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KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
15. Honeycomb, a follow-up thought.
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 04:55 PM
Oct 2017

I'll bet there are well-oiled ($$$) machines behind these sites that keep track of the conspiracies and continually feed them new aspects and talking points. Perhaps foreign agents, perhaps Americans. Plenty of rogue actors around the world that want to keep us disoriented, angry and fearful.

Therefore, the everyday Bubba never has a chance to get his/her facts straight with constant streams of BS.

At a higher level, I heard many times that the Bush administration and Fox News were fed a constant diet of talking points by right-wing think tanks such as Heritage Foundation, and we can bet that continues today.

They will keep throwing "uranium" at the wall BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #1
This is all to be expected, these are The_Casual_Observer Oct 2017 #2
You put your sanity on the line canetoad Oct 2017 #3
LOL. Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #5
+1 uponit7771 Oct 2017 #8
the secretary or state tillerson said all the freepers were morons. trueblue2007 Oct 2017 #4
Disinformation gone wild. nocalflea Oct 2017 #6
What baffles me with these idiots is.... KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #7
I'm at a loss to explain it. Except that in their minds, the theory is NEVER proven wrong to them. Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #11
Honeycomb, a follow-up thought. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #15
Excellent point (I say with a "duh" I should've thought of that). Because ... Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #16
LOL, I had this vision.... KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #17
Wait, was this FR or JPR? yardwork Oct 2017 #9
FR. Don't know about JPR. Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #12
saw your thread title and mnmoderatedem Oct 2017 #10
That level of gullibility and idiocy BainsBane Oct 2017 #13
And most of it is willful. BannonsLiver Oct 2017 #14
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