While we're all laughing at @JacobAWohl and @Jack_Burkman and especially @GatewayPundit, please consider this: Had their ridiculous "press conference" gone even a tiny bit more smoothly, some disinformation would have been picked up by bots and paid trolls and laundered from its
original source, then redirected and pushed hard toward more mainstream news sources. Hannity would pick it up, then maybe Carlson, then of course the media that covers the media would mention it. Then news blogs would pick it up, giving the story validity
like so many dungbeetles pushing around balls as they get bigger and bigger. Soon, everyone would forget that it was originally pushed by trolls and the story would double on itself and more and more people would claim to be a part of it until the whole thing was a circus...
...and then, at some point, there would be a call to action of some sort, probably a firing or a resignation, or more than one. You think it was stupid because it is stupid. But it's literally all been this stupid. All these distractions and distractions from distractions are so
that people will fall for stupid shit. It's been this stupid THIS WHOLE TIME. Go back and read some of the stupid stories that have pushed along policy since 2017. We're just all getting savvier. But make no mistake: This was not just a couple of dumb shits in a vacuum. This was
the same stunting that has been used to great effect for a long time now. This is exactly what disinformation is designed to do and how it has been working in the United States (and elsewhere) this whole time. Now you see how dumb it really is, because it was interrupted.
And you saw what interrupted it, right? You saw what exposed it? Journalism. Savvy journalism inoculated the American public from what was going to be used down the line; the bots were ready to go and so were all the usual useful idiots, the disinformation footsoldiers.
I've watched this happen over and over again, including when Roger Stone, Julian Assange, Newt Gingrich, and the Russian Embassy all tweeted out Seth Rich lies within the same four-hour period. Who was behind those? Why none other than Mr. Buttonfly himself, @Jack_Burkman
It really has been this dumb this whole time.
You can't both-sides bullshit. When someone isn't operating in good faith, you need to point at them, mock them, show them up, call them out, and never let them do it again, especially if they have any power at all to create or change policy. They need to be called out publicly.
Luckily this is one of my superpowers
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