Kansas Crimson

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:14 am i didn't realize tucker carlson and shaun hannity were elected back in 2020. and are now in charge of our government.

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 4:21 pm It’s crazy how close the lefty and righty talking points are on this issue.

I think it’s cuz much of the criticism comes from pointing out hypocrisy?

That’s something both fringes can agree upon, but the mainstream tends to shrug off.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. But if you can fool 40 percent of the American electorate all of the time, you can be a successful political vandal and do terrible damage on behalf of an authoritarian thug who seems to want to kill as many of the people as possible, all of the time.

Over the last several days, we have seen the great wingnut Wurlitzer operating at full capacity. For the benefit of readers who may have joined American politics already in progress, here is how the Wurlitzer works. First, some conservative “activist” of whom nobody ever has heard before makes a claim that seems to have originated with the people of Alpha Centauri who speak to the activist through his bridgework. This sets off a social-media storm among the nation’s rage-happy shut-ins. Then, someone with a radio show takes some of the rough edges off the claim and broadcasts it, because it is “out there.” A television network with sub-zero ratings does a Special Report on the claim. Which draws the attention of the finger-painting crowd at Fox News. Some booker puts the original source on the air. One of the FNC stars, Carlson or Hannity, then mentions the basic tenets of the claim and embarks on the final stage of the process in which they are Just Asking Questions. By then, the claim is in the media mainstream, which validates the original guy with the interstellar bridgework.

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For years, the United States has been working with local organizations in Ukraine to disassemble biological-weapons labs there that are relics of the programs undertaken when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. A noble undertaking, and, largely, a successful one. On the heels of his invasion, Russian president Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of producing bioweapons at these old industrial relics. American conservatives, many of them seeking a way out of the corner into which they painted themselves by their earlier Putin-adjacent commentary, have grabbed desperately onto this rubbish as a way to oppose the invasion without offending the Russian president too much. The American iteration of this theory began at a Senate hearing in which Senator Marco Rubio asked an administration official if Ukraine “had access” to chemical and biological weapons.

Tucker Carlson took it from there, tap-dancing faster than Gene Kelly in Singin’ In The Rain. Sean Hannity had a try at it, but he was slapped into the cheap seats by his network’s own Pentagon reporter, Jennifer Griffin, in one of the very few truly glorious moments in this whole sad saga. Meanwhile, out in the far ozone, the QAnon people rang their own uniquely paranoid changes on theory. They said Dr. Anthony Fauci was running the bioweapon program. Yeesh. How will this country survive its enabled and weaponized stupidity?

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Qusdahl wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 9:53 am I wonder what the far right’s end game is with this one