Send These Consequences of Supporting Musk and Trump To Your MAGA Relative
MAGA, we just want you find healthy, fact-based sources of information.
Below are a bunch links to information that contextualizes what’s going on in America right now. I presented these on the latest episode of The Public Enlightenment Show (streaming Mondays at 9pm ET and Thursdays at 10pm ET on Twitch and YouTube).
America’s enemies in the Information War want to divide us. One way they do that is to flood the zone with shit. Another tactic is a streamlined pipeline of lies that starts with Musk boosting random pieces of disinformation that are eventually funneled onto cable news programs, as Jesse Watters recently explains:
This farm to table approach of inundating us with disinformation must be interrupted.
MAGA, Maybe Things Aren’t Going Down Like You Are Being Told
MAGA friends, neighbors, and relatives, whether or not you want to believe that Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, is one of the world’s biggest disinformers you have to admit the “news” gathering approach outlined by Watters above is unusual. In fact, it seems like a formula for propaganda, not fact-based journalism. Imagine an MSNBC host claiming that their news product was part of an Information War against the right and they produced their programs based on George Soros retweets of social media randos that then were podcasted by Jimmy Dore and eventually became ten minute MSNBC segments.
If this is how your sources of information are operating maybe they aren’t very solid? And maybe, just maybe, they are presenting a version of events that doesn’t accord with reality?
Programmed To Receive
The only reason a president calls journalists the enemy of the people or an oligarch threatens to jail an entire news program at a major network is so that their followers won’t hold them accountable when factual reporting reveals the depth of their corruption and betrayal.
Well, MAGA, here’s some factual information and reality-based context from people who traffic in fact, but who you are told to hate. The people who love you, your friends and family who love this country just like you do, really want you to read and watch it.
Trump’s cuts to federal wildfire crews could have ‘scary’ consequences
Insiders reveal how Elon's firings will lead to countless disasters
Musk Isn't Doing Efficiency, He's Destroying Our Financial System For Personal Gain
Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
Is Elon Musk Poised to Profit From New Layoffs at the FAA?
The FAA’s previous Senate-confirmed administrator Michael Whitaker abruptly left his post just as Donald Trump took office in January, under pressure from Musk, who had publicly demanded his resignation. Musk had clashed with Whitaker after the FAA fined SpaceX for regulatory and safety violations. Musk, who wants to colonize Mars, fumed in an X post last September that the agency was holding him back: “The fundamental problem is that humanity will forever be confined to Earth unless there is radical reform at the FAA!”
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Is Elon Musk the Richest Man on Earth or Most Leveraged?
There’s no logical scenario where Elon Musk, a man with multiple legal woes, billions in debt, a man who had been slapped on the hand multiple times by different US government agencies, woke up one day and thought, “You know what? I don’t care about money any more. I’m going to volunteer my time and energy and make it my life’s mission to help find hidden stolen money for the good people of the United States, where I was neither born nor raised.”
It’s not impossible, but highly improbable to overnight go from routine run-ins with the federal government to a dutiful civil servant with absolutely no agenda.
Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work.
A Third DOGE Staffer’s Racist and Misogynistic Online Footprint Comes to Light
On Wednesday, the Elon Musk-based news site Musk Watch reported that a member of the DOGE team, 19-year-old Edward Coristine, created multiple disturbing web URLs, including kkk-is-cool.club, raping-women.club and child-porn.store. Coristine also created URLs that included the n-word and referenced slavery, and URLs promoting the use of date rape drugs.
Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages
Musk pushes private financial interests in meeting with Indian Prime Minister
A government worker's message for Elon Musk
For The MAGA Readers Who Have Made It This Far
The number one rule of Public Enlightenment is don’t be a dick.
Elon, in verifiable fact, is being a dick. And Trump’s…watching?
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Yo yo, one way we fight back is with community and by spreading healthy, fact-based info. Drop other examples of the dire consequences of cheering for DODGY in the comments, fam.
I have Republican familiy members. None of your “facts” are going to appeal to them. They’re essentially just your perspective, and a lot of them are still hypothetical. It’s why I’m tracking the price of groceries now because in a year, that will resonate with these people more. It distresses me as a leftist, that you’re trying the same tired trope of shouting things that clearly outrage and scare you, as you pat yourself on the back for what you see as a well played fight. But there’s no real data, only headlines. It’s hard for me to explain to my east coast Democrat friends, why people in the south aren’t turning on Trump en masse yet. To you, and to those east coast folks, you feel you’ve got a slam dunk argument and in thinking that, you just preach to your choir more loudly, whilst the church doors remain firmly shut, and the outraged chorus within remains inaudible to anyone outside.