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The Bob Cesca Podcast: No More G*ddamn Coney

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Mattand10/27/2020 9:42:40 pm PDT

re: #187 NetworkKed

So I was doing some work in the basement of a local police agency a few years back. Had to walk through the back of a meeting/training room to get to the gear. And one afternoon they had this guy come in and do a slide show about “current threats”. And it was the worst sort of Bircher Red-scare bullshit, basically just intel-agencied-up rehashes of what the Fox crowd thought the immigrants and lefties got up to in their spare time.

I’ve heard things since then about private companies that do these briefings - it’s another marketplace that’s gotten dominated by right-wing liars. And of course there are the private Facebook groups for police which are just as awful as you’ve heard. So when local LEO talk about this shit, I know full well that it could be something they legit heard at work, and and genuinely bullshit at the same time.

I’m in an online group with this woman and another guy. They are genuinely nice people, but I know them well enough now that I can guess their political perspective: anti-Trump conservatives with a baaaaaaad case of False Balance Poisoning.

The guy in question was pissed off about MI guv Whittmer’s COVID response way back at the beginning of the pandemic. Again, another situation where I’m at an utter disadvantage in the conversation because I have zero education on the subject.

So after the Zoom call, I look up Michigan’s COVID response. In a shocking turn of events, it’s basically the same as what we were doing here in NJ.

I get so fucking frustrated dealing with people like this. Almost every goddamned time, the fucking reality is utterly at odds with the info they’re being fed.