Where psy ops is concerned
Don't let yourself be ratf*cked. I appreciate your skepticism, but I am not going to allow it to make me toss people under the bus who are often proven correct even after they are dismissed out of hand on DU. Over and over people tell me not to listen to voices like Taylor or Palmer even when they have a track record of being right about hunches, insider leaks, etc. They may not filter or verify every detail they put out there, but they do have their ear to chatter coming to them from a variety of sources. The CIA and FBI filter that kind of info every day. They don't just say, that person isn't worth listening to. It is a fatal mistake to fall into such an easy analysis of info. It is what protects Trump from his own lies every day in the media. Not enough critical thinking on the part of we the people.
I would call these sources worth listening to if they were feeding me info on office politics. I might take their words with a grain of salt, but I would never dismiss them out of hand, anymore than I would totally discredit your advice. And I really have NO idea what insider knowledge you might have, what expertise, etc. I just listen, classify and catalogue the scuttlebutt.
I have a list of known liars I wouldn't ever trust no matter what they said. All the Trump camp is in this category; in fact I would be inclined to believe the exact opposite of anything they say.
Now about the shaky sources. If they have insight beyond my own, I evaluate it carefully. If they are being attacked or set up by known liars, I begin to wonder whether they have stumbled on truths the other side doesn't wish to be revealed.
I left DUs echo chamber this year looking for new sources of information, and I have discovered from doing Twitter that what the journalists say on the job often deviates from their real views. Guess which views I give more credibility? I am keeping my ear to the ground. And that's the best we as citizens can do.
In the past two weeks, I have seen the arrival of thousands of paid Trump bots on Twitter ready to praise every dribble of drool emanating from his whistle ass. Even Trump got catfished by one of his own bots. So I know we have to be vigilant. I am trying to keep my eyes open. I am setting aside politics for the sake of country. It is all about the threat from the dishonorable Trump GOP. The Trump Twitter White House. The Trump Oligarchy. The Kremlin White House. The nasty stuff they are up to. They are threatening people. Psy oping them is what we should be doing. They are the ratfuckers.
I am connecting the webs of lies I have been told for decades. Putting it all together. Some could call it creative speculation. Others call it an investigation of the known facts. Critical thinking. Better to run up a few blind leads and alleys than miss crucial info. Don't let the paid bots, people with agendas antithetical to yours sidetrack you from finding the truth. Be like Mueller. Quietly investigate their words. Know who your friends are. Have their backs even when they screw up. Don't accidentally work for the other side.
If you want to fight, go on Twitter and expose Trump bots. They have been created by the 1000s to influence public opinion. We need to be as singleminded as Putin's keyboard warriors in taking them down. Ratf*ck them. Or risk being seen as one of them.
End of rant.
Thanks for listening to me.
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Makes perfect sense 
cause getting two or three calls every single time I'd choose to actually log in became ridiculous, to me. Judging a fellow member's worth is not why I joined up sixteen years ago.
