• Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    i found it odd that they went two hours without mentioning George De Mohrenschildt. Alice brought up the Chapo episode “Poppy” and said the idea that George HW Bush had anything to do with JFK’s death was a “Chapo joke that got out of hand.” That’s when I started to be highly disappointed with the episode because the fact that Alice thought that Chapo was “joking” about that stuff when it was clear that they were dead serious seemed a bit dishonest. It was clear they had digested at least some material from “Family of Secrets” but chose not to bring it up. And it’s extra disappointing when Liam hand-waves the problem with the Warren Commission and says that the other commission was “discredited” without even saying why. They have this strange habit of doing these conspiracy theory episodes where they hit all the dumb and easily discredited ones out of the park but ignore the actual credible conspiratorial stuff which is admittedly odd relations between seemingly distant stakeholders. Like George De Mohnrenschildt being a Russian White emigre who was friends with the Bush family and got Oswald his job at the book repository and killed himself shortly after writing a letter to George HW Bush a decade later, when he was head of the CIA? Whatever. not worth bringing up in 3 hours. Why ignore that Toddie Lee Wynne, a Texas oil man close to the Bushes and the Dulles’ let Oswald’s widow live at his house after the assassination? Why did Oswald move to the USSR, immediately marry a soviet official’s daughter, move back to the USA in a matter of months, and fall in with a group of Russian anti-soviets? Why did Oswald fall in with anti-communist Russians after apparently being a loud and proud communist for a decade? Why was he assassinated by a known mobster and CIA asset who had been involved in Castro assassination plots? None of this stuff is worth asking any questions about, it’s just strange coincidences, the warren commission which was chaired by parties with conflicted interests has all your answers, Oswald was not a sheep-dipped asset. They also think the fact that he went around the US marines in the height of McCarthyism bragging about being a Communist is just him being Le Funny Mentally Ill Man and that nobody took him serious Just Because OK.

    anyway, it would be funny to send them 1000 copies of “Family of Secrets” by Russ Baker to their P.O. Box

    I’ve noticed liberals only trust Respected Sources™ but ignore whenever Respected Sources™ have clear conflicts of interest.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      They actually did mention De Mohrenschildt in passing as a notoriously suspicious dude, but then just kinda forgot he existed for the rest of the episode.

      There was a lot of that. Just kinda breezing over any shit that Chapo could spend multiple live shows exhaustively analyzing