Darn - not sure how I missed the voting window on this. I'll add a "hear! hear!" and if you reply I'll give that a full upvote.
Really, nothing in the news has made sense over the past 16 years. The narrative we're being fed just keeps getting weirder and weirder. And the more information we have access to, the less it all fits. The disinformation-distraction machine has hit social media, hard, and it's like we're all participating in an unprecedented experiment that --
Oh look, a new cat video!
Remember that post I put up a while back about how it seems like we've entered peak absurdity, and maybe none of this is real? Yeah.
I just started reading The Illuminatus Trilogy which was published back in 1975. Are you familiar with it? It's spooky how up-to-date it feels, 40 years later.
Didn't forget the upvote - had to let my meter recharge!