They think elites should be able to do what they want— reactionary ideology was founded as a monarchical counterrevolutionary movement, and that's the ideal they're working backwards to achieve.
Note that this obviously doesn't apply to elites who aren't aligned with their movement.
They use rhetoric to divide the opposition and to rally their base; they don't actually care about coherence.
They think elites should be able to do what they want
Recently, one of my moms was ranting about how corrupt Biden was for pardoning his son (she didn't even know what he was charged for - I got her to look it up and then her response was basically "well, he deserved it anyways because of corruption). Later the same day, we were talking about how Musk was abusing his position to fire people investigating his companies and my moms responses were "that's smart".
There's so much "as long as my team does it, it's good and no matter what the other team does, it's bad"
They literally don’t think too hard about it. Just feed them the next conspiracy line and they’ll latch on, no matter how hard it goes against the last one. “He was there because he was trying to stop it” was the approximate excuse I heard a few years ago.
Real declassified documents will have a "secret" or "top secret" mark on the cover and on every page that is struck out, redacted, or otherwise obliterated.
it depends, recent documents will have a date of classification and expiration. it also depends on which agency did the classification because ODNI is toothless.
ive never seen a FOIA request answered with crossed out portion marks.
He's already said that he will not release this information. I'm not sure why this is surprising anyone. They're releasing stuff that was already out there. None of this is new and there won't be anything new at least until the next administration if ever.
Surely this is just the preparation for false allegations against their opponents? Why put your crony as the FBI director if you're not going to get him to lie and cheat for you.
Part one, re-release what's already out there, to show you're exposing the "truth", this gives legitimacy to whatever shit you come out with next.