With near infinite information available in our palms, finding the truth is still very hard.
Just this morning, I had the privilege of being lied to by many individuals and organizations. For just a glimpse:
*Bernie Sanders claimed in an interview that Hamas has no responsibility for any famine in Gaza. Firstly, there is no famine, and as Ambassador Mike Huckabee recently suggested, some Ozempic might be in order there. If there is any famine, well Hamas steals much of the aid that enters and either hordes it or sells it at inflated prices. They also shoot at people who take free American aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF). So no, if there is a famine, how could Hamas’ actions have anything to do with it?
*Tucker Carlson dug up a nun who claimed that Israel is really evil to the Christians in the region. Somehow somebody forgot to remind the two of them that Israel is the only country in the Middle East not to persecute its Christians; it is also the only country in the region where the Christian population is growing. Did the former Fox star remember to mention that since the Muslim Palestinian Authority took over in 1993, Bethlehem went from 80/20 Christian to Muslim to 20/80 in favor of the Muslims? Christian sites in Israel are protected and are very popular with visitors from around the world.
*The FBI kindly made public documents showing that Adam Schiff used his position in Congress to intentionally leak lies about Donald Trump and his phantom relationship with Putin’s Russia. Whistleblowers are coming forward with many stories of people like Schiff who abused their positions of authority in order to destroy Donald Trump and his presidency. The entire Russian collusion story was invented but once it existed, it was used at every turn to weaken and damage the president.
*An Al-Jazeera reporter was mourned for being killed by Israel. A great deal of evidence shows that he was moonlighting as a reporter but his main job was as a Hamas terrorist. Even Gazans said that he would fink on anyone who opposed Hamas and got people killed. He even received a Hamas salary. A clear-cut terrorist is repackaged as a saintly reporter so as to slam Israel and her just prosecution of the war.
*The former head of the Capitol Police informs us that Nancy Pelosi has lied about the events on January 6, 2021. He tried desperately to get National Guard backup, but she and her Congressional sergeant-at-arms made sure that help came way too late. Videos are showing federal assets participating in the events of that day and encouraging others to violate the law. We were sold that it was an insurrection of MAGA zealots, when in fact it was a manufactured fracas with the active participation of federal officials at every level.
*Bill Barr, the man who very quickly said that the 2020 election was kosher allegedly worked actively with Fani Willis to put together the RICO case against Donald Trump in Georgia. Now wait, wasn’t he a Trump hire? Yes, but so was Chris Wray over at the FBI who ordered the raid on the president’s home in Florida. Tulsi Gabbard has stated publicly that electronic voting machines can be manipulated and votes may have been changed or destroyed in 2020. So how did Bill Barr claim that everything was on the up and up? And how were we told that voting machines can never err?
*As Donald Trump addresses crime in Washington, the mayor and Democratic hacks claim that there is no crime problem. Murder rates that would make Mogadishu blush and carjackings of federal officials apparently are simply the custom there and not any sign of societal breakdown or serious problems. We are told that there is no crime when the statistics and harrowing stories of people who live there say otherwise.
In his day, Walter Cronkite was called the most trusted man in America. He could have announced in his serious voice that Jimmy Carter was pregnant with twins and will be the first American leader to give birth at the White House, and over half of the population would have believed him. Those who hear Tucker Carlson adding to his Israel-hating credentials are not interested in truth. They listen to Carlson either because they used to watch him at Fox or they think like him and are happy to hear someone “objective” say how evil those Israelis are. The same for Candace Owens who has called Jews many vile things. Her many followers online think like her and are happy to have their opinions validated. Maybe some small percentage of people who wade through billions of pages of online information want the truth. Most want to hear that their opinions are right, however detached from reality and concrete evidence.
We lived through the “fact checkers”. These people should have been the last firewall between any online misdirection and the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But they were programmed either ideologically or by their bosses to accept nonsense like Covid coming from a pangolin and the mRNA vaccines being perfect in preventing transmission with absolutely zero side-effects. My blood froze when I looked on Google during the height of the pandemic for “The Great Barrington Declaration.” It was a manifesto of top-flight doctors and researchers that offered an alternative approach to Covid from that of Fauci and Collins. My search returned zero results. At a later date, I wanted to find articles about an event in Texas during which wind turbines produced no electricity during a powerful heat wave that lacked wind. In that case I again failed to find a single reference to an event that had occurred two years earlier.
Truth can be ephemeral and very hard to find. Most people don’t know that they are being lied to and for the most part don’t care. Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter finally allowed for voices other than the Official Narrative to be heard. If Joe Biden had succeeded in getting his anti-disinformation office working, there would be many things that we would not know and would not be allowed to know. There is a scene in the Apollo 11 movie in which the lunar lander looks like a speck as it approaches the command module from the moon. As it gets closer, it becomes bigger and bigger. The same is true of many important stories of our day. The original suggestion of the Wuhan virus institute being the source of Covid was swatted away until it finally became undeniable years later. President Obama and his people inventing the Russian collusion story was considered pure fantasy until Tulsi Gabbard and Pam Bondi dropped the receipts. The truth, when it stands in opposition to ideology or interests of the powerful, often is subjected to hurricane-level winds to blow it away. Sometimes it disappears but at other times it stands firm and gets stronger. We today know about the dangers of mRNA vaccines, information that Pfizer, Moderna and the Biden administration did their best to hide from the public.
A national security concern will be how honest AI algorithms will be. Just because a computer said it does not make something true. As of this time I have found that Grok returned answers that ChatGPT was programmed to ignore. If you ask the Chinese AI program about President Xi, it will suggest discussing something else. There can be no Republic without truth. We the People will have to sift through a lot of noise in order to find it.
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