Editing Institutional Gaslighting (section)

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|content=Note: Apparently, the quote tweeted author objected so I have lost visibility here. https://t.co/hAC6ixbM2g
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|content=Here’s a question.

Assume your family has been *directly* targeted by your own government using deception, espionage, covert agents and dirty tricks in the past. Is it really a sign of mental illness to incorporate that into the present and take precautions against it by asking hard questions? 

Challenge: Why do we allow the public gaslighting and *smearing*  of people whose families have been previously revealed to be FBI, CIA or other targets?

I’m genuinely curious to hear *ANY* defense of this whatsoever. Any at all. The floor is yours. 

cc: @seanonolennon, @RobertKennedyJr, @danielsheehan45.
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|timestamp=1:01 PM · Mar 22, 2024
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|content=There is something so unethical about the gaslighting and smearing followed by the inevitable pivot articles.

I was recently smeared over *exactly* this. The gaslighting never ends.

I just detest this particular unholy institutional practice.
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|content=To all Institutional Operatives:

Operation “Any Moderate Who So Much As Mentions Biden’s Obvious Cognitive Decline is to be Portrayed as a Far Right Lunatic” is now suspended.

Your new gaslighting/prebunking narrative is not yet available but will be provided to you shortly.

That is all.
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|timestamp=10:47 PM · Jun 05, 2024
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|content=One question I get a lot is "What explains your asymmetric focus on Democrats and the Left?"

The short answer, after some soul searching and introspection, is simply this: "The Gaslighting of Experts."

I see the Republican party fighting the experts they oppose. I don't see them trying to gaslight them much.

Let's say you are an economist who believes that higher taxes spent on infrastructure would be good for the nation. The right may fight you. They may call you a name like "Libtard" or "Commie". And that is absolutely awful behavior to me. Truly. But they aren't nearly as likely to coordinate behind the scenes in emails to be discovered later and all agree to pretend, seemingly independently, that as a former expert you have committed some unclear moral crime that means you can never be empaneled or invited onto a commission. They aren't immediately going to treat you like a mental patient, a con-artist, or threat to society. They are just going to be asses. That's the dopey game they love: "Happy Warriors" is what they call it. 

And the subjects I focus on most tend to be the places where I think dissenting experts are being gaslit:

COVID ORIGINS

SOUTHERN BORDER

STRING THEORY

POTUS COGNITIVE STATE AND AGE

EPSTEIN'S INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION

COVID MANAGEMENT

QUESTIONING UKRAINE NATO STRATEGY

INFLATION/GROWTH MEASUREMENT

MONETARY AGGREGATES AND FED INTERVENTION

VP COMPETENCY

ASYMMETRIC TREATMENT OF CONTESTING ELECTIONS and VIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

VACCINE INJURY DISCUSSION

SEX AND GENDER REDEFINITION

ANDREW YANG / TULSI GABBARD / RON PAUL / ETC. PRIMARY MANIPULATION

SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY INTERFERENCE

DENIED LEGACY UAP PROGRAMS

HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY

DIRTY TRICKS CAMPAIGNS / DOMESTIC SPYING

NON-CONSENSUAL HUMAN TESTING (infectious agents, radioactivity)

BAILOUTS

MAXIMALIST STRUCTURAL BIGOTRY CLAIMS

LABOR MARKET FLOODING VIA IMMIGRATION

RELIGIOUS TERRORISM

Etc.

In all cases above, there is some absolutely *MASSIVE* long-term lying and obfuscation. Not small. Not excusable. I am talking about massive lies. Lies that last decades. Lies too large to choke a blue whale.

And they incinerate dissenting experts as pretend neer-do-wells for the crime of dissenting from consensus.

What is the point of becoming an expert Stanford or Harvard professor if you can be turned into a "Fringe Epidemiologist" like @DrJBhattacharya was overnight by some washington insiders like Colins and Fauci? 

To an academic: it makes life pointless. Everything we are becomes pointless if that is allowed to stand.

So, this is what I have to say: I appear to be focused on gaslighting of dissenting experts more than politics.

It's not that I don't have political opinions. I do. It's that I haven't been able to focus on them for years. All we seem to do these days is deal with gaslighting on our top line issues above.

And the formula is quite simple. An expert can have: 

A) Reach.</br>
B) Reputation.</br>
C) Independence.

but no more than 2 out of 3. 

This is a terrible rule. And whoever attempts to enforce that rule, is who I fight. Unfortunately, that group has been my own historic political party as transformed over 30 years. 

And, in my opinion, they deserve to continue to hemorrage credibility for that crime against their own until they end this tactic. It's a crime against everything I believe with all my soul. We need *DISSENTING* experts to right our listing ship on all of the above and more.

Check the above list. That's no small thing. It's about the destruction of a country that I dearly love and which the world needs desperately to come back at this moment.

Thanks for hearing me out.
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|content=@genkihito Sindhi Hindus and Punjabi Sikhs are a lot closer than many imagine.
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|content=It’s not a bad take at all from 2022! 

But I think we can and should now build upon it and take it much further in 2024.

The new version of the Democratic Party, together with its supportive media and subservient universities are in the process of embittering and radicalizing *EVERY* single last US dissenter. Literally everyone who dissents from the party narratives is coming to despise the leadership of the party and its media. Name me the independent Democratic Party dissenters, who are huge fans of the Biden/Harris ticket. They don’t exist. They aren’t real. Here’s why. 

Tell me if you recognize the following playbook: 

“That seems odd.” —->Conspiracy Theorist!

“I’m thinking of starting my own newsletter/podcast/channel to discuss and explore what I don’t see discussed in mainstream media and academe.” —-> Grifter!! Narcissist! 

“Trump is actually making kind of an effective point.”  —-> Cancelled!

“I actually looked at the data and primary sources which don’t say exactly what you are claiming.” ——> Ha ha. Dunning-Kruger!

“I don’t know that I fully agree with that.” —-> Far Right extremist!

“I have a different take on that.” —-> Charlatan. Total charlatan. 

“There is weirdly an interesting parallel there between two different points.”   ——> Stay in your lane!

“This DEI agenda seems pretty extreme in a bunch of places.” ——-> Bigot!

Etc. 

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I have watched the White House invite relatively random ‘influencers’ for briefings. But no one who actually has their own ideas. No one at all.

The party is increasingly about one thing:
“Let us think for you. Let us be your eyes and your ears. Make our new words and phrases into your language. Let our talking point memos be your dinner table conversation perspectives. Surrender.”

And everyone with a soul or a dissenting idea in their head starts looking rightwards whether or not they have ANY INTEREST at all in Republican ideas. I don’t look to the Republican Party for ideas or platform planks. I think only about one thing: “Can I afford to think for myself here?” 

Quite honestly, I can’t think around the true believers in the Democratic Party. My brain doesn’t work around this totalitarian gaslighting. 

And I assure you this is why Joe Biden is going to lose as this continues: you cannot gaslight an entire nation of free people into hating each other this completely for this long.

Biden has dementia and cognitive loss. He has for some time. Harris is not fit to command the army. I didn’t create that. I merely observed it. For YEARS.

But pretending that *everyone* who sees a buck naked emperor is a charlatan is no longer working very well.

The emperor is naked and has been for some time. He has been protected by a party leadership that needs to be retired.

The Democratic Party leadership is sending almost all smart people fleeing for no other reason than that smart free people want to retain the right to dissent without character assasination.

Sooner or later, we all feel like Elon does when shat upon. Everyone. Full stop. 

🙏
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|content=@BasedBeffJezos Thanks.
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|timestamp=3:45 PM · Jul 17, 2024
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|content=Just arrived in the Bay Area at the invitation of @NicoleShanahan’s campaign to sit down with my friend and colleague Stanford Prof. @DrJBhattacharya, and the man I am most eager to meet on the subject of all things mind control, @MikeBenzCyber.

The recent practice of creating supposed “expert  consensus” by relentlessly smearing expert dissenters as dangerous people, is at the heart of an unholy machine destroying institutional trust.

Nicole challenged me: “If a campaign were actually interested in fixing the United States, what would it do?” I think I mumbled something like “It might go get Benz and Bhattacharya in a room as the beginning  of convening the expert voices that everyone pretends don’t exist.” These guys are, after all, absolute unsung heroes to many of us. 

Well…Boom. Called my bluff. They mapped it out. It begins tomorrow.

And here’s the crazy part: there’s no ask. I did not see that coming; Nicole and @RobertKennedyJr’s campaign is simply serious about fixing whatever ails us. I’m just stunned. And very impressed!

This X space should be awesome. Join us tomorrow, August 7, 2024.

We will work to make this a great X space. Thanks to @elonmusk for keeping this platform free. Please retweet and share Nicole’s tweet with anyone who wants to end the usual gaslighting to get back to what we do best.

Let’s get that American mojo back.
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|content=Imagine for one moment that we said what was likely true:

“It is imperative to those charged with protecting and enforcing the international ‘Rules Based Order’, that the United States and its security allies have a backdoor to all file encryption as well as every encrypted communications platform.”

Then we could at least discuss what is going on. We could debate its pros and cons and the moral constraints it raises. We could discuss it in the context of the need for search and seizure in rare circumstances codified by law.

But calling it “Democracy”, or the need to end “On-line disinformation”
Is turning whatever this is into an embittering slide into propoganda, gaslighting and tyranny. This is madness.

If you think “the people” can’t be let in on democracy, you have a tough road ahead. 

You can’t spread democracy by having to thwart it at every turn.

Which raises the question: if not democracy, freedom and free speech, just what is it that we are spreading?
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|content=Please follow @MikeBenzCyber.

A thought after talking with him: perhaps we all need to stop using the word “Intelligence” so much. Why? Because it is doing a lot of the work to cloak what we need to be worrying about: Covert Operations.

To remind ourselves, Covert Operations are operations with Gaslighting plans built into their structure in case they are exposed. They are the operations that can’t be exposed and have deniability built into their foundations even if that means destroying reporters, politicians, experts and civilians who get wind that something stinks.

Imagine you broke the Intelligence Community (IC) into two groups:

A) The actual intelligence community.</br>
B) The covert operations community.

My claim is that the lion’s share of the controversy about the IC is no longer about intelligence at all. It’s about covert operations.

It’s about killings, physically extracting information from prisoners, toppling governments, destroying reputations, training and arming paramilitaries, kompromat, running arms/drugs, propaganda, gaslighting etc. 

Everytime we call this the Intelligence Community, we are doing the work of the Covert Operations Community (COC).

The IC isn’t without controversy. Listening in on secure communications, befriending humans to learn secrets, posing as people who do not exist, etc is also controversial.

But it is not remotely the same thing as sabotaging the brake lines on a family sedan, fixing elections or destroying the reputation of well meaning civilian experts whose expertise threatens to uncover their own government’s covert plots that they know nothing about.

Imagine there were a CIA and a COA (Covert Operations Agency) broken out and funded as *separate* entities. Perhaps 95% of the concern would be about the COA. Not the CIA. Which is why intelligence is in some sense acting as cover.

I do worry about the Intelligence  Community. A little.

I worry about the Covert Operations operators every day. It’s in my news. It’s in my markets. It’s in every attempt to figure out what is actually going on in the world (e.g. Ukraine, physics, energy markets, elections). It is a large part of why we cannot think straight. An enormous structure that pretends to be not worth worrying about.

That is the source of  propoganda, gaslighting, character assasination, torture, and murder. All protected by the idea that worrying about such actual people and actions can be taken as a sign of paranoia and mental illness! This is really incredibly sick. Also: genius. You have to give credit to these people. It’s an amazing thing to have people who question you, automatically self incinerate merely because they questioned what you were doing. 

The problem isn’t intelligence. It’s covert operations. It’s the implicit COA, not the CIA.

And why is this? It’s because if there were a National Conspiracy Department in the form of a COC it would be a normal thing to ask about the nature of its work. Its budget. Its ethical restrictions. Its successes and failures. Etc. Even if you believe, as I do, that we unfortunately need such capacity in a dangerous world.

In its absence, only a paranoid conspiracy theorist would focus on such crazy things involving intelligence agencies. Who is against intelligence, after all? Certainly not me.

Genius. Pure genius.
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|content=@DatGuyY69 Thx!!
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|content=Because gaslighting. 

Date: July 24th, 2024
|timestamp=5:25 PM · Nov 07, 2024
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|content=@Emsi1320537 Phew! Thx.
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