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    Default Re: Rachel Maddow: War Mongering Globalist "Liberal"

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    I can't intellectually file it anywhere. It's just incredibly weird!
    What may be even weirder is that it really seems that some of these people honestly and sincerely believe what they're saying.

    Yeah that's just it! Do I file it under "propaganda" or "true believer/deluded ideologue"? My mind likes things tidy and neat, and it gets all scrambled when confronted with this type of ambiguity.

    The world is so saturated in crazy right now that I'm having a hard time making some distinctions.

    A theory, and maybe not a very original one: When people lie, and know they're lying, and their back is against the wall, they tend to lie with emotion...mainly anger. It's the death throe reaction to the threat of exposure, particularly when you've doubled down on the lie over and over and over again; you know your credibility is shot if it's all exposed, so the only option left is to keep digging that hole (and getting angrier and angrier while retelling the lie, in the vain hope it either convinces the accuser of your virtue or frightens them into submission). I think nearly everyone alive has deployed this little trick to some degree or other, so it's easy to recognize when someone else is doing it.

    To blame it all on this would be reductive; there's quite a bit in play here I think. But when I see these legacy media pundits foaming at the mouth while saying the most absurd drivel imaginable (and demanding we believe it) I recognize that phenomenon. But whereas the average person might do that a handful of times in a lifetime, these media people do it on a daily basis, pathologically.

    But that's probably all down stream from the "Dark Triad" tendencies consuming them (narcissism, psychopathy, machiavellianism) and the cluster B traits. And all that might even be downstream from some kind of - tin foil hat firmly on here - demonic possession or something adjacent. Trying to parse it all out is exhausting. The important thing to know is it's all bullsh!t

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    Default Re: Rachel Maddow: War Mongering Globalist "Liberal"

    I refuse to think these pseudo-journalists do not know what they are doing.
    They are handed their lines from a producer and delivering them like any actor.
    People as high up as Rachel Maddow probably have a CIA attendant attached to them.
    Think of it like this.
    Big name players like Maddow, Anderson Cooper and Joy Behar. Think how damaging it would be if these folks were ignorant of what they were doing and then one day discovered the truth and gained the back bone to use their platform to expose it.
    No no no.
    Your big players have to be in the know to prevent this.
    Your big players have to be part of the satanic cabal with compromising video for black mail.
    I know it can be a lazy way out to just spew the phrase " they control everything" but in the case of mainstream media they really do.
    Mainstream media superstars are the same as politicians and judges in so far as how control is maintained.

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    Crazy conspiracy theorist Rachel Maddow attempts to paint J D Vance as a Nazi / White Supermacist in a most nutty way.

    Rachel Maddow claims ‘Lord of the Rings’ is a ‘favorite cosmos’ of the far right
    By Alexander Hall , Fox News * Published July 19, 2024, 11:46 a.m. ET
    https://nypost.com/2024/07/19/us-new...the-far-right/

    As MSNBC host Rachel Maddow fretted about Sen. JD Vance being former President Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, she complained about how “The Lord of the Rings” is loved by the far right.


    On day three of the Republican National Convention, Maddow commented about Vance’s ties to former PayPal CEO and Republican donor Peter Thiel, who she noted “has named his companies after things in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ series of JRR Tolkien books.”

    “‘Lord of the Rings’ is a sort of favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures, both in Europe and the United States. Peter Thiel names all these things after Tolkien figures in places like his company Palantir, for example,” Maddow said.

    Quote Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel, who had given him all his jobs in the world, Mr. Vance also, when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel, named it after a ‘Lord of the Rings’ thing. He called it Narya, N-A-R-Y-A, which you can remember because it’s ‘Aryan,’ but you move the N to the front,” she continued. “Apparently that word has something to do with elves and rings from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ series, I don’t know.”
    While the MSNBC host appeared to try to draw a parallel between Narya, the venture capital firm, and “Aryan,” an archaic term that has been associated with far-right racial ideology, Narya is named after one of the rings of power in “The Lord of the Rings” lore, specifically the ring of fire bestowed to elven kings.

    Vance took center stage at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday to speak extensively about his humble origins in Ohio and his rise to become a public figure in American politics.

    Vance also touched on Trump’s “America First” agenda, promising to make allies pay their fair share for world peace instead of betraying “the generosity of the American taxpayer.” On foreign policy, Vance promised that the administration would send service members to war “only when we must.”

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