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Called it, nailed it, killed it, CJ.

Too bad being right isn’t gratifying enough to offset the grief, but your cynical prognostications at least bulletproofed you (and those of us who concurred) against disappointment.

“Elon’s Flying Narcissistic Circus”—that is too good not to use, even though we know our enemies will be spending that gift to their advantage, as you spotted well.

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Being right has kind of sucked for a while now.

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😆 Oh would that our tin-foil conspiracy theories be nothing more than fantastical delusions …

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Absolutely agree.

It doesn't matter though, all called me a "conspiracy theorist", and then they didn't...

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Oh yes, this piece is about embracing the name-calling:

• “Letter to a Mainstream Straddler: Live Not by Half-Lies” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-mainstream-straddler)

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It must suck. But there must be two reserved spaces in the Limited Hangout Circle of Hell for Musk and Berenson, wouldn't you say? I doubt Berenson wasted any labor on those covid files none of us ever expected to see.

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One small edit?

Elon's Flying Narci-circus.

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Oh, that’s good. I’d just go for it and drop the hyphen.

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I debated that hard. I'm down to...

Elon's Flying Narcicircus

Elon's Flying Narci-Circus

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Actually, now that I see it run together, I realize it's harder to parse, so you're probably right to go with the hyphen and double caps.

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That was my thought too. Keep it easy on the reader.

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Agree, drop the hyphen.

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The Twitter Files served a purpose I'd say, and I think the continued work of Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Russell Brand, Jacob Siegel, Lee Fang, Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, David Zweig, Michael Shellenberger, Leighton Woodhouse, Joe Rogan, Martin Gurri, Bari Weiss and her team, and a host of others — including yourself — in the indie media sphere will draw more converts. Legacy media, intelligence, government and the corporate sphere will continue to ignore it, lie about it, and try to legislate it out of existence, but the genie is out of the bottle and I don't think they can put it back in.

Keep fighting the good fight, and don't give up on it now.

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Yep! They're losing.

It used to be taboo to consider conspiracy theories.

It used to be taboo to question quackzines.

Sooner or later there will be a critical mass of Karens who are upset that their kids are so sick, even if they deny the clot shots did it.

Lol, then there will be a million Karen march.

People are not the same like they were in the 50s,60s on which the old models of human behavior were determined.

They didn't expect such a lackluster turnout for the new and improved boosters. Even if they don't consciously know they are dangerous, they were subconsciously driven away from doing it.

They expected people to keep getting jabs every few months. They thought their terror campaign would keep people in shell shock.

https://robc137.substack.com/p/the-milgram-experiment-and-how-we

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“A million Karen March” funny. Kinda did happen in dc prior to their greatest triumph, helping mask the entire population whether they needed it or not. It was when they all came out for power with their pink pussy hats.

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Apr 13, 2023Liked by CJ Hopkins

Reading an essay on the calculated efficiency of our Trumanesque reality is much less painful when it’s so wonderfully written.

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It's still too soon... ;-)

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Yours truly has been exposing this CIA fraudster Musk for quite some time; to wit:

REPOST: Elon Musk Officially Takes Over Twitter in the Latest "Genius" Con

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/repost-elon-musk-officially-takes

REPOST: PSYOP-MUSK and the X "Everything App"

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/repost-psyop-musk-and-the-x-everything

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Never trusted this guy, neuralink and so called "conservative" my ass... narcis know how to play their games. I think we are all moving on Elon.

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I continue to be appreciative that you defined limited hangout for me. The concept has come in handy on a practically daily basis.

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In the song "Children of the Revolution" Marc Bolan sings this verse: "Let it all hang out"

IMHO, Rock and roll was not beautiful or intelligent but at least was more sincere than the current cultural marasmus.

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Any day with a 🎩 Marc Bolan mention is a day to be thankful we lived in the golden years (Bowieeeee). 🎸 Rock On!

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"I don't believe any of this was intentional, or at least not a conscious plan on Musk's part -- I'm not quite that gibberingly paranoid..." Oh, I am and I do.

Thanks, excellent.

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Musk played his part just like Trump and other key figures continue to play theirs. This has always and continues to be theater for the masses. The play has already been written and these actors and actresses are just playing their roles. This isn't paranoia, it's the unfortunate reality that we must face.

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Yes, I go round and round in circles and always these days, come back to that point. I wish I didn't as it makes the mountain to climb look extremely high. But I guess one small step for man ....

Here is an article I have read about Kennedy who I understand is now going to run for President of the corporation called the United States of America. Sadly, I think the writer may be right.

"In conclusion, I think we can expect to see RFK's political star rise into the ascendancy, because he has all the credentials that make him a perfect fit for the next stage of the agenda - he's from a big-name, well-loved celebrity dynasty (high-profile politics and celebrity status being inextricably entwined): he's all in favour of the so-called green agenda and climate alarmism, and - by his own repeated admission - he's pro-vaccine".

https://miriaf.co.uk/an-unprecedented-president/

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Munchy - just your last line - ‘RFK is pro-vaccine by his own admission’. Was this admission made decades ago?! His life’s work for the past several years has been raising awareness of the childhood vaccine schedule through his organisation Childrens Health Defense. I cant see how you’re anything but 180degrees wrong on this point.

Ive followed him more or less since we had children and investigated vaccines. As far as I can tell he’s legit. He knows the machinations of the deep state and the peril he faces, but unlike career politicians he’s dedicated himself to doing whats right come what may.

Re climate change I dont know what he thinks exactly, but if he’s onto big Pharma and regulatory capture, he’ll know the equivalent for energy etc. He knows more than he lets on and would be proceeding in measured steps.

From the tweets I’ve seen on foreign policy he’s light years ahead of Biden in every conceivable way.

So dont be so quick to disparage him.

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I was quoting from Miri Finch's article. The comments are interesting and you could add yours to the mix. https://miriaf.co.uk/an-unprecedented-president/

Miri writes, "To quote Mr. Kennedy from his public correspondence to Keele University:

"I have always made it clear that I am not “anti-vaccine”. I want safe vaccines, robust science and uncorrupted regulators. By calling me “anti-vax”, vaccine companies seek to discredit, marginalize, silence me so as to prevent me from raising legitimate, urgent questions about the thoroughness of vaccine safety and efficacy assessments.

"I have never made a statement that could be legitimately construed as “anti-vaccine”. To the contrary, I have spent my 37-year career as an environmental and public health advocate fighting for evidence-based science, and science-based policy. I have prevailed in many hundreds of lawsuits against the world’s largest polluters and I have helped build, and currently run, the globe’s largest water protection group; Waterkeeper Alliance, the umbrella organization of 350 Waterkeepers in 48 nations—including the U.K. I spent much of the past three decades fighting to get mercury out of fish, pesticides out of food, and to decarbonize our energy system. No one calls me “anti-fish” , “anti-food”, or “anti-energy”. Nor should Pharma be given credence when it attempts to dismiss me as “anti-vaccine” simply because I have challenged the use of toxic metals such as mercury and aluminium in vaccines."

He could of course being clever with his use of words. Why he is not standing as an independent candidate, I don't know. Whether he will get anywhere and is genuine, duped or "one of them", time may tell.

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Truth! Very scary proposition if you ask me but probably less so than what we have now!!!

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ya we will know that a 'breakthrough' has occurred when a plan is launched to roundup the treasonous joint chiefs of staff which have overseen both the covid bioweapon launched against the US and the attack on continental US by a free energy weapon on 9/11

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Tesla and Space X are government dependent-private entities, aka corporate fascism. So no surprise, just disappointment.

One must first get the plebe’s hopes up so they can be dashed properly

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Limited Hangout. I like that term. It's typical strategy for them, all of them.

I remember once in college (I went to college) where I took a course in history; it was something like Britain from 1840 to 1914. One day we had a guest lecturer who was explaining the reasons for WWI. There were a lot of reasons being trotted out; let's say there were nine of them. In retrospect all those reasons were probably true, but he didn't mention anything else. Knowing what I know now, I can offer three more reasons. Then the question becomes what is the relative significance of each of those 12 reasons? Well, the official nine reasons are really reasons four through 12. The unspoken other three are reasons one, two, and three. If you have reasons 1-3, you've got the war; reasons four through 12 are totally subsidiary. In fact if you've got reason one, you've got the war.

It recalls Asimov's dictum, which goes something like, "The more truth in the lie, the better the lie. And the best lie, when it can be used, is the truth itself."

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Yep, kudos for seeing this one coming from a mile away C.J. In a society in which apparently a growing number of people can no longer figure out "what a woman is" - it would clearly be the equivalent of "rocket science" for those people to figure out - "what a limited hangout is."

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Elon Musk is a Globalist with his own agenda.

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bannon claims in no uncertain terms that musk is a puppet of the CCP.

hmmm ...

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Good article. Censorship on Twitter is at the same or higher levels than it was prior to Musk's purchase:

https://nypost.com/2023/04/01/twitter-censorship-increases-under-elon-musk-leadership-study/

The unstated key aspect about all of this is that Twitter, along with Facebook, Google, etc, all are infested with a huge number of active CIA/FBI agents whose job function is censorship of populism on the platform, i.e. see here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-riddled-ex-CIA-agents-ex-FBI-agents-work-Twitter.html and here https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engine-google-ranks-cia-agents/281490/

Part of the proposed RESTRICT Act is to put pressure on Musk not to clean house; if he does, then they will pass the Act and take control over Twitter directly. Nasty games behind the scenes.

But also, keep in mind Elon is telling you exactly who he is: his Twitter profile photo is himself in a Satanic Bahomet costume. Lastly, see here: https://i0.wp.com/www.technocracy.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/musk-comparison.jpeg?ssl=1

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Shurely, that's the point of Muskrat's epiphany? To kill the story, to emasculate, disembowel, marginalise and otherwise dispose of an embarrassing episode in the life and death of what could have been, should have been, a revelation. It's how every exposé is dealt with in the world of NewsSpeak. It's also ironic that having failed to manage an out-of-control and dying capitalism, they can spend so much energy and skill in murdering the truth and do it over and over again. It reveals their true intentions (were anybody watching that is).

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We can't really expect more from someone with a background of superiority in South Africa during apartheid and who keeps procreating like the superior sperm spreader he sees himself as. Money corrupts...way too much money corrupts in ways we humans will inevitably pay for BIG TIME. I blame the Jesus Mythology for all of this...had we stayed pagans we would be having a lot more fun and have solid connections to what matters.....the natural world.

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you blame christ for musk's idiocy, when musk isn't even a christian?

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I do not blame whoever a man we call Jesus was. I blame the power hungry Romans for killing off any other ways of looking at the world to gain power. I see ideologies of any kind as dangerous. I am not speaking about Christians in particular. I am talking about power structures that manipulate people of good will to gain control. Power and control and abuse. Just look to Rome for an illustration

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This is absolutely a limited hangout. I so appreciate your framing of recent events. I have all three collections of your essays on the way to my house! Very glad to have found you.

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I'm glad we found each other.

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Ditto. I discovered CJ's work right at the beginning of the scamdemic. Read the last two collections and at times reread the essays. They've truly helped -- almost 'physically' as well as emotionally/spiritually -- keep me grounded during these psychoplague times.

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Simping for anyone is always a bad idea.

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