@QMS

I’m seeing people making fun of Biden’s press secretary shuffling papers until she finds the pre printed answer to the questions. But she is well qualified cuz she is a minority and part of the LBGTQ+++ community.

Remember what Goebells said. "If you tell the same lie over and over people will start to believe it. Fortunately there are many charts showing that prices were going skyward long before Russia started their military operation.

Shitlibs are saying that with inflation gas prices were above $5 in 2008 to take the blame away from Biden’s horrible decision to sanction Russia out the ying yang. It’s not just gas prices that have gone up, but sure there is nothing that Biden can do. Funny how Nixon did some things way back when.

I believe that Biden could shoot someone on 5th avenue and the shitlibs would stay at brunch. Thom Hartman is bitching about republicans taking bribes from the rich and corporations whilst totally ignoring that democrats take just as many.. hey didn’t democrats stand more for the working class before Clinton created the 3rd way democrats that became beholden to banks, big business? Obama took bribes from the banks and Biden took them from big pharma. Clyburn receives the most big pharma money than anyone in congress. But sure it’s just republicans that are bad.

She was thrown a fairly hard ball question by the press
something about the price of gas skyrocketing
she shuffled her papers until she got to the right one
and slipped in this gem: Putins' gas tax is the reason for
a $1.50/gallon increase. Putins' gas tax? The comedians
writing her scripts may think we are stupid enough to swallow
that sh*t, but I don't buy that at all. Did congress agree to
apply a buck and a half tax for Putin? Give me a break.

@The Liberal Moonbat

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-smith-mundt-moderniziation...

It is also true, however, that in 2013 President Barack Obama signed into law the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (H.R. 5736), making it legal for government-produced media—such as was broadcast overseas by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other outlets throughout the Cold War—to be directed toward U.S. citizens themselves. Needless to say, such government-penned narratives spin the news so as to reflect favorably upon the United States. To understand the sheer power of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, it suffices to do a quick Google of the name of this piece of legislation to see how it has generated a logical quandary befitting of Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. For if it is true that the American people are being propagandized by the U.S. government through its control of the major media outlets and tech giants, then any assertion to that effect will be countered—and ultimately defeated—by yet more government propaganda.

The fact that the complete negation of the original Smith-Mundt Act was deceptively labeled the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act marked the first stage in what might be termed the Orwellian turn. Unsurprisingly, a lengthy list of articles calling out the alleged piece of “disinformation” that “Barack Obama legalized government propaganda against citizens” appears at the top of the Google search results. Among the critics who warned about the new Act was now-deceased investigative journalist Michael Hastings, who also, it is worth mentioning, expressed concern about the dangerous influence of the Pentagon’s “public relations” wing, which already by 2009 employed 27,000 persons full-time as war marketeers. A number of other notable figures who sounded alarms about the dangers of government propaganda and overreach are now dead, imprisoned, or living in exile.

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (signed into law as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013) arguably set the United States on the path toward the erection of a full-fledged Ministry of Truth and the consequent shrinking of citizens’ liberty. Only time will tell whether this piece of legislation alone will suffice, as deployed by the new Disinformation Governance Board, to strip citizens of their First Amendment right to free speech when they attempt to reject the first premises of the DGB itself. If so, then Barack Obama will bear primary responsibility for the totalitarian system to ensue, whatever his intentions may have been.

For with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act already in place, there are only two short steps to the complete squelching of dissent. First, the government controls the media through injecting many pro-government texts into the marketplace of ideas. This is obviously already being done, and has been unabashedly pursued since the ratification of the Act. (To dispel any doubts that this is happening, it suffices to turn on the mainstream network news.) Second, among the government-promoted ideas will now be the claim that the newly established Disinformation Governance Board does not violate the Constitution of the United States. Once lawmakers have been persuaded to believe this, then the DGB will have the power to eliminate what they themselves have identified as disinformation, including the very claim that the DGB is illegitimate. After that will follow the censorship of the texts of anyone who disagrees with the government and, ultimately, the criminalization of those who “persist” in promulgating ideas deemed “threatening” by the powers that be. The danger of all of this to free people is very real, as the plight of whistleblowers in recent years has already revealed

Worth a full read.

I wonder how long democrats planned to put a Russia Gate narrative in place or did they just retailer it for Trump knowing that they had to make Putin and Russia the bad guy so they could do what they are doing in Ukraine? Did Obama ever explain why he overthrew Ukraine’s president? I had tuned him out by then.

Could you share a good, clear, solid, readable source explaining the Smith-Mundt Act and what exactly Obama did to it?

It's been a while since I've tried, so maybe her stance has evolved somehow, but when I tried to bring it up with my mother, she refused to believe Barack Obama would do such a thing, and tried to dispel it with a whole bunch of 'Appeal to Ignorance'/'"Bullshit of Infinite Possibilities"/probing my source for loopholes.

I admit my understanding of it isn't as good as I'd like, either.

Incidentally, NONE of these Twatster links seem to be working for me; I won't claim to know why.