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Mike Kargela's avatar

You guys are going to have to bump this show to three hours daily to keep up with everything.

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RioRosie's avatar

Re Fauci:

Since that lying, corrupt fool has been pardoned, I hope he goes to his grave knowing he's been exposed for his crimes and history will regard him as evil.

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BookWench's avatar

He has not yet been completely exposed.

Our new HHS head may be able to assist in that regard, though.

Half the country probably still believes all the Covid propaganda.

I have relatives & friends who still dutifully line up for every booster, fuss about too few mask mandates, and are apoplectic over Trump's EO cutting federal funding to schools that require the poison Covid shots.

I just saw a guy drive by the other day, wearing a mask all alone in his car.

They still walk (and drive) among us, people!

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Mattlongname's avatar

Good reminder that about 25% of people could hear Fauci in Congress use his pardon to admit all the wrongdoing, and they still wouldn't believe it.

NY Times admits the US colonized the Ukraine government and crossed Putins red line for invasion? They ignore it.

Snopes admits Trump never called neo nazis fine people. They ignore it.

NPR admits there was no Russia collusion. They ignore it.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Brilliant response. I was thinking of a less delicate counter.

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BookWench's avatar

It's like they're all in a cult.

The weird thing is, they're all miserable, so I'm wondering what they get out of it?

A sense of belonging?

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RioRosie's avatar

Maskachusetts Dept. of Public Health continues to advertise the covid shot on TV. I'm trying to find out how much of my tax money is paying for these ads.

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jordan's avatar

Masks for covid were useless. However, my husband has cancer and is immunocompromised and must wear a mask when out. I respect and understand his position.

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BookWench's avatar

I can sympathize with that.

My late husband had multiple myeloma and kidney failure, & he insisted on wearing a mask whenever he went in for chemo -- just in case somebody nearby in the elevator or waiting room coughed up a lung.

But driving all alone? Nah.

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Anteros Astrology's avatar

I see precious little evidence that trump and friends are all that different from the global elite. Pregnant women and babies are being murdered and maimed every day by their poison jab. Am I supposed to believe the? They can't pull that poison from the market right now if they really wanted to? And maybe they can't, but they can't speak out against it and tell us the truth R. F k wrote the g** d*** book on it. And then Trump's gonna stand behind that b**** Altman, with his AI toys. And talk about spending another half a trillion dollars. I don't care if it's government money or not. It's a big giant boondoggle. F*** Trump, f*** Elon Musk f***** the World Health Organization for f*** the w. E f we're all gonna be at war way quicker than you wanna believe, so you better start getting ready. See my latest for accurate, nonpartisan, predictions of world changing events:

https://open.substack.com/pub/karlskellenger/p/men-at-war-under-the-dark-sun-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=fjmlo

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Karla M LaZier's avatar

He already had immunity under Constitutional Laws - demented Joe should have known that but he didn’t read expose of these laws on BailiwickNews.substack by Katherine Watt - read and demand Congress repeal these laws.

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PK's avatar

Walter is on fire...way to go guys, great episode.

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Anon's avatar

That 60 minutes segment is creepy because it's the same bland, calm, soothing delivery that they'd usually use for a story about a new kind of low-flow toilet invented in India, or a pilot school in Sweden that gives kids more recess per day, and you'd go, "Huh, that's cool." Except it's showing 6 armed cops break into someone's house for the "crime" of posting a pepe meme or something.

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Enna's avatar

I would’ve liked to hear a translation of what the police said at the door!

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Lisa's avatar

Extremely creepy. I think this show will be hard to forget. I believe we could use some very basic education—documentaries or whatever—to help people more fully grasp the First Amendment, its history and how it is supposed to work. Most younger people, for example, have never heard of Skokie. Also I just had a troubling discussion with an older man who used to run a health food restaurant, so very liberal, hippie type. He told me “free speech wasn’t absolute” and so forth—talking points being planted in the left during Covid and beyond. Matt and Walter or listeners: If you know anyone capable or interested in educating the public on this subject, the time is ripe.

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j juniper's avatar

ATW just keeps getting better and better every episode. I am sucked in.

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Robert Stewart's avatar

I hope you and Walter will discuss the response to J. D. Vance's timely comments on the collapse of EU institutions. When thinking about the "elite", It is critically important to remember that Hitler's rise was accomplished in large part because the elite class in Germany, ranging from the medical community (eugenics was very popular,) to the legal community, to academics (many of the senior professors were Jewish and their dismissal from Germany's publicly supported university system created opportunity for lesser lights) enthusiastically supported the Hitler madness in the 1933 to 1934 period. The same failed elite class is now the wellspring of the "soft" totalitarianism that concerned Vance.

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craazyman's avatar

Europe:

"France, Italy, Germany, England, Scotland, and the far north successively ran mad upon this subject, and for a long series of years furnished their tribunals with so many trials for witchcraft, that other crimes were seldom or never spoken of. Thousands upon thousands of unhappy persons fell victims to this cruel and absurd delusion. In many cities of Germany, as will be shewn more fully in its due place hereafter, the average number of executions for this pretended crime was six hundred annually, or two every day, if we leave out the Sundays, when it is to be supposed that even this madness refrained from its work . . .

It was a crime imputed with so much ease, and repelled with so much difficulty, that the powerful, whenever they wanted to ruin the weak, and could fix no other imputation upon them, had only to accuse them of witchcraft to ensure their destruction. "

-The Witch Mania, EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS. Charles Mackay, London 1852

It's remarkable reading: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm#witch

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Last One's avatar

If I remember correctly from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, the Nazi party was essentially dead after the failed putsch and similar thumpings. But was resurrected by the industrial business class as the only alternative to the communists.

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Robert Stewart's avatar

If I remember correctly, and it was 50 years ago reading the same book, Hitler's job in the early 20s was to infiltrate and spy on the communist underground. He found he was very good at addressing the crowd and became a popular fellow. The communists were very active in France also.

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No Use For a Band/Name's avatar

My dudes, go back and check the “reporting” on Ruby Ridge. It was a test-run for “government thugs murder people they don’t like, and you will not care because they weren’t in your cultural profile.”

The WaPo articles at the time didn’t mention Randy Weaver once without the accompanying phrase “white supremacist” or “racist.” They had zero problem with members of his family being murdered by the government. His alleged crimes did not warrant State ninjas with guns storming his cabin. He allegedly sold a couple sawed-off shotguns to an agent - not an atomic bomb.

And maybe he is/was racist, and fuck him if so. But govt snipers don’t get to shoot an unarmed woman in the face because her husband is an asshole and then get away with it (he blamed the Sun in his eyes iirc) to applause from the so-called Left.

If they can do it to them, they will do it to the rest of us. Past is prologue.

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BRetty's avatar

40% of liberal Americans (and likely 40% of conservative Americans, I can't objectively say) and so hunkered down in their informational Earthworks and bunkers that they will not ever listen. Even the words, "Ruby Ridge", will cause some to meet your eyes knowingly, most to never understand the reference, but also a deranged 3% to recognize those words and report you to the authorities as a dangerous white supremacist neo-Nazi. This is a serious thing; I work in Hollywood, I have been sent away from a set and almost fired for simply saying "Ruby Ridge" -- somebody overheard it and said something and I had to leave.

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Susan Steffner's avatar

Yikes!

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Susan Steffner's avatar

....and Koresh's Waco.....how to deal with the Fringe and people you don't like, American STYLE.....a failed Seventh-Day-Adventist and his Branch Davidians...."Shepherd's Rod"....Vernon Howell=David Koresh...Mount Carmel Center....Angel Warrior of Armageddon....illegal arms caches and the FBI.............BOOM !!!

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Biff's avatar

Walter’s perspective on the 60 Minutes stories was spot on. The blonde journalist looks on with rapture as the German prosecutors describe breaking into citizen’s homes and taking their phones and laptops from them. Her face sends the message “this is all so wonderful!”

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Christine Hill's avatar

Victoria Nuland's brother was involved in setting up the censorship regime at Facebook, and his involvement precedes what you have discussed so far. Relates to this whole European nightmare.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

So maybe Europes problems were invented in JDs homeland?

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Christine Hill's avatar

The American foreign policy establishment took a problem in Europe and made it worse.

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Rob Bird's avatar

Will you address Sy Hersh's substack from today? Curious to hear your well-considered thoughts.

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cade beck's avatar

I was thinking the same thing. I thought taibbi really admired Sy Hersh but he seems to be slowly degrading from journalist to partisan pundit

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Hahaha! No. ATW will not platform objectivity. Or even the slightest suggestion that billionaires are the problem, not the solution. Since the Rothschild’s. Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name

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Karla M LaZier's avatar

Remember HHS works in lockstep with DoD - exposing the truth has already been done, the question is will HHS acknowledge it- doubtful given the government, that is the US government, is at war against its people delivering a bio weapon via vaccine requiring multiple boosters to complete the job. Exposing malfeasance is a long way from fixing it - RFK knows about the Constitutional Laws that must be repealed by Congress in order to effect change but never acknowledges these facts- I believe RFK is controlled opposition like most in government following orders of oligarchic class or “deep” state. Window dressing changes may take plus but real change? I doubt it- hope to be proved wrong but won’t hold my breath.

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Rob Bird's avatar

You're talking about a massive agency (HHS) with very diverse goals and missions as it it were a single person. I'm sure it's comforting to simplify reality to such an extreme degree. It's hard to feel so self-assured when you have to deal with the reality on the ground.

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DaveL's avatar

Most conspiracy theories suffer from this defect.

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Biff's avatar

The phrase Regime In Exile describes the news media very well. Both here in the US and in Europe. It’s always been about strict control of the narrative. They get away with lying and spreading misinformation at massive scale. They may have lost some credibility and audience but there is no shortage of money that still pours into these organizations to support their narrative control

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Julia Rose's avatar

You are dodging the elephant in the room, “antisemitism” as censorship!

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cjonsson1's avatar

Kicking people's doors in and taking all their electronic equipment is happening in the US all the time. Several times the break-ins were mistakes.

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CCH23's avatar

It happened to Scott Ritter.

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Lois's avatar

Time for Matt’s quote

Motherfucker I’m an American

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Indigo B's avatar

Seems to me that transparency, eliminating corporate capture of agencies and conflicts of interest should extend throughout government, thus precluding much if any Musk/DOGE involvement.

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