(((Jews))) do things right- we don’t just have New Years, we have two whole days of New Years. Do you know how much alcohol I can consume in two days? I do. And I’m feeling it. Taking a long bike ride yesterday didn’t help, it merely focused me on the intense pain in my taint- the helpful folks at the bike shop told me that it’s perfectly normal and that eventually I would build up scrotal callous (coincidentally the name of a band I used to play in).
today’s birthdays which include my kinda guy; one of our intellectual forefathers; a guy who was a bit of a space cadet; an early victim of police violence; a truly forgettable Chief Justice named after a truly ineffective DA; an exception to the “dynasties suck” rule; Daryl Dragon’s spirit guide; a guy whose career peaked in a monkey suit; an astronaut who didn’t punch anyone– that we know about; a woman who fucked Mel Brooks and Dustin Hoffman; one more argument in favor of term limits; a mediocrity famous for something or other, maybe hanging out with actual talents; a guy who had more wood than Peter North; and another truly forgettable Supreme.
Let’s do our last New Year Links of 5784.
I’m sure there is much missing in this story.
Follow-up on a story I linked yesterday. Paul Brodeur’s stupidity is the gift that keeps on giving.
The captain of the Titanic scoffs at the iceberg.
Left out of the story: Bell was possibly the most corrupt town in the US.
I don’t know if this correlation will hold up, but it’s a fascinating idea.
I need to see this photo in order to make a fair and informed judgement.
I love clawhammer-style banjo. And Phoebe Sanders is insanely adorable. I hope she makes it big. The Old Guy is enchanted.
Mornin’, Old Man, and Happy (((New Year))). Festivities take their toll on the old bones, eh?
“Radioactivity” you keep using that word but I don’t you know what it means.
Weren’t there a spate of lawsuits back in the day over electromagnetic radiation emitted by power lines?
Grifters are always looking for a new grift.
Step one: Stir up fear and create a sense of urgency.
There’s always lawsuits.
The 5G-vaccine conspiracies were completely over the top though. I remain convinced that they were a psyop to discredit vaccine opposition
Well, not just that. And you will note that the mainstream media never managed to find their way to voices like the Brownstone Institute and consistently platformed the most nutjob, tinfoil-wearing anti-vaxxer (as opposed to mere skeptic) they could find.
On another site I went down the rabbit hole with a 5G conspiracist. It was retarded. 5G is going to mind control us all by using self-assembling nanobots in the vaccines and then we’ll all be sucking Bill Gates’ shriveled cock or something like that.
The simple fact is that the main threat of 5G is that you cannot disconnect the GPS from the cell service as you could in previous generations. If your phone is communicating, it is telling the system exactly where you are at all times.
It never helps that we have all heard that old asshole blather on and on about world gov’t, and people have inchoate fears about that, quite rightly.
All of the 5g fears are replacement fears of that.
Brownstone Institute was MAGA to the left, and that is all you need to know. Anything with the taint of Trumpism and it is poison to anyone on the left, and that includes all of the media.
The holding up of the nuttiest of the bunch as examples of the opposition is a time (dis)honored tradition. Works too…
Rush Limbaugh did a whole bit where he had a cell phone strapped to the side of his head for a show, and this was back in 1994 or thereabouts.
I think I a word
Do iPhones emit gamma, alpha, beta, or some combination of the three?
It’s got to be beta
Really? I though it was soy radiation.
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0c94S_hPHE
“Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk”
Blah blah blah. The ‘experts’ have been spouting lies from the start of this fake panic.
if they haven’t told the truth yet, why would they start now?
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken
Could there be more obvious examples of that than Cootiebugs and Global Warming? Jeebus. People are mostly dumb cowards.
I just informed Mrs. Suthenboy of this. She asked “But, why?”
“Because Neanderthal genes are also heavily linked to being a deplorable in flyover country….y’know…Trump voters.
LOL
Heavily linked to pale skin?
Aren’t Neanderthal genes linked to pretty much everyone but sub Saharan Africans?
I seem to remember a conspiracy theory floating around that the plague was designed to target wypipo so maybe.
I dunno. Remember the race hucksters who were claiming that the ‘vid disproportionately targeted minorities? Turns out they were on to something, but I’m not sure why TPTB are so worried about Neanderthal DNA.
I get COVID. I hit rock. Scare virus away. I good now.
Put Pfizer branding on those rocks and you’re on to something.
See above.
I imagine, if numbers were available and we could trust them, they would show neanderthal DNA is closely linked to people that told them to pound sand over the last ‘vaccine’.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/africa/africa-neanderthal-dna-scn/index.html
Sounds like all BS, all the time.
Drama continues. Now a flat tire. Off to The Walmart to hope they can squeeze us in for a spare replacement. Geeze. Only 6 hours from our destination.
Only 6 hours from our destination.
About 25 miles?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fTlPnR4g4&pp=ygUUMjUgbWlsZXMgZWR3aW4gc3RhcnI%3D
This is why you’re supposed to sacrifice a virgin before a road trip.
Good luck finding one.
The schnauzer Shadow is travelling very well at least. Walks e ery 2 hours or so, this weird stuff that is green under his feet, and car treats. He is in heaven.
Aw, schnauzers. Good bois (mostly).
Godspeed, OBE and family.
Thanks Tonio. Been eventful for sure.
Somewhere in MO?
Yeah we planned on past St Louis last night but the tire set us back and slowed us down until we get another spare.
We were on a curve when it happened and a off duty fireman (starting to sound like a porno) stopped to provide emergency vehicle lights. Really nice guy.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in MO between the western ‘burbs (Kirkwood area) and Hermann/Washington area. Could be stuck in a lot worse places, like, say Illinois.
Hope you’re safely back on the road to your new home ASAP! ::scritches for dogie::
(*western St, L ‘burbs)
We took it slow to Columbia. Nice little town.
Sorry.
On May 17, a teacher who was trying to break up a fight accidentally pulled Ms. Harmon’s jacket and bra strap, exposing her breast. Ms. Harmon and Ms. White claim that the two principals then reviewed security footage, created a still image of Ms. Harmon’s nude breast and shared the meme with faculty.
1. If this actually happened, the principals are assholes.
2. Who thought it was a good idea to hire STEVE SMITH as a HS teacher?
@OMWC, I happened to be looking up Gov’t Mule’s tour schedule Friday night, and noticed they are playing in Rochester, NY a week from today. You mentioned NPR lady lives there, so I thought I’d pass this along. Might be a nice reciprocation for the Hot Tuna show, although it is a Sunday night. The Mule and Warren never disappoint live.
Incidentally, I seen Hot Tuna at the Warren Haynes Xmas Jam about 8 years ago. They were much heavier than I expected. That were rocking pretty hard on their short set. That night was the only time I ever seen Bruce Hornsby live, and he never touched a keyboard. He had a band playing Appalachian music, with him on the dulcimer. Later he sang That’s the Way It Is with a bluegrass band.
I saw Hornsby open for John Fogarty and he stole the show. This was back when Fogarty was still boycotting his CCR catalog, and his band thought they were Deep Purple. We walked out on the headliner.
Oooooooh! I’m checking on tickets. Thanks!
Good morning…too many of you to mention on too little caffeine! It’s 42 degrees and foggy in Nisswa, MN, so probably no patio this morning, but the lodge’s sunroom is lovely and glassed in, so I’m just a little cool in jeans, tank top, and t-shirt with a little tiny STEVE SMITH on it, which will be hidden under ever-so-slightly fancier duds when we hit the road for HH.
After I drink a little more coffee, I’ll write in shorter sentences.
Also, kids today don’t know how good they have it. When I was little, the Crunchberries in Cap’n Crunch were all red. Now they’re all different colors. Hope those little brats are grateful.
As long as they still cut up your mouth.
I think I let mine sit in the milk a little too long while getting cereal, coffee, and laptop situated, so my gums and palate are unscathed.
It’s intentional, those cuts get the sugar into the bloodstream quicker!
Mornin’, GT!
When I was little, the Crunchberries in Cap’n Crunch were all red. Now they’re all different colors.
Groomers seducing our kids with rainbow Crunchberries??? They must be stopped! Boycott!!!
😭
Funny story about clawhammer banjo. Met someone at a party one time and we got to talking about instruments and music and at some point I said I loved bluegrass but only in small doses because the banjo annoyed me. Turns out he played banjo in a bluegrass band. Some years later at another party in Nashville I heard someone off in a corner playing June Apple clawhammer style and went up and asked what in the heck he was doing. He said, “old timey” banjo. I was enthralled and bought my first banjo the next day. For years it has been my favorite instrument to play. I had immediately apologized to the first person I had unintentionally insulted years ago, but he somehow never fails to smile knowingly when I pull out my well worn banjo.
Perfect pitch: Throwing a banjo into a dumpster from forty feet, and it lands right on the accordion./musician jokes
ALOL, as one who had accordion inflicted on him as a child.
“The news comes as Apple unveiled the iPhone 15 on Tuesday to considerable fanfare.”
Was there really fanfare and was it considerable? From what I’ve seen, other than the YouTubers that review these things for a living, no one really gives a shit.
Saw that vid of the bike hit on Twitter. Corrupt Town or not, it’s a particularly reprehensible attack by folks with apparently no moral compass.
Not sure about that deputy shooting story either but there was another story I saw earlier about an execution style murder of a cop in Daytona Beach that only received a sentence of manslaughter.
The disparity between some of these cases – you can also see the posts on Twitter comparing the Masterson sentencing with some dude getting 15 months for raping multiple kids is pretty eye-opening. See also the Jan 6 cases.
Yeah I don’t anything about that either but the story has me reconsidering my opposition to the death penalty. I saw the video yesterday, didn’t know the guy died.
Bell had a serious corruption scandal about ten years ago. It is poor, very poor. The guy who was the chief executive officer, not the mayor, had this complicated system set up where he had multiple sources of payments including pensions. The city thought he was getting something like $200k per year when he was actually receiving about a million.
I don’t recall any of the scandal involving the cops. Even if it did, I don’t see how that relates to this guy getting deliberately rundown while on a morning bike ride in Las Vegas. I hope they make that murder charge stick.
I laughed at this.
https://twitter.com/kingbealestreet/status/1702829078523359556
I couldn’t make it all the way through that. There is a good reason I am well on my way to achieving my goal of being a grumpy-as-hell old man.
I would rather listen to nails on a chalkboard than that. Children are irrational, totally lacking in impulse control, loud and obnoxious.
It’s nice just to see kids being kids instead of trying to be an agender unicorn.
*rubs goosebumps down*
You are right….you are right. I will try to be good but I am not making any promises.
So glad I am leaving Las Vegas. Does it happen elsewhere sure…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12526679/Las-Vegas-hit-run-death-cyclist-Andreas-Probst.html
‘Won’t release his name’ cause he is a juvenile. Bullshit. If someone has that disregard for life don’t coddle them.
Try him as an adult. Were I the judge “Mr. X, because of your complete, total lack of regard for human life I consider you to be a chronic threat to society. Life without the possibility of parole. Mr. X, do you understand that. you are going to die in prison?”
Really coming around to the Biblical ‘eye for an eye’
OK, I will soften it up a bit. “Mr. X, you will be released from prison when you put back what you took”
I should clarify…I am coming around to the philosophy
They just don’t want to mess up the kid’s life. He was turning it around right before that lapse in judgement you know.
He loves his mama.
Some towns do seem particularly depraved.
NYC leaps to mind.
Good morning, Old Man!
Happy new year!
I’m sure the dude was corrupt and all, but there are a disturbing number of videos of those little monsters fucking people up. Frontier justice will be next.
I don’t know if this correlation will hold up, but it’s a fascinating idea.
Back then there was a lot of chatter about Vitamin D levels (as well as comorbidities, of course) as a major culprit in who got clipped. Of course since it’s easily and cheaply addressed our expert class is spending time on anything but that.
I hope all you harvesters of honey have a great day. I miss y’all.
My favorite cootie death was the one in CA where the ER Doc refused at first to classify the death as due to cooties. When asked why he pointed to the multiple bullet holes in the body. Now there is a comorbidity for you.
Aside from advanced age were there any deaths that didn’t have comorbidities?
Not that I’m aware of. The death rate was incredibly low, though, even for sick people.
94% / 6% ?
Less than 1%
That can’t be right. I heard that over ONE HUNDRED BILLIONS of people died in their tracks.
Well, ventilators and remdesivir killed a lot of people.
John Ionniades (sp?) puts the IFR at 0.15%.
Yes after the culling (natural and hospital induced) it barely blips as a virus should worry about.
The LP chose Rectenwald as their candidate.
Because of course they did.
California turning into Somalia
https://twitter.com/RandyEBarnett/status/1703396950161150445?t=mPETc5SnIgVHuZaYxDhLIQ&s=19
Just when I thought we hit bottom.
So the chief retired in 2008 and was 64 when he was run down.
Must be nice to retire at 50 on the public dime.
That’s very common in CA law enforcement.
Anytime it takes this long to name/describe a suspect in a police shooting, it’s almost always suicide.
“Damn, that nigga got knocked out” – white supremacist hate crime?
Not me…
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16k7ubg/ocentitled_tesla_driver_refuses_to_back_up_to/
What a cunt.
100%. But truckers are also notorious for the “fuck you all I’m pulling out”.
But making everybody else wait 30 minutes makes the Tesla an exponentially bigger cunt.
I don’t know that it’s truckers saying “fuck you…” so much as it takes them a lot longer to make certain maneuvers on city streets and some blocking is just inevitable in those cases. I tend to give them a lot of leeway unless they are driving like true jack horns, which is pretty rare. Tesla drivers driving like jack horns? That’s a given and I anticipate it.
Around here they knowingly cut you off.
I understand it as they won’t be able to pull out any other way. I won’t honk at them and I give them room.
But essentially it’s I’m pulling out despite you having the right of way. Hit me if you want…
Sure. And that may have happened here. But what did Lady Tesla do or prove other than making life difficult for everyone around her.
Bonus:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16kkvy3/all_right_lets_go_through_the_idiot_checklist_oc/
Not so many of these here. OTH when I go to the middle of PA…
I always figure those drivers are deaf from the tire noise.
The tires are always to the cords too.
I assume they quiet down with no tread.
No updates on (((New Years?)))
Then it’s up to me:
“Shofar, shogood.”
Sho ’nuff.
To celebrate, I tortured some of (((them))) into converting this weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk
Jewish theodicy is difficult. How could anyone follow a God that forbids bacon cheeseburgers?
Without even a promise of eternal paradise no less.
Meanwhile, in the box…
Infamtile angst
Helen Mancini remembers the last major climate march in New York City, when then-teenage activist Greta Thunberg spoke to a crowd of thousands, demanding world leaders take action on global warming.
Mancini was in middle school at the time. She remembers turning to her parents in frustration.
“And I just looked at them and I was like, How could you not dedicate your lives to stopping this?” she said.
Her parents apparently did not reply, “Grow the fuck up” as mine would have.
LMFAO at that headline.
Though to be fair, Joe did promise to “end fossil fuels”. So it’s blistering stupidity on all sides.
NYC is well on its way to ending fossil fuels. I hope she enjoys what comes next.
This time, protesters are marching with a specific message for President Biden: it’s time for the U.S. to move away from oil and gas.
“[This] march is piercingly clear about what needs to be done to actually solve climate,” said Jean Su, energy justice director with the Center for Biological Diversity and one of the march organizers. “It’s actually seeking the end of fossil fuels.”
Protesters are calling on Biden to stop federal approvals of new fossil fuel projects, phase out oil and gas drilling on public lands, and declare climate change a national emergency. They want the U.S. to halt oil and gas exports, and transition to a reliance on renewable energy.
Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas remains the primary driver of global warming.
An imaginary solution to an imaginary problem.
Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas remains the primary driver of global warming.
Well, that and giant volcanos.
And that stupid ball of fire in the sky.
That’s no way to talk about Mother Gaia and Father Sol.
Also, no mining or processing of rare earth minerals in the U.S.
It isn’t like that stuff is important to an all-electric future or anything.
Stop hashing her narrative.
“[This] march is piercingly clear about what needs to be done to actually solve climate,” said Jean Su, energy justice director with the Center for Biological Diversity and one of the march organizers. “It’s actually seeking the end of fossil fuels.”
Bravo. I did not know that much gibberish could fit in one sentence. That is stunning.
How to say you want to end humanity without actually saying it.
I do have to wonder how many of them are in on the act, versus how many really believe the fantasy?
I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter.
Good point.
Organizers hope Sunday’s march will be the biggest climate protest in the U.S. since the 2019 strike, which brought tens of thousands of people into the streets in Manhattan while millions more marched worldwide.
The march comes after a summer marked by extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, from historic heat waves in the U.S., Europe and Asia, to the deadly wildfire in Maui and catastrophic flooding from Brazil to China to Libya.
Terrified superstitious primitive villagers seek to appease the angry gods.
The flooding in Libya was caused by dams failing. What the fuck is wrong with these imbeciles?
They’re imbeciles. That’s what’s wrong with those imbeciles.
They are proof that brainwashing has no limits. Holy shit, I have been chuckling since reading the first post on it.
The entire place was destroyed post our invasion. It’s a bunch of little fiefdoms, run by squabbling warlords. There is almost nobody left who knows how to maintain anything. Boom. Welcome to the downfall of society, as planned by Hillary MFing Clinton.
Joe Biden says, “Hold my beer.”
Smart power done right.
Buffalo Bill has nothing on this freak.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1703419855683338250
Whoa…..
Will it have to rub the lotion on it’s skin?
That is some creepy as fuck crazy.
lolWTF
Arpels-Josiah said he volunteered for the 2020 Biden campaign while still in middle school, because he believed Biden would be a “climate president.” Now, he’s marching to pressure that president.
In the days before the march, Arpels-Josiah has been busy. He traveled to Washington, D.C., for a rally on the Capitol steps, and met with U.N. officials. He’s behind on homework and stressed about when it will get done. Balancing high school and climate organizing is a challenge. But, he says, he doesn’t feel like he has a choice.
“I have the ability to take action, and if you have the ability to take action, you have responsibility for everyone who doesn’t have that ability to take action,” Arpels-Josiah said.
“And also, it’s personal,” he said. “It’s about our future.”
No doubt he plans to become a Harvard educated special interest advocacy parasite. A member of the energy dependent laptop class who believes electricity just spontaneously erupts from those outlets on the wall.
The next time I hear “I like his policies but I cant vote for him because….waaaaaaa…I cannot stand the guy.” that person is going to get a solid cussing. What a bunch of morons. They handed the hard left loons power. Congratulations.
Maybe find a likeable guy with similar policies is the answer?
OMFG I can’t laugh any harder today.
You’re in high school. You’re an idiot. Shut the fuck up. Go learn how to do something productive.
I hate this trend of turning kids into activists.
You are supposed to believe that they are beyond criticism. It is just another form of cry bullying.
Fuck that.
“Solve the climate.”
2 + 2 = 5
We derived no benefit from plentiful reliable energy
The state of California has filed a sweeping climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, as well as the domestic oil industry’s biggest lobby, the American Petroleum Institute.
The suit, filed on Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, claims that the companies misled the public for decades about climate change and the dangers of fossil fuels. It demands the companies help fund recovery efforts related to California’s extreme weather events, from rising sea levels to drought and wildfires, that have been supercharged by human-caused climate change.
“Oil and gas companies have privately known the truth for decades — that the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change — but have fed us lies and mistruths to further their record-breaking profits at the expense of our environment. Enough is enough,” said Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general.
“It’s a goose, and it lays golden eggs. Let’s kill it.”
Another indicator that a national divorce would result in bloodshed. Places like that will never stop whining that all of their self-inflicted woes are due to people like us and WE OWE THEM. They will not leave us alone.
Now we’re veering from laughably stupid territory into dangerously psychopathic and homicidal.
I can’t wait for CA to explain every disclosure in every bond filing that lacks a warning about climate change affecting the state.
I took the laptop to a computer repair shop in Ballston Spa. First impression was that the 1980s never ended. But the guy ID’d the make and model of a decade old gamer laptop at a glance, so I have hope.
Heh. My buddy worked after school in a 1980’s computer repair shop. That kid had the most impressive collection of games for the Commodore 64 that I ever saw.
There was an uncanny resemblance to the shop in Mr. Robot.
Two principals at the school in Sussex County, Del., they said, had used security camera footage to make the meme, superimposing Janet Jackson’s face on Ms. Harmon’s in a reference to the exposure of the singer’s breast during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show
Classy.
Old Guy Music is good.
Crazy Train
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1703432015352324537
The toes are the freakest thing…not even alien child matches up to that
Crocs will do that to you
A study early this year in the journal Nature found that Exxon’s scientists had modeled global warming trends with “shocking levels of skill and accuracy,” according to the lead author.
It showed negligible direct effects?
I can’t help wondering how many of the supposedly “suppressed” internal studies were best-case / worst-case projections run for internal use.
Hello Glibbies, how’s it goin?
Have fun at HH I had a great time last year.
And I’m going to see Ringo Starr tonight, should be fun
Cheers!?I
Woo-hoo!
Link to a song not by, but instead about, Ringo Starr.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcELTsqPPGc
Have a blast!
Another indicator that a national divorce would result in bloodshed. Places like that will never stop whining that all of their self-inflicted woes are due to people like us and WE OWE THEM. They will not leave us alone.
I was reading about some “study” which shows young people have a declining faith in democracy. Reading that and observing the world around us, my conclusion is that they believe “democracy” is or should be a system wherein they can vote to decide what everybody else is allowed to think and do. Obviously, more force is needed.
That is what democracy is and why our founders went to such pains to avoid it.
So Dems have their chaturbate candidate and the following drops:
Russell Brand
Kristi Noem
Lauren Boebart
I swear media holds things in their back pocket to shift narratives or the more obvious, people have sex.
What do you mean kangaroo court?
How a Yale Student’s Rape Accusation Exposed Her to a Defamation Lawsuit
The woman’s allegation led to the expulsion of Saifullah Khan, who was acquitted in a criminal trial. His lawsuit is now challenging these disciplinary hearings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/us/yale-rape-case-defamation.html
https://archive.ph/XNmH8
Shocked I am. Who could have seen this coming?
It’s kangaroos all the way up and down. With the possible exception of last year’s SCOTUS.
Buddy of mine in college had to deal with one of these. Thursday was our big party night and she invited him back to her room. She had been demonstratively aggressive at a party we were all at. They split. Naked adult fun was had…several times. She asked him to stay the night, he did. She didn’t know Mom and Dad had driven to town Friday morning and were going to surprise her. They had to have another student badge them in… they just wanted her to open the door. Surprise, we’re here. They watched him walk out of her room doing the walk of shame and when her parents got to the room. Rape she said, parents initiated the school’s action. Even at a small liberal arts school, he beat it but was afraid to come on campus. He had already been convicted by the court of popular opinion. If she said it… must be true. Months long process and it was in fact the punishment. By the time out the school told him what was going on, he had a girlfriend and she had to deal with it all as well. They’ve been married 27 years. These lawsuits should happen more and more. Lack of due process is bullshit.
These title IX cases were a deliberate and direct attack. on due process. I am hoping the instigators all get their dicks slammed in a door. Same with the gender angle bargle crap, but those should include criminal as well as civil action.
If only some dead white guys that owned slaves had said we should have a right to face our accusers and be judged by a jury of our peers. And if they had only written it down.
When and why did “journalists” start using the term epicenter interchangeably with “place where thing occurred”?
It is weirdly showing up all over the place in articles about fashion, crime, social trends, etc.
My tinfoil hat tells me that it’s just more proof that they’re all reading from the same talking points.
It’s the echo chamber effect. They all begin to adopt the same language so they don’t sound like the unclean. Cements their bona fides as fellow travelers.
I thought the MSM got caught red handed doing exactly that….parroting the same distributed talking points simultaneously using almost identical language.
Yeah, the journolist? Some clever name like that. I’m sure that’s happening too, but someone posted an article recently here that stuck with me about “conspiracy theorists” and how it’s not always a conspiracy, it’s that they spend to much time sniffing one another’s farts. More and more I think that’s a huge part of it as well. Like trickle down narrative control. Top of the pyramid start saying certain things due to a concerted effort and the wannabes at the bottom of the pyramid start doing it to climb up without any need for coordination.
You are probably right. Stalin wrote quite a bit about the need to mangle language and that was definitely part of it, getting the press to take cues without being told explicitly.
They are evil as hell but they make up for it by being slippery and conniving.