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Kevin Landry's avatar

"As B.B. King once said: “Nobody loves me but my mother—and she could be jivin’ too.”" Good reference. I was also thinking of Lou Reed's "Busload of Faith"--'You can't depend on a lot of things. You need a busload of faith to get by.'

Reading Martin Gurri's "Revolt of the Public" made me understand how these institutions are losing the trust from the public and trying, desperately, to maintain their control over the masses. The manipulation of language is always one of their tools used to perpetuate this fraud, i.e. mother for birthing person. This radical shift of the information flow hierarchy caused by the invention of the internet has its positives and negatives.

Openness within the social media sphere and online searches was wonderful at the beginning. But, like all good things, corruption and power take over. And that's when government intervention is usually involved--whether it's science, education, business, or the media. We're slowing becoming like China, and nobody realizes it. Citizens were so conditioned by the panic porn of Covid that some of them were ratting on their neighbors if they saw someone who was maskless.

Trust is surely eroding in America, but so too is gratitude and humility. Watching a couple of Yeonmi Park videos recently was a powerful reminder of what is truly important in life--not whiny little performance brats causing this madness, but honesty and a shared commonality working towards the truth. There will always be disagreements, and that's a good thing in a free society.

I sure hope we don't lose such a beautiful thing we have going in America. It would be a travesty to the visions and hard work our Founding Fathers gave us.

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L.K. Collins's avatar

Slowly becoming like China?

Does the name Elvis Chan ring any bells?

And now we find as if we didn't already know, that 50 great leading lights of our intelligence community drafted a letter trying to debunk a story that accurately described the contents of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that alluded to corrupt activities by Hunter and the rest of his nuclear family.

Of course, they did it to sway the election in favor of Joe Biden...

And there are still millions of people; including, I would presume, our esteemed hosts, that will swear vehemently that there wasn't any conspiracy to sway the outcome of the 2020 election.

When are people going to start going to jail for such treasonous activities? They certainly deserve it!

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