Republicans Can't Handle The Truth (Ministry)

The Homeland Security Dept's creating a Disinformation Governance Board. This is a no-brainer, as disinformation is one of the great threats of our time. It gets people to do everything from root for Putin to drink their own urine. Predictably, right wingers are whining about it because they can only win using disinfo, and we may discover it bears responsibility for right-wing violence they egg on. Cliff Schecter provides the breakdown and the takedown.

Center for Strategic & International Studies report on RW violence

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The spiked attempt by DHS to warn of RW violence in 2008/9

**transcript generated by third-party transcription software, please excuse any typos**

Right-wingers, honestly they're good at a lot of stuff. They're great at blowing up the debt and giving us huge deficits. They're awesome at kissing Vladimir Putin's ass and going over to sort of bow before him on the 4th of July after he attacks our country, created family values, you know, saying you're for family values and then like Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani having like 27 wives and even cheating on them. They're awesome at saying that they believe in the rule of law and letting Donald Trump break basically every law this country has had since its founding and not doing a damn thing about it. They've got talents right. They've got lots of talents. But I got to say whining, is there anything that they're better at than whining and crying and oh we're the victims and I know that, like we're a minority of the population and we couldn't win the popular vote in a presidential election if you threw millions of votes our way.

But even with all of that they still just whine and cry constantly. It is honestly the one thing that unites all of them and here we are again. So disinformation as you know is hugely dangerous. It has convinced people to drink their own urine because they think that they're going to get better from covid or not get covid. Ivermectin we don't even need to go into that. We've got the, the Donald Trump telling them to put bleach in their system and plenty of them did that. There's, there's worse examples everywhere. There's a reason why they believe that the Ukraine or Ukraine, excuse me, were nazis and Russia was on the right side originally until all the media came out. We have a huge disinformation problem and this is something we've been trying to grapple with as the internet has grown and social media for 20 years now.

So the Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden says they're going to set up a board of disinformation, disinformation governance board I believe it will be called and that is to try to combat the kind of disinformation that harms our country from within and puts us in danger from foreign competitors, those who would attack us. What's the predictable right-wing reaction? Waah. It's a ministry of truth. It's a ministry, you know, and I love when they pull stuff out from 1984 like any of them have ever read the book or have a clue what Orwell was talking about. Let me tell you he was talking about them. Talking about the fascists. Now if you're in Texas what they'll do is have somebody put a bounty on your head if you want to get an abortion or if you try to leave the state and they'll throw you in prison like they just did with somebody. That clearly is not authoritarian but trying to stop disinformation is and Jack Posobiec who's a, you know, if he's not a Russian stooge he, he's not being paid to be one, man he's losing out on a great opportunity.

Candace Owens, JD Vance the one of the few human gardeners walking around actually running for office, a lot of them were on took to twitter today to whine and cry because of what Joe Biden said and so I think it's important to look at the actual facts. We are the country compared to other democratic countries that has had the least vaccine, the lowest vaccination rate. Why? Because in countries like Germany and the United Kingdom when they found a way to have free speech but not let disinformation go unattended they've been able to combat some of this in a way that we just haven't been able to. The same thing with our the love for Putin in this country has come from that. But the bigger thing is, is they're convincing people to con, to commit violent acts with things they're saying. They don't care. They actually some of them want to do this and they want to do it because of course it helps further their governments and maybe make some money. Tucker Carlson probably, an angel gets its wings and Tucker Carlson makes a nice crisp thousand dollar bill every time he probably incites some sort of an attack.