The same Democratic minority staff that trashed the First Amendment in last week's Twitter Files hearings put something amazing in writing in a parallel case
For sure. Please don’t get Arkancided and wake up with multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of the head. And most definitely stay away from nailguns….
Haha, yeah….it’s just a crazy old “conspiracy theory” with a 50+ body count attributed to it. I’m sure there’s absolutely nothing tied to that famous first family from Arkansas. Pure coincidence. (Legal Disclaimer: This is satire and in no way to be construed as truth, fact or I’ll intentioned. *brought to you by Pfizer*).
Like that dude that just went up against the Clintons......found with a shot to the chest, no gun in sight, hung from a tree, but yeah, it was a "suicide."
The bankers were killing off people during the Great Financial Crime Spree too. There was one title dude who was suicided by nine shots from a nail gun. But, of course, he did that all by himself.
One of the perennial charms of the Racket News threads. Taibbi closes his piece mentioning that among other things he was accused by the subcommittee of promoting conspiracy theories...and then the loyal commenters get down to business...
When the police came to the White House after finding Vince Foster’s body, the Clinton people were desperately carting files out of his office. Which suggests that they had no advance warning.
It’s also worth noting that Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of rape, is still alive, four decades later.
Why kill someone when the media are ready to bury them for you?
I’ve heard it for years but I have a well worn tinfoil hat. Pray for Matt, it’s a war of good vs evil. I’ve experienced supernatural protection in times of trouble, it’s real.
Because people like the Clintons would never murder someone right?
Gaddafi, captured by her drones, beaten, then sodomised with a knife, then tortured to death, would disagree, but he can't because Hillary had him killed. And then laughed and laughed about it.
Then I think her leaked emails set the record straight when it changed that to, "We came, we saw, I needed someone to murder so I could prove my presidential bona fides, he died."
They’re ruthless. How many people died mysteriously in the hotel just before testifying? I lost track of the count. & the child trafficking in their home state.. it goes on& on..
The best possible sign of Matt's influence and reach would be for him to have readers from all walks of life. I think it's a very positive sign that he even has readers like you.
I'm not necessarily saying all of those accusations are true, but when Hillary Clinton asked whether it would be possible to drone Julian Assange and made it clear she wasn't joking after people initially laughed, I wouldn't put much past her or Bill.
Hillary is clearly that rare thing, a female psychopath. And for a psychopath humans are just dots, and if one of those dots stops moving?
“Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stop moving — forever? If I offered you twenty thousand for every dot that stops, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?”
Whitney Webb has covered the more unbelievable examples. Ron Brown and much of the Commerce Department, who were heavily involved in Chinagate (Hillary's model for Russiagate?), crashed in Croatia, killing many including several who survived the crash or were involved at the airport. Ron Brown infamously was found to have a bullet hole in his skull.
These things happen. With regularity in America now.
They are not necessarily trying to silence Matt, what they are trying to do is scare the hell out of anyone who is even thinking about following in his footsteps.
Tow the party line and you can be a million dollar a year man, worshipped by millions. Tell the truth and you will wind up on SubStack.
I see it as a two-pronged approach. For someone as well known and respected as Matt (especially after that risible Congressional "panel"), Michael, Bari, etc. they are too big to simply scare into silence. So long as they don't pull a Scott Adams and say or write something that can get them formally cancelled by the SJW shock troops.
The only option the swamp really has is to discredit them, as that grotesque thing from the Virgin Islands and her co-conspirators attempted to do. Not only did they fail spectacularly, they embarrassed themselves and their party by coming off as both unbelievably petty and utterly uninformed about the subject.
The fear factor is directed at us proles. Speak up and risk being branded a domestic terrorist as the FBI bursts through your front door with a battering ram at 4 AM, tosses flash bangs into your infants crib, and shoots the family dog. That'll teach you to shut your mouth. And the reason why these sorts of stunts are played up on the MSM, to reinforce the "message" that you'd better toe the line. Or else.
Though as I write this, I'm recalling MTG and how many times a member of Congress can be SWATed....
I don't worry so much about Matt's bank. Sure, I wish he made Hannity or Maddow money (I wish you and I did too!), but I think he's happy being rich, and not needing to be super rich. Same with Glenn. More power to 'em.
substack is immensely more important than the old organizations we used to call the media but are now propaganda outlets staffed, as we see from twitter files, by government gs guys with one point to make. i see they're already setting up 'misinformation' rules for financial news.
every thinking person needs to get on here just like you. it's gonna be under surveillance just as sure as God made little green apples but it is where free people can stand in a public forum.
Substack is a treasure trove of truth (pardon the alliteration), unfortunately it still falls far outside the mainstream for most of America's brain dead muppets. SS exists for those of us seeking the unvarnished facts -- which, to paraphrase Jack Nicolson, most people just can't handle, let alone be bothered to search for.
They charge 10% of subscriber fee https://substack.com/ scroll down to “Substack basics” ... It’s free to get started on Substack. If you turn on paid subscriptions, Substack will keep a 10% cut of revenues for operating costs like development and customer support. There are no hidden fees and we only make money when writers do.
Although strangely DWS (another psychopath or sociopath btw) was like "You make an awful lot of money, don't you?" I don't doubt that she and the others are trying to intimidate everyone into being good boys and girls, but that remark of hers seems to be at odds with the message they want to send.
Hastings wrote in his book, "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan," that he received a death threat from a former McChrystal staff member.
"We'll hunt you down and kill you if we don't like what you write," the staffer threatened, according to Hastings, who calmly responded: "Well, I get death threats like that about once a year, so no worries."
Hastings went on to say: "I wasn't disturbed by the claim. Whenever I'd been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people, one of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me."
The key ID feature was when government charged Assange with rape allegations, a few months after WikiLeaks published the Manning documents. Taibbi will probably soon see pedo charges. Fabricate and pin the most hated of sex crimes on him in order to turn the public.
I was thinking the same thing as I watched the questioning. I believe he's already been in danger for some time, protected somewhat by his large public following. If anything suspicious happens to him, God help the response.
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As a homeowner fighting foreclosure and an anti-foreclosure advocate, I received FOUR death threats. FOUR. And one came from the legislatorsat my Statehouse. These corrupt fuckers mean business. Fortunately, I told each fucker that I had a huge 51 state network and if they killed me, I would become a martyr, so bring it on!
I’ve been fighting banks 21 years. Won vs US Bank now I’m winning vs Wells. They did try to break into my house and broke into my car, and stole my dog house which was weird. But when they threatened me on YouTube I called in my network who went crazy with comments. YouTube shows your video more with a bunch of comments so it backfired on them! They’ve tried other tactics hasn’t stopped me.
I finally settled when I caught the appellate court fabricating a document to unlawfully dismiss my case. I got their fraud captured in court certified documents. And all the sudden, the crooked banks were willing to settle. I moved and was able to buy a house outright with the settlement. Good luck to you! And good luck to the upcoming victims of bank fraud
Finally found this. That’s good they settled. Fraud upon the court has no statute of limitations.
I settled with US Bank but then my money went into my rental for extraordinary repairs & attorneys fees for years of illegal evictions - now Wells Fargo owes that to me!! That’s fight #2.
Trust me I wish I had just bought a house then instead of standing on me lease but my autistic son didn’t want to move then. Had no idea that despite hiring attorneys I would be in this situation nine years later.
My hope is that he can be as lucky as Glenn, who's arguably been a thorn in the side of the establishment for longer than Matt has, but whom up until now the establishment has only tried to discredit as opposed to imprisoning or "disappearing" him.
I’m kinda glad this is finally sinking in. The Left does not play by the rules and they take no prisoner. If calling yourself Republican is too hard to swallow, well at least you can take sancage in knowing they won’t dynamite your house in the night.....
If you don't think both sides are abhorrent, you haven't been following politics very long. Remember, the right assassinated JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton.
Elijah Muhammad is not the “right” by any stretch of the imagination. Malcolm X actually met with the KKK in the early 60s-nothing came of it, but he was objectively in far more physical danger from his own people than literal white racists.
No kidding. If I were in Matt's shoes -- or Shellenberger's or Bari Weiss' -- I'd be very wary of my surroundings, who's lurking in the shadows or whatnot. For the deep state, it's probably a very small step from the type of systemic censorship that these journalists have documented to the type that's biologically permanent.
Keep doing what you’re doing, Matt. You take the most flack when you’re directly over the target. The psychopaths go full on mentally ballistic when they get called out for their Machiavellian schemes and scams. Wear the old term “Muckraker” with great pride. I’m proud to support your Substack (I think it’s some kind of webpage, or something, I’m not really sure). :/
Did you think both Matt and Michael Shellenberger were too laid back in their responses, especially since those asking the questions were aggressive and rude? His response to Wasserman-Schultz, whose face looks like it's made out of rubber, was particularly laid back. Her statement suggested he was just prostituting himself to make money on the Twitter files, as opposed to a journalistic endeavor to bring the truth to the American people. I know it's his style. Citizens United allowed the corporate world the opportunity to give lots of money to candidates of their choice, since their just people, right? Our politicians take their money to finance their campaigns and the money givers get top priority on their agenda, as opposed to those who elected them into office. Now that's a good example of prostituting one's self.
I really don’t think that. I do think that Matt and Mike were trying to keep their composure in what was sometimes a very hostile environment. The mistake they made was thinking that they were going to appear before a congressional committee that would be reasonable, respectful and thoughtful; and that they could use a logical thought process structure to talk about the issue at hand. I think they did a fine job considering the circumstances. My personal verbal reaction, had I been in their shoes, would have made Caligula blush with shame. I do my best to treat people with kindness and respect in the real world - which is why it’s so disheartening to have watched two good journalists, who were trying their best to report the truth, go through such a disgusting silly ordeal.
I am shocked by how calm they were in the footage I’ve seen. This is a treacherous situation, reminiscent of the Moscow Show Trials. Seeing powerful politicians spinning scurrilous narratives—as Matt has exposed above—is not the hallmark of a healthy democracy but of a burgeoning tyranny.
I really hoped he would turn the tables during the hearing and declare that the seated representatives are public servants, sworn to uphold the Constitution, which includes the 1st Amendment. It might do the public some good to see the accredited, talented, courageous journalist give a needed, succinct civics lesson. Yes, restraint is most often prudent, but the slumbering masses need a jolt of truth.
Again. The Twitter file's happened because of our personal investment in subscription journalism and commitment to a new healthy truth/fact based national dialogue. WE'RE WINNING!! The Republican Party is malleable right now and America is watching and listening.
The dying cockroach position doesn't help anybody. Most of the psyop is to talk over the top of healthy human reality (our Constitution is healthy human) and convince us we're powerless.
Touché! But you know there’s plenty of room for this to get much worse. I’m writing this from Paris, which means a thought criminal like me can still travel. And here we are all happily, angrily blathering against the state. These are no small things. Magadan is a probable destination for this show. Until the final destination I plan to enjoy the dying embers of Western Civ.
The best way to keep people imprisoned is to make sure that they never know that they are in prison.
That said, the establishment's increasing reliance on overt censorship and open repression of dissent is not a sign that the establishment is feeling self-assured. Quite the opposite.
I just closed my LinkedIn account who censored my posts to SBV execs. Fuck the censorship industrial complex. I wont play in their games anymore. No more social media for me. Ever.
No one is saying they had to act in kind, just more assertive in their statements and their responses. Look, you might disagree with a friend and when you do you're polite, respectful of your differences, but not when you are dealing with adversaries, and they are. No one is saying he should rant and rave, just more assertive, louder. I'm not saying he should have gotten up and hit two timing Wasserman-Schultz in the head.
The truth is that the congresspeople were not there to hear Matt and Mike's testimony. They were there to get their opinions into the Congressional record. They certainly did not want M & M's comments to be entered into the record. One day the record will be referenced, and we can't have the truth being represented there. Only one narrative is allowed.
Wasn’t she removed from being democrat party election hack, I mean head a few years back? Seem to remember something she was involved in. I was a democrat then. Not anymore.
In 2016, Wasserman was removed from her position as head of the Democratic National Committee, after WikiLeaks e-mails showed that she was improperly tilting the Democratic nomination process towards Hillary and away from Bernie.
She is still a congressperson from Florida, and quite a piece of work, as her questioning of Matt demonstrated in glorious technicolor.
She was also chief cheerleader for Hillary during the '08 primaries, saying over and over that Democrat "Superdelegates" could decide to vote for Hillary even if Obama had won their state.
"The mistake they made was thinking that they were going to appear before a congressional committee that would be reasonable, respectful and thoughtful; and that they could use a logical thought process structure to talk about the issue at hand."
Good guess. Why would anyone above the age of seven believe in that ahistorical, fact free nonsense?
Stay safe Matt. You might be in danger from these psychopaths.
For sure. Please don’t get Arkancided and wake up with multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of the head. And most definitely stay away from nailguns….
"Arkancided "
Ok, that was funny. Never heard it put that way before.
Haha, yeah….it’s just a crazy old “conspiracy theory” with a 50+ body count attributed to it. I’m sure there’s absolutely nothing tied to that famous first family from Arkansas. Pure coincidence. (Legal Disclaimer: This is satire and in no way to be construed as truth, fact or I’ll intentioned. *brought to you by Pfizer*).
Yeah, the only job more dangerous than working for that family is Junior Security Officer on one of Capt Kirk's away teams....
Was just thinking about Epstein donee Stacy Plackett.
Like that dude that just went up against the Clintons......found with a shot to the chest, no gun in sight, hung from a tree, but yeah, it was a "suicide."
The bankers were killing off people during the Great Financial Crime Spree too. There was one title dude who was suicided by nine shots from a nail gun. But, of course, he did that all by himself.
Did all of you guys just turn commentary about Matt's thoughts on civil liberties into a Vince Foster dystopia? Really?
One of the perennial charms of the Racket News threads. Taibbi closes his piece mentioning that among other things he was accused by the subcommittee of promoting conspiracy theories...and then the loyal commenters get down to business...
When the police came to the White House after finding Vince Foster’s body, the Clinton people were desperately carting files out of his office. Which suggests that they had no advance warning.
It’s also worth noting that Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of rape, is still alive, four decades later.
Why kill someone when the media are ready to bury them for you?
I’ve heard it for years but I have a well worn tinfoil hat. Pray for Matt, it’s a war of good vs evil. I’ve experienced supernatural protection in times of trouble, it’s real.
Prayer work's. Truth is light.
Prayer is very real for me. Had many miracles in my life the last few years.
Two words: Mark MIddleton. Look it up.
'Arkancided'?
Refers to the statistically improbable number of Clinton associates who’ve died under mysterious circumstances.
Jeez, Matt sure deserves better readers.
It’s a common term, I thought. I pray often for the truth tellers and their protection.
I don't think he's talking about you when he says Matt deserves better readers.
Because people like the Clintons would never murder someone right?
Gaddafi, captured by her drones, beaten, then sodomised with a knife, then tortured to death, would disagree, but he can't because Hillary had him killed. And then laughed and laughed about it.
Your mere skepticism is meaningless.
Billary said, "We came, we saw, he died."
Then I think her leaked emails set the record straight when it changed that to, "We came, we saw, I needed someone to murder so I could prove my presidential bona fides, he died."
Admittedly not as catchy as the edited version.
They’re ruthless. How many people died mysteriously in the hotel just before testifying? I lost track of the count. & the child trafficking in their home state.. it goes on& on..
As is your entire comment.
It was a joke.
For those that don't mind a Clinton murder joke, check out the clip of Norm MacDonald on "The View".
Presumably
https://youtu.be/Z3PP_SWHUQQ?t=108
For those who want people to watch something, include a link. Thanks.
Amazing how little they comprehend that with Norm, half the joke is the absurdity of the delivery
Thanks, I’m starving for comedy. Seems it’s been cancelled.
The best possible sign of Matt's influence and reach would be for him to have readers from all walks of life. I think it's a very positive sign that he even has readers like you.
What the fuck does that mean?
He does. When do you go back to WaPo?
I'm not necessarily saying all of those accusations are true, but when Hillary Clinton asked whether it would be possible to drone Julian Assange and made it clear she wasn't joking after people initially laughed, I wouldn't put much past her or Bill.
Hillary is clearly that rare thing, a female psychopath. And for a psychopath humans are just dots, and if one of those dots stops moving?
“Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stop moving — forever? If I offered you twenty thousand for every dot that stops, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?”
— Harry Lime in The Third Man
Like you?
Why yes, as a matter of fact.
Like you?
I disagree. Even humorless drones (or "NPCs" as the kids call them nowadays) are welcome here.
They need to be here too , very much so.
Whitney Webb has covered the more unbelievable examples. Ron Brown and much of the Commerce Department, who were heavily involved in Chinagate (Hillary's model for Russiagate?), crashed in Croatia, killing many including several who survived the crash or were involved at the airport. Ron Brown infamously was found to have a bullet hole in his skull.
These things happen. With regularity in America now.
I remain committed to knowing nothing about Arkanciding, including the two guys who died and the third guy who changed his identity.
heh..
By stay safe I hope you don't mean stay quiet. https://youtu.be/1NVnfM_H7TY
It might be wise to hire a food taster, at the very least.
Broad fucking daylight. Any broadcast that'll have home. Stay as loud and public as ya can ,Matt.
These fuckers are just gonna be amazingly vile history some day.
Can't come soon enough.
They are not necessarily trying to silence Matt, what they are trying to do is scare the hell out of anyone who is even thinking about following in his footsteps.
Tow the party line and you can be a million dollar a year man, worshipped by millions. Tell the truth and you will wind up on SubStack.
I see it as a two-pronged approach. For someone as well known and respected as Matt (especially after that risible Congressional "panel"), Michael, Bari, etc. they are too big to simply scare into silence. So long as they don't pull a Scott Adams and say or write something that can get them formally cancelled by the SJW shock troops.
The only option the swamp really has is to discredit them, as that grotesque thing from the Virgin Islands and her co-conspirators attempted to do. Not only did they fail spectacularly, they embarrassed themselves and their party by coming off as both unbelievably petty and utterly uninformed about the subject.
The fear factor is directed at us proles. Speak up and risk being branded a domestic terrorist as the FBI bursts through your front door with a battering ram at 4 AM, tosses flash bangs into your infants crib, and shoots the family dog. That'll teach you to shut your mouth. And the reason why these sorts of stunts are played up on the MSM, to reinforce the "message" that you'd better toe the line. Or else.
Though as I write this, I'm recalling MTG and how many times a member of Congress can be SWATed....
I don't worry so much about Matt's bank. Sure, I wish he made Hannity or Maddow money (I wish you and I did too!), but I think he's happy being rich, and not needing to be super rich. Same with Glenn. More power to 'em.
The evildoers gangstalk anyone who speaks up.
100,000 subscribers x $50 yr. = $5,000,000 - whatever the fee substack charges
Yes, that's true, but most will never see that many. Point taken though.
substack is immensely more important than the old organizations we used to call the media but are now propaganda outlets staffed, as we see from twitter files, by government gs guys with one point to make. i see they're already setting up 'misinformation' rules for financial news.
every thinking person needs to get on here just like you. it's gonna be under surveillance just as sure as God made little green apples but it is where free people can stand in a public forum.
SubStack is where the great, the wonderful, Sy Hersh came to Truth Tell.
So yeah! :)
Substack is a treasure trove of truth (pardon the alliteration), unfortunately it still falls far outside the mainstream for most of America's brain dead muppets. SS exists for those of us seeking the unvarnished facts -- which, to paraphrase Jack Nicolson, most people just can't handle, let alone be bothered to search for.
Well, that's his business revenue. He has people on his payroll.
But he's doing all right.
per hundred thousand
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Although strangely DWS (another psychopath or sociopath btw) was like "You make an awful lot of money, don't you?" I don't doubt that she and the others are trying to intimidate everyone into being good boys and girls, but that remark of hers seems to be at odds with the message they want to send.
Or drive...
https://youtu.be/5QAPdXqnrAA
#michaelhastings
Hastings wrote in his book, "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan," that he received a death threat from a former McChrystal staff member.
"We'll hunt you down and kill you if we don't like what you write," the staffer threatened, according to Hastings, who calmly responded: "Well, I get death threats like that about once a year, so no worries."
Hastings went on to say: "I wasn't disturbed by the claim. Whenever I'd been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people, one of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me."
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conspiracy-theories-abound-michael-hastings-death-article-1.1377392
Dim-witted, poor-impulse-control psychopaths.
I'm worried about that too. They seem to hate him as much as they do Assange.
The key ID feature was when government charged Assange with rape allegations, a few months after WikiLeaks published the Manning documents. Taibbi will probably soon see pedo charges. Fabricate and pin the most hated of sex crimes on him in order to turn the public.
God I hope not, but I'd be foolish to rule it out. Although didn't they try to make him out to be a rapist or something before, years ago?
I was thinking the same thing as I watched the questioning. I believe he's already been in danger for some time, protected somewhat by his large public following. If anything suspicious happens to him, God help the response.
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As a homeowner fighting foreclosure and an anti-foreclosure advocate, I received FOUR death threats. FOUR. And one came from the legislatorsat my Statehouse. These corrupt fuckers mean business. Fortunately, I told each fucker that I had a huge 51 state network and if they killed me, I would become a martyr, so bring it on!
I’ve been fighting banks 21 years. Won vs US Bank now I’m winning vs Wells. They did try to break into my house and broke into my car, and stole my dog house which was weird. But when they threatened me on YouTube I called in my network who went crazy with comments. YouTube shows your video more with a bunch of comments so it backfired on them! They’ve tried other tactics hasn’t stopped me.
I finally settled when I caught the appellate court fabricating a document to unlawfully dismiss my case. I got their fraud captured in court certified documents. And all the sudden, the crooked banks were willing to settle. I moved and was able to buy a house outright with the settlement. Good luck to you! And good luck to the upcoming victims of bank fraud
Finally found this. That’s good they settled. Fraud upon the court has no statute of limitations.
I settled with US Bank but then my money went into my rental for extraordinary repairs & attorneys fees for years of illegal evictions - now Wells Fargo owes that to me!! That’s fight #2.
Trust me I wish I had just bought a house then instead of standing on me lease but my autistic son didn’t want to move then. Had no idea that despite hiring attorneys I would be in this situation nine years later.
What are the words "might be" doing in there? Of course he, and others similarly situated, are in danger. The only question is to what degree.
My hope is that he can be as lucky as Glenn, who's arguably been a thorn in the side of the establishment for longer than Matt has, but whom up until now the establishment has only tried to discredit as opposed to imprisoning or "disappearing" him.
I didn't know there was any other kind, other than "grave".
yes these people are evil if ever there was evil.
I’m kinda glad this is finally sinking in. The Left does not play by the rules and they take no prisoner. If calling yourself Republican is too hard to swallow, well at least you can take sancage in knowing they won’t dynamite your house in the night.....
If you don't think both sides are abhorrent, you haven't been following politics very long. Remember, the right assassinated JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton.
Elijah Muhammad is not the “right” by any stretch of the imagination. Malcolm X actually met with the KKK in the early 60s-nothing came of it, but he was objectively in far more physical danger from his own people than literal white racists.
The mafia/mob assassinated JFK & likely RFK as well.
Uhh, if that's what you believe.....?
I didn't catch where he said he had information leading to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton. [evil grin]
No kidding. If I were in Matt's shoes -- or Shellenberger's or Bari Weiss' -- I'd be very wary of my surroundings, who's lurking in the shadows or whatnot. For the deep state, it's probably a very small step from the type of systemic censorship that these journalists have documented to the type that's biologically permanent.
Keep doing what you’re doing, Matt. You take the most flack when you’re directly over the target. The psychopaths go full on mentally ballistic when they get called out for their Machiavellian schemes and scams. Wear the old term “Muckraker” with great pride. I’m proud to support your Substack (I think it’s some kind of webpage, or something, I’m not really sure). :/
Did you think both Matt and Michael Shellenberger were too laid back in their responses, especially since those asking the questions were aggressive and rude? His response to Wasserman-Schultz, whose face looks like it's made out of rubber, was particularly laid back. Her statement suggested he was just prostituting himself to make money on the Twitter files, as opposed to a journalistic endeavor to bring the truth to the American people. I know it's his style. Citizens United allowed the corporate world the opportunity to give lots of money to candidates of their choice, since their just people, right? Our politicians take their money to finance their campaigns and the money givers get top priority on their agenda, as opposed to those who elected them into office. Now that's a good example of prostituting one's self.
I really don’t think that. I do think that Matt and Mike were trying to keep their composure in what was sometimes a very hostile environment. The mistake they made was thinking that they were going to appear before a congressional committee that would be reasonable, respectful and thoughtful; and that they could use a logical thought process structure to talk about the issue at hand. I think they did a fine job considering the circumstances. My personal verbal reaction, had I been in their shoes, would have made Caligula blush with shame. I do my best to treat people with kindness and respect in the real world - which is why it’s so disheartening to have watched two good journalists, who were trying their best to report the truth, go through such a disgusting silly ordeal.
I am shocked by how calm they were in the footage I’ve seen. This is a treacherous situation, reminiscent of the Moscow Show Trials. Seeing powerful politicians spinning scurrilous narratives—as Matt has exposed above—is not the hallmark of a healthy democracy but of a burgeoning tyranny.
I really hoped he would turn the tables during the hearing and declare that the seated representatives are public servants, sworn to uphold the Constitution, which includes the 1st Amendment. It might do the public some good to see the accredited, talented, courageous journalist give a needed, succinct civics lesson. Yes, restraint is most often prudent, but the slumbering masses need a jolt of truth.
Public Servants? No, "That's not how this works."
Again. The Twitter file's happened because of our personal investment in subscription journalism and commitment to a new healthy truth/fact based national dialogue. WE'RE WINNING!! The Republican Party is malleable right now and America is watching and listening.
Yea but because capitalists bit them in the ass.
Twitter gets bought, then Matt et al, whom Musk knew, for sure, from their independent work, supported by us, get unfettered access.
But for that how would anyone really know how far our government has fallen to ideological zealots?
This must be how ordinary people felt about McCarthy, but even that isn’t on this scale.
Today, I sense extreme economic danger to us all from our last weekends (effective) $19T bank guarantee nationalizing that systemic risk.
This administration is wreckless, our corporate leaders often act like idiots, and most hiring is DEI.
Matt and a few others can help turn that tide.
I’ll support them as much as possible.
I like your positivity!
The dying cockroach position doesn't help anybody. Most of the psyop is to talk over the top of healthy human reality (our Constitution is healthy human) and convince us we're powerless.
It occurs to me that an Oscar slap gets more MSM attention than actual scandals now.
Burgeoning tyranny?
Touché! But you know there’s plenty of room for this to get much worse. I’m writing this from Paris, which means a thought criminal like me can still travel. And here we are all happily, angrily blathering against the state. These are no small things. Magadan is a probable destination for this show. Until the final destination I plan to enjoy the dying embers of Western Civ.
Too many people think it can't happen here.
The best way to keep people imprisoned is to make sure that they never know that they are in prison.
That said, the establishment's increasing reliance on overt censorship and open repression of dissent is not a sign that the establishment is feeling self-assured. Quite the opposite.
I just closed my LinkedIn account who censored my posts to SBV execs. Fuck the censorship industrial complex. I wont play in their games anymore. No more social media for me. Ever.
Just read that airlines will soon require than anyone who flies with them has to provide a "mugshot".
Every minute of every hour, they tighten it down more and more.
Try and tell a zoomer about this stuff and they literally don't any concept of what you are talking about.
Blather is fine, that's the genius of freeish speech, you can say anything. Now go find someone who will listen.
While they're not (yet) in chains, Matt and Mike were brought before the Inquisitors for blathering against the state.
Exploding, and metastasizing.
Just wait till they get the surveillance AI's online.
"Not a sparrow will fall"
Let's do lunch some day soon as I've always wanted to hear a first hand account of what really went down at the "Moscow Show Trials."
Public wouldn't have seen it if he did that.
No one is saying they had to act in kind, just more assertive in their statements and their responses. Look, you might disagree with a friend and when you do you're polite, respectful of your differences, but not when you are dealing with adversaries, and they are. No one is saying he should rant and rave, just more assertive, louder. I'm not saying he should have gotten up and hit two timing Wasserman-Schultz in the head.
Point taken. Respect.
The truth is that the congresspeople were not there to hear Matt and Mike's testimony. They were there to get their opinions into the Congressional record. They certainly did not want M & M's comments to be entered into the record. One day the record will be referenced, and we can't have the truth being represented there. Only one narrative is allowed.
“Be careful as we might release The Wasserman Files!”
Wasn’t she removed from being democrat party election hack, I mean head a few years back? Seem to remember something she was involved in. I was a democrat then. Not anymore.
In 2016, Wasserman was removed from her position as head of the Democratic National Committee, after WikiLeaks e-mails showed that she was improperly tilting the Democratic nomination process towards Hillary and away from Bernie.
She is still a congressperson from Florida, and quite a piece of work, as her questioning of Matt demonstrated in glorious technicolor.
She was also chief cheerleader for Hillary during the '08 primaries, saying over and over that Democrat "Superdelegates" could decide to vote for Hillary even if Obama had won their state.
Thanks. I remember now. It was kind of disappointing at the time. Not that it’s at all surprising now. Cheaters.
Yes, but only about 1% of the American public remembers that, if they ever knew, which is unlikely.
Don't be disheartened. Act.
"The mistake they made was thinking that they were going to appear before a congressional committee that would be reasonable, respectful and thoughtful; and that they could use a logical thought process structure to talk about the issue at hand."
Good guess. Why would anyone above the age of seven believe in that ahistorical, fact free nonsense?
Yep. But that was the point of their exercise. Obfuscation of their own corruption and ineptitude.
No, Matt& Michael were not” too laid back.” They exemplified calmness & integrity. Such very rare traits these days in the humans on the planet.
Yes, but in my opinion, not in this case. My point is not to be critical, and some are responding as if that was my intent. It is not.