Reality vs. The Conformists: Let My American Monster Series Be Your Guide
My American Monster series about the network of US criminals accelerating global fascism shows that those who prop them up are part of the assault on reality and should be shunned and shamed
***Please support the light of truth by taking out a paid membership to keep reader-funded investigative journalism alive.***
Ruth Ben-Ghiat created a sacred space for activists when she debuted Lucid. Her vast knowledge and the wisdom of the group increased the breadth of understanding so necessary when doing this work.
I have been thematically writing about how vital it is that Americans unite the chasms between us to thwart the further weakening of our country.
In addition, I have been putting a lot of thought into why Americans can look at the same event and have such different responses.
And this morning, Ruth — in her effortless, brilliant way — once again put into words what I have been trying to say.
She talked about “the conformists” — those who prop up monsters who are actively engaging in the destruction of democracy, as if they are just garden variety media and tech moguls. She referred to Lachlan Murdoch being invited to speak at media events, when the organization he heads has literally been poisoning millions away from truth and democracy, while also engaging in criminal acts.
And today, I see video of a red-nosed Elon Musk dancing on stage at Tesla’s Cyber Roundtable from the Annual Shareholder Meeting in Texas, the crowd cheering “Elon! Elon! Elon!” Despite it being rather clear with even the most cursory review, Musk is another Kremlin proxy actively sabotaging democracy.
In order to create that shared narrative of truth, America has to admit it made a mistake in the ‘90s doing business with Russia, who under Putin has devolved into a fascist dictatorship mafia state. People like Murdoch and Musk and the other monsters in my series represent clear and present dangers to our national security and the very survival of democracy. So referring to them in other way just stokes unreality — a precursor to fascism.
The conformists, who out of fear or for financial incentives, delay that truth and that is very dangerous.
So today, I am boosting the first 14 investigations in my American Monster series about the network of criminals accelerating global fascism, because I am hoping that with each report, truth will rise up and the conformists who normalize them will be shunned and shamed.
American Monsters — The First 14 in My Series on the Network of US Criminals Accelerating Global Fascism
As Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones prop up genocidal maniac Aleksandr Dugin, and Erik Prince is shipping ‘kill-switch’ phones for the next insurrection while spewing racist rhetoric, and Elon Musk has invited neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes back on Twitter, and Roger Stone continues to lie about his role in plotting J6, and Mike Flynn goes on Steve Bannon’s show to spew propaganda about a “marxist communist takeover” while ginning up violence daily, while Bannon himself is due in prison on July 1, ten days before convicted felon Trump is sentenced, I realized that what the first 14 members of my American Monster series have in common is they are united in their complete assault on reality.
I often think about what Ukrainian soldier Volodymyr Demchenko said on RadPad about how Russia’s lies are ruining the world and why Dante put lying traitors in the worst place in hell—because they’re creating a world that doesn’t exist and forcing people to live in it.
The Monsters and Propagandists in this series are serving some kind of evil, and it’s important to expose them.
For America to survive whole, these Monsters must be neutralized. Clearly, we must have the ability to serve them for their crimes against humanity.
We are a decade into the Great Information War, and these men I profile are engaging in menticide.
An orchestrated mind war is not free speech.
Monsters are less scary in daylight. Why I do this… to expose and defang them, and because someone has to do it.
And then there were 14…
No. 1 — Paul Manafort
American Monster — Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort was born privileged. Unlike many felons I interviewed over the years, whose mothers dropped them on their heads and they had to learn some survival skills, that’s not Paul Manafort’s story. When I worked as an investigative reporter in broadcast news
No. 2 — Roger Stone
American Monster — Roger Stone
***The American Monster series is for paid members. I extended our friends and family discount another day so please join our growing community of pro-democracy global citizens at a great rate and share with allies. And please look for a registration link to this Sunday’s ‘Speakeasy’ with geopolitical analyst Dr. Michael MacKay on or before Saturday.***
No. 3 — Roy Cohn
American Monster — Roy Cohn
“New York, I love you, but you’re bringing me down.”—LCD Soundsystem New York media, minus a handful of investigative reporters, has been delivering us creeps — celebrating their lust for power and greed, their lavish lifestyles, and transactionally exchanging reputation washing or overlooking more sinister qualities for access.
No. 4 — Donald Trump
American Monster — Donald Trump
***The American Monster series is for paid members. Please join our growing community of pro-democracy global citizens at a great rate. Our next members’ ‘Speakeasy’ zoom salon is on August 13; and our Founding Members ‘Founder’s Day’ salon is on August 20. We meet weekly on Tuesdays at our Happy Hour — a wellness checkin for global newsies.***
No. 5 — Steve Bannon
American Monster — Steve Bannon
***The American Monster series is for paid members. To access all content, podcasts, and weekly event invites, please join our global pro-democracy community.*** “Steve Bannon is the ultimate cockroach… a parasite in search of a host to attach himself onto in order to achieve more visibility, more fame, more access, more power.”—Kurt Bardella
No. 6 — Mike Flynn
American Monster — Mike Flynn
***The American Monster series is for members. To join our pro-democracy community and receive invites to events and access all content, please subscribe.*** “The question that should be posed to the Secretary of Defense — ‘What are you doing about this renegade retired lt. general, that is a great mystery to all of us.’ Mr. Flynn should be brought back …
No. 7 — Rudy Giuliani
American Monster: Rudy Giuliani — ‘A Dictator In Search of a Balcony’
“Truth isn’t truth.”—Rudy Giuliani, American Monster Meet the Press — a platform for US traitors to bullhorn Kremlin talking points — invited Trump’s public defender Rudy Giuliani on TV to lie to America. The date was August 19, 2018. Giuliani, who still had some pocket lint of credibility in uninformed circles, was present to obfuscate truth. Trump, his uniquely criminal loss-leader was in the headwinds of the Mueller investigation and though he’d never met a camera he didn’t like, he demurred the request to testify in front of Robert Mueller.
No. 8 — Robert Mercer
American Monster — Robert Mercer
***The American Monster series is for paid members. Please consider joining our vibrant pro-democracy community at our Rocktober half-off special. Thank you to everyone who supports independent investigative journalism during a time of grave deception.***
No. 9 — Elon Musk
American Monster — Elon Musk
Do you understand now that Elon is Putin’s guy?—Dave Troy, Oct. 12, 2023 On Putin’s birthday, Alexander Dugin tweeted out a sci-fi image of Elon Musk, anointing him as the Chosen One. Dugin, a fascist extremist who has repeatedly called for America’s destruction, is backed by US traitors who parrot his attacks on Western liberalism.
No. 10 — Erik Prince
UNLOCKED — American Monster — Erik Prince
***The American Monster series is for paid members. Unlocking No. 10 for all subscribers this week. Please consider becoming a paid members to support my work and access all content and receive community invites. This report was originally published on October 26, 2023.***
No. 11 — Alex Jones
UNLOCKED — American Monster: Alex Jones
***The American Monster series is for paid members. Unlocking No. 11 for all subscribers this week. Please consider becoming a paid members to support my work and access all content and receive community invites. This report was originally published on November 3, 2023.***
No. 12 — Tucker Carlson
American Monster — Tucker Carlson
***The American Monster series is for paid members. Please take out a membership to support my work.*** Italian fascism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat referred to Tucker Carlson as ‘The Enforcer.’
No. 13 — Peter Thiel
American Monster — Peter Thiel
Thank you for supporting independent investigative reporting with a membership. “There are very few people in history who have wrought the damage that Peter Thiel has done. Genghis Khan had his barbarian hordes, Hitler had his Blitzkrieg and death camps, and Peter Thiel has the internet.”—High Fidelity, Silicon Valley technologist and co-host of RADICALIZED Truth Survives podcast, to Bette Dangerous
American Monster — Rupert Murdoch
***Please support the light of truth by taking out a paid membership to keep reader-funded investigative journalism alive.*** “If democracy dies, the autopsy report will list the primary cause of death as Rupert Murdoch.”—Mark Jacob, former editor, Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times
Thank you for supporting Bette Dangerous and independent investigative journalism.
****
Bette Dangerous is a reader-funded magazine. Thank you to all monthly, annual, and founding members. Thank you to everyone helping subsidize my excellent summer “workation” by doing the following:
Share my reporting with allies
Buying my ebooks — here’s a promo code: Birthday-Special
A private link to an annual membership discount for older adults, those on fixed incomes or drawing disability, as well as activists and members of the media is available upon request at bettedangerous/gmail. 🥹
More info about Bette Dangerous - This magazine is written by Heidi Siegmund Cuda, an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter/producer, author, and veteran music and nightlife columnist. She is the cohost of RADICALIZED Truth Survives, an investigative show about disinformation and is part of the Byline Media team. Thank you for your support of independent investigative journalism.
🤍
Begin each day with a grateful heart.
🤍