patrick.net

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:

CNN.com is all about Jan 6th and the Electric Substation right now.

Anybody wanna guess why MSM is avoiding the Twitter-Deep State collusion story? The answer is they did the same with news.

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-december-7-2022

A little bit of sunlight is painful to those living in the dark

The people who:

☢️ created a weaponized chimera virus;

🚩 blocked access to safe & effective medicines;

☠️ forced you to take the most toxic shot ever invented;

🤥 while running the largest censorship, propaganda, & surveillance system in history...

🤡 want you to think that “Elon Musk is a threat to democracy!?”

AmericanKulak says

I can't see it. Can somebody explain it to me? There appears to be a baby there - that's the only thing that stands out. Maybe a bird?

I did do an image search, drastically reducing the resolution, you get this:



If my eyesight was significantly worse, I think I could see it.

https://sinfest.xyz/

richwicks says

I can't see it. Can somebody explain it to me?

No.
Only people of culture can see it.

Pepe

So Jack lied.

NuttBoxer says

Not sure if anyone looked closely at this, but he's making not too subtle comparisons between himself and God. Also, notice the soldiers keeping the people out of the ship with guns. This guy is fucking crazy.

"we dont shadow ban based on ideology"

It's technically true, making it maybe not technically a lie. But its intentionally misleading and will be misinterpreted by most readers, as designed. This tactic is so common in politics and recent media propaganda.

If pressed in court, they could hinge onto the true meaning of what it means to "shadowban", or even what they believed the meaning of shadow banning to be at the time of making the statement. Also, it doesn't sound like they ban based specifically on ideology - they ban people who spread certain types of info / narratives, and the list of bad speech just coincidentally happens to be mostly things said by and beneficial to conservatives. I'm sure they crossed their T's and dotted their I's by making sure to also shadow ban some left wingers too, just far fewer in numbers and meaningfulness. Morally bankrupt lawyers assisted in devising this scheme.

Hopefully some aggregate counts showing how many left vs right were banned will make people realize how blatant they really did target ideology, and just added camouflage.

Unfortunately this makes it clear shadow banning is here to stay. Although he more or less said this some months back he said something like "freedom of speech but not freedom of reach"

Alphabet agencies probably told him twitter was their spy and influence apparatus, and that he better get used to it.

AmericanKulak says

The JournaList Talking Point: Taibbi sold out to do PR for the Richest Man in the World.

I'd actually agree with this. Taibbi has always gone with the general flow of thought that will make him the most money. We all would if in his shoes. In this case I believe he's finally on the right side of things for once. He fucked up at Rolling Stone.

Link: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601395677845544960?t=4w_bLh-Rs8nPcc5W4M1sGg&ref_src=patrick.net

Following https://twitter.com/drefanzor?ref_src=patrick.net now! Thanks for the tip @YoelTraitor

Patrick says

Following https://twitter.com/drefanzor?ref_src=patrick.net now! Thanks for the tip YoelTraitor

Its fake

What's fake? The drefanzor account is real.

Patrick says

https://babylonbee.com/news/jack-dorsey-defiantly-states-he-has-never-heard-of-twitter

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281#m

Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
Dec 9
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th
Dec 9, 2022 · 11:04 PM UTC · Twitter Web App

Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
Dec 9
2. The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th...
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
Dec 9
3. We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
Dec 9
4. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @Shellenbergermd will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @BariWeiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.

Patrick says

What's fake? The drefanzor account is real.

I think he's saying the text is fiction. It seems like this guy makes lots of memes with fake text.

On a somewhat different tack, I think the booster must have blown up after landing, that shit was loud. Upper Stage and Hakuto-R looked good though.

EDIT: Or not, looks like it landed. Sounded bad.

Patrick says

Patrick says

https://babylonbee.com/news/jack-dorsey-defiantly-states-he-has-never-heard-of-twitter

It's almost as if all those bigoted beliefs, encapsulated in "Boys Beware" ephemeral films of the 1960s, were RIGHT ALL ALONG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmqNiFJyI28

Tomorrow by Noon

Crazy that child exploitation drag queen tranny shit was mostly greenlighted by womynz. Another proof that wommynz need checks and balances from !the patriarchy!, esp. single leftoid cat harridans. Otherwise they'll sell out the nation's kids to groomers and experimental gene therapies.

Also Musk was hobbled majorly by the leftoid covidiot retard commies who used the plandemic to increase their power and shut down businesses, it's not a stretch to assume if they were able to keep business closed for much longer that even companies likey tsla would have gotten into major trouble. They did everything to sabotage the work in Fremont, based on the covid "policy" idiocy, so I'm sure Musk has an axe to grind with mass murderer fraudci.

https://etana.substack.com/p/just-one-more-lockdown-my-king

Elon Musk took over Twitter in what feels like a whirlwind of chaos, shifting energy, cautious excitement from medical freedom advocates, and a somewhat glorious temper tantrum by those who have pledged undying (and sometimes dying) allegiance to The Institutions (The acronym health agencies + the acronym media outlets: FDA, CDC, NIH, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc)...

Elon is taking New Media and exploding it into the mainstream arena using sheer force and revealing a deep, dark well of information that Old Twitter kept under lock and key. Old Media are being left in a melting puddle, in a stuttering, dazed panic as Elon Musk bypasses the guardrails they used so arrogantly, and dumps out shocking information.

The method he's using is creative and efficient. He gave the documents to longtime independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger. They're all journalists who come from long careers in media as mainstream as it comes, such as The Rolling Stone and The NYT. They gradually removed themselves from the chains of working for giant corporations with special interests and took a quality group of readers with them. The journalists have tens of thousands of paid subscribers on Substack and are trailblazers in proving that media and journalists can be chosen by the people who trust them. Elon Musk handed the documents to the above journalists with the main caveat being that the information must be published on Twitter first and then may be published elsewhere, such as their own personal Substacks.

The first four parts of the Twitter Files detailed the deep rot of censorship in the highest level of leaders at Twitter. They reveal the panic bordering on euphoria over at Twitter HQ, as management including Yoel Roth and Vijaya Gadde gleefully discussed finally having justification to kick the sitting POTUS off their platform. They reveal that the CDC and the White House had a direct channel to a special committee at Twitter for fast-tracking the flagging of tweets or accounts that the White House didn't like. They reveal the utter hubris of those sitting behind the all-powerful "ban" buttons, as they pushed their thumbs on the scale of the 2020 election by actively censoring a century-old media outlet when the NY Post reported on Hunter Biden's laptop. Evil dictators throughout history would have given anything to hold the power held by the small group of censors at Twitter.

With all the caution that's warranted when putting hope and faith in any person or solution, Elon Musk's actions to date deserve a tremendous amount of credit and gratitude, and it appears as though this is just the beginning.