🍊🤡🪖📉 In the Trump regime, propaganda now outruns intel BDA. With Hegseth, primping and pimping blur into one slick performance, while Trump sells the lie and reality gets shoved offstage. #Hegseth #Trump #Propaganda #Iran #BDA follows ⤵
{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} My Notes on, Audit of, and Triangulation of the Article… Core Finding The strongest defensible reading is this: the Raw Story piece grabbed onto a real and important contradiction, but its headline phrasing is cleaner than the evidence warrants. Pete Hegseth’s Wed. 08-Apr-2026 claim that Iran’s missile program was “functionally destroyed” does not hold up in the broad, public way he stated it. But Raw Story’s “collapses” line overshoots in the other direction, because some narrower versions of Hegseth’s claim still have support in the record.1‑6 The central problem for Hegseth is not subtle: In the Pentagon transcript, he did not limit himself to saying Iran’s production lines were wrecked or that many launchers were temporarily unusable. He said the missile program itself was functionally destroyed, and he explicitly bundled together launchers, production facilities, and existing stockpiles. The Wall Street Journal then reported, citing U.S. intelligence, that Iran still retained thousands of ballistic missiles, including more than 1,000 medium-range missiles, and could recover some launchers from underground sites. That is a direct collision with the broad public version of Hegseth’s claim.2,3
What the stronger reporting supports The better-supported picture is severe degradation, not elimination: The Pentagon’s own Wed. 08-Apr-2026 briefing described extensive destruction of missile-related infrastructure, while AP reported that General Dan Caine said the U.S. had struck more than 450 ballistic-missile storage facilities and that about 90% of Iran’s weapons factories had been attacked. AP also stressed that these numbers still fell short of the administration’s more sweeping rhetoric about Iran having been fully “decimated.”2,4 Independent analytical work points in the same direction: A Wed. 25-Mar-2026 Center for Strategic and International Studies assessment found that Iranian drone and missile launches dropped sharply after the opening days of the war, but it also warned that “lingering launch capacity” continued to inflict damage. In other words, reduced rate is not the same thing as zero capacity.5 That matters because Raw Story’s frame invites a too-simple binary: either Hegseth was right, or the missile program was basically untouched. The evidence says neither. Iran took major damage, lost a great deal of usable capacity, and saw launch activity fall. It also retained a meaningful residual missile threat.3‑5
The Serious Confounder A serious confounding argument comes from the Critical Threats Project’s Fri. 03-Apr-2026 special report. Its point is operational rather than rhetorical: missiles or launchers can remain physically intact yet still be combat ineffective if tunnel entrances are collapsed, launchers are inaccessible, command-and-control is degraded, or units cannot move from underground storage. On that view, survival in inventory does not equal near-term usability.6 That is the best defence of Hegseth’s position, and it deserves to be taken seriously. If “functionally destroyed” is narrowed to mean that much of Iran’s missile force could not be employed effectively in the immediate operational environment, then the claim becomes more arguable. Critical Threats also argues that extensive strikes on industrial and support elements would make reconstitution harder over time.6 But that confounder only rescues a narrower claim, not the one Hegseth actually made in public. His Wed. 08-Apr-2026 language was triumphalist and expansive. He did not carefully distinguish between stockpiles, launchers, buried systems, industrial capacity, and command degradation. He sold a totalizing victory narrative. The later intelligence picture does not sustain that.2‑4
The Hormuz Problem Raw Story’s missile point is stronger than its Strait of Hormuz wording: On Fri. 10-Apr-2026, Reuters reported that ship traffic through the strait remained stalled despite the ceasefire. By Sat. 11-Apr-2026, Reuters was already reporting that three supertankers had passed through a trial anchorage as talks began in Pakistan. That means the Raw Story sentence saying Hormuz “remains heavily blocked” was time-sensitive and quickly aged. It was not pure fabrication, but it was too static for a rapidly moving situation.8,9 The larger strategic issue is uglier for Washington than Hegseth’s rhetoric suggests. Reuters reported on Wed. 08-Apr-2026 that analysts and Gulf sources viewed the ceasefire as potentially leaving Iran with enduring leverage over Hormuz, continued political control at home, retained missile and drone capacity, and unresolved nuclear material issues. That is the deeper problem: tactical destruction does not automatically translate into strategic success.7 What the Raw Story Piece Gets Right, And What It Misses What Raw Story got right is the core contradiction. The article correctly spotted that an intelligence-based account of surviving missiles and recoverable launchers punches a hole in the administration’s sweeping battlefield-victory language. That part is real.1‑3 What it misses is the analytic distinction that matters most: stockpile, launcher availability, launch tempo, and industrial regeneration are not the same thing. A state can retain thousands of missiles on paper while still suffering a major near-term operational impairment. It can also suffer that impairment while still posing a serious deterrent and coercive threat. Raw Story mostly treats those categories as interchangeable, which muddies rather than clarifies the audit.1,5,6
🍊🤡🪖📉 In the Trump regime, propaganda now outruns intel BDA: Hegseth briefs the cameras, Trump briefs the cult, and reality gets told to shut up. #Hegseth #Trump #Propaganda #Iran #BDA
{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} #CaveatLector My Notes on, Audit of, and Triangulation of the Article… follows ⤵
Dies berichtete das Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) #Ukraine
Die ersten Veröffentlichungen des Videos erfolgten auf Accounts, die systematisch antiukrainische Narrative verbreiteten, die mit russischer #Propaganda übereinstimmten.
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Com és habitual,5 o 6 cairon de #propaganda trumpista,algún d'israeliana i algún contra el'gobierno'. Avui,però,s'han superat,un 2x1,afegeixen 2 cairon dels genocides acusant d'incitar a l'odi,l'antisemitisme... Aquests(els d'informatius @rtvenoticias.rtve.es)són els que,obeint ordres de la dreta...
🦊 FOX vs. CLUE 🧐 "Truth Doesn't Matter" #Propaganda
It’s amazing how they’ll fall for literally anything fed to them. #lgbtqia #transrightsarehumanrights #itsacult #protecttranskids #propaganda
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A diplomat asked Gates: "How has one man in a cave [Osama Bin-Laden] managed to out-communicate the world’s greatest communication society?" #propaganda
Helsinki tuki 45 000 eurolla yhdistystä, joka lähettää lapsia Venäjän propagandaleireille Krimille
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#Geopolitikka #Propaganda
#LeseEmpfehlung
zerpflückt die #ökonomisch- #imperiale #Propaganda
#DanielStähr #DieNeuenPropheten 👍 [ #möchtegern ]
@paulwalker44.bsky.social
@feralcommie.bsky.social
@damar318.bsky.social
@workers.bsky.social
I wanted to crowd source opinion: do you think immigrants in the USA are more likely to believe American #propaganda, that native born Americans don't believe. I think so, 100%. #uscritic #uscritique
HS: Yhdistys lähettää lapsia Suomesta Venäjän propagandaleirille - Helsinki tuki 45 000 eurolla
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#Propaganda #Geopolitics
Pagar #influenciadores para #propaganda do #governo em redes do inimigo? Porque não investir em #políticaspúblicas para o #Fediverso?
"Os maiores cachês foram desembolsados para a atriz Dira Paes, que recebeu R$ 470.000 por ação de publicidade do programa Celular Seguro, e para o carnavalesco […]
And clever #propaganda as well.
#Iran is using existing misgivings against yet another major war in the #Middle-East within #America. It also points out Western double standards: criticising the Islamic Republic but supporting genocidal #ApartheidIsrael.
väärennettyyn drooniohjeeseen, esittäen asian siten, että kyse olisi todellisesta pelastuslaitoksen julkaisemasta ohjeesta.
Putkosenkin toiminta mielestäni alleviivaa sitä, että väärennetyn ohjeen jäljet johtavat Venäjälle tai Venäjä-mielisiin tahoihin.
#vaikuttaminen #propaganda
”Suomessa levinneet väärennetyt droonivaroitukset saattavat olla peräisin Venäjältä.”
Kiinnostavaa kyllä, Venäjän miehittämässä Itä-Ukrainassa #propaganda 'a tuottava Janus Putkonen julkaisi aprillipäivänä videon, jossa hän viittaa kyseiseen
#MVlehti #vaikuttaminen >
”Yle selvitti: Suomessa levinneen väärennetyn drooniohjeen jäljet johtavat Venäjälle
Video suomalaisille jaetuista ”suojautumisohjeista” levisi ensin venäläisessä sosiaalisessa mediassa.”
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#vaikuttaminen #propaganda #disinformaatio >
Venäjä suoltaa taas uutta Suomi-propagandaa: "Tappava vaara" uhkaa
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#Propaganda #HybridThreats
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState
idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001...
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState
idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001...
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState #Colbert #Covid #EpsteinFiles
idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001...
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState #DannyDeVito #SpinalTap
idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001...
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState
idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001...
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState
idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001...
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState
idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001...
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
Day 2 in the USA—
we’re at Propaganda!!
Día 2 en USA—
¡hoy en Propaganda!
アメリカライブ2日目の
会場はプロパガンダ！！
미국 공연 2일차—
오늘은 Propaganda!!
GAKI 1st EP “KABUKI” – Out now!
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#rock
#MUSIC
#PROPAGANDA
OPINION @jenpsaki.bsky.social That hyper bizarre Melania #Trump address on #Epstein? Talk about colliding, clashing realities & contexts? What is she “frontrunning” here? Jabberwocky. #propaganda #fascism #GOP youtube.com/shorts/-X0rz...
