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Mr. Hopkins is not a researcher or an infographics designer, but he thought he could point out some “no-go zones” that Matt Taibbi and his team will need to avoid if they want to preserve any chance in hell of not being formally excommunicated from the Church of Seriousness.
California’s Political Reform Act prohibits public officials from reaping any direct or indirect benefit from any official action. The two Newsom’s haven’t been accused of wrongdoing; however, the pattern that we’ve identified is troubling.
A consortium of groups with power and money and military might have managed to organize a very effective campaign to depopulate (meaning: murder) and safeguard (meaning: enslave) humanity.
The secret is not that people genuinely believe an outrageous claim. The secret is that people do genuinely believe that they are in a battle of good against evil, and it is necessary to accept the narrative being promoted, in the interests of fighting evil.
You’d think that these obvious conflicts of interest would prompt the show to bend over backwards to at least find other, critical sources to balance their reporting.
Taibbi exposed the failure of the press, which was also a full partner in one of the worst forms of censorship since the red baiting of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, one that targeted people with dissident or unconventional opinions and accused them of Un-American activities.