Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve held off writing something regarding the whole Minnesota day care manufactured scandal to see what came of it and low and behold it had all the validity of a Project Veritas/James O’Keefe ‘exposé’ along with all the misleading claims and bot accounts boosting videos on YouTube that supported the narrative. What has happened since the young toe rag by the name of Nick Shirley posted the video? well, once again resources were spent pushing back against the narrative (I find it interesting how it was released around the same time the Jack Smith hearing was released which made Trump and the Republicans look bad) by not only independent media but also mainstream outlets such as CBS:

On the issue of independent media, I find it even more funny with the claim being made that Nick Shirley is an independent media creator then it came out that he worked hand in hand with the Minnesota Republican Party coordinating the whole thing right from the outset. Once again the CBS video comment section is filled with people replying but if you look at their channel profile you quickly see a pattern regarding these accounts being created in batches around the same time in the same year – the same time of the year during primary season before the general election. If one were inclined to seeing patterns then one could see these as part of a coordinated influencing campaign using bots to further amplify a narrative.

None of this should be surprising because it is ultimately part of the larger goal of Project 2025 or as what Steve Bannon refers to it as being the ‘dismantling of the administrative state’. Long story short it is about slashing the size of government and if you want a good vision of what the Republicans wish to do then here is Mike Lee laying out it:

So why do they manufacture these scandals? to discredit these programmes so then it is easier to either get rid of them or to remove funding for them without receiving any backlash. Why would they receive no backlash? because they’ve created a scandal to show how irredeemable these programmes are so then even those who are benefiting from them will support defunding them even if it ends up hurting themselves in the process.

What we outside of the United States can learn from it is not to get sucked into the bullshit vortex of manufactured scandals. We have organisations in New Zealand who do that on the regular – exposé about a local city council and how much they spent on catering over the whole year but in reality it works out to be less than $8 per person per meeting. What they hope to do is to drum up enough anger that large swaths of local council spending is cut all for the sake of the wealthy backers of those organisations can pay lower council rates even if it comes at the expense of fewer public services such as public transport, well funded libraries and maintained public parks to name a few.