Leftist media layoffs? It is because their deep state funding ran out.1/2
Long post but this is real stuff, not just a meme, so I wanted to do it justice.
On January 24th it was announced that the Huffington Post would be laying off it's entire opinion section. Soon after Buzzfeed followed suit and laid off a bunch of "journalists" as well. All in all about 1000 journalists lost their jobs.
It is odd that the same thing happened at two different organizations in the same week. It is also worth noting that these two news organizations that are extremely left leaning and known for their almost round the clock anti-trump rhetoric. I mean, just a few short weeks ago buzzfeed posts an absolutely false Trump hit piece that generated an absolute frenzy amongst leftists and Trump haters everywhere, claiming he instructed Cohen to lie to congress. Mueller himself stepped in to deny this outrageous claim.
The deep state is often described as leftover remnants of the Obama administration, a group deeply loyal to the democratic party and opposed to Trump. Well, one of those remnants is no more.
On December 8th, 2016, with about a month left before Trump was set to take over the presidency, the Obama administration passed the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act of 2016. The legislation authorized funding of $160 million over a two-year-period.
It's purpose, in their own words?
To "counter foreign propaganda and disinformation directed against United States national security interests and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support United States allies and interests."
Well that doesn't sound right… but what is the mechanism for accomplishing this? Where does that 160$ million go?
Well, on the same day the National Defense Authorization act was passed. This was used to create an organization called the Global Engagement Center. This was basically the funnel that would be used to distribute this money in the form of grants. Grants? Grants to who? Let's let the act itself tell you.
"AUTHORITY FOR GRANTS.—The Center is authorized to provide grants or contracts of financial support to civil society groups, journalists, nongovernmental organizations, federally-funded research and development centers, private companies, or academic institutions for the following purposes:
[…] to counter efforts by foreign governments to use disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda to influence the policies and social and political stability of the United States
— §1259C, f(1) & §1259C, f(1)D"
That's right, Obama created a governmental agency that was designed to pay journalists in order to get them to support their narrative. A narrative of their choosing. This is the ministry of truth irl. And it was set up and staffed during the Obama administration, in preparation for the first two years of Trump's presidency. Keep in mind they knew the plan was to try to oust him from office, they had already bought and paid for the dossier. They needed something to help make their criminal coup appear legitimate.
But fear not, as stated, this act ended in December of 2018 and Trump is still in office.
Notice that is about a month before the mass layoffs at two different liberal propaganda rags.
This is no coincidence, and it honestly came out of left field. Know you know why.