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Patrick says

It's clear we don't have a legitimate administration anymore

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599110949080039425?ref_src=patrick.net

Dudes, I am afraid that our man might get the jfk treatment, in one way or the other.

mell says

It's clear we don't have a legitimate administration anymore

Sycophancy is the foundation of politics and government work.

Elon Musk gambled big on Twitter. Tesla is going to pay the price. There is one troubling option for Elon Musk to try and keep Twitter afloat: siphoning cash from Tesla.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-could-use-tesla-money-prop-up-twitter-2022-12

DD214 says

Elon Musk gambled big on Twitter. Tesla is going to pay the price. There is one troubling option for Elon Musk to try and keep Twitter afloat: siphoning cash from Tesla.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-could-use-tesla-money-prop-up-twitter-2022-12

Elon Musk is intelligence. His job is to make Twitter appear to be fair, not to make it fair. He's getting money from the government to do this. They'll just shovel money into SpaceX to pay for it.

Patrick says

"Nobody is irreplacable" -- Joseph Stalin

Patrick says

There should be 3 refs.

The FIB isn't shown in there.

WOW.

While I hate to dole out hopium, I really do believe that eventually, this era will be a dark stain on US History and especially the Media.

AmericanKulak says

WOW.

While I hate to dole out hopium, I really do believe that eventually, this era will be a dark stain on US History and especially the Media.

This "era" is 20 years old, REALLY - nothing has changed within that time.

The only thing that is changing is you, you're becoming aware of just how corrupt our government is. People have been screaming about this for decades. It's probably going on longer than 20 years, but that's the extent of what I know of it.

richwicks says

This "era" is 20 years old, REALLY - nothing has changed within that time.

I know you don't think so, but I'll go back to Garofalo and Meathead on Fox News making the case against the Iraq War 15-20 years ago. These days, Fox won't have anybody on challenging irregularities in any election, even when Republicans lose.

I'll go to Matt Taibbi being celebrated for his Financial Crisis series. Now literally the SAME people who praised him for it, are calling him a traitor for processing the Twitter-Deep State collusion trail.

It really changed around 2012-2015. The key moment was the elimination of local news and media comment sections, pushing everybody to a handful of Social Media platforms.

AmericanKulak says

I'll go to Matt Taibbi being celebrated for his Financial Crisis series. Now literally the SAME people who praised him for it, are calling him a traitor for processing the Twitter-Deep State collusion trail.

Such are the dangers of having principles. Remember when Julian Assange was celebrated by "the left"?

AmericanKulak says

It really changed around 2012-2015. The key moment was the elimination of local news and media comment sections, pushing everybody to a handful of Social Media platforms.

Yeah, but the thing about the Internet is, anybody can run a website.

The result of turning off comment sections is that nobody gives a shit what they even say anymore.

Sure Twatter, Fuckbook, and Guulag can censor all they wish - that's HARD to do. It's takes work. It's a lot harder to control the conversation, and make it appear you're not controlling the conversation, than just let a conversation happen. Why are there 1000's of people needed to run Twatter? For what? It's a fucking WEBSITE. Most of the people involved in these companies are doing information control, censorship, promotion of stupid ideas, etc.

They are at a severe economic disadvantage, in a FREE MARKET - too bad we don't have a free market..

richwicks says

The result of turning off comment sections is that nobody gives a shit what they even say anymore.

But that's not what happened --- People went onto Social Media to comment. Then, they sprung the shadowban/suspend trap - too fast.

It's why goolag and LGBTQMozilla went apeshit over Dissenter and similar comment add-ons.

I honestly believe Trump's candidacy forced them to advance the crackdown before they gave it enough time to thoroughly normalize it.

AmericanKulak says

But that's not what happened --- People went onto Social Media to comment. Then, they sprung the shadowban/suspend trap - too fast.

Yeah, people moved to the trap, and when that trap was exposed, other companies like Parler, Bitchute, Rumble, Gab, etc popped up. These companies wouldn't EXIST if there wasn't censorship on Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter.

AmericanKulak says

It's why goolag and LGBTQMozilla went apeshit over Dissenter and similar comment add-ons.

Yep.

AmericanKulak says

I honestly believe Trump's candidacy forced them to advance the crackdown before they gave it enough time to thoroughly normalize it.

Well, whatever - good.

The one thing Trump did is make my cynical self in 2016 realize I was only 1% as cynical as I should have been. I have 100% confidence now in saying our government is run by a bunch of traitors to the Constitution. The legacy of Trump was to expose the abject criminality of our government, and media, and BIDNESS leaders.

I used to suspect it MIGHT be this bad, now I know it is. Instead of being in a perpetual state of uncertainty of whether I was being too cynical and MAYBE it's not as bad as I thought, I'm now in the position of KNOWING that people who don't realize what is going on, are just comically ignorant and ridiculously easy to control and propagandize. It's WAY worse than even I suspected, and I was cynical as hell. If somebody called me a conspiracy theorist back in 2016, I had to consider "maybe I do have something broken in my thinking", today it's "well, I never realized that MIT graduate was so fucking stupid and naive".

I thought it was getting bad, I remember David Horowitz and Michael Savage screaming about Woke Radical Profs in the 2000s while GOP Establishment maintained it wasn't a problem as the Millie College Students would start paying taxes or get mugged.

Much of why we are where we are and why it happened is because Radical Millies got jobs in Media. Peak Millie years were 1988-1992, so no surprise that 21-23 years later ...

In any case, we just had another 49-51 election in a "formerly" red state.

Though we won Virginia, precisely because the GOP Establishment helped Youngkin by not announcing rural precinct totals as fast as they could have. Kemp/Ratburger deliberately lost Georgia by reporting the vast number of suburban/rural red counties ASAP so DeKalb and Mail-Ins could find out how much was needed and then make up the difference. It's no accident Walker was up the whole night until the last hour or so.

And Florida went from being a swing state to deep dark red precisely because of the stringent rules and enforcement introduced and continually refined post Bush-Gore.

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/12/04/six-degrees-from-james-baker-a-familiar-figure-reemerges-with-the-release-of-the-twitter-files/

Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department, including the hoax involving the Russian Alfa Bank. When Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann wanted to plant the bizarre false claim of a secret communications channel between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, Baker was his go-to, speed-dial contact. (Baker would later testify at Sussmann’s trial). Baker’s name also appeared prominently in controversies related to the other Russian-related FBI allegations against Trump. He was effectively forced out due to his role and reportedly found himself under criminal investigation. He became a defender of the Russian investigations despite findings of biased and even criminal conduct. He was also a frequent target of Donald Trump on social media, including Twitter. Baker responded with public criticism of Trump for his “false narratives.”

After leaving the FBI, Twitter seemed eager to hire Baker as deputy general counsel. Ironically, Baker soon became involved in another alleged back channel with a presidential campaign. This time it was Twitter that maintained the non-public channels with the Biden campaign (and later the White House). Baker soon weighed in with the same signature bias that characterized the Russian investigations.

Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the New York Post ran an explosive story about a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden that contained emails and records detailing a multimillion dollar influence peddling operation by the Biden family. Not only was Joe Biden’s son Hunter and brother James involved in deals with an array of dubious foreign figures, but Joe Biden was referenced as the possible recipient of funds from these deals.

The Bidens had long been accused of influence peddling, nepotism, and other forms of corruption. Moreover, the campaign was not denying that the laptop was Hunter Biden’s and key emails could be confirmed from the other parties involved. However, at the request of the “Biden team” and Democratic operatives, Twitter moved to block the story. It even suspended those who tried to share the allegations with others, including the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who was suspended for linking to the scandal.

Even inside Twitter, the move raised serious concerns over the company serving as a censor for the Biden campaign. Global Comms Brandon Borrman who asked if the company could “truthfully claim that this is part of the policy” for barring posts and suspending users.

https://nitter.net/ggreenwald/status/1600173395638771723#m

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Dec 6
Last night on our show, we dissected the mentality of people like Twitter execs Vijaya Gadde and @yoyoel to see why these people really believe they should censor what information you can get: up today.

But first: @TimJDillon has a great breakdown of their sociopathic arrogance: