@LiberalLibrarian Meanwhile MAGA twitter is screaming about "rumors" the strike was launched from Estonia, and that "BIDEN HAS STARTED WWIII!"

This is based on 'stuff they heard on twitter.'

@LiberalLibrarian Interesting suggestion. There are Russian dissidents aligned with Ukraine, so who knows.

@JungleJim @LiberalLibrarian He still thinks he can terrify the West into abandoning Ukraine.

By threatening nuclear war a few times a week, every week for a year and a half - and counting.

@LiberalLibrarian Well, no. In that sense Uganda is currently number 1, with a lot of close competition.

But we are WAY worse than a nation like ours should be - and indeed looked like it was going to be just a few years ago, before the Rs decided to cynically reweaponize LGBT issues.

@LiberalLibrarian You'll need to be WAY more specific.

@annamousse @LiberalLibrarian
*Raises hand.*

@LiberalLibrarian They're already sending you somewhere else?

@SentinelOfTruth But RW media will say anything. It's become an article of faith on Fox that the Jan 6 committee "destroyed all its evidence," because TFG picked that up from the fever swamp and therefore they treat it as true. Real media haven't touched that because it's total BS.

@SentinelOfTruth Well, right-wing media, sure.

Mainstream media is usually less credulous about these BS claims... but you never know when they'll suddenly bit on crap.

They started to get attracted to the whole "IRS whistleblowers" thing, e.g., until their testimony fell flat and the "real" news sites mostly lost interest.

@SentinelOfTruth So are all the conspiracy theories.

That often but not always stops the media.

@SentinelOfTruth Needless to say, I don't fully trust the mainstream media not to amplify this or some other stupid conspiracy theory, if they feel the need for a new "EMAILZZZZZ!!!" to balance Trump's criminal morass.

But so far, they haven't bitten.

@SentinelOfTruth I believe they got it from the NYPost, which had a screaming headline an article filled with "possible" "could be" "might" etc. And of course the NYP has a long track record on these conspiracy theories.

So far actual media has ignored the whole thing, so I don't know what the NARA FOIA response actually says. But like I said, no one uses "secret emails" to disguise criminal conspiracy... and includes them in their official papers.

@thedisasterautist Probably true - Hearst rated no one but himself.

Still, they have similar mentalities.

@thedisasterautist Murdoch would make Hearst proud.

@thedisasterautist The media was actually worse then... it was basically all Fox-esque distortion, competing from different agendas. Reliable coverage was even more scarce than now.

@LiberalLibrarian Well, you'd better stock up first for the 10 days of darkness.

@NiveusLepus @LiberalLibrarian

The ultimate irony is that that's exactly how the Simpsons parodied... the Fox satellite.

@thedisasterautist Which appears to have gotten it from that bastion of truth, the New York Post.

(Even the NYP story is desperately couched in "possible" "could be" "claimed" etc., despite a definitive-sounding headline.)

@LiberalLibrarian @holon42 Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEfJ0cKRc-E

@ProjectShadow And they still are. Fox constantly calls Biden the head of a the biggest global crime operation in history, yet applauds the Trumps claiming they're the only family ever to make no money out of politics.