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Dec 27, 2023Liked by Peter Nayland Kust

“...for their part, corporate media is supposed to know better.”

I think we all know who controls corporate media, Pfizer being just one of many corporate sponsors.

They’re nothing more than the propaganda arm of the current administration and parrot the continuous lies that come from the cabal destroying our country.

They can spew all the lies they want about inflation, the majority of Americans know better.

Nothing but continuous lies. Day after day after day.

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Corporate media is indeed compromised, but even the lies are just...insanely stupid.

Any new accounting graduate knows that shifting reporting bases and standards midstream is simply not done. Financial (and, by extension, economic) reporting relies on consistency in order to better assess results accounting period to accounting period.

This reality is simply being ignored by the financial press.

It's one thing to tell a lie. It's something else again to tell a stupid lie. This to me looks like a stupid lie.

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Dec 28, 2023Liked by Peter Nayland Kust

It is a stupid lie, but remember the late, great George Carlin's words:

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that."

In other words, most people will simply accept what is fed to them by so-called experts in the media, and those of us who question the narrative are ignored, or branded purveyors of misinformation.

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Or, as PT Barnum observed, "there's a sucker born every minute."

However, reality has a way of managing to gobsmack even the most intellectually challenged. Lies ultimately cannot be sustained, for the simple reason that they ARE lies.

Every lie relies on deception--and no deception can be maintained indefinitely. Truth never has to rely on deception, and so the truth CAN be maintained indefinitely.

The reason trust in corporate media has been declining for decades is because as each lie is revealed, corporate media's credibility is eroded that much further, and that many more people quit believing the corporate media narratives. That trust, once lost, is not at all easy to regain--it may be impossible to regain.

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I'll say it again, Bidenomics sucks.

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Dec 26, 2023Liked by Peter Nayland Kust

You are so good at exposing the pathways of manipulation of data, Mr. Kust. Is it overly cynical of me to assume that most of this government manipulation is directly or indirectly the result of the current Administration’s attempt to win the next election?

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It's not overly cynical. It does, however, imply a certain competence within the administration. I would submit that extraordinary claim wants for some extraordinary evidence.

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