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They are really heavy in the fourth and fifth rules of propaganda.

These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. They can be found on the internet through searches. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Ideally get them posted in school classrooms. Thank You.

The Five Rules of Propaganda

1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.

2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.

4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.

5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.

https://drp314.substack.com/p/propaganda-thoughts

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Feb 16Liked by Chris Bray

Just a coincidence that Willis photo includes a halo of light behind her.

As a political junkie since I was a teenager, I have noticed this sanctification of The Chosen ones.

The most artificially constructed personality has to be Obama, The Great One, The One we were Waiting for, The Promised One.

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Mockery remains the answer. But we’re raised to be too polite. If we launched a national in their face mockery offensive this would all crumble quickly.

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Feb 16Liked by Chris Bray

Fani is a train wreck of WRONG.

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Feb 16Liked by Chris Bray

My fav, Wendy Davis, a self proclaimed feminist bettered herself off the back of hubs #2 only to move onto bigger, more influential and financial legal fish with hubs #3. Can we say hypocritical golddigger?

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Feb 16Liked by Chris Bray

Such a brilliant legal mind is hers, why bother knowing where Miami or the Bahamas are? Or neglect to mention the pistol packing dude you're banging and who you pay cash to in your traphouses? Brave AND stunning! The *New York Times* says so! I mean, if this were the 1920s, and everyone was insane, she could have *easily* taken out Al Capone! Hear *that* Trump? Sleep with one eye open pal!

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Feb 16Liked by Chris Bray

Pete Buttigieg might fall in this category. Did he ever actually get to East Palestine?

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Feb 16·edited Feb 16Liked by Chris Bray

The Man Behind the Curtain is more apropos than any other description of our society's malgovernance today. A world led by weak, pathetic men and women who are just like the weak, pathetic geezer in the movie classic. It's why they work so hard at keeping the curtain closed. Keeping a safety perimeter around it so no one comes close.

That movie scene gives us a solution, a path to our freedom, how to reveal the weak and pathetic men and women behind our malgovernance. It will take the little nonthreatening pooches who run in unassumingly who pull the curtain back for the Dorothy's, Scarecrow's, Tinmen and Lion's to see. And cute little foxes can help, too!

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Feb 16Liked by Chris Bray

Why am I reminded of when World of Warcraft ruled the online gaming-sphere and every new game was hailed as the "WoW-killer"?

Do urinalists learn to write using "fill in the names"-cheat sheets?

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She's still got a long way to go before she reaches the sophistication of --

"So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that's wrong."

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Feb 16·edited Feb 16

Yeah, it's all smoke and mirrors. Most of these people are as substantial as wet toilet paper, and about as virtuous. Fani should be chasing ambulances and doing DUI cases. She's in way over her head and is a perfect example of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in action.

The Dems use people like Fani and Alvin and Engeron and other middling henchmen when they know the high profile political maneuver has a high likelihood of criticism and failure and they want whoever implodes to be in a special victim class. Because you're not supposed to seem them or their actions in the light of day, which would show you clearly that they are corrupt, confabulating, stupid, ignorant, mean, and essentially unqualified for their position, which they are in the process of abusing. You're supposed to put on your DEI glasses and see them as heroes for fighting Le Grande Orange, who as we all know is a bad bad man. It also gives the head honchos plausible deniability. Except this time Fani and her equally admirable boyfriend visited the WH 3 times right before starting this southern fried cluster up. You think the WH and the schemers at Dirty Politics Inc., don't have dossiers on this dingbat and her associates? You think it's an accident that she's the point person on this circle jerk? That they didn't know who she was banging and what was going on with the money? They know. You think it's an accident that all these anti-Trump lawsuits are run by chumps? Because the head honchos know its bullshit. It's just another ankle biter latching on trying to drag down Gulliver.

Fani is going down in flames. But notice that not a thing happened to anybody from the DOJ who's been caught out for being a corrupt POS. I mean not really. There's Kevin Klinesmith the lawyer who was slapped on the wrist for 10 minutes and then welcomed back into the fold of wicked credentialed douchebags. There's all the three letter agency heads breaking laws left and right, who nobody ever goes after. But plantation Fani is going down. And so will Alvin Bragg, and the black lady prosecutor in Maryland who was found guilty of mortgage fraud. The best evidence of racism in the Democrat party is - WHY AREN'T THE WHITE FOLKS IN TROUBLE? 'Hunter will never see a jail cell. He's a traitor like his daddy. And he'll skate. Brennan, Clapper, Obama, they're presumably untouchable. The insider traitors in DC get carte blanche to fondle the CCP reminbi and screw with the US Constitution apparently. Mark Milley calls the Chinese military chief to warn him about the US President? Wut.... The FDA and the CDC and the rest of the COVID murderers, no problem. Who's looking into the one million dead Americans? Cricket noises.

It's the peripheral people they sacrifice.

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“When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that." - Fani Willis, unwittingly confessing under oath to campaign finance violations.

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CBS News had a piece on their web site regarding her hearing testimony. From their characterizations, you would have thought she was the female reincarnation of Louis Brandeis.

Not a single examination of the serious allegations and supporting evidence that have been levied against her and Mr. Wade. A journalist at a once reputable news organization can't bother to discuss compelling evidence of alleged prosecutorial misconduct in a RICO case against the former president of the United States.

Instead, it's a People Magazine-styled fluff piece to tell us how brave Fani is.

Absolutely nauseating.

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Juvenile delinquents abounding.

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There - I told the story in 3 words succinctly.

BK

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Fani Willis is the most Atlanta person in the world. She is the shameful walking embodiment of everything that is wrong with my state. Sadly, having lived in Metro ATL my whole life, I know that she probably won't even get thrown off her own farcical case--much less prosecuted for public corruption. She will probably be the next Senator from the once-Great State of Georgia. She'll be able to debate the actual weight at which islands capsize with fellow Atlanta luminary, Hank Johnson.

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Feb 16·edited Feb 16

Stacey Abrams is another who falls into the category. And also a black -- excuse me, Black -- woman from Georgia.

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