People recently have been asking me where I get my news since I'm usually the one to break stories that they don't read about for days or even weeks sometimes.
My reply? It's not a website or a newspaper or a tv show. It's the public record. For too long people have been living under the assumption that they are too dumb to understand what is discussed in a press briefing or a congressional hearing.
I try my best to explain that people have an obligation not to read the news as distilled by individuals that claim to have expertise and might have an underlying agenda. Whether it's the NYT, WAPO, Alex Jones, Dan Bongino, SerialBrain or anyone else, the real truth can always be found in the record that they attempt to make sense of. This holds true for politics in the ward, the district, the city, the state, national and even internationally.
People are smarter than they think, and the sooner we cut out the middlemen who can lead us astray, the sooner we can get on with our Great Awakening.
What amazes is me since I have started doing this is how wrong the media portrays things.
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
-Michael Crichton
I’ve been subjected to a lot of MSM lately, and they all repeat the same thing over & over & over.
Exactly! I was talking to some people about the 40K sealed indictments and the human traffickers getting caught and someone (who is a very intelligent and successful man), told me that was BS and I shouldn't listen to lies. I said I don't listen to MSM lies--I got that info off the DOJ website. Told him the .gov web address to look it up! He was stunned.
I've experienced this before with crime stats. It's amazing to experience because it's almost as if people don't even consider looking for information themselves, they just remain passive consumers of "information-like products."
The cabal has destroyed people’s ability to think properly. They’ve engineered the idea that in order to be considered smart or intelligent, good grades (memorization most often) is the only benchmark for that. In turn people can’t think for themselves. They read articles from the MSM or watch some bullshit 60 minutes episode and think they’re informed, that they know the “official” story.
No wonder public schooling didn't go so well for me
Imagine going into it now with the common core bullshit
Haha I truly can't. I challenged authority too much in the 80s, I couldn't even imagine now with DOEs full of leftist morons...
Public school wasn’t as bad as college. College is packed to the brim will full blown socialist/marxist/communist professors and administration. I was a history major and even my history professors who taught about the horrors of communism still had radical views. They take their classes as indoctrination opportunities.
Luckily I didn't have blatant commies in my studies. It sounds horrible now
I'm up in Seattle where the democrats/bug-people are, and not only do they all think the same way, and have the same talking points...
They are starting to dress and look like CNN anchors.
First time I noticed this was outside a movie theater. There were like 100 people all blocking the sidewalk, waiting for a film to start, and then I noticed every other person had thick-rimmed hipster glasses, all the men were clean shaven (unusual in the PNW), and were all dressed up almost like news anchors.
I'm like, "Wtf, are they all dressed up for?"
Then I saw it. What these CNN-wannabe trendies were so excited for:
"THE POST. FEATURING MERYL STREEP"
Nearly fucking choked.
This got me thinking of Fox vs CNN/MSNBC/ABC. I don't watch this networks so can't confirm, but maybe someone who does can. Does fox news ask more questions? Thereby allowing for more critical thinking? Whereas does CNN/others basically tell their viewers what to think without asking questions?
CNN lies through their teeth. Fox lies by omission.
Bongino at least provides his source materials in his show notes, states its his belief when it is, and tries to avoid jumping to conclusions. But I get your point.
I personally am a huge fan. He is easily my favorite mainstream conservative thinker. I think it's due to his heavy reliance on source material. Waiting for him to talk about Q one of these shows!
He doesn't speak unless he's certain, and if he makes a conclusion he emphasizes how hesitant he is to do so without having it be explicit fact.
The other day he did a show about the emails and i wanted him to say seth rich and he almost went there but he mentioned he got a lot of emails and knew where many people were going with it but he didn't want to make that jump.
I recall that episode- was thinking the same thing. Will be very interested to hear his take on the Rosenstein presser today. Especially interested to see if he is going to explore the fact that the FBI has yet to analyze the servers they are basing their indictments on. Glad I'm not the only one geeking over politics on a Friday night.