The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Hoaxes “R” Us: Flydubai and the Russian Plague Stop them before they hoax again Donald Jeffries Sometimes I wish I’d never watched the movie The Truman Show. It really made me question the whole nature of our reality. 9/11. Sandy Hook. The Boston Bombing. So many events of the 21st century leave you shaking your head and searching for crisis actors. The narratives are childishly implausible, and nothing really gets resolved. On September 30, an incident in the cockpit forced a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Allegedly. I say allegedly because few people seem to believe it really happened. I certainly don’t. Of course, I’m jaded beyond description, having researched so many of these events, without finding the slightest trace of credibility anywhere. Sharp and snappy tweets on X declared that the incident was “faker than the moon landing,” which admittedly was pretty damn fake. We’re supposed to believe that an Israeli plumber was the he...

  We are trapped in Cyclop’s cave, but escape could be easy... Alex Krainer A Michigan nurse, one Tawanda Hall missed $900 on her property taxes. The county took her $308,000 home , sold it and confiscated the entire $286,000 in profit. The government took everything she owed, then everything she had: “They took my whole house, my whole family’s livelihood.” Journalist John Stossel pointed out to another case where a county seized a retiree’s home over an $8 debt. People shouldn’t have to fight in court to stop the government from taking their home over eight dollars. And they shouldn’t have to pay property taxes in the first place: it’s almost like you have to pay the government for the privilege of having property. A few months ago, American political commentator Nick Fuentes posted a video message about the U.S. government seizing his funds. Here’s what happened: one day he discovered that he had zero dollars in his checking account. He called his bank and learned that, “you...