware of that new source.
With our now former Westchester Democrat, it was images she saw on TikTok, images of children who had obviously been buried alive. She said she has a Gen Z son; probably learned about TikTok from him. So she stepped out of the NPR/MSNBC/NYT box for a bit and that did it for her.
So I’ve been there for fifty years,watched dear Walter lie through his teeth in that grandfatherly voice, so sincere. I started paying attention straight outta high school fresh outta Vietnam, and everything we were told then was lies. All of it.