Quote from: Oliver the Second on June 18, 2024, 09:08:15 PMA constitutional republic is not a threat to democracy. It is a threat to tyrannical democracy.

In a democracy if 51 percent of the people vote to deny drivers licenses to redheads then that's it, redheads are taking the bus and there's nothing they can do about it.

A constitutional republic would not allow that to happen.

Constitutional republics for the win.

The media literacy movement aims to establish an information hierarchy in which only content from mainstream media and government agencies is credible. This strategy deliberately delegitimizes independent media and journalists who question the official narrative. By labeling alternative viewpoints as "misinformation," these entities aim to suppress dissent and limit public access to diverse perspectives.

One of the most alarming aspects of this campaign is its infiltration into the education system. Radical organizations like the News Literacy Project, which pretend to be nonpartisan, have embedded their curricula in schools across all 50 states. In states like California, media literacy has even become a graduation requirement, and it is only a matter of time before the requirement goes national. These programs teach students that true literacy means consuming information exclusively from "approved" sources, while branding those who seek out independent media as illiterate. This Orwellian redefinition of literacy aims to condition young minds to accept government-approved narratives without question.

Courage Is a Habit created a tool, Media Literacy Scam: Infiltration in K-12, to empower parents with the confidence to stop this propaganda in their children's K-12 schools.

Parents, wanting the best for their children, often fall for this deceptive rhetoric. They assume fostering "literacy" is beneficial, unaware that the term now means something different. Instead of encouraging critical thinking and independent research, these programs push students into a narrow worldview where questioning the status quo is seen as ignorance.

A CNN correspondent is being raked over the coals for scolding former President Donald Trump over the first words he uttered seconds after being shot during an assassination attempt at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel criticized Trump for his reaction that occurred within 80 seconds after being shot in the ear.

"I do want to say there was one thing that, when I watched the tape, I found odd because of all of the heated rhetoric, and that is after he was hit, former President Trump got up and said, 'fight, fight, fight,'" Gangel said.

Gangel added, "I think what we're hearing from people is that's not the message that we want to be sending right now. We want to tamp it down."

The CNN correspondent was lambasted on social media for criticizing a man who had just been a victim of an assassination attempt.

Joy Reid posted a video of herself working through a bizarre conspiracy theory suggesting that the Secret Service helped former President Donald Trump to create the historic and defiant photo image from the shooting.

Memory holing actions taken by politicians is a job taken very seriously by members of the media, and Sunny Hostin of "The View" is no exception.

"She's a former prosecutor. Prosecutors are not really leftists, they put people in jail for a living," Hostin said about Kamala Harris to the rest of "The View" panel, adding, "I know the vice president personally, she's moderate."

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" isn't surprised.

"They've got to frame Kamala as a moderate centrist. Every idea that she has, from equity over equality, to taxing at Venezuelan tax rates, 70, 80%, to open borders to all of the gender lunacy — all of her policies are far, far left," Rubin says.

Everywhere I go I'm seeing this headline -

Kamala Harris formally chosen as Democratic nominee
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng1my55vno

Then further down I see this -

"In total, Democrats have said 3,923 delegates - or 99% of the participants - plan to vote for her"

First off the 99& thing is total bullshit.

Then they say 'PLAN to vote for her' - not 'has voted for her'.

From Ballepedia -

"The Democratic and Republican parties do not formally nominate candidates until delegates vote at the party's national convention."

A virtual roll call is not the party's national convention.

Then there's more -

"A party's presumptive nominee, meaning the candidate who receives an estimated majority of delegates after state nominating events, could be replaced at the convention. Delegates could elect a candidate who they were not initially bound to at the time of their state's election."

https://ballotpedia.org/State_laws_and_party_rules_on_replacing_a_presidential_nominee,_2024

So at this point she is not the official candidate, but the press is doing their best to get you used to the idea.

Quote from: Oliver the Second on August 02, 2024, 09:04:13 PMEverywhere I go I'm seeing this headline -

Kamala Harris formally chosen as Democratic nominee
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng1my55vno

Then further down I see this -

"In total, Democrats have said 3,923 delegates - or 99% of the participants - plan to vote for her"

First off the 99& thing is total bullshit.

Then they say 'PLAN to vote for her' - not 'has voted for her'.

From Ballepedia -

"The Democratic and Republican parties do not formally nominate candidates until delegates vote at the party's national convention."

A virtual roll call is not the party's national convention.

Then there's more -

"A party's presumptive nominee, meaning the candidate who receives an estimated majority of delegates after state nominating events, could be replaced at the convention. Delegates could elect a candidate who they were not initially bound to at the time of their state's election."

https://ballotpedia.org/State_laws_and_party_rules_on_replacing_a_presidential_nominee,_2024

So at this point she is not the official candidate, but the press is doing their best to get you used to the idea.

She's the nominee Ollie. The billionaires who own that corrupt party's ass have said so.

Five decades of fraudulent American journalism.


https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/50-years-of-fraudulent-political-journalism?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240808Trending-Afternoon&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News&tpcc=email-breaking
With Richard Nixon's resignation, the Washington Post learned that journalism had the power to make or break a president — and that it could deceive the public to serve a partisan agenda.

On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced his resignation as our president, the only such event in American history. While the Watergate scandal is widely recognized as journalistically impelled, few realize that the sensational reporting was not only partisan but also fraudulent.

After the arrest of five burglars on the morning of June 17, 1972, the Washington Post quickly learned the true target of the burglary, which had nothing to do with the 1972 election, contrary to what the Post has claimed for over 50 years.

Fifty years after Nixon's departure from office, it's obvious that our divided country is the bitter harvest of fraudulent Watergate journalism.

The Post consistently withheld its knowledge of two concurrent causes of the burglary. It knew about the strong likelihood of CIA involvement in pursuing its program of monitoring prostitutes and johns of interest. Young Nixon aides, using resources from the cash-rich Committee to Re-elect the President, were seeking dirt for their own blindly ambitious dossiers without oversight from the Oval Office, which remained clueless.

If the Post had reported the truth, however, it would have hurt its political ally, the Democratic National Committee, where one affiliated secretary was referring out-of-town visitors to a neighboring bordello. Publishing this would have hurt Democrats and helped the hated Nixon.

That morning as the burglars prepared to go to court, a Metropolitan Police Officer, Garey Bittenbender, spoke with his friend, James McCord, the CRP's director of security and former (likely undercover) CIA agent. McCord told Bittenbender that this had been a CIA operation, which he later amplified for Bittenbender in a long interview in McCord's jail cell. Later, McCord realized that the CIA would not admit involvement, and he thereafter denied he had made any such admission.

Unknown to all the burglars except McCord, McCord's secret contractor, Lou Russell, had been lurking in the building, likely planning to enter the Watergate premises later and curate the "take" before handing it over to CRP aides. His presence explains why McCord kept tape on the locks after all the burglars had entered, even though the tape was not needed for their entrance. The Post soon learned about Russell but did not report his curious involvement.

Burglary supervisor Howard Hunt was preparing that fall for what his lawyers had termed his "CIA defense." Hunt planned to argue that this was a CIA operation, legal domestically because presidential aides approved it. His CIA diary recorded this authorization, which he claimed included White House Counsel John Dean and, seemingly by hearsay, former Attorney General John Mitchell. So this diary was key to Hunt's CIA defense.

As the January 1973 trial approached and the prosecution frantically prepared to combat Hunt's CIA defense, two unfortunate developments torpedoed his plans. First, his diaries, which he had kept in his White House safe, were missing from the evidence the prosecution turned over to him. It was later revealed that John Dean had withheld and destroyed them.

Hunt's wife, Dorothy, to whom Hunt was greatly devoted and for whom he wished to avoid prison, also appears to have been an undercover CIA agent and thus a potential defense witness. However, as the case neared trial, Dorothy Hunt died in a plane crash over Chicago's Midway Airport in December 1972, with $10,000 in cash on her person, mostly meant for a bug supplier, the pseudonymous Michael Stevens. Consequently, at Dean's urging, Hunt pled guilty.

In May 1973, Lou Russell, a drunkard, was telling his friends that he would write a tell-all on Watergate. "Michael Stevens" had been receiving death threats. Stevens had sold McCord bugs used in the burglary, with some still on order that would link to a CIA satellite. McCord had told Stevens the bugs were for a CIA operation, which Stevens verified with the agency. Fearing for his life due to the death threats, Stevens fled to the FBI. An unnamed FBI official, likely Mark Felt, reported this situation to Chicago Today, which published sensational pieces on May 12 and 14, 1973, ignored by the Washington Post.

On the night of May 16-17, 1973, "Deep Throat," now known to be the FBI's No. 2, Mark Felt, met with reporter Bob Woodward. Agitated, Felt told Woodward, "Everyone's life is in danger!" He named the CIA as being worried that if its participation in Watergate were uncovered, its broader program would be exposed, with serious consequences.

A day after this frenetic tableau, Russell suffered a serious heart attack and soon died, claiming someone had put a poison pill in his heart medication. The CIA had long practiced "aspirin roulette" to exterminate targets.

Two months later, RNC Chairman George H.W. Bush announced that he would hold a press conference to reveal a long history of CIA domestic wiretapping, through a longtime associate of Russell's, John Leon. Shortly before the conference, Leon died of an unexpected heart attack, and Bush canceled the press conference.

After a tardy production to the Senate of CIA documents, long after the conclusion of public hearings, shocked Senator Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) issued a scathing 49-page report on the CIA's involvement in the Watergate affair, which included a CIA contractor visiting McCord's home immediately after the burglary to burn documents connecting McCord to the agency. Another burglar, Eugenio Maritnez, was a CIA agent then on payroll.


With Richard Nixon's resignation, the Washington Post learned that journalism had the power to make or break a president — and that it could deceive the public to serve a partisan agenda.
On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced his resignation as our president, the only such event in American history. While the Watergate scandal is widely recognized as journalistically impelled, few realize that the sensational reporting was not only partisan but also fraudulent.

After the arrest of five burglars on the morning of June 17, 1972, the Washington Post quickly learned the true target of the burglary, which had nothing to do with the 1972 election, contrary to what the Post has claimed for over 50 years.

Fifty years after Nixon's departure from office, it's obvious that our divided country is the bitter harvest of fraudulent Watergate journalism.

The Post consistently withheld its knowledge of two concurrent causes of the burglary. It knew about the strong likelihood of CIA involvement in pursuing its program of monitoring prostitutes and johns of interest. Young Nixon aides, using resources from the cash-rich Committee to Re-elect the President, were seeking dirt for their own blindly ambitious dossiers without oversight from the Oval Office, which remained clueless.

If the Post had reported the truth, however, it would have hurt its political ally, the Democratic National Committee, where one affiliated secretary was referring out-of-town visitors to a neighboring bordello. Publishing this would have hurt Democrats and helped the hated Nixon.

That morning as the burglars prepared to go to court, a Metropolitan Police Officer, Garey Bittenbender, spoke with his friend, James McCord, the CRP's director of security and former (likely undercover) CIA agent. McCord told Bittenbender that this had been a CIA operation, which he later amplified for Bittenbender in a long interview in McCord's jail cell. Later, McCord realized that the CIA would not admit involvement, and he thereafter denied he had made any such admission.

Unknown to all the burglars except McCord, McCord's secret contractor, Lou Russell, had been lurking in the building, likely planning to enter the Watergate premises later and curate the "take" before handing it over to CRP aides. His presence explains why McCord kept tape on the locks after all the burglars had entered, even though the tape was not needed for their entrance. The Post soon learned about Russell but did not report his curious involvement.

Burglary supervisor Howard Hunt was preparing that fall for what his lawyers had termed his "CIA defense." Hunt planned to argue that this was a CIA operation, legal domestically because presidential aides approved it. His CIA diary recorded this authorization, which he claimed included White House Counsel John Dean and, seemingly by hearsay, former Attorney General John Mitchell. So this diary was key to Hunt's CIA defense.

As the January 1973 trial approached and the prosecution frantically prepared to combat Hunt's CIA defense, two unfortunate developments torpedoed his plans. First, his diaries, which he had kept in his White House safe, were missing from the evidence the prosecution turned over to him. It was later revealed that John Dean had withheld and destroyed them.

Hunt's wife, Dorothy, to whom Hunt was greatly devoted and for whom he wished to avoid prison, also appears to have been an undercover CIA agent and thus a potential defense witness. However, as the case neared trial, Dorothy Hunt died in a plane crash over Chicago's Midway Airport in December 1972, with $10,000 in cash on her person, mostly meant for a bug supplier, the pseudonymous Michael Stevens. Consequently, at Dean's urging, Hunt pled guilty.

In May 1973, Lou Russell, a drunkard, was telling his friends that he would write a tell-all on Watergate. "Michael Stevens" had been receiving death threats. Stevens had sold McCord bugs used in the burglary, with some still on order that would link to a CIA satellite. McCord had told Stevens the bugs were for a CIA operation, which Stevens verified with the agency. Fearing for his life due to the death threats, Stevens fled to the FBI. An unnamed FBI official, likely Mark Felt, reported this situation to Chicago Today, which published sensational pieces on May 12 and 14, 1973, ignored by the Washington Post.

On the night of May 16-17, 1973, "Deep Throat," now known to be the FBI's No. 2, Mark Felt, met with reporter Bob Woodward. Agitated, Felt told Woodward, "Everyone's life is in danger!" He named the CIA as being worried that if its participation in Watergate were uncovered, its broader program would be exposed, with serious consequences.

A day after this frenetic tableau, Russell suffered a serious heart attack and soon died, claiming someone had put a poison pill in his heart medication. The CIA had long practiced "aspirin roulette" to exterminate targets.

Two months later, RNC Chairman George H.W. Bush announced that he would hold a press conference to reveal a long history of CIA domestic wiretapping, through a longtime associate of Russell's, John Leon. Shortly before the conference, Leon died of an unexpected heart attack, and Bush canceled the press conference.

After a tardy production to the Senate of CIA documents, long after the conclusion of public hearings, shocked Senator Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) issued a scathing 49-page report on the CIA's involvement in the Watergate affair, which included a CIA contractor visiting McCord's home immediately after the burglary to burn documents connecting McCord to the agency. Another burglar, Eugenio Maritnez, was a CIA agent then on payroll.

When Trump was elected, a promininent journalism school dean confidently told his students, "Don't worry; we'll Watergate him."

The Post's summary and analysis of the Baker Report, which was otherwise buried in the Congressional Record in those pre-internet days, deceptively covered up the findings, essentially saying "nothing to see here." Nixon soon resigned due to a crime revealed on White House tapes.

John Dean informed the White House shortly after the burglary that Mark Felt's analysis suggested the burglary was likely a CIA operation. To protect the identity of his large donor, industrialist Democrat Dwayne Andreas, Nixon called the FBI off the Mexican money trail, claiming it would interfere with a CIA operation. Although Nixon believed this was a misleading overreach, it turned out to be truthful. The money washer was Mexico City lawyer Manuel Ogarrio, a CIA asset who often laundered money for the agency.

With Nixon's resignation, the Post learned not only that journalism had the power to make or break a president but also that it could do so fraudulently.

In the 50 years since it sold its honesty dishonestly, the Post's journalism has never been challenged by the dull-normal lemmings in the partisan press. This dishonest reportage has only been amplified over the last five decades. For example, when Trump was elected, a prominent journalism school dean confidently told his students, "Don't worry; we'll Watergate him." In 2016, Bob Woodward proudly told adoring pundits that he was putting 20 Post reporters on the Trump beat.

When the journalism intelligentsia scratch their heads over the origins of today's tribal divisions, they answer their own question. By asking it, they ignore that they are the cause, through inflammatory, fraudulent journalism. Donald Trump calls it, crudely but accurately, "fake news," and millions roar their approval.

Now, 50 years after Nixon's departure from office, it's obvious that our divided country is the bitter harvest of fraudulent Watergate journalism. The only way to begin the cure is for the offending parties to admit their wrongdoing.

Ohio Senator JD Vance (R) responded to CNN host Brianna Keilar's statements she made on-air on Thursday about his criticisms against fellow vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) for misrepresenting his military service.

Unlike Walz, Vance deployed to Iraq while he was in the Marine Corps. Vance, and other members of Walz's National Guard unit, have said he abandoned his troops when he retired from the military as they were getting ready to be deployed to Iraq. Walz had publicly indicated he was going to deploy with his men.

"I also think that JD Vance as a messenger on this may be an imperfect messenger because we have, as you introduced him, a combat correspondent, which was what his title was. But if you dig a little deeper into that, he was a public affairs specialist, someone who did not see combat, which certainly the title, combat correspondent, kind of gives you a different impression. So he may be the imperfect messenger on that," Keilar said.

Keilar's statement received quick condemnation from Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1821586107857031300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1821586107857031300%7Ctwgr%5Ed631c2b97ce1fce9c70174f034401da9ac00e540%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fjd-vance-hits-back-after-cnn-host-s-dismissive-remarks-about-his-service-in-iraq

Axios reported Tuesday that the Harris campaign has put out sponsored posts with edited headlines from several news organizations, including CNN, NPR, Reuters, the Associated Press, CBS News, The Guardian and TIME. The manipulated headlines feature pro-Harris spin that wasn't actually written by the outlets but links to actual articles, without the outlets' knowledge.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter on Monday that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content.

Zuckerberg made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more than a year after providing the committee with thousands of documents as part of its investigation into content moderation on online platforms.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/meta-ceo-admits-biden-harris-admin-pressured-company-to-censor-americans/ar-AA1ptUkq?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=9aa5da6a321143c69fa7b8fdc4ded47e&ei=14

Freedom and democracy are hollow words to the Democrats.

Quote from: DKG on August 27, 2024, 07:06:25 AMMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter on Monday that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content.

Zuckerberg made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more than a year after providing the committee with thousands of documents as part of its investigation into content moderation on online platforms.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/meta-ceo-admits-biden-harris-admin-pressured-company-to-censor-americans/ar-AA1ptUkq?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=9aa5da6a321143c69fa7b8fdc4ded47e&ei=14

Freedom and democracy are hollow words to the Democrats.

That lizard fucker is part of the deep state and should be tried for treason along with most of the democRATs and fauchi.

Quote from: DKG on August 27, 2024, 07:06:25 AMMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter on Monday that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content.

Zuckerberg made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more than a year after providing the committee with thousands of documents as part of its investigation into content moderation on online platforms.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/meta-ceo-admits-biden-harris-admin-pressured-company-to-censor-americans/ar-AA1ptUkq?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=9aa5da6a321143c69fa7b8fdc4ded47e&ei=14

Freedom and democracy are hollow words to the Democrats.

Mark Zuckerberg should've revealed what President Biden was doing.

Zuckerberg is a traitor.