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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 10/16/22 12:25 AM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:   
   > https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/this-is-the-moment-i-gave-up-on-joe-biden/   
   >   
   > “The new puritans, then, are best understood as a clergy for a godless   
   > age, presiding over a dreamscape of their own making, rewriting our   
   > language, history and traditions as they go along. Yet, for all their   
   > clout, there are still some among us who steadfastly refuse to praise the   
   > elegance of the emperor’s new clothes, who would rather point and laugh at   
   > the naked man in our midst. Not for the first time in human history, our   
   > way out of this madness will depend upon the heretics.”   
   >   
   > — Andrew Doyle   
   >   
   > The new puritans   
   > Joe Biden emerged from his speech this month “on the continued battle for   
   > the soul of our nation” like a squalling infant birthed from the loins of   
   > blue-check Twitter, bathed in the blood-red light of militant fascism.   
   >   
   > He was finally their guy. Gone was the empathy guy. Gone was the unity   
   > guy. Gone was the moderate guy. Be mean, Joe. Get them, Joe. Get tough,   
   > Joe. Tell them their participation in democracy is a threat to …   
   > democracy!   
   >   
   > Yes, tell them, Joe. Tell the “MAGA Republicans” they’re not welcome in   
   > their own country. Tell them their participation is a threat to a   
   > government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Tell them   
   > that democracy means they have to sit down and shut up.   
   >   
   > Tell the truck driver who travels coast to coast, working the graveyard   
   > shift, to bring freshly cut meat to supermarket shelves. Tell the police   
   > officer, the waitress, the bartender, the cable guy, the grocery store   
   > clerk, the grandmother, the garage mechanic, the veteran who served in   
   > Afghanistan who now has been kicked out of the military for not taking the   
   > vaccine, the mother of two who now must home-school her children that they   
   > are the violent extremists posing the biggest threat to the country they   
   > call home.   
   >   
   > Tell them, Joe, that you’ve decided to throw them away like human garbage   
   > and that you’re hoping for another Jan. 6 so you can arrest anyone who   
   > ever voted for or supported Donald Trump. Tell them that you and you alone   
   > ARE America, and any threat to your power is a threat to the State because   
   > that’s not fascism at all.   
   >   
   > Why did Joe Biden give that speech? Who thought that was a good idea?   
   >   
   > Obviously, Joe Biden and his administration know that the “MAGA   
   > Republicans” are not a dangerous threat to the country. Otherwise, the   
   > Democrats would not have meddled in primary elections, spending upwards of   
   > $46 million pushing those very same MAGA candidates towards a win,   
   > blocking the more moderate GOP picks.   
   >   
   > Desperate & dishonest   
   > Surely the Democrats know what they’re doing, right? I mean, they’re   
   > asking for America’s vote to stay in power. Joe Biden wouldn’t lie to the   
   > people about something as serious as a threat to the Republic, right?   
   >   
   > Wrong. Joe Biden did lie. The speechwriter lied. They would do anything,   
   > say anything, and put any community or even the country at risk just to   
   > stay in power and hold onto the past, the America under Barack Obama from   
   > 2008 to 2016.   
   >   
   > In 2020, we saw them sacrifice the truth as they micromanaged the media   
   > narrative to deliver the correct headlines when they gaslighted hundreds   
   > of millions of us to cover up the truth about just how violent the   
   > protests had been over the summer. They undermined then-President Donald   
   > Trump on everything from COVID to the economy. They did this with   
   > impunity. They did this to stay in power. That is the very definition of   
   > corruption at nearly every level of our administrative state.   
   >   
   > Maybe they do believe it. After all, the Biden administration gets its   
   > news from the same place mainstream media outlets like the New York Times,   
   > the Washington Post, MSNBC and others do. They all drink from the same   
   > watering hole: Twitter.   
   >   
   > Their feedback loop is all they know. They believe it’s the truth, rather   
   > than nonstop recycling of confirmation bias and agitprop flooding the   
   > zone.   
   >   
   > I forced myself to disconnect from the media entirely to escape the   
   > bubble. I stopped reading my Twitter feed and started an alternative   
   > account that paid attention only to the right.   
   >   
   > It took a conscious effort on my part to reprogram my brain to be able to   
   > see both sides clearly and fairly. Once I did that, I was horrified by   
   > what I saw on the left. The hypocrisy, the inhumanity. Worse than all, I   
   > could suddenly see what was true and what wasn’t true and how much the   
   > media and politicians lie daily. They tell themselves what they want to be   
   > true, not what is true.   
   >   
   > At the same time, they were busy silencing dissent everywhere. If you   
   > challenge their narrative, you will be attacked on Twitter, fired from   
   > your job at any media outlet, or forced to apologize. You aren’t given any   
   > other option. They don’t want anyone to tell the truth ever. They want to   
   > shut it down.   
   >   
   > How did we ever get here? And is there any way out?   
   >   
   > There is a line in “Citizen Kane” where the character of Gettys says to   
   > Kane, “you’re going to need more than one lesson. And you’re to get   
   more   
   > than one lesson.”   
   >   
   > And so it goes with the Democrats. Right now, they need to be taught a   
   > lesson — to be voted out in such massive numbers, it causes them to   
   > rethink the mess they’ve made of this country. They might destroy most of   
   > the cultural institutions the Boomers built in the 1960s, but we can’t let   
   > them do that to our government.   
   >   
   > This is hard for me to say or even think about. It took me a few years to   
   > arrive at this point. After President Biden’s speech, however, I don’t   
   see   
   > any other way. Substack, YouTube, podcasts, and other outlets offer   
   > objective opinions and investigative reporting. Hopefully, more people   
   > will begin to gravitate away from mainstream news until they can get a   
   > grip and maybe grow a pair.   
   >   
   > I used to be a true-blue Democrat. I voted faithfully in every election. I   
      
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