"If that isn’t already the working title of a dystopian novel or screenplay, America’s young writers aren’t doing their jobs."
America’s young writers spend most of their time policing microaggressions or trying to have someone socially destroyed and fired for hurting their feelings or for breaching proper etiquette, or cataloging all their various "traumas", which are usually a bad date, a good date where the other person ghosted, or that time someone tried to hug them without permission or when a teacher oppressed them w a bad grade.
America’s young writers are much more likely to enthusiastically sign up for the role of snitch than to mock the Snitch Industrial Complex.
Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury, Hesse,Salinger, Tolstoy, Styron, Anne Frank, Solzhenitsyn, Asimov, Bertrand Russell, Ayn Rand, Rushdie have been removed from the high school and college curricula as well as school libraries. Book stores have been removing the authors works from the shelves and where they remain, a “ Disturbing Content” warning sign is commonly posted. Never in my life could I imagine this day.
You mean the Americans knew that Putin would weaponize it if they poked the bear, so they can sell their gas instead.
Europeans don’t trust the Americans any more than they trust the Russians. Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe and along with France, they would have liked to cut the US tentacles over Europe, but that’s not going to happen now.
This is truly terrifying stuff. Thank you for exposing this. I always assumed that the government was engaging in propaganda and pysops on the US population, but did not have any strong evidence until now. This is probably the tip of the iceburg. What are the other agencies doing as well?
And trying to create an enemy. It's incumbent on all of us not to be goaded into taking the bait. We have to resist them, in the streets if needed, but doing it peacefully and non-violently, always, and UNITED! We are not as divided as they wish us to be, and we must prove it!
The only thing President Pudding Cup and his friends in the Democratic Party are good at is projection and delusion, so nothing that they do comes as a surprise.
Just like my liberal friends demanding COVID-amnesty after supporting the authoritarian COVID orders that unnecessarily harmed millions while also destroying the lives of people that questioned those orders, I think the problem here is that there are not enough negative consequences for this continued coordinated attack on our God-given and Constitutionally-protected rights.
We need a reformed civil rights piece of legislation and some teeth in punishing those in power that would abuse that power in ways that materially restrict these rights.
Note the intensity of Glenn’s activity despite a serious health emergency in his family
• (re-tweet) unusual_whales @unusual_whales
JUST IN: Treasury Department officials have begun looking into whether they have the legal authority to start an investigation into the Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase because of Musk’s ties to foreign governments and investors, per the Washington Post.
Everybody knows exactly why this is happening.
• One day after a major story from @lhfang and @kenklippenstein proving the US Govt and Security State are directing Big Tech on what to censor, the #2 Senate Dem tries to radically restrict what "free speech" means in a way that contradicts all 1A caselaw:
Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin –“Free speech does not include spreading misinformation to downplay political violence.”
• By the way, one day after this massive story about the US Govt directing Big Tech censorship was published by a Dem-friendly site, with a popular left-wing figure as one of the reporters, neither CNN nor MSNBC invited them on, and no Dem politician has mentioned it.
Why is this?
• 2015, BBC: "Meet Twitter's second biggest shareholder, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal"
If DC Dems want an excuse to investigate Musk's purchase of Twitter on "national security grounds" because he won't censor for them, they'll need a better excuse.
• Also, few things are more darkly hilarious than Dems pretending to be so deeply concerned about Musk's involvement with Saudis when it's the US Government that is single-handedly responsible for propping up the Saudi regime with arms and surveillance tech
• Americans are being conditioned -- by "journalists" of all people -- to believe it's immoral or mentally ill not to immediately and uncritically accept whatever institutions of authorities claim.
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald weighs in on the Paul Pelosi attack: "Skepticism itself can never be wrong ... Even if evidence does emerge later on to prove it, the skepticism itself was not just valid, but necessary."
• To this very day, you can read articles in liberal corporate outlets branding as "conspiracy theorists" anyone asking about Nuland's comments - same for those who questioned claims about COVID vaccine efficacy and mask mandates, or *any* claim that the US Security State issues.
• The US corporate press is trying to train Americans to believe the first and most solemn duty of citizenship is instantly accept whatever institutions of authority tell you to believe. No wanting to see evidence, no noting contradictions: just happily recite what you're told.
• Rather than obey France's censorship order, Rumble turned its services off for France and will sue. But France should have no right to impose its censorship laws on the world.
• This is why I'm so proud to be working more with Rumble and why I believe in their free speech commitment. The easy thing to do would be to obey French politicians and remove anyone foreign governments demand. Rumble would rather lose France then submit to them.
(Another precious and timely tweets on our life in US democracy – Matt Taibbi just in less than two days)
• After every tragedy opportunists start proposing we outlaw video games or Marilyn Manson albums or, now, right-wing tweets.
We’re the world’s biggest weapons producer a dozen times over and I don’t ever hear proposals to stop that — nope, it must be tweets inspiring violence.
• The writer Isaac Babel once said the Soviets had taken away "but one right—the right to write badly." It's not free speech unless you protect the right to say things the majority finds reprehensible, toxic, incorrect.
• There's a long list of unprotected speech forms, from libel to incitement to threats to perjury, fraud, and so on. Most are narrowly defined and handled via litigation. We've never had a centralized MinTruth judging something amorphous and broad like "misinformation."
• The 2020 Iowa Caucus was the key disaster here. Tiny state, no result after 16 days, and even the New York Times was asking “WTF?” Instead of realizing quick results are essential to voter confidence and fixing the issue, we’re being asked to accept longer counts.
• I thought Biden was doing a decent job of selling “saving the guardrails of democracy,” but as you say, there was a major record scratch late in the speech.
Telling people in advance the results will take a long time, when the polls look dire, will massively increase paranoia
• Re-tweet -- Walter Kirn @walterkirn: That speech tonight was not a campaign speech. It did not have any real persuasive value or political intent. It was a speech specifically meant to manage and mold expectations about the vote-counting process.
• Even if I knew exactly what happened at Pelosi’s place I wouldn’t be blaming it on a lack of censorship. By that standard we should be wiping out the White Album to stop future Mansons or Blink 182 to prevent Columbines, and so on. Don’t you ever get tired of these arguments?
• If you don’t understand that free speech has to include things you personally consider odious, you don’t really believe in it.
• Either you’re being intentionally obtuse or you really don’t get it, but current law doesn’t come close to allowing prohibition of any post-factum speech downplaying the Pelosi attack. The standard is, you can ban someone saying, “Go in the house and hit him with a hammer.”
• Durbin is wrong here, and he surely knows the real standard for prohibiting speech (incitement to imminent lawless action), so the real question is why a Democratic Senator is going out of his way to incorrectly redefine what free speech means.
• I’m looking forward to a new episode of "TK Live" with to talk about "Truth Cops” With Ken Klippenstein" tomorrow at 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT. Join us!
• Very strange — for the second time, I discovered Twitter believed I’d muted
@thomaschattwill, though I never did. Related to that weird de-verification episode somehow maybe? Anyone else have that happen, with anyone?
• I read the article. The premise is ludicrous: because Glenn disagrees with U.S./neocon policy, he loves Putin. Just like the New Yorker “Bane of their Resistance” piece, it assumes something must be wrong, an evil pathology at work, when actually — he just disagrees with you.
"If DC Dems want an excuse to investigate Musk's purchase of Twitter on "national security grounds" because he won't censor for them, they'll need a better excuse." it is particulrly ridiculous as they called for a investigation of "ties to foreign governments and investors" the same day SpaceX launched USSF-44, a top-secret payload for Space Comand. You would think that if there was an iusse, it would have come-up before now.
(Another precious and timely tweets on our life in US democracy – Matt Taibbi just in less than two days)
• After every tragedy opportunists start proposing we outlaw video games or Marilyn Manson albums or, now, right-wing tweets.
We’re the world’s biggest weapons producer a dozen times over and I don’t ever hear proposals to stop that — nope, it must be tweets inspiring violence.
• The writer Isaac Babel once said the Soviets had taken away "but one right—the right to write badly." It's not free speech unless you protect the right to say things the majority finds reprehensible, toxic, incorrect.
• There's a long list of unprotected speech forms, from libel to incitement to threats to perjury, fraud, and so on. Most are narrowly defined and handled via litigation. We've never had a centralized MinTruth judging something amorphous and broad like "misinformation."
• The 2020 Iowa Caucus was the key disaster here. Tiny state, no result after 16 days, and even the New York Times was asking “WTF?” Instead of realizing quick results are essential to voter confidence and fixing the issue, we’re being asked to accept longer counts.
• I thought Biden was doing a decent job of selling “saving the guardrails of democracy,” but as you say, there was a major record scratch late in the speech.
Telling people in advance the results will take a long time, when the polls look dire, will massively increase paranoia
• Re-tweet -- Walter Kirn @walterkirn: That speech tonight was not a campaign speech. It did not have any real persuasive value or political intent. It was a speech specifically meant to manage and mold expectations about the vote-counting process.
• Even if I knew exactly what happened at Pelosi’s place I wouldn’t be blaming it on a lack of censorship. By that standard we should be wiping out the White Album to stop future Mansons or Blink 182 to prevent Columbines, and so on. Don’t you ever get tired of these arguments?
• If you don’t understand that free speech has to include things you personally consider odious, you don’t really believe in it.
• Either you’re being intentionally obtuse or you really don’t get it, but current law doesn’t come close to allowing prohibition of any post-factum speech downplaying the Pelosi attack. The standard is, you can ban someone saying, “Go in the house and hit him with a hammer.”
• Durbin is wrong here, and he surely knows the real standard for prohibiting speech (incitement to imminent lawless action), so the real question is why a Democratic Senator is going out of his way to incorrectly redefine what free speech means.
• I’m looking forward to a new episode of "TK Live" with to talk about "Truth Cops” With Ken Klippenstein" tomorrow at 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT. Join us!
• Very strange — for the second time, I discovered Twitter believed I’d muted
@thomaschattwill, though I never did. Related to that weird de-verification episode somehow maybe? Anyone else have that happen, with anyone?
• I read the article. The premise is ludicrous: because Glenn disagrees with U.S./neocon policy, he loves Putin. Just like the New Yorker “Bane of their Resistance” piece, it assumes something must be wrong, an evil pathology at work, when actually — he just disagrees with you.
Outsourcing the censorship function to Big Tech insulates the censors both from unwanted election results and from pesky civil rights suits ("muh private entity can censor all it wants!").
Sort of like how Jim Crow Era government officials would claim to be acting as private citizens when convenient, and revert to their roles as government officials when it came time to exercise police power.
Thank you !! There is a DIRECT connection between Russia-gate hoax concocted by St. Obama, Biden and Hillary and provoking capitalist Russia’s “Putin's war” by relentless NATO expansion.
The SAME lying team representing the US bipartisan War party.
Democracy and freedoms have left US – censorship is now nearly TOTAL; far worse than in Soviet Union 50 years ago.
Thank you. And a mystery — if our beloved US is basically a bipartisan fascist non-democracy - why is it fashionable for GOP RINOs to call fascist Democrats — communists (?!) and “left” (?!) ?
Looking forward to the interview. The Intercept article is in keeping with classical liberal investigative reporting, and Ken has penned some great investigative articles. There is a profound difference between Liberal and Progressive.
This is the most horrifying passage in the article:
““One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,” said [Biden-appointed minister of truth] Easterly, speaking at a conference in November 2021.””
“Cognitive infrastructure”? My mind is not your fucking infrastructure, you psychopath. Defund DHS!
Crime against humanity. If we had used it instead of waterboarding, 1) everyone would have confessed everything and 2) it would have it's own subsection the Geneva Convention.
I kind of want to know more about Jankowicz's alleged "wizard rock" band -- in the same way a 14-year-old goth wants to know more about cutting or Francis Thurston wants to know more about Cthulhu. I know I will utterly regret learning and so to date have resisted the awful temptation.
N.B. I may be confusing Jankowicz with Jon Huntsman, whom I believe was in a band named "Wizard," but for reasons cited above I do not want to do those Googles.
I can't even watch it. To Daniel Tucker's point above; we should all be tryin' real hard to curb our homicidal impulses at this juncture in time, no matter how tough it is.
Honestly kind of wish you spoke to the other co-author, Lee Fang, instead. That's because Klippenstein has doxxed another journalist (Fiorella Isabel) and was one of the people repeating the "Ivermectin is horse paste" falsehood. Maybe he did some good work here and I should focus on that, but he's still a scumbag.
Thank you Rob. Exactly the same feeling about Klip on this story. Covid not flushed out enough in article eso with all that’s happened past month & year.
Good morning. Given what happened last night with my vax injured sister in hospital--hospice being recommended ; KEN K is an *accessory to murder* & has zero credibility. Scoops are nice but...
I knew about HCQ & Ivermectin months before Dore began discussing: now being used to help vax injured & Long Covid. Even in Florida, cuz she’s trapped in system, I’m in a battle for her life to start the FLCCC protocols. There will be NO AMNESTY. KATIE HALPER did her horse face clip & tho MATT TAIBBI has covered the censored docs he still participated in the “get vaccinated” insanity.
NEVER FORGET. A COVID RECKONING needed. Read article will pass on listening to Klip. As I said; ACCESSORYTO MURDER
Most freeing moment last week was to rip up my ballot
I missed Katie's take on ivermectin. If it was shit (and it sounds like it was) then I'm glad I don't follow her any more. Matt certainly didn't say anything like "lol these idiots are taking horse drugs", though. He said this:
I remember the article where he said he'd gotten vaccinated and he thought everyone else should get it too, but that piece was mostly about how punishing or shaming people for believing the opposite of what he did and not getting vaxxed was stupid and wrong. And if he thought it was possible to vaccinate our way out of Covid with something that didn't even prevent transmission, well, it was over a year ago and he's been wrong before, often by his own admission. (A number of times in Hate Inc. he mentions that he used to do exactly what so many other reporters were doing wrong, for example.)
Thanks Rob. And yes, I’ve read Matt’s work. It was appearances on podcasts where at end of discussion twas like everyone felt obligated to chant *but* “get vaccinated.”
Fear allowing more info out recently is to have it be submerged with all the other drama occurring.
There were docs whom warned that vaccinating into a pandemic would create bigger problems
I had Covid 1/31/20. That awful cough lingered for months. So maybe easier for me to see the fraud which was occurring. And having a doc whom would probably be added to the initial list if they knew of her. Having my life already upended 10 yrs prior by antibiotics Cipro & Levaquin: misdiagnosed/shamed by docs: I see healthcare much differently.
For history, here’s Katie’s clip. Worth a watch. Has a doctor on directly smear the FLCCC docs. Was originally titled Dr Who with picture of horse. Ironic given my last name :)
I don't understand why any of this surprises people after living through Pub. L. 107–56 and Snowden revelations, not to mention a cornucopia of other dystopian ventures prior to those. Wait until they come for the gold...again. That's not to disparage the reporting though, constant reminders are healthy.
Will look forward to listening to it later "unlive" as I have to work; assuming, of course, it airs or isn't pulled for "inciting political violence."
Apparently Biden's making a political speech tonight that takes off the kid gloves that restrained the previous mega MAGA hellfire speech in Philadelphia. Will be interesting to see how things look after he makes the connection between the Pelosi attack in particular and political violence in general to questioning official narratives.
Need I remind you that there are two distinct and divergent legal codes at play in this country? One has power over you, me, and -- curiously -- Donald J. Trump, the legitimately elected former President of the United States of America. The other is remarkable in its consummate and demonstrable inability to affect anyone who has been graced by God with the surname of Clinton or Biden.
"If that isn’t already the working title of a dystopian novel or screenplay, America’s young writers aren’t doing their jobs."
America’s young writers spend most of their time policing microaggressions or trying to have someone socially destroyed and fired for hurting their feelings or for breaching proper etiquette, or cataloging all their various "traumas", which are usually a bad date, a good date where the other person ghosted, or that time someone tried to hug them without permission or when a teacher oppressed them w a bad grade.
America’s young writers are much more likely to enthusiastically sign up for the role of snitch than to mock the Snitch Industrial Complex.
Orwellian has rarely enjoyed so literal a denotation.
Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury, Hesse,Salinger, Tolstoy, Styron, Anne Frank, Solzhenitsyn, Asimov, Bertrand Russell, Ayn Rand, Rushdie have been removed from the high school and college curricula as well as school libraries. Book stores have been removing the authors works from the shelves and where they remain, a “ Disturbing Content” warning sign is commonly posted. Never in my life could I imagine this day.
I watched one documentary called Gas Land and I thought fracking was evil until 5 minutes ago. Disinformation can work
Europeans bought their Gas from Russia for two reasons only. Very easy to transport, and cheap.
You mean the Americans knew that Putin would weaponize it if they poked the bear, so they can sell their gas instead.
Europeans don’t trust the Americans any more than they trust the Russians. Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe and along with France, they would have liked to cut the US tentacles over Europe, but that’s not going to happen now.
Um, yeah, no. Putin shut off gas to the Balkans in 2006 and again in 2009 when Europe only got about 25% of gas from Russia.
The Europeans trust the US a shitload more than the Russians and have allowed the US to pay better than 50% of their security since NATO was founded.
Facts Teresa, facts. Context helps too.
Ironic that a post from a actual CIA troll appears in this thread.
This is truly terrifying stuff. Thank you for exposing this. I always assumed that the government was engaging in propaganda and pysops on the US population, but did not have any strong evidence until now. This is probably the tip of the iceburg. What are the other agencies doing as well?
Agree ... they are looking for an enemy! 🤔
Looking? They have found the enemy, all right.
And trying to create an enemy. It's incumbent on all of us not to be goaded into taking the bait. We have to resist them, in the streets if needed, but doing it peacefully and non-violently, always, and UNITED! We are not as divided as they wish us to be, and we must prove it!
Biden has forgotten that there were protest all over America, and the world when Trump won. Most of them were “election deniers”
What a convenient memory he and the left have.
The only thing President Pudding Cup and his friends in the Democratic Party are good at is projection and delusion, so nothing that they do comes as a surprise.
What color is the sky in your world?
Just like my liberal friends demanding COVID-amnesty after supporting the authoritarian COVID orders that unnecessarily harmed millions while also destroying the lives of people that questioned those orders, I think the problem here is that there are not enough negative consequences for this continued coordinated attack on our God-given and Constitutionally-protected rights.
We need a reformed civil rights piece of legislation and some teeth in punishing those in power that would abuse that power in ways that materially restrict these rights.
GG tweets – extracted ~Nov 2 period https://twitter.com/ggreenwald
Note the intensity of Glenn’s activity despite a serious health emergency in his family
• (re-tweet) unusual_whales @unusual_whales
JUST IN: Treasury Department officials have begun looking into whether they have the legal authority to start an investigation into the Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase because of Musk’s ties to foreign governments and investors, per the Washington Post.
Everybody knows exactly why this is happening.
• One day after a major story from @lhfang and @kenklippenstein proving the US Govt and Security State are directing Big Tech on what to censor, the #2 Senate Dem tries to radically restrict what "free speech" means in a way that contradicts all 1A caselaw:
Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin –“Free speech does not include spreading misinformation to downplay political violence.”
• By the way, one day after this massive story about the US Govt directing Big Tech censorship was published by a Dem-friendly site, with a popular left-wing figure as one of the reporters, neither CNN nor MSNBC invited them on, and no Dem politician has mentioned it.
Why is this?
• 2015, BBC: "Meet Twitter's second biggest shareholder, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal"
If DC Dems want an excuse to investigate Musk's purchase of Twitter on "national security grounds" because he won't censor for them, they'll need a better excuse.
• Also, few things are more darkly hilarious than Dems pretending to be so deeply concerned about Musk's involvement with Saudis when it's the US Government that is single-handedly responsible for propping up the Saudi regime with arms and surveillance tech
• Americans are being conditioned -- by "journalists" of all people -- to believe it's immoral or mentally ill not to immediately and uncritically accept whatever institutions of authorities claim.
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald weighs in on the Paul Pelosi attack: "Skepticism itself can never be wrong ... Even if evidence does emerge later on to prove it, the skepticism itself was not just valid, but necessary."
• To this very day, you can read articles in liberal corporate outlets branding as "conspiracy theorists" anyone asking about Nuland's comments - same for those who questioned claims about COVID vaccine efficacy and mask mandates, or *any* claim that the US Security State issues.
• The US corporate press is trying to train Americans to believe the first and most solemn duty of citizenship is instantly accept whatever institutions of authority tell you to believe. No wanting to see evidence, no noting contradictions: just happily recite what you're told.
• Rather than obey France's censorship order, Rumble turned its services off for France and will sue. But France should have no right to impose its censorship laws on the world.
• This is why I'm so proud to be working more with Rumble and why I believe in their free speech commitment. The easy thing to do would be to obey French politicians and remove anyone foreign governments demand. Rumble would rather lose France then submit to them.
Fuck Dick Durbin.
;-))
MT tweets – extracted ~Nov 3 period https://twitter.com/mtaibbi
(Another precious and timely tweets on our life in US democracy – Matt Taibbi just in less than two days)
• After every tragedy opportunists start proposing we outlaw video games or Marilyn Manson albums or, now, right-wing tweets.
We’re the world’s biggest weapons producer a dozen times over and I don’t ever hear proposals to stop that — nope, it must be tweets inspiring violence.
• The writer Isaac Babel once said the Soviets had taken away "but one right—the right to write badly." It's not free speech unless you protect the right to say things the majority finds reprehensible, toxic, incorrect.
• There's a long list of unprotected speech forms, from libel to incitement to threats to perjury, fraud, and so on. Most are narrowly defined and handled via litigation. We've never had a centralized MinTruth judging something amorphous and broad like "misinformation."
• The 2020 Iowa Caucus was the key disaster here. Tiny state, no result after 16 days, and even the New York Times was asking “WTF?” Instead of realizing quick results are essential to voter confidence and fixing the issue, we’re being asked to accept longer counts.
• I thought Biden was doing a decent job of selling “saving the guardrails of democracy,” but as you say, there was a major record scratch late in the speech.
Telling people in advance the results will take a long time, when the polls look dire, will massively increase paranoia
• Re-tweet -- Walter Kirn @walterkirn: That speech tonight was not a campaign speech. It did not have any real persuasive value or political intent. It was a speech specifically meant to manage and mold expectations about the vote-counting process.
• Even if I knew exactly what happened at Pelosi’s place I wouldn’t be blaming it on a lack of censorship. By that standard we should be wiping out the White Album to stop future Mansons or Blink 182 to prevent Columbines, and so on. Don’t you ever get tired of these arguments?
• If you don’t understand that free speech has to include things you personally consider odious, you don’t really believe in it.
• Either you’re being intentionally obtuse or you really don’t get it, but current law doesn’t come close to allowing prohibition of any post-factum speech downplaying the Pelosi attack. The standard is, you can ban someone saying, “Go in the house and hit him with a hammer.”
• Durbin is wrong here, and he surely knows the real standard for prohibiting speech (incitement to imminent lawless action), so the real question is why a Democratic Senator is going out of his way to incorrectly redefine what free speech means.
• I’m looking forward to a new episode of "TK Live" with to talk about "Truth Cops” With Ken Klippenstein" tomorrow at 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT. Join us!
https://www.callin.com/room/truth-cops-with-ken-klippenstein-gfEnxRMbgZ
• Very strange — for the second time, I discovered Twitter believed I’d muted
@thomaschattwill, though I never did. Related to that weird de-verification episode somehow maybe? Anyone else have that happen, with anyone?
• I read the article. The premise is ludicrous: because Glenn disagrees with U.S./neocon policy, he loves Putin. Just like the New Yorker “Bane of their Resistance” piece, it assumes something must be wrong, an evil pathology at work, when actually — he just disagrees with you.
"If DC Dems want an excuse to investigate Musk's purchase of Twitter on "national security grounds" because he won't censor for them, they'll need a better excuse." it is particulrly ridiculous as they called for a investigation of "ties to foreign governments and investors" the same day SpaceX launched USSF-44, a top-secret payload for Space Comand. You would think that if there was an iusse, it would have come-up before now.
It is painful to see and read.. ;-))
I am not of Russian origin and don't speak Russian.
Unlike you, I am far more concerned in re-establishing democracy in the US.
You’re a real one note pony Gene.
There’s that delicious moment when those who are certain they will never personally be held accountable suddenly are.
Thank you.
MT tweets – extracted ~Nov 3 period https://twitter.com/mtaibbi
(Another precious and timely tweets on our life in US democracy – Matt Taibbi just in less than two days)
• After every tragedy opportunists start proposing we outlaw video games or Marilyn Manson albums or, now, right-wing tweets.
We’re the world’s biggest weapons producer a dozen times over and I don’t ever hear proposals to stop that — nope, it must be tweets inspiring violence.
• The writer Isaac Babel once said the Soviets had taken away "but one right—the right to write badly." It's not free speech unless you protect the right to say things the majority finds reprehensible, toxic, incorrect.
• There's a long list of unprotected speech forms, from libel to incitement to threats to perjury, fraud, and so on. Most are narrowly defined and handled via litigation. We've never had a centralized MinTruth judging something amorphous and broad like "misinformation."
• The 2020 Iowa Caucus was the key disaster here. Tiny state, no result after 16 days, and even the New York Times was asking “WTF?” Instead of realizing quick results are essential to voter confidence and fixing the issue, we’re being asked to accept longer counts.
• I thought Biden was doing a decent job of selling “saving the guardrails of democracy,” but as you say, there was a major record scratch late in the speech.
Telling people in advance the results will take a long time, when the polls look dire, will massively increase paranoia
• Re-tweet -- Walter Kirn @walterkirn: That speech tonight was not a campaign speech. It did not have any real persuasive value or political intent. It was a speech specifically meant to manage and mold expectations about the vote-counting process.
• Even if I knew exactly what happened at Pelosi’s place I wouldn’t be blaming it on a lack of censorship. By that standard we should be wiping out the White Album to stop future Mansons or Blink 182 to prevent Columbines, and so on. Don’t you ever get tired of these arguments?
• If you don’t understand that free speech has to include things you personally consider odious, you don’t really believe in it.
• Either you’re being intentionally obtuse or you really don’t get it, but current law doesn’t come close to allowing prohibition of any post-factum speech downplaying the Pelosi attack. The standard is, you can ban someone saying, “Go in the house and hit him with a hammer.”
• Durbin is wrong here, and he surely knows the real standard for prohibiting speech (incitement to imminent lawless action), so the real question is why a Democratic Senator is going out of his way to incorrectly redefine what free speech means.
• I’m looking forward to a new episode of "TK Live" with to talk about "Truth Cops” With Ken Klippenstein" tomorrow at 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT. Join us!
https://www.callin.com/room/truth-cops-with-ken-klippenstein-gfEnxRMbgZ
• Very strange — for the second time, I discovered Twitter believed I’d muted
@thomaschattwill, though I never did. Related to that weird de-verification episode somehow maybe? Anyone else have that happen, with anyone?
• I read the article. The premise is ludicrous: because Glenn disagrees with U.S./neocon policy, he loves Putin. Just like the New Yorker “Bane of their Resistance” piece, it assumes something must be wrong, an evil pathology at work, when actually — he just disagrees with you.
Outsourcing the censorship function to Big Tech insulates the censors both from unwanted election results and from pesky civil rights suits ("muh private entity can censor all it wants!").
Sort of like how Jim Crow Era government officials would claim to be acting as private citizens when convenient, and revert to their roles as government officials when it came time to exercise police power.
Thank you !! There is a DIRECT connection between Russia-gate hoax concocted by St. Obama, Biden and Hillary and provoking capitalist Russia’s “Putin's war” by relentless NATO expansion.
The SAME lying team representing the US bipartisan War party.
Democracy and freedoms have left US – censorship is now nearly TOTAL; far worse than in Soviet Union 50 years ago.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/82053335
When Will the Bird Really Be Free? Twitter suspends Scott Ritter yet again.
Bush Neocons have switched parties due to their TDS. Example A: David Frum.
Correct -- same bipartisan War party corrupt criminals
Thank you. And a mystery — if our beloved US is basically a bipartisan fascist non-democracy - why is it fashionable for GOP RINOs to call fascist Democrats — communists (?!) and “left” (?!) ?
You went from demented to sane in two sentences.
Looking forward to the interview. The Intercept article is in keeping with classical liberal investigative reporting, and Ken has penned some great investigative articles. There is a profound difference between Liberal and Progressive.
This is the most horrifying passage in the article:
““One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,” said [Biden-appointed minister of truth] Easterly, speaking at a conference in November 2021.””
“Cognitive infrastructure”? My mind is not your fucking infrastructure, you psychopath. Defund DHS!
Omg that video makes me homicidal
Crime against humanity. If we had used it instead of waterboarding, 1) everyone would have confessed everything and 2) it would have it's own subsection the Geneva Convention.
I kind of want to know more about Jankowicz's alleged "wizard rock" band -- in the same way a 14-year-old goth wants to know more about cutting or Francis Thurston wants to know more about Cthulhu. I know I will utterly regret learning and so to date have resisted the awful temptation.
N.B. I may be confusing Jankowicz with Jon Huntsman, whom I believe was in a band named "Wizard," but for reasons cited above I do not want to do those Googles.
I can't even watch it. To Daniel Tucker's point above; we should all be tryin' real hard to curb our homicidal impulses at this juncture in time, no matter how tough it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFTvENHcobM
Honestly kind of wish you spoke to the other co-author, Lee Fang, instead. That's because Klippenstein has doxxed another journalist (Fiorella Isabel) and was one of the people repeating the "Ivermectin is horse paste" falsehood. Maybe he did some good work here and I should focus on that, but he's still a scumbag.
Thank you Rob. Exactly the same feeling about Klip on this story. Covid not flushed out enough in article eso with all that’s happened past month & year.
Good morning. Given what happened last night with my vax injured sister in hospital--hospice being recommended ; KEN K is an *accessory to murder* & has zero credibility. Scoops are nice but...
I knew about HCQ & Ivermectin months before Dore began discussing: now being used to help vax injured & Long Covid. Even in Florida, cuz she’s trapped in system, I’m in a battle for her life to start the FLCCC protocols. There will be NO AMNESTY. KATIE HALPER did her horse face clip & tho MATT TAIBBI has covered the censored docs he still participated in the “get vaccinated” insanity.
NEVER FORGET. A COVID RECKONING needed. Read article will pass on listening to Klip. As I said; ACCESSORYTO MURDER
Most freeing moment last week was to rip up my ballot
I'm very sorry to hear about your sister.
I missed Katie's take on ivermectin. If it was shit (and it sounds like it was) then I'm glad I don't follow her any more. Matt certainly didn't say anything like "lol these idiots are taking horse drugs", though. He said this:
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/ivermectin-can-a-drug-be-right-wing-ca7
I remember the article where he said he'd gotten vaccinated and he thought everyone else should get it too, but that piece was mostly about how punishing or shaming people for believing the opposite of what he did and not getting vaxxed was stupid and wrong. And if he thought it was possible to vaccinate our way out of Covid with something that didn't even prevent transmission, well, it was over a year ago and he's been wrong before, often by his own admission. (A number of times in Hate Inc. he mentions that he used to do exactly what so many other reporters were doing wrong, for example.)
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-aristocrats
Thanks Rob. And yes, I’ve read Matt’s work. It was appearances on podcasts where at end of discussion twas like everyone felt obligated to chant *but* “get vaccinated.”
Fear allowing more info out recently is to have it be submerged with all the other drama occurring.
There were docs whom warned that vaccinating into a pandemic would create bigger problems
I had Covid 1/31/20. That awful cough lingered for months. So maybe easier for me to see the fraud which was occurring. And having a doc whom would probably be added to the initial list if they knew of her. Having my life already upended 10 yrs prior by antibiotics Cipro & Levaquin: misdiagnosed/shamed by docs: I see healthcare much differently.
For history, here’s Katie’s clip. Worth a watch. Has a doctor on directly smear the FLCCC docs. Was originally titled Dr Who with picture of horse. Ironic given my last name :)
https://youtu.be/a-aKTOc5nGc
Damn. I couldn't get through the whole thing. What's wrong with her?
I call it the Pharma fog
Not one of 7 billion people cares what you think.
Heartened to see that the Intercept is still doing some good work, and not just threatening to dox Gab users.
I gave up on it years ago. Now I just go where Dear Führersonderzug "Taibbi" takes me.
I'm not a paid subscriber.
I realize it is a utopian dream, but if everybody would simply delete their Facebook and twitter accounts...
... or never had them in the first place.
This might be slightly tangent, but still worth a listen. DHS isn't alone in diddling the bird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS3vyB7gcNA
Note:
"authoritarian regimes have been having field days on Twitter for as long as I can remember"
I don't understand why any of this surprises people after living through Pub. L. 107–56 and Snowden revelations, not to mention a cornucopia of other dystopian ventures prior to those. Wait until they come for the gold...again. That's not to disparage the reporting though, constant reminders are healthy.
It doesn’t surprise me, however it’s surprising that it’s getting press.
Will look forward to listening to it later "unlive" as I have to work; assuming, of course, it airs or isn't pulled for "inciting political violence."
Apparently Biden's making a political speech tonight that takes off the kid gloves that restrained the previous mega MAGA hellfire speech in Philadelphia. Will be interesting to see how things look after he makes the connection between the Pelosi attack in particular and political violence in general to questioning official narratives.
He won’t be too old for capital punishment after he leaves the White House in an orange suit.
Oh you inveterate optimist.
Need I remind you that there are two distinct and divergent legal codes at play in this country? One has power over you, me, and -- curiously -- Donald J. Trump, the legitimately elected former President of the United States of America. The other is remarkable in its consummate and demonstrable inability to affect anyone who has been graced by God with the surname of Clinton or Biden.