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Everyone Was Just Doing Their Job: How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil

The world’s a screaming match—doctors, economists, influencers, all clawing for their slice of truth. Nobody’s listening, and nobody’s seeing the whole damn picture. We have more information than ever, but we’re dumber where it counts, stuck in a loop of shouting past each other. This isn’t just politics or algorithm nonsense; it’s the cult of specialization—our worship of experts who know everything about nothing. Doctors pushing Covid shots didn’t see the fraud. Economists missed the heist. Engineers built surveillance without blinking. Each turned their screw, blind to the machine they were feeding—a Moral Assembly Line where systemic evil thrives. The system’s not broken; it’s built to break us, and we’re all complicit until we start connecting the dots. As I explored in The Illusion of Expertise, we’ve confused credentials with wisdom, compliance with intelligence. Now we see the deadly consequences: we’re not failing because of bad experts—we’re failing because specialization itself has become the operating system of institutional evil.

A Society Talking Past Itself

Step into any barroom debate, X thread, or YouTube comments section, and it’s chaos—facts flying, no one landing. We’ve outsourced our brains to specialists who slice reality into bits too small to mean anything. A cardiologist can’t talk vaccines. An economist reduces geopolitics to models, blind to the real forces at play. Everyone’s got their PhD in one inch of the world, and we’re dumber for it. Specialization doesn’t just fracture understanding; it’s the architecture of control, ensuring no one sees the crimes—medical fraud, wealth theft, digital chains—unfolding in plain sight. We’re not arguing because we’re stupid; we’re arguing because the system keeps us siloed, complicit, and clueless.

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Busted: The Daily Mail and X’s Misinformation Campaign about Measles

On May 31, The “Daily Mail” and the web-based news aggregator “All Sides” had articles titled: “CDC tells Americans to CANCEL their flights after finding world’s most infectious disease is spreading on planes.”

This is one of the most clear-cut examples of fake news being deployed in a coordinated manner to advance a psychological bioterror campaign that I have ever encountered.

These articles make outright false claims about Measles. Other terms to describe what is being done here include psychological bioterrorism, fear porn, or simply lies and disinformation. The proof of this follows. Which leads to the burning question of whether or not the notoriously censorial UK Government of Keir Starmer will do anything about it. If not, we can reasonably consider this prima facie evidence that the UK government is (at a minimum) complicit in spreading disinformation and promoting false fear of infectious disease for some hidden purpose.

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Top CNN Reporter OUT After Outlet Pays Navy Vet Millions of Dollars in Defamation Settlement

A top CNN reporter announced he is leaving the network after the outlet was forced to pay a Navy vet millions of dollars in a defamation settlement.

“Some personal news: I’m leaving CNN after 8 terrific years. Tough to say goodbye but it’s been an honor to work among the very best in the business. Profound thank you to my comrades on the National Security team & the phenomenal teammates I’ve worked with in the US and abroad,” Alex Marquardt said on Monday.

In January, CNN paid Navy Vet Zachary Young an undisclosed settlement for punitive damages after it was already ordered to pay $5 million in emotional and financial damages.

Zachary Young sued CNN for defamation over a 2021 report on his work helping Afghans during Biden’s botched withdrawal.

The lawsuit against CNN stemmed from their coverage of Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which the court previously determined showcased “actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough” for Plaintiff Zachary Young to seek damages.

Young, who was offering to transport Afghans out of the country to flee the Taliban in 2021, was accused by Tapper and CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt of running a “black market” scheme and exploiting “desperate Afghans” for personal gain while disregarding the dangers and circumstances surrounding the evacuation efforts.

Tapper even maliciously and sarcastically highlighted Young’s use of the word “unfortunately” in a message to the network about the “extremely limited” availability of evacuations and high demand, as if to imply that Young was benefitting from the situation.

Young argued that the network intentionally painted him in a bad light and harmed his security consulting company.

The jury found CNN guilty of defamation earlier this year.

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Bill Clinton Stuns CBS News Correspondent After Making Unbelievable Remarks Regarding Joe Biden’s Health

Former President Bill Clinton raised some eyebrows this morning after making some unbelievable comments about Joe Biden and health.

As TGP readers know, Biden has been hit with multiple elements of awful news from his prostate cancer diagnosis, the Tapper book, which has unveiled several disturbing details about the former White House occupant’s cognitive state, and the ongoing auto-pen scandal.

On Sunday, CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith interviewed Clinton and decided to ask him about his experiences with Biden. What he had to say in response is insulting to the intelligence of any sentient human being.

“There’s this book that talks about Joe Biden and the people around him, seeing that he had cognitive and physical decline,” Smith said. “Did you ever have a moment with him where you thought maybe he was unfit to run for president?”

“No, I thought he was a good president,” Clinton replied. “The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86?”

“I had never seen him, and walked away thinking he can’t do this anymore. He was always on top of his brief.”

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Sleepy Joe Emerges, Declares He Could “Beat The Hell Out Of” Jake Tapper

CNN hypocrite Jake Tapper is paying for his fake about turn on Sleepy Joe Biden’s mental state, with the audience figures for his show plummeting off a cliff.

Tapper has lost a full quarter of his audience since he started aggressively peddling his book documenting Biden’s brain turning to mush, and banging on about his own “humility” after doing a complete 180.

People don’t like inauthenticity, simple as.

It seems that the more he appears on other networks and shows to sell the book, the more audience he loses. The viewing figures are the lowest they’ve been in a decade.

“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 total viewers from April 28 through May 25, shedding 25% of CNN’s audience in its timeslot from the same period last year in the process, reports Fox News.

Ironically, Tapper claims that he is attempting to redeem himself after failing to report on the Biden shenanigans (he also actively dismissed the notion of Biden’s slipping mental acuity) but has only managed to become more reviled in the process.

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Former CNN Reporter Shocked as Tesla Vandalized—But Not by MAGA Supporters

Former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza revealed that his Tesla was vandalized during a weekend soccer tournament, which included a handwritten sign accusing Elon Musk of being a Nazi.

Cillizza’s vehicle was vandalized while he was attending his son’s game.

“So this is the first time I’ve experienced the sort of politics of Elon Musk and Tesla,” Cillizza wrote on his Substack newsletter.

Cillizza explained that when he initially bought the car, he was more concerned that MAGA supporters might vandalize it due to its strong association with progressive values.

“The big concern I had—because this was the big thing that was happening—was sort of pro-MAGA people keying the car or smashing it…because America is about, like, real engines, not electric cars,” he said.

“That was the perception back then, right? It was like you’re coding yourself as, like, an enviro-liberal-wacko-communist if you bought a Tesla.”

However, Cillizza was forced to admit it was not conservatives who ultimately targeted his vehicle.

“It is amazing to me that five-ish years on, I am getting this on my car because Elon Musk has now become sort of persona non grata for the non-MAGA crowd,” he said.

Musk’s endorsement of President Donald Trump has made him a target in progressive circles that once championed Tesla as a symbol of green innovation.

Cillizza acknowledged the brand’s shift in public perception, recalling a similar cultural backlash he received after tweeting about eating at Chick-fil-A.

“I hope the hate tastes good,” was one of the responses he said he received at the time.

Despite progressive criticism, Chick-fil-A ranked 26th in this year’s Axios/Harris poll, well ahead of Tesla.

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Nothing In AP’s Presidential Records Act Hit Piece On Trump Is True

On May 20, the Associated Press published an article titled “The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous U.S. president.” As a federal records management consultant with more than 25 years of experience supporting White House and agency records management at all levels of the government, I can assure you nothing in this article is even remotely true. 

Let’s begin with the article’s opening claim: “For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected … safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity.” While this may have been true decades ago when almost all government records were maintained on paper, it has not been true in the digital age.

Both the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and the Federal Records Act (FRA) require records born digitally to be managed through each phase of their lifecycle — creation, distribution, use, maintenance, and disposition — in their native electronic formats. These records must be maintained in systems that ensure their integrity, authenticity, and provenance, and apply an archivist of the United States-approved retention schedule that prevents their premature destruction by anyone. 

Over the course of my career, I have supported the management of billions of electronic government records. During that time, I have never seen a single White House or agency electronic record managed through its lifecycle in compliance with the PRA or the FRA. Not one. The government claims to be doing it, but they are not. 

Though this may be hard to believe, it is demonstrably true. It is also something I am willing to swear to under oath. The Associated Press’s claim that the government has “meticulously preserved and protected” federal records in the past is simply not true. 

The article also asserts that the Trump administration “sought to expand the executive branch’s power to shield from public view key administration initiatives” by utilizing apps like Signal, which can “auto-delete messages containing sensitive information rather than retaining them for record-keeping.”

However, the article fails to note that Signal’s auto-delete feature is optional and can be turned off. Moreover, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) approved Signal for government use under General Records Schedule 6.1 during the Biden administration. It is also not the president’s job to manage the lifecycle of White House electronic messages in compliance with the PRA. That work is delegated to the White House Office of Records Management (WHORM), which is part of the Executive Office of the President and operates under the Office of Administration.

The article further claims that the FBI raid on President Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, was due to the president’s refusal to return classified records to the National Archives. But NARA had no right to claim ownership of the paper printouts of the electronic records that the president stored at his estate. 

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Propaganda Press Rediscovers Its Outrage Over Presidential Pardons

Apparently, the propaganda press has rediscovered its outrage over presidential pardons — now that President Donald Trump is issuing them. After watching then-President Joe Biden hand out pardons, clemency, and commutations like they were candy, the left-wing media have finally found their missing pearls to clutch.

Trump pardoned reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who had a combined sentence of 19 years for what pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson called a “first-time nonviolent offense.” The duo was found “guilty of eight counts of financial fraud and two counts of tax evasion in 2022,” Fox News reported. Trump also issued a pardon to former New York Congressman Michael Grimm, who served seven months in prison after he pled guilty “to underreporting taxable revenue from his Manhattan restaurant Healthalicious,” according to the New York Post. Trump also pardoned rapper “NBA YoungBoy” and former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland.


ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl said in a post on X: “Donald Trump is using his pardon power early and often — And there’s a clear trend: many of his pardons are going to his supporters and political allies.”

CNN’s Aaron Blake wrote: “‘No MAGA left behind’: Trump’s pardons get even more political.”

Blake continued: “If you look closely at how Trump’s used his pardon power — which he has exercised dramatically this week, with a slew of new pardons and commutations on Wednesday alone — it’s virtually impossible to miss the political overtones. Many of Trump’s acts of clemency have rewarded an ally or someone tied to an ally, or they have served a clear and not terribly subtle political purpose.”

MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi wrote that “Trump’s pardons show he is becoming more brazenly corrupt.” Figliuzzi appealed to the precedent of giving pardons “as a president [is] leaving office,” citing a “legal expert” who said that pardons can be “costly.”

“Not anymore,” Figliuzzi wrote, apparently angered that Trump issued a pardon while president instead of doing it “quietly” on his way out the door.

Politico’s Gregory Svirnovskiy claimed that Trump was on a “clemency spree.”

But a cursory Google search seemingly reveals that for all the hand-wringing about Trump exercising his executive authority to grant pardons and clemency, media figures like Svirnovskiy and Figliuzzi were nowhere to be found when Biden was issuing his preemptive pardons — or pardons he issued to his family members before leaving office. (Notably, Biden didn’t just issue political and family allies, either. He also quietly commuted the sentences of Chinese spies and a Chinese national convicted of child pornography.) Blake gently questioned the scope of the Hunter Biden pardon, but he made sure to include critiques of Trump’s first term grants of clemency.

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CBC Brags About Shutting Down Popular Political Clips YouTube Channel

A rising Canadian YouTube channel that had been pulling major traction has suddenly been banned following an aggressive report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which labeled the channel a “content farm” and reached out to YouTube directly. Not long after, the channel was gone.

“It’s just one example of what experts refer to as the ‘content’ or “engagement” farming phenomenon, in which individuals or organizations tailor their content to tap into the algorithm of the platform and boost their popularity,” the CBC explained in an article, as if this isn’t something that most YouTubers do.

Real Talk Politiks, the creator behind the now-deleted account, took to X on Sunday to reveal what happened, pointing the finger at government-aligned media and tech collusion.

“CBC, Canada’s state-funded media just got YouTube to terminate my channel — not for breaking rules, but for having the wrong political views,” the post read.

Despite operating without strikes, policy violations, or deceptive content flags, the channel was wiped.

What sparked the removal, according to CBC’s own report, was an AI-generated video of Ronald Reagan that allegedly lacked a clear label; something that might typically warrant a correction or warning, not a digital purge.

The CBC leaned into the narrative, bragging about its work in getting the channel shut down, and published a YouTube video titled “How we shut down one of Canada’s biggest news ‘content farms’.”

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Media Falls Over Itself To Defend South African President Who Claimed Genocidal Chants Were Free Speech

Last week, President Donald Trump confronted South African leaders over the alleged genocide taking place against white South African farmers. Trump presented South African leaders — and the media — with video evidence of racially charged rhetoric advocating for the murder of white farmers. One such video showed political leader Julius Malema leading chants of “kill the Boer” and “Revolution demands at some point there must be killing.”

The propaganda press were quick to not only dismiss the genocidal chants, but to defend South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who didn’t seem eager to confront and condemn the chants. Outlets dropped all pretense of objectivity to paint Ramaphosa as a measured statesman blindsided by Trump.

NPR’s Kate Bartlett wrote “South Africa’s president is praised for staying calm during Trump’s Oval Office ambush.” Bartlett praised Ramaphosa for keeping “his cool” and heralded him as “one of the key mediators in the talks that ended apartheid in 1994.”

The talking point was quickly spread amongst the propagandists, with Reuters’ Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Alexander Winning writing: “Buffeted by Trump, South Africa’s Ramaphosa praised for keeping his cool.”

But perhaps it’s easy to “keep cool” when your government doesn’t appear to have any serious moral objection to openly genocidal rhetoric.

Despite their best attempt to cover for South African leaders, upon returning from the United States, South Africa’s president excused the genocidal chants as merely free speech.

Speaking to reporters, Ramaphosa said the chant is a “liberation chant.”

Liberation from what, exactly? White farmers? And how will that liberation occur if not through violence, as some South African political leaders are calling for?

“We take into account what the constitutional court also decided when it said that, you know, that slogan, ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,’ is a liberation chant and slogan,” Ramaphosa said.

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