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Justin Hendrix
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The President has swallowed a series of lies promulgated by conservative media and used the power of the state to try to make them true. Disinformation has proven to be a double edged sword- Donald may have impaled himself on it.
Former Trump White House Homeland Security adviser on Giuliani: "At this point, I am deeply frustrated with what he and his legal team are doing in repeating that debunked theory to the president. It sticks in his mind when he hears it over & over again."
You cannot make this stuff up. (Unless you are Sean Hannity).
Attorney General Barr? Also a conspiracy theorist enchanted by Fox News nonsense- and now it has snared him, too. The snake is eating its tale!
.@pbump columninizes this phenomenon:
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Justin Hendrix
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I'll be overjoyed on the day that Donald Trump is impeached. But I will never forget that for many months Nancy Pelosi failed to lead, diminished others who did, and only moved when a whistleblower made her position completely untenable. She'll be cast as the hero; she is not.
The House may move forward on narrow Articles to do primarily with Ukraine. I understand the logic; but I also acknowledge that doing so implicitly states other crimes did not rise to the threshold of Pelosi's concern. Think about that.
From the obvious corruption happening in plain view, to the gross human rights abuses at the border, to the Mueller report's multiple accounts of obstruction and evidence of cooperation with foreign interference in our elections, to the racist incitement- none of it was enough.
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Justin Hendrix
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1/ The incredible intricacy and resolution of the Upside Down that right wing media has constructed is extraordinary. The alternate universe of Fox News and John Solomon and Rush Limbaugh seemed like the President's greatest asset; but instead it may destroy him.
2/ Himself a conspiracist and a huckster, Donald Trump has surrounded himself with liars, conspiracists and lunatic ideologues. Their lies surrounded him, enveloped him, from Hannity to Giuliani and beyond. Then he sought to use the power of the state to confirm the conspiracies.
3/ Lies were manufactured and metastasized. It took only a matter of weeks to go from a preposterous click bait column by a washed up right wing huckster in The Hill to a full scale conspiracy and impeachable abuse of power by the President & his cabinet.
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Justin Hendrix
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1/ Oxford University report chronicles disinfo campaigns in 70 countries, up from 48 in 2018 and 28 in 2017. Social media has become co-opted by many authoritarian regimes. h/t @TimKarr
comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…
2/ "In 26 countries, computational propaganda is being used as a tool of information control in three distinct ways: to suppress fundamental human rights, discredit political opponents, and drown out dissenting opinions."
3/ '🇨🇳 has become a major player in the global disinfo order. Until 2019 protests in 🇭🇰, most evidence of 🇨🇳 computational propaganda occurred on domestic platforms But 🇨🇳’s new-found interest in aggressively using FB, Twitter, and YouTube should raise concerns for democracies.'
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Ok some thoughts/observations on the whole Esther McVey/school protests thing, offered as an attempt to try and see things in the wider context of What Is Going On Here. I'll no doubt needle some, or phrase things poorly, but do please try and apply the principle of charity
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