After the massacre in the streets of New Orleans, Americans were desperate for information about what happened. After all, there was also a bombing in Las Vegas, an explosion in Honolulu, and a mass shooting in New York City. Were they all tied together? Were we under a small scale 9-11 style attack? And what about those large scale targets? There are big college football games scheduled, particularly the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans itself \u2013 can it go on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the morning hours of New Year\u2019s Day, Fox News put out a scoop via tweet on X<\/em> (formerly known as Twitter). They identified the truck used in the massacre. It was one that crossed from Mexico two days before at Eagle Pass. And the terrorist driving it was an illegal migrant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That tweet was quickly echoed by a Trump statement on his own Truth Social<\/em>. \u201cWhen I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in the country… it turned out to be true.\u201d<\/em> We know where that was headed. The attack was another result of Biden\u2019s terrible, awful,”open-border” policy. As Trump would say, \u201cI alone can fix it\u201d<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In less than an hour, Fox deleted the tweet. The FBI identified the driver\/shooter as Shamsud-Dim Jabbar. He was a born American citizen of the great state of Texas. And he served honorably in the US Army and Army reserves in Afghanistan. The truck didn’t come over the border, it was rented through a \u201crent my car\u201d app called Turo a couple of months before in Texas. Trump, of course, didn\u2019t issue any correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon after, there was a \u201cgrand\u201d press conference in New Orleans. Everyone was there: the Mayor, the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, the Louisiana Head of Homeland Security, the Police Chief, the Governor of Louisiana, Senator John Kennedy, the Sugar Bowl Football Game organizers, and many, many more law enforcement officials. Each official took a turn at the microphone, delineating what their task was in the investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Kennedy (R) actually looked like he was a New Year\u2019s Eve reveler himself. He was dressed in blue jeans and a \u201ccowboy-style\u201d shirt, and held a Red Solo cup in his hand. He spoke about the horror of the attack, oddly saying it should trigger the \u201cgag reflex\u201d of every American (I guess fitting after a night of New Year\u2019s celebration). But then he went off on a rant. He spoke about how he would make sure that the public would know the \u201ctruth\u201d about what happened. And, after a few more words, it was clear that he was telling America that he would do all he could to reveal any coverup of the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Except for one thing: no one was covering up any facts. John Kennedy wasn\u2019t promising to get to the bottom of how dim-Jabbar was radicalized. And he wasn\u2019t going to trace the attack back to Isis. No, Kennedy was promising that the US Government wasn\u2019t going to lie to the American people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The fix was in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Americans get their information through \u201csilos\u201d slanted to their own political predilections. Many are conditioned to ignore the \u201cmainstream media\u201d. That’s because, as one conservative Reddit commentator put it, \u201cthey use too many facts\u201d. A large segment of Americans get their \u201cfacts\u201d in a silo of chosen Twitter, Truth Social and online sources. So , don\u2019t be surprised, in a few months, when the story of New Year\u2019s in New Orleans gets rewritten. The \u201csource\u201d is already there, the now-deleted Fox News tweet, backed by the future President himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Kennedy may have looked hung-over, but he was actually being very politically shrewd at that press conference on New Year\u2019s Day. He established himself as the \u201cdefender\u201d of the \u201creal truth\u201d , no matter what the FBI or Homeland Security or NOLA Police or anyone else has to say about the matter. He\u2019ll be able to cite now deleted sources to \u201cprove\u201d that the somehow the government (the \u201cdeep state\u201d intelligence agencies in particular) covered up something even more awful than the reality we see now: an American soldier radicalized, willing to murder dozens of innocents for ISIS (the death count stands at fifteen today). <\/p>\n\n\n\n And they\u2019ll be thirty to forty percent of the nation who will believe the Senator, because that\u2019s what America does right now. It will further Kennedy\u2019s career, and stoke the fire of the Project 2025 guys in the Trump Administration who want to replace everyone in the Federal Government with those that only drink their brand of Kool-Aid. The real truth won\u2019t matter, only the truth that furthers their interests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Fix is In.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Solo Cup<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Information Silos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n