There is a famous saying of President Calvin Coolidge: “I have never been hurt by what I have not said.” This was good advice that some people don’t take to wit:
Someone should have told Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapa that. She during the testimony of special council Robert Hur claimed Biden was “exonerated” by him. When Hur tried to correct him she attempted to silence him and repeated the claim causing the chairman to give him the time to specifically state under oath that he did NOT exonerate Joe Biden.
For weeks the MSM have been making that claim and it only took a few seconds for Jayapa to blow it on camera.
That’s a campaign ad right there.
South Carolina representative Rep Adam Morgan made a speech on the floor of his legislature talking about dark money lobbying groups trying to flip his vote on a subject and noted it’s his job to represent the people. Representative J. Todd Rutherford, the Democrat minority leader decided that such as statement required a response.
That was a bad idea:
It’s one thing to ignore the voters of your district to do the will of fat cat lobbyists’, tons of pols do that. It’s another thing to state publicly for the record that said fat cats know better than the people who vote for you.
Right now with the Israel Hamas War in full swing propaganda is a big weapon. Hamas has been rather successful in pushing an interesting narrative of falsehoods both in the UN and on campus at universities around the world.
But the ability to push such narratives depending on not losing your credibility by saying things like, oh I don’t know, cows are being recruiting and trained as spies by the Jewish state, and then publishing such claims.
The really funny thing? There are so many such conspiracy theories concerning the Jews using animals to spy on Palestinians from killer dolphins to rats carrying plague that there is an entire wikipedia page dedicated to them.
Personally I think providing Israel with a talking point saying in response to Hamas propaganda: Excuse me, you’re takings the claims of people who claim cows are spying on them? Seriously? is a bad idea, but apparently that’s just me.
Speaking of Israel there is a big music event taking place in Texas called SXSW that draws artists from all over the world. Apparently quite a few of them got their knickers in a twist because one of the primary sponsors of the event is the US Army.
Now the Army has not been doing all that well lately (you know dropping the whole Duty, Honor Country thing etc) but apparently because the US still officially supports Israel it’s not woke enough for some artists who made a big fuss about boycotting. This drew the following response from Texas’ governor:
Apparently the South by Southwest festival decided that could not stand:
I would think supporting those attacking your biggest sponsor might just be a bad idea, but we’ll see.
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