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Nine Grievances, One Con Man – BS Filter #146

Today we cut through the spin on why people actually support Trump – nine real grievances, zero good excuses for picking the worst possible guy to fix them.

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Nine Grievances, One Con Man – BS Filter #146
Jun · 08 · 2026
Nine Grievances, One Con Man…
01 WHY WE’RE HERE

Epistemology, heuristics, and seeing through the propaganda.

We’re fed a constant stream of propaganda. Every day the same machine turns a complicated reality into a clean little narrative built to be repeated.

It’s impossible to be an expert on everything. So how do you know what’s most likely to be true? We use a filter combination of epistemology and heuristics and apply them to the three main sources of propaganda:

01
THE MEDIA
Headlines engineered for clicks, not truth. We read past the first paragraph — and past the correction nobody printed.
02
THE CORPORATIONS
Press releases dressed as journalism. Studies bought and paid for. We follow the disclosure to the funding.
03
THE GOVERNMENTS
Anonymous “sources,” managed leaks, and the language of permanent crisis. We translate the briefing.
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Episodes filed
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18
Narratives debunked
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Spin PR Polling Lobbying Markets Big Tech Wartime Studies Leaks Astroturf Headlines Footnotes
03 THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Two skeptics, a stack of footnotes, and zero patience for spin.

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Cameron Reilly

HOST · FOUNDER

Founder of The Podcast Network, recovering tech executive, professional skeptic. Has been calling bullshit on the official narrative since before it was a podcast genre.

“If a headline makes you feel certain, that's the tell.”
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Ray Harris

CO-HOST

History obsessive and long-time co-conspirator across the TPN shows. Brings the footnotes, the receipts, and very little patience for a tidy press release.

“Follow the money and the press release writes itself.”
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