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Most of us have heard of the assassination of the Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval times after England's king said, "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" I learned from the brief that 2 years after he was killed, the king, Henry II, “acknowledged that he was the cause of the archbishop’s death and that what was done was done on his account.”

The brief says: "In July 1174, he again publicly confessed his sins at Canterbury, receiving five blows from a rod from each of the numerous bishops present and three blows from each of the 80 Canterbury monks."

Can we imagine anyone in U.S. government willing to repent and be chastised like that today?

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Jessica, I put you and the work you are doing in rare air.

You, JJ, Mark, Aaron Siri, Denis, Yeadon and a handful of others are the curators of truth in this endeavor. It has taken me a long time to figure out who has their head straight.

In fact, I asked myself on a drive from Houston to Austin yesterday, “what do you really believe?”

I came to the conclusion that my world view is increasingly defined by narratives that I reject versus facts I accept as true.

I’m not rejecting anything you are producing.

Don’t let it go to your head. 😉

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Feb 10Liked by Jessica Hockett

The many hours you spend, while it may often feel like it’s screaming into a void, isn’t the case. Thank you for your copious work.

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Feb 10Liked by Jessica Hockett

Clearly there is no need to run away and join the circus. It’s quite clear that we live in a perpetual clown world where improvements are nearly imperceptible. All we can do is find truth-tellers, share their ideas, and fight with them, hoping the fog of war will one day clear and the clowns will get run out of town.

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Something doesn't make sense with this banning crap.

They have and still do shadowban people. It's nothing new.

Let them still post but their posts aren't searchable nor promoted.

(Try and search for the actor John Cusack on Twitter search box and you won't find him... Why? Well he's been dropping truth bombs about the war in Gaza.)

But they went out of their way to publicly ban people so that the tool Elon musk can pretend like it was a lib thing. And then he brought some back to get brownie points with the right.

But they're still shadow banning and it seems that's not being challenged. Only the bans.

I see this banning thing as a way for them to distract from what they have been doing for years before covid...

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