VIDEO: OPPORTUNISTIC PIRANHAS — ‘Oligarchs Aligned with Autocrats Know Global Warming Is Real, and They’re Doing a Resources Grab While We All Fight Each Other’
Me on The Thom Hartmann Program discussing the 2016 US Election Attack and how Julian Assange and Wikileaks laundered espionage as part of a network damaging democratic governance
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We are living in a time of conspiracy, because conspiracy serves the fascists.
If you no longer believe your eyes and ears, then a leader can lie without consequence.
“Fascist politics creates a state of unreality, in which conspiracy theories and fake news replace reasoned debate. As the common understanding of reality crumbles, fascist politics makes room for dangerous and false beliefs to take root.”
—Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works
My training in broadcast news always has me seeking the high concept — the biggest takeaway to help people best frame the subject at hand in any given moment in time.
My conclusion is we are dealing with opportunist piranhas.
They aren’t dumb, they are using everything at their disposal to obfuscate from this single fact:
“Oligarchs aligned with autocrats know global warming is real, and they’re doing a resources grab while we all fight each other,” I told Thom Hartmann yesterday, in the segment below based on my 2016 Election Attack reporting:
The network that aligned with Russian military intelligence to attack the 2016 US election — a network still aligned today — thinks authoritarianism will be better for them so as they pillage the earth for their own gains, minds are being hacked and conspiracies flamed so people focus on turning against their neighbors, making the “other” into the enemy. Culture wars are an easier sell then their cruel truth. People like Assange helped “burn the witch” in 2016, because misogyny is an easy sell when people are being told their way of life is in danger and only a strongman can fix it. Nearly half the US population is hacked to believe owning the libs is full policy, when in fact, all we have to do is look back to the pandemic and recall that big government can save lives in a global crisis.
The quote below is from my recent report with Jason Stanley:
“Each group has its own target that they hate — Muslims, immigrants. So we're gonna have black Trump supporters who don't like immigrants or Muslims or LGBT. We're gonna have white Trump supporters who like his macho posturing and domination of black Americans. We're gonna have a lot of men who like to see someone who has been accused multiple times of sexual assault and get away with it. We're going to have religious conservatives, who like the stacking of the Supreme Court with far right justices who seek to evermore constrain women's rights.
“So this is the situation, and it's all funded by billionaires who want to get rid of regulations, so they can plunder the earth and survive climate change in their giant bunkers in Hawaii.”—Jason Stanley, on RadPod Ep86
He finished that statement by saying “while we all become peasants.”
These were the thoughts swirling through my head as Thom interviewed me yesterday. For those interested in a timeline of events leading up to the hack in 2016, here is my third report in the 2016 Election Series, which Thom kindly referenced:
I am looking forward to the time when Americans remember that we used to unite to defeat global threats. I am looking forward to the time when Americans realize that by fighting each other, we continually weaken ourselves on the world stage, which serves Putin’s interest and the opportunistic piranhas.
I understand that people want heroes and want to believe there’s no reds under the bed. But in an information war, there are no rear areas.
My heroes are the soldiers on the frontline in Ukraine.
My heroes are the political prisoners in Russia, showing unbelievable courage in a time of mass repression.
Yesterday, a 15-year-old boy was sentenced to prison in Russia for criticizing the Putin regime and distributing anti-war leaflets.
While we are still able to speak truth to power, it is our duty to do so.
The oligarchs aligned with the autocrats know global warming is real, so as they pillage earth’s resources, we fight among each other.
I say, we unite. We recognize the bigger play. We retain our imperfect democracy now, make the necessary upgrades for a more perfect union, and together, we defeat fascism, again, while ensuring a future on a habitable planet.
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Check out new film "The Grab" (2024 Documentary)
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Nate Halverson, Center for Investigative Reporting, Dir: Gabriela Cowpertwaithe (sp?)
Kept disappearing when I first found it...