{"id":55870,"date":"2020-12-04T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55870"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:59:27","slug":"obama-is-an-asshole-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55870","title":{"rendered":"Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/12\/03\/obama-is-an-asshole-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9226\" class=\"post-9226 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-empire tag-imperialism tag-media tag-narrative-matrix tag-news tag-politics tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/medium-1.jpg?fit=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/medium-1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/medium-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/medium-1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>US empire: Assassinates scientists, invades countries, topples governments, circles the planet with military bases, deliberately starves civilians to death with sanctions, threatens the world with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Also the US empire: \u201cIran must begin acting like a normal country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s job is to tell you that the ruling establishment which murders, oppresses and exploits people all day every day is quite progressive actually and the people who oppose it are immature lunatics who should be scoffed at.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>If you killed someone that\u2019s all you\u2019d be known for. When a US president kills thousands upon thousands of people all mainstream discourse is about his sound fiscal policy and ability to sink a three-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Nice guy fascism: A murderous and tyrannical political ideology whose iron-fisted agendas of oppression, exploitation and violent domination are hidden behind lip service to progressivism, diverse cabinet picks, and nice tweets.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The powerful are screwing us and there are more of us than there are of them. An entire culture and information ecosystem has been deliberately constructed around keeping a critical mass of us from awakening to this one basic fact.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Any issue of international conflict involving the US-centralized empire is going to be awash with western media propaganda marketed to western audiences. No one who ignores this indisputable reality is able to understand any major international news story.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so weird how rich and powerful people are pouring massive amounts of wealth and manpower into manipulating our minds every single day and it\u2019s not the main thing we talk about all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Biden is like if everyone suddenly started gushing poetically about how wonderful and refreshing and inclusive the Chevron logo is.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix US empire: Assassinates scientists, invades countries, topples governments, circles the planet with military bases, deliberately starves civilians to death with sanctions, threatens the world with nuclear weapons. Also the US empire: \u201cIran must begin acting like a normal country.\u201d \u2756 Obama\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3306,17039,14545,29490,655,3142],"class_list":["post-55870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-barack-obama","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-propaganda","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55871,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55870\/revisions\/55871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}