Iran-Contra has at least penetrated public consciousness to the degree that people don't dismiss it entirely as a conspiracy theory. They don't actually know what it is, but they've herad of it and know it was a scandal, and that makes it a good place to start with a lot of people.
What's amazing about Iran contra isn't that it happened, or even that we found out about it (turned in by international "collaborators" as usual) but that anyone was punished (however mildly).
And it's because the reading they were doing was against a bill recently passed in Congress. Like, they could have done the exact same trading scheme with two different countries instead and it would have been totally fine.
The catch is Americans only know it as "bad" because Reagan sold guns to Iran, not because the CIA was involved in the deaths and tortures of thousands of innocent people.
I knew he was a lib, but the moment I quit watching John Oliver’s show was when he covered the CIA hacking “smart TVs” and said it’s okay, it’s illegal for them to operate inside the U.S.
Also when he spent a good portion of one of his shows to impugn Jill Stein, rather than they seen that excluded her from the presidential debates (and out her in handcuffs for showing up).
MKULTRA, operation bloodstone, Iran-Contra, Vault 7
This one's a fun read btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
Iran-Contra has at least penetrated public consciousness to the degree that people don't dismiss it entirely as a conspiracy theory. They don't actually know what it is, but they've herad of it and know it was a scandal, and that makes it a good place to start with a lot of people.
What's amazing about Iran contra isn't that it happened, or even that we found out about it (turned in by international "collaborators" as usual) but that anyone was punished (however mildly).
And it's because the reading they were doing was against a bill recently passed in Congress. Like, they could have done the exact same trading scheme with two different countries instead and it would have been totally fine.
The catch is Americans only know it as "bad" because Reagan sold guns to Iran, not because the CIA was involved in the deaths and tortures of thousands of innocent people.
Vault 7
Vought 7
Ohhhhh
I knew he was a lib, but the moment I quit watching John Oliver’s show was when he covered the CIA hacking “smart TVs” and said it’s okay, it’s illegal for them to operate inside the U.S.
Also when he spent a good portion of one of his shows to impugn Jill Stein, rather than they seen that excluded her from the presidential debates (and out her in handcuffs for showing up).
Lost me for good.
He's English, I don't know what we were expecting
Is there a pun or reference there?
The comic/Amazon TV show The Boys.
Hahahaha, they put “Wikipedia editing” on the same scale as Iran-Contra.