Kings of Tupelo

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Caught a 3-episode documentary on Netflix about the ricin that was mailed to politicians back in 2013 by characters who were Wayne Newton and Elvis impersonators as well as karate instructors.

It’s a wild story and one that owes its origin to conspiracy theories about body parts being sold.

Whenever there’s talk about how weird the world has b become I say something along the lines of, “Good thing I only have 50 years left.”

But our lives are already strange because of AI and computer generated stories that seem to catch the imagination of people who are a tad unstable.

A morsel of truth sends an imagination running wild and next thing you know you have a portion of the population that believes a famous actor drinks the blood of children.

Pure craziness.

And it’s easy for those of us living in reality to dismiss it as the rantings of a loon…

…but lines are being blurred.

It’s not difficult for someone to make a clip that is absolutely fake to show their most hated politician saying something completely off the wall.

And we also have blurred the lines of truth and honesty as there are some who lie about everything in an effort to throw the entire collective discussion into chaos.

To make it all worse, those lies are right there, at your fingertips, delivered to you specifically because an algorithm knows exactly what sort of mind you have.

My timeline is filled with Yankees news, Springsteen and Stones clips, and Bill Burr doing comedy…

…because those are the things I have clicked on.

Politically, my timeline is set up to back up all the things I believe to be true.

So that’s the news I get.

We are being played and divided into groups that are designed to anger us or entertain us…

…and that’s not a conspiracy theory.

It’s true.

Good luck in figuring out what else might be factual.

Pure insanity.

The show is worth watching just for the lunacy involved.

Good thing I only have fifty years left.

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