I’m particular fascinated by which governmental agencies were sponsoring Politico with taxpayer money’s
Extraordinary stuff.
With the Soviet newspaper “Pravda” at least we knew it was government press and treated it accordingly.
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Well, that explains why they’re so very, very antsy to get an insider instead of RFKJ at Health and Human Services…
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Not Politico, but similar story: USAID-funded “media”
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1887282681609588759
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That’s interesting. Second comment today that’s just been eaten by the box. I’m not sure that’s ever happened to me before.
Here’s the link I was trying to share, let’s see if it goes through this time:
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1887282681609588759
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Dang! Two in a row!
Do we cry censorship, or does it discriminate against links generally?
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(WP just ate two comments, attempting to post link to Shellenberger on X, who is explaining some fascinating financial papertrails, in addition to eating one earlier with a link to a really priceless Bill Kristol/datarep exchange)
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The link: https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1887282681609588759
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Tried a 3rd time with just “the link” and the link. Ate it again. For scientific purposes, I will now attempt to share a link to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
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Bloody effing heck. It really is censoring the Shellenberger link.
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Four comments total, all yours, were not even placed into an approval queue but simply spammed. That’s really something new.
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and yet when I tried it with a different link, went right through.
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We need an audit of the PPP loans disbursed during COVID. So much fraud that worldwide crab populations were decimated lol.
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For sure. This is where the investigation needs to be. But I seriously doubt we’ll see any movement here because it benefited the rich class a lot.
But no, let’s instead focus on a subscription to a magazine.
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Doing the “magazine subscription” doesn’t rule out the other types of fraud, you know. Let’s do ALL of it.
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Close Politico down
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wow a subscription to a a professional policy intelligence magazine in Washington DC? How outrageous!!
Some of you are so impresionable. Elon Musk makes around $4 million per hour. That’s way more outrageous.
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Looking for “Dow Jones” to see how much the government pays for the Wall Street Journal is an easy way to see if this spending is similar to their subscription costs for other news sources.
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I’m sure other publications are also sponsored, all of them left-wing.
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NYT possibly one of them!
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1887354310830272644
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The DOGE page on Xitter is possibly the most scintillating thing on the internet right now…
https://x.com/DOGE
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https://x.com/GenXNewsOnX/status/1842052847841816669
This doesn’t happen without sponsorship. Whatever’s already been exposed, it’s way bigger than that.
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A subscription to the tune of $8 million? By the government? Without which the publication can’t exist? Am extremely ideological publication with far-left views? Paid for with your and my money to spread propaganda?
If this is normal, then we’ve really reached a nadir.
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Oh, and it was multiple subscriptions through multiple government agencies:
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1887277159947117027
Half a mil in NASA subscriptions to Politico. I wonder what the total government sponsorship will turn out to be, both as a number, and as a proportion of various “media” outlets’ budgets.
Waiting with anticipation to see how my guesses match up with the actual numbers– and it’s *so exciting* that the actual numbers are going public 😀
I mean, the big outlets so in lockstep with controlling the narrative this last decade or so… is it really possible that they’ve been staying afloat *entirely* on Ozempic ads?
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The AP, as well. All of the sources I’ve been saying for years are propaganda.
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Figures. What’ll be interesting to find out is if there were any MSM outlets that *weren’t* getting backdoor subsidies from the govt. Bet some of the “right-branded” outlets are in there too.
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Dude. If the government’s “subscription” is most of the operating budget, and they can’t pay their employees without it, it was not a “professional policy intelligence magazine”, it was a propaganda outlet.
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Isn’t it the continuing dismantling of the public education system?
And
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113956721204228037
Doesn’t it sound utterly unrealistic and weird?
More than 80% of Israeli Jews are for this, but it’s a pipe dream imo, which only prevents one from truly confronting reality and solving problems.
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I’m recording a video with Tsesarski today where I’ll explain the part about Israel. I’ll post the link tomorrow.
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I do wonder if it’s just… like the thing with Canada, Mexico, and tariffs: not what he’s actually shooting for, but more of a bold opening salvo to get other countries, such as the Arab nations, to start taking some ownership of the problem (if only to avoid a scenario where the US has a giant military base there).
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IIRC the education thing is a bid to kick administration of public education back down to the state level, and get the federal government out of that game entirely. It would not be eliminated, but it would have a lot more local accountability. I think it would be a good thing, and would allow states that *want* to improve the quality of public schools, to do so unencumbered by federal money, with federal strings attached. There is a big problem, even in places that used to have pretty good schools, where once you accept a federal grant for anything, all of a sudden you have to comply with ten million federal regulations, all of which are very expensive and require extra levels of admin, without doing anything for students, teachers, or academic performance. If we’re going to have a public school system at all, in the future, we are going to have to shuck a lot of administrative bloat, and make schools more accountable to parents. Getting control of the purse strings away from the fedgov is not a bad start.
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