New disclosures from a Tulsi Gabbard-led working group point directly to the top, as the legacy of "Hope and Change" begins a plunge to the ocean floor
There have never been consequences for a host of scandals worse than Watergate, and call me crazy, but I don’t think that’s about to change.
There is no evidence and no authority that will convince the left-wing half of the country that they are wrong. About anything. They see this the same way we see claims like “Trump got Colbert canceled”.
Maybe not, but learning that such manipulation can occur lessens the unquestioning worship of the leadership of those years. It has to have an effect on some. It's never a win to blindly follow a leader off a cliff. As one who was on the edge of the cliff (life long D voter) I have looked back on decisions I accepted at the time, but had qualms about and see I should have followed my instincts.
Oddly, I was a lifelong Dem who couldn’t bring myself to vote for him because of some non-rational instinct that I couldn’t explain. Symbolically, he was everything I should have wanted. But, something didn’t jibe. I was proven right when Obama turned out to be a corporatist who sided with the banks in 2009 over homeowners who lost everything and people who lost their retirements.
I then voted for Trump thrice even though I had never voted Republican in my entire life. Again, based on pure intuition. My rational brain has now caught up with my instincts. I am not MAGA, but I’m definitely no longer a Dem, either.
When Oprah breathlessly introduced him to her audience as, “ The Chosen One” (her words, not mine), that cemented my feeling that we were being force-fed a load of hooey. I had just voted against Hilary in the 2008 Massachusetts primary so that’s the last time I voted Democrat, but he just didn’t ring true to me.
She really did. The effort by the media and leftist elites to sell Obama as the second coming was beyond the pale. “We are what we’ve been waiting for” is even more cringe worthy.
The teary eyed in Grant Park in 2008 in chicago was made for tv. The sycophants couldn't wait to wrap their bubbling lips around the phallus of being one of the 'good' white people. These insipid creatures deserve all of this.
Today he lives in 2 multi-acreage, multi- building oceanfront compounds. Where did all of the money come from?
His cult members spin that the money is from books and speeches. O’Reilly has sold far more books and is televised far more yet doesn’t have 2 oceanfront compounds.
Don’t forget his mansion in DC. A former president who has never, unlike other presidents, left the power to his elected replacement. Now we know it was the plan all along.
I watched Oprah every day and remember when she brought him out on stage. Now look at her; bitter and angry just like Obama. Telling us we'll never be able to vote again if Trump wins. As someone recently wrote, it would be good for the democrats if they stopped taking advise from Obama and IMO Oprah as well.
Oprah was bailed out by Janet Yellens FDIC at Silicon Valley bank. Imagine being a billionaire and not understanding that the limits on FDIC cash account insurance is 250 thousand.
The rest of us have higher banking costs because of that bailout. Poor Oprah - - would be shaking a cup on the Maui beach- let the taxpayers and banking public pick up their tabs.
And probably the worst thing Obama did was to destroy the progress this country made on race relations. We may never get it back...just look at where we are.
Imagine receiving the Nobel Peace Prize without having achieved anything noteworthy in your life, except for the color of your skin. For me, it showed that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has racist tendencies.
I fell for him, but i was no doubt blinded by a longtime loathing for Hillary. And as bad as he was, i still think he was not as bad as she would have been. It was also the last time i voted D top of the ticket, i was over him after 2 years and voted 3rd party in '12. And i've still never voted R top of the ticket.
I remember waking up and hearing Trump won. I laughed for probably half a minute. I didn't vote for him either but the schadenfreude took over. Her comeuppance was like honey.
Election night 2015 when Trump won — which interestingly was called a lot earlier than this last November’s race — I was pleased. The voters did something not predicted nor intended. Life and Merlot, that night, were good. And now we know there was a Plan B From The Family Quarters.
People should go to jail, but let’s start with “B — The True Executive Office Story.” Build on it. Don’t be in a hurry.
So true and well said. Everyone around me worshipped the new first ever black nominee. I kept my mouth shut so as not to be called a racist. However, after his 8 long years comes to find out my uber uber liberal sister in law (I cannot express uber enough here) tells me she didn't like him for reasons you state. I'm still angry not one banker went to jail, disgusting.
I was called a racist only once by a business colleague. After that, I kept my mouth shut. It never occurred to me that I should hide my position. The world had turned upside down.
See my comment upthread, as the Yellen treasury bailed out billionaires with FDIC insurance that covered millions over the 250,000 insurance threshold. FDIC bailouts for Silicon Valley bank failure and the other bank failure in NYC.
No, they didn’t bailout shareholders, but they did bailout billionaires- AGAIN
Yup. I’m just in there to reform the party away from the PMS wing (Progressivist Marxist Socialist). A significant MAGA Dem wing is needed. Swing voters, not blue no matter who.
As a professor myself, I immediately reacted to his arrogant lecturing despite his oratory skills. I felt that he never really respected the voters. I wanted him to be who they said he was but was mostly disappointed. Although I must say he could be funny at times.
I’m typically politically homeless (independent) but can’t find much of anything positive with Democrats. Other than serving select special interest groups, they seem hell bent on destroying this country.
I’ll never forget the elation of the stock market after the ACA was passed. The healthcare stocks went up and up and so did our health insurance premiums:-)
O'Bama walked into a world wide mess that Bush created and very few people on the planet could have handled it as well as he did, in my opinion. However, absolute power reveals, and what this investigation by Tulsi Gabbard reveals is the hubris the ascent to POTUS exaggerated in this ambitious, talented thoughtful man. Now, he has joined the bald-hornet hive of the corrupt and isolated Democrats in the buzzing stinging beltway nest with no notions of stepping away from the establishment propaganda. Where could he go?
Obama has always been, and continues to be, a cardboard cutout of a human; no discernible history, no accomplishment based on verifiable achievements, just the Manchurian candidate pushed along by powerful forces to be used as a beard for their nefarious deeds. Biden is no different, just a lackluster facsimile of The One.
Atticus, I respectfully disagree with a part of your assessment. He certainly had no accomplishments prior to seizing power- sort of community organizer and a professor with short tenure. Not much. But from his bio, he was a cold-hearted calculating careerist, who climbed up cultivating useful friendships and various liaisons. It is my understanding that he had set his eye on the WH years before he had any realistic expectation of becoming a candidate. But he labored relentlessly to get there. Many of the traits we liked in him like his self-depreciating humor for example, was all a mask and a carefully created image. I haven’t seen any proof he was a marionette played by more powerful sources. Maybe we will see it, maybe not. I think he was his own man and not a good one.
He wasn't even a real professor. He was an adjunct who taught ascoteric subjectd, not things like contracts or evidence. ALso he never published a thing. He was given a sabbatical to work on a scholarly article for a law review (As all law professors are required to do if they want to maintain their positions) and he used the time to write his made up autobiography. He is was and will always be a total fraud.
"I haven’t seen any proof he was a marionette played by more powerful sources...I think he was his own man and not a good one."
I agree with "not a good one", but the rest of what you state about barry self-directing his unlikely ascent to POTUS: geez- really? I'm not buying it...
Interesting view on the guy who led the US out of a near depression and reduced the federal deficit more than anyone before or since. Directed military funds toward peaceful research and energy efficiency, stood up for unions and equal pay. But I'll keep in mind the portrait of him you paint here, too.
“…reduced the federal deficit more than anyone before or since.”??????
The federal debt went up more than any other president, before and after. It went up by $10 trillion. His goons ( Summers, Geithner…) moved trillions off incompetent banks’ ledgers and on to the public debt.
It was the last time I voted until 2024 and the first time since 1988, I only did so because of the opposition, which was the uniparty's first attempt to get a doddering easily manipulated old coot/crazy compromised bitch ticket into the white house. It certainly was not lost on me that in 2020, most of the female (it HAD to be female) VP choices were, like the execrable S. Palin, cult adjacent. We would have simply had the Cackler and the Autopen about a dozen years earlier had they won.
2008 was actually one of the shittiest election ever. The lack of anything approaching presidential material was shocking and instructive.
For many people (both sides!), their political party is a cult. I'm starting to think one definition of a cult would be the inability to entertain *any* criticisms of your own side.
Anybody who has zero questions of leadership from that era is already a lost cause. I voted Obama twice, and he was the last DC level Democrat I voted for. The last Republican was Brian Fitzpatrick for Congress (early 2000's). I haven't voted D or R in a state or national election (local is different) since 2012.
The Obama regime built upon the Cheney Administration and their only goal was enrichment, and building agencies to siphon tax payer dollars to friends and themselves.
Yes. But do not underestimate the powers that are now being gathered. Eric Holder and Soros Jr., et al. on speed dial. War is coming. I am willing to engage, and thankful for this forum. Time to gird our loins, whatever that means.
The Soros-Abedin partnership does seem so. The NYT wasn't bashful in their characterization of that union. This was held on the same day as a huge protest but while the peasants were protesting the royalty was celebrating. it's paywalled, but title is enough
I think they grabbed a bunch of Diddys baby oil for the after party.
How do these "chicks", to use a word, like Sanchez and Huma get regularly passed around their circle of influence. I guess the men who end up with them lost the "key party"...
Wasn't it obvious from the beginning that the entire DNC/CCP/Brussels agenda was/is a psyop. Crisis to crisis no meaningful solutions allowed. Good guy/bad guy scenarios and the convenient "gee we're so shocked and upset--who would have thought the thugs would do this to little old me" comments that allow all the "i've got mine and it ain't happening to me so it ain't happening" complacents to pretend the looters and surveillance spooks aren't laying the American Republic to waste. Europe is gone!! It was swallowed by the LIE now temporarily choking on its attempt to swallow the American Republic. Everyone saw it--lived it-- and got sick in the soul from being force fed the LIE. The Republic--its Constitution and the free citizen are the only engines of survival. Trump is possible temporary reprieve--not salvation. Whatever remains of the American Republic resides--as it always has--with We the People. The Clintons gutted Glass-Steagall --opened the door for the '08 looting of the American treasury--and got rich doing it. The Cheney Presidency and the Bush grift opened the door to perpetual war--and got rich doing it. Obama allowed the final marriage of corporate/surveillance spook land and got rich doing it. Trump/Palantir is eyeballing you through this screen right this moment. Russiagate--like all the other "oh my-oh my-oh my" distractions is the stench not the actual totalitarian sewer.
No major newspaper will even cover the story in any meaningful way; nor will the major networks and cable shows other than Fox. My liberal friends have never heard of the Twitter files. I am sure they will never hear of this story, either.
I tried and tried to get a major journal to accept an article about the importance of the Twitter Files. I've never had an article turned down before. The only reason given me was my viewpoint wasn't correct. The article was accepted at a Substack. It had nearly 3000 views. I received private messages from people thanking me but noting they would be uncomfortable thanking me in public. You can look at the article for free and if you do, please like it. The article is "𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲." It has a lot of footnotes. I reprinted the Twitter Files in the appendix.
"Investigative journalism—like Taibbi’s “Twitter Files”—stands out as a recent, egregious example of this as his articles were not covered by any academic outlet or even allowed to be cited in Wikipedia....Currently, Wikipedia is the most used source for answers to questions or background on topics worldwide, and open access citations on Wikipedia have influenced the diffusion of science. (Teplitskiy, 2017). Wikipedia’s influence, amplified by its use in Google search results and various AI models, underscores the consequences to discoverability in excluding certain content....We believe that the findings published in the “Twitter Files” are highly consequential in understanding 21st century censorship. They are a landmark in understanding digital censorship by omission."
Thank you Frank. It's a very big challenge when even the people who say they are against censorship censor discussions about THEIR censorship. I think December 2, 2022 (The day MT posted the first Twitter Files report) is a major event in the history of Free speech and one day the world will recognize it.
Wikipedia is as corrupt a vehicle of information as MSM has been. I would never believe any "details" they provide, and esp when the verbiage leans towards an opinion, usually disdainful of conservative thoughts.
Is there no integrity or courage in Washington? The felons persist and the honest people are cowards. Where is the pushback and loud voices. I can’t imagine there aren’t hundreds of Federal Employees that know and can attest to these frauds. Why don’t some step up and scream till they get attention. All the hearings and Special Counsels are a waste of time. Durham report!! Come on.
Every reaction will boost it, so much appreciated. It's actually very calm compared to how I feel. How can people who on one hand protest censorship on the other hand don't want to learn these truths? Baffles me.
They’re not against censorship. They are in favor of suppressing ideas with which they disagree and facts that undermine the preferred narrative. They — meaning well-educated people on the left—are the least intellectually curious people I know. It’s depressing. I’m grateful Matt and other independent journalists forge ahead, undeterred: We need the historical record, and there’s always a chance that the truth will reach more people, however slowly.
Because truth doesn't matter to them. they're too invested in their church and can't risk being excommunicated. It's easier to not be tied down by principles and morals, and just accept what you're told to believe. obedience is their watch word.
We've seen this same process with Covid, Biden's mental acuity, Inflation being in your imagination until Trump got elected, and over and over. It's the same messaging each time and it asks that you don't think too much about whether the story makes sense. Because it never does.
Same folks who project paroxysms of rage when it comes to sexual abuse of minors by Mr. Epstein and alleged co-creepers, but hand-wave human trafficking facilitated by our open borders or grooming gangs in the UK. They need power and influence to help unfortunate people. People who don't grant them such power and influence are subhuman and deserve nothing.
Thank you, Kathleen, for putting all this information together. I "liked" your article. You have provided a valuable resource for those of us who are trying to track the suppression of alternative points of view pervasive in so many cultural institutions, from the mainstream media to K-12 education to academia to public libraries.... what have I left out? Unfortunately, so many of our institutions--or the individuals within them--that were once proud to challenge conventional points of view have become completely conformist and totalitarian.
It takes a while for academic databases to index things and we checked and checked (We work where is free access to these databases at our libraries). Empty set. Empty set. I know there is a parallel story about COVID, but that wasn't our focus. We thought that so many professors in universities talk such a good game about free speech that there would be a lot of discussion about "Twitter Files." There was not.
But you must realize that more than 90 percent of professors in the liberal arts (according to some figures I've seen) identify as "liberal" or "progressive"--meaning they actually oppose free speech. I believe a majority of college students identifying as "progressive" oppose free speech, also. I went to college in the late 60s-early 70s. The world has turned upside-down since then.
Great article! I like the analogy to samizdat, but so far you don’t get sent to Siberia for reading Substack.
Good summary of the problems with Wikipedia. It would seem the trend to force the use of artificial intelligence (in spite of its massive power requirements) will duplicate Wikipedia’s defects, except much amplified.
Vet nor, YES you are right and it is a complicated tale of trying to work within the constraints of Wikipedia. The actual "Twitter Files"--the series MT did between December 2, 2022 and March 9, 2023--are open access here at Racket: 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲:𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 w𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. (link: https://www.racket.news/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter).
However, getting an article about them in Wikipedia was cage match. I work in Wikipedia some (articles about libraries, mostly) and I made what I thought was a beautiful chronological table of all of the Twitter Files. It was deleted because I was told by the Wikipedia editors that Wikipedia won't allow a link to anything in Substack. Also the entire article was set for deletion. There were a few of us who felt otherwise and fought to have the page. It was allowed to stay.(it is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files ) However, many bad faith editors have framed the story incorrectly, I think. AS the "Twitter Files" story grew the only actual link in it to the Twitter Files article in Wikipedia is at the very bottom of the article. Treatment of the "Twitter Files" is a case study in how real information can be suppressed in Wikipedia. If you are really interested you can read the history of the editing of the Twitter Files on the "Twitter Files" Wikipedia page history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twitter_Files&action=history&dir=prev
I then became determined to write about this, but was turned away in academic journals. So, my colleague and I told the story at a Substack--Heterodoxy in the Stacks. All this is one example of how information can be suppressed. I know this is a long explanation. Thank you for observing this.
"It was deleted because I was told by the Wikipedia editors that Wikipedia won't allow a link to anything in Substack". Sadly, yet another case of judging the messenger instead of the message. So intellectually dishonest and lazy, and so 1984-ish!
This is exactly the problem, Bagehot; you nailed it. We have two parallel media streams, so they never cross or overlap.
I have old high school friends who live on a steady diet of msnbc and when the Hunter Biden laptop story broke before Election Day 2020 I texted to ask them if they thought this would hurt Biden's chances. They had no idea what I was talking about.
Morning Joe and The Weekend are currently popping champagne corks over the Epstein files, convinced that THIS TIME they will finally bring down the Trump administration. Bwahahahaha!
If I shared any of this column of Matt's with them they would just roll their eyes at me.
I keep trying, Kathleen, as you clearly do, too. But I come from a core group of seven 70+-year-old white women, and I appear to be the only one who has changed her mind over a single issue since 1970. If you enter your eighth decade still thinking exactly the same things you thought when you were 16 years old, what was the point of the intervening decades? Was there no learning involved at all? "So you had it all figured out when you were still stuffing your bra and slathering Clearasil all over your face? Well... good for you, I guess." %-)
My friends are like the old white women you see and hear singing dreadful homemade anti-Trump songs at "No Kings" rallies, desperately trying to recapture their youthful exploits of "sticking it to The Man." They all have exactly the same opinions on every single issue. I'm sure they shake their heads sadly when I'm not in the room. As Matt often remarks, he has frequently been greeted with, "What happened to you, man?" Same here.
Life happened. The facts of life are conservative. I'm sure -- I hope -- I will change my mind about a few other things before someone else pulls the sheet up over my face. I sure hope so. Loving and learning: the two most important aspects of life. ;-)
I have a few friends who have seen through this but most not. Thank you for making me feel less alone. I cracked up at this: "My friends are like the old white women you see and hear singing dreadful homemade anti-Trump songs at "No Kings" rallies, desperately trying to recapture their youthful exploits of "sticking it to The Man." They all have exactly the same opinions on every single issue."
I voted for both Carter and Clinton twice, but I think the last Democrat I voted for was Gore (I know, I know…).
I’m with extended family now with a very heavily Democrat leaning, but other than saying Trump is an awful human being, they never point to a policy for discussion. We really don’t discuss politics with family. At least we’re all rabid Red Sox fans.
Another white woman in her 70s here, with baby boomer friends all on the other side of the aisle. I could have written your comment, only I don’t write nearly as well as you do!
I feel your pain, Bagehot. Again, I would ask my friends their thoughts on these latest Obama/Brennan/Comey revelations and allegations... but they won't know what I'm referring to. %-(
"If you enter your eighth decade still thinking exactly the same things you thought when you were 16 years old, what was the point of the intervening decades?"
Exactly my take on all this: grade school social interaction carried into adulthood on a National scale, affecting the safety and security of a First World nation.
On my mom’s side of the family, quite honestly, they are nuts. We email maybe once a year if that. The misconceptions are mind boggling and increasing.
I have the theory that many people are locked into what they believed when 17 or 18. Not sure why, biological? or is it that coincides with the end of high school, and psychologically that represents the end of learning, which was a lot of work up to that point?
I had a 65 year old female friend of mine (whom I attempt to avoid politics with, otherwise, she's lovely) declare that we needed a revolution.
I was all, "Not at my age, thanks, I don't want to rock the boat". I mean we both live in trailers on farms and have to be picky about food intake due to allergies (likely the result of GMO and Roundup). We are going to be the first to go, or die shitting our brains out in the woods somewhere if a true 'civil war' breaks out.
I'm good with Boogaloo holding off for awhile. Like until after I'm dead.
If you want to see how powerful beliefs on the left are, look at los angeles. 16,000 homes and apartment building burned to the ground 6 months ago. Little help has been offered by the city or state and both drag their feet on approving new construction. Yet they rushed through help for illegal immigrants who are losing their jobs.
Pay close attention to what they are doing. Ignore what they say.
Newsome is phasing-out single family homes (though not in the area where he lives) to focus on multi-floor construction and greater population density. Guess these fires were a happy accident, that they in no way encouraged or failed to prevent. https://danville.ca.gov/CivicSend/ViewMessage/message/153105
You are entirely correct. This article of Matt's is a barn burner, and there is virtually nothing on mainstream media. What little there is claims that this is to take focus off the Epstein circus, of which they are sure Trump is stonewalling to protect himself.
Yeah because everyone knows Matt is a right wing Maga guy. One of the great thing about Matt is he was once one of them. Recall he wrote for Rling Stone. The Twitter files raised his profiles and perhaps his eyebrows. He is not Trump cheerleader, but he has seen government censorship up close and personal. He has also felt the long arm of government whose LE and Treasury men showed up at his home on Christmas eve and right before his Congressional testimony to try and intimidate him. People should seriously consider what he writes..
Well, as I think Matt is suggesting, this is not going to be a matter of scandal, but a matter of indictment. It's possible the media will manage to hush up a trial, but it would be much harder.
I suspect the preferred narrative would be "See? We told you. Trump's using the justice system to attack his political opponents." Followed by calls for impeachment.
This is not about political enemies (which we witnessed for over 2 years). The possible allegations are perjury, treason, and a cout d’etat that happened a decade ago. What kind of nation are we if our leaders can c ommit these acts while “serving?”
Unfortunately the word “retribution” is being used to describe the Administration’s work, without recognition that this is Republic-saving accountability action. I don’t if the left thinks in those terms since Watergate.
What would be the charges, and wouldn’t the statute of limitations prevent prosecution? I’m all for the truth coming out, even if only on Matt’s Substack, but I would like to see someone lay out how this actually leads to indictments.
IANAL, but for one thing I believe the law regards conspiracy as an ongoing offense — it doesn’t stop being a conspiracy just because you aren’t actively conspiring any more.
Well, the “unnamed co-conspirator” in dumping Biden had to be Obama. That just happened last year!
But I would have to agree regarding the ICA: bad events, but not enough to prosecute, plus a recent Supreme Court decision immunizes a president against actions within the scope of his role as president.
You are right, and it was an official act to call a Meeting of his IC people to ask them each to create fake intelligence supporting Russian interference in the 2016 election. Day 1. Twelve days later that cloak was gone. Good question.
Questionable whether the things Matt touched on were “within the scope”. But I don’t want us putting ex-Presidents in jail unless it’s beyond question. I’d be more than satisfied with a few underlings, starting with Clapper.
2 things have happened— first DNI Gabbard presented the case in spectacular detail— equally important— a whistleblower came forward to call bullshite on the previous narrative.
I will say this again: if found guilty of treason— only one outcome will suffice— execution period
If Matt continues to suggest so, however, and no indictments are forthcoming, will he write an article every two weeks about Gabbard and himself blowing up a nothingburger?
So this evidence isn't enough for you? There were almost no indictments after the 2008 financial collapse and none for the WMD narrative that led to the invasion of Iraq. Should Matt write an article every two weeks to apologize for these nothingburgers? He's made a big deal of both. Since there were no indictments I guess he was out of line.
Sadly, true. We must always remember that most folks on the street don't know who their senators are, or even how many they're supposed to have.
Only the information one-percenters interested enough to, for example, subscribe to Matt, will ever suspect that something fishy happened, and probably even did.
Exactly. I totally agree. Prosecuting he guilty depends on public support, and in spite of all of the great reporting done by outstanding investigative journalists like Matt, the public will never know what the truth is regarding Obama and his team of subversives. The media will use their well proven methods of spin to turn this story into one more negative Trump story, and too many American people will buy it. To the news media, the elites, Obama is a saint, as such it will not be much of a challenge for the news media to spin this not as a story about the abuse of power of Obama and his administration, but the opposite.
In official Church procedures there are three steps to sainthood: a candidate becomes "Venerable," then "Blessed" and then "Saint." Venerable is the title given to a deceased person recognized formally by the pope as having lived a heroically virtuous life or offered their life. To be beatified and recognized as a Blessed, one miracle acquired through the candidate's intercession is required in addition to recognition of heroic virtue or offering of life. Canonization requires a second miracle after beatification. The pope may waive these requirements. A miracle is not required prior to a martyr's beatification, but one is required before canonization.
If that story convinces even 10% of the population that Obama et al are guilty, the Democratic Party is over. The innermost core of The Cult are lost to the TDS mindvirus forever I'm afraid.
This morning, 7/19/25, I checked all the major news outlets, none had the Tulsi Gabbard DBI dump. Newsmax was first, 22 hours later, and Fox early this afternoon. Somebody named Julie Kelly had it about the same time a Taibbi/Racket, Friday, 6:16 pm. And Taibbi and Walter Kern were discussing the Obama Dec. 9 corruption meeting a week ago.
Thanks— I don’t enjoy being right about this. I would expect Julie Kelly to cover the story— she’s done phenomenal work covering January 6. But as others have pointed out, the media may cover actual charges and—let us hope—convictions.
Don't forget that the Ribbon Cutting for Obama's Presidential Center is suppose to happen Spring 2026. They may find out about this when no one shows up.
Tofu dreg bolts! Classic to keep. This “project” has successfully shaken the beehive for a decade now. People are going to be as mad as hornets.
The minority owned rebar subcontractor has a $40M suit filed for discrimination. You couldn’t design a Bigger Building Disaster the way it is all coming together.
A week ago, I was nice to a liberal friend by admitting I liked Kamela's laugh. Then I toned it down with a reference to her word salad. My friend was puzzled. She, who loves and voted for Kamela, had never before heard a reference to Kamela's word salad.
A big part of this story is Media’s enthusiasm in publishing news regarding Obama’s intelligence lackeys’ “leaking” of the revised ICA. So they are party to this fraud, so can’t help but covering this up.
Of course you're right. But even if some MSM reporters thought for a moment that journalistic integrity was a thing of value, editors dare not risk losing subscribers by publishing inconvenient truths.
Whether a lot of people hear about it or not is not as important as putting these jokers behind bars for their perfidy. I dare the lamestream press to not report the perp walk of Obama and company.
As we’ve seen in the Epstein debacle there is a class of people who will never be held accountable for anything. That said, investigations, depositions, and subpoenas will inflict a certain degree of pain on some of the most contemptible human beings alive. I’d love to see Obama’s grizzly face after the ride… it’s grim enough right now.
Define accountable-- do you actually mean put in jail or what? I do wish people would say what they mean. Accountable (and I spell that word correctly ; ) can mean different things.
The Courts sealed the documents after convictions in the Epstein trial (20 years ago?). This was to keep the victims and falsely accused from the public. They are not releasing it to the DOJ for the same reason. The public doesn’t have a “right to know.”
There was a story at Townhall today. TreasSec responded to some post by Yellen and laid her out hard. Something about beer and mushrooms. It was comedy gold. I am liking this Bessent guy.
07/19/25: He pisses on CBS on the air on Monday (07/14/25) and then is fired three days later (07/17/25). Simple as that. The negative $40 million/year --- every 7 days, the show loses $769,000 --- is a "gravy alibi."
Meanwhile, no one has asked the obvious question: If a show is losing $40M a year, what LUNATICS decide to keep it going for ANOTHER 10 months?
CBS would lose less money running a show with NO advertising until they could plug in a replacement, probably in three months time.
Hell, sell all of the air time in a solid block to promotional-products advertisers.
Silver Lining: Now we know how Shari Redstone's net worth dropped from $40 billion to $2 billion. Genius, that woman. The financial Mother Theresa of the American legacy media.
Thank you Tulsi for the intensive work you’ve done. This prosecution, if the AG determines the evidence supports perjury and treason charges, will not be a copy of the original hoax of 2016. It won’t matter if we are Democrat or Republican. The crux of the matter is whether we still have a Democratic Republic or if our government is able to subvert the will of the People in subverting the authority of their duly elected President. Remember that at the beginning of this hoax, before the election, it was determined by the DNI that Russia did not have the ability for cyber intrusion in our elections. After the election the Russia Hoax began in full swing, occupying all of our lives, including the Trump administration and family. It ended with Durham’s “nothing to see here” two years later. This is an allegation of a coup d’ etat that, if proven, shows us that our democracy is on a rapid trajectory downward. We don’t want this to ever interfere with and destroy the nation we love. No R’s or D’s this time. But justice will have its day after 10 long years of loss of respect for the Office at the least.
I understand your frustration, I share it! However with what’s been uncovered here convincing the left wing half of the country is irrelevant and a fool’s errand. Many of them are hopelessly beyond help and reason in these matters anyway. What matters is the rule of law, the crimes committed that can generate indictments and what can be proven in a court of law. It is very important as the democrats tell us everyday that we must get to the bottom of this “to preserve our democracy”! Given the arrogance, the hutzpah, the sheer audacity of these men and women to think they were above the law and could ignore the will of the people, heads better roll this time! If they don’t, it will happen again and every time it happens we all lose a little more of our freedom. So JD there better be consequences this time for all our sake.
What was that phrase that al gore used to explain why he couldn't be prosecuted - "no controlling legal authority" or some similar nonsense. In other words he broke the law but there was no agency that could prosecute him.
Colbert got his show canceled because he was producing a product that people were tired of hearing. Viewership was continuing to fall. His monologue devolved into meaness and disinformation. The public was fed up.
In my opinion, elites in America have become an untrustworthy and despised group.
I rather think that a large percentage of the small "left wing" are onboard with Taibbi's (Gabbard's, Mueller's, Durham's) findings and believe the Russian collusion story is a hoax. It's the liberals, the establishment centrists, who cannot look this tyranny in the eye without their wigs going ablaze. It's the libs, not left, who abide by Obama's tin halo.
Your point is well taken but we must record for history. Someday when the temperature has dropped and historians start to write analytically about these events, the facts must be available. That means getting the facts on the record now. Maybe, just maybe, the nation, if it is still existante, will be alert to this kind of evil and can avoid it.
What did Obama know and when did he know it? Hope and change was a propaganda mirage that one shotted the millennials. Doubt he faces any justice, just like he received a Nobel piece prize even though he prolonged wars and drone striked American citizens.
I don’t think he will either, but this does put some things into perspective. Yes, Rice’s memo to herself is that of a connected leader trying to save her President. The work to get Trump off the ballot, bankrupted, and in jail also demonstrates the fear the Obama regime feared of his re-election in 2024. They knew he would clean house and get loyalists in positions to understand how holdover democrats helped hinder his first term, and then start finding things they shouldn’t find.
Comey’s daughter’s firing should put them all on edge. I would expect more that were in her orbit to be unemployed soon. That action is called clearing the battle space.
Was written to provide cover for him. Very clumsy.
It is amazing how they truly thought they’d never lose. Something to keep in mind as the anti DC forces are ascendant. We should take care to not be so arrogant.
Obama is at the root of this rotten tree. He exists only because of how dirty politics are conducted in Chicago Illinois. Corruption is just what is done sort of like breathing is. It’s done without thinking it’s wrong. The whole DC swamp feared Trump and the whole DNC did everything it could do to cheat Hillary into power yet failed. Just imagine what it would look like if the DNC didn’t cheat in the big cities in every election.
Doubt that Obama will ever face any consequences and if he did. I would want Trump to pardon him after he is convicted so we can learn just how corrupt the entire DC swamp is.
I don't see how Obama could be indicted for anything based on the Supreme Court's decision re immunity for presidential acts. Not that I'm in any way a fan of SCOTUS's called ball on this pitch...
First - let me repeat that I do not agree with SCOTUS. That being said, asking and guiding intelligence assessments to get the result you believe in (want) seems to be fully within the "outer perimeter" - just as would asking for an economics report to be fluffed to make you look better. Didn't Trump say that he knew better than the US intelligence community about whether Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons? The Intel community reports to POTUS, and POTUS can ask/direct to get different results. I think SCOTUS pretty much punted on the President's intent - if an act is "presidential", desired outcome doesn't seem to matter. I'll be happy to be proven wrong on this.
Interesting concept isn’t it. So are the Presidents official duties include telling his intelligence agency to manufacture fake intelligence against the opposition parties candidate? I wonder how a Supreme Court would rule on that question.
Were his actions all official actions of the Office? At least until 1/20/17? I would not want to see him incarcerated, no matter what. It would disrespect the Office.
Bill had secret service with him and has no ties to the island. He did use Epstein plane for the CGI,around the world. Thats why they have been talking about 22 flights instead of one big trip with multiple landings and departures.
I'm always reminded of Charlie Brown running to kick the football every time I hear someone tell me how justice is just around the corner for Hillary/Obama/Epstein/whoever. This time for sure!
Epstein is dead and any information about him is sealed forever. The courts will not release the info to the DOJ lest it leak to the public. This is for the sake of the innocent. I hope people can live with that. It’s a distraction.
I don't disagree that nothing will come of this. Our Government is greedy and corrupt and no one ever pays for their criminal malfeasance.
That said, maybe the Epstein story is the distraction.
Why fabricate things to destroy Trump - Russian collusion, bogus impeachments, lawfare, election interference (51 Intel experts), etc.... - if someone has the actual goods on him via his relationship with Epstein?
We may or, more likely, may not ever learn what's being covered up about Epstein, but we know for a fact that an Obama Administration Intel cabal plotted to overthrow our duly-elected Government in 2016-17 - and are still at it.
And today we're talking about Trump's (possible) contribution to a birthday book for Epstein's 50th!?!
If they go after one person on the list, then they risk that person spilling the beans on everyone else. It's a Mexican standoff.
There is no way that the an intelligence agency-- be it domestic, foreign or both-- running a pedophile prostitution ring which was used to blackmail politicians and other influential people can ever be a side story. It is a worse crime than the Russia hoax.
My point is not that the Epstein matter isn't a big deal. Of course it is. He was a sick scumbag and his evil perverted friends should rot in prison for life. My point is that the media is treating the Obama Intel Cabal's criminal traitorous malfeasance as a "distraction," as though this, too, isn't a huge deal. To support my point, consider that last night's ABC Evening News lead with Trump/Epstein; no big surprise. But on a day when the US Director of National Intelligence released newly de-classified documents implicating a former US President of treasonous conspiracy, ABC News ignored it completely. I don't expect accurate or fair coverage from our MSM, but when in US history is that a "distraction" and not a story worth at least a mention?
He killed AN American citizen. Specific accuracy with this sort of thing is important. He (despicably) had a single American assassinated with drones for his association with terrorism.
Some constitutional lawyer he was - I suppose that means he studied how to break it, such as, by repealing the Smith-Mundt Act. That was what “legalized” subsequent propagandizing of US residents.
Lots of presidents have given orders that have led to the deaths of American citizens; this is not the objection to Obama. Obama said 'we should kill this specific guy' about an American citizen.
Maybe clapper is the deep throat on this matter or maybe more likely he’s been turned by the current DOJ and maybe that’s why his name is it in the news.
MT— we are on the cusp of August— when most take the month off. Could you and WK take a deep dive into topics which have never gotten proper consideration: Nord Stream, covid’s aftermath of deBanking,worldwide squelching of free speech/thought, Ukraine lame duck escalation— leading to Russian bomber ambush (clearly pulled off by deep STATE) and anything else you both can dig up after pulling all these strings. Can think of nobody else doing a better job
Matt, skimming thru the posts from your readers here, it seems unanimous. No skepticism at all when it comes to gabbard's treason referral, as if Trump is somehow a reliable source read your post. seems like a nothingburger but all the commenters swallowing it whole. - just like the dems went off the rails about trump colluding with Russia. Treason - seems crazy. Maybe I'm missing something but the only allegation in your post has is that the dems claimed that Russia interfered in the election. Didn't Rubio's senate committee find the same thing? I think the nuttiness of your followers, fed by you, is discouraging.
I feel that Tulsi is nobody's fool. I'd bet money she has much more than this document release to back up her calls for accountability. So... definitely possible.
As DNI she is using primary sourced documents. Not rumors ,secret sources, partisan commentary, etc. She is the most credible in the room on this because she has the actual real material. Not speculation.
Agree. If you are doing this right, this document dump is to get the rats running scared and people willing to flip. She should have a the truly damning stuff held back.
I've always maintained that the only way to really break through the illusion of division as presented by mainstream media is if some big participant finally fesses up and admits to some of the sins.
You have to think of this Russiagate conspiracy more broadly that being aimed just at undermining Trump and his presidency. The resulting Russophobic hysteria, which overtook the US media and public discourse over the following years, was aimed squarely at preparing the country for the ongoing proxy (and perhaps the coming direct) war against Russia. Without this obscene campaign of demonization of Putin and Russia launched in earnest by the Russiagate the American public would never have given its consent to this war. So the instigators of this conspiracy must have planned wider and beyond just Trump. And now it seems that they somehow managed to co-opt Trump himself into it.
"In retrospect, the economic transition to capitalism was a catastrophe for most Russians. It is also clear that the West should have dealt with post-Cold War Russia better than it did. Both the West and Russia would have been considerably more secure today if the chance for Russia to join the European Union, and possibly even NATO, had at least been kept open in the 1990s. Instead, their exclusion has given Russians the sense of being outcasts and victims..."
So Putin's violent suppression of Chechnya, followed by the Russian invasion of Georgia, followed by Russia's occupation and annexation of Crimea, followed by the well-publicized mobilization of a Russian invasion force on Ukraine’s borders, followed by the Feb. 24, 2022 offensive, would never have registered on the USA?
This is exactly the type of Russophobic propaganda I was talking about - piling up nonsense upon nonsense upon nonsense for the sake of justifying a war.
“In Chicago… we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program—the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance.” Adolph Reed, in 1996
And 1 that got rid of his primary election opponents by checking all the petition signatures required to get on the ballot. Instead of "working" to help the community "the team" was busy doing audits. Oh, and don't forget, his (R) opponent in the general election suddenly had a sex scandal to deal with.
86 days before the election, the highly favored incumbent suddenly found himself nailed to a mud fence. Obama was installed, the rest is history. This was the Chicago political machine epitomized.
You must be a fellow Illinoisan. Yep, there was talk at the time of Ditka making a run for the seat. He had nearly God status in Illinois, so it might have changed history. He was quite conservative though, and Madigan was at his mightiest in steering the Democrat Obama, so it might not have changed much. One of the biggest factors was timing. Jack Ryan was trashed with the divorce scandal at the 11:59 hour, leaving no time to ready and run a contender. Madigan is filthy, but no fool.
I'm downstate too. You are probably looking forward, like me, to Pritzker funding Chicago's mass transit deficit with state-wide taxes. That's going to be costly and painful.
If you watch from 1:52:00 to 2:08:00 you might decide to watch it from the beginning. We have, and we continue to work very hard. Should you decide to invest 2 hours you will be able to see “the dirt” we have on the players. I picked the correct side to be on. Sounds like you did too.
I just watched this video, it's really well done. Unless one wants to be both furious and gut-sick, I don't recommend it. I don't know how we got here or how we get back from it, but everything is at stake.
Atta Girl! Sorry about the furious and gut-sick. It makes me cry knowing what some of these people have gone through. You have made me happy that you took the time to watch it. It is complicated and very long.
The one sure way to be labeled a conspiracy theorist is to claim the election was stolen, even though there is ample evidence that that is exactly what happened. What I don't understand is how they let Trump win the current election. In retrospect, it was probably a good thing Biden was a placeholder for four years. Trump learned a lot and came back much stronger in the interim.
If it turns out not to rise to reason, it definitely involves political vengefulness on Obama' s part. I am having a hard time lately coming to grips with the fact that not everyone in government supports the ideas and goals of America. And incidentally the presence of overwhelming evil. That stuff takes over like I never imagined.
yes, but we cannot look away from the reality of it. it is impossible to have a peaceful coexistence with people like obama and Karen who posts here. they dont want peace, they want the power to inflict harm onto people they dont like.
Also, Pompeo knew that Obama had directed the PDB to be edited regarding Russian collusion and yet failed to inform his boss, President Trump in January of 2017 about it…. Never trusted Pompeo… his now skinny ass needs to be questioned.
Yep, I found it curious to watch him appear publicly and support Trump’s re election efforts… I don’t think too many folks succeed in fooling Trump once but certainly not twice…. Best he cash in on his Ozempic weight loss and go away!
I’ve met many patriots, military and other, whom I'd probably not pick to direct Natl Security. I have not, nor would ever, question her patriotism, only her qualifications.
The anti Tulsi brainwashing was very effective, don't be ashamed a lot of people fell for it. She is sharp, and willing to take the heat and scorn in pursuit of truth and actual patriotism. She never wilted no matter how much lies were told about her. She stood on her principles all the time. I am happy that people are trying to deprogram themselves from that thinking. Tulsi is the real deal and politics needs a lot more principled people like her, in both parties.
This was an attempted coup d'état. There is nothing more important than this story, nothing more politically dire. The main stream press will attempt to slant, obfuscate and suppress it. They were part of it all along, ideologically captured and beholden.
several of the declassified emails contain "per POTUS", or similar wording in the title line, which I think might have been a CYA move by the email authors
Ha! Exactly. Most people on their last day on the job, especially a political job, spend it sharing a fond farewell with their co-workers before they turn in their security badge and then they leave early. Susan Rice composing an email to herself on Trump’s inaugural day — oh yeah — more circumstantial evidence. And really, pretty weak, leadership wise.
If I got to pick one (between Obama, Comey and Brennen) to lose their freedom, I’d pick Comey. He’s a slimy, scummy, smug, deep state partisan. I’d love to see that smirk smacked off his face.
100% agree. He is a shitstain on the soul of the nation. His involvement in every FBI f--k up and nasty prosecution for the past 20 years should earn him a cell in Gtmo.
Newsflash - none of them are going to prison. It would be good enough if they are publicly humiliated, forced to spend $millions on lawyers, and, let's say, "only" the sickest 15% of Americans still revere Obama and believe the Russiagate nonsense.
Maybe Democrats should have treated Tulsi with a bit more respect since 2016 instead of falsely accusing her of being a Putin puppet or Assad toady. “Woulda, coulda, shoulda” strikes again. She used to be one of their most loyal and brightest stars. Talk about unintended consequences…
Obama loves all that dirty trick stuff - he’s from the Chicago machine, it’s in his blood!
Remember in 2016 there was a guy who was in charge of disrupting GOP campaign (Astro turfed protests, planted questions, etc etc)- Bob Creamer, I think. Exposed by some project veritas gotcha video.
WH logs showed that the guy visited the WH over 300 times during Obama’s terms
And look who’s coming back to lead the party out the wilderness. Good ol’ Rahm Emmanuel. Chicago machine politics is sure to fix the fuckups of prior Chicago machine politics.
And it is why I will never return to my home state until they build a fucking wall around that city and slowly subside it to the depths of Lake Michigan.
Thanks, been told that a few times. :) I am lucky.
But I left in the early 80's after the destruction of the industrial middle class in the northern part of the state. I was young enough to not realize the danger of driving a 74 Nova to California with no real money or jobs, etc. It was easy then. Harder now.
And I have been running in front of the tide ever since. I'm now a tired old hag who just wants a few years of peace in the remainder. Not in IL though, LOL.
I live in Decatur. We were once a thriving community of about a hundred thousand people, with lots of manufacturing and industry. Decatur now struggles to maintain a population in the seventy thousand range, and ALL of the factories and industry are gone, except for ADM.
Highway61ent.com Joel Gilbert's "Michelle Obama 2024" taught me more about Chicago than I ever thought I would want to know. Some people have to be furious.
Matt is off to a great start. To Matt's full credit he stood alone in 2017 balking at the bs and is now doing the hard work of laying out the facts as we know them. Irrespective of the short-term outcomes, the work Matt and others are doing will be of invaluable use.
One key point to keep in mind is that self-interest and greed, rather than "theory" are the main drivers of these small-minded minions of the rich and powerful. Thus, we we find self-interested actors willing to sell their souls and the interests of their nation for a thimbleful of power and influence - a thoroughly disgusting, decades long experiment in naked careerism and corruption - can't wait for Matt and Walter to add more meat to the tale!
There have never been consequences for a host of scandals worse than Watergate, and call me crazy, but I don’t think that’s about to change.
There is no evidence and no authority that will convince the left-wing half of the country that they are wrong. About anything. They see this the same way we see claims like “Trump got Colbert canceled”.
https://principlesvstribes.substack.com/p/this-isnt-a-movie
Maybe not, but learning that such manipulation can occur lessens the unquestioning worship of the leadership of those years. It has to have an effect on some. It's never a win to blindly follow a leader off a cliff. As one who was on the edge of the cliff (life long D voter) I have looked back on decisions I accepted at the time, but had qualms about and see I should have followed my instincts.
Oddly, I was a lifelong Dem who couldn’t bring myself to vote for him because of some non-rational instinct that I couldn’t explain. Symbolically, he was everything I should have wanted. But, something didn’t jibe. I was proven right when Obama turned out to be a corporatist who sided with the banks in 2009 over homeowners who lost everything and people who lost their retirements.
I then voted for Trump thrice even though I had never voted Republican in my entire life. Again, based on pure intuition. My rational brain has now caught up with my instincts. I am not MAGA, but I’m definitely no longer a Dem, either.
Thank you, friend.
Me too.
When Oprah breathlessly introduced him to her audience as, “ The Chosen One” (her words, not mine), that cemented my feeling that we were being force-fed a load of hooey. I had just voted against Hilary in the 2008 Massachusetts primary so that’s the last time I voted Democrat, but he just didn’t ring true to me.
She really said, "The Chosen One?" (here I would add a vomit emoji).
She really did. The effort by the media and leftist elites to sell Obama as the second coming was beyond the pale. “We are what we’ve been waiting for” is even more cringe worthy.
The teary eyed in Grant Park in 2008 in chicago was made for tv. The sycophants couldn't wait to wrap their bubbling lips around the phallus of being one of the 'good' white people. These insipid creatures deserve all of this.
She meant “The Chosen Corruption One.”
Today he lives in 2 multi-acreage, multi- building oceanfront compounds. Where did all of the money come from?
His cult members spin that the money is from books and speeches. O’Reilly has sold far more books and is televised far more yet doesn’t have 2 oceanfront compounds.
“Books and speeches.” Modern day money laundering.
Don’t forget his mansion in DC. A former president who has never, unlike other presidents, left the power to his elected replacement. Now we know it was the plan all along.
Bill O'Reilly's net worth is $85m
Taxpayer funded public libraries and federal taxpayer grant funded university libraries.
No. She said "The One."
I watched Oprah every day and remember when she brought him out on stage. Now look at her; bitter and angry just like Obama. Telling us we'll never be able to vote again if Trump wins. As someone recently wrote, it would be good for the democrats if they stopped taking advise from Obama and IMO Oprah as well.
she's busy trying to buy up land in maui. tells you all you need to know about oprah.
Oprah was bailed out by Janet Yellens FDIC at Silicon Valley bank. Imagine being a billionaire and not understanding that the limits on FDIC cash account insurance is 250 thousand.
The rest of us have higher banking costs because of that bailout. Poor Oprah - - would be shaking a cup on the Maui beach- let the taxpayers and banking public pick up their tabs.
LOL, exactly.
I never watched her.
Let’s not forget his Nobel Peace Prize. If he had a speck of integrity, he would have declined or transferred it to someone more worthy.
And probably the worst thing Obama did was to destroy the progress this country made on race relations. We may never get it back...just look at where we are.
He absolutely worked hard to un - do the progress that enabled him to be elected, TWICE, FFS. This point is not made enough.
Imagine receiving the Nobel Peace Prize without having achieved anything noteworthy in your life, except for the color of your skin. For me, it showed that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has racist tendencies.
And a collective low IQ!
I fell for him, but i was no doubt blinded by a longtime loathing for Hillary. And as bad as he was, i still think he was not as bad as she would have been. It was also the last time i voted D top of the ticket, i was over him after 2 years and voted 3rd party in '12. And i've still never voted R top of the ticket.
Nothing could be as bad as Hillary. I toasted D Trump's election in 16 for this very reason, despite not voting for him at the time.
I remember waking up and hearing Trump won. I laughed for probably half a minute. I didn't vote for him either but the schadenfreude took over. Her comeuppance was like honey.
Election night 2015 when Trump won — which interestingly was called a lot earlier than this last November’s race — I was pleased. The voters did something not predicted nor intended. Life and Merlot, that night, were good. And now we know there was a Plan B From The Family Quarters.
People should go to jail, but let’s start with “B — The True Executive Office Story.” Build on it. Don’t be in a hurry.
She is evil 100%.
Yes, but remember, she's been trained and nurtured by democrats for decades. She is nothing but a product of that marxist party.
07/19/25: A coherent and lucid analysis (regardless of subject). Greatly appreciated.
I think there are a lot of you.
Like millions.....
Yes.
So true and well said. Everyone around me worshipped the new first ever black nominee. I kept my mouth shut so as not to be called a racist. However, after his 8 long years comes to find out my uber uber liberal sister in law (I cannot express uber enough here) tells me she didn't like him for reasons you state. I'm still angry not one banker went to jail, disgusting.
I was called a racist only once by a business colleague. After that, I kept my mouth shut. It never occurred to me that I should hide my position. The world had turned upside down.
Indeed it did.
See my comment upthread, as the Yellen treasury bailed out billionaires with FDIC insurance that covered millions over the 250,000 insurance threshold. FDIC bailouts for Silicon Valley bank failure and the other bank failure in NYC.
No, they didn’t bailout shareholders, but they did bailout billionaires- AGAIN
I was still working restaurants at that time. That’s when I learned that Progressive anti-racism was stronger than their commitment to being anti-war.
I’m a MAGA Dem.
The 2025 version of Reagan Democrat. Someone who actually has principles and can admit that their party no longer has any.
Yup. I’m just in there to reform the party away from the PMS wing (Progressivist Marxist Socialist). A significant MAGA Dem wing is needed. Swing voters, not blue no matter who.
You know, I might be willing to sign onto that, except — the corruption. The party needs to address that.
As a professor myself, I immediately reacted to his arrogant lecturing despite his oratory skills. I felt that he never really respected the voters. I wanted him to be who they said he was but was mostly disappointed. Although I must say he could be funny at times.
I’m typically politically homeless (independent) but can’t find much of anything positive with Democrats. Other than serving select special interest groups, they seem hell bent on destroying this country.
I’ll never forget the elation of the stock market after the ACA was passed. The healthcare stocks went up and up and so did our health insurance premiums:-)
I ignore anyone beginning with “as a professor myself….”…….grow the F up!!!! Critical thinking doesn’t require description…..get a therapist
Apparently I touched a nerve. And it’s called context.
I believe your non-rational side picked right up on what a phony Obama was. Checking his funders is all you needed to do to confirm that--all bankers!
O'Bama walked into a world wide mess that Bush created and very few people on the planet could have handled it as well as he did, in my opinion. However, absolute power reveals, and what this investigation by Tulsi Gabbard reveals is the hubris the ascent to POTUS exaggerated in this ambitious, talented thoughtful man. Now, he has joined the bald-hornet hive of the corrupt and isolated Democrats in the buzzing stinging beltway nest with no notions of stepping away from the establishment propaganda. Where could he go?
Obama has always been, and continues to be, a cardboard cutout of a human; no discernible history, no accomplishment based on verifiable achievements, just the Manchurian candidate pushed along by powerful forces to be used as a beard for their nefarious deeds. Biden is no different, just a lackluster facsimile of The One.
Atticus, I respectfully disagree with a part of your assessment. He certainly had no accomplishments prior to seizing power- sort of community organizer and a professor with short tenure. Not much. But from his bio, he was a cold-hearted calculating careerist, who climbed up cultivating useful friendships and various liaisons. It is my understanding that he had set his eye on the WH years before he had any realistic expectation of becoming a candidate. But he labored relentlessly to get there. Many of the traits we liked in him like his self-depreciating humor for example, was all a mask and a carefully created image. I haven’t seen any proof he was a marionette played by more powerful sources. Maybe we will see it, maybe not. I think he was his own man and not a good one.
He wasn't even a real professor. He was an adjunct who taught ascoteric subjectd, not things like contracts or evidence. ALso he never published a thing. He was given a sabbatical to work on a scholarly article for a law review (As all law professors are required to do if they want to maintain their positions) and he used the time to write his made up autobiography. He is was and will always be a total fraud.
"I haven’t seen any proof he was a marionette played by more powerful sources...I think he was his own man and not a good one."
I agree with "not a good one", but the rest of what you state about barry self-directing his unlikely ascent to POTUS: geez- really? I'm not buying it...
He's a politician. No more, no less.
Independent: Good call. Second only to the Clinton's in his voracious pursuit of power and wealth.
aio, really? You’re so easily managed…
Biden was more on daily life-support than someone running a Gov't.
Interesting view on the guy who led the US out of a near depression and reduced the federal deficit more than anyone before or since. Directed military funds toward peaceful research and energy efficiency, stood up for unions and equal pay. But I'll keep in mind the portrait of him you paint here, too.
“…reduced the federal deficit more than anyone before or since.”??????
The federal debt went up more than any other president, before and after. It went up by $10 trillion. His goons ( Summers, Geithner…) moved trillions off incompetent banks’ ledgers and on to the public debt.
So much corruption.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
Agree Obama walked into a HUGE mess.
Who would have him save the same bitter donkeycrats?
answer: Paddleboarding and not come back to shore, or hell for all I care.
Where could he go? Kansas to be with his mother’s people. Kenya to live with his father’s kin. Maybe his brother would take him in.
Good for you.
I get the sense that you are a realistic American trying to rationally deal with the problems by using sensible solutions.
It was the last time I voted until 2024 and the first time since 1988, I only did so because of the opposition, which was the uniparty's first attempt to get a doddering easily manipulated old coot/crazy compromised bitch ticket into the white house. It certainly was not lost on me that in 2020, most of the female (it HAD to be female) VP choices were, like the execrable S. Palin, cult adjacent. We would have simply had the Cackler and the Autopen about a dozen years earlier had they won.
2008 was actually one of the shittiest election ever. The lack of anything approaching presidential material was shocking and instructive.
Me too.
For many people (both sides!), their political party is a cult. I'm starting to think one definition of a cult would be the inability to entertain *any* criticisms of your own side.
Anybody who has zero questions of leadership from that era is already a lost cause. I voted Obama twice, and he was the last DC level Democrat I voted for. The last Republican was Brian Fitzpatrick for Congress (early 2000's). I haven't voted D or R in a state or national election (local is different) since 2012.
The Obama regime built upon the Cheney Administration and their only goal was enrichment, and building agencies to siphon tax payer dollars to friends and themselves.
Is it just me? My nose is picking up a whiff of Arkansas...almost Clinton like.
Yup, they see taxpayers the way the typical corrupt HOA sees homeowner dues.
Unfortunately, they are voting for you.
https://rumble.com/v52wyxk-e-pollbooks-remotely-check-in-voters-fraudulent-ballots-are-then-created-fi.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_m%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
Yes. But do not underestimate the powers that are now being gathered. Eric Holder and Soros Jr., et al. on speed dial. War is coming. I am willing to engage, and thankful for this forum. Time to gird our loins, whatever that means.
The Soros-Abedin partnership does seem so. The NYT wasn't bashful in their characterization of that union. This was held on the same day as a huge protest but while the peasants were protesting the royalty was celebrating. it's paywalled, but title is enough
"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲" 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧, 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐲, 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫." --June 14, 2025
Gag
I think they grabbed a bunch of Diddys baby oil for the after party.
How do these "chicks", to use a word, like Sanchez and Huma get regularly passed around their circle of influence. I guess the men who end up with them lost the "key party"...
You know, that is an interesting observation. Even we goobers in rural America travel and meet other people.
“It must have been love, but it’s over now . . .” Until I find love again . . . within the accepted political parameters.
Lol.
I think it means, put on your underpants, so you can fight or flee less awkwardly.
“…lessens the unquestioning worship of the leadership…”
There you go.
Team Obama et al, doesn’t necessarily need to go to prison for these implications to be worthy of pursuit.
Gabbard’s showing some guts here.
On the other hand, if they do suffer some rather severe consequences, I won’t be laying awake nights in worry.
Wasn't it obvious from the beginning that the entire DNC/CCP/Brussels agenda was/is a psyop. Crisis to crisis no meaningful solutions allowed. Good guy/bad guy scenarios and the convenient "gee we're so shocked and upset--who would have thought the thugs would do this to little old me" comments that allow all the "i've got mine and it ain't happening to me so it ain't happening" complacents to pretend the looters and surveillance spooks aren't laying the American Republic to waste. Europe is gone!! It was swallowed by the LIE now temporarily choking on its attempt to swallow the American Republic. Everyone saw it--lived it-- and got sick in the soul from being force fed the LIE. The Republic--its Constitution and the free citizen are the only engines of survival. Trump is possible temporary reprieve--not salvation. Whatever remains of the American Republic resides--as it always has--with We the People. The Clintons gutted Glass-Steagall --opened the door for the '08 looting of the American treasury--and got rich doing it. The Cheney Presidency and the Bush grift opened the door to perpetual war--and got rich doing it. Obama allowed the final marriage of corporate/surveillance spook land and got rich doing it. Trump/Palantir is eyeballing you through this screen right this moment. Russiagate--like all the other "oh my-oh my-oh my" distractions is the stench not the actual totalitarian sewer.
(Sorry Kathleen--ranting again.)
No major newspaper will even cover the story in any meaningful way; nor will the major networks and cable shows other than Fox. My liberal friends have never heard of the Twitter files. I am sure they will never hear of this story, either.
I tried and tried to get a major journal to accept an article about the importance of the Twitter Files. I've never had an article turned down before. The only reason given me was my viewpoint wasn't correct. The article was accepted at a Substack. It had nearly 3000 views. I received private messages from people thanking me but noting they would be uncomfortable thanking me in public. You can look at the article for free and if you do, please like it. The article is "𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲." It has a lot of footnotes. I reprinted the Twitter Files in the appendix.
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/incuriosity-of-librarians-and-media
Fascinating article Kathleen.
"Investigative journalism—like Taibbi’s “Twitter Files”—stands out as a recent, egregious example of this as his articles were not covered by any academic outlet or even allowed to be cited in Wikipedia....Currently, Wikipedia is the most used source for answers to questions or background on topics worldwide, and open access citations on Wikipedia have influenced the diffusion of science. (Teplitskiy, 2017). Wikipedia’s influence, amplified by its use in Google search results and various AI models, underscores the consequences to discoverability in excluding certain content....We believe that the findings published in the “Twitter Files” are highly consequential in understanding 21st century censorship. They are a landmark in understanding digital censorship by omission."
And thus history is written, or re-written.
I liked and restacked.
Thank you Frank. It's a very big challenge when even the people who say they are against censorship censor discussions about THEIR censorship. I think December 2, 2022 (The day MT posted the first Twitter Files report) is a major event in the history of Free speech and one day the world will recognize it.
wikipedia has consistently represented an inversion of reality for the last decade. It continues to degrade itself.
But not all of it. political topics not so good. articles about books, plants and animals usually ok. And sometimes monuments.
Here is an update on the Obama Presidential Center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Presidential_Center
And degrades us…
Problem:
Wikipedia is as corrupt a vehicle of information as MSM has been. I would never believe any "details" they provide, and esp when the verbiage leans towards an opinion, usually disdainful of conservative thoughts.
another worthless rag.
Is there no integrity or courage in Washington? The felons persist and the honest people are cowards. Where is the pushback and loud voices. I can’t imagine there aren’t hundreds of Federal Employees that know and can attest to these frauds. Why don’t some step up and scream till they get attention. All the hearings and Special Counsels are a waste of time. Durham report!! Come on.
Thank you for sending this. I glanced through it quickly and will read it as soon as I can get to it. I’m sure I will “like” it.
Every reaction will boost it, so much appreciated. It's actually very calm compared to how I feel. How can people who on one hand protest censorship on the other hand don't want to learn these truths? Baffles me.
They’re not against censorship. They are in favor of suppressing ideas with which they disagree and facts that undermine the preferred narrative. They — meaning well-educated people on the left—are the least intellectually curious people I know. It’s depressing. I’m grateful Matt and other independent journalists forge ahead, undeterred: We need the historical record, and there’s always a chance that the truth will reach more people, however slowly.
Confirmation bias and group think--very powerful. How to deal with these kinds of biases is the issue.
So depressing. I expected more from our “best and brightest.”
Because truth doesn't matter to them. they're too invested in their church and can't risk being excommunicated. It's easier to not be tied down by principles and morals, and just accept what you're told to believe. obedience is their watch word.
We've seen this same process with Covid, Biden's mental acuity, Inflation being in your imagination until Trump got elected, and over and over. It's the same messaging each time and it asks that you don't think too much about whether the story makes sense. Because it never does.
Same folks who project paroxysms of rage when it comes to sexual abuse of minors by Mr. Epstein and alleged co-creepers, but hand-wave human trafficking facilitated by our open borders or grooming gangs in the UK. They need power and influence to help unfortunate people. People who don't grant them such power and influence are subhuman and deserve nothing.
Great, eye-opening comment! Brought into focus lots of folks I know, which is depressing;-(
I’ve restacked and liked. Thank you for your hard work on this piece.
So appreciate.
We are witnessing a criminal enterprise being opened up; nobody wants to look
Thank you! I appreciate you sharing your link. There was not enough exposure given by “legacy” media.
Great take and great work.
Thank you, Kathleen, for putting all this information together. I "liked" your article. You have provided a valuable resource for those of us who are trying to track the suppression of alternative points of view pervasive in so many cultural institutions, from the mainstream media to K-12 education to academia to public libraries.... what have I left out? Unfortunately, so many of our institutions--or the individuals within them--that were once proud to challenge conventional points of view have become completely conformist and totalitarian.
It takes a while for academic databases to index things and we checked and checked (We work where is free access to these databases at our libraries). Empty set. Empty set. I know there is a parallel story about COVID, but that wasn't our focus. We thought that so many professors in universities talk such a good game about free speech that there would be a lot of discussion about "Twitter Files." There was not.
But you must realize that more than 90 percent of professors in the liberal arts (according to some figures I've seen) identify as "liberal" or "progressive"--meaning they actually oppose free speech. I believe a majority of college students identifying as "progressive" oppose free speech, also. I went to college in the late 60s-early 70s. The world has turned upside-down since then.
Great article! I like the analogy to samizdat, but so far you don’t get sent to Siberia for reading Substack.
Good summary of the problems with Wikipedia. It would seem the trend to force the use of artificial intelligence (in spite of its massive power requirements) will duplicate Wikipedia’s defects, except much amplified.
You never know (about Siberia). Thank you Davel.
There's probably a 'you never expect the Spanish Inquisition' joke in there somewhere...
Thank you for providing another source for people to stumble upon. Racket News also have the Twitter files available for subscribers.
Vet nor, YES you are right and it is a complicated tale of trying to work within the constraints of Wikipedia. The actual "Twitter Files"--the series MT did between December 2, 2022 and March 9, 2023--are open access here at Racket: 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲:𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 w𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. (link: https://www.racket.news/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter).
However, getting an article about them in Wikipedia was cage match. I work in Wikipedia some (articles about libraries, mostly) and I made what I thought was a beautiful chronological table of all of the Twitter Files. It was deleted because I was told by the Wikipedia editors that Wikipedia won't allow a link to anything in Substack. Also the entire article was set for deletion. There were a few of us who felt otherwise and fought to have the page. It was allowed to stay.(it is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files ) However, many bad faith editors have framed the story incorrectly, I think. AS the "Twitter Files" story grew the only actual link in it to the Twitter Files article in Wikipedia is at the very bottom of the article. Treatment of the "Twitter Files" is a case study in how real information can be suppressed in Wikipedia. If you are really interested you can read the history of the editing of the Twitter Files on the "Twitter Files" Wikipedia page history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twitter_Files&action=history&dir=prev
I then became determined to write about this, but was turned away in academic journals. So, my colleague and I told the story at a Substack--Heterodoxy in the Stacks. All this is one example of how information can be suppressed. I know this is a long explanation. Thank you for observing this.
"It was deleted because I was told by the Wikipedia editors that Wikipedia won't allow a link to anything in Substack". Sadly, yet another case of judging the messenger instead of the message. So intellectually dishonest and lazy, and so 1984-ish!
Reading your article. Excellent.
This is exactly the problem, Bagehot; you nailed it. We have two parallel media streams, so they never cross or overlap.
I have old high school friends who live on a steady diet of msnbc and when the Hunter Biden laptop story broke before Election Day 2020 I texted to ask them if they thought this would hurt Biden's chances. They had no idea what I was talking about.
Morning Joe and The Weekend are currently popping champagne corks over the Epstein files, convinced that THIS TIME they will finally bring down the Trump administration. Bwahahahaha!
If I shared any of this column of Matt's with them they would just roll their eyes at me.
Never give up.
I keep trying, Kathleen, as you clearly do, too. But I come from a core group of seven 70+-year-old white women, and I appear to be the only one who has changed her mind over a single issue since 1970. If you enter your eighth decade still thinking exactly the same things you thought when you were 16 years old, what was the point of the intervening decades? Was there no learning involved at all? "So you had it all figured out when you were still stuffing your bra and slathering Clearasil all over your face? Well... good for you, I guess." %-)
My friends are like the old white women you see and hear singing dreadful homemade anti-Trump songs at "No Kings" rallies, desperately trying to recapture their youthful exploits of "sticking it to The Man." They all have exactly the same opinions on every single issue. I'm sure they shake their heads sadly when I'm not in the room. As Matt often remarks, he has frequently been greeted with, "What happened to you, man?" Same here.
Life happened. The facts of life are conservative. I'm sure -- I hope -- I will change my mind about a few other things before someone else pulls the sheet up over my face. I sure hope so. Loving and learning: the two most important aspects of life. ;-)
I have a few friends who have seen through this but most not. Thank you for making me feel less alone. I cracked up at this: "My friends are like the old white women you see and hear singing dreadful homemade anti-Trump songs at "No Kings" rallies, desperately trying to recapture their youthful exploits of "sticking it to The Man." They all have exactly the same opinions on every single issue."
I voted for both Carter and Clinton twice, but I think the last Democrat I voted for was Gore (I know, I know…).
I’m with extended family now with a very heavily Democrat leaning, but other than saying Trump is an awful human being, they never point to a policy for discussion. We really don’t discuss politics with family. At least we’re all rabid Red Sox fans.
Another white woman in her 70s here, with baby boomer friends all on the other side of the aisle. I could have written your comment, only I don’t write nearly as well as you do!
I feel your pain, Bagehot. Again, I would ask my friends their thoughts on these latest Obama/Brennan/Comey revelations and allegations... but they won't know what I'm referring to. %-(
"If you enter your eighth decade still thinking exactly the same things you thought when you were 16 years old, what was the point of the intervening decades?"
Exactly my take on all this: grade school social interaction carried into adulthood on a National scale, affecting the safety and security of a First World nation.
On my mom’s side of the family, quite honestly, they are nuts. We email maybe once a year if that. The misconceptions are mind boggling and increasing.
I hate to say it, but it makes me somewhat relieved that I lost the last of my immediate family in 2021.
Otherwise it would have gone from weird to combatative. At least now, I can count on good memories.
The Wokeford Wives
clever
I have the theory that many people are locked into what they believed when 17 or 18. Not sure why, biological? or is it that coincides with the end of high school, and psychologically that represents the end of learning, which was a lot of work up to that point?
I had a 65 year old female friend of mine (whom I attempt to avoid politics with, otherwise, she's lovely) declare that we needed a revolution.
I was all, "Not at my age, thanks, I don't want to rock the boat". I mean we both live in trailers on farms and have to be picky about food intake due to allergies (likely the result of GMO and Roundup). We are going to be the first to go, or die shitting our brains out in the woods somewhere if a true 'civil war' breaks out.
I'm good with Boogaloo holding off for awhile. Like until after I'm dead.
If you want to see how powerful beliefs on the left are, look at los angeles. 16,000 homes and apartment building burned to the ground 6 months ago. Little help has been offered by the city or state and both drag their feet on approving new construction. Yet they rushed through help for illegal immigrants who are losing their jobs.
Pay close attention to what they are doing. Ignore what they say.
Newsome is phasing-out single family homes (though not in the area where he lives) to focus on multi-floor construction and greater population density. Guess these fires were a happy accident, that they in no way encouraged or failed to prevent. https://danville.ca.gov/CivicSend/ViewMessage/message/153105
You are entirely correct. This article of Matt's is a barn burner, and there is virtually nothing on mainstream media. What little there is claims that this is to take focus off the Epstein circus, of which they are sure Trump is stonewalling to protect himself.
They are also complicit in the outcome of Matt’s story, so no way do they want to draw attention to it.
Yeah because everyone knows Matt is a right wing Maga guy. One of the great thing about Matt is he was once one of them. Recall he wrote for Rling Stone. The Twitter files raised his profiles and perhaps his eyebrows. He is not Trump cheerleader, but he has seen government censorship up close and personal. He has also felt the long arm of government whose LE and Treasury men showed up at his home on Christmas eve and right before his Congressional testimony to try and intimidate him. People should seriously consider what he writes..
Well, as I think Matt is suggesting, this is not going to be a matter of scandal, but a matter of indictment. It's possible the media will manage to hush up a trial, but it would be much harder.
I suspect the preferred narrative would be "See? We told you. Trump's using the justice system to attack his political opponents." Followed by calls for impeachment.
Absolutely. Let them try. It won't stop the trials.
This is not about political enemies (which we witnessed for over 2 years). The possible allegations are perjury, treason, and a cout d’etat that happened a decade ago. What kind of nation are we if our leaders can c ommit these acts while “serving?”
Unfortunately the word “retribution” is being used to describe the Administration’s work, without recognition that this is Republic-saving accountability action. I don’t if the left thinks in those terms since Watergate.
Bribery, treason, other High Crimes and Misdemeanors (same level as Bribery or Treason). This is a search for justice. Not quite the same level
Predicting pot calling the kettle black.
Calling the kettle African-American is the preferred term now….
😀
Hafrican is what I would say.
What would be the charges, and wouldn’t the statute of limitations prevent prosecution? I’m all for the truth coming out, even if only on Matt’s Substack, but I would like to see someone lay out how this actually leads to indictments.
IANAL, but for one thing I believe the law regards conspiracy as an ongoing offense — it doesn’t stop being a conspiracy just because you aren’t actively conspiring any more.
Well, the “unnamed co-conspirator” in dumping Biden had to be Obama. That just happened last year!
But I would have to agree regarding the ICA: bad events, but not enough to prosecute, plus a recent Supreme Court decision immunizes a president against actions within the scope of his role as president.
You are right, and it was an official act to call a Meeting of his IC people to ask them each to create fake intelligence supporting Russian interference in the 2016 election. Day 1. Twelve days later that cloak was gone. Good question.
Questionable whether the things Matt touched on were “within the scope”. But I don’t want us putting ex-Presidents in jail unless it’s beyond question. I’d be more than satisfied with a few underlings, starting with Clapper.
Edit: Damn, I meant Brennan.
Matt speculated in an earlier article that perjury charges would be most likely, and would just barely get past the statute of limitations.
2 things have happened— first DNI Gabbard presented the case in spectacular detail— equally important— a whistleblower came forward to call bullshite on the previous narrative.
I will say this again: if found guilty of treason— only one outcome will suffice— execution period
It will likely be a conspiracy, seditious or otherwise. The SOL will not interfere with the dates ‘16-‘24.
SOL will not apply in because of the Lawfare Hoax. In 11/2022, the declassified Russia Hoax Binder, taken to MAL, was stolen by the FBI. Lost.
Hope that’s true
If Matt continues to suggest so, however, and no indictments are forthcoming, will he write an article every two weeks about Gabbard and himself blowing up a nothingburger?
So this evidence isn't enough for you? There were almost no indictments after the 2008 financial collapse and none for the WMD narrative that led to the invasion of Iraq. Should Matt write an article every two weeks to apologize for these nothingburgers? He's made a big deal of both. Since there were no indictments I guess he was out of line.
Sadly, true. We must always remember that most folks on the street don't know who their senators are, or even how many they're supposed to have.
Only the information one-percenters interested enough to, for example, subscribe to Matt, will ever suspect that something fishy happened, and probably even did.
The lie of the O admin having no scandals will be put to rest on the Dem side too.
Exactly. I totally agree. Prosecuting he guilty depends on public support, and in spite of all of the great reporting done by outstanding investigative journalists like Matt, the public will never know what the truth is regarding Obama and his team of subversives. The media will use their well proven methods of spin to turn this story into one more negative Trump story, and too many American people will buy it. To the news media, the elites, Obama is a saint, as such it will not be much of a challenge for the news media to spin this not as a story about the abuse of power of Obama and his administration, but the opposite.
In official Church procedures there are three steps to sainthood: a candidate becomes "Venerable," then "Blessed" and then "Saint." Venerable is the title given to a deceased person recognized formally by the pope as having lived a heroically virtuous life or offered their life. To be beatified and recognized as a Blessed, one miracle acquired through the candidate's intercession is required in addition to recognition of heroic virtue or offering of life. Canonization requires a second miracle after beatification. The pope may waive these requirements. A miracle is not required prior to a martyr's beatification, but one is required before canonization.
There are rules to becoming a saint and they don't know them. If they did, they wouldn't think he is a saint. But they do not.
"The media will use their well proven methods of spin to turn this story into one more negative Trump story"
Yup. They'll make it look chaotic and cite it as more "proof" of Trump's chaos.
If that story convinces even 10% of the population that Obama et al are guilty, the Democratic Party is over. The innermost core of The Cult are lost to the TDS mindvirus forever I'm afraid.
This morning, 7/19/25, I checked all the major news outlets, none had the Tulsi Gabbard DBI dump. Newsmax was first, 22 hours later, and Fox early this afternoon. Somebody named Julie Kelly had it about the same time a Taibbi/Racket, Friday, 6:16 pm. And Taibbi and Walter Kern were discussing the Obama Dec. 9 corruption meeting a week ago.
Thanks— I don’t enjoy being right about this. I would expect Julie Kelly to cover the story— she’s done phenomenal work covering January 6. But as others have pointed out, the media may cover actual charges and—let us hope—convictions.
More likely the Media will cover up actual charges and convictions.
Don't forget that the Ribbon Cutting for Obama's Presidential Center is suppose to happen Spring 2026. They may find out about this when no one shows up.
They've had some interesting construction issues with that brutalist slab construction. Maybe it is tofu dreg bolts, LOL.
With any luck it will collapse.
Tofu dreg bolts! Classic to keep. This “project” has successfully shaken the beehive for a decade now. People are going to be as mad as hornets.
The minority owned rebar subcontractor has a $40M suit filed for discrimination. You couldn’t design a Bigger Building Disaster the way it is all coming together.
Been reading about sagging and cracking concrete, once again a minority owned subcontractor doing their thing...
I wouldn't set foot in the place myself, just for safety reasons. I do hope it winds up housing all the relics of his reign, LOL.
In a righteous world it would become a monument, paying tribute to the people of Chicago and what they have endured via all the corruption.
If you haven’t seen it, Joel Gilbert’s “Michelle Obama 2024” highway61ent.com is outrageous.
that will be must see tv. Can't wait for the protestors and questions about BO's involvement with this.
Nothing will come of this. It will be another story in the bin with what you mentioned with the autopen sitting on top.
A week ago, I was nice to a liberal friend by admitting I liked Kamela's laugh. Then I toned it down with a reference to her word salad. My friend was puzzled. She, who loves and voted for Kamela, had never before heard a reference to Kamela's word salad.
Evidently the friend never heard Kamala speak.
The Sunday Pundit shows should prove telling tomorrow…..
A big part of this story is Media’s enthusiasm in publishing news regarding Obama’s intelligence lackeys’ “leaking” of the revised ICA. So they are party to this fraud, so can’t help but covering this up.
Of course you're right. But even if some MSM reporters thought for a moment that journalistic integrity was a thing of value, editors dare not risk losing subscribers by publishing inconvenient truths.
News by omission
If there are indictments just as with old man biden’s debate it will force them to cover it and the hole their digging for themselves will get deeper.
Handcuffs and mugshots are hard to ignore
Precisely!
Whether a lot of people hear about it or not is not as important as putting these jokers behind bars for their perfidy. I dare the lamestream press to not report the perp walk of Obama and company.
As we’ve seen in the Epstein debacle there is a class of people who will never be held accountable for anything. That said, investigations, depositions, and subpoenas will inflict a certain degree of pain on some of the most contemptible human beings alive. I’d love to see Obama’s grizzly face after the ride… it’s grim enough right now.
Define accountable-- do you actually mean put in jail or what? I do wish people would say what they mean. Accountable (and I spell that word correctly ; ) can mean different things.
Whats the penalty for treason?
Way too much to even hope for. But people need their dreams.
The Courts sealed the documents after convictions in the Epstein trial (20 years ago?). This was to keep the victims and falsely accused from the public. They are not releasing it to the DOJ for the same reason. The public doesn’t have a “right to know.”
Gabbard’s release and Matt’s post are “consequences.”
Not as dire as deserved. But serious to anyone persuadable.
Like 500 lawyers on the bottom of the ocean, a good start. ;)
There was a story at Townhall today. TreasSec responded to some post by Yellen and laid her out hard. Something about beer and mushrooms. It was comedy gold. I am liking this Bessent guy.
He’s a gem.
You know why democrats act like they can get away with anything because they can
If Colbert got even mediocre ratings he would be on the air until he was dead . Biden was almost dead & he was propped up often quite literally
You may be right, and I understand the cynicism, but I’ve seen a lot of things lately I’ve never seen before.
Great, hopefull comment. Thumbs up emoji
07/19/25: He pisses on CBS on the air on Monday (07/14/25) and then is fired three days later (07/17/25). Simple as that. The negative $40 million/year --- every 7 days, the show loses $769,000 --- is a "gravy alibi."
Meanwhile, no one has asked the obvious question: If a show is losing $40M a year, what LUNATICS decide to keep it going for ANOTHER 10 months?
CBS would lose less money running a show with NO advertising until they could plug in a replacement, probably in three months time.
Hell, sell all of the air time in a solid block to promotional-products advertisers.
Silver Lining: Now we know how Shari Redstone's net worth dropped from $40 billion to $2 billion. Genius, that woman. The financial Mother Theresa of the American legacy media.
Thank you Tulsi for the intensive work you’ve done. This prosecution, if the AG determines the evidence supports perjury and treason charges, will not be a copy of the original hoax of 2016. It won’t matter if we are Democrat or Republican. The crux of the matter is whether we still have a Democratic Republic or if our government is able to subvert the will of the People in subverting the authority of their duly elected President. Remember that at the beginning of this hoax, before the election, it was determined by the DNI that Russia did not have the ability for cyber intrusion in our elections. After the election the Russia Hoax began in full swing, occupying all of our lives, including the Trump administration and family. It ended with Durham’s “nothing to see here” two years later. This is an allegation of a coup d’ etat that, if proven, shows us that our democracy is on a rapid trajectory downward. We don’t want this to ever interfere with and destroy the nation we love. No R’s or D’s this time. But justice will have its day after 10 long years of loss of respect for the Office at the least.
I understand your frustration, I share it! However with what’s been uncovered here convincing the left wing half of the country is irrelevant and a fool’s errand. Many of them are hopelessly beyond help and reason in these matters anyway. What matters is the rule of law, the crimes committed that can generate indictments and what can be proven in a court of law. It is very important as the democrats tell us everyday that we must get to the bottom of this “to preserve our democracy”! Given the arrogance, the hutzpah, the sheer audacity of these men and women to think they were above the law and could ignore the will of the people, heads better roll this time! If they don’t, it will happen again and every time it happens we all lose a little more of our freedom. So JD there better be consequences this time for all our sake.
What was that phrase that al gore used to explain why he couldn't be prosecuted - "no controlling legal authority" or some similar nonsense. In other words he broke the law but there was no agency that could prosecute him.
Colbert got his show canceled because he was producing a product that people were tired of hearing. Viewership was continuing to fall. His monologue devolved into meaness and disinformation. The public was fed up.
In my opinion, elites in America have become an untrustworthy and despised group.
For those without an independent religion, government becomes their church and politicians become their saviors. Humans are hard wired to worship.
I rather think that a large percentage of the small "left wing" are onboard with Taibbi's (Gabbard's, Mueller's, Durham's) findings and believe the Russian collusion story is a hoax. It's the liberals, the establishment centrists, who cannot look this tyranny in the eye without their wigs going ablaze. It's the libs, not left, who abide by Obama's tin halo.
Your point is well taken but we must record for history. Someday when the temperature has dropped and historians start to write analytically about these events, the facts must be available. That means getting the facts on the record now. Maybe, just maybe, the nation, if it is still existante, will be alert to this kind of evil and can avoid it.
Agreement is unnecessary.
What did Obama know and when did he know it? Hope and change was a propaganda mirage that one shotted the millennials. Doubt he faces any justice, just like he received a Nobel piece prize even though he prolonged wars and drone striked American citizens.
I don’t think he will either, but this does put some things into perspective. Yes, Rice’s memo to herself is that of a connected leader trying to save her President. The work to get Trump off the ballot, bankrupted, and in jail also demonstrates the fear the Obama regime feared of his re-election in 2024. They knew he would clean house and get loyalists in positions to understand how holdover democrats helped hinder his first term, and then start finding things they shouldn’t find.
Comey’s daughter’s firing should put them all on edge. I would expect more that were in her orbit to be unemployed soon. That action is called clearing the battle space.
Hmm…that may explain 2020 in addition to the lawfare years.
I'm not following the significance of Rice's memo to herself - is this just to document that BO said to keep it clean, to provide cover for him?
Was written to provide cover for him. Very clumsy.
It is amazing how they truly thought they’d never lose. Something to keep in mind as the anti DC forces are ascendant. We should take care to not be so arrogant.
I actually think she wrote it to cover her own tail, just in case..Just seems like a statement you wouldn't need a note to remember..
Obama is at the root of this rotten tree. He exists only because of how dirty politics are conducted in Chicago Illinois. Corruption is just what is done sort of like breathing is. It’s done without thinking it’s wrong. The whole DC swamp feared Trump and the whole DNC did everything it could do to cheat Hillary into power yet failed. Just imagine what it would look like if the DNC didn’t cheat in the big cities in every election.
Doubt that Obama will ever face any consequences and if he did. I would want Trump to pardon him after he is convicted so we can learn just how corrupt the entire DC swamp is.
Obama brought “The Chicago Way” to D.C.
I don't see how Obama could be indicted for anything based on the Supreme Court's decision re immunity for presidential acts. Not that I'm in any way a fan of SCOTUS's called ball on this pitch...
there is no immunity for fabrication of intelligence on incoming rightfully elected president.
First - let me repeat that I do not agree with SCOTUS. That being said, asking and guiding intelligence assessments to get the result you believe in (want) seems to be fully within the "outer perimeter" - just as would asking for an economics report to be fluffed to make you look better. Didn't Trump say that he knew better than the US intelligence community about whether Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons? The Intel community reports to POTUS, and POTUS can ask/direct to get different results. I think SCOTUS pretty much punted on the President's intent - if an act is "presidential", desired outcome doesn't seem to matter. I'll be happy to be proven wrong on this.
Interesting concept isn’t it. So are the Presidents official duties include telling his intelligence agency to manufacture fake intelligence against the opposition parties candidate? I wonder how a Supreme Court would rule on that question.
Were his actions all official actions of the Office? At least until 1/20/17? I would not want to see him incarcerated, no matter what. It would disrespect the Office.
This feels different than “business as usual “ in the Dem controlled Media and DC world.
I do think the controlling Liberal media has lost significant power and thus will eventually lose control of the narrative on this one.
Hope Gabbard does this investigation “by the book” and leaves no loopholes for these perps to be able to walk.
And I think she will
Another shameless attempt to shift the news cycle away from Epstein. Nothing will come of this.
A lot of corrupt bigwigs now owe Trump.
The Art of the Deal.
Btw, Ghislaine Maxwell is now threatening to reveal the Epstein list names.
She too wants a deal.
Will she commit "suicide"...
She better be careful about threatening to reveal Bill’s name.
The Hillary body count is a long one.
Bill had secret service with him and has no ties to the island. He did use Epstein plane for the CGI,around the world. Thats why they have been talking about 22 flights instead of one big trip with multiple landings and departures.
I'm always reminded of Charlie Brown running to kick the football every time I hear someone tell me how justice is just around the corner for Hillary/Obama/Epstein/whoever. This time for sure!
Epstein is dead and any information about him is sealed forever. The courts will not release the info to the DOJ lest it leak to the public. This is for the sake of the innocent. I hope people can live with that. It’s a distraction.
Whoring yourself for pedophiles? Have you no shame?
I don't disagree that nothing will come of this. Our Government is greedy and corrupt and no one ever pays for their criminal malfeasance.
That said, maybe the Epstein story is the distraction.
Why fabricate things to destroy Trump - Russian collusion, bogus impeachments, lawfare, election interference (51 Intel experts), etc.... - if someone has the actual goods on him via his relationship with Epstein?
We may or, more likely, may not ever learn what's being covered up about Epstein, but we know for a fact that an Obama Administration Intel cabal plotted to overthrow our duly-elected Government in 2016-17 - and are still at it.
And today we're talking about Trump's (possible) contribution to a birthday book for Epstein's 50th!?!
If they go after one person on the list, then they risk that person spilling the beans on everyone else. It's a Mexican standoff.
There is no way that the an intelligence agency-- be it domestic, foreign or both-- running a pedophile prostitution ring which was used to blackmail politicians and other influential people can ever be a side story. It is a worse crime than the Russia hoax.
If one of those girls were your daughter how would you feel about Epstein then?
My point is not that the Epstein matter isn't a big deal. Of course it is. He was a sick scumbag and his evil perverted friends should rot in prison for life. My point is that the media is treating the Obama Intel Cabal's criminal traitorous malfeasance as a "distraction," as though this, too, isn't a huge deal. To support my point, consider that last night's ABC Evening News lead with Trump/Epstein; no big surprise. But on a day when the US Director of National Intelligence released newly de-classified documents implicating a former US President of treasonous conspiracy, ABC News ignored it completely. I don't expect accurate or fair coverage from our MSM, but when in US history is that a "distraction" and not a story worth at least a mention?
He killed AN American citizen. Specific accuracy with this sort of thing is important. He (despicably) had a single American assassinated with drones for his association with terrorism.
Some constitutional lawyer he was - I suppose that means he studied how to break it, such as, by repealing the Smith-Mundt Act. That was what “legalized” subsequent propagandizing of US residents.
Killed in Yemen with Al-Awlaki was a NC man, Samir Khan, an online Al Qaeda editor.
A dozen others were killed 2 weeks later in a strike in Yemen, including Al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, also a US citizen.
Lots of presidents have given orders that have led to the deaths of American citizens; this is not the objection to Obama. Obama said 'we should kill this specific guy' about an American citizen.
Speaking of Manchurian candidates, Obama was and is a CIA thug. If he has spoken an ingenuous word in public since 1996, it was a slip.
I hope you are wrong.
He got the peace prize for nothing more than being elected! 🙄
John Kass calls Obama “silky” for a reason.
Maybe clapper is the deep throat on this matter or maybe more likely he’s been turned by the current DOJ and maybe that’s why his name is it in the news.
I have beliefs in this direction.
UPDATE - Clapper confirmd "Obama tasked us" https://x.com/mirandadevine/status/1947162208414417128
Obama is going to be crucified by all the same people who executed and planned the scam. I wonder how many folks are returning Obama's calls today.
"Don't worry, Mr. President - We've got your back TM"
It's shaping up to be fucking blood-bath. Obama will go on the hook for the whole mess, while the spooks skate. Accountability TM!!
Exactly - some of the key actors are going to start yapping. Nothing like self-preservation to get folks to see the light.
So clapper may be a yapper
It would be grand to see them start falling, like so many dominos.
Gina Haspel...what the hell was she doing???
Can’t wait to hear them
MT— we are on the cusp of August— when most take the month off. Could you and WK take a deep dive into topics which have never gotten proper consideration: Nord Stream, covid’s aftermath of deBanking,worldwide squelching of free speech/thought, Ukraine lame duck escalation— leading to Russian bomber ambush (clearly pulled off by deep STATE) and anything else you both can dig up after pulling all these strings. Can think of nobody else doing a better job
sincere Thank you’s to everyone at Racket
Dave F
Matt, skimming thru the posts from your readers here, it seems unanimous. No skepticism at all when it comes to gabbard's treason referral, as if Trump is somehow a reliable source read your post. seems like a nothingburger but all the commenters swallowing it whole. - just like the dems went off the rails about trump colluding with Russia. Treason - seems crazy. Maybe I'm missing something but the only allegation in your post has is that the dems claimed that Russia interfered in the election. Didn't Rubio's senate committee find the same thing? I think the nuttiness of your followers, fed by you, is discouraging.
https://x.com/dnigabbard/status/1955721194143146226?s=46&t=sXz1sBVBFAmlM-rwyRFAlw
Matt,
Perchance have you read Tim Weiner's recent book "THE MISSION-The CIA in the 21st Century"; or his earlier "Legacy of Ashes"?
Matt,
Perchance have you read Tim Weiner's recent book "THE MISSION - The CIA in the 21st Century"; or his earlier "Legacy of Ashes"?
"I told Obama at the time that over-turning the 2016 election was a big mistake." Who claims credit first?
I feel that Tulsi is nobody's fool. I'd bet money she has much more than this document release to back up her calls for accountability. So... definitely possible.
As DNI she is using primary sourced documents. Not rumors ,secret sources, partisan commentary, etc. She is the most credible in the room on this because she has the actual real material. Not speculation.
Agree. If you are doing this right, this document dump is to get the rats running scared and people willing to flip. She should have a the truly damning stuff held back.
Good point...maybe Clapper will be the one.
I've always maintained that the only way to really break through the illusion of division as presented by mainstream media is if some big participant finally fesses up and admits to some of the sins.
That’s what I’ve been thinking.
It has always surprised me that few people come forward. However, we know what happens to them when they do.
The John Dean character re: Nixon. Very interesting!!
Sorry about the typo. It should have said “is not in the news”
Is not?? Yes
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMc4z8WuZA2/?igsh=eWthdTI1M3h6b3lw
Yep. I agree.
That is what I thought too.
You have to think of this Russiagate conspiracy more broadly that being aimed just at undermining Trump and his presidency. The resulting Russophobic hysteria, which overtook the US media and public discourse over the following years, was aimed squarely at preparing the country for the ongoing proxy (and perhaps the coming direct) war against Russia. Without this obscene campaign of demonization of Putin and Russia launched in earnest by the Russiagate the American public would never have given its consent to this war. So the instigators of this conspiracy must have planned wider and beyond just Trump. And now it seems that they somehow managed to co-opt Trump himself into it.
Indeed. This "conspiracy" poisoned relationships with Russia and precipitated the Ukraine war.
"In retrospect, the economic transition to capitalism was a catastrophe for most Russians. It is also clear that the West should have dealt with post-Cold War Russia better than it did. Both the West and Russia would have been considerably more secure today if the chance for Russia to join the European Union, and possibly even NATO, had at least been kept open in the 1990s. Instead, their exclusion has given Russians the sense of being outcasts and victims..."
- Odd Arne Westad
Aug. 28, 2017
I thought so too at the time.
It was fucking obvious that they wanted to keep the 'Russian Boogeyman' option open.
I mean, they already had so much Hollywood propaganda to back it up...
So Putin's violent suppression of Chechnya, followed by the Russian invasion of Georgia, followed by Russia's occupation and annexation of Crimea, followed by the well-publicized mobilization of a Russian invasion force on Ukraine’s borders, followed by the Feb. 24, 2022 offensive, would never have registered on the USA?
This is exactly the type of Russophobic propaganda I was talking about - piling up nonsense upon nonsense upon nonsense for the sake of justifying a war.
It's what you SHOULD have been talking about instead of blaming it all on a Conspiracy.
You can fool most of the people…:
“In Chicago… we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program—the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance.” Adolph Reed, in 1996
And 1 that got rid of his primary election opponents by checking all the petition signatures required to get on the ballot. Instead of "working" to help the community "the team" was busy doing audits. Oh, and don't forget, his (R) opponent in the general election suddenly had a sex scandal to deal with.
86 days before the election, the highly favored incumbent suddenly found himself nailed to a mud fence. Obama was installed, the rest is history. This was the Chicago political machine epitomized.
There was one other opportunity to stop Obama.
Ditka.
But Ditka passed.
You must be a fellow Illinoisan. Yep, there was talk at the time of Ditka making a run for the seat. He had nearly God status in Illinois, so it might have changed history. He was quite conservative though, and Madigan was at his mightiest in steering the Democrat Obama, so it might not have changed much. One of the biggest factors was timing. Jack Ryan was trashed with the divorce scandal at the 11:59 hour, leaving no time to ready and run a contender. Madigan is filthy, but no fool.
Yeah, I'm in downstate Illinois -- we get all the negatives of living in Chicago with none of the benefits.
You may be right about it being too late in the game to stop Obama, but Ditka was a reasonable hope because of his sky-high popularity.
It's hard not to think how things might look differently today.
And who in Illinois doesn't love the 25% increase in power bills we just saw this month?
I'm downstate too. You are probably looking forward, like me, to Pritzker funding Chicago's mass transit deficit with state-wide taxes. That's going to be costly and painful.
https://rumble.com/v4k40au-let-my-people-go-full-length-documentary.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_m%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
If you watch from 1:52:00 to 2:08:00 you might decide to watch it from the beginning. We have, and we continue to work very hard. Should you decide to invest 2 hours you will be able to see “the dirt” we have on the players. I picked the correct side to be on. Sounds like you did too.
I just watched this video, it's really well done. Unless one wants to be both furious and gut-sick, I don't recommend it. I don't know how we got here or how we get back from it, but everything is at stake.
Atta Girl! Sorry about the furious and gut-sick. It makes me cry knowing what some of these people have gone through. You have made me happy that you took the time to watch it. It is complicated and very long.
The one sure way to be labeled a conspiracy theorist is to claim the election was stolen, even though there is ample evidence that that is exactly what happened. What I don't understand is how they let Trump win the current election. In retrospect, it was probably a good thing Biden was a placeholder for four years. Trump learned a lot and came back much stronger in the interim.
That came from a sealed document that magically was leaked
Are you referring to the divorce court papers of Jack Ryan?
? Who was it under seal by?
The Divider in Chief.
And don’t forget his connection to Ayer’s and Dohrn.
Great reply!
This is crazier than the plots of most movies. A lame duck POTUS plotting a coup against the next POTUS.
Perps MUST go to prison for this.
If it turns out not to rise to reason, it definitely involves political vengefulness on Obama' s part. I am having a hard time lately coming to grips with the fact that not everyone in government supports the ideas and goals of America. And incidentally the presence of overwhelming evil. That stuff takes over like I never imagined.
Oh I am long past that point. :)
But I remember the first time it really hit home that key Democrats were not only mistaken, but willfully evil. It made me feel sick.
We all want to think that we are all Americans who love our country and mean well. But it just isn't so.
yes, but we cannot look away from the reality of it. it is impossible to have a peaceful coexistence with people like obama and Karen who posts here. they dont want peace, they want the power to inflict harm onto people they dont like.
I can’t get over the fact that so many democrats hate the country of their birth.
Treason, that is.
Correction: must be hanged for this. Remember the same organization tried to assassinate Trump 7 years later.
respectfully disagree— anyone found guilty of treason should be executed. Same as it ever was.
Also, Pompeo knew that Obama had directed the PDB to be edited regarding Russian collusion and yet failed to inform his boss, President Trump in January of 2017 about it…. Never trusted Pompeo… his now skinny ass needs to be questioned.
Exactly, Pompeo was just one of many hiring mistakes Trump made in his first term. He is personification of a moss-backed swamp resident.
Yep, I found it curious to watch him appear publicly and support Trump’s re election efforts… I don’t think too many folks succeed in fooling Trump once but certainly not twice…. Best he cash in on his Ozempic weight loss and go away!
Pompeo + Pence are cut from the same cloth.
John Bolton was a worse pick, but they both had future book deals to consider.
Haha! He does look stupid now. Doesn’t he?
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. This dish might or might not be served cold but it will be delicious either way
Perfectly chosen phrase--Popularized in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn, and Don Corleone but probably a French reference. Very smart, Bill.
Beer is a dish best served cold.
Always a wise-guy.
But, he's not wrong.
Lighten up, lady.
Delicious enough that I am now ashamed of having called Tulsi an idiot.
She is an American patriot who has my deepest respect (as a fellow veteran).
I’ve met many patriots, military and other, whom I'd probably not pick to direct Natl Security. I have not, nor would ever, question her patriotism, only her qualifications.
The proof is in the pudding. Let’s see how she does. I am expecting a positive outcome.
I certainly hope for one despite my serious misgivings.
The anti Tulsi brainwashing was very effective, don't be ashamed a lot of people fell for it. She is sharp, and willing to take the heat and scorn in pursuit of truth and actual patriotism. She never wilted no matter how much lies were told about her. She stood on her principles all the time. I am happy that people are trying to deprogram themselves from that thinking. Tulsi is the real deal and politics needs a lot more principled people like her, in both parties.
I only opposed Tulsi because of her proximity to a bizzare mind control cult which was a spin off of the Hare Krishnas.
If she can transcend that, all power to her.
I don't think she is an idiot but I worry about her connections with the Jagad Guru cult.
Then again, in the last few years, I've seen her in action. I hope she comes through despite her grooming from youth for political office.
This was an attempted coup d'état. There is nothing more important than this story, nothing more politically dire. The main stream press will attempt to slant, obfuscate and suppress it. They were part of it all along, ideologically captured and beholden.
the ICs takeover of the press is part of the conspiracy and the coup.
True.
Susan Rice’s letter to herself saying that the investigation would be “by the book” appears to have been lying to herself.
Formal self-deception.
(She tried to fool us. I don’t think she fooled herself.)
Incorrect. She wrote that letter "to herself" for one reason and one reason only. To cover her ass if the shit ever hit the fan
Why would you think I disagree?
several of the declassified emails contain "per POTUS", or similar wording in the title line, which I think might have been a CYA move by the email authors
and try to cover for Teh One
100% correct
How corrupt are you , if you have to make a note to self, "By the book"?
Ha! Exactly. Most people on their last day on the job, especially a political job, spend it sharing a fond farewell with their co-workers before they turn in their security badge and then they leave early. Susan Rice composing an email to herself on Trump’s inaugural day — oh yeah — more circumstantial evidence. And really, pretty weak, leadership wise.
This is called, “evidence.”
If I got to pick one (between Obama, Comey and Brennen) to lose their freedom, I’d pick Comey. He’s a slimy, scummy, smug, deep state partisan. I’d love to see that smirk smacked off his face.
I want to see Adam Schiff go down.
He is well on his way, and his Senator's placard hasn't even developed a patina.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/breaking-exclusive-adam-schiff-deep-schiff-evidence-shows/
We can only hope. I'll believe it when I see it, however.
That's a tough choice…
100% agree. He is a shitstain on the soul of the nation. His involvement in every FBI f--k up and nasty prosecution for the past 20 years should earn him a cell in Gtmo.
I vote for all 3 & for the gallows.
Newsflash - none of them are going to prison. It would be good enough if they are publicly humiliated, forced to spend $millions on lawyers, and, let's say, "only" the sickest 15% of Americans still revere Obama and believe the Russiagate nonsense.
I'd like to see them all flee the USA never to be seen or heard from again
Maybe Democrats should have treated Tulsi with a bit more respect since 2016 instead of falsely accusing her of being a Putin puppet or Assad toady. “Woulda, coulda, shoulda” strikes again. She used to be one of their most loyal and brightest stars. Talk about unintended consequences…
Almost all of the appointments are just like Gabbard. It sure feels like vengeance.
More like a search for Justice.
This could never have happened without a complicit media.
Bingo.
Obama loves all that dirty trick stuff - he’s from the Chicago machine, it’s in his blood!
Remember in 2016 there was a guy who was in charge of disrupting GOP campaign (Astro turfed protests, planted questions, etc etc)- Bob Creamer, I think. Exposed by some project veritas gotcha video.
WH logs showed that the guy visited the WH over 300 times during Obama’s terms
and met with Obama himself 47 times.
Just Obama tending to the “nation’s business”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/10/hillary_clintons_chain_of_command_for_dirty_tricks.html
And look who’s coming back to lead the party out the wilderness. Good ol’ Rahm Emmanuel. Chicago machine politics is sure to fix the fuckups of prior Chicago machine politics.
But his benefactor and boy-pal, Madigan has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years for corruption. No matter, Chicago politics never change.
And it is why I will never return to my home state until they build a fucking wall around that city and slowly subside it to the depths of Lake Michigan.
You're one of the lucky ones, you escaped.
Thanks, been told that a few times. :) I am lucky.
But I left in the early 80's after the destruction of the industrial middle class in the northern part of the state. I was young enough to not realize the danger of driving a 74 Nova to California with no real money or jobs, etc. It was easy then. Harder now.
And I have been running in front of the tide ever since. I'm now a tired old hag who just wants a few years of peace in the remainder. Not in IL though, LOL.
I live in Decatur. We were once a thriving community of about a hundred thousand people, with lots of manufacturing and industry. Decatur now struggles to maintain a population in the seventy thousand range, and ALL of the factories and industry are gone, except for ADM.
Highway61ent.com Joel Gilbert's "Michelle Obama 2024" taught me more about Chicago than I ever thought I would want to know. Some people have to be furious.
Don't know if I was sadder or madder.
Yep!
Thanks for this.
Matt is off to a great start. To Matt's full credit he stood alone in 2017 balking at the bs and is now doing the hard work of laying out the facts as we know them. Irrespective of the short-term outcomes, the work Matt and others are doing will be of invaluable use.
One key point to keep in mind is that self-interest and greed, rather than "theory" are the main drivers of these small-minded minions of the rich and powerful. Thus, we we find self-interested actors willing to sell their souls and the interests of their nation for a thimbleful of power and influence - a thoroughly disgusting, decades long experiment in naked careerism and corruption - can't wait for Matt and Walter to add more meat to the tale!
Kudos!, Matt, and many thanks!
he was one of few voices but not alone. check out the archives at "The Last Refuge". all this shit was known and documented as it unfolded.
Thanks Matt. You're the best!