Both sides are weird
Democrats cape for men who think they are women
Democrats cape for men who think they are women
Both sides are weird
Democrats cape for men who think they are women
Both sides are weird
Democrats cape for men who think they are women
It would be cool to have a legit 3rd party thatâs either left leaning or right leaning moderate thatâs strictly business.
Rather than just acknowledge the right to be transgendered, we need a whole new 3rd political party that serves no purpose than to exclude that.
This is why people think yall are fukkin weird.
Vivek at home.
Vivek at home.
Supercut of NPCâs being programmed to say âweird.â pic.twitter.com/ehOg48ZiJZ
â Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 30, 2024
Just a bunch of weirdos, in the Mockingbird Media, getting talking points from their CIA handlers. Weirdos calling normal people weirdos is just weird! pic.twitter.com/lMdjIz7Vy0
â Whiskey Five Echo Bravo Oscar (@w5ebo18002) July 30, 2024
Operation mockingbird in full swing. The left canât even do propaganda right, itâs not supposed to be obvious. pic.twitter.com/8hkobhY3yE
â Glenda M
(@McfarlaneGlenda) July 30, 2024
rightwingers: âpeople are calling us weird. it must be because the cia activated operation mockingbird againâ pic.twitter.com/D6ez2SZovT
â malark e smith (@avoidthehanoid) July 30, 2024
Conservatives are so shaken by people thinking they're 'weird' they think the CIA must be behind it
It's being compared to the murky Operation Mockingbird.www.dailydot.com
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Conservatives are so shaken by people thinking theyâre âweirdâ they think the CIA must be behind it
Itâs being compared to the murky Operation Mockingbird.
Marlon Ettinger
Tech
Posted on Jul 30, 2024 Updated on Jul 31, 2024, 8:34 am CDT
The Democratic Party is going all-in on a âweirdâ messaging push, building on Minnesota Gov. and potential Democratic vice presidential pick Tim Walzâs description of the Republican Party.
As Democratic politicians across the board have adopted the word, some conservatives decided that the swift adoption of the phrase reveals it must be a secret CIA plot.
The posters deemed it the new Mockingbird, a reference to alleged covert programs undertaken by the agency to influence news coverage during the onset of the Cold War.
The claim kicked off thanks to a supercut from podcaster Dave Rubin showcasing recent people making the weird claim, calling them âNPCs.â
âJust a bunch of weirdos, in the Mockingbird Media, getting talking points from their CIA handlers. Weirdos calling normal people weirdos is just weird!â posted @w5ebo18002 over a different supercut of politicians and reporters calling the GOP âweirdâ edited side-by-side with Vice President Kamala Harris meeting with drag queens and transgender people at the White House.
âWhatâs truly weird is not thinking for yourself, and instead being a mockingbird freak who repeats whatever youâre told to repeat when the Democrat bat signal goes up,â added @aliveness_ape. âI believe itâs shaped like a hammer and sickle.â
Mockingbird has become shorthand for the idea that the media is controlled by the intelligence services and repeats, like a mockingbird, their narratives.
âMany journalists were used by the CIA to assist in this process and they had the reputation of being among the best in the business,â wrote Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame in a 1977 Rolling Stone article explaining the program. âThe peculiar nature of the job of the foreign correspondent is ideal for such work: he is accorded unusual access by his host country, permitted to travel in areas often offâlimits to other Americans, spends much of his time cultivating sources in governments, academic institutions, the military establishment and the scientific communities.â
The CIA has never acknowledged a program called Operation Mockingbird but did use the code name âProject Mockingbirdâ during a Kennedy-era wiretap program to weed out government leaks by spying on journalistsâ telephones. The Church Commission, which tried to frisk the agency in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, did unearth agency ties to journalists. And intelligence services have long leaked stories to the media to shift a preferred course of action.
On X, much of the Mockingbird discussion was focused on the idea that Democratic Party politicians and aligned pundits were repeating the âweirdâ framing after receiving marching orders from the CIA.
âOperation mockingbird in full swing. The left canât even do propaganda right, itâs not supposed to be obvious,â posted @McfarlaneGlenda.
âUsing operation Mockingbird tactics, todayâs magic word pushed by Democrats & the mainstream media is âweird,ââ added @DavidRy01734524.
But Democratic posters pushed back and said that framing the messaging push as being part of a CIA plot was just more evidence that conservatives are, well, weird.
ârightwingers: âpeople are calling us weird. it must be because the cia activated operation mockingbird again,ââ commented @avoidthehanoid dryly.
Not everyone in the party was completely on board though with the idea that the messaging came from deep within a covert CIA research center.
âI have a theory about how Kamala Harrisâ âweirdâ messaging campaign got going,â wrote commentator Mollie Hemingway, âSo a company that was hired to come up with messaging completely forgot to do the work or they all got drunk or something. And then yesterday the campaign demanded to know what they came up with. They panicked and claimed that they had focus grouped the âweirdâ thing and the numbers were off the charts. They said, âyou have to say it everywhere immediately.â And it was such an audacious lie that the entire campaign fell for it and immediately started doing it.â
Or itâs that.
Aaaayo