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Grifters Use Saturday Night Attempt to Deceive and Profit · Commentary - TJ Meadows

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  Speaker 1: Saturday nights, America was reminded once more political violence still
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  Speaker 1: walks among us. It's clear the man intended to kill,
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  Speaker 1: Whether broken in mind or rotten in soul, he came
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  Speaker 1: with purpose. Now questions swirl. Was security sufficient? Why, according
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  Speaker 1: to reporting, was a full National Security Special Event designation?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps not in place. Did Congress's chronic games with funding
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, home of the US Secret
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  Speaker 1: Service play any role? Those answers must come quickly and
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  Speaker 1: thanks b No one was hurt. The President and others
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  Speaker 1: nearby remained safe. But there was another attack that night,
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  Speaker 1: not with bullets, with lies. Before facts could draw a breath,
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  Speaker 1: the Internet had already decided the entire event was staged. Staged.
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  Speaker 1: Some claimed it was theater, some said it was a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: Others dragged foreign nations into fantasies building on nothing at all.
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  Speaker 1: And as truth was still tying its shoes, falsehood had
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  Speaker 1: lapped the field entirely. Artificial intelligence images manufactured proof, influencers
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  Speaker 1: pedaling nonsense by the truckload. Why because outrage pays, clicks pay,
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  Speaker 1: attention pays, And somewhere along the way, too many Americans
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  Speaker 1: decided followers are the same thing as facts. Social media
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  Speaker 1: is only a tool. A hammer can build a house
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  Speaker 1: or break a window. The blame belongs not with the tool,
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  Speaker 1: but the hands that swing it. So today, perform a
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  Speaker 1: little housekeeping. Look at who you follow. If they trade
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  Speaker 1: and poison, unfollow, If they profit from panic, unfollow, If
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  Speaker 1: they sell fantasy dressed as fact, unfollow and replace them
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  Speaker 1: with people who do the hard work of truth. Reporters
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  Speaker 1: who verify, journalists who wait for evidence, voices that inform
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  Speaker 1: rather than inflame. Because in moments of national crises, a
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  Speaker 1: country needs calm minds, not con men.