The Stormy Daniels story seems poised to dominate media coverage in the coming months. There's potentially a story there with serious policy implications, but it is now being remarkably ignored.
Given your astute observations about Trump, I think you will appreciate what I wrote about him and TDS in 2021:
“An unwitting Goldstein, Trump played right into BigPharma’s strategy to discredit hydroxychloroquine by praising it—giving Trump Derangement Syndrome (a psychological disorder manufactured by and spread to tremendous monetary benefit and turnkey mass control by the media) sufferers the best and only reason they needed to dismiss it. They have been trained to plug their ears, cover their eyes, scream at the top of their lungs, and stamp their feet the instant any one of the Deplorables opens his mouth. One of the most effective instruments in the plutocracy’s toolkit, TDS has been brandished to misdirect the public for years, and it continues to work its magic despite Trump’s declining relevance, the embers of which the media will continue to fan as long as it pays dividends—just as Goldstein’s detested image is deployed in culturally unifying activities such as Two Minutes Hate.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-scientifically-minded)
On another note, I was delighted to discover you on Substack, Sam, and wanted to let you know I shared your Perspectives on the Pandemic video in this piece a while back:
I just read that there was some battles between Iranian forces and U.S. troops at their "bases" in Syria. Why in the hell does the United States have military bases in ... Syria? Does Syria have any military bases in New Mexico or Mississippi? What if they did? Would Americans say that was fine, since we have our own bases in their country?
FWIW, the narrative that "Assad gassed his own people" was another whopper that the Establishment got away with.
Given your astute observations about Trump, I think you will appreciate what I wrote about him and TDS in 2021:
“An unwitting Goldstein, Trump played right into BigPharma’s strategy to discredit hydroxychloroquine by praising it—giving Trump Derangement Syndrome (a psychological disorder manufactured by and spread to tremendous monetary benefit and turnkey mass control by the media) sufferers the best and only reason they needed to dismiss it. They have been trained to plug their ears, cover their eyes, scream at the top of their lungs, and stamp their feet the instant any one of the Deplorables opens his mouth. One of the most effective instruments in the plutocracy’s toolkit, TDS has been brandished to misdirect the public for years, and it continues to work its magic despite Trump’s declining relevance, the embers of which the media will continue to fan as long as it pays dividends—just as Goldstein’s detested image is deployed in culturally unifying activities such as Two Minutes Hate.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-scientifically-minded)
On another note, I was delighted to discover you on Substack, Sam, and wanted to let you know I shared your Perspectives on the Pandemic video in this piece a while back:
• “Letter to the Menticided: A 12-Step Recovery Program” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-menticided-a-12-step)
I just read that there was some battles between Iranian forces and U.S. troops at their "bases" in Syria. Why in the hell does the United States have military bases in ... Syria? Does Syria have any military bases in New Mexico or Mississippi? What if they did? Would Americans say that was fine, since we have our own bases in their country?
FWIW, the narrative that "Assad gassed his own people" was another whopper that the Establishment got away with.