The Iraq plastic shredder lie was wild. I ask my friends about it, and none of them remember. We just made up so much wild shit in the lead up to the war that it all blends together.
Fidel Castro is literally throwing people into the wood chipper as we speak.
My source is about as credible as it gets: A Cuban dissident pro-democracy activist based in Miami told me, after having cried with joy for eleven hours after having seen a Flaming Hot Cheeto for the first time.
The only reason anybody could have for not believing this is if they were a Russia tankie pro-Trump troll-bot controlled by the evil See See Pee.
idk what’s fake anymore
You ppl notice how in the last couple years there’s been more and more stories like this about different American enemies - Iran, Venezuela, China, Cuba, etc. It’s like the MIC is pulling on different threads to see which fucking war people have an appetite for. I know it’s nothing new, but it feels increasingly frantic like these sickos need their fix or some shit.
So much of this just seems like its on autopilot. Like, I remember the drum beat to war in Iraq. The neocons had focus. The party worked as a unit to push a narrative. Cheney on one end was doing Very Serious Conservative talk shows while Powell was My Black Friend Who Would Never Lie To The UN. All the stories had a connecting narrative. Everyone was marching to the same beat. The objective of launching a new War in Iraq was abundantly clear from the start, and the only question at hand was how long until the public cracked. Then, every effort at withdrawal was blunted by another insurgency that ramped up like clockwork. And the news cycle just kinda dragged the war out, to periodically tug at your heart strings or implement it as a wedge issue around The Troops, or whine about the Pentagon running out of cruise missiles.
These new narratives are just all the fuck over the place. One minute, Xi is eating babies in Xinjing. The next he's at a conference talking about a climate change deal with Joe Biden. Venezuela just kinda pops up now and again as a Humanitarian Crisis that we are Very Concerned about until we aren't. There's a civil war in Ethiopia I know I'm supposed to care about, but nobody outside the old school news crews seem to want to talk about it. Cuba is going to fall any minute now. Except, oh wait, Iran's airport is getting hacked. And also Belarus is being mean to migrants to start a war with Poland. And that means Russia is bad, which should halt construction on the Nordstream 2... except nobody in Germany seems to be interested in listening. So I guess now its back to Kyle Rittenhouse stories for two weeks.
Bush and Obama at least seemed to have control of their respective narratives. Since Trump, it doesn't seem like anyone is directing this shit. People just kinda generally know the party line and are all trying to sing it off-key from one another.
My favorite member of the Obama Administration was always Guy Who Worked in the Obama Administration.
Vice needs to stop doing politics and just take pictures of coked out club kids with mustaches again.
