This is the #TantonNetwork. It is in law enforcement, policy, schools, and churches. They have been quietly infiltrating for decades. Their lobbying groups have been pushing a white supremacist agenda using immigration as its Trojan horse, and the Trump admin gave them power.
Here is who the bulk of their funding comes from. Look at all the groups they fund and think about what they are doing. It's a coordinated power grab, just like I told you all along.
(I had to TinyURL it because there was an apostrophe in the original URL that Twitter wouldn't allow. It's an SPLC story on some of the shit John Tanton was up to, and with whom. Check out the names, I betcha you'll find some you know!)
So, what happened was this. I got interested in the border because almost no one was covering it and I couldn't figure out why, and I had just been fired from KPCC in Los Angeles and missed the LA's energy. Tijuana is a younger city than San Diego and I found it interesting and
appealing, so I started hanging around there to check out the scene (and look for other Anglo reporters) and made a bunch of friends. They asked me why I wasn't covering the border, I said I didn't feel like it was my place. They said, we need international eyes on us!! So I said
I would, absolutely. And the more I found, the more appalling it was. The cover-ups, the cruelty, the enormous negligence. Sterilizations, forced abortions, murders, tortures. And that was just what the USA was up to. So I started trying to get the word out. I called myself a
"post-conflict reporter" on the humanitarian beat. It started to feel like people from the whole world were showing up in Tijuana, that city of last hopes. That's how I knew how destabilized the world was getting.
But no one wanted to hear the truth about the border. I would
pitch stories and no editors would answer (although the majors would run my pitches as an in-house story two to three weeks later like clockwork, as if I wouldn't fucking notice, and it would be badly done most of the time.)
I was going hungry for my work, so I started looking
for steady employment. And that's how I ended up at Snopes in November 2015. Thought I could use it to fund my border reportage, and it worked for a while. Then the disinfo attacks started. But they were all about bullshit I had already debunked at the border. I knew them already
so I knew it had to be related to the border somehow. That's how I realized who was behind this (the #TantonNetwork), who they had joined up with (the global far right), and why (resource realignment due to climate catastrophe.)
Anyway it's been a pretty stressful few years!
Although I will say this, decades of staring down Nazis and years of talking and flirting my way through military roadblocks in various countries has paid off for me well since 2016. These domestic chickenshits don't scare me. They only like soft targets.
Anyway, at some point in 2016 I realized that it was all just the same tedious dumbfucks pushing the same tedious dumbfuck shit. They would trigger the footsoldier street Nazis with stupid Facebook shit and distract everyone else from the evil shit they were doing to our country.
Seemed to me that if I could just get that story out there in time, everyone would see it for what it was. I failed -- but I'm still trying. archive.is/d97ua
Knowing all of this is what motivated me to offer these warnings starting in March 2020 (thread)
Because he is the latest interchangeable face of an inauthentically organized campaign and will return to the obscurity he deserves within a month or two, when the same disinfo networks prop up a new useful idiot for their next manufactured, weaponized moral panic
...Unless we stop the cycle now! Keep calling this shit out, friends. We have years of receipts over here
p.s. It's the #TantonNetwork. "Population control advocates" disguised as "immigration hardliner" lobbyists, drawn together by John Tanton, funded by the Scaife networks.
Everyone has noticed by now that QAnoners have morphed straight into anti-critical race theory activists right? That's what they are talking about in their groups. And corrupt public officials are making political hay with it (because they're the ones who seeded it to begin with)
Just realized the 2011-2012 Encinitas, Calif. yoga disinformation campaign (about yoga programs in schools) came at the same time that the ethnic studies programs attacks were really getting underway in Tucson, just one state over
Hahaha. What did I tell you about southern California law enforcement? Hey ex-coworkers, I'll accept your apologies for not believing me in the form of beers and cash awards
I mean, I was an Orange County reporter too, I didn't just cover San Diego and Los Angeles and Riverside and Imperial. I saw it all up close and personal like
And let me tell you something that I never realized until recently. A face like mine is a truth magnet. It brings out all the shit people think they are hiding. It comes out in questions like, "What ARE you?" and "Where are you from? No, really." And nowhere was it worse than OC.
No shit! We warned you. Then they're used to pit ideologically irreconcilable groups against each other in person, which in turn functions as recruitment material for the far right when the optics turn violent. They're far from the only group
When Paul Manafort was doing this shit in Ukraine and elsewhere, he called it "black ops." But really you can call it "active measures" or "hybrid warfare" too. (Story from 2017)