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haele

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23. Whitehouse was stating the obvious. But Dark Money was always in the background.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:27 PM
Jan 18

Cambridge Analytics, Clarance Thomas, Gini Thomas, and Harlan Crow, anyone? Unline and the Christo-Fascists?
The J-6 committee walked just up to where they could see the Money and Media organizational collaboration backing behind Q-Anon, Conservative organizations and J-6, and jumped back quick. Could have been Cheney, could have been the shear scale of the collision that had been going on since Nixon - or perhaps back as far as the Great Depression to it's recovery period - from with Father Coghlin to McCarthy, where Religion met Gilded Age Capitalism to fight "Godless Commies" and any form of Enlightenment.

My thought. Biden isn't to blame, it's the infantilization of the American Population; a concerted push to turn us into mindless Consumers instead of informed Citizens for Profit and Power. And it's been happening for generations.
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Here's the problem. When not during Campaign investigations, Dark Money is portrayed as a Boogie Man that "smart people" could easily overcome because they can't be fooled, like uneducated idiots would be watching a Carney barker ...
The other conceit is that Dark Money is just Rich Folks throwing their excess money around; it won't really affect normal people personally in their jobs or say to say, because the media portrayal of Politics pretends politics don't affect normal people who work hard and follow the law. Politics only affects criminals and Rich people -according to the Media.
I don't see how Politicians in either party can inform the People about any dangers without Media influencers backing them.
Otherwise, the People are being told those Politicians are trying to fool or cheat them.
We the People are in a world of shit due to Media Influencers in this post-truth environment.

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I would have liked to have heard this as a steady drumbeat for the last four years. Autumn Jan 17 #1
that might have helped. I'll give you that. steady, constant unrelenting msfiddlestix Jan 17 #3
Repetition of simple points OrangeJoe Jan 17 #15
Political Best Practice Kid Berwyn Jan 17 #4
And I would have liked for Dems to have gotten off their asses and voted for Kamala Blue_Tires Jan 17 #7
We saw it coming and 1/2 of America betrayed itself. NotHardly Jan 17 #12
It would have taken more than a speech. I'm not sure what happened in this election, but that speech wouldn't saved msfiddlestix Jan 17 #2
Here's what happened Blue_Tires Jan 17 #11
Fair point, and apparently true. it is still hard to take in. msfiddlestix Jan 17 #18
Post removed Post removed Jan 17 #5
He is correct malaise Jan 17 #6
True, but his timing is utter shit... Sheldon is being petty here. Blue_Tires Jan 17 #9
Why? N/t malaise Jan 17 #10
Whitehouse was stating the obvious. But Dark Money was always in the background. haele Jan 18 #23
Easy to be armchair quarterback newdeal2 Jan 17 #8
Why now Sheldon......you were an up and comer......now?? NOT SO MUCH. a kennedy Jan 17 #13
He will be 75 years old the next time we have a actually solid chance to retake the US Senate, so not exactly an 'up and Celerity Jan 18 #22
What exactly did he need to hear ? Isn't he a senator ? JI7 Jan 17 #14
I appreciate Whitehouse but those comments are bullshit IMO. NoMoreRepugs Jan 17 #16
Bernie's been giving this speech for years but it's been too far left for our Party. jalan48 Jan 17 #17
Bernie should've considered winning thebigidea Jan 17 #19
In the summer before the election... Grins Jan 18 #20
This is so fucking typical of many, many Democratic politicians. Sky Jewels Jan 18 #21
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