Maybe there wouldn’t be as much of a disinformation crisis in this country if the media didn’t spend its time screeching about every conspiracy theory.

Something has fundamentally broken in the media. The sensationalism and profit hungry, click-driven corporations are broken.
The sensationalism in corporate media is what pisses me off. No Ted Cruz isn’t committing treason. It’s a stupid publicity stunt that doesn’t matter in any tangible way. Stop covering it like it has an impact on anything!
People can’t pay rent. The world is boiling. Espionage is hitting a crisis point. Major banks are laundering billions of dollars of dirty money to corrupt our politics and business. Maybe these things should be covered?
Anywho, 1:30 am rant over. Happy Sunday.

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Mark Meadows is not going to be tried for sedition. That part is sensationalism that is intended to get clicks and engagement.
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Absolutely devastating. This was a cataclysmic failure of government from the top-down.

"it now appears Russia exploited multiple layers of the supply chain to gain access to as many as 250 [government] networks." nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/…
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