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In reply to the discussion: Taibbi: America Is Too Dumb for TV News [View all]90-percent
(6,829 posts)I'm a boomer from the mid 50's. In hindsight, Mad magazine educated me on the evil horrors of advertising and commercialism, so that grew into a little above average critical thinking skills. Frank Zappa also helped. Been studying the man for 43 years.
And I try to practice my citizenship obligations any way I can. Mostly as a keyboard warrior, which is pretty insipid. So I'm part of a Church that had a group get together for a "talent night". I don't have any talent worth an audience of humans, so I offered to discuss the TPP as my "talent" The reaction was negative, so I thought I'd be going only for the chips and dips. But, then, they made everybody at the party display their talent. Well, mine happened to be lecturing extemporaneously about the TPP, with no outline or prep what so ever. (I don't think good on my feet, so an outline, bullet points, to look at while you talk is a tool to cover the subject deeper and completely)
And I mention this because I feel the TPP and the political leaders that support it, are the END GAME for some kind of Authoritarian, fascist, corporatist, totalitarian NEW WORLD ORDER. I think the orders were given after the 2000 Election, where the Oligarch's learned they could pull off a big lie and get away with murder. Then it escalated with the Iraq invasion lies, to the point where they learned they could lie with impunity about going to war, so there was nothing so venal and preposterous and openly corrupt they couldn't do if they wanted to.