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17 Jun, 13 tweets, 5 min read
America's Soup-Brained President Says The US Never Interferes In Other Countries' Elections

"That the entire press corps did not erupt in side-splitting laughter at this ridiculous utterance is in itself proof that western news media is pure propaganda."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/americas-sou…
During an astonishingly sycophantic press conference after the Geneva summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden posited a hypothetical scenario about what the world would think of the US if it were interfering in foreign elections and everybody knew it.
That the entire press corps did not erupt in side-splitting laughter at this utterance proves western news media is pure propaganda. The US has directly interfered in scores of foreign elections since WW2, not counting all its other regime change ops.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
The US openly interfered in Russia's elections in the nineties, and literally JUST tried to stage a coup in Bolivia by interfering in its democratic process.
caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/10/20/bol…
The US is far and away the single most egregious offender in the world on this front, which is largely why it is perceived around the world as a greater threat to democracy than any other government.
theguardian.com/world/2021/may…
This is not a secret, internationally or in the United States. Anyone who has done any learning about the US government's actual behavior on the world stage knows this. Hell, a former CIA director openly joked about it on Fox News a few years ago.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/ex-cia-directo…
The fact that not one person in the press pool questioned or criticized Biden's outrageous remarks tells you everything you need to know about the western media and what its real function is. That function is perfectly illustrated in this tweet here:
Western journos are forbidden from meaningfully confronting power; the closest they're allowed to get to punching up is challenging the leaders of CIA-targeted governments and demanding to know why their own officials aren't being MORE hawkish and aggressive toward those leaders.
The whole thing was a navel-gazing, masturbatory cold war propaganda orgy where western "journalists" made up fantasies about their soup-brained leader staring down Putin,
A navel-gazing, masturbatory cold war propaganda orgy where western "journalists" yelled nonsense about Alexei Navalny at the Russian president and then fangirled at Biden's response.
Real journalists go to Belmarsh Prison for exposing US war crimes. Western propagandists ask Putin why he's such a doodoo dumb dumb poopy head and then dream about Pulitzers all night.
Western media exists to funnel propaganda into the minds of the public. It is controlled by plutocrats who work in alliance with opaque government agencies to weave narratives about why the US government needs to do the things it already planned on doing.
America's Soup-Brained President Says The US Never Interferes In Other Countries' Elections (Audio)

The fact that not one person in the press pool questioned Biden's remark tells you all you need to know about the MSM and what its real function is.
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