A Post-America public service kind of post I hope will encourage and entertain in the course of educating. Or something.
During the bad old days of the Cold War, writer Gore Vidal asked some Russians how they had any idea what was going on in the world for all the famously awful Communist propaganda they had to put up with in the name of “journalism.” Vidal was astonished by how much these people knew despite the wall of misinformation about them. They shrugged and said one simply learned to read between the lines.
It’s the same here. Fortunately, much of the state propaganda in Post-America is very predictable. For instance, if the narrative line everyone from FOX to CNN is parroting that “some people” are unbalanced, crazy, etc. for believing certain things, then you can be certain you're crazy NOT to believe those things. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax. The 2020 U.S. election was stolen. The COVID-19 “vaccine” is not a vaccine and is likely very bad for you. Q.E.D.
The vehemence with which the media minions attack these easily provable and simple observations—and especially the person making them—is your stadium-sized red flag right there. Ad hominem is not a rhetorical fallacy; it is the news media’s most valuable and effective tool.
This is a good place to point out that the Soviet regime declared its too-high-profile-to-kill dissidents as mentally ill and locked them away in asylums. Our ruling regime doesn’t care how they look the rest of the world. They’ll murder you outright, declare it a suicide, and look, a new comic book movie! Isn’t the morbidly obese woman they got playing this character gorgeous? You’d better believe it, because we just told you so. If you don’t love her as we do, there’s something wrong with you. In other news….
That said, if the media stooges are attacking the whistleblower, casting aspersions on the whistleblowers sanity, morality, integrity, etc., you know that whistleblower is onto something you’re not supposed to see.
To say one believes in conspiracy theories usually works as a disqualifier because most people have the vaguest palimpsest of an idea of history and real idea how things worked among the power players the historians choose to remember. My line, which needs shortening (brevity, soul, wit, etc.), is “So everyone in the Roman Senate just happened to be packing their best murder blades the day in March Julius Caesar just so happened to be showing up to speak before them and things just sort of happened. Just me, but I’d say someone took a meeting.”
And you just know that “gotcha!” look is going to light some idiot’s face up and they’ll say, “So where are the minutes of that meeting? Ha! So many people, someone was going to tell! You know, like Watergate!”
All I’ve got for that is, “After JFK, Nine-Eleven, Saddam has weapons of mass destruction? Never mind.” I should probably just turn and walk, though. You know how it is. Pearls, swine, swine turn, trample pearls, devour you. Don’t throw your pearls before swine.
As for our current situation, consider that ballot machines were sending info to servers in Germany and trucks were showing up at polling places all over the United States throughout the night after the national election. Someone took a meeting.
Who? We may never know, so it’s irrelevant. Our job is to learn how to read between the lines and adjust our lives accordingly.