Comment: A bit rich coming from Wikileaks, but true nonetheless...
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Caitlin Johnstone
Medium.com
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Caitlin Johnstone
Medium.com
A few months back I
started having bizarre interactions on social media of a kind I’d never
experienced previously. Suddenly, whenever I’d write about President
Trump’s nonstop warmongering and capitulations to longstanding
neoconservative agendas like implementing aggressive new cold war escalations against Russia along multiple fronts, the illegal occupation of Syria with the stated goal of effecting regime change, increasing troop presence in Afghanistan, unprecedented civilian deaths in drone strikes, facilitating the slaughter of civilians in Yemen, or the administration’s open regime change policy against Iran,
I’d get all these weird accounts telling me things like “Trust the
plan” and “This is the Art of the Deal, Trump is playing 4-D chess”, and
saying I should research something called “QAnon” or “Q”.
It happens literally
every time I write anything critical of this administration; a deluge of
commenters telling me in effect, “Shush. Calm down. This is nothing.
What looks like Trump facilitating longtime establishment agendas just
like his predecessors is actually brilliant strategic maneuvering.”
Every single time, without a single solitary exception.
It got particularly frustrating when I’d try to talk about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ statement that arresting WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange is a high priority for this administration, a statement Trump personally supported.
These Q people told me they had great news for me: Assange is no longer
languishing in London’s Ecuadorian embassy. No, some clever researchers
had deciphered some cryptic statements from
an anonymous poster on 8chan, and it turns out that Assange is now
walking free and enjoying a full presidential pardon. Some even say it to Assange’s own mother.
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