Since the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s finding of Russian election meddling, how do you know that your firmly-held views aren’t just a result of Vladimir Putin’s surreptitious influence campaign. If you’re raging at your neighbor over political questions and candidates, are you merely Putin’s patsy?
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Scott: You sometimes get upset enough at someone that you question their sanity? Hmm. I’m beginning to question your sanity!
Ridiculous that they would preferTrump, Hillary had already been bought and paid for with the Uranium One deal
I know I’m not Putin’s patsy the same way I know a junk car is a junk car no matter how enthusiastically the used car salesman tries to convince me that it’s a genuine treasure that will provide me with years of faithful service.
Excellent video, which I forwarded, especially the commentary on the damage done to our society by creating anger and distrust. Then again, the left wing really is trying to establish a socialist police state in America, so perhaps a little ‘angry emotional fuel’ (assuming that we keep it under reasonable control) really is good for our efforts on behalf of freedom and individual rights.
After decades of written and televised exposure to advertisements, the normal person has acquired a suitable shell of skepticism to protect them from unneeded and undesired blandishments. In some ways the internet, and the related databases of queries that we have already made, are our friend in allowing (say) Amazon, Harbor Freight, Home Depot, Lowes, et al. to better focus their inducements on things that might in fact be of some interest to us. Even then the bauble may only be 3 to 10% effective in getting us to follow up on what we have been shown.
But move to the political realm and we see that even the money available to Jeb Bush in 2016 or Michael Bloomberg in 2020 did not move the needle in their direction. Finding the right mental path to influence our selections is tricky and difficult, especially if what works for you does not work for me, and vice versa. I suspect Russia and China would have to spend an awful lot of money on a very very subtle campaign to actually influence us successfully one way or the other. But as I think about it, the way that Biden ended up being the presumptive nominee after a rather poor showing in the earlier primaries suggests some form of potentially improper influence has occurred. The Biden family links to China are probably only partially known even now. [Also, think about what I just did there, via a totally unsupported allusion. 🙂 ]
Witness how easily the CCP’s failure to contain the “Wuhan virus” has energized anti-CCP and anti-Chinese feelings and current or future protective actions. This one decision on their part would have undone a trillion dollars of propaganda, if in fact that much had been spent. By virtue of being communistic/totalitarian (and chauvinistic Han Chinese?) they do not seek allies internationally so much as vassal states and subjugated barbarian peoples who will honor their presumed civilizational superiority. A link I can recommend: https://lawliberty.org/podcast/will-we-be-sino-formed/ .
The comments about our foreign enemies trying to divide us are valid, but our domestic enemies probably think they understand us even better culturally and are thus more successful in rousing our ire, or worse. Certainly there was a time when domestic discord stopped at the waters edge. I guess the pros and cons of globalization have disturbed that prior consensus. Lincoln was prescient in 1838.
Thanks for the link, very interesting podcast! Put a lot of things about China into perspective…
Since I do not use social media, MSM, and try to go directly, become a contributing member of most sources I frequent and use their sites or apps, am I not Giving you the numbers you need from YouTube (a Google company)?
I do use DuckDuckGo as my search engine and Safari as my browser plus Apple Mail and Messages for txt, but those I do not financially support I use YouTube.
I rarely comment and wonder what type of member you catagorize me as?
I am similar, in that I watch a lot of youtube w/o ever subscribing to anyone, because of 1) w/ shadow-banning, subscriptions don’t work for conservative content providers, and 2) the whole Google connection, I also try to avoid using it, just like a decade or more ago I avoided MicroSoft.
I don’t know how youtube counts the number of views, does it include us watching videos produced here but hosted on youtube?
This whole internet content providers schema kind of reminds me of the old ways of marketing, TV vs cable, where TV had commercials, but the watcher didn’t pay for watching content, and the user paid for cable to provide commercial-free content (no longer, sigh, that went away a while ago).
We just have to do the important thing in Nov and vote in person or absentee ballot if not able. I hope Texas does not fall into Mail in balloting.
Have you heard of the recent patent the post office received (I don’t understand the technology) for enabling receiving a ballot by mail but having to go online to complete it, complete w/ confirming your identity? I don’t know/think they will implement this process for this election, but I foresee it for future elections… and… it’s hanging out there as a threat to those who would like to corrupt the election process via mail-in voting.
No. Since they are an independent agency since 1971, I would immagine there would have to be some legislation to approve it. Sounds like another progressive bad dream.
I’ve long thought that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, etc., must have been laughing themselves sick over how much time and treasure we spent investigating “Russian collusion.”
“Am I helping the Russians” (or whoever) is an important question, but it should be followed up by a serious inquiry into whether your (or your party’s) political goals are in line with Russia, etc. And if they are, why?
The leftist radicals have already enthusiastically made this calculation. It’s the so-called “centrist Democrat” who needs to have his eyes opened on this question.