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So, Which Cartels Are Terrorists?
In a video piece I look at the nine cartels and gangs that, according to leaked info, will be designated by the Trump White House as foreign terrorist organizations.
Biggest surprise? Carteles Unidos...
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In 1991 there were almost 2K murders in Italy and mafiosi collected "pizzo" and would unleash terror. In 2021 it was 303 murders and extortion plummeted. What changed and can Mexico learn from it?
CrashOut went to the mafia heartlands and talked to mafia killers and anti-mafia activists to find out.
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At factcheck.org, our mission is to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. Our journalists monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players and write articles aimed at increasing public knowledge and understanding.
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It is disappointing to see that, despite my in-depth reporting & Substack leadership’s awareness, the neo-Nazi active club newsletter still has not been taken down.
I am not usually one to advocate for censorship (rarely think it works) but active clubs include members from Atomwaffen Division, the terrorist network involved in murders, …
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Only of one thing do I feel reasonably confident right now: Anybody who tells you that you can just revert back to the most pleasing explanation for the mess we are in—anyone who is certain that the things they have always thought have somehow been proven correct by events they totally failed to anticipate—is lying to you, and probably themselves.
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Here’s how deep the misinformation goes. Rachel Maddow said on MSNBC this week that “Stonewall was a riot by trans people.” No gays or lesbians were involved. For which her only evidence are two cross-dressing gay men who were not there by their own admission.
But then she kept telling us that Trump was a KGB agent for years. Probably still is.
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I can’t help but feel that Bluesky has been terrible for the Left. With a large number of liberals leaving X (and not necessarily as visible on Substack), they’ve simply conceded a good chunk of their cultural influence. They simply don’t have much ability to mobilize opinion. It’s almost as if they’ve disappeared. It’s remarkable to see how quickly one group’s cultural dominance can simply collapse.
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remember how proud you were to show off that Trump does not have dementia by posting an interview where he (within the first two minutes) thinks that the current year is 2011? I would love to know if you were able to find any meme talking points off Twitter or wherever to sanewash this; I love the acrobatics you guys come up with!I spent literally 20 seconds looking up the clip and he said:
“Last week, I did one of her last shows. I think, maybe Thursday or Friday. That was a big deal, being on Oprah’s show, the last one. And I was like, one of the last shows. In the last - that final week...”
Clearly he didn’t mean the show was “last week” as in it just happened…
It’s called an Ellipsis and is a well known occurrence in spoken English.
Looking up the show he was referencing: 7th of February 2011, which was a Monday. I guess he didn’t correctly remember the day of the week from his interview a decade before.
No one “lacks” the ability to articulate definite articles when they ask “Heading out to lunch?” or “Want some coffee?” Ellipsis’ are probably used by everyone who speaks English dozens of times a day without even realizing it. To point to the use of…
It makes sense to mention the weekday when you’re referring an event that happened last week. It doesn’t make sense when you’re referencing an event that happened 13 years ago, unless the weekday is somehow germane to the story (e.g. “It was a Friday night, just finished a long week at work…”). This is a very clever and valiant effort on your end but I’m chalking this up as dementia, particularly given the avalanche of other signs he’s exhibiting.
Why is it abnormal to remember the day of the week of something that happened? Particularly if this was the “last week” of the show (it wasn’t but it was near the end and he’s been quoted as saying he was on the last week of Oprah before enough to have a fact check on it: newsweek.com/fact-check…)
He even says a few sentences later “In t…
This is so delightful, you're attacking this with admirable verve and panache! You're claiming that I'm conclusively wrong while filling your arguments with enough caveats to make Swiss cheese envious. It's fun to say that Trump has the uncanny ability to recall weekdays, but he got it wrong this time, and actually he was trying to say "last week of the show" but he also got that one wrong. Pretzels are yummy.
I don't know how to explain to you that it's abnormal to recall specific weekdays for things that happened decades ago except to cite conversations with normal people. If Trump did indeed have a habit of recalling specific weekdays, I would note that as peculiar but I'd withdraw my claim that it's an indication of dementia. We don't have that with Trump, especially since the guy regularly confuses and forgets names (see e.g. Nancy Pelosi = Nikki Haley or "We've endorsed JD Mandel").
Again, thank you for the informative exchange. I learned there's no bottom to the sanewashing.
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