England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show
So *this* is what actual journalism looks like! Congrats on some good old fashioned shoe leather reporting. Needless to say these people are disgusting fascists, hopefully your reporting will bring the scrutiny they deserve upon them.
And keep putting pictures with the names! These usurpers should not enjoy relative anonymity, much like real sex offenders don’t. They are just as predatory, destructive, and the masses need to be able to identify when they are around us.
Update: What are the odds free-speech advocate Joe Rogan makes this story part of his podcast? I expect Josh Hawley & Cruz will be on Fox within days - while Maddow, the View, the NYT, and MSNBC will be running cover for Paul & Matt's "so-called" reporting.
If Pulitzers actually mattered - both Paul & Matt would be in the running. Glenn Greenwald and others will guarantee the UK Labour attempts to stifle speech in the US will air broadly.
MT was referred to as an "alleged journalist" by the Honorable non-rep from the Virgin Islands at the weaponization hearing, as I recall. Meanwhile the IRS was visiting his home?
Once again, people. We would not have had those hearings except the Repubs had the floor, by the tiniest of margins. Down ballot is so important! Stop just "weighing in." VOTE for the 1A protection. Please. There is a difference in the two parties these days.
It was Stacey Plaskett and she referred to him as a "so called journalist". It was notable because Glenn Greenwald then referred to her as a "so called Congresswoman". Nothing more lovable than "Sarcastic Glenn"!
Gay men can provide a beat down to women that straight men simply can’t muster.
Unrelated, but have you seen the clip where this gay host fires back at an unruly patron by saying: “hunny, it looks like the last time you got fucked was by genetics.”
It is the UK that is conspiring with the Democrats to get rid of Capitalism and Install Harris, Kingship of US, as they ignore the Constitution, Congress and the SCOTUS.
Biden spent $375,000,000 moving the FBI to his back yard. Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and Synergy Marine Group filed a court petition April 1 seeking to cap their liability at about $43.6 million. US paid $60 M up front. Biden, without consulting Congress, mandated "The Federal government will pay the entire cost". New cost $1.9 BILLION.
Biden mandated and extra $38 Million October 15, 2024, for good paying jobs......in MD!
Why not allow Insurers pay? That's what they're there for. There is no information. Whose paying the $1.9 BILLION? When did Congress vote on this???????
"The (Trump complaint) story comes off the back of another revelation yesterday that the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), founded by No. 10’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, had as one of its ‘annual priorities’ a plan to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’. Elon Musk is Trump’s richest backer, of course, and everybody knows that ‘countering digital hate’ tends to mean shutting down speech on platforms that don’t already censor right-wing political views." Slowly, slowly
"Leaked documents thought to be drawn up by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate – founded by Sir Keir Starmer’s now-chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – have been posted on Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi’s Disinformation Chronicle substack. The files reportedly list ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ as one of the group’s annual priorities, with the sentiment appearing in multiple documents dating back to the early months of 2024. As Freddy Gray noted today, these days ‘countering digital hate’ tends to mean shutting down speech on platforms that don’t already censor right-wing political views. Another of its top priorities is to ‘trigger EU and UK regulatory action’, while the documents also purportedly show that the group has sought to strengthen ties with senior Democrats, like Senator Amy Klobuchar, in a bid to further its ‘US policy engagement’. How very interesting...."
There’s a saying I’ve used that is not originally mine - I know it’s of a JFK quote as I’ve seen it, but my plagiarism-free interpretation is:
“Those who make discussion impossible make violence inevitable.”
You can’t label half the country’s perspective of contentious issues as hate speech and try to stamp it out of existence - ESPECIALLY - when you’re trying to fuck with (and literally fuck) other people’s kids.
UPDATE - Daily Mail story morphs into Elon Musk wades into Trump lawsuit - Paul and Matt's names appear in a screen shot but NO LINK to this article (at least a link I can detect) - The Mail manages to squeeze 'unverified'; 'alleging'; 'trying'; and 'supposedly' into a single sentence summary: "Musk made the post on X in response to an unverified post alleging that Labour was trying to 'kill Musk's Twitter' by supposedly harassing advertisers." Needless to say, none of the UK papers are keen to broach the forbidden UK censorship project, especially the 'liberal icons' the Guardian and and the Independent - sad misnomers now mocking the storied pasts of both papers - reduced now to serving as enthusiastic stenographers for the security state. Utterly revolting - we might as well read the DM and the Sun. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13991423/Elon-Musk-Donald-Trumps-legal-case-Britains-Labour-Party.html
Barron's: at end of "yawn, nothing to see here" rip-off (evidently) of an unlinked AFP article: "Adding to the latest row is Trump supporter Elon Musk, who wrote on his X site on Tuesday "this is war" after the Center for Countering Digital Hate campaign group suggested one of its objectives was "to kill Musk's Twitter" -- X's former name." https://www.barrons.com/news/uk-rejects-trump-team-claims-of-interference-008e869e
UPDATE - Wapo makes "Kill Trump's Twitter" an asterisk to "unfounded claims" that UK Labour is interfering in US elections. That's just from the screen grab. I refuse to re-subscribe to the Dem Deep State propaganda sheet.
Daily Mail buries the "Kill Musk's Twitter" UK plan in story of Trump's complaint about Starmer's Labour party interference in US elections. Starmer confirms: "We've always done it!"
"...Keir Starmer today tried to shrug off a furious reaction from Donald Trump over Labour activists campaigning for his Democrat rival...A complaint to the Federal Election Commission says sending activists to the States amounts to 'illegal foreign campaign contributions' for Kamala Harris.... The complaint also mentioned reports that Morgan McSweeney, the PM's chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Downing Street's director of communications, met with Ms Harris's team at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago over the summer." NOTE - Mail makes mention of "Kill Musk's Twitter", or Paul or Matt's excellent reporting. I expect facts on the ground will force the Mail to address that matter.
This should be one of the biggest scandals in US election history. Unlike Russiagate, which was a complete fabrication hoisted upon the American people for 3 1/2 years by the democrats and corporate media, UKGate IS in fact election interference pure and simple.
Should Trump be elected, he should immediately cut all aid to the UK, implement sanctions, and lobby the UN to bring foreign election interference charges against the UK until they dismantle and make illegal corrupt NGO's like The Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Thank you for publishing this Matt. You are a national treasure.
Remember folks.....you don't hate the corporate media & the establishment enough. You think you do, but you don't.
we'll know when we are emerging from this abusive time in history when these mfers disappear from their positions of power or influence or are on the run for lives. that's the sign that the scales tipped, enough people became aware of the evil, and said were not taking this shit anymore.
The war is, has ever been, on human consciousness. What you can't say owns you. Under Starmer the escalation of the arrest and incarceration of Britisn citizens for thought and speech crimes continues to grow. Their necessity to attack free speech and expression at all is an open indictment of the distorted criminality and ineptitude they represent. I agree with you 100%.
As ZeroHedge noted in their covering of this article - there was an attempt to shut down ZH for the same reasons. TPTB went after their advertising revenue. They almost succeeded in destroying the site, but there is a subscription model as well as free options now. Comments are moderated to a degree - so it’s no longer Fight Club, more like pillow fight club - to appease our fascists overlords.
ZH is no longer the best site on the internet, but it’s still a gem.
I still don't understand how this is a scandal. This has been known since the day Elon bought Twitter, and did the release of information that Matt was involved in. This was plain as day. I've already started my final postings on the web because in just 2 weeks when they announce that the anointed one has utterly devastated the Donald by 120+ electoral, and 20M votes, they will be ushering in the age of "truth" and "prosperity" for all loyal followers.
Matt, sorry, you will be removed from the internet within 2 years, but at least you'll have longer than Elon who'll be in prison by inauguration. Anybody that had Trump banners out front of their houses or on their lawns will be harassed with audits and red tape for a couple of years until they figure out how to re-educate you, and soon there will be laws similar to the UK now that if you type something that they don't like, the police will be at your door inside of a week and you'll likely be brought before a judge.
You'll own nothing, and be happy, and you'll question nothing!!
I pray that there are enough free thinking beings left voting for Trump to make the election results "too big to rig". If not, I fear that you are right in your dour assessment.
My second mind tells me that there is more sizzle than steak in the ascending totalitarianism. Remove the propaganda arm of the king makers by totally abandoning their psyop and the distortion, fear, confusion and anxiety they depend on will begin to collapse and the air will begin too clear. Subscription journalism is in its infancy. It should be more pro-active and less passive. The hyperrealistic MSM/bureaucratic surveillance LIE attempting to subsume American reality CAN and WILL be replaced by the healthy American national conversation we the people deserve.
People I encounter, though completely skeptical of the MSM and concerned about the condition of the nation and the news, have never heard of SUBSTACK. The idea of directly employing competent truth/fact based journalists through subscription is foreign to them. They're interested but can't make the leap. I suspect some of it is the inability to separate addictive glitter entertainment from reality based reporting. And, the unconscious fear of cancellation and censure injected into the American psyche by the corporate totalitarian woke psyop.
One idea, a transparent, trusted journalist managed, subscriber based cash pool that allows independent reporters to join hands and pursue depth reports on events shaping our nations future and affecting our lives. There is without question a 100,000 people who would throw in $50.00 bucks a year (totaling $5,000,000.00) to maintain the effort. The self-interested "kill it before it grows" assault on Elon Musk and free speech by criminal financiers and corrupt surveillance politics is proof of the possibility. They can see it. Why can't we the people?
Stay strong. Stay clear. Catch you on the turn around.
The pool sounds like a good idea, as long as it has a feature for subscribers to critique and possibly exclude, by majority vote, those found to be deficient in some way.
It's impossible to hate them enough and I would ADD the public schools, churches, legal industrial complexes, military industrial complexes etc. ALL are parasitic dreck.
the churches lost it when they bent over and gave up their freedom of speech for tax exemption. they should have fought the piece of shit govt on both fronts.
It's like the full cutting of the cord (financial after all those founding fathers had UK interests!) that clearly never happened during the US revolution-- Read Alex Krainer on " All roads lead to London" Great piece!
And make the Insurance companies pay the $1.9 Billion to rebuild the KEY bridge, instead of forcing the Taxpayers to pay for the Insurance Companies. Why has Congress not been allowed to take a vote?
I've noticed a few substackers whose main content is shitting on Matt. One of them, who presents as a "feminist" angry about Matt's treatment of women, posted that Racket didn't get the joke about the real men for Kamala video.
I don't respond, but that's rich if anyone thinks these two don't understand how humor works.
Yes, Karen the Feminist hates Matt because he wrote a book decades ago, in which he wrote typical horndog stuff about the fairer sex. In her mind, he can only redeem himself by campaigning with White Beta Males for Kamala while wearing a pink pussy hat.
No, Karen hates him because he rejects her baseless assertion of authority. Like all of the rest of the scolding parrots, they’re incapable of handling dissent.
Jimmy Kimmel would be doing a lot better if he stuck with tig bitties on tampolines routine. He bent over and spread his cheeks for woke feminists with a strapon. what a putz. never bend the knee. krotchmalas sign says "were no going back." The fuck you're not. you're taking your toxic version of feminism and society and going back into the fucking closet.
Social Media like you are ignorant of Real Journalism and what they give up to maintain it. Go back to the VIEW! They'll play with you under the table.
The US has been the mastermind behind so much interference in so many other countrys’ elections (and governance). I think that the CIA & our own State Dept. (and maybe the DOJ), are probably behind the CCDH, and their efforts here on this side of the pond.
The CIA appears to have a history of reaching out to the “five eyes” for help in doing things in the US, that they are prohibited from doing.
Sigh-- why oh why cant people believe that the UK could do this? Read Alex Krainer's piece" All roads lead to London"-- it clarifies who the intelligence bodies work for-- yup it finance
Wait wait wiat, I thought "foreign interference in Muh Precious Democracy(tm)" was a bad thing?
Then again, in 2004, The Guardian organized a campaign in which British people would call voters in the swing state of Ohio to urge them to vote Team D, and nobody raised a peep about how democracy was in jeopardy as a result, so I guess it only counts if you're not the Establishment-approved candidate.
Who made CCDH and Democrats the “ Decider” as to what constitutes “ misinformation “? That’s just another word for censoring political enemies and dissenting- and often truthful- voices. Truly outrageous. If Harris backs this misinformation/censorship protocol, she should lose and return to California.
They did. Everything after that is just 100% begging the question.
It is actually beyond that in terms of this increasingly common "up is down" Orwellian gaslighting. The Deep State™ intelligence agencies have been claiming that Russian spies spent years grooming an American Reality TV star and millions collecting Kompromat on same so that when he eventually entered politics they would HAVE HIM. 100% of Progressive Idiots bought this shit.
But yeah Twitter is this scourge of ridiculous misinformation and conspiracy theories that needs to be (checks notes) put under the purview of Deep State™ intelligence agencies.
Oh, and by the way, as your friendly neighborhood tax guy, be advised that 501(c)(3) organizations are supposed to be charitable in nature and not engage in any activities having to do with elections or legislation (as in zero percent of their activities). That is the reason for the quoted item about, "need to get a 501(c)(4) application started asap." That's because 501(c)(4) organizations are permitted under the regulations to engage in such activities up to not more than 50% of all of their activities (but the IRS almost never audits 501(c)(4) organizations for violating this rule (with the rare exception being when Lois Lerner was employed by the IRS)). I am surprised the discussion didn't refer instead to starting up a "527 organization" - as those organizations are purposefully designed to do political advocacy as "political action committees," etc. But clearly Mr. Ahmed's intent is to hide the true nature of CCDH.
This is a big problem with the phony Jesus-firster churches, also. In reality they're political machines hiding behind the alleged "Messiah." Break'em up, tear'em apart.
This is fantastic reporting. Thank you. England's Labour Party is increasingly an island, (pun intended) of Left wing insanity. It explains their devotion, to electing an American candidate, that will surely result in world chaos. Having sold London to Qatar for a few shiny coins, Labour is moving Left, while the rest of the Continent is moving Right.
Liberal Scandinavian countries are either paying migrants to leave, or planning large deportations. Uber Progressive Sweden has just announced not another migrant will enter, until they have better assimilated or removed the ones already there. The rest of Europe is following suit, at various speeds. Germany has border checkpoints again, for the first time since he EU was founded. The new Italy PM, speaks like Thatcher. Poland, long one of the most welcoming European countries for new arrivals, due to their own WWII history, has just announced they will drastically curtail the number of migrants accepted.
Faced with mass Right leaning pushback, on a level unseen since the 80's, England's Lefties, and pockets of European Progressives, know a Kamala and Dem Senate win, would help save them from impending extinction. A burned filibuster would produce 2 new, permanently, bright Blue States, tens of trillions in Green New Deal spending, naturalization of 20 million unvetted, migrants and a packed SCOTUS, would result in perpetual US, Dem single party rule.
Yes. I kept expecting to see Matt talk about the actual state of the Labour party, but it never happened.
Labour's "landslide" was a total failure. It's not just the rest of Europe that's moving right, it's the UK too. They got fewer votes in this last election than they did previously when they were led by Corbyn, the British equivalent of Bernie Sanders! Even moving to the centre couldn't increase their popularity. Starmer and Labour are now polling WORSE than Sunak and the Conservatives, even though the latter just lost an election a few months ago. Normally a new government that replaces an incumbent gets a big polling boost for a while as voters give them the benefit of the doubt, but not this time.
The only reason they have a "landslide" majority is because right wing voters and donors deserted the Conservatives in massive numbers, some constituencies seeing up to 50% abstention rates by right wing voters. The British right concluded their party had been fully taken over by RINOs, could not be saved, and attempted to wreck it instead in the hope of something better emerging or at least in aid of punishing them (parties in the UK are not susceptible to primary challenges in the same way they are in the US). Also, Reform split the vote (deliberately, this is not a negative judgement, just a statement of fact). So there has been no move to the left in the UK and Labour do not reflect the will of the British people in any way, except a minority.
That's why the idea of Martin McSweeney as being a political genius of any kind is hilarious and laughable. The Starmer project is partly his doing and so far it's an utter failure, in the objective popularity sense and not merely in concrete policy terms.
So you're right that it's a really bad idea to conflate Labour with the UK right now. Imagine if somehow a Hillary Clinton clone managed to take over the Republican party. Voters would desert it in droves, leaving the Democrats to win by default. They would then go crazy doing whatever they wanted, but this wouldn't mean much about Americans or America.
I like to say that today's Progressive left in America is basically the same as yesterday's Falwell Right with a different Deity. Liberals like me have stayed right where they are, which is ridiculously center to center right.
As a thought: I'm not left/right, Democrat or Republican. I'm an American. There is, it seems to me, no actual ideology behind the psyop. Only power, the capture, subversion and control of free peoples, the looting of economies and the exploitation of natural resources for personal gain and profit by international criminal financiers. And of course, as in all totalitarian regimes, the imposition of a gigantic and treacherous LIE backed by the threat of violence. As proof I point to our Republic's current situation in which American political leadership deems it unnecessary to even pretend that anyone in an elected position is in charge of our country. There is the American Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. Everything else is psyop. Depart the psyop, Heal and live.
This is simply despicable; a transparent attempt to use a foreign political entity as a cut-out to censor Americans is, if anything, even worse than directly silencing us.
Instead of worrying about endless war & Constitution shredding censorship & Trump's imaginary Nazi invasion why don't you folks actually do something for Americans.
I would settle for just getting them to stop tyrannizing ordinary Americans, which is what you get, it seems, anytime Democrats try to "do something for Americans."
Just go sit in the corner for a few elections while we try and fix this.
Paul and Matt, absolutely superb journalism. I cannot get enough. Keep the names coming... everyone involved needs to be named. They are disgusting low-lives that deserve shunning and shaming. Any US citizens that are funding this deeply anti-American undertaking should be seen as the globalists and traitors to America that they have become.... absolute enemies to our Constitutional Republic although that is true of the Democrat party as well. The only way CCDH gets what it has coming for its flouting of US law is if Trump is elected. The Democrat party abandoned conforming with US law a long time ago so they could care less.
I thought Hate Speech was illegal now. Isn't that what Dems have been doing to Trump for years...and what very likely resulted in at least 3 attempts on his life.
They're trying. I wonder what the Supreme Court justices think about free speech these days.
In Snyder v. Phelps (1), decided in 2011, the Supreme Court sided affirmed the right of members of the Westboro Baptist Church to picket on public land near a soldier's funeral service, carrying signs with slogans such as "God hates fags", "Fags doom nations", and "Thank God for dead soldiers". Liberal justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan sided with the majority. I hope that Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, still on the court, have maintained their principles regarding the First Amendment.
Klobuchar. Klobuchar is the worst Puritanical hack alive today. MN Governor and MN AG both on record opposing free speech. Minnesota nice was always bullshit. They are the despots they accuse Trump of being.
Waitll you get a load of Hennepin Counties Prosecutor Kommisar... She will fail up, of course, and her name is Mary Moriarty. Embarrassingly, Minnesota is kind of a hub of all the fetid rot... And we are knee deep in it.
So *this* is what actual journalism looks like! Congrats on some good old fashioned shoe leather reporting. Needless to say these people are disgusting fascists, hopefully your reporting will bring the scrutiny they deserve upon them.
And keep putting pictures with the names! These usurpers should not enjoy relative anonymity, much like real sex offenders don’t. They are just as predatory, destructive, and the masses need to be able to identify when they are around us.
Agree.
Wait, Jenny, you "agree"? Please explain!
I agree with seeing pictures of the people who work with the Govt. but behind the govt.
The unelected -concealed in the background-pulling the levers-and they are paid by you and I.
For sure. Not to mention they're all fugly.
Opines Dorothy Unleashed the buffalo.
Oh look, Comprof is back!
You know the cut is close to the bone when that troll shows up.
Update: What are the odds free-speech advocate Joe Rogan makes this story part of his podcast? I expect Josh Hawley & Cruz will be on Fox within days - while Maddow, the View, the NYT, and MSNBC will be running cover for Paul & Matt's "so-called" reporting.
If Pulitzers actually mattered - both Paul & Matt would be in the running. Glenn Greenwald and others will guarantee the UK Labour attempts to stifle speech in the US will air broadly.
MT was referred to as an "alleged journalist" by the Honorable non-rep from the Virgin Islands at the weaponization hearing, as I recall. Meanwhile the IRS was visiting his home?
Once again, people. We would not have had those hearings except the Repubs had the floor, by the tiniest of margins. Down ballot is so important! Stop just "weighing in." VOTE for the 1A protection. Please. There is a difference in the two parties these days.
It was Stacey Plaskett and she referred to him as a "so called journalist". It was notable because Glenn Greenwald then referred to her as a "so called Congresswoman". Nothing more lovable than "Sarcastic Glenn"!
Gay men can provide a beat down to women that straight men simply can’t muster.
Unrelated, but have you seen the clip where this gay host fires back at an unruly patron by saying: “hunny, it looks like the last time you got fucked was by genetics.”
Sarcasm-So good!
You are speaking vital truth. Observers and readers hear this call.
It is the UK that is conspiring with the Democrats to get rid of Capitalism and Install Harris, Kingship of US, as they ignore the Constitution, Congress and the SCOTUS.
Biden spent $375,000,000 moving the FBI to his back yard. Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and Synergy Marine Group filed a court petition April 1 seeking to cap their liability at about $43.6 million. US paid $60 M up front. Biden, without consulting Congress, mandated "The Federal government will pay the entire cost". New cost $1.9 BILLION.
Biden mandated and extra $38 Million October 15, 2024, for good paying jobs......in MD!
Why not allow Insurers pay? That's what they're there for. There is no information. Whose paying the $1.9 BILLION? When did Congress vote on this???????
Paul & Matt's piece enters the right-wing news environment:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/10/22/british-advisors-to-kamala-harris-hope-to-kill-musks-twitter-n3796125 via https://instapundit.com/679226/
Elon notices: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1848875059265605639
Yahoo buries "Kill Musk's Twitter" ditto the Telegraph, BBC, Reuters, and AGF
Trump campaign "accuses" UK of election interference - only when digging deep to we discover the "Kill Musk's Twitter" censorship efforts. Surprise!
It's VON Reuters to you.
Spectator (11 minutes ago) mentions "Kill Musk's Twitter" disinformation cabal https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-british-are-coming-labours-comedy-of-errors-in-the-us-election/
"The (Trump complaint) story comes off the back of another revelation yesterday that the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), founded by No. 10’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, had as one of its ‘annual priorities’ a plan to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’. Elon Musk is Trump’s richest backer, of course, and everybody knows that ‘countering digital hate’ tends to mean shutting down speech on platforms that don’t already censor right-wing political views." Slowly, slowly
UPDATE - Finally, second much better Spectator article: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labour-linked-censorship-group-plans-to-kill-musks-twitter/ - NOTE the use of the present tense in the link "plans" Paul and Matt credited with links and screenshots to this article:
"Leaked documents thought to be drawn up by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate – founded by Sir Keir Starmer’s now-chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – have been posted on Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi’s Disinformation Chronicle substack. The files reportedly list ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ as one of the group’s annual priorities, with the sentiment appearing in multiple documents dating back to the early months of 2024. As Freddy Gray noted today, these days ‘countering digital hate’ tends to mean shutting down speech on platforms that don’t already censor right-wing political views. Another of its top priorities is to ‘trigger EU and UK regulatory action’, while the documents also purportedly show that the group has sought to strengthen ties with senior Democrats, like Senator Amy Klobuchar, in a bid to further its ‘US policy engagement’. How very interesting...."
There’s a saying I’ve used that is not originally mine - I know it’s of a JFK quote as I’ve seen it, but my plagiarism-free interpretation is:
“Those who make discussion impossible make violence inevitable.”
You can’t label half the country’s perspective of contentious issues as hate speech and try to stamp it out of existence - ESPECIALLY - when you’re trying to fuck with (and literally fuck) other people’s kids.
UPDATE - Daily Mail story morphs into Elon Musk wades into Trump lawsuit - Paul and Matt's names appear in a screen shot but NO LINK to this article (at least a link I can detect) - The Mail manages to squeeze 'unverified'; 'alleging'; 'trying'; and 'supposedly' into a single sentence summary: "Musk made the post on X in response to an unverified post alleging that Labour was trying to 'kill Musk's Twitter' by supposedly harassing advertisers." Needless to say, none of the UK papers are keen to broach the forbidden UK censorship project, especially the 'liberal icons' the Guardian and and the Independent - sad misnomers now mocking the storied pasts of both papers - reduced now to serving as enthusiastic stenographers for the security state. Utterly revolting - we might as well read the DM and the Sun. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13991423/Elon-Musk-Donald-Trumps-legal-case-Britains-Labour-Party.html
Barron's: at end of "yawn, nothing to see here" rip-off (evidently) of an unlinked AFP article: "Adding to the latest row is Trump supporter Elon Musk, who wrote on his X site on Tuesday "this is war" after the Center for Countering Digital Hate campaign group suggested one of its objectives was "to kill Musk's Twitter" -- X's former name." https://www.barrons.com/news/uk-rejects-trump-team-claims-of-interference-008e869e
The words 'censor' and 'censorship' strangely absent in Independent's anti-free speech whitewash of" Kill Musk's Twitter" campaign! Surprise!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/elon-musk-labour-starmer-trump-b2634260.html
UPDATE - Wapo makes "Kill Trump's Twitter" an asterisk to "unfounded claims" that UK Labour is interfering in US elections. That's just from the screen grab. I refuse to re-subscribe to the Dem Deep State propaganda sheet.
Daily Mail buries the "Kill Musk's Twitter" UK plan in story of Trump's complaint about Starmer's Labour party interference in US elections. Starmer confirms: "We've always done it!"
"...Keir Starmer today tried to shrug off a furious reaction from Donald Trump over Labour activists campaigning for his Democrat rival...A complaint to the Federal Election Commission says sending activists to the States amounts to 'illegal foreign campaign contributions' for Kamala Harris.... The complaint also mentioned reports that Morgan McSweeney, the PM's chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Downing Street's director of communications, met with Ms Harris's team at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago over the summer." NOTE - Mail makes mention of "Kill Musk's Twitter", or Paul or Matt's excellent reporting. I expect facts on the ground will force the Mail to address that matter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13989745/Donald-Trump-files-complaint-against-Labour-Party-blatant-foreign-interference-election.html
Paul Thacker's X account: https://x.com/thackerpd/status/1848755452667924625 with credit to Matt, to - 28,000,000 views and counting.
Thank you Sir!! This kind of light is heartening in a time when heart is being openly criminalized.
UKgate.
This should be one of the biggest scandals in US election history. Unlike Russiagate, which was a complete fabrication hoisted upon the American people for 3 1/2 years by the democrats and corporate media, UKGate IS in fact election interference pure and simple.
Should Trump be elected, he should immediately cut all aid to the UK, implement sanctions, and lobby the UN to bring foreign election interference charges against the UK until they dismantle and make illegal corrupt NGO's like The Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Thank you for publishing this Matt. You are a national treasure.
Remember folks.....you don't hate the corporate media & the establishment enough. You think you do, but you don't.
https://x.com/Evans_Wroten/status/1848759790291530012
we'll know when we are emerging from this abusive time in history when these mfers disappear from their positions of power or influence or are on the run for lives. that's the sign that the scales tipped, enough people became aware of the evil, and said were not taking this shit anymore.
The war is, has ever been, on human consciousness. What you can't say owns you. Under Starmer the escalation of the arrest and incarceration of Britisn citizens for thought and speech crimes continues to grow. Their necessity to attack free speech and expression at all is an open indictment of the distorted criminality and ineptitude they represent. I agree with you 100%.
Naked attempt to effectively destroy the First Amendment. Make no mistake - first take out Twitter, then all other "dis-information" sites.
As ZeroHedge noted in their covering of this article - there was an attempt to shut down ZH for the same reasons. TPTB went after their advertising revenue. They almost succeeded in destroying the site, but there is a subscription model as well as free options now. Comments are moderated to a degree - so it’s no longer Fight Club, more like pillow fight club - to appease our fascists overlords.
ZH is no longer the best site on the internet, but it’s still a gem.
I still don't understand how this is a scandal. This has been known since the day Elon bought Twitter, and did the release of information that Matt was involved in. This was plain as day. I've already started my final postings on the web because in just 2 weeks when they announce that the anointed one has utterly devastated the Donald by 120+ electoral, and 20M votes, they will be ushering in the age of "truth" and "prosperity" for all loyal followers.
Matt, sorry, you will be removed from the internet within 2 years, but at least you'll have longer than Elon who'll be in prison by inauguration. Anybody that had Trump banners out front of their houses or on their lawns will be harassed with audits and red tape for a couple of years until they figure out how to re-educate you, and soon there will be laws similar to the UK now that if you type something that they don't like, the police will be at your door inside of a week and you'll likely be brought before a judge.
You'll own nothing, and be happy, and you'll question nothing!!
I pray that there are enough free thinking beings left voting for Trump to make the election results "too big to rig". If not, I fear that you are right in your dour assessment.
Ha! You may be right. But I won't go quietly.
OK doomer.
My second mind tells me that there is more sizzle than steak in the ascending totalitarianism. Remove the propaganda arm of the king makers by totally abandoning their psyop and the distortion, fear, confusion and anxiety they depend on will begin to collapse and the air will begin too clear. Subscription journalism is in its infancy. It should be more pro-active and less passive. The hyperrealistic MSM/bureaucratic surveillance LIE attempting to subsume American reality CAN and WILL be replaced by the healthy American national conversation we the people deserve.
OK!
What do you mean about subscription journalism being more pro-active?
Good morning Bull.
People I encounter, though completely skeptical of the MSM and concerned about the condition of the nation and the news, have never heard of SUBSTACK. The idea of directly employing competent truth/fact based journalists through subscription is foreign to them. They're interested but can't make the leap. I suspect some of it is the inability to separate addictive glitter entertainment from reality based reporting. And, the unconscious fear of cancellation and censure injected into the American psyche by the corporate totalitarian woke psyop.
One idea, a transparent, trusted journalist managed, subscriber based cash pool that allows independent reporters to join hands and pursue depth reports on events shaping our nations future and affecting our lives. There is without question a 100,000 people who would throw in $50.00 bucks a year (totaling $5,000,000.00) to maintain the effort. The self-interested "kill it before it grows" assault on Elon Musk and free speech by criminal financiers and corrupt surveillance politics is proof of the possibility. They can see it. Why can't we the people?
Stay strong. Stay clear. Catch you on the turn around.
The pool sounds like a good idea, as long as it has a feature for subscribers to critique and possibly exclude, by majority vote, those found to be deficient in some way.
Thanks, you do the same.
It's impossible to hate them enough and I would ADD the public schools, churches, legal industrial complexes, military industrial complexes etc. ALL are parasitic dreck.
the churches lost it when they bent over and gave up their freedom of speech for tax exemption. they should have fought the piece of shit govt on both fronts.
It's like the full cutting of the cord (financial after all those founding fathers had UK interests!) that clearly never happened during the US revolution-- Read Alex Krainer on " All roads lead to London" Great piece!
And make the Insurance companies pay the $1.9 Billion to rebuild the KEY bridge, instead of forcing the Taxpayers to pay for the Insurance Companies. Why has Congress not been allowed to take a vote?
No sanctions and no UN please
Taibbi is more of a social media embarrassment, albeit an interesting one.
LOL. Time for your to slither back to MSNBC or whatever MSM rock you crawled out from under.
I've noticed a few substackers whose main content is shitting on Matt. One of them, who presents as a "feminist" angry about Matt's treatment of women, posted that Racket didn't get the joke about the real men for Kamala video.
I don't respond, but that's rich if anyone thinks these two don't understand how humor works.
Yes, Karen the Feminist hates Matt because he wrote a book decades ago, in which he wrote typical horndog stuff about the fairer sex. In her mind, he can only redeem himself by campaigning with White Beta Males for Kamala while wearing a pink pussy hat.
No, Karen hates him because he rejects her baseless assertion of authority. Like all of the rest of the scolding parrots, they’re incapable of handling dissent.
Yeah, that is the real reason for all the hatred at Matt. He refuses to be housebroken, like a good doggie would.
Porque no los dos?
She’s amazingly consistent
Something to do with being insane, I guess
Jimmy Kimmel would be doing a lot better if he stuck with tig bitties on tampolines routine. He bent over and spread his cheeks for woke feminists with a strapon. what a putz. never bend the knee. krotchmalas sign says "were no going back." The fuck you're not. you're taking your toxic version of feminism and society and going back into the fucking closet.
I don't think so, Feldspar.
None of Matt's readers hold him responsible for the low quality trolls he attracts.
I chuckled.
shouldnt you be over at white dudz for harri-balz reach around party?
"Social media embarrassment"? Talk about damage control.
If Matt's work is "social media embarrassment," let us have more of it!
ad hom - last refuge of the intellectually bankrupt - delighted you've abandoned the pretense of objectivity and now let your venom flow free.
Feldy is padding his resume to hopefully get an intern job at the DHS if Kamala wins.
shine on you crazy diamond.
Social Media like you are ignorant of Real Journalism and what they give up to maintain it. Go back to the VIEW! They'll play with you under the table.
Do you ever get tired of being a dick head?
Did you read "I Can't Breathe" ?
Benjamin. Grab the muskets.
Loyalist MSM: Paul Revere is spreading misinformation! The British are not coming.
The US has been the mastermind behind so much interference in so many other countrys’ elections (and governance). I think that the CIA & our own State Dept. (and maybe the DOJ), are probably behind the CCDH, and their efforts here on this side of the pond.
The CIA appears to have a history of reaching out to the “five eyes” for help in doing things in the US, that they are prohibited from doing.
Yes they do. I wrote about this a couple weeks ago, and the coordination is obvious:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-constitution-day-lets-remember
It's amazing to me that people don't know this. It just proves how dumb our country really is. Carlin told us about this 2 decades ago.
And look where he wound up; dead from "cancer."
Would not surprise me.
Sigh-- why oh why cant people believe that the UK could do this? Read Alex Krainer's piece" All roads lead to London"-- it clarifies who the intelligence bodies work for-- yup it finance
Has all the earmarks of a CIA/State Dept. operation.
"Mr. Revere has provided absolutely no evidence for his shocking statements, which are only intended to stir up hate."
Depart the psyop and live.
Wish I could like this twice.
Yuri you rock! 🥰
So "foreign influence in our elections" isn't a bad thing for Democrats. Like every other "principle" of theirs, it's conditional.
They have no principles.
Wait wait wiat, I thought "foreign interference in Muh Precious Democracy(tm)" was a bad thing?
Then again, in 2004, The Guardian organized a campaign in which British people would call voters in the swing state of Ohio to urge them to vote Team D, and nobody raised a peep about how democracy was in jeopardy as a result, so I guess it only counts if you're not the Establishment-approved candidate.
For that matter, Zelenskii has been more or less openly campaigning on behalf of Harris, but when we do it, then that makes it okay!
Yep, the whole "Freedom of Speech" thing is just a nuisance, anyway. Too bad the "1776 misunderstanding" happened.
I can't wait for them to rename Independence Day, "Insurrection Day." /sarcasm.
Or is it sarcasm
Who made CCDH and Democrats the “ Decider” as to what constitutes “ misinformation “? That’s just another word for censoring political enemies and dissenting- and often truthful- voices. Truly outrageous. If Harris backs this misinformation/censorship protocol, she should lose and return to California.
Harris should loose, no matter what.
And she should go to HELL!
'Who made CCDH and Democrats the “ Decider” as to what constitutes “ misinformation“?'
That, of course, is the main argument for the First Amendment.
They did. Everything after that is just 100% begging the question.
It is actually beyond that in terms of this increasingly common "up is down" Orwellian gaslighting. The Deep State™ intelligence agencies have been claiming that Russian spies spent years grooming an American Reality TV star and millions collecting Kompromat on same so that when he eventually entered politics they would HAVE HIM. 100% of Progressive Idiots bought this shit.
But yeah Twitter is this scourge of ridiculous misinformation and conspiracy theories that needs to be (checks notes) put under the purview of Deep State™ intelligence agencies.
She shouldn't 'return' anywhere. She needs to be removed entirely from public service and just fade away into obscurity.
Oh, and by the way, as your friendly neighborhood tax guy, be advised that 501(c)(3) organizations are supposed to be charitable in nature and not engage in any activities having to do with elections or legislation (as in zero percent of their activities). That is the reason for the quoted item about, "need to get a 501(c)(4) application started asap." That's because 501(c)(4) organizations are permitted under the regulations to engage in such activities up to not more than 50% of all of their activities (but the IRS almost never audits 501(c)(4) organizations for violating this rule (with the rare exception being when Lois Lerner was employed by the IRS)). I am surprised the discussion didn't refer instead to starting up a "527 organization" - as those organizations are purposefully designed to do political advocacy as "political action committees," etc. But clearly Mr. Ahmed's intent is to hide the true nature of CCDH.
Is it too late to put Lois Learner in jail? It would send a much needed message.
Put Smith on it - he needs to make up for all the crappy things he’s done.
100%
This is a big problem with the phony Jesus-firster churches, also. In reality they're political machines hiding behind the alleged "Messiah." Break'em up, tear'em apart.
That may or may not be relevant to anything. Try to stay on topic.
This is fantastic reporting. Thank you. England's Labour Party is increasingly an island, (pun intended) of Left wing insanity. It explains their devotion, to electing an American candidate, that will surely result in world chaos. Having sold London to Qatar for a few shiny coins, Labour is moving Left, while the rest of the Continent is moving Right.
Liberal Scandinavian countries are either paying migrants to leave, or planning large deportations. Uber Progressive Sweden has just announced not another migrant will enter, until they have better assimilated or removed the ones already there. The rest of Europe is following suit, at various speeds. Germany has border checkpoints again, for the first time since he EU was founded. The new Italy PM, speaks like Thatcher. Poland, long one of the most welcoming European countries for new arrivals, due to their own WWII history, has just announced they will drastically curtail the number of migrants accepted.
Faced with mass Right leaning pushback, on a level unseen since the 80's, England's Lefties, and pockets of European Progressives, know a Kamala and Dem Senate win, would help save them from impending extinction. A burned filibuster would produce 2 new, permanently, bright Blue States, tens of trillions in Green New Deal spending, naturalization of 20 million unvetted, migrants and a packed SCOTUS, would result in perpetual US, Dem single party rule.
Yes. I kept expecting to see Matt talk about the actual state of the Labour party, but it never happened.
Labour's "landslide" was a total failure. It's not just the rest of Europe that's moving right, it's the UK too. They got fewer votes in this last election than they did previously when they were led by Corbyn, the British equivalent of Bernie Sanders! Even moving to the centre couldn't increase their popularity. Starmer and Labour are now polling WORSE than Sunak and the Conservatives, even though the latter just lost an election a few months ago. Normally a new government that replaces an incumbent gets a big polling boost for a while as voters give them the benefit of the doubt, but not this time.
The only reason they have a "landslide" majority is because right wing voters and donors deserted the Conservatives in massive numbers, some constituencies seeing up to 50% abstention rates by right wing voters. The British right concluded their party had been fully taken over by RINOs, could not be saved, and attempted to wreck it instead in the hope of something better emerging or at least in aid of punishing them (parties in the UK are not susceptible to primary challenges in the same way they are in the US). Also, Reform split the vote (deliberately, this is not a negative judgement, just a statement of fact). So there has been no move to the left in the UK and Labour do not reflect the will of the British people in any way, except a minority.
That's why the idea of Martin McSweeney as being a political genius of any kind is hilarious and laughable. The Starmer project is partly his doing and so far it's an utter failure, in the objective popularity sense and not merely in concrete policy terms.
So you're right that it's a really bad idea to conflate Labour with the UK right now. Imagine if somehow a Hillary Clinton clone managed to take over the Republican party. Voters would desert it in droves, leaving the Democrats to win by default. They would then go crazy doing whatever they wanted, but this wouldn't mean much about Americans or America.
Is this irony at the beginning? England is moving 'left.'
Jeez. Corbyn was 'left' not this facist Starmer.
Its a circle not a line-- the two eventually meet-- you can have left wing fascists-- fascist is the cojoining of state and corps
I like to say that today's Progressive left in America is basically the same as yesterday's Falwell Right with a different Deity. Liberals like me have stayed right where they are, which is ridiculously center to center right.
As a thought: I'm not left/right, Democrat or Republican. I'm an American. There is, it seems to me, no actual ideology behind the psyop. Only power, the capture, subversion and control of free peoples, the looting of economies and the exploitation of natural resources for personal gain and profit by international criminal financiers. And of course, as in all totalitarian regimes, the imposition of a gigantic and treacherous LIE backed by the threat of violence. As proof I point to our Republic's current situation in which American political leadership deems it unnecessary to even pretend that anyone in an elected position is in charge of our country. There is the American Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. Everything else is psyop. Depart the psyop, Heal and live.
This is simply despicable; a transparent attempt to use a foreign political entity as a cut-out to censor Americans is, if anything, even worse than directly silencing us.
America influences elections all over the world!
If they don't like the result: Venezuela they try a coup d'etat.
Hypocrisy everywhere.
Jenny, I sort of agree with you. Facts are facts.
The globalists are coming! The globalists are coming!
I prefer the UK Neo-cons are coming! The UK Neo-cons are coming!
CCDH....bringing European fascism to the world with the help of another gem from Minnesota; Senator Amy Klobuchar.
Amy klobuchar, the marm. And hypocrite.
And to think Biden wanted either her or Whitmer-- shudder
Minnesota - land of 10,000 dicks.
I have a radical idea for Democrats.
Instead of worrying about endless war & Constitution shredding censorship & Trump's imaginary Nazi invasion why don't you folks actually do something for Americans.
Just a thought...
I would settle for just getting them to stop tyrannizing ordinary Americans, which is what you get, it seems, anytime Democrats try to "do something for Americans."
Just go sit in the corner for a few elections while we try and fix this.
The best thing they can do for us is resign. Do nothing for us. Get out of our way.
You are asking the impossible of Neo-cons-- they use govt as a vehicle for their war mongering globalism
A boy can dream can't he?
Why don't you hang out with your fellow authoritarians, and leave us be?
Paul and Matt, absolutely superb journalism. I cannot get enough. Keep the names coming... everyone involved needs to be named. They are disgusting low-lives that deserve shunning and shaming. Any US citizens that are funding this deeply anti-American undertaking should be seen as the globalists and traitors to America that they have become.... absolute enemies to our Constitutional Republic although that is true of the Democrat party as well. The only way CCDH gets what it has coming for its flouting of US law is if Trump is elected. The Democrat party abandoned conforming with US law a long time ago so they could care less.
Now I get the "Don't Tread on Me" flag motto!
Uh-huh.
They're so eager to get rid of free speech. If you think things are bad now, wait until the productive people start getting locked up for ungoodthink.
I thought Hate Speech was illegal now. Isn't that what Dems have been doing to Trump for years...and what very likely resulted in at least 3 attempts on his life.
Not yet, at least here, but they’d like to enact it. Sort of like the Enabling Act of 1933 in Germany…
They're trying. I wonder what the Supreme Court justices think about free speech these days.
In Snyder v. Phelps (1), decided in 2011, the Supreme Court sided affirmed the right of members of the Westboro Baptist Church to picket on public land near a soldier's funeral service, carrying signs with slogans such as "God hates fags", "Fags doom nations", and "Thank God for dead soldiers". Liberal justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan sided with the majority. I hope that Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, still on the court, have maintained their principles regarding the First Amendment.
[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/562/443/#tab-opinion-1963460
Klobuchar. Klobuchar is the worst Puritanical hack alive today. MN Governor and MN AG both on record opposing free speech. Minnesota nice was always bullshit. They are the despots they accuse Trump of being.
Is Tim Walz "klobuchar lite", or is Klobuchar "Walz lite"?
Waitll you get a load of Hennepin Counties Prosecutor Kommisar... She will fail up, of course, and her name is Mary Moriarty. Embarrassingly, Minnesota is kind of a hub of all the fetid rot... And we are knee deep in it.