American politics has turned into a gladiatorial arena of battling hoaxes. Whether it is “Trump-Russia collusion” or “very fine people” or “the laptop is Russian disinformation,” our politics and our society have been shaped by a cascade of lies, at least since 2016, and probably a lot longer than that.
While Democrats have mastered the art of doing this through major media sources, the Republicans are no slouches at doing the same through new media. One such case relates to a recently revised U.S. military document called DOD Directive 5240.01, “DOD Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities and Defense Intelligence Component Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies and Other Civil Authorities.”
Before I dive into this “DODD,” I’m going to take a step back and explain why we on the right need to be consistently accurate and truthful in what we say and what stories we choose to believe.
If you (like me) are an addicted consumer of political discourse on X, formerly known as Twitter, you know who the “Black Insurrectionist” was. This was a now-deleted X account that also went by the X handle “@docnetyoutube.” The person behind this account was responsible for two massive hoaxes, one of which gained traction at very high levels inside the GOP. One of these hoaxes was the infamous “ABC News whistleblower” affidavit claiming ABC gave the Harris campaign preview copies of the questions for the Trump-Harris debate. The other hoax involved claims by a purported former high school student of Tim Walz that Walz
