newmccarthy

"Liberals in my life keep asking me when I’m going to stop picking on the Democratic establishment and start helping them beat up on Trump. Lately I’ve just been replying along the lines of, “Uhh, maybe when you people stop acting like stark raving lunatics? When you reverse your lycanthropic transformation into a bunch of red-faced Joe McCarthys and become the sensible good-hearted people I used to think you are? When you stop acting like a return to Cold War-era tensions with a nuclear superpower is somehow preferable to addressing the horrific injustices unveiled in the WikiLeaks documents? You guys live in a country with a political system that cannibalizes any candidate who looks like they might actually help the ninety-nine percent and you’re asking me when I’ll join the vast legion of commentators already relentlessly criticizing Trump?? This is nuts. You’re nuts. I need whiskey.”
So far, though, they’re only getting crazier. The other day I wrote an article where I pointed out that the way corporate media keeps deliberately marrying the words “election” and “hacking” is probably going to succeed in making people start believing that the Russian government actively hacked voting machines to flip votes from Clinton to Trump. I wasn’t aware of this at the time, but a mid-December YouGov poll had already found that half of Clinton voters believed that to be the case, answering “true” when asked if Russian hackers tampered with vote tallies to help Donald Trump. This was before news outlets really started ramping up on that particularly insidious psy-op in response to Obama’s new sanctions; AFP recently ran a story where the headline actually called it “vote hacking,” so they’re getting even bolder now.
It is not an accident that liberals believe this. As a result of consistently marrying the words “Saddam Hussein” with “9/11”, corporate media succeeded in convincing seventy percent of the American public that Saddam was involved in the September 11th attacks in order to rally support for the Iraq invasion. The United States government officially made it legal to conduct psy-ops on American citizens in 2012, so they don’t even need to worry about WikiLeaks publishing evidence of government insiders colluding with the media to deceive the public; what they are doing is now completely legal. The end of 2016 also saw the dissolution of the board responsible for keeping government surveillance in check and the passage of a new bill to allot funds toward government propaganda, so we can only expect things to get even more Orwellian." -Caitlin Johnstone