MEME: GOVERNMENT & MEDIA RIDICULE

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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DISCOURAGING: ‘Conspiracy Theories’ are not longer imaginary rantings of loonies, but warning signs of a downward trajectory

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/conspiracy_theories_aren_t_theoretical_anymore.html

‘Conspiracy Theories’ Aren’t Theoretical Anymore
By John Green

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The national mood in the mid-twentieth century was very different from now.

  •     The United States was respected around the world — even if not necessarily liked.
  •     Technology was advancing faster than at any time in human history.
  •     Our cities were mostly orderly, safe, and clean.
  •     We believed there were few hardships which couldn’t be overcome with hard work. Opportunities seemed endless, as was our optimism.
  •     We were completely naïve about the danger posed by our own government.

Not everything was sunny. We had problems that needed attention. That is the nature of human existence after all. But when Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” we just thought he was promoting self-reliance and highlighting government inefficiency. As I said, we were naïve.

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As we watch all this unfold, we know that vast government criminal conspiracies are no longer theoretical. There is nothing demented or delusional about believing our government would willingly facilitate the murder a political threat. The actions of the DoJ in conjunction with the legislation proposed by the Democrats makes that perfectly clear.

The plot to place Donald Trump at the tender mercies of a prison’s “genpop” is not the only evidence of government criminal conspiracy.

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Things have changed a lot since the mid-20th century. The children of the 21st century have a completely different worldview.

  •     The United States is a corrupt and impotent international laughingstock.
  •     We’ve become technically stunted. Replacing the Francis Scott Key bridge is expected to take three times longer than building the Golden Gate bridge almost a century ago.
  •     Our cities are becoming unlivable post-apocalyptic hellscapes.
  •     “Living the American dream” is no longer a middle-class expectation.
  •     We know that fear of our own government is a prudent mindset.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t sound so crazy now that the conspiracies are no longer theoretical.

John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a staff writer for the American Free News Network and can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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And lest we forget that JFK was killed by the Deep State to prevent him from ending the Vietnam War and sending LBJ to prison.

Can the USA ever return to its former greatness?

Not very likely,  Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: What are “public myths”?

Friday, September 17, 2021

https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/9-11-the-controlled-demolition-of-trust-in-authority/

9/11: the Controlled Demolition of Trust in Authority
KEVIN BARRETT • SEPTEMBER 11, 2021 • 1,200 WORDS • 17 COMMENTS 

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You don’t have to be Hegel to know that if the thesis is 100% belief in the media, and the antithesis is 100% disbelief, the correct synthesis is somewhere in between. While the media is obviously paid to lie about a long list of extremely important matters, it also sometimes publishes or broadcasts accurate information, whether by accident or because the billionaires and security wonks at the top of the military-corporate power pyramid don’t really care about suppressing those particular nuggets of truthful information. The sum total of lies and truths told by authorities normally congeals into a somewhat vague and nebulous consensus reality, a set of “public myths” that most people accept and embrace, expressly or tacitly, and use to guide themselves in their collective actions.

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He uses the line “today’s soulless atheist-materialist barbarian elite” to describe the new “priestly class” of “celebrities”, “experts”, politicians, and bureaucrats who produce NOTHING while being immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

I don’t know where this leads us to anything other than some type of “civil war” for the heart and soul of America.

I doubt that I’ll be around to see the collapse, but it’s surely coming.

I guess we need a criteria to evaluate the tin foil hat “conspiracy theories” per centage probability that they’re true in whole or in part.  Remember that some past “conspiracy theories” have been proven true. Some were not completely wrong, And, some are just hanging around. I open to suggestions as to what the scale should be.

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INSPIRATIONAL: That poor skunk! Is us like us humans today?

Sunday, March 14, 2021

https://ritholtz.com/2021/03/transcript-william-j-bernstein/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29

Transcript: William J. Bernstein
March 7, 2021 12:00pm by Barry Ritholtz
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Bill Bernstein on the Delusions Of Crowds, is below.

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BERNSTEIN: So we have this evolutionary drive, that let me we lead this to over interpret things and the analogy I think that is best is that you know if you’re a skunk millions of years of evolution have told you that when you meet a large predator, you turn 180 degrees, lift your tail and spray.

And that’s you know, very, very functional and very useful in a state of nature. But in a semi urban environment where the biggest threat to your existence is a hunk of steel weighing two tons moving at 60 miles an hour, that is not a functional response and unfortunately that’s the world we live in today.

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Somehow I feel that “We, The Sheeple” are like that poor skunk being unable to adapt to the politicians and bureaucrats taking control of life.

Argh!

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Podcast Episode 224: The Constitution and Executive Power | Brion McClanahan Author & Historian

Friday, April 19, 2019

A leftist professor wants to limit executive power. This should not be news in the Age of Trump. Every leftist wants to do that, but this leftist might be slightly different. Professor Julia Azari wrote a piece for Vox arguing that the Constitution doesn’t do enough to limit executive power and suggests amending it to do so.

Source: Podcast Episode 224: The Constitution and Executive Power | Brion McClanahan Author & Historian

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We need to reign in the Executive.  The problem is NOT BHO44 or DJT45.  The DOWG weren’t perfect and they didn’t do enough to prevent the President from becoming a King. Or worse, a Deity.

I think of how some of my Depression Era relatives “worshiped” FDR and the fights when certain uncles who were war vets pointed out his flaws (i.e., women), claims that just weren’t true (i.e., he saved us from the Depression), and “conspiracy theories” (i.e., he caused Pearl Harbor; he led us into war; he was a socialist that gave away the world at Yalta).

Maybe that where I get my “suspicion” that ALL the Conspiracy Theories have a grain of truth at the core AND SOME even are true!

Argh!

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