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applegrove

(130,877 posts) Sat Jan 31, 2026, 12:02 AM 23 hrs ago

First they came for the journalists......

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First they came for the journalists...... (Original Post) applegrove 23 hrs ago OP

This is intentional and we had better pay attention. First journalists, walkingman 22 hrs ago #1

They actually came for the immigrants first BaronChocula 20 hrs ago #2

I hear ya. applegrove 20 hrs ago #3

... BaronChocula 19 hrs ago #4

Exactly!!! niyad 18 hrs ago #5

walkingman

(10,448 posts)

1. This is intentional and we had better pay attention. First journalists,

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Jan 31, 2026, 12:42 AM

22 hrs ago

then lawyers, then universities, then judges, and so on....A good example is the Vietnam War was on public TV every afternoon - the horror, the death, the napalm, and America paid attention. Fast-forward to Iraq where Bush and company did not allow images and footage to be shown and said it was to protect national security.

No, it was to make the American people deaf, dumb, and blind to their evil and it worked - the useless and evil war went on for years.

Unless we have a truthful press then no one knows what our country is doing...it is that simple.

RESIST!