The raison d'être of blogging, vlogging, podcasting …

… posting to Twitter X and Gab, plus others to varying degrees, is nicely expressed by Alexandra from downunder … a quite large noise at the Spectator, Australia, who’s under constant attack as any self-respecting pundit should be:

Julia at her site and here concentrates more on micro-politics at ground level and that quote above is therefore very true. I tend to look at global news where it’s a bit more difficult getting in before the world syndicated MSM … so we have our own syndication in a generally cooperative way on our side of the divide.

But we’ve written (certain of the boys and I) about the need to do due diligence … to know what that actually entails, to be able to not take anything, even from those supposedly on our side, at face value. Otherwise we get caught out.

Big deal you might say … as long as you get it right in the end. Well yes, there’s a lot of that but there are also organised professionals planted in among us, dedicated to ensuring we never do get it completely right and if we do, suddenly demanding “sources”, which they provided only bogus names such as the IPCC as theirs.

And one of the fave tactics is planting loons, clowns to turn people away from sources of reality … they utter fine sentiments, even launch campaigns but something does not sit right with those who’ve done this for years. There are bona fide “goodies” such as the NYC firefighters but not necessarily the Canadian trucker bigwigs such as Lich and that man with her. Explore GoFundMe and it’s interesting.

And how explore?  Ggl or Wiki? It needs a conglomeration of disorganised sources that have been reliable before.  To rely on the usual MSM or big blogging or vlogging names, tweeters, is fraught … have a look at Charlie Kirk’s funders. What do you think of Alex Jones?

Above all, you the reader can’t just lazily accept the first thing you turn up, but at the same time … beware the blind eye and three wise monkeys. In short, you have to do some work yourselves, not just be a baby on a teat.