Gretchen carlson fakes

It’s my first time posting here and ohmygod. I just wanna say that I love this show so much. I started watching during its peak back in covid season, I think at around 2020-2021 I guess, then only stopped mid-season 4 bc I was getting so bored when the plot took a turn and suddenly they were all “working for the company” and tbh the whole Scylla plotline is just meh. Then I only picked up right where I left off JUST THIS YEAR, exactly this month, and I have never been so happy coming back to a show I’ve abandoned. The love I have for the show, the characters, the plot, the actors and everything else was relived. It was SOOO good. I miss(ed) having a 10/10 show to look forward to 🥲
Anyway, this is just the list of thoughts and questions I have bc I personally think there are some stuff that went unanswered and/or was never given a proper ending to (?). So here goes:

1. Whatever happened to the recurrence of Michael’s “being sick” plot and the return of his nosebleeds in the season finale of s04? I feel like that subplot just suddenly disappeared with no explanation cause suddenly he was battling it out in Yemen. YEMEN ffs 💀 one day he was having symptoms again and then poof! Suddenly he’s alive and stronger than he’s ever been. I wanted answers cause that was such a huge factor !!
   
2. What happened with Gretchen? Lol I get that she stayed in prison but is that really it? I was also hoping Sara would somehow have a scene wherein she took the wood keychain to Emily.
   
3. The Ending aka the very last episode. Omg. Had such HUGE potential. It was lacking. Where is LJ in the ending? And really? I don’t like that they wrote off Lincoln’s old girlfriend (forgot her name but she was Whistler’s gf) JUST LIKE THAT. They even had a scene in the surf shop. They seemed like a good team. She was there with him post-Michael’s death. The sheba-lincoln loveteam feels forced. And what even were they looking at in the park?!?? Honestly, it feels like it’s just another episode mid-season. PB fans and the characters deserved a better ending. The montage of the s04 finale, for example. That’s the standard. Made me cry and gave me chills.
   
4. T-Bag deserved a better ending. Not having his son killed and him ending up in Fox River. AGAIN.
   
5. Speaking of t-bag, I wanna know what was the reasoning behind the subplot of him getting his prosthetic hand fixed??? Like I was expecting to get answers at the end but was it really necessary??? It feels disconnected tbh. When the prosthetics came to light I even thought that it was a hint to michael faking his own death. But I got zero. Nada 💀 it was so unnecessary.
   
6. Michael’s picture in Sanaa. Who took the damn picture and how??? Just another case of Left Unexplained 😭 I wanted to know the story behind it so bad. All of it.
   
7. I don’t like the subplot that Sara remarried. Lol. So off-brand. That was the love of her life! The way I knew her the entire series, that’s something that she wouldn’t do idk. Feels forced.
   
8. Speaking of, I had a bad gut feeling abt sara’s husband all along 😂💀
   
9. The acting was lacking. I am speaking only in terms of the scenes wherein Sara was told that Michael might be alive, to the scene where it’s finally confirmed. I don’t know. I expected there to be heavy-drama, I wanted her to wail, to really go all out. I wanted her to be humanized for god’s sake! 7 years later u find out the dead love of your life whom you’ve never gotten to spend a lot of time with even before, COULD BE ALIVE??? Idk I wanted her to go nuts! I ROOTED for her to go crazy! As one should. Both of them actually, esp. when they finally reunited. Cry us a river! This feels like a dream but it isn’t! Where’s the tears of joy and confusion and also anger (esp. for Sara’s part)???
   
10. The Explanation. I wanted the whole explanation to the whole faking the death and Kaniel Outis thing to be told at the end of the ep. Idk it’s just a huge bomb to be dropped on such a mid scene. But I do get lincoln’s sense of urgency though.
    

Might add more to the list when I remember it 😭 want answers to these sooo bad. But hey. PB still one of my fave tv shows of all time. GOATED 🤝🔥💯 pls suggest a tv show like this so I could cure my hangover 🥺

I'm a bit late with this post, but I listened to a podcast over a year ago called Alphabet Boys, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-summer-of-rage/id1668980612?i=1000598436398and it was a similar story to Chameleon the Michigan Plot podcast. Two months ago Mike had the host of that show on the Gist and I have been meaning to write this post since then. I listened to both those podcasts in full, and Chameleon features the producer of the Alphabet boys on one of the later episodes, actually one of the FBI agents was present in both sting operations and used the same code name and had a similar fake persona.
Listening to the Alphabet Boys, I was surprised that: 1. The FBI had been doing undercover work in the Black Lives Matter protests and played a real role in provoking them to be more violent, and 2. Nobody seemed to be covering this in the media outside of this podcast. I never heard the guy do any interviews nor did I hear any secondary discussion of the story outside that podcast. Although I must have heard about it somewhere, to have ever listened to it in the first place, but anyway, I heard very little about it other than that.
To this day, when I ask people if they know that the FBI had undercover agents in the Black Lives Matter movement in Colorado and that those agents were in leadership roles actively pushing for more violent tactics, they have invariably never heard of it, when I ask people about the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping sting, people are more aware of that, especially if they have a more right wing media diet, but it seems like the public is largely ignorant of the methods used by the FBI in these cases. I asked a friend of mine who was both a prosecutor and a defense lawyer, and he was familiar with these tactics, and his opinion was that, basically, they catch some bad people this way and he was ok with it.
One issue that I have with these FBI stings is that in both cases they took people who were almost definitely not going to do anything violent on their own and pushed them to do violent things. And what precipitated from that is that our partisan media pushes these narratives about these people and that gives the average American a skewed idea of how dangerous the people on the other side are. I think it has a very polarizing effect on our discourse. Prior to getting really in to the details of the Whitmer case I thought these Michigan Militias were super dangerous people, and the reality is that they were a lot less dangerous than I thought they were.
The other thought that I had about these cases is that our first amendment rights in conjunction with the second amendment have made this weird situation where you can publicly say absolutely horrible, terrifying, threatening things while being visibly armed to the teeth and there really is nothing that the government can directly do about that. So what they do instead is, one day some guy who looks suspiciously clean cut but has impressive experience in Iraq and Afghanistan will try to befriend you and see if he can get you to commit to doing something terrible.
The problem with this method, I think, is that if you are dumb enough to fall for that trick there's a good chance you probably weren't an actual threat to begin with. I'm sure there is some overlap in the venn diagram there but, my opinion, after listening to these stories, is that they tend to catch people who weren't going to commit a crime in the absence of the FBI agent pushing them. I'd love to hear a podcast where the FBI comes in and shares some stories where they did catch someone who was going to really commit a violent crime on their own. But in both of these podcasts, it seems like if the FBI hadn't been there, these people wouldn't have done anything but talk. We don't hear from the FBI in either of these podcasts, nor any jurors or anyone who could speak to the other point of view.
In the Colorado case the prosecutor dropped the charges, I think this is because in that story the FBI actually did cross the line or got too close to entrapment.
So I wanted to poll this group to see if anyone had listened to these podcasts, and what your opinion about them was.
I have basically two questions: 1. Did you listen to any of either of these podcasts or hear of these stories any other way?

1. What do you think of the tactics the FBI used in these cases?

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Did anyone else think the Gretchen who answered the “one note” radio sounded like a text to speech robot? I know their callers are for the most part fake, but to this level?

Last night, 163 Democratic representatives joined 196 Republicans to stop far-right Republicans from removing House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene led the effort to remove Johnson, but her motion received only 43 votes: 32 Democrats and 11 Republicans. Twenty-eight representatives either did not vote or voted present.
Greene promptly excoriated the “uniparty,” saying that “the Democrats now control Speaker Johnson. That was something that everybody’s suspected all along. They just voted to save him.”
But the majority of the House Republican conference appears to be tired of the chaos in their ranks that has made this Congress one of the least productive in American history. Jordain Carney and Olivia Beavers of Politico reported today that House Republicans who are not aligned with Greene and her cohort want to change House rules to create punishments for the extremists who keep stopping House business by, for example, voting against letting bills come to the floor of the House.
Greene and Thomas Massie (R-KY), her main ally in trying to oust Johnson, urged their colleagues to bring it on. Massie said that anyone trying to stop them was going to “take an ass-whooping from their base.”
Since the 1990s, right-wing media hosts have directed the Republican base, telling them what to think and urging them to put pressure on Republican lawmakers to do what the media hosts wanted. Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was so influential in the 1990s that when Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 1995 for the first time since 1954, they made him an honorary member of their incoming congressional freshman class. And what Limbaugh did for radio, Fox News Channel hosts like Bill O’Reilly did for television.
But Limbaugh died in February 2021, and after the Fox News Channel (FNC) had to pay a $787 million settlement to Dominion Voting Systems for the lies the network’s hosts told about the company’s voting machines in the 2020 election, it let go of main host Tucker Carlson. There are indications that FNC founder and former chair Rupert Murdoch hoped to center Republican messaging around young activist Charlie Kirk, but Kirk has slid into MAGA extremism, too.
The Republican extremists no longer have a centralized messaging center. Instead, as CNN’s Oliver Darcy noted today, Murdoch’s outlets themselves—the Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post—stood behind Johnson.
Yesterday, FreedomWorks, the right-wing organization that was backed by the Koch family at its start in 2004 and that was behind the Tea Party movement, abruptly shut down. FreedomWorks attacked Democratic measures for business regulation and social welfare because it embraced libertarian principles. Its revenue had dropped by half since 2022, its president, Adam Brandon, told Luke Mullins of Politico. But in the end, what did the organization in was the party’s split over Trump.
That split was crystal clear in Tuesday’s Republican primary election in Indiana. Trump won that election, but with only 78.3% of the vote. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who suspended her campaign in early March and has not campaigned since, won 21.7%.
Before the Indiana primary, on May 2 political statistician Tom Bonier debunked the idea that Haley’s support came from Democratic-leaning voters flooding the primary vote to hurt Trump. Crunching the numbers in North Carolina showed that Haley voters there “were not substantially younger than the GOP voters (41% over 65 vs 45% among reg[istered Republicans]). They were overwhelmingly white (94% of Ind[ependent]s vs 97% of [Republicans]), and were actually more likely to be men (51% of Ind[ependent Republican] primary voters vs 50% of [Republicans]).” In short, he wrote, “[e]very indicator suggests these Independents voting in [Republican] primaries are more likely [Republican] voters. They just don't like Trump.”
Political commentator Chris Cillizza today called attention to the numbers that landed before Tuesday. On March 12, Haley won 13.2% of the vote in Georgia (or 78,000 votes). On March 19 she won 17.8% of the vote in Arizona (111,000 votes), 13.9%* of the vote in Florida (155,000 votes), and 14.4% of the vote in Ohio (161,000 votes). On April 2 she won 12.8% of the votes in Wisconsin (77,000 votes). And on April 23, Haley won 16.6% of the votes in Pennsylvania (158,000 votes).
If Biden picks up even one in five of these votes, Cillizza noted, “it matters bigly.”
Three high-level Republicans this week told media they would not vote for Trump, helping to pave an off-ramp for other Republicans. Former House speaker Paul Ryan told Yahoo Finance that he would write in another Republican rather than vote for Trump. “Character is too important to me,” he said.
Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, also cited character when she said she would not vote for Trump. “I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I would absolutely consider voting for Joe Biden this upcoming November because he will not seek to destroy our nation [or] our Constitution, and he has the statesman character that we need in an elected official.”
Georgia’s former lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan went further on Monday night, endorsing Biden, whom he had called in an op-ed a “decent person I disagree with on policy,” over Trump, whom he described as “a criminal defendant without a moral compass.” “Sometimes the best way to learn your lesson is to get beat, and Donald Trump needs to get beat. We need to move on as a party. We need to move on as a country,” he said.
Meanwhile, as Khaya Himmelman noted in Talking Points Memo, MAGA Republicans are already blaming a potential loss in 2024 on illegal voters. On Wednesday, Speaker Johnson and other Trump Republicans held a press conference to promote their new bill to make it illegal for people who are not U.S. citizens to vote in federal elections.
This is a political stunt: It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, and there is no evidence that this is happening. In 2017, Trump created a commission to root out the illegal voting he claimed had affected the 2016 election; less than a year later, he disbanded it when it could find no evidence of his claims. Johnson admitted there was no evidence of voting by undocumented immigrants when he told reporters: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that is easily provable. We don't have that number."
Pulitzer Prize–winning author T.J. Stiles retorted: “People terrified of contact with government because they don’t want their lives destroyed by deportation don’t register to vote illegally and then vote illegally for the reward of having a tiny tiny influence on federal electoral outcomes.”
For his part, Trump appears to have tried a more direct approach to reelection. According to Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow of the Washington Post, last month at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told about two dozen top oil executives that if they gave him $1 billion to get reelected, he would immediately reverse the environmental regulations the Biden-Harris administration has put into place and stop any new ones. A $1 billion gift would be a “deal,” according to Trump, because the tax cuts he plans to enact and the regulatory cuts would be worth far more than that. Since then, Ben Lefebvre wrote yesterday in Politico, oil executives have been drawing up executive orders that Trump can sign as soon as he takes office.
Yesterday, in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, President Biden said the U.S. would continue to supply defensive weapons to support the Iron Dome over Israel, but it would not send offensive weapons to Israel if it went forward with its controversial invasion of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians have taken shelter from Israeli strikes. The administration has publicly opposed that invasion since Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced it. “If they go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah,” Biden said. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers.”
Trump and other Republicans promptly accused President Joe Biden of “taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses.”
“We’re not walking away from Israel’s security,” Biden told Burnett. “We’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas.”
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*EDITED AT 9:30 AM EASTERN, MAY 10, 2024: A typo had this number as 3.9%. It is now correct.
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Notes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/05/08/house-speaker-vote-mike-johnson-motion-to-vacate/
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/09/congress/consequences-on-the-table-00157040
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-flips-martin-luther-king-jr-attacks-growing-myth-1860839
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/media/rupert-murdoch-mike-johnson-marjorie-taylor-greene/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afe
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/08/freedomworks-is-closing-and-blaming-trump-00156784
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4650934-paul-ryan-donald-trump-2024-election-voting/
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gopers-desperate-to-pin-blame-for-potential-trump-2024-loss-on-non-citizen-voters-wherever-they-are
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/rupert-murdoch-charlie-kirk-and-future-right-wing-media-extremism
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/09/trump-gop-weapons-israel-biden-rafah/73625195007/
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/background-trumps-voter-fraud-commission
https://apnews.com/article/f5f6a73b2af546ee97816bb35e82c18d
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-commission.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/oil-industry-orders-trump-day-one-00156705
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/geoff-duncan-endorses-biden-trump-2024
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-georgia-lt-gov-geoff-duncan-on-backing-biden-trump-is-a-fake-republican
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-9-2024

https://www.thedailybeast.com/squad-rep-jamaal-bowmans-youtube-page-is-a-bonkers-conspiracy-filled-trip
Squad Rep’s YouTube Page Is a Conspiracy Theorist’s Dream RUBE TUBE
Jamaal Bowman has insisted his days of engaging with fringe content are behind him. His active YouTube account shows otherwise.
William Bredderman Senior Researcher Published May 08, 2024 4:31AM EDT
Old (internet) habits die hard.
When The Daily Beast revealed in January that Rep. Jamaal Bowman had promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories on his blog while working as a public school principal, the New York Democrat maintained it was just a bygone phase, and that his days of marinating in the nether-swamps of online paranoia were long over. But his personal YouTube account, where he continued to follow new channels and create playlists as recently as last month, indicates his taste for fringe content has endured into his tenure on Capitol Hill.
Bowman’s page, which uses his longtime screen name “Inner Peace” and features his image and videos from the middle school he once led, subscribes to dozens of bewildering and bizarre accounts—including known Russian and Chinese disinfo peddlers, flat earthers, musings about UFOs and “signs you’re being prepared to cross to the new earth,” a U.S.-born Muslim influencer who killed a German citizen and provoked attacks on American businesses in Egypt, and many arcane online realms in between.
“This CIA Document Literally Explains Time Travel (practical steps included)," crows the title of one post on an account the congressman follows called Video Advice, which also frequently shares conspiracy content about the Illuminati and the Catholic Church. Another recording on the same page blares: “Kanye Exposes the Truth: ‘The Secret Codes They Don't Want You to Know.’”
“‘We use the RIGHT FREQUENCIES’ (hidden numerology used by the elite),” is the name of a video on another account called Be Inspired, which Bowman also follows.
“‘100% Alien Technology’ - Something Big Being Hidden From Us,” alleges a video on a page called Anonymous Official, another Bowman subscription, which frequently also pushes content by serial sex offender and Vladimir Putin-booster Scott Ritter, such as “What’s Coming is WORSE Than a WW3, Iran is Ready.”
These follows might seem unusual for a member of Congress—but less so for a man who published poetry The Daily Beast uncovered that promoted debunked conspiracies about the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Bowman’s verse, first published on his blog Relentless-Strongback.blogspot.com in 2011 when he was 35, also urged readers to watch the pseudo-documentaries ‘Loose Change’ and ‘Zeitgeist,’ both of which earned the endorsement of arch-paranoia-pusher Alex Jones. Bowman’s poem also included an explicit shout-out to William Cooper, an Arizona broadcaster whose anti-government rants made him a pivotal figure in the American militia movement.
Although the congressman has since disowned his old heroes as “cranks,” his YouTube subscriptions reflect a similar blending of right and left. Anonymous Official, for instance, uses the name and symbols of the anarchist hacker collective—but shares clips of conservative populist figures such as Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan. Bowman also follows Stephen Gardner, a pro-Trump YouTube influencer who also promotes the idea that the federal government is hiding evidence of aliens, while critiquing U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine and the Middle East.
In fact, Ritter, Rogan, and Carlson recur across multiple channels Bowman subscribes to, as does former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, as well as claims about alleged government plots to conceal extraterrestrials, an imminent third world war emerging from American support of Ukraine and Israel, and content about inventor Nikola Tesla and his supposed knowledge of mysterious vibrations that pervade the universe and various parallel dimensions. Bowman also follows mainstream and apolitical accounts, such as National Geographic and ESPN, and musical artists like Busta Rhymes and Eminem.
Bowman’s campaign did not deny the Inner Peace account belonged to him, but supplied a statement from the lawmaker disclaiming even the faintest familiarity with the extreme and outlandish content he subscribed to. Bowman also downplayed the importance of his social media exposures in the face of what he characterized as domestic and international crises.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, I don’t know these accounts, and I haven’t watched any of these videos. There is a war going on that has killed tens of thousands of innocents and people here can’t afford rent and groceries, I think people care more about that than some convoluted story about videos that I haven’t even watched.”
Further, Bowman has publicly identified himself in the past as a frequent YouTube user. At a panel discussion held at an Islamic center in the city of Yonkers in January, the Democrat described himself as “starstruck” to introduce the incendiary academic Norman Finkelstein, whom he said he knew from online videos.
“I watch them all the time on YouTube,” said Bowman, who subsequently had to denounce Finkelstein’s praise of Hamas’ bloody raid into Israeli territory on Oct. 7.
Sure enough, several of the pages Inner Peace follows—including DiEM25, Real News Network, Free Will, PoliticsJOE, TRT World—feature interviews with Finkelstein.
Moreover, a number of the accounts Bowman has subscribed to are of recent vintage: more recent, even, than his own ascent to power in 2020. For instance, one called Afripost—where recent video titles announce “Vatican Angry as PUTIN Declares Russia will Only Worship THE BLACK JESUS” and “African Historian Reveals hidden Secret: God did NOT CREATE WHITE: The Bible is all about BLACKS” (capitalization original)—was created in April of last year, just a few months after Bowman started his second term.
Afripost also frequently shares speeches by controversial Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan, known for his antisemitic rhetoric. The most recent such video asserts, falsely, “BLACKS ARE THE TRUE J£WS [sic].”
Bowman also subscribes to an account called Thinkers Forum, created in late 2021, toward the end of his first year representing parts of the Bronx and Westchester County in the House. Thinkers Forum is a project of The China Academy, which bills itself as “one of China’s most influential current affairs and intellectual content outlet [sic],” and boasts ties to an array of Chinese state-backed institutions. Recent videos posted to the Thinkers Forum channel include “Why the West ‘takes pleasure’ in seeing the genocide in Palestine?” “Why NATO is collapsing like the Soviet Union, by the same mistake,” and “How the US Keeps Fighting China, Knowing It Won’t Win?”
Thinkers Forum also recently posted a translation of a Chinese state university professor’s evidence-free speculation that the terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall was the work of Ukraine and Western intelligence services—even though a faction of the Islamic State took responsibility for the assault.
A few months earlier, in July 2021—six months into Bowman’s stint on the Hill—another channel was born called Middle Nation, which the congressman at some indeterminate point followed. Middle Nation belongs to Shahid Bolsen, a Colorado-born Muslim convert who used his prior social media accounts to urge Islamist militants to attack so-called “corporate crusaders” that had set up shop in Egypt. Bolsen, previously imprisoned on a manslaughter conviction in the United Arab Emirates for killing a German engineer, uses his new channel to rail against “The Loud, Hollow American Empire,” “The Prison of American Hegemony,” Western “materialism,” the U.S.’s supposedly “fake ceasefire” proposals to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
One of the loopiest pages Bowman follows also came into being that same year: Wired Mind, which exclusively promotes the ideas of late New Age icon Dolores Cannon, known for her advocacy of conspiracies about aliens, reincarnation, and the lost island of Atlantis. Wired Mind urges its viewers to prepare for an impending “shift” to a higher reality, and offers advice on such dilemmas as "Are You an Alien Among Us? Signs You Might Not Be from This World” and “Think You're Going Crazy? Surprise! You're Actually Awakening Your Spirit!"
Finally, Bowman also follows BreakThrough News, which established its YouTube presence in early 2020, while the Democrat was on the campaign warpath against then-incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel. As The Daily Beast reported last spring, BreakThrough News draws its staff from Russian state-owned media and cash from Neville “Roy” Singham, a U.S. tech mogul ensconced in Shanghai—and pushes the favorite propaganda narratives of Moscow and Beijing.

I have seen so little chatter about this brand-new release, and I can't believe it because it is absolutely amazing! I had never read Sarah Adler before (this is her second book, her first was Mrs. Nash's Ashes) but was so intrigued by this book because of the wacky, fun, out-of-the-box concept.
Gretchen is a fake spirit medium, taking peoples' money and pretending to talk to ghosts. When a wealthy, older client pays her an exorbitant amount of money to exorcise her dear friend's farm of its ghost so he can sell, she thinks the job will be easy. But when she turns out, not only is Charlie a hot young farmer, but the ghost is real and tells Gretchen that if Charlie sells the property, he'll die a horrible death. Now she has to convince Charlie to stay on the farm and try not to fall in love.
Sarah Adler's writing is so funny and sweet and kept me turning the pages way later than it should have. The characters feel so real (including Everett, the ghost). I really didn't know until the end what was gonna happen to those crazy kids. I hope this post convinces you to give it a try!!

This list is designed to be copied and pasted so please spread it to any undecided voters (unless you think any of these points are wrong, in which case say so). -He openly said he will be a dictator on day one if elected again. Sure, technically he is saying “only” on day one but openly saying you WILL be a dictator if elected should be disqualifying. https://youtu.be/Vz8ANyXDCAA?si=HTzaVDFidCCV7uKO
-Kash Patel was a U.S. National Security Council official, senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense during the Trump presidency. And he said openly that “We will go out and find the conspirators — not just in government, but in the media ... we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections ... We're going to come after you. Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice, and Steve, this is why they hate us. This is why we're tyrannical. This is why we're dictators ... Because we're actually going to use the Constitution to prosecute them for crimes they said we have always been guilty of but never have.” https://thehill.com/homenews/4344065-bannon-patel-trump-revenge-on-media/ Donald Trump will most likely consider hiring him again https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/trump-loyalty-cabinet-2025-carlson-miller-bannon
-Michael Flynn said that the US should do what Myanmar did and have a military dictatorship https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ex-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-says-myanmar-like-coup-should-happen-in-u-s-11622426143 Now, he did say he didn’t mean it a few days later (after the backlash) but he was literally convicted of lying to the FBI a few years before so his word is meaningless https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/muellers-office-announces-flynn-will-plead-guilty-274349 Trump also openly stated that he would rehire Flynn if elected again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3CAasx8Uqo&ab_channel=MSNBC
-Trump openly said that the constitution should be “terminated” to install him as president https://apnews.com/article/social-media-donald-trump-8e6e2f0a092135428c82c0cfa6598444
-Trump said multiple times that he would like to be a three-term president (or even more) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzvfVB4GqC8&ab_channel=Reuters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG7jAiHbPjU&ab_channel=WashingtonPost
-Trump tried many different strategies to stay in power in 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20240305202456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/election-overturn-plans/) They essentially only failed because the right people were in positions of power to stop him and he didn’t have enough of a coordinated plan to pull off quickly enough to stay in power. Now that this is his last term according to the constitution, he has nothing to lose by trying to stay in power. And because of Project 2025, they now have an incredibly detailed plan (more on that later).
-Mark Milley was the top US defense official when Trump was president and according to a book, he was highly concerned that Trump was attempting a coup https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/15/mark-milley-feared-coup-after-trump-lost-to-biden-book.html When he was asked about this later, he refused to comment on it https://www.cbsnews.com/news/general-mark-milley-trump-coup-report-refusal/
But how would he actually accomplish this? Here’s how: -The Supreme Court can’t stop him. The state of Texas openly defied the US Supreme Court recently and… nothing happened, Texas just did it anyway https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/greg-abbott-texas-border-stunt-supreme-court/677267/
-Trump attempted to have people elected in 2022 who said and did the following things: * Doug Mastriono ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 2022 and attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-republican-governor-trump * Kari Lake ran for governor of Arizona in 2022 and said that she wouldn’t have certified Joe Biden’s victory in her state if she was in power in 2020 https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-governor-candidate-kari-lake-not-certified-2020-election-results-2021-10 * Jim Marchant ran for Secretary of State of Nevada in 2022 and said he would send fake electors to the Electoral College (who are the ones who actually elect the president) to vote for Trump, even though Biden won the state https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-governor-candidate-kari-lake-not-certified-2020-election-results-2021-10 * Mark Finchem ran for Secretary of State of Arizona in 2022 and said that Trump won and went to the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, to intimidate Congress to vote to keep Trump in office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Jx54KX3wA&ab_channel=TheLincolnProject Here’s proof that Finchem was a member of the Oath Keepers (as the video doesn’t show it) https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/rep-mark-finchem-oathkeepers-charlottesville-deep-state-conspiracy-11249452 And here’s an overview of the group’s leaders who are now convicted criminals https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/us/politics/oath-keepers-convicted-sedition.html
Thankfully, all of these people (and many others) lost their elections in 2022, but all of their seats are up for re-election in 2026. This means they’ll be there to help Trump stay in power past 2029 (if they run again and win).
-Project 2025 is a project set up by the conservative Heritage Foundation which doesn’t even try to hide the fact that they recommended judges for Republican presidents to appoint to various courts. They now have a list of thousands of people who want to implement their ideology by any means necessary. Wikipedia writes “The plan would perform a swift restructuring of the executive branch under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory — a theory proposing the president of the United States has absolute power over the executive branch — upon inauguration.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 They expect this list to be as high as 20,000 by the end of the year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Personnel So, if Trump wants to stay in power (primarily in the military) all he has to do is fire anyone who gets in his way and replace them with someone on this list. Can he do that? If it’s coordinated enough, then probably. Picture Trump wanting to stay in office past the end of his second term but his people in the military will forcibly remove him. Well, the president, can fire the Secretary of Defense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States look at the third paragraph down) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2016/09/15/can-presidents-fire-senior-military-officers-generally-yesbut-its-complicated/) (who are the top military officials in the US government). From there, they could fire people lower down the totem pole and replace them with people on the Project 2025 list. After that, our legitimate last hope of preserving democracy would be thousands of people in the military revolting, likely leading to a brutal civil war inside the military. And they have four years to slowly fire people inside the military for seemingly “normal” reasons before they actually have to try and stay in power by force. I certainly don’t want it to come to that, do you?

If you've ever notice someone say something logical and it has a massive amounts of downvotes, it's because there are actors on this sub that create massive amounts of accounts in order to sway public perception.
For example
https://www.reddit.com/BreakingPoints/s/i2w2jJoTPU
Not only did he tell me he's made at least 3 accounts only to talk to me, I'm guessing there's much much more. He's not the first one I've found doing this. I report to mods and they literally just don't respond
Most likely the mods are involved as they say absolutely insane shit whenever they try and converse with people
In addition to that, they have removed my ability to upvote or downvote. Coincidence?
This leaves me to only 1 logical explanation. It's related to corrupt government actors. If you listen to the Tucker Carlson interview with Joe Rogan he describes how corrupt our government is with the Richard Nixon case. This is at the end of the episode.
Similarly Joe Rogan had a guy on a few days later that gave solid evidence the moon landing was fake. Again, government agents implementing it. Possibly just to extort massive amounts of money to fund their corruption
We live in a world of evil. Weak people doing bad things all the time because they are easily controlled. This sub has awaken me to this fact. I pray for the strength to overcome these evil entities. Hopefully others will as well.

So not everyone is going to agree on who is, or is not fake. There are grifters out there and it has been discussed so far. I just want to pool our collective opinions/knowledge about who is, or is not either lying, or just misguided about this subject. It would be difficult to say someone is truly misguided without knowing concrete facts about this phenomenon, so it's more likely that we will be discussing suspected/proven grifters here.
I do not want to discourage anyone from looking into NHI, I just want to see if certain people I have, in the past, believed are also considered grifters. If I was wrong then maybe I will look into them again! My list isn't long because for years I followed very specific people. If you know of others I have not listed then please list them here!
I want our collective knowledge to contain as many true, or possibly true, things as possible. Obviously where this subject is concerned, we can't be certain that anything is true, unless we have had personal experience that validates someone else. But here I go with the people I no longer trust.. and please don't kick me..
David Wilcock
Corey Goode
Steven Greer
Billy Meier
Stewart Swerdlow
Now one person I am not certain about, but at least partially trust is Alex Collier. I am aware of the controversy about his past, but for a very long time he just talked about his claimed experiences, and did not profit from it. In recent years he has started doing webinars and there is a small fee. I haven't purchased any of them, however I do understand that he may find it very difficult to live in his older years, and perhaps did not know of any other way to pay his bills. I mean people generally do this regardless of the subject. In his case I am willing to give some leeway. But I do take what he says with a grain of salt due to what I have read, however he just does not seem at all like a grifter. Could be wrong of course, but I suppose only he truly knows.
I am even more on the fence about the people behind recent disclosure, like David Grusch, Elizondo, etc. I just do not know and only time will tell. I am sure that there are many other names that I've missed, either because I can't think of them, or have not heard of them! I just want to figure out who can, at the very least, be listened to without them being a proven grifter. I feel like this discussion will help a lot of people!
Edit: And for those who might be wondering, my reason for being on the fence about recent disclosure is that the government is involved, and they are the ones who have been covering this up for so long. There are also people like Tucker Carlson jumping on the band wagon now. My BS meter is just twitching. I've only been following this subject since like 2009 so less time than others. I just have weird "spidey sense" right now... >.>

mostly week old drama. You know the rules 😉 some of the real good comments got deleted 😔

Background
"Kill Tony, a live podcast taped in Austin, Texas and all over the world. Featuring Tony Hinchcliffe & Brian Redban and the band with huge celebrity guests." - Youtube channel description
The comedy show has been going on for over 10 years now, and takes place in the Comedy Mothership, a club owned by world's most famous podcast host and terrible comedian Joe Rogan. The show prides itself in being able to make comedy out of everything - no topic is off the table, no language will be policed!
The format is simple: Tony, Redban, and a couple of guests (usually celebrities or comedian friends of the hosts) sit at a table. Tony pulls papers from a bucket where aspiring comedians put in their names and calls them up. The performer has 1 minute to deliver a piece of standup, after which the table interviews / praises / roasts them. There are also several "regulars", comedians that appear every week to deliver their freshest minute of standup.

The characters
Killtony - the main subreddit for the podcast. Discussion takes place throughout the week about episodes of the past, present and future. Most posts are people complaining about episodes / guests / performers. Commenters usually try to replicate the quippy oneliners and comedian mannerisms that occur in the show, referencing hot topics such as Tony being a closeted homosexual or who really won the Mexican drum-off. It is possible the sub has been referenced on the show (though they were referred to as just "reddit" so it can't be fully confirmed) for complaining over things such as regular Kam Patterson repeating jokes, or the decision of regular Hans Kim winning the NYE battle vs golden ticket winner from Europe Ric Diez.
Tony Hinchcliffe - the head honcho of the show. He roasted Snoop Dogg once and got into some internet hot water for saying a certain anti-Asian slur (this is especially funny given how freely other slurs are thrown around).
Tucker Carlson - human garbage right wing political commentator who got canned by Fox and does his own thing on TwXtter now or something.

Pre-release drama
Episode 658 was set to drop on 04/08/24, featuring guests Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan. After a sneak peak gets posted on social media, drama on Killtony begins to take place before the official release: Pre-release thread 1

Tucker Carlson is on record as anti immigration, which is code speak for racism which is text book tribalism. Hes also vocal about downplaying the existence of systemic racism, which is a thing, and also sows tribalism. He also has polarizing views of PC culture and cancel culture. Read in between the lines my friend. If people like tucker Carlson were in charge, that would embolden racism and tribalism, by allowing the use of all language such as real hatespeech. Hate speech is a thing. As a white guy myself I feel its important to recognize that Mexicans and blacks are indeed valuable members of society save a few bad apples. If it were up to him we'd be using racial slurs at them, locking them up, deporting them all. Those are just two examples. Dude was on TV saying the most inflammatory shit for a decade. He's not for the people. There has to be a more nuanced approach.....

Cry moar

Gotta stand up for the Mexicans and blacks. Tucker sucks.

Oh the racismzs… GFYM

Ok snowflake ❄

I think you have it backwards melty

Can’t wait for Joe’s annoying laugh and overall useless, unfunny presence.

Joes fucking great and hilarious. Happy he’s gonna be on the show

Dude sucks on KT every time. In the running for worst multi appearance guest

According to who? Some lefty?

Just some guy with eyes and ears. Not everything is political you dork

Liberals punching the air right now.

Nah liberal and can’t wait to watch here

nah they can’t wait to bitch and complain, that’s all they’re good for

I literally just gave you the example of a lib that enjoys it all. Go ahead and ignore it though lol

enjoy the show

The weirdo liberals already losing it

Fr 💀

Do the libtards know that Tony doesn’t really side with them on most parts? I mean we’ve heard him crack little snarky remarks regarding Covid, trans, etc right?

Who the fuck cares? Actually, though? He's a comedian. Separate the human from the celebrity. Laugh or don't. He'd clown on any nerd white knighting for him here in an instant.

I’m not really a liberal but Tuck is such a pussy pos. Haha.

Nope. If you say that you're obviously a purple haired gay soyboy cuck liberal who is literally crying because you saw a screen cap of Tucker Carlson and you're triggered by a real male American. /s

You sound Trans

You read like you have ears for eyes.

DUDE COMEDY IS ONLY POLITICAL IF YOU'RE LIBERAL LMAO

That's objectively not true lol

It is true actually

How? Plenty of right wing comedians out there.

Because getting butthurt by politics in comedy is just gay. Jokes are jokes if they hurt your feelings you came to the wrong universe

[Continued]

Okay...that's not what was being talked about.

Tucker Carlson being accepted as a "cool guy" after profiting from the harmful spread of disinformation because "it's cool to own the libs" is fucked up

lol cry moar Tucker is the Goat! You can’t use cool and libs in same sentence plus no one say that. It’s just gay.

Liberal tears 😍

A new spicy thread appears, a defence of Tucker - from a Biden voter no less! Full thread (now deleted). "Some of you are addicted to politics"

Welcome to Reddit. And also tbh the fact that KT invites anybody they want and not giving a fuck about what internet or this dogsht redditors say makes me love the show even more.

Tony is doing it because he KNOWS it will get people up and talking about it. The fact that you think he doesn't think or care about the talk he'll get for it is hilarious. It's a good business move for press. Tucker Carlson is a permanent squint faced traitor to the country, though. Should be a good episode. Also, don't call yourself dogshit.

“Traitor”
Ok gaywad

This sub is 100% complaining about comedians and guests, but suddenly calling tucker a bitch is off limits I guess.

Right wing snowflakes are offended people think Tucker sucks.

Meanwhile left wing snowflakes are offended by… everything else.
Edit: and without an ounce of self awareness, they proved me right.

Coming from an outside perspective, all of you are outrageous snowflakes. It's actual fucking comedy at this point. It's the spiderman meme. "No you're offended by everything!", "No I'm not, you are!!" Jesus christ it's embarrassing.

I really don’t care.

You certainly seem to, even editing your comments 😂 snowflake

I think the rub for many people is the normalization of a kind of abhorrent human being.

Exactly. It's a spectacle for views to them, but Cucker Tarlson has irreparably harmed this country and continues to do so. Kill Tony has a show to put on, sure, but parading this abhorrent POS for views is pretty sad.
All these MAGAt cucks in here saying "herrr derrr freedumm to do whatever they wanttttt wahhh" yeah dumb fucks, and I have the freedom to call out their bullshit and criticize the fuck out of their poor decisions.

So don't watch? Like it's really not hard.

You’re posting an immature, dumb view on a public forum, and you don’t expect responses? 😭

Woosh

[Continued]

No, I think we get it. Preaching about the “harm” someone has done to the country on a comedy forum? Especially when that harm is what? Saying shit you don’t agree with?
Interesting cross to bear.

Yeah I would say spouting off Russian propaganda to your brainwashed supporters falls under the "harmful to our country" category

Now hold that same standard to every talking head on MSM.
Make sense? Like I said, I don’t like Tucker. I think he comes off as fake and I wouldn’t be friends with him.
But all these people pretending like he is the problem with society meanwhile they’ll bow at the alter to some other shithead whose only difference is being on the other side of the aisle.
To each their own I guess.

You’re dumber than a box of Kams rocks.

I don’t like Tuckers politics but he’s interesting on podcasts for sure. His podcast with Theo as a guest was pretty funny. People paint him at being WAY worse than he is. In fact, he’s a pretty normal guy lol.

Hitler loved art and the opera. I don't like his politics but he was a pretty normal guy too. I wish KT could have had him on

🙄

Bro what

My guy…Hitler was a murderer of millions of people. Tucker is a ex-Frat boy type guy who couldn’t hurt a fly. You need to go to time out and think about what you just said.

Ok yeah theres a huge difference but saying “who couldnt hurt a fly” is some parasocial weirdo shit considering you don’t know Tucker, you just take in whatever media persona he’s presenting you.

I’ll take the he’s a pussy viewpoint over the he’s Hitler view all day. Is he capable of hurting someone? Everyone is I guess of you out it that way but he hasn’t done anything to indicate that he would. It’s a silly thought to have about a reportemedia personality because you don’t like the things they say or believe in. Compared to fucking Hitler…he is harmless

I mean, he openly preached white replacement theory nightly on network television. I would say that’s a pretty big indicator he’d hurt someone for personal gain lol he’s on an obvious “oh he’s a guy I’d actually have a beer with” PR run to appeal to a younger demo (theo podcast, etc). I’m not saying don’t watch and enjoy the episode for what it is, but saying someone who has backed some radical/dangerous beliefs wouldn’t hurt a fly is pretty ignorant and plays into a known grifter.

Another registered democrat makes a thread, calls people "overly-sensitive pussies" Full thread

Post-release drama
The episode releases and... not much happens. Posts are made saying the episode was ok, that Tucker was a normal guest, as well as reminders that guests could always be worse.
A thread does get posted about the guitarist of the band making gestures towards Tucker. This reignites the lib vs con kerfuffle in the comments, music edition!

"I would rather listen to gojira and suck a dick than listen to you at all."

Good flair material!
Seems like everyone vented their feelings before the episode, watched it, and moved on... except a week later a thread gets posted posted about the guitarist of the band making gestures towards Tucker
Looots of comments to pick from in this one. I'll highlight one battle:

Why do you have a five year old account and only comment on Tucker Carlson

this is an old porn account. hence the name. its used specifically to jack off and to make fun of you dorks you got that link to where tucker "called for Trump to take back power at the insurrection"? id like to see that in full context, why dont you be so kind as to show me that

How sad.

Is that was you’re going with?

Using the internet to watch porn and pick fights with randoms about things you don't know about isn't sad?

[Continued]

It’s Sunday. Don’t get all mad. You still haven’t provided any of those clips of Tucker doing and saying the stuff you said he did.

Look at you. Who is getting mad? You're the one with dozens of comments defending a full grown man like your mouth is his cock holster. Evaluate your situation.

and you take that as me being mad?
what about the posts ive made come across as mad?
most of them are bad jokes about how fuckin retarded you guys are. the others are asking people like you to back up the dumb fuck things you say lol.

All. On. Tucker. Carlson. Posts. It's definitely a normal and rational behavior. I wish you luck in it.