They kept the war on drugs going and started smuggling drugs into black neighborhoods to fund anti democratic despots overseas
Kennedy would end up firing Allan Dulles because he had tricked Kennedy into Bay of Pigs. These guys had a reputation for misleading presidents.
He probably didn't know. Bush shuffled Cheney off to the margins and had Rummy resign in 2006 when he realized that he had been manipulated. From then on he leaned heavily on Condoleeza Rice. But the main thing is that the Dulles brothers were long gone.
We have to distinguish between the Dulles Brothers and Eisenhower. The brothers were two of the biggest gangsters to ever step foot in DC. Because they were allowed to run operations without the knowledge of the president and they lied and manipulated presidents is not completely clear what Eisenhower knew.
You are completely right. There's an entire ecosystem of right wing propaganda channels out there but most people get their news from their friends. It's the key phenomenon behind influencer culture. And that's how most of the damage is done.
If someone has one friend who is considered knowledgeable on current affairs and that one friend watches Fox, chances are that none of his associates will have an accurate understanding of any given topic. And that's by design. The kind of tripe spread on fox news is inflammatory and salacious. The sort of noxious trash you'd share with friends in private conversation.
I realize this is what TikTok and facebook maximize: The friend effect. People learn from their friends. The kind of lies spread by right wing networks is magnified by social media and Russian bot farms.
We have to take the election fraud seriously. The only reason a felon like trump, facing jailtime, would take it easy is if he knew he was guaranteed the presidency in November. Either he got assurances from the Supreme Court or he knows something we dont.
But we're there any better platforms that people were using? The problem was that all the alternatives were doing next tot nothing for countering disinformation. Twitter was the best of a bad situation.
Most conservatives and Maga radical insurrectionists were the victims of a disinformation campaign and malicious profiteering.
Fox News receives a large chunk of its advertising revenue from supplement companies. These same companies wanted to foster vaccine and mask skepticism in order to sell more oil of oregano and "natural" cures.
Fox News must be held financially liable for the countless lives that it has destroyed.
When narcissists become triggered they have a fight or flight response. Trump is having that same response every day of his life. He was having it during the coup, he was having it when he was raping, he was having it when he got convicted. The observation that Trump is mentally crumbling is true. But it's something that he does daily.
Just think how contorted someone's thinking must be I'm order to derive their self worth from a poll.
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