Learn To Tell Psyops

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Today I come to you with tears in my eyes to beg you for the sake of little fishes and all the oceans they swim in, to learn to tell when you’re being spun.

No, guys, seriously.

I know, I know. We used to be psyopped without realizing it. For most of us my age and up to 40 years younger, this was simply how life was in our formative years. Suddenly some topic trended and was in all the news, all the entertainment, and everyone talked about it. We imagined, if we imagined anything, that something set it off and suddenly it became important.

Except…

Having grown up where I did I knew better, and after a while I started noticing the trends. Like if there was something the left was pushing, suddenly it was full of sympathetic depictions everywhere at the same time and the ah…. national dialogue was shaped to support it.

This has failed because they no longer control everything. But they still have their psyops going. It starts with twitter. It includes a certain number of commenters on “right” blogs. And it pushes, pushes, pushes, and about half of you people always fall for it. Every single blessed time.

And I want to ask you: WHY?

It’s not like they haven’t played you over and over and over again for the last five years, starting with convincing a good number of you that I was crazy for denying how scary the killer Covid was. (It’s called looking at the numbers. Superpower, yo.)

Please, stop it. Please, please, please.

A good way to detect a psyop from the left is that it’s everywhere at once and only one viewpoint is being pushed. From everywhere.

Like, suddenly, we need to improve — fix — the entire economy NOOOOOOOW or we’ll lose our electoral ascendance… because blue-fraud-holes went hard left in the least-voted in elections ever? Where does that make sense?

Stop and think before you run around screaming with your hair on fire. It doesn’t make sense? It’s everywhere at once?

It’s a psyops!

The variant on the latest is that it’s a referendum on Trump. Because yeah, that makes perfect sense. Hey, ya’ll, an election at the most local level, and a three way one at that, in NYC is somehow a referendum on Trump.

Who the heck believes that? Much less gets blackpilled by it?

Well, there’s all these commenters in righty blogs….

There sure are. And have you kept track of other things they pushed? Do you know they aren’t foreign? Or clankers? Or foreign clankers, for that matter?

Another, deeper, longer running psyops is the left trying to hide the fact their rank and file went HARD anti-semitic by claiming that it’s the right that loves Hitler and that, somehow, Nick Fuentes (The gay catboy) is “splitting the right coalition”.) No one sane can believe this. Even before seeing Fuentes slobber all over Stalin’s long dead boner on Tucker Carlson. Most of the “MAGA” people on the street would respond to Fuentes with “Who?” and maybe “Is he a singer?”

But they’re keeping on keeping on, and again any number of total idiots buy this. “Ooooh. Groypers are taking over the GOP.”

No. Groypers are revolting and have been for a long time (they’ve been around longer than people are aware) and not very bright, but they’re not taking over the right or the GOP. And no, trust me, the young people aren’t even vaguely confused about this.

Again, have you considered most of the idiots screaming about Jews or Israel online are foreign or bots (and some foreign bots. Or act like it.)?

For one political allegiances don’t shift that fast. For another it’s simply not a US thing.

Look, I knew that the explosion in the Springs (the one where some guy bombed his accountant, but they tried to claim it was) where it supposedly was racist and against the NAACP office was nonsense. As I told people online that morning “You need to have enough of a minority to hate it, and Colorado Springs is the whitest city I ever lived in.” I mean, there were Hispanics and Latins of various sorts, but most of the rare black people were airforce and didn’t behave like a minority. (I think that’s changed.) There’s not enough there to cause “ethnic hatred.”

In the same way in most of this country there simply aren’t enough Jews for there to be genuine, inbred anti-semitism. We’re too spread out. We’re too tolerant. And no one cares. And the right is so jaded about the MSM the last thing we believe is what they report. Also those of us older than ten know that the war crimes are always committed by Palestinians, and the rest is propaganda.

This sudden upsurge of hatred for Jews is not real. The sudden upsurge of hatred for Israel isn’t either. Oh, it partakes the pudding heads who think we can survive as utter isolationists, but most people ain’t that. And most people get that Israel is a more reliable ally than Canada and far more useful. (Okay, damning with faint praise. Really Israel is a better ally than the entire EU. Okay, damning with faint praise again. But you get my point.)

There are other long running psyops going that don’t make much sense. Like the one where all women hate all men.

Cooey! have you met women? The feminists tried this bullshit. It never worked. We’re made to go together, and we tend to come together anyway.

Ask yourself who, precisely, benefits from this “war” between men and women. Because it ain’t the right.

Or the stupid idea all women/blacks/purple polka dotted one eyed lesbians are lefty voters. For the love of bugs, people. Stop buying the left’s idea that big groups are composed of widgets.

If you want to keep drinking the left’s ink I can’t stop you.

But I can make fun of you and point and make duck noises. And I will.

I’ll also keep, not so gently, telling you you’re being d*mn asses.

For your sanity, for your self-preservation, for the sake of the republic: Learn to recognize psyops.

And then teach others.

Because psyops are all they have. The sooner we take that weapon away, the best for the world.


180 thoughts on “Learn To Tell Psyops”

      1. My voices told me to go visit the old fishing hole, and see if any of my guns that fell out during that one fishing trip are showing.

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  4. I come here for the sane & rational voices. The last time I was really worried was when everybody went all out for sympathy for Ukraine when Putty-Cat invaded it. I mean instantly Ukraine, the famously corrupt Ukraine, became the most virtuous country in not only the entire universe, but every possible universe! Now, I think Putty-Cat is a vile bully and invading one’s neighbors to try to put the toothpaste of the USSR back in the tube is a bad idea, but clearly the word had gone out.

    As to the jooooz, people are more tolerant than the idjits on TV or the pod universe, or whatever passes for info/psy ops these days. My best friend is Jewish, and during the “Palestinian” propaganda intifida, his middle class suburban neighbors told him to let them know if anybody gave him any grief.

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      2. I am taking massive delight in Ukraine’s secret weapon being “hey, for a former Soviet nation, we’re amazingly non-corrupt!”

        Even the US military isn’t completely free from folks stealing supplies, but our secret power is that it’s mostly controlled, on all levels.

        Russia very clearly expected Ukraine to have put in a new network of organized corruption that sells the fuel and replaces it with water, etc.

        And they mostly didn’t.

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          1. What the heck does “support Ukraine” look like, even?

            I got a lot of folks screeching how I supported Ukraine for… doing exactly what I do for Israel, and go “we need to get the F out of the way and let them fight” with a side of “heck yeah let’s sell them weapons! There’s tons of American farmers over there, I want them armed.”

            But those discussions — well, another sign of psyop.
            Anythign that isn’t “oh, Putin is scary, they’re nuclear, we need to let them eat the neighbors at will” suddenly turns into “you want Americans to fight and die for Ukraine!”

            Whiskey Tango, over?!

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            1. It’s “If you don’t want America to spend more to support the Ukraine, then you’re pro-Putin”.

              And yes, this was from an European.

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                    1. A) North Korea has provoked the USA by meddling in the former Moscow empire portion of the USA’s sphere of influence.
                      B) This merits a special military operation to Moscow to start restoring order.
                      C) Then full and complete denazification of the former Moscow empire.

                      Half a step more seriously, the UN security council is pretty much the US sphere of influence, and the UN merits some special military operations, and some denazification, and there are extremely concerning signs of provocative influence by various adversarial entities.

                      Is everyone very confident that none of the Jew Haters in Turtle Bay voted in the mayoral election?

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                2. Nod.

                  And why should we listen to the people who wanted to buy oil from Putin and didn’t spend money to keep their military prepared.

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            2. “I’m not going to die for ISRAEL!1!!” “I’m not going to die for UKRAINE!1!!”

              Well, no one asked them to… *eyeroll*

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          2. I’ve run into the opposite in this very blog. “If you don’t cheer Putin on and believe he’s great, you want us to send troops to Ukraine/adore the Ukraine.”
            Neither. Nor. I have always hated KGB horror Putin with the fire of a thousand suns. And Ukraine? I wish it the best, but they have even more challenges than us.

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        2. Difference in motivation.

          When my puppy dog goes after a rabbit, she’s running for entertainment, not for prey. The rabbit is running for his life.

          Ukraine found that the level of corruption it could tolerate was as close to none as it could get.

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          1. Yep.
            And that by being not-corrupt, they could get all kinds of money coming in.

            As I’ve mentioned a lot, there’s a ton of American farmers in Ukraine. A lot of them are from Iowa.

            Because Iowa farmers know corn, and grain, and all kinds of tricks to upgrade and really get mad amounts of food out of there– especially with the natural gas right there to make tons of fertilizer.

            BUT for that you have to not eat the seed corn, or steal and sell it either.

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            1. There’s also a ton of Ukrainian refugees in Alberta, who fled the Holodomor.

              Rudyard Kipling wrote “Russia To the Pacifists” about the Communists takeover. I think he would be horrified by what’s happening here and in Europe.

              https://tinyl.co/3wnO

              “Singing:— Let down by the foot and the head—
              Shovel and smooth it all!
              So do we bury a Nation dead . . .
              And who shall be next to fall, good sirs,
              With your good help to fall?”

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        3. I know early aid, of food and personal stuff was known to have left the Gov’t warehouses and all reached a few distribution places, then much would vaporize. Some of that was starting to not make the distro, but was still getting to the people. “Hey, if the managers are corrupt, nothing says were can’t corrupt somewhere before them in the lines and get this stuff closer to where needed.” was starting to happen, but my line of info there dried up.

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          1. :Snickers: Did you hear about that in depth investigation about the vanished aid, from the US side?

            There was US aid that never made it to the distribution end-points, and that’s obviously a big deal. US military delivered it to US warehouses, but hm it got messy after that.

            When US investigators got on the ground…they found that it had indeed been delivered to American aid groups, and then vanished.

            Rather than vanished after delivery to even local contractors. Who all had their documents in order and were very cooperative with investigations.

            …”strangely,” the investigation ended, there.

            I kinda suspect that’s why they knew to go at USAID when Trump got in, but it’s also why I am absolutely giggling because the thieves “knew” that the aid programs were corrupt, so they could steal before it got delivered because they wouldn’t want to get caught.

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        4. Not to mention the Russian military/intelligence types who pocketed the money they were supposed to be using to suborn Ukrainian mayors near the Russia/Ukraine border. <grin>.

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        1. All of the East is corrupt. It’s what’s left behind when communism falls.

          The foundation remains no matter what the building on top of it.

          https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_christian.htm

          Now it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown,
          For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
          And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
          And the epitaph drear: “A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”

          Solo from Libretto of Naulahka

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      4. I’ve maintained from the start of this nonsense that the present Ukrainian war was and is Blofeld vs. Seinfeld. The overpowered ex-commie Bond Villain has set upon the annoying TV comedian, and both play to type. I’m quite partial to seeing Blofeld lose this one, but that doesn’t obligate me to rally to Seinfeld’s cause any. If I stop in the lobby for another popcorn on my way back from the loo, tell me what I missed.

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      5. The Ukrainians got nothing on the Democratic Party, which has gone so far beyond “honest graft” that it’s not visible in the rearview mirror. And compared to Pootenland … well, as far as I know, defenestration has not become a wildly popular means of suicide under Zelensky.

        In fact, if it weren’t for the suicidal consequences of irritating Pootens, the Democrats would mop him up. Dowager Duchess Schillary would have been a match in her pryme. Might still be.

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    2. The last time I was really worried was when everybody went all out for sympathy for Ukraine when Putty-Cat invaded it. I mean instantly Ukraine, the famously corrupt Ukraine, became the most virtuous country in not only the entire universe, but every possible universe! Now, I think Putty-Cat is a vile bully and invading one’s neighbors to try to put the toothpaste of the USSR back in the tube is a bad idea, but clearly the word had gone out.

      Meanwhile, I noticed that when I went and actually checked on claims showing that “famously corrupt Ukraine” was horrible, the facts kept not lining up.

      I knew that part of why Ukraine is famous for its corruption, for example, is that since the Russian puppet that gunned down protesters got booted out, they had been going whole-hog in working with the EU to take out their organized crime.

      Folks would throw up claims with any kind of detail, and I would go hunt them down– and uniformly, they did not pan out. It’s in the comments on this blog, for that matter, with links.

      Even something as simple as “The US put the current guy in place!” didn’t work, and the leaked diplomatic communications poitned to as evidence showed … a couple of diplomats scrambling and going “Uh… OK, the MMA dude seems like the least horrible of the options, let’s roll with him.”

      That guy was the mayor of Kieve or however it’s spelled.

      In the end, what it boiled down to was “the progressives are actually objecting to Russia being stupid and horrible, we must argue with them!”

      Which is not rational.

      The arguments didn’t make sense.

      Which is why we need to remember that psyops aren’t from a single direction– sure, Europe’s powers finally figured out that they couldn’t sacrifice the neighbors a bit at a time to get themselves power, so they threw weight into resisting Russia, and Biden-blob pretty clearly thought he could get a quick battle and settle out of it…. and Russia really, really obviously was out throwing mud in the opposite direction, arguing against things that literally nobody was pushing, and making the most freakin’ painfully STUPID claims. Like that a major agricultural region having biolabs was somehow odd.

      :looks northward, at the Iowa ag college:

      yeah, only folks bothered by biolabs with ag are the folks who want to use bioterror.

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      1. yeah, only folks bothered by biolabs with ag are the folks who want to use bioterror.

        I feel seen.

        There is a rational argumetn for increasing our development, and massively increasing our production, and for deploying against our adversaries. (Which is half my usual ‘logic does not reduce stupidity when the assumptions are crazy enough’, and half about a tedious five-year-old-why style discussion of some policy stuffs.)

        Anyway, maybe we need to shut down US hospitals if we are so concerned about pathogens. Hospitals, medical schools, and medical research at universities expose a lot of capability to a very large number of possible bad actors.

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        1. I kind of favor the “short, bloody war where the guys who still have dirt on me accidentally die, and then I get to be peace maker” as the theory.

          It’s movie logic.

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      3. I think part of the “sinister Ukrainian bio-labs,” thing was because it was close to Covid and people were sensitized to think biomass are uniformly bad.

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      4. Sarah,

        Off topic a bit…

        I’m halfway through ‘No Man’s Land’. Really enjoying it and you beat ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ hands down. (I couldn’t get past chapter one when I was a teen…).

        Your AI music, specifically, ‘Skip Hayden’s No Man’s Land’ haunts me. I keep listening.

        LOVE the books.

        Dennis Morehouse, LTC U.S. Army, Infantry and Civil Affairs, Retired.

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        2. “you beat ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ hands down.“

          –

          100%

          I have read “Left Hand of Darkness” a longtime ago, HS (which is 50+ years and counting, ago). Never re-read it. No desire to.

          Only half way done? It gets even better. Definitely on the re-read list.

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  6. Isn’t it interesting. You grew up in Portugal and during my formative early years grew up around DC raised by spooks. Such divergent beginnings with similar impressions and reactions to propaganda. Almost like intelligence sprinkled with real life experience is most important factor here.

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  7. This. When suddenly, something (person, cause, concern) is EVERYWHERE, it smells like nothing other than an organized ad campaign. A lot of money or favors are being passed out like Halloween candy to ensure that ‘flavor of the month’ concern is in front of the audience.

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    2. I remember the bit in the Prince Roger books where they discover the Imperial governor for Marduk is a former “influencer,” who fell afoul of Roger’s mother. The comment was that before you could say, “It’s for the children,” he would have multiple sympathetic stories, NGOs, blue-ribbon commissions and so forth all pushing the preferred (and purchased) line.

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    3. I grew up around alcoholics. I learned to spot bull-pucky at an early age.

      A very useful skill. I don’t recommend learning that way, but hey, it worked.

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  10. From “the more things change the more they stay the same” file:

    Here’s J.R.R. Tolkien writing a letter to his son Christopher in 1956, noting how the Oxford campus was being roiled with protests over another Middle East war you all have either forgotten about or are way too young to remember:

    https://the-american-catholic.com/2025/11/07/the-rot-in-academia-has-a-long-pedigree/

    “Oxford is in a kind of screaming frenzy — about Suez, not Hungary! When the ‘clerks’ go mad, what have we?….Armed ‘pacifism’, destroying the vehicles of innocent citizens, apparently in an agitation to remove a Prime Minister who has already received a constitutional vote (by 69) of confidence in a ‘democratically elected’ Parliament. Dons (professors) yelling ‘fascist’, at high table, at colleagues who in mild voices venture to disagree with them. What a rot and stink is left by liberalism devoid of religion!”

    I left a comment at the blog attempting to explain what Tolkien was referring to in regard to Suez and Hungary. They were two international crises happening at the same time in late October-early November 1956 and they have some parallels to Gaza and Ukraine today.

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    1. Also worth noting: these crises coincided with the ’56 POTUS election, in which Eisenhower easily won his second term; Ike, wisely or unwisely, chose not to get involved in either situation. With Suez, the U.S. was mainly concerned with not alienating Nasser’s Egypt and driving them into the waiting arms of the Soviets. With Hungary, the U.S. was mainly concerned about not starting WWIII by confronting the Russians directly.

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    2. Oh my, yes.

      It would be nice to believe some of the Ukraine furor was motivated by guilt over not helping Hungary, but I rather doubt it.

      OTOH, the, “Russia is invincible! They will fight to the death to defend the Motherland! They have endless manpower! They have endless resources! They have nukes! If Ukraine does not show reason and agree to this loss of territory we’ll push Putin too far and then we’re all gonna die! REEEEEEEEEEEE!” is pretty much standard Soviet propaganda.

      BTW, someone noted the, “Project like an IMAX,” technique and it may be bad news: Russia suggesting the Ukrainians are planning a “nuclear atrocity,” near or in Zaphorizia. Hopefully that will all come to naught.

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    3. There’s an article on First Things that’s mostly a long-winded dissection of Bartolomeo De Las Casas’s defense of Central Americans’ rights to the Spanish authorities, but with a passing aside that one of the people he was debating was an academic who was being more of a reactionary grump than most because he had recentishly seen anti-war(?) student protests over in Bologna. It’s the only thing I remember from that article, and it tells you a lot about academia

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  12. I always noticed that during the Clinton years (90s), Hollywood pumped out one “wonderful president” movie/tv show after another, culminating in The West Wing. Of course, this all came to a screeching halt once Bush was elected.

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    2. And Google did NOT fix the “googlebombing” thing until there was a Dem President for them to protect from it. Even though the guy was the REAL miserable failure.

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  13. I always noticed that during the Clinton years (90s), Hollywood pumped out one “wonderful president” movie/tv show after another, culminating in The West Wing. Of course, this all came to a screeching halt once Bush was elected.

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    1. Sigh, double postings continue. When I write a comment and hit the Reply button, it then takes me to a screen showing my comment and asking me to login to WordPress, which I do. and then voila – two comments. But if I don’t do the login to WP, my comment never appears. I’m stumped.

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      1. I get the WP login thing on my first comment of the day. After that it remembers me. I don’t think they double post, certainly not two in a row like this.

        I actually really liked The West Wing. Part of it was age. Part of it was the contrived situations; life is never that simple. But I found it nice to have a west wing full of competent technocrats who could handle “whatever simplified plot line drove this week’s episode”. My subconscious may have thought some of it was “real” (stories do that), but I did know somewhat better. Now I know much better.

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      2. WPDE is compensating. When I get sent to that page, and log in, my comments never show up at all. I have to go to the WordPress site to post. Which sucks, because the comments are organized differently there and I have to search for the correct one.
        ———————————
        “Ehh, on second thought let’s not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.”

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    2. Sigh, double postings continue. When I write a comment and hit the Reply button, it then takes me to a screen showing my comment and asking me to login to WordPress, which I do. and then voila – two comments. But if I don’t do the login to WP, my comment never appears. I’m stumped.

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      1. Forget it Jake, it’s WordPress. :)

        (WP ate a couple of long comments I made a few days ago. Didn’t go into moderation, just got chomped.)

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  14. Another, deeper, longer running psyops is the left trying to hide the fact their rank and file went HARD anti-semitic by claiming that it’s the right that loves Hitler and that, somehow, Nick Fuentes (The gay catboy) is “splitting the right coalition”.) No one sane can believe this. Even before seeing Fuentes slobber all over Stalin’s long dead boner on Tucker Carlson. Most of the “MAGA” people on the street would respond to Fuentes with “Who?” and maybe “Is he a singer?”

    But they’re keeping on keeping on, and again any number of total idiots buy this. “Ooooh. Groypers are taking over the GOP.”

    No. Groypers are revolting and have been for a long time (they’ve been around longer than people are aware) and not very bright, but they’re not taking over the right or the GOP. 

    A ton of them are “catholic,” too.

    Which is actually why I recognized them– because they started showing up on Catholic blogs, especially right leaning ones, decades ago– and always end up working around to “gosh the (Russian) Orthodox church is just the bestests truest Catholic, isn’t it?”

    Has made for some amusingly odd interactions with actual Orthodox converts, much less Byzantine Rite Catholics. Generally fixed because those trigger the nutjobs to show up and Soviet all over.

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    2. Anyone remember the Witch Test from 5+ years ago? Apparently, servants of the Father of Lies cannot confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and rose from the dead. If you refuse, say if you’re an Atheist or Agnostic or simply don’t want to obey a wannabe Inquisitor, then you must be a witch.

      I guess they can’t say Christ is King either… oh wait, Father if Lies. Hmm… maybe not as foolproof as some would claim.

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  15. But guys, supposing that Trump’s shut down causes plane accidents is totally not a psyop.

    (Yeah, I’m still weird in mood and thinking for the moment. I think aviation is important, adn that the shut down is something, but my jesting and sarcasm is a bit too funky ATM.)

    Yeah, the Ukraine simping was a little too fast and too consistent, on the other hand we perhaps do actually need to exterminate the Russians.

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      1. Some controllers are not working, and others are massively overbooked, if I understand.

        General situation with feds and who is and is not working is I think complicated. I know some academics are having questions that are probably down to the funding bureaucracies being instructed to limit hours if possible during the stop. and not to make any promises while things are in the air.

        I’ve been a little bit silly and wanting to joke about how we obviously need to totally deregulate aviation, at least from a federal perspective. (By that, I mean eliminating such as type certification, pilot licensing, and controlled airspaces. Not the more reasonable and defensible limited privatizing or transfer to state authorities.)

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      2. hahahaha

        I think word press may be getting some interesting hints on keywords to moderate over

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  16. Agreed, and for anyone who needs to hear it or pass it on: regarding Fuentes. When you have a man who resuscitated the 1850s’ American Party – a.k.a. the Know-Nothings, because they would say “I know nothing” when asked direct questions about their party – you can use it as an education. Watch Patrick Bet-David’s interview with Fuentes here, and you will see exactly the same arguments the Know-Nothings used against Catholics, but Fuentes is using them against Jews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUBNQLGXZ4. You can find more about the Know-Nothings here: https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-know-nothings. Hint, they burned out real fast as a party.

    There are four things you need to remember, based on that interview, Fuentes’ platform, and history:

    (1) The Know-Nothings were on the left, not the right.
    (2) If this is all they’ve got to try to tear the right apart, it’s pretty dang pathetic.
    (3) Take notes for posterity, because in another 170-odd years, someone else will probably dust off Fuentes’ version of the Know-Nothings and put aliens in the hate slot.
    (4) Here’s a poem from a Catholic priest responding to the Know-Nothings’ attacks on him and the Church. Feel free to pass it around, since it’s better vintage than what Fuentes is selling: https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/04/the-american-flag/.

    We’ve seen this before. It’s an old, old, old school leftist trick. Be not afraid of Fuentes, but be sure you let people know why you are not afraid of him. He’s a Know-Nothing. They appear and disappear like meteors, only meteors are more interesting.

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  19. Referendum on Trump? Is that what Tuesday’s election was? More like 4 different locations/states deciding that they want to try MAIDs for Governments. I do feel sorry for the folks with brains who got outvoted by their gas lite neighbors.

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    1. Speaking of MAIDs… the Illinois legislature, in the wee hours of (appropriately enough) Halloween morning at the end of a scheduled session, passed a bill legalizing assisted suicide for people with a confirmed terminal diagnosis and 6 months or less to live. It has not yet been sent to Governor Harkonnen, er Pritzker, for signing and he has not said for certain if he will sign it, but chances are he will, even though the state medical society, disability rights groups and even some liberal mainstream media like the Chicago Tribune have come out against it.

      Of course we already know that the limitations/”safeguards” in it won’t stick forever. Yet another reason to feel ashamed and cursed by my Illnois residency and my inability to change it. Although as we all know, anyone who lives in a blue state deserves what they voted for, even if they didn’t vote for it, and should never be allowed to move to a red state if they move because they will just ruin it. (I’m sure that’s another psyop, too).

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      2. Assisted Suicide for Everyone!

        But you won’t let us execute arsonists, kidnappers, rapists, torturers, or murderers.

        Yep. These are the Heinlein Crazy Years.

        Soon to be followed by the Caliphate.

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      3. >>>liberal mainstream media like the Chicago Tribune<<<

        Shudders. Damn, I’m old enough to remember when the ChiTrib was a thoroughly conservative newspaper.

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  20. Two things. I hope you are right. Generally speaking this country is not anti semitic. But its like crime. Let the thugs get out of control and see how quick it grows. And second, why does it seem so hard to say that someone who likes Stalin and Hitler is nuts. And if you are the head of the Heritage foundation it seems difficult to say this. (his salary is close to a million a year what does he do for the money?) First amendment say what you want but sane people have a right and a responsibilty to say what this is. Anyway as usual interesting take.

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    1. I don’t particularly care about antisemitism, which is just one of the many varieties of racism imo, one way or the other. Haters going to hate.

      What I totally do not understand is “X is attacked by Y. Y is evil for fighting back.” Uh, what? Doesn’t everyone fight back when attacked? When the attacker is drastically less powerful than the attacked, being wiped out in response is only to be expected. (And that pager op? Glorious – too good even for fiction.)

      The only thing I liked about the US response to 9/11 was “you knock down two buildings, we knock down two countries”. What happened after that was a total mess, but the initial response was perfectly “proportionate” in my view.

      “Leave no live enemies behind you” is an idea I totally support – in the abstract at least. I’ve never had to kill everyone behind me; that might be difficult for me in practice, but I like to think not.

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        1. I broke my unofficial rule* against watching videos longer than 5 minutes. Very glad I did. That was “proportional”! And awesome.

          (*) Used to have severe bandwidth limitations. Not severe any more.

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          1. Fat Electricial is addictively hilarious, but I think this is my favorite of his videos.

            There’s also the one on Chang Lee, the blind rifleman who treated his ships as sniper weapons.
            (…I am only slightly silly in that description)

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      3. And yet … antisemitism is the oldest and longest-running kind of ethnic hate, and it’s approved by lots of TheRightPeople WhoWouldNeverTolerateRacism. Okay, stop laughing and think about it.

        Those who make a virtue of envy and hate want them to be pure, just as the true virtues can be pure. And the purest form of hate is hate against those who don’t deserve it.

        Which is why the Left loves antisemitism especially.

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  21. Every time I see “groyper” I think “groper.” Filthy stunted minds groping towards a dim garbage-heap of an ideology, nose-blind to the stench of the dump they live in, stumbling toward passers-by, lurching and groping at you as they ramble about inane “secrets” that only they, the “noticers” have noticed…

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    2. For the other clueless in the audicence:

      The Groypers, or the Groyper Army, are a group of Christian nationalists and white nationalists loosely defined as followers, fans, or associates of the American far-right activist Nick Fuentes.

      I had not heard of either until the Instapundit posts of the last few days. I hadn’t bother to look it up until now. I’m not particularly “plugged in”, but I figured if I had not heard of them, they were not important. I was right. 6-7!

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      1. I know who Nick Fuentes is, that is seen the name attached to a video. If, and I mean a HUGE IF, this is who occasionally shows up in the FB Reels. Farmer? ✅ (Hobby? or Bigger operation? 🤷) Married? ✅ Has Daughters? ✅ They home school? ✅ Strong 2A believes? ✅ Served Armed Forces ✅ Virginia Legislator ✅ (House, I think) Lives in Virginia ✅ Republican ✅ Anti-Jew? or Anti-Isreal? 🤷to 👎- translation, I’d say no. But then I haven’t seen any of his stuff short of the quick witty feel quips, so IDK.

        Trucker Carlson 🤷 I never followed him when he was on Fox News. What I know of him was from when he was on Outnumbered, or The Five. Back then he was at least better than the blue idiots they allow on. Hubby saved his show back then. Hubby does not follow him on Tiktok, FB, X, or (free) Youtube (but then hubby does not use FB, TikTok, or X. Good enough for me. Me? I’d rather read and article than listen to someone. I am not going to buy their books.

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        1. “I’m not particularly “plugged in”, but I figured if I had not heard of them, they were not important.“

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          Meant to add this.

          Agree.

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        2. Nick Freitas is NOT Nick Fuentes the Stalin fan. Names are so confusing. I’m lucky to remember mine before pot of coffee done in the morning.

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          3. I’ve accidentally gotten those two confused in my mind once or twice, going “This Nick Freitas guy seems real reasonable on X, why is everybody raising as stink?” and then realizing it was Fuentes they were bemoaning. I also will now admit to occasionally confusing Laura Loomer and Lara Logan.

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          4. “Nick Freitas is NOT Nick Fuentes“

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            Oh … Thank you!!!!

            Would have caught this the next reel I see, better to know now than later.

            Kind of got a clue where someone commented up list that Nick Fuentes looks like the Bud Light debacle person. “Oh. So … not the same person.”

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          1. Harry Potter/Rowling has the ‘terrible, but great’ quote.

            Great at being terrible, and effective only at destructive ends, is precisely opposite of useful for any non-destructive good ends.

            Communist leaders, and their kissing cousins the ‘right wingers’ who ‘steal’ communist revolutions are basically people that only those who fetishize leadership can value.

            Objectively, cold bloodedly, and with a real absence of magical thinking, they served the personal interests of mainly thieves and murderers. Someone with a Hitler fetish or a Stalin fetish is either only able to care about the magical thinking grade of understanding, or is a truly repellent evil person.

            Good leaders are not murderous wackjobs, and have some willingness to coexist with those who can and do choose to live peacefully. Murder happy loonies who inspire murder cults just don’t have anything to draw sane thoughtful people with.

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        1. Yeah.

          Christian is not exclusive of Nationalist, but combining a politicized theory of Christ with a vaguely culturally religious shaped idea of a Nation does neither end any good at all.

          And these wackjobs are not even going to the effort of a shallow and worldly theory of Jesus Christ.

          Spitballing, but maybe the Liberation Theology lunatics do a better job of imitating the forms of Christianity.

          “My grand fathers and great grandfathers identified as Christian” is not exactly a good faith (1) effort to copy the shape of Christianity.

          An actual thorough effort to imitate Christianity leads to the ‘turtles all the way down’ of “I am a sinner, Christ saved me by His death on the cross, He was ressurrected, and I need to work to help Him with His goals for me.” I think, I’m not sure on my wording, nor the accuracy of my theological understanding and classification.

          The Unitarians have some weak theology, maybe, and maybe some denominations have some superficial conversion experiences, but I do not see how one can seek out fellowship with believers, and not see that some seek a different path from the political theater. (Of course, I personally was very slow to realize that it is important to seek the fellowship of believers, so I am clearly being an idjit about ‘what everyone knows’.)

          (1) hah

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      3. I found out about Fuentes at election time last year when something popped into my X stream about him voting for Harris. That told me everything that I needed to know about him.

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        1. First time I heard of him was from Raz0rfist. Haven’t read or watched anything of his. Uninterested in even refuting obvious foolishness such as that. But with the whole kerfluffle and all, something struck me.

          For all the right has been called nuzzies and whatnot, it is not and never has been true. If anything, the opposite has more realistic traction. This strikes me as an ex-nihilo attempt at making that false and utterly moronic (of the non-AOSHQ type) assertion true. Creating a human puppet to put the label on and doing it such a slapdash and sloppy manner is the calling card of a certain class of folks, let’s say.

          Or, to put it another way, the entire schtick smells strongly of psyop. And psyop smells like the fungus that grows in poorly cleaned government buildings, overlaid with excessive amounts of cleaning products that nonetheless never seem to eradicate the fungus. Almost as if it lives off the stuff.

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          1. I am still utterly boggled that this guy is supposed to be an American Catholic Conservative… and he’s got a favorite socialist dictator, but mocks the very idea of a favorite saint.

            That… ain’t Catholic. I have protestant friends who have favorite saints, and they just think they’re Cool Guys! (OK, Saint Catherine and her “Lord, if this is how you treat your friends, it is no wonder you have so few of them!” is one of the most popular.)

            As you say– it’s not just fake, it’s sloppy fake.

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            1. It’s like he’s heard about the idea somewhere, probably from some lefty looney or mass media, and created a caricature out of it for the funsies.

              Yeah, he’s no American Catholic Conservative. It mocks the very ideas behind all three words. It screams PSYOP in ten foot tall neon yellow letters, with great big arrows pointing to it.

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            2. Doesn’t really surprise me.

              I saw some women who do a “Mormon wives” show (I can’t remember if it was a TV series, or something online; it wasn’t the “Secret Lives of” series) appear on the local news, and I could tell at a glance by their outfits that they weren’t living up to the basic standards of the LDS Church. And yet they’re still using the nickname for members of the LDS Church as publicity.

              It’s possible that Fuentes was a Catholic in the past, but has gotten distracted by what the world has to offer (the “Great and Spacious Building”, in LDS parlance). Or perhaps he was never a believer, but has decided that it’s nice to claim it anyway (coupled with an Hispanic last name, since Catholicism is much more popular south of the border). Either way, he knows that there are certain people who will be more likely to listen to him because he adds that Catholic tag to his bio, regardless of whether or not it’s actually true.

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            4. “Lord, if this is how you treat your friends…” is St. Teresa of Avila, after she got dumped in the creek by a stampeding mile. St. Catherine is “Be who God made you to be and you will set the world on fire.”😊

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              1. I’ve heard it about a range of saints, in situations from dumped off a horse to a wheel cracking, and looking at the fates of Jesus’ own dear friends? It’s unlikely it’s only happened once.

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  22. Love it, Sarah!  I have been telling the “kids” (and for me, that is everyone under 40) to hold the line. I started noticing psyops in the 80’s, and none of it has ever been real.  Hang in there! Lee

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  24. The most reasonable explanation I have seen on the election in NYC of the communist Islamist antisemite as mayor, in an article about Pelosi’s retirement, is that he attracted all that under 30 “youth” vote because he was the youngest candidate running – Cuomo is 66 with a lot of baggage, Sliwa is 71, but Mamdami is only 34 – and that the Dems overall have an age problem.

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  26. I agree that there aren’t enough Jews for American anti-Semitism to make any kind of sense, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I personally knew one who later ran for Senate–as the Democrat candidate!!!–and lost.

    The real story is that far from being the truest version of the GOP base, as they claim, they are actually a very small group in contradiction to the values of the base. For the most part, groyper and related types are incels who think America is holding them down and who are convinced that if it is destroyed, they will magically get laid. (If you look at some of the web self-descriptions of some of the more notorious individuals, there is usually a statement that they support the jihad. Because of course when Iran conquers the USA, they will totally give the incels their own harams, instead of doing what every other Islamic conqueror does and using the weak men as substitute women).

    Anyway, this is not the outlook of the working class males who make up the real GOP base. Most of them do just fine with the ladies, since they are relatively physically fit and are personally competent. And if the GOP were ever to adopt the groyper views, they would be repulsed by it, because, first, they don’t like whining bitches; and second, they get pissed when someone like Fuentes, who looks like Dylan of Bud Light fame, tries to order them around.

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    1. Well, the left likes to love/hate groups en masse, so yeah, anti-semitism, like anti-Catholicism is HUGE on the left.
      I was just protesting the idea it suddenly exploded on the right.
      There’s no conditions for that.

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  27. Re NYC election — i saw an analysis that stratified candidate by length of residence in NYC … lifers went for Cuomo overwhelmingly … newcomers went for the new guy.

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  28. One the neat bits Rush Limbaugh did was have his staff go over the Sunday Talk Shows and such and hunt down the word or phrase of the day/week… and then edit those short segments/clips together and play them all at one go… it made it VERY clear that there some co-ordination somewhere that the same word/phrase was “suddenly” what “everyone” saying.

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  29. Another thing about psyops: No place is too small or remote, no office too insignificant, to be targeted by one.

    https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2025/11/07/army-professor-wages-information-war-on-school-board-conservatives-n2195801

    Lansing is a small city roughly 35 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri. Incorporated in 1959, this suburb is home to roughly 11,000 people. Nearby Fort Leavenworth is the main economic driver for this “city” that lacks a downtown or shared culture around which residents coalesce, its biggest indicator of growth manifesting in the tax burden. As it turns out, the most interesting show in town is often the local school board meeting. 

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      1. I hope that a week from now, we hear that this gentleman is supporting himself on a school board member’s salary after a call from the SoW’s office.

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  30. For my sins, I have to watch the national news, and hit mainstream media website daily. The propaganda has become so heavy-handed that it’s tedious. What I really look for are 1) pattern shifts, when something flips almost 180 degrees, and 2) when Left and Right suddenly agree. For example, I knew Biden was in trouble when within 3-4 days, the MSM and Left political sites and blogs suddenly agreed with the Right that Biden had medical problems and possibly dementia.

    I am sooooo tired of “the Dems are trying to help the poor, helpless victims of the cruel Republican [fill-in-the-blank]” and “He/she/it was just trying to work to feed the family when the eeeeevil FedGov Immigrationstapo attacked and dragged him/her/who-knows off to a terrible place forever!”

    [CNN, ditch the new auto play videos, for the love of Pete!]

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    2. I have for some suspected that some terrorist organization could get followers by taking out auto-play servers. And no, not “mere” hacker/crackers doing interesting things with routing, but someone actually blasting the servers to atoms.

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  31. Total tangental, but must be said. Jewish people and Israel are not monoliths of uniformity. Most Jews of my personal acquaintance typify the “two Jews, three opinions” trope to a T. They are a mixed bag. But some are quite excellent. Good people, honest, hard working, and absolutely vehement in their disdain for Ham-ass and their pustulant perfidy.

    The anti-Semitism is perplexing in that some folk of Jewish faith and background seem to actively support it, bizarrely enough. Think of the lefty academic urban dwelling mass media consuming Jew. The type to have unselfconsciously voted for Mandamnmi. Why seek to idolize the kind of man that wants you, your family, and all your relations at best merely killed? Other than herd mentality and utter lack of higher brain function, I have yet to find a working answer.

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      1. That’s the tell any time people try painting whole sets as this or that: yes, the men running these evil systems are Jewish, or Scottish, or Italian, or Catholic, or Freemasons), but that’s NOT the same as The Jews are running these things. It’s (probably) not inherent to Judaism/Celticness/Papistry/et c to [named vice here], nor are all members of the demographic institutionally complicit. And it’s not even like the same name applies to the political entity and the tribal set that it’s established for: The Irish names both a people group and the Republic of Ireland; to say The Jews refers to a religious and ethnic tribe set, but The Israelis or The Zionists are wholly different (though overlaid on The Jews) national and political identities respectively.

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  32. I think it was WhatifAltHist who pointed out that Fuentes glows like the sun, and I can’t not see it.

    One thing that recently struck me about the entire Israel debate is it is safe. Israel is neither the problem, nor the solution to the forever wars of the Middle East, so no matter how the debate there goes, no one’s iron rice bowl is getting tipped.

    The real issue if the Flayer Cult running Palestine and chunks of the middle east. But dealing with that really requires destroying that flayer cult culture. I don’t think that’s something many people are willing to even consider right now. So spinning futily on whether or not Israel is going to far or has a right to exist or resist lets them pretend to be thinking about the problem, which ever actually touching the part that frightens them.

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  33. “The Shire” needs scouring. Up to and including all of the West and, to a greater or lesser extent, each of us. We need our minds right so we can help our neighbors. Think about the oxygen masks in airplanes. Put yours on first.

    Also, pray a lot.

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    1. Prayers are never wasted my friend. Just know that if one prays for a garden dug then he’d best expect to wake up next to a shovel. Himself acts in mysterious ways, too. Gets even the shy and introverted of us to stand up and shout when the moment calls for it.

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      2. “We didn’t find any landmines, despite digging up the entire site. Sir, it was a hoax, probably. Should be safe.”

        “Probably.”

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    1. (To Threepeo) “Your meatbags. We don’t serve their kind. We don’t want them -here-.”

      “Perhaps you should wait outside, sir….”

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      1. Precisely. The cleaving unto one another is right down there on the genetic level with “eat” and “sleep.” You don’t undo stuff that’s buried that deep without undoing the whole of humanity, mammals, fish, and then right down to multicellular organisms.

        Even if some step away from that, it’s the ones that don’t that propagate the species. We will outbreed them, those of us with kids, and our horde of mini-minions shall take over the world!*

        *Both those of us that have kids genetically, and those that might as well have, having raised them nonetheless.

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        1. I suspect they’re not looking that far.

          They’re looking at “have folks with no support network.”

          Which is the folks who are most vulnerable to “everyone else is dangerous, trust in me.”

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  36. We’ve had psyops for a long time. During WWI, the American news media was totally pro-Allied and portrayed anything the Germans did as The Worst Thing Ever. Granted, German ham-handedness at PR didn’t help their cause one bit.

    And a few years after I graduated college, all of a sudden, the media was flooded with hysterical stories about 90%-imaginary child molesters. This led to the “day-care molestation panic” and the “Satanic child-molesters panic,” where you had people sentenced to obscenely long terms in prison on the basis of testimony that would have been laughed out of the courtroom at the Salem Witch Trials, or the Moscow show trials. *picturing Zinoviev stroking his chin and saying “Yes, comrade—tell us more about how an evil clown took the children up in a balloon to molest them.”*

    And a lot of the hype behind the Kennedy cult was probably stirred up by Kennedy money. AFAICT there is no law against bribing journalists to push some stories and spike others. Robert Novak remembered how one of his colleagues, during the 1960 election, said “he was on Nixon’s campaign bus because he could help Jack (Kennedy) better there.”

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    2. I remember watching the 60 Minutes episode episode about the satanic daycare, and not believing it. I thought someone had gotten to the kids, and primed them with a story. I think I was in high school at the time.

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      1. In all the “daycare molestation” cases, despite their howls of “Believe the children!” the “experts” refused to believe the children when they said they hadn’t been molested. All honor to those children—they stood up under serious harassment and mental bullying from adults and authority figures a lot longer than one would expect, in many cases.

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        1. We had a guy in our SCA group who, ah, had multiple issues. (There’s a reason another meaning for the acronym is, “Socially Challenged Americans”). He parents sent him to a therapist who believed in “regression.” Next thing we know, he’s telling us how his parents were closet Satanists who used hi in ritual. This is a guy in his 20s. Fortunately his parents got him away from that guy and sent him to another therapist who told him, I gather, regression was BS. And suddenly he realized no e of what he’d been saying was true.

          His photo probably went in the dictionary under, “suggestible.”

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          1. The whole “recovered memories” thing was, at least IMO, the result of some very suggestible, troubled people meeting therapists who had “child molestation” on the brain as the root of all mental problems. These days, the new hotness is “transgender,” and when that craze dies down I expect to see some absolutely resounding lawsuits against therapists by people with serious buyer’s remorse.

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  37. I will add that the Right actually is not responsible for: Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, or Marjory Taylor Green and need not apologize or explain. They are not the right. They are not our circus. They are not our monkeys. Denigrate them when they come up in conversation and move on.

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      1. When Tucker first left Fox I thought reasonably of him but he went off the rails pretty quickly. Candace seemed OK when she was doing Blexit during the Covidiocy. I’ll call Candace a grifter that I didn’t spot but I truly think Tucker needs a shrink.

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    1. she committed the high crime of being in a jeans ad, while being white, skinny, pretty, and big boobed.

      apparently that makes her the devil or something.

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    2. Sweeney was in some jeans ad and one of the slogans was about “Good Jeans” or maybe genes, which judging from Sweeney’s looks she inherited some good ones from her parents.

      Progs, of course, claimed it was about White Supremacy and that other woman in the meme was trying to get Sweeney to apologize in true struggle session fashion and Sweeney pretty much refused.

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