[AmThinker] One of the most effective ways for the MSM to shut down an inquiry into misconduct is to say it is all a conspiracy theory. Besides avoiding an unwanted discussion, the charge also invites scrutiny of the "theorist" instead of the issue itself. Notice how quickly some even start off saying something like "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but..." Expecting their reaction, we have become almost trained to do this.
But are there really no big conspiracies?
It has been claimed that the phrase "conspiracy theory" was invented by the government to discourage the questioning of official explanations for important events, especially the JFK assassination. Whether that was the real origin of the phrase or not, it is clear that the charge is plainly being used for that purpose: to dissuade any alternatives to the party narrative for major occurrences such as election fraud and the origin of the Wuhan virus.
The more we find out about the most significant events of today, especially the virus, the more we see a gigantic, long-term, sophisticated, and extremely disciplined coordination. With newly released emails, knowing the real authors and background of major studies, previous strategy papers, and videos outside the mainstream until now, the wargaming of pandemics, the financial support of agencies, laboratories, and studies, and the timeline of the vaccines and related patents, the enormous COVID conspiracy is coming into view.
There is so much organized intrigue now; how could anyone believe there aren't any conspiracies? The people with the tinfoil hats today are the ones who don't think there are huge conspiracies, that things just happen without planning or coordination. They are the ones who will believe anything.
In fact, our time is brimming with deep secrets and hidden agendas. Consider the following questions:
Is it really more plausible that the media are acting separately but identically or that they are colluding among themselves and with the Democrats and the Deep State? That their simultaneous and identical takes on everything are just due to similar viewpoints and not highly coordinated messages of the day?
Is it possible that the media have maintained and expanded their editorial bias over time without firm top-directed orders? Or would an uncontrolled system be expected to act like a pendulum, swinging back and forth?
Is it really plausible that the left/globalists capture organizations and institutions at will without a master plan and an extensive system of carrots and sticks? It just happens. Or is it more likely that there is a central authority choreographing it all and compelling submission?
Was it ever more plausible that the virus came about accidentally from a wet market with no evidence that such action could occur, when right down the street was a lab where we know that such viruses were studied?
Is it really plausible that nations around the world keep ratcheting up the tyranny as they independently determine it to be the best course of action? Or does it seem much more likely that each is part of a larger plan, sequenced for maximum effect?
Is it really more plausible that the American people never get what they want from their leaders because they are bad at picking them or that there really is no choice because elections are compromised and much of the nation's leadership is either corrupt or being blackmailed and threatened?
Is it really probable that significant numbers of leaders take positions on issues they know are unpopular with their own constituents due to conviction and principles, however flawed? Or is it at least as likely that they are told to do so and know that that they will be taken care of if they lose their positions? Why is it that on the important issues, especially immigration, the path of least resistance for the politicians is always to betray the people?
Does anyone believe that five states independently and without consultation decided to stop counting votes at about the same time on election night?
Is it really plausible that bad people are always more clever and harder-working than the rest or that they often get promoted and taken care of in their field by unseen power brokers?
Is it really plausible that the vast majority of national elected officials, including the least impressive, have built great personal wealth during public service without extensive help and a rigged system? Or is it more likely that they have certain privileges now that they are part of the club?
Is it really possible that an adversarial movement would maintain almost flawless unanimity and discipline — guided only by common goals? Not even small differences on goals? No disagreement on methods? No visible internecine conflict and only the rarest public personality clashes? Or is it more likely that the rigid purpose and execution are maintained through extensive bribery and, when necessary, highly organized fear and punishment?
The point is that huge conspiracy is not just being further supported by recent revelations; it is becoming the only reasonable explanation for the milieu in which we find ourselves. Traditional explanations cannot account for the unlikely scenarios we see today. As soon as we get past the "there can be no big conspiracies" mindset, the world becomes clearer and more understandable, as well as more concerning. Amazing times we live in.
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The point is that huge conspiracy is not just being further supported by recent revelations; it is becoming the only reasonable explanation for the milieu in which we find ourselves.
That's the same 'rationale' the Left uses for CRT, "it has to be institutionalized racism".
[The Federalist] The nation’s attention these past two weeks has focused nearly exclusively on Kabul, and rightly so given that the city has become the scene of the largest hostage situation in American history and a vivid image of the decline of Pax Americana abroad.
But Americans don’t need to travel 7,500 miles to get a first-hand glimpse of the end of American order. In many of our own country’s major cities, gangs of masked thugs and criminals do what they please — and our far-better-armed police aren’t allowed to stop them and protect the rest of us.
Take one August Sunday in Portland, Oregon, where two days ago political gangs roamed freely, beating people, including women, and even opening fire downtown. Meanwhile the police, who have been threatened with government action if they intervene, were nowhere to be seen.
The breakdown of law and order was crafted in the offices of politicians, and its results are as immediate as they are sickening: A beautiful port city is now a frequent host to pitched battles between masked and helmeted left- and right-wing mobs spanning across city blocks; paintballs, pepper spray, fireworks, and beatings in broad daylight; and while innocent civilians flee the violence under a cloudy gray sky, the only sounds audible are of rioting — with nary a police siren in the distance.
Oh, the carefully chosen adjectives for this spiteful bit of polemic.
[LATimes] Larry Elder smiled the smug smile of a Black conservative who could very well be liberal California’s next governor.
"Where do you start with the damage Gavin Newsom has done to the state that we both love?"
He leaned forward to gaze across the room of white Republicans who had come to a hear him speak in Orange County.
"Rising crime? [It’s] because of this phony narrative that the police are engaging in systemic racism and cops are pulling back," Elder said. "... When you reduce the possibility of a bad guy getting caught, getting convicted and getting incarcerated, guess what? Crime goes up."
Then another smile, this one even more smug than the last.
"Can you say, ’Duh?’"
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I won’t lie. Few things infuriate me more than watching a Black person use willful blindness and cherry-picked facts to make overly simplistic arguments that whitewash the complex problems that come along with being Black in America.
And throughout his career — as a radio host, as a talking head for Fox News and now as a gubernatorial candidate — Elder has made a point of doing just that, usually with a lot of taunting and toddler-like name-calling of his ideological enemies in the process.
As longtime political consultant Kerman Maddox put it: "Larry Elder goes out of his way to be at odds with the leadership in the Black community and at odds with the thinking in the Black community."
Abdullah of Black Lives Matter: "Anytime you put a Black face on white supremacy, which is what Larry Elder is, there are people who will utilize that as an opportunity to deny white supremacy. They say, ’How could this be white supremacy? This is a Black man.’ But everything that he’s pushing, everything that he stands for, he is advancing white supremacy."
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And that's all they've got. The old racist white supremicsit nonsense. All the liberal in Hollywood can't come up with something better? Perhaps they actually want Gavin to lose.
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Few things infuriate me more than watching a Black person use willful blindness and cherry-picked facts to make overly simplistic arguments that whitewash the complex problems that come along with being Black in America.
Yes, folks. These problems are far too complex for simple White Supremacists to comprehend. So shut up and let the communists deal with them.
/sarc
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complex problems that come along with being Black in America
• How to avoid them hoes when they get pregnant.
• Where to hide that teenth when the po po approaches and no brothers in sight?
• Do I go into the store alone? Who holds the cashier on gunpoint while I pick the DVD jambox?
• Oh it's those tee vee people again. Gotta string up some words about... uhh, privilege... and my black experience, yeah. And respect! No maybe not respect... thinking is so hard, mon.
[American Thinker] Now that we have had 18 months to "slow the spread" it is time to take stock of the pandemic. We have learned many good things that the media and our pandemic managers rarely report. Most fundamentally, we do not need to be afraid of COVID-19 anymore. The media and some government health authorities are still pushing hysteria and fear, but that should not prevail. Let’s look at the good news that can calm our fears about COVID-19. There’ll be time at a later date to look at the bad and the ugly of the resolving pandemic.
1) Globally, the survival rate for COVID-19 is 99.8%. Under the age of 70, the survival rate for COVID-19 is 99.97%. This is on par with many influenza seasons. Americans younger than 70 do not have to fear COVID-19 any more than influenza and we know how to protect the elderly.
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Just when you think the show is over.Flu season is just to begin. The school children germ factories will do their thing. Soon reruns. Hysteria and fear,will prevail. We have created an army of germaphobes.
[FrontPage] America was founded on that simple premise. The Declaration of Independence’s conviction in the equality of men, individual rights, and governments gaining their authority from the consent of the governed was based on “self-evident” truths.
These truths are “self-evident” to Americans in the way that they’re not self-evident to the average Afghan, Pakistani, Iraqi, Russian, South African or Chinese citizen. They have their own truths that are equally “self-evident” to them based on their own worldview and culture.
The Taliban, like the vast majority of Muslims, assert that believers in Allah are superior to infidels, that men must have supreme authority over women, and leaders over people.
This hierarchical model governs a lot more of the world than anything we’ve come up with.
And even in America there are voices that favor tearing up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and reverting to a hierarchical model. From the Marxists on the Left to the Neo-Reactionaries on the Right, there are those who would turn back the clock to feudalism with enlightened philosopher-kings imposing an “ideal society” on the inferior class of men.
When we say that something is self-evident, it flows naturally from our values and our beliefs.
Consider the two radically different worldviews inherent in Benjamin Franklin writing that, “the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards" is "a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy” and the Ayatollah Khomeini proclaiming “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun" and thus there "is no fun in Islam.”
Both Franklin and Khomeini were expressing a worldview that was self-evident to them.
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” came from people who believed that God loves us and wants us to enjoy life. Beheadings, butchery, and the burka came from Islamists who believe that Allah does not like us very much and that we deserve to be miserable.
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The Taliban, like the vast majority of Muslims, assert that believers in Allah are superior to infidels, that men must have supreme authority over women, and leaders over people.
I managed to read 24 pages of that piece of shit book called the Quran. I got real sick real fast of being called kufr, which is NOT an unbeliever but a 'denier of truth'. That's world class fucking arrogance right there and they can eat a bag of dicks for all I care.
Badanov, feel free to ban this comment for its offensive comment. Or does that depend on whose direction it's pointed at?
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^Trust me that shit called Quran seems to be a personal diary written by a teenage boy who was high on meth, failed his math test, scolded by his mom and rejected by his crush; all in one day.
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Violence is the only 'self evident' truth of the cosmos. The lofty things firmament, the mountains and rivers and even intelligent life... all are gifts of epic violence.
And violence alone can keep chaos at bay, if we wish to keep these things. Making up your own truths, thought up by self-righteous types is in-conducive to survival. At best, such words should be used to keep the rubes in line and the sentimental ones singing.
But one shuns the language of violence to his detriment.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ... claiming by abandoning Bagram he prioritized politics instead of questioning Biden's flawed decision to reduce US troops to just 700
Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a war on terror think tank, has blamed the Afghanistan debacle on US General Scott Miller
But Generals Kenneth Mackenzie and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and ultimately President Biden share in the blame, the defense analyst said
'I think Milley understands what a mess this is and what a mistake that was. He's certainly trying to let the s**t roll downhill,' he told DailyMail.com
General Miller was behind the decision to abandon the Bagram airbase and use Hamid Karzai International Airport for the evacuation
'Miller was the ground commander at the time and proposed the plan, worked on it with [General Kenneth] Mackenzie, then they pushed it up,' he added
Roggio said Biden also insisted on a reducing US forces to just 700 troops - a flawed plan that he believes should have been challenged by military leaders
The move backfired when the Taliban swarmed into Kabul within days, surrounding the airport and thwarting the evacuation of US citizens and Afghans
'No one had the vision to say if the Taliban is able to run through Kabul before we execute our withdrawal we're going to be in a world of hurt,' Roggio added
Roggio said generals have the duty to stand up to potentially flawed ideas but claimed some are 'climbers' and have 'largely become political'
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Roggio said generals have the duty to stand up to potentially flawed ideas but claimed some are 'climbers' and have 'largely become political'
Given that the military leadership challenged Trump at every turn - but rolled over and played dead for Biden* - this is kind of a 'No shiat, Sherlock' moment.
Mike
*I don't give a rat's behind what leaks are coming out that the military 'pushed back' and warned Biden that this would happen - if they'd have treated his plan the same way they treated Trump's, we wouldn't be in this up to our necks.
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Blaming General Miller is short-sighted. He could only have done what he was told to do.
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Miller was the USFOR-A Commander...without planners and tasked to close the bases...more or less a tactical guy with a withering staff being told to do more with less. Not defending him but good grief.
The SECDEF and CENTCOM Commander have the planners and political weight and are responsible for the strategic duties...where the catastrophe happened. This is on Austin and Biden.
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This is a political fuckup and not military. The commanders do what they're told. Sure, some can be self-serving but ultimately they're soldiers, not independent campaigners like the tribals there.
Any blame rests on the entire process... the Doha talks, that Khalilzad fellow, Biden, his Secretary Llyod Token and the CIA buffoons trusting in ANSDF intel and ISI goodwill.
If the military was really let loose on Afghanistan, sans 'hearts and minds' bullshit and ROEs dictated out of some EU thinktanks, American forces could cull every militant minded sasquatch and put an end to any Pakistani ambitions for AFG.
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#7 Possible suicide bombing at the Kabul airport.
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Looks like we lost the race against time...it was, unfortunately, inevitable. The initiative has shifted to ISIS in that AO...cementing the fact that this is a major symbolic disaster as well on the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
And in those 20 years we haven't even mustered the political will to try and convict the 9/11 masterminds (KSM et al) in in the military commissions in GTMO.
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If Miller suggested closing the airbase he should be placed alongside Custer.
If Miller was ordered to do so he should have resigned his commission to make a point of how stupid the move was. The fact that Mackenzie went along with it shows we have a problem in our high ranks.
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[ChinaDaily] The hasty withdrawal of US, British and other NATO troops from Afghanistan after their almost 20 years of failed "war on terror" could become an inflection point toward a new era in world politics.
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You know, there are enough guys in the US military who grew up in poor areas of the Appalachians who could have told the politicians, diplomats and brass that the population in the Stan would be "backwards, resistant to change, set in their ways," and that trying to get a result that ran counter to that was a waste of time. But that's not how the decision matrix is wired.
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I bet the Chinese cornering the rare earth metals will provokea lot of countries to head to the asteroids and mine the stuff. It'll be as profitable like back in the spice trade of the 15 the century
[Western Journal] Yes, I am angry watching the events in Afghanistan unravel.
American "leaders" have reneged on American honor and dignity. Foreign policy is being dictated by our enemies. It’s unstated so far, but in my judgment, we’ve surrendered.
This is a complete and total disaster, and our enemies will shame us forever. The entire chain of command should immediately resign in disgrace. (And the president should step down: Clearly, he is incapable of making clearheaded decisions and placing the safety and security of American citizens as his highest priority — that is what a president is supposed to do!)
Those left behind will be enslaved, raped, pillaged, converted or brutally killed.
Globally, our foreign policy is in shambles, and our national security is thus at grave risk. Yes, our nation-state adversaries (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) and non-nation-state actors (ISIS, al-Qaida and Hezbollah, to name a few) are rising and on the move. Like when a great white shark smells blood in the water, the time to attack is imminent. We had better be prepared!
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American "leaders" have reneged on American honor and dignity. Foreign policy is being dictated by our enemies. It’s unstated so far, but in my judgment, we’ve surrendered.
Currently, policies are horrible and they are being dictated by globalists and radical leftists, e.g. Open Borders. Some leaders have reneged on honor and dignity but not all. I'd say that most of grass roots American people have not surrendered. The MSM has done a great disservice to the American people and much of the bureaucracy is a part of or tolerant of the Deep State.
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[LATimes] 
[FOX] Hoover Institution senior fellow criticizes the president’s ’dangerous’ Afghanistan strategy on ’Fox News Primetime’
