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At first you may suspect this article is gaslightning bullshit because we've all experienced exactly what they say isn't happening.
But let's read between the lines a bit:
If my autistic pattern recognition on how media works is right again, we'll hear a lot more about this Federal Wiretap Act over the next year or two until there's a a high profile court case around it.
The purpose of these crumbs would be to "educate" the public on the existence and implications of this act so that "the stage is set" with regards to public opinion when that case is front and center in the news cycle.
That case will have already been story-boarded long before we hear about it, and the story will culminate in what is effectively disclosure of large scale government action that already happened behind closed-doors. That new regulation, judicial precedent, enforcement actions, or other such thing will dominate a news cycle-because it involves a large company or products everyone uses or has used.
Armchair experts at that time will have several years of articles on this very subject to direct their opinions in a way that makes the outcome acceptable, because by then debate will have been exhausted and attention will be on to the next thing that's seeded years in advance.
Crumbs make bread.
I am not inclined to agree with the view that so much of our political life is orchestrated...however, you have been slowly reeling me in.
I'm bookmarking this and if it turns out correct, I'm going to have to move significantly closer to your viewpoint.
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Took me awhile for all the pieces to fit, the greatest psyop the government ever pulled was making us think they're incompetent... appear weak when you are strong.
If a movie producer can write a script for a CIA movie with twist, turns and an unpredictable outcome, so can the intelligence community those movies are based upon (and often directly informed by as disclosure ops) with their nearly unlimited resources.
It's a bit liberating in a way to know that most political debates are settled before they've begun in the public sphere, and that outrage and in-fighting is laregely manufactured in an "art of the deal" sort of way. Politicians are front-men and actors just following a script, and that there is no one-government or two parties, just a battlefield which is why these clandestine maneuvers are needed in the first place.
Enjoy the popcorn.
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