Media figures who exposed illegal surveillance, manufactured intelligence, and other abuses in the Trump-Russia investigation almost always paid a price
Matt this is why I do admire you. You are humble, thoughtful, give credit where it is due and seem like an all round good person. You aren’t an egotist who insists on credit and adulation. An old fashioned approach. Love it!
Also appreciate his “unprofessional” presentations on his videos; makes it much more genuine. Being raised in a family that actually worked for a living, I learned to distrust the suit-and-tie crowd. A pretty useful prejudice!
Sadly, Matt is late o the game. Many honest Journalists have been vilified for years. I been called a “Fox” watcher, with disdain in their voices by, family in US and Sweden… look at the world today, in shambles. Thank you late comers.
When you're right, you're right. In 2015-2016, I could still present counter-arguments in some 'liberal' circles. (I tilt left on social issues). We picked Trump to win on policy and verve and then sought reconciliation.
I urged my liberal interlocutors to examine their prejudices and, most important, - RUN, flee as far and fast from the Steele dossier pee-tape crap as possible, and keep running, coz that poisonous beast was going to bite a whole lot of normally intelligent people on the ass.
The value of coming late to the game is that these reports will reach the people who never gave themselves the opportunity to hear from the other side’s independent journalists.
You would think Stahl had a newsroom full of actual journalists!
We are indeed lucky. We are also lucky to still have his thoughts and observations about the past, and as it is an election year, I re-read "Spanking the Donkey," Matt's book (a series of articles, profiles, etc.) about the 2004 election, especially the Democratic fight to oppose George W. Bush. Highly recommended. For those who have been reading Matt's work for a while, they will recall the hilarious way he has always been able to cover news and events.
I recall once riding a rental car shuttle at the Atlanta airport and embarrassing myself by laughing out loud as I read Chris Rock's book, "Rock This." I laughed out loud all over again when I read Matt describe a poorly-planned pro-Iraq War protest as "...about as spontaneous as the applause for Comrade Stalin at the Fifth Party Congress."
'24 is shaping up somewhat similarly to '04. We have a war growing increasingly less popular, an out-of-touch President who cannot read the public very well, and we're calling each other names. Back then it was "traitor!" if you didn't have a minimum of 2 of those stupid support-our-troops magnet ribbons for the back of your car. Now it's "Putin lover!" or "antisemite!" for those who don't bother to worship the bullshit coming from either the White House or the corporate media.
All y'all Taibbi lovers, read his books for even more information, outrage, and humor. After Spanking the Donkey, move on to "Smells Like Dead Elephants," "Griftopia," "The Great Derangement," "I Can't Breathe," "The Divide," and "Hate, Inc." You will not go wrong.
I do think Matt's list (and we can add Hersh) is a great checklist of who people should read now and review the writings of from 2015-now. All were go-to folks for me.
In non-Russiagate topics, I have enjoyed the work (and the books) of Salena Zito, Sharyl Attkisson and Mollie Hemingway.
These reporters, even if wrong, should have received more support in real time from the investigative reporter community, but understandably were under siege from the propagandists of State Media (I hear Natasha Bertrand has been promoted). Sadly only people within the alt media bubble will pay any attention to new information on Russiagate.
A much more ominous problem is that Biden's Department of Justice has been weaponized and declared Biden beyond arrest for his corruption due to mental incompetence (Senator Joe Biden was largely responsible for the doubling of incarcerated Americans, mostly non-violent drug offenders. Wonder what percent of our jailed are mentally competent?) Moreover we've recently seen Tara Reade flee to Russia after harassment from authorities for her recounting of Biden sexual assault. Gal Luft, who was involved in Biden corruption in China, tried to turn whistleblower but was forced to flee when the FBI tried to arrest him.
Alexander Smirnov, a whistleblower on Biden's Burisma corruption, recently has been charged with crimes by Biden's DOJ and faces 25 years in jail. (There is lots of supporting evidence of Biden corruption in Ukraine: ukrainegate.info ). Even if the charges are correct and Smirnov fabricated his hearsay testimony, he should receive the same jail time that Christopher Steele received for his fake dossier, and Ukrainian Americans received for the fake Black Ledger, removing Paul Manafort Trump's campaign manager, that profoundly affected both the 2016 and 2020 Elections.
Scariest of all is the January 6th protest/ riot/ unarmed "Insurrection" which if Tucker Carlon's interview with Steven Sund is correct, was instituted to entrap political opponents (now political prisoners) by Nancy Pelosi, Yogananda Pittman, the FBI and other Intelligence Agencies.
Sund has one trick he is playing: he says they didn't accept his request for National Guard. But when you dig in a bit, that plan was never for more than 150 National Guardsmen. I just don't think that ever would have tipped the scales, so he's trying to absolve himself with that cover but it wasn't that helpful a proposal, really, even though it was definitely denied.
However, he's actually pretty much blameless because the real problem was the FBI never shared proper intelligence info. I mean when you have all the evidence that someone wants to storm the capital and you have plants in the crowd that know that could happen, and you take no steps to head it off, that's crazy. So was it a "plot" to entrap involving Pelosi, no. Did a few key people at FBI say "well, we get to make a federal case of it if they do try something, so why take pains to stop it?" Could be.
If the National Guard were armed (the Trumpers were not and most of the Capitol Police were not) just their presence might have been enough to stop the rioting (unless of course the National Guard were escorting the Trumpers around inside the Capitol like the Capitol Police did.) Sund claimed he was trying to get help from every possible agency and all refused, or were waiting on Pelosi's invitation for several hours. (NJ State Police were the first to arrive after the "Insurrection" ended. ) We have no idea how many Feds were there, or other instigators (Michael Stenger Senate Sargent of Arms was supposed to testify on instigators but died just before his scheduled testimony.) The Capitol Police received a huge budget increase for their role .
The FBI (and other agencies) shared intelligence with Pittman, who shared the info with Pelosi, but the Capitol Police Chief Sund was intentionally kept out of the loop. Sund was fired immediately after, and Pittman was made Capitol Police Chief, but received a vote of no confidence from her fellow Capitol Police, and instead took a highly paid job at Cal Berkeley(?) next to Pelosi's district. Supposedly Pelosi's computers and phone records were inviolate and were not allowed to be searched for her role in the event. Carlson inferred from Sund's testimony that Pelosi and Pittman were the main players.
TAIBBI is a Rock Star without a guitar, microphone or back up vocals ... he is his own Band! That is what makes and allows him to be special. The very independence that he has worked to enjoy has allowed him his much admired freedom of thought, expression & personal exegesis. May he continue to expand his research and profit in the minds of men, some formerly closed and now open because of his incredible efforts! Go Taibbi!!!
We need to fix our systems. We need a trustworthy place to go and debate, problem solve, and error correct. These systems of government and 3 letter agencies are all captured.
Our systems are corrupted. We need new ones. Like this:
Thank you for highlighting all the real journalists who covered this scandal. We should name and shame the perpetrators of lies, coverups, and potential treason. The biggest issue we face is changing the minds of the masses who worship MSM and its fake Russia collusion narrative with religious fervor.
No. The Democratic Party is now a religious cult. They all have the same talking points, demonize heretics, condemn infidels, get sinners to repent ( apologize) demand belief over facts, and virtue signal to their members for purity points. They're prepared to defend democracy by removing it.
I suggest using the block function to make it so feldspar, a troll, cant see your posts. click their username, then the three dots in the circle and select block
The narrative capture did its job. Most minds won't even give 2 shits. We will just get on with listening(watching) Maddow, Hayes, Stewart, the Fox crew, etc
There's every reason to be this cynical, but I like to believe the MSM will continue losing audience to independents on internet platforms, just like cable TV as a whole is being abandoned for streaming services.
YouTube has made a grave error trying to curry favor with the establishment by establishing stupid restrictions on political content that has sent or will send talented commentators and journos elsewhere, like Rumble. I think over time enough YouTube users will leave so they'll be forced to loosen their stupid restrictions, though for sheer entertainment, it's hard to beat. Same with Fuckfacebook, which has absolutely nothing to recommend it. Musk has salvaged Twatter pretty well, so X ought to be around a while.
Encouraging a marketplace of ideas where errors can be falsified is not a marxist practice. 'Everyone should be free to make their case so people can change their minds' is a John Stuart Mill / classical liberal idea.
That’s one thing, but the statement was “The biggest issue we face is changing the minds of the masses…”. That I see as not desirable and presumptuous, and potentially dangerous.
Of course, just as those who dared question the conventional wisdom concerning Iraq and WMD were cast into Outer Darkness, while those who went along with the narrative were rewarded.
“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
― Edward Snowden
'In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' - George Orwell
But the DOJ today charges the CHS (who was previously identified by the FBI as trustworthy and reliable) who outed an alleged.bribery scheme by Burisma directed at Biden for lying to the.FBI. The bureaucrats protecting the boss, as usual, and screwing anyone who gets in their way of shaping the narrative.
These people live in such a bubble. A few months ago I got in a debate involving a family member who was not aware of the Twitter Files story at all. When told about it she searched and found an NPR story that basically said it was an Elon Musk conspiracy. Smh. How you reach such people is beyond me.
Ben... I have found the same when I mention the twitter files to people. (Fortunately not within my family...) The conclusion that I have come to is that if they lack the ability to think critically to that level, then they are likely part of the problem and not part of the solution. You can thank our education system in general which has indoctrinated more than educated.
Yeah, I had the same thing happen with someone else recently when they brought up the vaccine, and they thought that there were no issues with it, as if it's working perfectly. They just don't cover stories that are harmful to their narrative. Doesn't mean alternative or conservative media are perfect either although I think generally they are better. The only answer is to have free speech and be debating all of these issues. Nobody is going to be perfect and make no mistakes.
Yes, I get the "my news sources are different than your news sources" response, as though that is my problem. My response to that is, if your news sources aren't covering this story, then ask yourself, why not? But there is no getting through to them.
My wife was trying to get through to her son re. the Covid vaccines and sent him a few key words/phrases to research online. He did his searches and told her "I can't find these things." Of course, being a millennial he didn't wonder why he couldn't find them...
Its curious to me how people who are (or seem) generally internet savvy have no idea there exists more than one search engine. Then there are folks who can't believe the almighty google would ever consider hiding search results. They themselves call it "curating" results, yet folks don't question what that really means.
The Left has pledged unmitigated fealty to the Party. The possibility that they are wrong cannot or will not enter their universe. There is no reality of truth they only
Yes, perhaps in a normal less triggered environment this would be the situation. However, I live in California, therefore, I’m consistently met with people that have zero interest in an open discussion on current events. Thank you.
Not possible, especially the “educated” ones. One of the things taught at the university is the textbook view of life; never, ever read primary sources.
funny you should mention that. i remember the minute. I was 14 and the pentagon (my father's employer) papers were being published. i decided to always look for primary sources because they can and will lie at the cost of thousands of lives.
Mostly true but I think it varies. I went to a university, even in the social sciences, but don't buy into their bs. There's a lot of lunacy in a university for sure, suppression of opposing viewpoints. Which also means that there are a lot of people there who know to keep quiet about their true views if they don't line up with the left wing orthodoxy.
Can’t argue, I also think a university education can be quite valuable, as I wouldn’t have gotten two degrees otherwise. But I also saw the textbook view in full force, as much with the students, as with the faculty.
My brother gets his news from Jimmy Kimmel. He seems to have little intellectual curiosity for the truth. When I mentioned I had watched Tucker interview Putin. His response was to say "Eww." There is simply no curiosity for truth. Just "team spirit." Thanks to Matt and all of the curious and skeptical by nature journo's. These rare (but growing) journalists that are on OUR side deserve our financial support. This is how we win.
Most reasonable people understand the Iraq War information debacle, but are unaware of the "information" rinse and recycle "friendly warnings from Alllies" template employed to transform three-letter agency created fictions into "suspicious facts."
First, create smoke, then pay dupes abroad to whisper: "hey, I smell smoke, better look for the fire quick." third, leak to press, fourth - get paid.
The domestic version is: find spark, add oxygen and and fuel, trigger ignition at the desired time, rush to put out blaze and "save" us all." - get paid.
Most just want to be left alone to continue spending, consuming, and otherwise feeding their families, or their fetishes. The wealthy include a sprinkling of malevolent actors among a gang of self-interested actors committed to passing on their money, 'status', to their off-spring.
Yep, and the cathedral, to use a term, makes it clear to the normies that if you go along with or at least put up with our shit without too much complaint, we'll leave you alone. If not...
Michael Malice says this type is beyond hope, so you shouldn't waste energy trying to get them to change their minds, there not being much of a mind to change in the first place.
I've heard him say that. I see his point but not sure I agree. It may be true most of the time but it's still worth trying for the ones who may be open to it. I do think most people are more likely to change in response to elite opinions. For instance I shifted a fair bit in 2016 after hearing Ben Shapiro on Rogan. Before that I had voted Obama twice.
Well, the way I think of it is that if you haven't heard a better argument then why change your mind. A lot of these people don't hear the opposing view. They are given a distorted version that will make someone like Matt look terrible. If they're watching CNN and reading NYT they think Rogan took horse medication and Trump is taking orders from Putin.
We can only hope that the institutional liars and toadies of the corporate media lose enough audience to close down or shrink considerably. Maybe billionaire globalists will get tired of shoveling money into their propaganda mills.
Ben, your comment and my thought collided instantly. You're exactly right. I've come to realize that MSNBCNNCIAFBI don't need to keep the populace in the bubble. They know they can't control that big of a demographic. No, their one and only goal is to keep the people on the Left who are in the bubble---remaining in there with spoon-fed propoganda. That is the most critical thing for them. Keep the believers believing at all costs.
To be honest, what worries me more than all the illegal and coordinated actions of ideological officials and media is how much of the public, especially our smugly elitist over-class, not only approves but actually demands more. These are the people who openly admit to concerns about "too much free speech" and to supporting extremely anti-democratic measures in order to "save democracy". Thus I expect them to see these exposes of gross violations not just unconvincing but, staying on theme, undesirable.
It really does seem like a religious cult eager for a theocratic state, and ready to burn heretics.
Makes a lot more sense than having an evil mastermind, such as Obama. This is the secret of the indoctrination that’s been going on in schools for decades—it needs no master mind, just pliable, inexperienced minds.
Especially when there are serious consequences for dissenting from the orthodox view--silencing, seizure of bank accounts, accusations of homophobe/transphobe/racist/"far-right," etc.
Look at the UK. This is the direct consequence of enacting so-called "hate speech" prohibitions. Don't agree that men can have babies? Disapprove of "drag queen story hour"? Transphobic hate speech. Disapprove of public sex? Homophobic hate speech. Accuse BLM of being a race grifting organization? Racist hate speech. And so forth.
The left's inquisition apparatus is based on lies, so it can't and won't prevail, but much damage will have been done prior to the final humiliation and discrediting of critical-studies-informed social justice inquisitors.
You nailed it. Heretics must repent or burn. This is the Inquisition all over again. "Joshua made the sun stand still" and Galileo said " and yet it moves." He was condemned and silenced. But truth and science won in the end. It always does.
Not really weird. Humans are essentially belief engines (I can't recall who first said that). And while believers are suspicious of those who might be doubters, they despise members of contradictory sects.
Don’t forget Obama himself was integral to what Brennan, Clapper and Comey did. Oh yeah, and Joe Biden knew too, though he himself has probably long since forgotten that!
What a colossal traitor Obama became. He was Trump 1.0 - Hope and Change - people genuinely believed him! I did. Let’s transform this corrupt hydra-headed syndicate. If Obama did his job, Trump would have been unnecessary. But then Obama shrank from his place in history and took 30 pieces of silver for his cowardice and complicity with the entrenched powers that be. They bought him like a child and patted his head. “Go off and be a billionaire celebrity. We’ll take it from here.”
He had to have provided the air cover for Brennan, Clapper and Comey... but made sure to give himself plausable deniability. I just don't find it plausable that he DIDN'T know this stuff was going on, and I'm hoping that Matt , Alex and Michael's continued investigative journalism will eventually shine a big flashlight on this.
I find it impossible to believe that he did not direct it, it’s more than that he knew about it. Whenever a figure like Trump comes on the scene, Everyone knows that that figure is a reaction to what is in place. Obama’s Sharp turn to the left plus foreign affairs inadequacy produced Trump. And Obama‘s ego could not handle that. So he got involved and directed the intelligence community to first prevent Trump from being an elected, and once that failed, second to sully him so completely that he would be impeached. As my mom always said, the truth will out.
Obama did not "turn to the left"; he was strictly a fraud on that count. He was shielding the Wall Street banksters from the pitchforks before he even got in office - and said so, to them. Hence the rain of money.
Oh, he for sure protected the gangster banking industry! But in his second term he did. He wrote the law that let transgenders use their bathroom of choice and forced insurers to pay for trans surgery. That’s leftist.
This may be a bit off topic, but I've been wondering what the Dems will be up to next, since it's quite apparent that sleepy Joe isn't going to be up to a second term. I think this article is probably the best guess.
Don't forget this: On Oct. 30, 2008, just before the presidential election, Obama told a crowd in Columbia, Missouri, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
"Caitlin Johnstone?" Abso-freaking-lutely. I'd also add Cassandra Fairbanks MacDonald, most easily. Others? Jimmy Dore, H.A. Goodman, and Michael Tracey. I will never forget Tracey's interview of Michael Caputo in the earliest days. Have to listen! That was the spookiest wake up call about the stalking going on and how deep and sinister it was. It wasn't just an activist here, a pol there....
I realize many not impacted. I still have a vax injured elder wasting away in nursing home. Many simmering with rage. Those whom crossed the line re “encourage” (Aaron) or the obligatory “get vaccinated” (Matt) on podcasts might offer an apology. No human being should tell another person what they should put in their body. Speaks to integrity & morals.
Given government/media fail to fully acknowledge; it’s be helpful to many if they had a podcast about & gather others. There were no mistakes in this military operation targeted at all citizens. If you missed it then….I knew by Feb 2020.
We need a COVID RECKONING and we need the true independent and/or alternative media to create an event. Just an idea cuz Peter McCullough believes at least 40% of public feel like me.
“Humility is a clear recognition of who and what we are followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be.” Seared in my mind from the 12 steps many decades past
Thank you for giving credit to Maria Bartiromo! This woman is a bull dog, in all due respect. Smart, quick, and on the pulse. Her work on China is dogged and she had Nunes on her show repeatedly shouting this out. Matt, you are a good person and an excellent journalist. In fifty years your name along with Bartiromo will be told as the real resistance and truth tellers in journalism. What I demand are those pulitzers on Russia to be taken back and given out to all of you!! Won’t hold my breath though…..
Brennan is a liar and a traitor. That was so clear all along. I guess you have to get absolute proof but he belongs in jail. Among others, probably Obama.
Yeah he is, but I guess I just meant the odds he pays for it are probably nil. This country has been a mess since he got in there. But he IS a smooth talker and sends no mean tweets.
The entire system is corrupt. We are indebted to Trump for triggering its exposure and to intrepid reporters like Matt Taibbi and others for exposing it.
This article is my definition of “class”. Matt Taibbi is pointing out all those who suffered for the truth before him, and honoring them, something most journalists today, whose idea of truth seems to be “covering their backsides”, would never do. (Now we know why it was easy for totalitarian governments to find journalists and only 2 bishops stood up to Henry VIII. They all want glory from the powers that be and care little for truth and beauty.)
By the way, historians generally do not trust newspapers nor do they trust the diaries of powerful people. My historian daughter told me that when doing research you are almost guaranteed that what is in the newspaper is wrong as well as what is diaries of the famous. I heard a civil war scholar say that newspapers were good for getting the pulse of the public, but diaries of generals and politicians were full of lies. However, if you could get your hands of diaries of common soldiers, they are a gold mine.
Newspaper accounts are, by definition, at least one step removed from actual event. So beware. But historians are years/decades/centuries removed. And worse: with a few exceptions, the work done by historians today tells you far more, and with greater certainty, about the political/ideological biases and commitments of the author than it does about the history it purports to tell. So doubly beware.
Public economics is political ideology, not science. This became particularly obvious during the Crash of 2008, which hardly any economist had foreseen - except Dean Baker, who pointed out that the danger was pretty obvious. So, mostly not connected with reality.
This may be less true of some of the more technical specializations, like resource economics. They work closer to reality and farther from the requirements of banksters.
I don’t remember what I thought back then except for a conversation with a colleague (who was a chaired professor specializing in banking) concerning why housing prices were getting so high. I thought it might be a bubble, he thought it was because the population was growing so natural growth in demand was the cause. The real cause was the Fed’s low interest rate policy, hence when they began raising the target value of the FFR, a crash was inevitable.
Bari Weiss: “Know who your allies are.” In order to do that, you have to know what your priorities are. Matt’s list crosses the political spectrum but shows a common belief in the primacy of free speech and an accountable government.
Matt, something you've been good about not saying is that the scope of this massive hoax has been obvious from the start. At no point did any of the safety mechanisms kick in, the big lies just kept getting bigger.
Political activists have been talking about this incessantly and we've been algo'ed for it. From my perspective, having first been "algo'ed" with a DDOS attack on my old blog in 2005, this corruption of our government seems Zionist in nature, your private take may differ and that's why I'm commenting.
When reporters professionally and astutely refrain from speculating, it's up to grassroots loudmouths like myself to stir up some chatter and make sure people are aware that something's going on. But the neos (libs/cons) are so super clever they decided to shut everybody up. Grassroots got algo'ed, investigators were stonewalled, and reporters lacked facts to report.
I don't think anyone following or working this story is surprised by this bombshell development. That this has taken so long speaks to the massive nature of this corrupt stealth takeover of American government. EVERYONE needs to be supportive of Speaker Johnson and House efforts to get the goddamned documents and logs that will blow up this twintowers-sized house of cards.
Not a time for engaging with trolls or partisanship. Everyone needs to stay focused on the prize which in this case is getting this story to break wide open and fully capture the attention of the general public. By so doing, we'll finally break up the establishment news monopoly and maybe even end a fucking war or two.
Not exaggerating: blowing up Russiagate blows up everything they've been doing. Now is the time to be supportive and to amplify each new story.
Soon you will be writing this same type of article about the brave people who covered the excess deaths due to these gene therapy experiments performed on people. Its not too late to get your name on the list Matt.
Ive brought this up to you before and all you got is “B-Buutt South Korea!!!”
People are dropping dead and getting cancer at insane rates and the media is covering it up just like they covered up Russiagate. We need your voice. Please look at it.
A personal experience I had with a urologist who proposed poison hormone therapy to kill a cancer it turned out was in remission: he understood my unease with that solution, so proposed gene therapy instead. I guess that’s what he did with any patients questioning the first “remedy”. Never went back.
What's needed now is a very concise bullet pointed list in chronological order of exactly what happened and who was involved. I've read all of these really long articles and unless I want to make charts and graphs it's almost impossible to keep track of it all.
I understand what the evidence shows at a high level which is that our government intelligence agencies interfered with a presidential election. But it would be nice to have a summary that you could show to other people and make them understand as well.
Matt this is why I do admire you. You are humble, thoughtful, give credit where it is due and seem like an all round good person. You aren’t an egotist who insists on credit and adulation. An old fashioned approach. Love it!
Yeah, Matt does it just right. No ego, just facts. We are so lucky to have him.
Also appreciate his “unprofessional” presentations on his videos; makes it much more genuine. Being raised in a family that actually worked for a living, I learned to distrust the suit-and-tie crowd. A pretty useful prejudice!
Sadly, Matt is late o the game. Many honest Journalists have been vilified for years. I been called a “Fox” watcher, with disdain in their voices by, family in US and Sweden… look at the world today, in shambles. Thank you late comers.
When you're right, you're right. In 2015-2016, I could still present counter-arguments in some 'liberal' circles. (I tilt left on social issues). We picked Trump to win on policy and verve and then sought reconciliation.
I urged my liberal interlocutors to examine their prejudices and, most important, - RUN, flee as far and fast from the Steele dossier pee-tape crap as possible, and keep running, coz that poisonous beast was going to bite a whole lot of normally intelligent people on the ass.
Few did, and we're all paying the price.
Yet, they chastise "election deniers" all the time, with zero self-awareness of how silly they themselves are on Russiagate.
The value of coming late to the game is that these reports will reach the people who never gave themselves the opportunity to hear from the other side’s independent journalists.
You would think Stahl had a newsroom full of actual journalists!
We are indeed lucky. We are also lucky to still have his thoughts and observations about the past, and as it is an election year, I re-read "Spanking the Donkey," Matt's book (a series of articles, profiles, etc.) about the 2004 election, especially the Democratic fight to oppose George W. Bush. Highly recommended. For those who have been reading Matt's work for a while, they will recall the hilarious way he has always been able to cover news and events.
I recall once riding a rental car shuttle at the Atlanta airport and embarrassing myself by laughing out loud as I read Chris Rock's book, "Rock This." I laughed out loud all over again when I read Matt describe a poorly-planned pro-Iraq War protest as "...about as spontaneous as the applause for Comrade Stalin at the Fifth Party Congress."
'24 is shaping up somewhat similarly to '04. We have a war growing increasingly less popular, an out-of-touch President who cannot read the public very well, and we're calling each other names. Back then it was "traitor!" if you didn't have a minimum of 2 of those stupid support-our-troops magnet ribbons for the back of your car. Now it's "Putin lover!" or "antisemite!" for those who don't bother to worship the bullshit coming from either the White House or the corporate media.
All y'all Taibbi lovers, read his books for even more information, outrage, and humor. After Spanking the Donkey, move on to "Smells Like Dead Elephants," "Griftopia," "The Great Derangement," "I Can't Breathe," "The Divide," and "Hate, Inc." You will not go wrong.
He did forget to mention an important one: Seymour Hersh, in the summer of 2017, called the Russia Hoax a Brennan operation.
A lot of people spotted this early on, naming them all would take a long time.
I do think Matt's list (and we can add Hersh) is a great checklist of who people should read now and review the writings of from 2015-now. All were go-to folks for me.
In non-Russiagate topics, I have enjoyed the work (and the books) of Salena Zito, Sharyl Attkisson and Mollie Hemingway.
These reporters, even if wrong, should have received more support in real time from the investigative reporter community, but understandably were under siege from the propagandists of State Media (I hear Natasha Bertrand has been promoted). Sadly only people within the alt media bubble will pay any attention to new information on Russiagate.
A much more ominous problem is that Biden's Department of Justice has been weaponized and declared Biden beyond arrest for his corruption due to mental incompetence (Senator Joe Biden was largely responsible for the doubling of incarcerated Americans, mostly non-violent drug offenders. Wonder what percent of our jailed are mentally competent?) Moreover we've recently seen Tara Reade flee to Russia after harassment from authorities for her recounting of Biden sexual assault. Gal Luft, who was involved in Biden corruption in China, tried to turn whistleblower but was forced to flee when the FBI tried to arrest him.
Alexander Smirnov, a whistleblower on Biden's Burisma corruption, recently has been charged with crimes by Biden's DOJ and faces 25 years in jail. (There is lots of supporting evidence of Biden corruption in Ukraine: ukrainegate.info ). Even if the charges are correct and Smirnov fabricated his hearsay testimony, he should receive the same jail time that Christopher Steele received for his fake dossier, and Ukrainian Americans received for the fake Black Ledger, removing Paul Manafort Trump's campaign manager, that profoundly affected both the 2016 and 2020 Elections.
Scariest of all is the January 6th protest/ riot/ unarmed "Insurrection" which if Tucker Carlon's interview with Steven Sund is correct, was instituted to entrap political opponents (now political prisoners) by Nancy Pelosi, Yogananda Pittman, the FBI and other Intelligence Agencies.
Sund has one trick he is playing: he says they didn't accept his request for National Guard. But when you dig in a bit, that plan was never for more than 150 National Guardsmen. I just don't think that ever would have tipped the scales, so he's trying to absolve himself with that cover but it wasn't that helpful a proposal, really, even though it was definitely denied.
However, he's actually pretty much blameless because the real problem was the FBI never shared proper intelligence info. I mean when you have all the evidence that someone wants to storm the capital and you have plants in the crowd that know that could happen, and you take no steps to head it off, that's crazy. So was it a "plot" to entrap involving Pelosi, no. Did a few key people at FBI say "well, we get to make a federal case of it if they do try something, so why take pains to stop it?" Could be.
If the National Guard were armed (the Trumpers were not and most of the Capitol Police were not) just their presence might have been enough to stop the rioting (unless of course the National Guard were escorting the Trumpers around inside the Capitol like the Capitol Police did.) Sund claimed he was trying to get help from every possible agency and all refused, or were waiting on Pelosi's invitation for several hours. (NJ State Police were the first to arrive after the "Insurrection" ended. ) We have no idea how many Feds were there, or other instigators (Michael Stenger Senate Sargent of Arms was supposed to testify on instigators but died just before his scheduled testimony.) The Capitol Police received a huge budget increase for their role .
The FBI (and other agencies) shared intelligence with Pittman, who shared the info with Pelosi, but the Capitol Police Chief Sund was intentionally kept out of the loop. Sund was fired immediately after, and Pittman was made Capitol Police Chief, but received a vote of no confidence from her fellow Capitol Police, and instead took a highly paid job at Cal Berkeley(?) next to Pelosi's district. Supposedly Pelosi's computers and phone records were inviolate and were not allowed to be searched for her role in the event. Carlson inferred from Sund's testimony that Pelosi and Pittman were the main players.
TAIBBI is a Rock Star without a guitar, microphone or back up vocals ... he is his own Band! That is what makes and allows him to be special. The very independence that he has worked to enjoy has allowed him his much admired freedom of thought, expression & personal exegesis. May he continue to expand his research and profit in the minds of men, some formerly closed and now open because of his incredible efforts! Go Taibbi!!!
My thoughts exactly. Thank you Matt.
We need to fix our systems. We need a trustworthy place to go and debate, problem solve, and error correct. These systems of government and 3 letter agencies are all captured.
Our systems are corrupted. We need new ones. Like this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thank you for highlighting all the real journalists who covered this scandal. We should name and shame the perpetrators of lies, coverups, and potential treason. The biggest issue we face is changing the minds of the masses who worship MSM and its fake Russia collusion narrative with religious fervor.
Can you reason with a demoralized person?
No. The Democratic Party is now a religious cult. They all have the same talking points, demonize heretics, condemn infidels, get sinners to repent ( apologize) demand belief over facts, and virtue signal to their members for purity points. They're prepared to defend democracy by removing it.
That was a faulty Copernican take.
What is a" faulty Coperinican take?" The Copernican theory revolutionized science and was a huge leap forward for mankind.
Feldspar is eloquent at saying nothing... definitely ignore; don't waste your time.
I suggest using the block function to make it so feldspar, a troll, cant see your posts. click their username, then the three dots in the circle and select block
Freelance censor?
Yes, but they won’t like it. Which is the point.
The narrative capture did its job. Most minds won't even give 2 shits. We will just get on with listening(watching) Maddow, Hayes, Stewart, the Fox crew, etc
There's every reason to be this cynical, but I like to believe the MSM will continue losing audience to independents on internet platforms, just like cable TV as a whole is being abandoned for streaming services.
YouTube has made a grave error trying to curry favor with the establishment by establishing stupid restrictions on political content that has sent or will send talented commentators and journos elsewhere, like Rumble. I think over time enough YouTube users will leave so they'll be forced to loosen their stupid restrictions, though for sheer entertainment, it's hard to beat. Same with Fuckfacebook, which has absolutely nothing to recommend it. Musk has salvaged Twatter pretty well, so X ought to be around a while.
Or not.
"Can you reason with a demoralized person?"
Sure. Takes compassion and a lot of patience but it can be done.
Can you reason with an unreasonable person?
Tougher call this. Sometimes yes, more often no. Much depends on whether their reaction is abusive or simply violent.
Changing minds of the masses is unfortunately the same crime the marxists do.
Encouraging a marketplace of ideas where errors can be falsified is not a marxist practice. 'Everyone should be free to make their case so people can change their minds' is a John Stuart Mill / classical liberal idea.
That’s one thing, but the statement was “The biggest issue we face is changing the minds of the masses…”. That I see as not desirable and presumptuous, and potentially dangerous.
When was the last time you spoke with a Marxist?
Of course, just as those who dared question the conventional wisdom concerning Iraq and WMD were cast into Outer Darkness, while those who went along with the narrative were rewarded.
“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
― Edward Snowden
'In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' - George Orwell
“If wars can be started by lies, then peace can be started by truth.” ~ Julian Assange ~
Orwell rocks! He wrote several essays exposing the British intelligentsia covering for the Soviet developments of the ‘30s. Very pertinent for today.
Always wondered what John Dewey was doing in China with “education” about that same time; also pertinent for today.
But the DOJ today charges the CHS (who was previously identified by the FBI as trustworthy and reliable) who outed an alleged.bribery scheme by Burisma directed at Biden for lying to the.FBI. The bureaucrats protecting the boss, as usual, and screwing anyone who gets in their way of shaping the narrative.
Of course they are protecting Biden, especially as pointing out Biden's obvious Ukraine corruption would call the entire Ukraine effort into question.
These people live in such a bubble. A few months ago I got in a debate involving a family member who was not aware of the Twitter Files story at all. When told about it she searched and found an NPR story that basically said it was an Elon Musk conspiracy. Smh. How you reach such people is beyond me.
Ben... I have found the same when I mention the twitter files to people. (Fortunately not within my family...) The conclusion that I have come to is that if they lack the ability to think critically to that level, then they are likely part of the problem and not part of the solution. You can thank our education system in general which has indoctrinated more than educated.
Yeah, I had the same thing happen with someone else recently when they brought up the vaccine, and they thought that there were no issues with it, as if it's working perfectly. They just don't cover stories that are harmful to their narrative. Doesn't mean alternative or conservative media are perfect either although I think generally they are better. The only answer is to have free speech and be debating all of these issues. Nobody is going to be perfect and make no mistakes.
The vaccinated person who got Covid right?
It's like trying to tell a football fan about soccer.
Yes, I get the "my news sources are different than your news sources" response, as though that is my problem. My response to that is, if your news sources aren't covering this story, then ask yourself, why not? But there is no getting through to them.
My wife was trying to get through to her son re. the Covid vaccines and sent him a few key words/phrases to research online. He did his searches and told her "I can't find these things." Of course, being a millennial he didn't wonder why he couldn't find them...
Its curious to me how people who are (or seem) generally internet savvy have no idea there exists more than one search engine. Then there are folks who can't believe the almighty google would ever consider hiding search results. They themselves call it "curating" results, yet folks don't question what that really means.
They think Google is doing them a favor by "curating" results for them. The level of naivete is astounding.
The Left has pledged unmitigated fealty to the Party. The possibility that they are wrong cannot or will not enter their universe. There is no reality of truth they only
know "their" truth.
This will be true as long as the Democratic Party accommodates the fringe.
The RP looks like it will totally abandon the neocon fringe, or vice-versa, if its treatment of Haley is any indication.
This kind of super broad brush demonizing is always %100 projection. it's not a good way of thinking about anything.
Yes, perhaps in a normal less triggered environment this would be the situation. However, I live in California, therefore, I’m consistently met with people that have zero interest in an open discussion on current events. Thank you.
Not possible, especially the “educated” ones. One of the things taught at the university is the textbook view of life; never, ever read primary sources.
funny you should mention that. i remember the minute. I was 14 and the pentagon (my father's employer) papers were being published. i decided to always look for primary sources because they can and will lie at the cost of thousands of lives.
Mostly true but I think it varies. I went to a university, even in the social sciences, but don't buy into their bs. There's a lot of lunacy in a university for sure, suppression of opposing viewpoints. Which also means that there are a lot of people there who know to keep quiet about their true views if they don't line up with the left wing orthodoxy.
Can’t argue, I also think a university education can be quite valuable, as I wouldn’t have gotten two degrees otherwise. But I also saw the textbook view in full force, as much with the students, as with the faculty.
My brother gets his news from Jimmy Kimmel. He seems to have little intellectual curiosity for the truth. When I mentioned I had watched Tucker interview Putin. His response was to say "Eww." There is simply no curiosity for truth. Just "team spirit." Thanks to Matt and all of the curious and skeptical by nature journo's. These rare (but growing) journalists that are on OUR side deserve our financial support. This is how we win.
Ignorance is Strength.
Most reasonable people understand the Iraq War information debacle, but are unaware of the "information" rinse and recycle "friendly warnings from Alllies" template employed to transform three-letter agency created fictions into "suspicious facts."
First, create smoke, then pay dupes abroad to whisper: "hey, I smell smoke, better look for the fire quick." third, leak to press, fourth - get paid.
The domestic version is: find spark, add oxygen and and fuel, trigger ignition at the desired time, rush to put out blaze and "save" us all." - get paid.
Most just want to be left alone to continue spending, consuming, and otherwise feeding their families, or their fetishes. The wealthy include a sprinkling of malevolent actors among a gang of self-interested actors committed to passing on their money, 'status', to their off-spring.
Yep, and the cathedral, to use a term, makes it clear to the normies that if you go along with or at least put up with our shit without too much complaint, we'll leave you alone. If not...
True, and the cathedral fits; nfortunately so does the brothel.
Drives mr crazy too ! My family member that is, not yours. : )
Michael Malice says this type is beyond hope, so you shouldn't waste energy trying to get them to change their minds, there not being much of a mind to change in the first place.
I've heard him say that. I see his point but not sure I agree. It may be true most of the time but it's still worth trying for the ones who may be open to it. I do think most people are more likely to change in response to elite opinions. For instance I shifted a fair bit in 2016 after hearing Ben Shapiro on Rogan. Before that I had voted Obama twice.
Stupid people will not change their opinions, ever, regardless of what they see that contradicts them.
You are obviously not stupid, and the same can probably be said of most people who comment here.
Well, the way I think of it is that if you haven't heard a better argument then why change your mind. A lot of these people don't hear the opposing view. They are given a distorted version that will make someone like Matt look terrible. If they're watching CNN and reading NYT they think Rogan took horse medication and Trump is taking orders from Putin.
Sure.
We can only hope that the institutional liars and toadies of the corporate media lose enough audience to close down or shrink considerably. Maybe billionaire globalists will get tired of shoveling money into their propaganda mills.
Ben, your comment and my thought collided instantly. You're exactly right. I've come to realize that MSNBCNNCIAFBI don't need to keep the populace in the bubble. They know they can't control that big of a demographic. No, their one and only goal is to keep the people on the Left who are in the bubble---remaining in there with spoon-fed propoganda. That is the most critical thing for them. Keep the believers believing at all costs.
Keep your subscribers' $ coming in by fueling their outrage.
"It's all about money."
To be honest, what worries me more than all the illegal and coordinated actions of ideological officials and media is how much of the public, especially our smugly elitist over-class, not only approves but actually demands more. These are the people who openly admit to concerns about "too much free speech" and to supporting extremely anti-democratic measures in order to "save democracy". Thus I expect them to see these exposes of gross violations not just unconvincing but, staying on theme, undesirable.
It really does seem like a religious cult eager for a theocratic state, and ready to burn heretics.
"It really does seem like a religious cult eager for a theocratic state, and ready to burn heretics."
That is a very accurate description, and it's a shame.
Makes a lot more sense than having an evil mastermind, such as Obama. This is the secret of the indoctrination that’s been going on in schools for decades—it needs no master mind, just pliable, inexperienced minds.
A huge portion of the educated elite left in this country are living in some bizarre parallel reality.
I do wonder if every time Brennan and Clapper went off air they chuckled to themselves and said “I can’t believe so many people have fallen for this.”
Just look at all the people who declared the Fani Willis testimony was powerful and compelling.
These days they make you repeat that men can be women if they wish hard enough -- if you'll say that, what WON'T you say?
Especially when there are serious consequences for dissenting from the orthodox view--silencing, seizure of bank accounts, accusations of homophobe/transphobe/racist/"far-right," etc.
Look at the UK. This is the direct consequence of enacting so-called "hate speech" prohibitions. Don't agree that men can have babies? Disapprove of "drag queen story hour"? Transphobic hate speech. Disapprove of public sex? Homophobic hate speech. Accuse BLM of being a race grifting organization? Racist hate speech. And so forth.
The left's inquisition apparatus is based on lies, so it can't and won't prevail, but much damage will have been done prior to the final humiliation and discrediting of critical-studies-informed social justice inquisitors.
You nailed it. Heretics must repent or burn. This is the Inquisition all over again. "Joshua made the sun stand still" and Galileo said " and yet it moves." He was condemned and silenced. But truth and science won in the end. It always does.
that's bc it is!
All while being terrified of the Society falling to 'christofascism' and the like. Very weird
Not really weird. Humans are essentially belief engines (I can't recall who first said that). And while believers are suspicious of those who might be doubters, they despise members of contradictory sects.
Don’t forget Obama himself was integral to what Brennan, Clapper and Comey did. Oh yeah, and Joe Biden knew too, though he himself has probably long since forgotten that!
What a colossal traitor Obama became. He was Trump 1.0 - Hope and Change - people genuinely believed him! I did. Let’s transform this corrupt hydra-headed syndicate. If Obama did his job, Trump would have been unnecessary. But then Obama shrank from his place in history and took 30 pieces of silver for his cowardice and complicity with the entrenched powers that be. They bought him like a child and patted his head. “Go off and be a billionaire celebrity. We’ll take it from here.”
He was on it from the beginning. Likely put in place by his IC handlers.
He had to have provided the air cover for Brennan, Clapper and Comey... but made sure to give himself plausable deniability. I just don't find it plausable that he DIDN'T know this stuff was going on, and I'm hoping that Matt , Alex and Michael's continued investigative journalism will eventually shine a big flashlight on this.
I find it impossible to believe that he did not direct it, it’s more than that he knew about it. Whenever a figure like Trump comes on the scene, Everyone knows that that figure is a reaction to what is in place. Obama’s Sharp turn to the left plus foreign affairs inadequacy produced Trump. And Obama‘s ego could not handle that. So he got involved and directed the intelligence community to first prevent Trump from being an elected, and once that failed, second to sully him so completely that he would be impeached. As my mom always said, the truth will out.
Obama did not "turn to the left"; he was strictly a fraud on that count. He was shielding the Wall Street banksters from the pitchforks before he even got in office - and said so, to them. Hence the rain of money.
Oh, he for sure protected the gangster banking industry! But in his second term he did. He wrote the law that let transgenders use their bathroom of choice and forced insurers to pay for trans surgery. That’s leftist.
Yeah, it's Obama who is behind all of this. Lock him up.
No longer an Obama fan, that’s for sure, but can’t subscribe to the evil mastermind theory, either.
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This may be a bit off topic, but I've been wondering what the Dems will be up to next, since it's quite apparent that sleepy Joe isn't going to be up to a second term. I think this article is probably the best guess.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/september-surprise
I wonder what Matt may think of this possible scenario?
Don't forget this: On Oct. 30, 2008, just before the presidential election, Obama told a crowd in Columbia, Missouri, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
"Caitlin Johnstone?" Abso-freaking-lutely. I'd also add Cassandra Fairbanks MacDonald, most easily. Others? Jimmy Dore, H.A. Goodman, and Michael Tracey. I will never forget Tracey's interview of Michael Caputo in the earliest days. Have to listen! That was the spookiest wake up call about the stalking going on and how deep and sinister it was. It wasn't just an activist here, a pol there....
Opening reads like a promo for vax pushing Mate.
Whitney Webb and Ryan Cristian at The Last American Vagabond
I realize many not impacted. I still have a vax injured elder wasting away in nursing home. Many simmering with rage. Those whom crossed the line re “encourage” (Aaron) or the obligatory “get vaccinated” (Matt) on podcasts might offer an apology. No human being should tell another person what they should put in their body. Speaks to integrity & morals.
Given government/media fail to fully acknowledge; it’s be helpful to many if they had a podcast about & gather others. There were no mistakes in this military operation targeted at all citizens. If you missed it then….I knew by Feb 2020.
We need a COVID RECKONING and we need the true independent and/or alternative media to create an event. Just an idea cuz Peter McCullough believes at least 40% of public feel like me.
“Humility is a clear recognition of who and what we are followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be.” Seared in my mind from the 12 steps many decades past
Thank you for giving credit to Maria Bartiromo! This woman is a bull dog, in all due respect. Smart, quick, and on the pulse. Her work on China is dogged and she had Nunes on her show repeatedly shouting this out. Matt, you are a good person and an excellent journalist. In fifty years your name along with Bartiromo will be told as the real resistance and truth tellers in journalism. What I demand are those pulitzers on Russia to be taken back and given out to all of you!! Won’t hold my breath though…..
Yeah, Maria, a "bulldog" of an interviewer. Maybe the best there is, IMHO.
I’m a big fan of her show to say the least.
Ditto to you and Pacificus. Maria is the best; I watch daily.
Brennan is a liar and a traitor. That was so clear all along. I guess you have to get absolute proof but he belongs in jail. Among others, probably Obama.
No "probably" for Obama. He is the mastermind behind all of this.
Yeah he is, but I guess I just meant the odds he pays for it are probably nil. This country has been a mess since he got in there. But he IS a smooth talker and sends no mean tweets.
The entire system is corrupt. We are indebted to Trump for triggering its exposure and to intrepid reporters like Matt Taibbi and others for exposing it.
This article is my definition of “class”. Matt Taibbi is pointing out all those who suffered for the truth before him, and honoring them, something most journalists today, whose idea of truth seems to be “covering their backsides”, would never do. (Now we know why it was easy for totalitarian governments to find journalists and only 2 bishops stood up to Henry VIII. They all want glory from the powers that be and care little for truth and beauty.)
By the way, historians generally do not trust newspapers nor do they trust the diaries of powerful people. My historian daughter told me that when doing research you are almost guaranteed that what is in the newspaper is wrong as well as what is diaries of the famous. I heard a civil war scholar say that newspapers were good for getting the pulse of the public, but diaries of generals and politicians were full of lies. However, if you could get your hands of diaries of common soldiers, they are a gold mine.
Newspaper accounts are, by definition, at least one step removed from actual event. So beware. But historians are years/decades/centuries removed. And worse: with a few exceptions, the work done by historians today tells you far more, and with greater certainty, about the political/ideological biases and commitments of the author than it does about the history it purports to tell. So doubly beware.
And I say this as a historian.
I don’t disagree. What you say is also true for economists, such as me.
Public economics is political ideology, not science. This became particularly obvious during the Crash of 2008, which hardly any economist had foreseen - except Dean Baker, who pointed out that the danger was pretty obvious. So, mostly not connected with reality.
This may be less true of some of the more technical specializations, like resource economics. They work closer to reality and farther from the requirements of banksters.
I don’t remember what I thought back then except for a conversation with a colleague (who was a chaired professor specializing in banking) concerning why housing prices were getting so high. I thought it might be a bubble, he thought it was because the population was growing so natural growth in demand was the cause. The real cause was the Fed’s low interest rate policy, hence when they began raising the target value of the FFR, a crash was inevitable.
I completely agree. It's a demonstration of Matt's genuine character
Unfortunately old news….but many just called it Fox or Trump syndrome…
Bari Weiss: “Know who your allies are.” In order to do that, you have to know what your priorities are. Matt’s list crosses the political spectrum but shows a common belief in the primacy of free speech and an accountable government.
Matt, something you've been good about not saying is that the scope of this massive hoax has been obvious from the start. At no point did any of the safety mechanisms kick in, the big lies just kept getting bigger.
Political activists have been talking about this incessantly and we've been algo'ed for it. From my perspective, having first been "algo'ed" with a DDOS attack on my old blog in 2005, this corruption of our government seems Zionist in nature, your private take may differ and that's why I'm commenting.
When reporters professionally and astutely refrain from speculating, it's up to grassroots loudmouths like myself to stir up some chatter and make sure people are aware that something's going on. But the neos (libs/cons) are so super clever they decided to shut everybody up. Grassroots got algo'ed, investigators were stonewalled, and reporters lacked facts to report.
I don't think anyone following or working this story is surprised by this bombshell development. That this has taken so long speaks to the massive nature of this corrupt stealth takeover of American government. EVERYONE needs to be supportive of Speaker Johnson and House efforts to get the goddamned documents and logs that will blow up this twintowers-sized house of cards.
Not a time for engaging with trolls or partisanship. Everyone needs to stay focused on the prize which in this case is getting this story to break wide open and fully capture the attention of the general public. By so doing, we'll finally break up the establishment news monopoly and maybe even end a fucking war or two.
Not exaggerating: blowing up Russiagate blows up everything they've been doing. Now is the time to be supportive and to amplify each new story.
Now is the time.
Soon you will be writing this same type of article about the brave people who covered the excess deaths due to these gene therapy experiments performed on people. Its not too late to get your name on the list Matt.
Ive brought this up to you before and all you got is “B-Buutt South Korea!!!”
People are dropping dead and getting cancer at insane rates and the media is covering it up just like they covered up Russiagate. We need your voice. Please look at it.
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/the-state-of-things-pandemic-week
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/02/06/the-state-of-things-pandemic-week-50-2023/
A personal experience I had with a urologist who proposed poison hormone therapy to kill a cancer it turned out was in remission: he understood my unease with that solution, so proposed gene therapy instead. I guess that’s what he did with any patients questioning the first “remedy”. Never went back.
“No matter how much you hate the media, you don't hate them enough” (TM)
What's needed now is a very concise bullet pointed list in chronological order of exactly what happened and who was involved. I've read all of these really long articles and unless I want to make charts and graphs it's almost impossible to keep track of it all.
I understand what the evidence shows at a high level which is that our government intelligence agencies interfered with a presidential election. But it would be nice to have a summary that you could show to other people and make them understand as well.
We are working on it. A big document
I look forward to it!
I can imagine. Thanks, Matt