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Jay Covitz's avatar

What’s going on in East Palestine follows the same script as most events that which occur that the government wants the public to ignore or forget about.

Step 1- Don’t acknowledge it happened

Step 2- If it gets traction in the public, ignore the event to the greatest extent possible and provide only limited information

Step 3- This will inevitably lead to people believing there is a cover-up of some kind and they will throw out a bunch of accusations...some right, some wrong

Step 4- Seize on the wrong ones and call those people conspiracy theorists who can not be trusted.

Step 5- If things don’t die down then, make the most modest appeal to make it seem like you care (ie- show up at an accident scene 3 weeks after the fact)

Step 6- Give the “what else do you wants us to do” shrug.

Rinse and repeat.

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Lee Morris's avatar

Agreed, Gordon. Though it suspiciously also sounds like Bush re Katrina in 2005.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

You forgot 1.5: create absurd news story as diversion.

“Spy balloons” my ass.

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BigT's avatar

You must have attended the seminar at the DNC convention. Its SOP for Donkeys.

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Skinny's avatar

Excellent post!

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