“After the events of January 6, it became clear many of the key players in extremist groups who organized the attacks were either veterans or active-duty servicemen. Since then, the Pentagon has scrambled to try and address the present-day problem of extremism in the ranks, which stretches back to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War. But a politically divided Congress and a polarized nation, are getting in the way of finding a solution.
“Elon Musk is rare among the mega-rich in that he has multitudes of superfans who love every move he makes. And the Musk aficionados provided the loudest cheers when the Tesla CEO reported he would be purchasing Twitter, and possibly bringing back the principle of free speech to social media. But those cheers were no doubt misguided as Musk is unquestionably a tool of the establishment and not that rare sort of billionaire looking to upend the existing system controlled by Wall Street, military contractors, Big Pharma and other powerful interests.
Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss what changes Musk might bring to Twitter and his history as a beneficiary of the military industrial complex.”
“Frosk’s attempt at staying relevant after the shutdown of G4 TV has backfired massively. She chose to dunk on Henry Cavill on Twitter, calling attention to his legal relationship with a 19 year old when he was 30. Fans wouldn’t have any of it, even her own defenders. Then we talk about a petition to keep Cavill in The Witcher… but it’s likely he left because Netflix is thrashing the source material.”
“Dennis Kucinich, who led Congressional opposition to the Iraq war, reacts to the Congressional Progressive Caucus retracting a letter calling for diplomacy with Russia. “If we don’t believe in diplomacy,” Kucinich asks, “then where do we go as a country?”.
Guest: Dennis Kucinich. Former Congressmember (D-Ohio) and former Mayor of Cleveland.”
We need to get the rot out of U.S. government…when U.S. government is rotten as fuck.
“This isn’t a Biden story. It’s not a Trump story either. This is a national security state story.”
This week Ken Klippenstein and Lee Fang at The Intercept broke a huge story: Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation. Ken joins Useful Idiots to share how he uncovered the bombshell revelation, what it tells us about our powerful security state, and his predictions for the dark future of information censorship.
The story, which reveals collusion between tech companies and the US government, massive CIA incompetence, and Orwellian levels of surveillance, is not a partisan issue, Klippenstein argues. It’s an issue of national security.
And yet looking at the headlines from corporate media following The Intercept’s publishing, there was immediate political spin.
The Washington Post told its readers that only conservatives would “go after DHS counter-disinformation work,” which means good Democrats should celebrate speech censorship. Meanwhile, as Ken writes in his story, Republicans claim we’ve defeated disinformation by taking down Biden’s disinformation governance board, ignoring that the same DHS tactics happened under Trump.
“It’s crammed into this partisan framework,” he explains, “that doesn’t reflect the reality that when someone’s in power they tend not to care about free speech.”
And the scariest part, Ken tells us, “this is not formalized in statute. There’s no law saying ‘we’re going to create the disinformation team.’ They can do this administratively without sign off from Congress. And they probably have beyond what I’m able to report because I’m only able to get details that my sources have access to. We don’t know what else might exist.”
It’s a huge story that, as with most issues you see on Useful Idiots, is dangerously underreported. Subscribe to hear the full interview with Ken Klippenstein as he shares the government secrets we know about and what still remains covered up.
It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.
0:00 Intro and Useful Idiots announcements
1:10 The Absurd Arena (UI discussion board winners: get your comments and questions read on the show each Tuesday!)
4:00 Four food groups of news
16:06 Stoned moments with Joe Biden
19:19 Ken Klippenstein interview”
“Emily explains how Democrats are sabotaging their midterm strategy with intense focus on January 6th and “protecting democracy” instead of economic issues.”
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