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Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession

Posted on | August 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession

Have you forgotten? In case you don’t remember how traumatized liberals were by Donald Trump winning the 2016 election, you can click here for an ABC News video of Hillary Clinton’s supporters, gathered for a planned victory celebration at the Javits Center in New York, crying on the evening of November 8, 2016. It was a beautiful sight.

Insofar as Democrats were not already crazy — because anyone who votes Democrat cannot be entirely sane — the trauma of the 2016 election drove them completely bonkers and they’ve never recovered. It was on the night of November 8, 2016, apparently, that Team Hillary settled on their excuse for defeat: “RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!”

Hillary Clinton herself accused Russia of “interfering” in the election: “This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.” But who was actually threatening “the integrity of our democracy”? In July 2016, while the campaign was still going, the FBI began spying on the Trump campaign in “Operation Crossfire Hurricane.” The origin, justification and legality of this project, led by the notorious Peter Strzok, have all been extensively scrutinized. The investigation began after (but was not necessarily caused by) the alleged hacking of Democratic National Committee emails. The official justification for the investigation had to do with conversations between Trump policy adviser George Papadopoulos and an obscure academic named Joseph Mifsud, which Mifsud subsequently relayed to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer. This gossip then got mixed in with spurious allegations from the infamous “Steele dossier” to create the myth of “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign which, after Trump’s 2016 victory, became the basis of phantasmagoric delusions on the part of Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself).

All the insanity since November 2016, you must understand, can be traced to two simple facts: Trump won and Hillary lost, and these facts were never accepted by Democrats, least of all Hillary herself. To this day, we’re still dealing with the consequences of the resulting delusion — Trump Derangment Syndrome — and one symptomatic manifestation is the media’s obsession with “misinformation.”

Ed Driscoll on Wednesday called attention to this item:

During a White House press briefing [Monday], the Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson asked if the government has a “role” in tackling “misinformation” and if President Joe Biden planned to “intervene” in Trump’s X Space.

An alleged journalist demanding that the federal government “intervene” to prevent the Republican candidate from speaking publicly? You see how this connects back to the 2016 campaign, because Russian “interference” in the election was alleged to include “misinformation” spread by social media — how else to explain why Hillary Clinton lost? Democrats believed Trump could not have won the election legitimately, and from this certainty arose their vigilance against “misinformation.”

All of this is preamble to the question I found myself asking Saturday: “Why did so many people hate Susan Wojcicki?”

The text message came from a friend: “Vaccine induced turbo cancer?” It included a link to the notice that former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was dead.
What did this message mean? Quick research determined that the cause of Wojcicki’s death at age 56 was lung cancer, which her husband said was first diagnosed in 2022:

Wojcicki – who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley – had been involved with YouTube’s parent company Google from its earliest days, when its two founders worked out of her garage in California to build a search engine. …
Wojcicki had served as YouTube’s CEO for nine years before announcing last year in a blog post that she would be “stepping back” from her leadership role to focus on her family, health and personal projects that she was passionate about, CNN previously reported.
She oversaw YouTube during the web’s pivotal transition toward social media, but also as online platforms came under increasing scrutiny for spreading misinformation, hate speech and other harmful content.
“I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved,” Wojcicki wrote when announcing she was stepping down in 2023. “It’s been exhilarating, meaningful, and all-consuming.”

The ancient Latin adage, De mortuis nil nisi bonum (“Speak no ill of the dead”) is wise advice, but anyone who searched social media for Susan Wojcicki’s name on Saturday morning could discover how widely disregarded this advice was in her case. Many thousands of people were expressing their happiness that Wojcicki was dead, as she had been identified as “Censorship Voldermort” for her suppression of dissenting viewpoints on YouTube, especially in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. . . .

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Category: Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, Russia

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