Matt literally screaming into the void here, I love it. God knows they deserve it. But they're lying on purpose and aren't going to be swayed by silly things like logic and facts.
Americans are not as dumb and incurious as HRC and the rest of the crooks are counting on. Once the indictments drop the NYT is going to have some explaining to do.
The NYT timeline of events has been destroyed with HRC's plot to tie Russia to Trump - this was Obama's AG Lynch, Obama's FBI Director Comey, Obama's CIA Director Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Powers, Biden and their willing allies in the MSM working together to get HRC over the finish line on a fiction - and doubling down on the fiction to avoid getting busted. Pretty simple story to tell, can't wait for the NYT to get roasted.
Walter's right about the parallel spaceship the NYT readers find themselves on.
The NYT's problem isn't just Russiagate. Explain Biden's melt-down live while the NYT et al were telling the world Joe was as sharp as a tack. Columbia should investigate the fact pattern of errors at the NYT all running in the same direction - in other words a willful, years-long, effort to intentionally mislead NYT readers and the world. The cat's out of the bag - NYT now equals full of shit - why, how, for what reason? Twould make for a good story, no?
The last thing the board should be worrying about is “woke” or any radical ideologues. They had a chance with Jeff Gerth. They buried it and now they will be on the right side of treason and sedition which if memory serves is not the right side history.
A truth/fact based solutions oriented American national conversation capable of building the healthy human truth/fact based reality and the prosperous future We the People deserve--and must demand--in order to replace the amoral psyop distortion of human reality making the free citizens of our Republic ill. Like Covid--it is a disease, A free people cannot live inside a lie and prosper. It is time to accept that free peoples everywhere are under assault. (How is it that the American Republic still has diplomatic relations with Starmer's England?) There is the Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. Everything else is pretense and psyop.
Not sure that Covid was the disease you think it was. Replace Covid with syphilis and you may be right. But maybe you were using Covid as an example of a lie?
USAID NGO's have been funding a lot of the shenanigans that have helped destroy England.. over the last 15 to 20 years.. our tax dollars literally being used to promote Marxism abroad and assist in the alien invasion of France, Germany, England,etc etc..
Kash Patel is about to rip it wide open... can't wait
If you haven't--N.S. Lyons/THE CHINA CONVERGENCE or any of his lectures or interviews on YouTube. Michael Shellenberger and a few others are beginning to pick up some of his talking points.
I hope you are right. I wish we could whittle that 35% down some more, but it seems there's always a hard core who, like the perpetual mask-wearers, are unable to let go of thier version of reality.
May I say that your feet are facing forward and it appears that you are wearing ski boots on a snowboard, likely step in ? Is this real and what have I missed?
Comer Drops the Hammer - The House Oversight Committee is compelling the following individuals to appear for depositions through issued subpoenas: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9; Former President Bill Clinton: October 14; Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland; and others... https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1952729381983408550
Alright then, here's the third 'call me stupid' signs I'm laying 'round your neck, coming right up. Turns out the subpoenas above are for the Epstein files.
"The NYT timeline of events has been destroyed with HRC's plot to tie Russia to Trump"
If you don't dispute the Senate' Bipartisan Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, which concurred with the offending ICA commissioned by Obama, then the plot would technically need to also include Marco Rubio and all the Republicans on that panel, and all of the additional evidence it provided would need to have been 'manufactured'.
Has anyone claimed, or given evidence, that the conclusions of that report were "manufactured" as part of a "conspiracy to tie Russia to Trump"? To my knowledge, no one has. And certainly Matt hasn't mentioned it. And until then this is all a lot of hot air.
In a word: bullshit! Thanks, though! Please no time-wasting follow-ups. I expect we'll see a new flood of "But what about" attempted deflections.
The Senate Bipartisan report was constructed well after the alleged offenses occurred.
As for "hot air" that's all you and your ilk have served up for the last decade - whether it's "Russiagate" Hunter's Laptop dis-information, and Biden is fit as a fiddle. Americans and plenty of others are sick of your bs, but as hot and bs is all you have left for a fig-leaf, I get that you feel the need to drop by and project your anxiety. Going to be a long summer and fall - for you!
There were plenty of 'going along to get along' Republicans happy to keep classified what the DNI just set free. It will take a lot of time, but karma will eventually boomerang back to them as well.
Yes but the report knew about the offending evidence--in particular the ICA commissioned by Obama that was the 'smoking gun'. It subsequently endorsed the conclusions of this ICA.
So it must be part of the conspiracy, or else the story being told here is a whole lot of nothing. Is it?
Unfortunately, there are still many more specks of dust who rely on MSM for their version of "truth", and it matters not how badly they discredit themselves. All that publications like the Times have to do is dismiss stories like the Twitter Files and Russiagate as "overheated claims" or "distractions", or "eviscerated" or even "baseless allegations", and then substitute their own analysis for facts. Their painfully establishment, conformist readership will swallow it all without thinking, and present it to us 'conspiracy theorists' at the office, or over a family dinner as if it's gospel. At best we are only equals, each believing our own version of the facts. It's infuriating.
Yes, but Matt isn't really being truthful here--the truth, as established, isn't remotely supportive of what he is saying, much less the hysteria in MAGA-world.
Unless Trump, Bondi, Gabbard, etc., along with Matt, are disputing the truth of the Bipartisan Senate Commission's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election?
If they're not, then the truth is that there's not much to see here, and certainly nothing you can charge Obama and co. with in court.
Threefer - Sorry, I missed the same comment three times in a single thread. Is this normal for you; I mean repeating yourself, again, and again, and again? I get that you'd prefer not to discuss 2016 - but that's the period in question and the facts point in one direction - as you know too well. Playtime's over, I'm afraid.
No, you're not discussing events of 2016 - you're attempting to initiate a discussion of a report from a different year about events that occurred in the past, and you're failing.
You realize that everyone here can see through your bullshit, don't you? I really have no more time to waste with you, I'm afraid, but please continue.
The Bipartisan Senate Report is a report about "Russian interference in the *2016* election". In addition to what is presented in the ICA, the Committee spent two years poring through thousands of additional interviews, hundreds of additional documents, and advanced digital forensics to determine what interference occurred, if any, in 2016. It had Republicans present on the panel who could challenge evidence they found to be not credible, or claims they viewed as biased. It also had full subpoena power.
And, to retireate, *it endorsed the conclusions of the ICA that is supposed to constitute Obama's 'manufactured' intelligence*. Therefore to uphold Matt (and Gabbard, and Trump's) narrative you must be willing to claim that the Bipartisan Senate committee conspired with Obama and Co. to 'frame' Trump.
Yet Matt and the rest aren't willing to dispute the report's findings, or expand the conspiracy in this way. Which is what I mean when I say their current flogging of a 'Russiagate coverup that will bring down Obama and Hillary' is a whole lot of nothing.
You’re assuming the “Bi-partisan Senate Commision” is credible. The crux of the problem, the reason Trump got elected twice, is because there is low credibility in Washington. That’s how Obama got elected as well.
I too would like to understand why Durham who had access to this information was not able to conclude what Gabbard is now alleging. Explain it to me like I am in third grade?
Matt is such a talented writer and balanced thinker, but man he is wasting his time thinking he will get them to see the light.
All these institutions exist to prop each other up and try to create a veneer of legitimacy .
Unfortunately for them Covid came along and fully exposed them as propagandists and now they are really battling it out for a few midwits that still buy into their dogma.
To be fair, I don't think Matt really thinks that he's going to change any minds at either of those places. As always, you write to convince the readersalong who haven't solidified their views.
This was just a great way to get back at them using their own methods and standards.
Yeah, I doubt Matt has any delusions about getting them to admit to shoddy, biased reporting. But he has to call out the incompetence and inconsistency just to get it on record. History may look upon this moment as a lesson, and journalists like Matt need to document this.
As the saying goes, even a single drop of water endlessly dripping on a rock will eventually wear it away. It will be an epic battle between the truth and the frantic janitorial efforts of the NYT.
With respect, strongly disagree - this is the drip-drip-drip that Americans are clearly paying attention to. Why? COZ sharp as a tack MELTED DOWN before the entire world the same year the NYT and the MSM were claiming the opposite.
I applaud Matt for putting this all together so well. I knew most of it, but learned some new things here. It is important to document specifics on the disgrace that these, once lauded, publications, NY Times and others, have become. Sadly, the entrenched far left elites are still not interested in fully and plainly telling the truth. It does not align with the narratives they will not yet abandon. Oh, they do occasionally throw a small bone of truth out, but they quickly revert back to the narratives. Only constant public rebukes of their lies and omissions may someday force them to completely change course. I encourage everybody to keep this alive until they capitulate and change course.
People who read the times remind me of people who say my Mercedes, Lamborghini etc. Or my Louie, Rolex ….i always giggle when I hear my friends, yes and I love them, make these references. Isn’t it just a car? A watch?
Well, it’s in the public record, which I think is Matt’s point. Perhaps in 50 years the people that refuse to listen will look back on this and say ‘some people, like Matt, knew
One thing you will never see in response to Matt's letter or otherwise, is a point-by-point rebuttal of Matt's contentions (such a rebuttal does not and will not exist). In a courtroom starring Comey, Brennan, and Clapper, who would only testify in exchange for leniency, Matt's contentions may receive a public airing. I'm giving 100 to 8 odds that precisely this will happen (that's a little over 12 to 1 for those in Rio Linda).
Yes, there will never be a point-by-point rebuttal. Their tactics: Avoid facts, resort to hand-waving and phrases which incorporate feelings, thoughts, impressions, etc.; anything to avoid facts. Facts, you know, can be refuted or confirmed with evidence: they can’t have that happening, can they?
And testifying in exchange for leniency? Word weasels must have their written testimony vetted prior to verbal allocution for the record . . . and they must be held strictly to facts. Otherwise, they will revert to the language of innuendo and deceit and misdirection.
Matt knows he's not going to change the minds of the lying liars that lie. He also knows he's not going make headway with NYT acolytes. He is just doing whatever he can to get the truth out.
In my opinion, Matt writes not to get the NYT et al. to see the light, but in hopes that the average American will start to see the light (or at least be aware that light is shining through the crack). It is evident that the NYT et al. already "see" the light, but since the light doesn't serve the desired agenda (and also due to their complicity), they will stick with the darkness and lies and battle this out.
Matt, Mr. Gerth, and Miranda Devine, are long distance runners who know this is not a sprint, but a marathon. That 69% who want to know the truth is an ominous number if you're John Brennan.
Every damn hoax in our country goes one way. Please name one hoax of substantial national concern that has been concocted by the right. The list of hoaxes on the left is long and continues to grow.
Let's now turn our attention to Washington DC courts. Bondi has referred the case to DOJ and a grand jury. If grand juries can indict a ham sandwich, this case should be easy. So finally we'll get trials. But DC courts have become a black hole for any semblance of justice. Even with Jeanine Pirro and Emil Bove on the watch, what are the chances the miscreants will face conviction?
What percentage of DC jurors will even know the names Matt Taibbi, Jeff Gerth, and Miranda Devine?
I've been hearing/seeing speculation on this all day, and some are saying the case could be brought in Florida, due to the Mar a Lago connection, while others say it could be brought virtually anywhere in the US. I don't know for sure, but if it goes to a DC court, it will surely die.
Since it's Matt, I assume they're going to read it, and then be forced to go through the effort of further rationalizing their version of truth. In doing so maybe, just maybe, a tiny crack of light will be let inside their world of darkness.
They will be made to experience shame, or at least its consequences. They may never admit it but the long dark nights of their souls are coming for every one.
They will feel no shame, but will have our everlasting contempt which will roll off them like water off a duck’s back. You can’t change pure evil, and in their heart of hearts (if they have one) they will consider themselves persecuted and righteous. Still, give them no quarter.
Exactly. There is no Russiagate without the amplification of the media.
But even on Dec 9th, the NYT should have been suspicious of this story. They ran a piece at 1:30 saying "Obama asks for new assessment," and roughly 12 hours later they ran "New CIA assessment says Russia helping Trump."
The CIA spun up an entire new report in 12 hours? REALLY?
But this was the narrative, so that's what they went with, even knowing it was almost certainly a lie.
These people (Obama, NYT) are such morale purist, I think they thought b/c Trump said he wanted a good relationship with Trump there MUST be some connection, they just needed time and money to find it!
Can they really gaslight all the way to hell? Sure seems like it. These people make "Baghdad Bob" look like an objective truth teller. Sweet Jesus these people are contemptible.
Matt should send a copy to the senior year journalism students at Columbia to review. Post the articles on the virtual message board for the school and around the campus. And the leader at the top, in huge font? JOURNALISM IS DEAD.
A journalism "degree" is now DEAD, but journalists (writers who want to present the public with the truth of events) has a new frontier via the internet, and things are changing rapidly as more and more people tune in to the alternative media platforms and MSM collapses.
J-school has always been useless and has directly contributed to the abandonment of working-class reporters who actually went out and cultivated contacts among the establishment in person in favor of affluent dickheads whose "legwork" consists of endlessly surfing the interwebs and cultivating contacts from daddy's business and government connections.
Thank God for the rise of independents, as the so-called "papers of record" implode.
I wouldn't say always. I graduated from J School in 1976, was the first person in my family to attend college and grew up in a working-class family. Many of my fellow students were also from working-class families. But in that era, college wasn't just for the wealthy. And most of the faculty were also from modest backgrounds and had previously worked for medium-sized news organizations. We were given tools to learn how to gather information, write well, and dig deeper into sources. The problem presented to the avid young journalist then was going to work for a news org that was run by the establishment who didn't want to make waves, so stories were pitched and writers learned the parameters they could function in. I along with some other disenchanted J-School grads started an alternative community newspaper, and if we'd had the internet, would have been podcasters on Rumble or elsewhere. Today, my old J-School no longer has a major called News and Editorial Writing. There's no longer a course called Investigative Reporting. Instead, students major in Corporate Communications!
Thanks for correcting my hot-take over-generalization. I suppose the degradation of journalism schools is part of the general degradation of US higher ed.
On a sort of related note, I took a course in forest ecology back in 1978 when ecology was a fairly new discipline incorporating animal biology, botany, biochemistry, and forest management. Now "multidisciplinary" has come to mean something entirely different than hybrid disciplines like biophysics, astrophysics, biochemistry, etc.
Yea, but at least Matt pulls back the curtain for the rest of us to see how hypocritical & pompous these ppl are. And perhaps some day, conscience & shame will re-enter society as a virtue to be upheld.
I don't know how it's actually staying afloat. Tho' I must admit, I don't give it a picosecond (I just learned that's a trillionth of a second) of thought.
Wow. Since light travels a bit less than 300 micrometers in a picosecond, and you care less than 1 picosecond, you actually care more than the speed of light (from this perspective).
I would disagree. The very fact they felt compelled to defend themselves shows they are on their back heels. Their reputations were already in the gutter for a large portion of Americans, and forcing them to defend the indefensible will only further this -- increasing the costs of their partisanship until they either clean up their act, or fade away into the fringes of discourse.
I don't know if it has been pointed out, but supposing the Russians did have, say, Hillary's compromising emails, it does not follow that they wanted Trump to win. If Trump were to win, the dirt is useless. If Hillary wins, the dirt is priceless.
I thought the head coach of the Detroit Lions had giant balls. But forget about a wheelbarrow, with these people. You need a pit mine dump truck to handle em
Not mentioned but important is that the Columbia Journalism Review is hardly an unbiased arbiter in this instance. The Columbia School of Journalism is hand-in-glove with the Pulitzer Committee, so they have every reason to prevaricate on this story.
We have to take what Matt gives us to work with and apply it so it is not in vain. (It's not)
I think it's incumbent to all of us to try and fill that void. Constant propaganda makes that job feel like pushing a rope uphill. Some of my family and acquaintances displaying cognitive dissonance have to be spoon fed. I finally convinced my own mother by asking her if she appreciated that this group of people who don't want us to be able to choose our leaders have hijacked your party. I ask her when the last time she was certain that the candidate was actually chosen by the people. Her response was that she never liked certain people in her own party. It's a small step but it's breaking the ice and in the right direction. Word of mouth is still important and encouraging people to employ critical thought is very important because critical thought is always the target of propaganda. Matt and Walter talked about the effectiveness of the two step hop in the FISA warrants. I assure you everyone on my mom's senior bowling team will be having a slightly different discussion than they would have had if I didn't ask my mom to put her thinking cap back on. (Everyone knows the bowling alley has thin walls.) ;) I knew she had one. She just needed to dust it off and put it back on. Another point is they try to discredit real journalists for a reason just like they are rewarding bad journalists for a reason. They need a compliant press or none of it works.
I just think reality has a nasty way of inserting itself into the conversation and am eagerly awaiting the show. I will be mad as hell if there are no consequences for this, because it means there will be no consequences for any of it.
I am cautiously optimistic. But what consequences will be enough to compensate for the harm done to General Flynn, Carter Page, Peter Navarro, etc., etc., ad infinitum? That's the source of my anger. After all, Trump is the victor. Or is he?
There are two facets of consequences: retribution or recompense, aka vengeance for past sins, and terrifying everyone else into behaving better in the future. Neither goal is ever perfectly met, but more of both would be a healthier direction.
There have already been consequences. Trump won. Border secured. Deportations begun. Embarrassing materials de-classified. Investigations begun. Deep state lawyering up. Economy stabilized. Two steps back from world war. USAID money cut off. Idiotic protests quieted. EU brought to heel. NYT rationalizing its ass off. None of this is going away overnight.
Columbia, Pulitzer, and NYT are the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public. The Pulitzer Prize committee is full of demoralized commissars who relish the circle jerks of mainstream media: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/pulitzer-prize-committee-propaganda-commissars
At some point, is Matt just dignifying this human centipede by rebutting it at length with the logic and evidence to which it is allergic? If I were him, I would shift gears into mockery and scorn and satirization. That’s where Matt shines most anyway.
Hasn’t he talked in ATW and elsewhere about how his favorite Russian short story is a Gogol or something about two incompetent bureaucrats trying and failing to live independently on an island? He just needs to take up this theme and just laugh at these emperors with no clothes in the legacy media, rather than keep taking them seriously.
"the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public"
If I had not seen what the reference was, I would have guessed that you were referring to our universities, school officials, teachers' unions, academic associations & journals, and professional regulating bodies. Pupils and students are all grist for the corruption that their 'guides' impose on them.
You know, it just reminded me of a dear friend hired by a prestigious law firm. He was the only one that didn’t have an Ivy degree plastered on his wall. He said he never felt he belonged, constantly felt less than, but boy did he shine and run circles. It had a familiar ring..like when I started on Wall Street in the 70s as a young woman before DEI. I didn’t mind (sort of) that I was clearly outnumbered . It just made me work harder, loved the challenge. I can understand Matt’s rebuttal and I’m glad he stated it so articulately. He’s 💯 right and he confidently knows it!
You will never know how grateful I am for this and for every other story that truly makes journalism as it was always meant to be, a work of art mixed with American sweat and dirt. The actual work seems extremely tedious and difficult. All who care to know will have a record to dispute the narrative and if it takes 50 years, it won't matter what they write now. The truth will out. I have been printing all of these stories out, putting them in plastic, and adding them to the collection of important things to know to pass down to my sons and my nieces and nephews. I refuse to let these spineless snakes write the only version because that version is a lie.
I’ve said for years I’d pay for a nicely edited print copy of Matt’s best Substack pieces. Emphasis on the hard reporting on Russiagate of course, but don’t forget pieces like his epic and hilarious takedown of Robin DiAngelo that kept his readers sane in 2020.
Make no mistake I love Matt's writing. However, this piece shows why I think Matt is a treasure. It's old school beat reporting. As time passes a good beat reporter gets better for a simple reason - experience with the topic. Ins, outs, systems, orgs, players, context, where the saints reside, where the bodies are buried, whatever you want to call it. That doggedness along with a gift for writing (IMO) and a devotion to objectivity and truth, is what created this piece. Matt has a few beats. When he reports on one I listen. And yeah, sometimes his writing is funny as hell.
It’s exhausting, annoying and frustrating as hell but a constant and insistent drum beat of “no, you lied and were wrong and no amount journalistic gymnastics can distract from that fact” is required as many times as necessary until the Grey Lady drains their swamp.
They're handicapped due to their own insulated incompetence following a 40 year plus run being the authority on everything while slurping up USAID money.
Fat and now bloated and unable to even roll itself back over.
Thank you, Matt, for staying on this story and correcting their lies with the truth. Please don’t let up. One thing I especially appreciate here is the measured and factual response to the ”it’s Epstein distraction!” attempts to distract. It seems progressives *always* do what they accuse others of doing!
These people circle the wagons and lie, lie, lie. The only hope for truth is that the traditional media sources get obliterated because people see through their lies, and we have new media sources who actually are interested in and willing to tell the truth. Like yourself.
They are not only circling the wagons, but digging 6’ x 3’ ditches behind those wheels to duck and cover, while picking off as many attackers as possible. The Old West is alive and kicking today. Giddy up!
I've said it before, I'll say it again, "Go Matt Go!" As mind numbing as this stupidity is, I mean consider the source(s), keep it coming until we all have it by memory.
It is horrific this could have happened in America; but it did and we gotta face it and deal with it.
Matt literally screaming into the void here, I love it. God knows they deserve it. But they're lying on purpose and aren't going to be swayed by silly things like logic and facts.
No, not at all. You, me and everyone reading this are not the void. Even we specks of dust can reflect the truth.
Update: Miranda Devine (as usual) is all over the Americans "closely" following Russiagate news. . https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/opinion/miranda-devine-russiagate-lies-are-being-exposed-and-everybody-is-watching-even-the-dems/
69 percent of Americans want to know more about the origins of Russiagate.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/69_agree_russiagate_requires_accountability
Americans are not as dumb and incurious as HRC and the rest of the crooks are counting on. Once the indictments drop the NYT is going to have some explaining to do.
The NYT timeline of events has been destroyed with HRC's plot to tie Russia to Trump - this was Obama's AG Lynch, Obama's FBI Director Comey, Obama's CIA Director Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Powers, Biden and their willing allies in the MSM working together to get HRC over the finish line on a fiction - and doubling down on the fiction to avoid getting busted. Pretty simple story to tell, can't wait for the NYT to get roasted.
Walter's right about the parallel spaceship the NYT readers find themselves on.
The NYT's problem isn't just Russiagate. Explain Biden's melt-down live while the NYT et al were telling the world Joe was as sharp as a tack. Columbia should investigate the fact pattern of errors at the NYT all running in the same direction - in other words a willful, years-long, effort to intentionally mislead NYT readers and the world. The cat's out of the bag - NYT now equals full of shit - why, how, for what reason? Twould make for a good story, no?
That 69% is close to the mirror image of the 35% that say they still support the Dems.
Take a look at at their board. Woke City. Desperate attempt to remain relevant with woke subscribers.
The last thing the board should be worrying about is “woke” or any radical ideologues. They had a chance with Jeff Gerth. They buried it and now they will be on the right side of treason and sedition which if memory serves is not the right side history.
A truth/fact based solutions oriented American national conversation capable of building the healthy human truth/fact based reality and the prosperous future We the People deserve--and must demand--in order to replace the amoral psyop distortion of human reality making the free citizens of our Republic ill. Like Covid--it is a disease, A free people cannot live inside a lie and prosper. It is time to accept that free peoples everywhere are under assault. (How is it that the American Republic still has diplomatic relations with Starmer's England?) There is the Republic, the Constitution and the free citizen. Everything else is pretense and psyop.
Not sure that Covid was the disease you think it was. Replace Covid with syphilis and you may be right. But maybe you were using Covid as an example of a lie?
Covid can be both "a disease" and "an example of a lie"..
USAID NGO's have been funding a lot of the shenanigans that have helped destroy England.. over the last 15 to 20 years.. our tax dollars literally being used to promote Marxism abroad and assist in the alien invasion of France, Germany, England,etc etc..
Kash Patel is about to rip it wide open... can't wait
If you haven't--N.S. Lyons/THE CHINA CONVERGENCE or any of his lectures or interviews on YouTube. Michael Shellenberger and a few others are beginning to pick up some of his talking points.
I hope you are right. I wish we could whittle that 35% down some more, but it seems there's always a hard core who, like the perpetual mask-wearers, are unable to let go of thier version of reality.
May I say that your feet are facing forward and it appears that you are wearing ski boots on a snowboard, likely step in ? Is this real and what have I missed?
Comer Drops the Hammer - The House Oversight Committee is compelling the following individuals to appear for depositions through issued subpoenas: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9; Former President Bill Clinton: October 14; Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland; and others... https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1952729381983408550
Again, the lulz--why weren't Marco Rubio, Susan Collins, James Lankford, Tom Cotton, and John Cornyn subpoenaed? (the people who wrote this: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/publications-report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures/)
Anybody?
Buehler?
Same dunce-cap twice in the same comments thread. Excellent! You realize you're draping yourself in a "call me stupid" sign? Perhaps, not.
Go for the threefer!
Alright then, here's the third 'call me stupid' signs I'm laying 'round your neck, coming right up. Turns out the subpoenas above are for the Epstein files.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5436585-oversight-panel-subpoenas-doj/
And I'll note as well that not a single one of your comments has ever bothered to refute any of the claims made in mine.
Because you can't.
:)
"The NYT timeline of events has been destroyed with HRC's plot to tie Russia to Trump"
If you don't dispute the Senate' Bipartisan Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, which concurred with the offending ICA commissioned by Obama, then the plot would technically need to also include Marco Rubio and all the Republicans on that panel, and all of the additional evidence it provided would need to have been 'manufactured'.
Has anyone claimed, or given evidence, that the conclusions of that report were "manufactured" as part of a "conspiracy to tie Russia to Trump"? To my knowledge, no one has. And certainly Matt hasn't mentioned it. And until then this is all a lot of hot air.
In a word: bullshit! Thanks, though! Please no time-wasting follow-ups. I expect we'll see a new flood of "But what about" attempted deflections.
The Senate Bipartisan report was constructed well after the alleged offenses occurred.
As for "hot air" that's all you and your ilk have served up for the last decade - whether it's "Russiagate" Hunter's Laptop dis-information, and Biden is fit as a fiddle. Americans and plenty of others are sick of your bs, but as hot and bs is all you have left for a fig-leaf, I get that you feel the need to drop by and project your anxiety. Going to be a long summer and fall - for you!
Enjoy!
There were plenty of 'going along to get along' Republicans happy to keep classified what the DNI just set free. It will take a lot of time, but karma will eventually boomerang back to them as well.
Yes but the report knew about the offending evidence--in particular the ICA commissioned by Obama that was the 'smoking gun'. It subsequently endorsed the conclusions of this ICA.
So it must be part of the conspiracy, or else the story being told here is a whole lot of nothing. Is it?
Buehler?
Wrong on the facts, again. This is our last, I'm afraid, but feel free to spew.
The report you referenced did not have the evidence revealed in the last month.
Please deal with the reality that your world view has been fed to you by corrupt liars. The facts require you to drop the self-righteousness.
Unfortunately, there are still many more specks of dust who rely on MSM for their version of "truth", and it matters not how badly they discredit themselves. All that publications like the Times have to do is dismiss stories like the Twitter Files and Russiagate as "overheated claims" or "distractions", or "eviscerated" or even "baseless allegations", and then substitute their own analysis for facts. Their painfully establishment, conformist readership will swallow it all without thinking, and present it to us 'conspiracy theorists' at the office, or over a family dinner as if it's gospel. At best we are only equals, each believing our own version of the facts. It's infuriating.
Yes, but Matt isn't really being truthful here--the truth, as established, isn't remotely supportive of what he is saying, much less the hysteria in MAGA-world.
Unless Trump, Bondi, Gabbard, etc., along with Matt, are disputing the truth of the Bipartisan Senate Commission's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election?
If they're not, then the truth is that there's not much to see here, and certainly nothing you can charge Obama and co. with in court.
Threefer - Sorry, I missed the same comment three times in a single thread. Is this normal for you; I mean repeating yourself, again, and again, and again? I get that you'd prefer not to discuss 2016 - but that's the period in question and the facts point in one direction - as you know too well. Playtime's over, I'm afraid.
I *am* discussing 2016. The Senate's report was the result of a multi-year investigation *into the 2016 election*.
Do try to keep up.
No, you're not discussing events of 2016 - you're attempting to initiate a discussion of a report from a different year about events that occurred in the past, and you're failing.
You realize that everyone here can see through your bullshit, don't you? I really have no more time to waste with you, I'm afraid, but please continue.
Yeah, so you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Educate yourself: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/publications-report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures/
The Bipartisan Senate Report is a report about "Russian interference in the *2016* election". In addition to what is presented in the ICA, the Committee spent two years poring through thousands of additional interviews, hundreds of additional documents, and advanced digital forensics to determine what interference occurred, if any, in 2016. It had Republicans present on the panel who could challenge evidence they found to be not credible, or claims they viewed as biased. It also had full subpoena power.
And, to retireate, *it endorsed the conclusions of the ICA that is supposed to constitute Obama's 'manufactured' intelligence*. Therefore to uphold Matt (and Gabbard, and Trump's) narrative you must be willing to claim that the Bipartisan Senate committee conspired with Obama and Co. to 'frame' Trump.
Yet Matt and the rest aren't willing to dispute the report's findings, or expand the conspiracy in this way. Which is what I mean when I say their current flogging of a 'Russiagate coverup that will bring down Obama and Hillary' is a whole lot of nothing.
We'd love to see your credible sources that outline the specific falsehoods in Matt's article.
You know, the ones you have but didn't feel necessary to share along with your flimsy-as-fuck hysterical spam.
Get a life.
You’re assuming the “Bi-partisan Senate Commision” is credible. The crux of the problem, the reason Trump got elected twice, is because there is low credibility in Washington. That’s how Obama got elected as well.
I too would like to understand why Durham who had access to this information was not able to conclude what Gabbard is now alleging. Explain it to me like I am in third grade?
Matt is such a talented writer and balanced thinker, but man he is wasting his time thinking he will get them to see the light.
All these institutions exist to prop each other up and try to create a veneer of legitimacy .
Unfortunately for them Covid came along and fully exposed them as propagandists and now they are really battling it out for a few midwits that still buy into their dogma.
To be fair, I don't think Matt really thinks that he's going to change any minds at either of those places. As always, you write to convince the readersalong who haven't solidified their views.
This was just a great way to get back at them using their own methods and standards.
Yeah, I doubt Matt has any delusions about getting them to admit to shoddy, biased reporting. But he has to call out the incompetence and inconsistency just to get it on record. History may look upon this moment as a lesson, and journalists like Matt need to document this.
If only Matt were the dean of journalism at Columbia. Is there such a thing?
There's probably a whole "office of the dean" or some shit with at least 15 layers of management within it including its own DEI dept.
Sort of like, “the Presidency isn’t just one man…”or some such nonsense spouted by Raggedy Ann Jann-Pierre.
Of course not. How could there be? There's no such thing as journalism at Columbia.
Yes. Documentation matters.
As the saying goes, even a single drop of water endlessly dripping on a rock will eventually wear it away. It will be an epic battle between the truth and the frantic janitorial efforts of the NYT.
With respect, strongly disagree - this is the drip-drip-drip that Americans are clearly paying attention to. Why? COZ sharp as a tack MELTED DOWN before the entire world the same year the NYT and the MSM were claiming the opposite.
The only folks not willing to believe Matt at this point are those invested in the crime, which isn't most of America. https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/69_agree_russiagate_requires_accountability
I applaud Matt for putting this all together so well. I knew most of it, but learned some new things here. It is important to document specifics on the disgrace that these, once lauded, publications, NY Times and others, have become. Sadly, the entrenched far left elites are still not interested in fully and plainly telling the truth. It does not align with the narratives they will not yet abandon. Oh, they do occasionally throw a small bone of truth out, but they quickly revert back to the narratives. Only constant public rebukes of their lies and omissions may someday force them to completely change course. I encourage everybody to keep this alive until they capitulate and change course.
People who read the times remind me of people who say my Mercedes, Lamborghini etc. Or my Louie, Rolex ….i always giggle when I hear my friends, yes and I love them, make these references. Isn’t it just a car? A watch?
Well, it’s in the public record, which I think is Matt’s point. Perhaps in 50 years the people that refuse to listen will look back on this and say ‘some people, like Matt, knew
Matt is memorializing this, not trying to change minds. I thank him for the effort.
Exactly!
One thing you will never see in response to Matt's letter or otherwise, is a point-by-point rebuttal of Matt's contentions (such a rebuttal does not and will not exist). In a courtroom starring Comey, Brennan, and Clapper, who would only testify in exchange for leniency, Matt's contentions may receive a public airing. I'm giving 100 to 8 odds that precisely this will happen (that's a little over 12 to 1 for those in Rio Linda).
Yes, there will never be a point-by-point rebuttal. Their tactics: Avoid facts, resort to hand-waving and phrases which incorporate feelings, thoughts, impressions, etc.; anything to avoid facts. Facts, you know, can be refuted or confirmed with evidence: they can’t have that happening, can they?
And testifying in exchange for leniency? Word weasels must have their written testimony vetted prior to verbal allocution for the record . . . and they must be held strictly to facts. Otherwise, they will revert to the language of innuendo and deceit and misdirection.
Matt knows he's not going to change the minds of the lying liars that lie. He also knows he's not going make headway with NYT acolytes. He is just doing whatever he can to get the truth out.
In my opinion, Matt writes not to get the NYT et al. to see the light, but in hopes that the average American will start to see the light (or at least be aware that light is shining through the crack). It is evident that the NYT et al. already "see" the light, but since the light doesn't serve the desired agenda (and also due to their complicity), they will stick with the darkness and lies and battle this out.
The “average American” isn’t reading Matt Taibbi. The average American isn’t reading period.
Well said
Matt, Mr. Gerth, and Miranda Devine, are long distance runners who know this is not a sprint, but a marathon. That 69% who want to know the truth is an ominous number if you're John Brennan.
Every damn hoax in our country goes one way. Please name one hoax of substantial national concern that has been concocted by the right. The list of hoaxes on the left is long and continues to grow.
Let's now turn our attention to Washington DC courts. Bondi has referred the case to DOJ and a grand jury. If grand juries can indict a ham sandwich, this case should be easy. So finally we'll get trials. But DC courts have become a black hole for any semblance of justice. Even with Jeanine Pirro and Emil Bove on the watch, what are the chances the miscreants will face conviction?
What percentage of DC jurors will even know the names Matt Taibbi, Jeff Gerth, and Miranda Devine?
Do not put too many chips in this pot. A grand jury choosing and empaneling can easily take a year or considerably more.
But it doesn't have to go to a DC court.
Is this true? Can someone confirm?
I've been hearing/seeing speculation on this all day, and some are saying the case could be brought in Florida, due to the Mar a Lago connection, while others say it could be brought virtually anywhere in the US. I don't know for sure, but if it goes to a DC court, it will surely die.
Since it's Matt, I assume they're going to read it, and then be forced to go through the effort of further rationalizing their version of truth. In doing so maybe, just maybe, a tiny crack of light will be let inside their world of darkness.
May MT "Live long and prosper"!
They will be made to experience shame, or at least its consequences. They may never admit it but the long dark nights of their souls are coming for every one.
You can’t shame the shameless.
Sorry, I can't like this one thousand times
"Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. "
They will feel no shame, but will have our everlasting contempt which will roll off them like water off a duck’s back. You can’t change pure evil, and in their heart of hearts (if they have one) they will consider themselves persecuted and righteous. Still, give them no quarter.
But at least you can make it more difficult for them to rationalize their bullshit.
And I'll love every minute of it.
I don't care if they ever admit it, as long as they're still staring at their stainless steel sink/commode in 2050.
Where they brush their teeth and shit in the same place. Ya know like Alligator Alcatraz.
You are assuming those people actually have souls?
Were born with. Perhaps not recognizable now, but "it is appointed unto men once to die; and after this, the judgment".
They can only continue to lie. There's no other way for them.
But we know.
They know we know.
We know they know we know.
You don't hate the media enough - you think you do, but you don't. https://x.com/Evans_Wroten
Exactly. There is no Russiagate without the amplification of the media.
But even on Dec 9th, the NYT should have been suspicious of this story. They ran a piece at 1:30 saying "Obama asks for new assessment," and roughly 12 hours later they ran "New CIA assessment says Russia helping Trump."
The CIA spun up an entire new report in 12 hours? REALLY?
But this was the narrative, so that's what they went with, even knowing it was almost certainly a lie.
Word
These people (Obama, NYT) are such morale purist, I think they thought b/c Trump said he wanted a good relationship with Trump there MUST be some connection, they just needed time and money to find it!
Can they really gaslight all the way to hell? Sure seems like it. These people make "Baghdad Bob" look like an objective truth teller. Sweet Jesus these people are contemptible.
A re-read of Dante's "Inferno" is entirely appropriate here.
They can try, but every day they lose more and more viewers.
Matt should send a copy to the senior year journalism students at Columbia to review. Post the articles on the virtual message board for the school and around the campus. And the leader at the top, in huge font? JOURNALISM IS DEAD.
A journalism "degree" is now DEAD, but journalists (writers who want to present the public with the truth of events) has a new frontier via the internet, and things are changing rapidly as more and more people tune in to the alternative media platforms and MSM collapses.
J-school has always been useless and has directly contributed to the abandonment of working-class reporters who actually went out and cultivated contacts among the establishment in person in favor of affluent dickheads whose "legwork" consists of endlessly surfing the interwebs and cultivating contacts from daddy's business and government connections.
Thank God for the rise of independents, as the so-called "papers of record" implode.
I wouldn't say always. I graduated from J School in 1976, was the first person in my family to attend college and grew up in a working-class family. Many of my fellow students were also from working-class families. But in that era, college wasn't just for the wealthy. And most of the faculty were also from modest backgrounds and had previously worked for medium-sized news organizations. We were given tools to learn how to gather information, write well, and dig deeper into sources. The problem presented to the avid young journalist then was going to work for a news org that was run by the establishment who didn't want to make waves, so stories were pitched and writers learned the parameters they could function in. I along with some other disenchanted J-School grads started an alternative community newspaper, and if we'd had the internet, would have been podcasters on Rumble or elsewhere. Today, my old J-School no longer has a major called News and Editorial Writing. There's no longer a course called Investigative Reporting. Instead, students major in Corporate Communications!
Thanks for correcting my hot-take over-generalization. I suppose the degradation of journalism schools is part of the general degradation of US higher ed.
On a sort of related note, I took a course in forest ecology back in 1978 when ecology was a fairly new discipline incorporating animal biology, botany, biochemistry, and forest management. Now "multidisciplinary" has come to mean something entirely different than hybrid disciplines like biophysics, astrophysics, biochemistry, etc.
Perfect opportunity for Peterson Academy to hire Matt to train aspiring writers with more old school methods.
Yea, but at least Matt pulls back the curtain for the rest of us to see how hypocritical & pompous these ppl are. And perhaps some day, conscience & shame will re-enter society as a virtue to be upheld.
Oh for sure, it's a vital service he's doing for the rest of us. But the NYT sort of has to go down -- and it should.
I don't know how it's actually staying afloat. Tho' I must admit, I don't give it a picosecond (I just learned that's a trillionth of a second) of thought.
Wow. Since light travels a bit less than 300 micrometers in a picosecond, and you care less than 1 picosecond, you actually care more than the speed of light (from this perspective).
Well, Norica, if you're gonna go all science-cy 😉 on me I'm gonna have to defer to your greater knowledge. I had to look up what a picosecond WAS. 😳
Bet they're going to miss that USAID money.
Matt and Walter.
I would disagree. The very fact they felt compelled to defend themselves shows they are on their back heels. Their reputations were already in the gutter for a large portion of Americans, and forcing them to defend the indefensible will only further this -- increasing the costs of their partisanship until they either clean up their act, or fade away into the fringes of discourse.
I don't know if it has been pointed out, but supposing the Russians did have, say, Hillary's compromising emails, it does not follow that they wanted Trump to win. If Trump were to win, the dirt is useless. If Hillary wins, the dirt is priceless.
Oh, you wonderful logical person. They don’t let facts and logic get in the way! What would they have to ‘spin’ if they did.
Why thank you! Tough spinning ahead, methinks.
I thought the head coach of the Detroit Lions had giant balls. But forget about a wheelbarrow, with these people. You need a pit mine dump truck to handle em
Or, possibly, they're retards.
Agree. There is no incentive for them to acknowledge their misdeeds. They will ride this out with lies. This is armwrestling. Don't flinch!
Not mentioned but important is that the Columbia Journalism Review is hardly an unbiased arbiter in this instance. The Columbia School of Journalism is hand-in-glove with the Pulitzer Committee, so they have every reason to prevaricate on this story.
We have to take what Matt gives us to work with and apply it so it is not in vain. (It's not)
I think it's incumbent to all of us to try and fill that void. Constant propaganda makes that job feel like pushing a rope uphill. Some of my family and acquaintances displaying cognitive dissonance have to be spoon fed. I finally convinced my own mother by asking her if she appreciated that this group of people who don't want us to be able to choose our leaders have hijacked your party. I ask her when the last time she was certain that the candidate was actually chosen by the people. Her response was that she never liked certain people in her own party. It's a small step but it's breaking the ice and in the right direction. Word of mouth is still important and encouraging people to employ critical thought is very important because critical thought is always the target of propaganda. Matt and Walter talked about the effectiveness of the two step hop in the FISA warrants. I assure you everyone on my mom's senior bowling team will be having a slightly different discussion than they would have had if I didn't ask my mom to put her thinking cap back on. (Everyone knows the bowling alley has thin walls.) ;) I knew she had one. She just needed to dust it off and put it back on. Another point is they try to discredit real journalists for a reason just like they are rewarding bad journalists for a reason. They need a compliant press or none of it works.
My immediate reaction to this remarkable piece, in brief was: “Screams Without Words” “
You're polite. I'm mad as hell. I call Matt's brilliant letter "p*ssing into the wind". Your third sentence says it all.
I just think reality has a nasty way of inserting itself into the conversation and am eagerly awaiting the show. I will be mad as hell if there are no consequences for this, because it means there will be no consequences for any of it.
I am cautiously optimistic. But what consequences will be enough to compensate for the harm done to General Flynn, Carter Page, Peter Navarro, etc., etc., ad infinitum? That's the source of my anger. After all, Trump is the victor. Or is he?
There are two facets of consequences: retribution or recompense, aka vengeance for past sins, and terrifying everyone else into behaving better in the future. Neither goal is ever perfectly met, but more of both would be a healthier direction.
Much healthier.
There have already been consequences. Trump won. Border secured. Deportations begun. Embarrassing materials de-classified. Investigations begun. Deep state lawyering up. Economy stabilized. Two steps back from world war. USAID money cut off. Idiotic protests quieted. EU brought to heel. NYT rationalizing its ass off. None of this is going away overnight.
Columbia, Pulitzer, and NYT are the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public. The Pulitzer Prize committee is full of demoralized commissars who relish the circle jerks of mainstream media: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/pulitzer-prize-committee-propaganda-commissars
At some point, is Matt just dignifying this human centipede by rebutting it at length with the logic and evidence to which it is allergic? If I were him, I would shift gears into mockery and scorn and satirization. That’s where Matt shines most anyway.
Hasn’t he talked in ATW and elsewhere about how his favorite Russian short story is a Gogol or something about two incompetent bureaucrats trying and failing to live independently on an island? He just needs to take up this theme and just laugh at these emperors with no clothes in the legacy media, rather than keep taking them seriously.
It's what we call "casting our pearls before swine."
As a j-school grad, I'm glad Matt is clarifying the difference between truthful journalism and propaganda.
"the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public"
If I had not seen what the reference was, I would have guessed that you were referring to our universities, school officials, teachers' unions, academic associations & journals, and professional regulating bodies. Pupils and students are all grist for the corruption that their 'guides' impose on them.
You know, it just reminded me of a dear friend hired by a prestigious law firm. He was the only one that didn’t have an Ivy degree plastered on his wall. He said he never felt he belonged, constantly felt less than, but boy did he shine and run circles. It had a familiar ring..like when I started on Wall Street in the 70s as a young woman before DEI. I didn’t mind (sort of) that I was clearly outnumbered . It just made me work harder, loved the challenge. I can understand Matt’s rebuttal and I’m glad he stated it so articulately. He’s 💯 right and he confidently knows it!
Yep, human centipede circle jerks. Whole lotta Somethin goin on -- and it sure ain't pretty...
Not a delightful image, but an apt description.
You have an amazing way with words. Bravo!
Using cuttlefish, not vanilla paste.
Read "The press versus the president" parts 1-4, by Jeff Gerth in the Columbia Journalism Review, 30 Jan 23:
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.php
Matt, let us see Medina’s rendition of the Human Media Centipede!!
You will never know how grateful I am for this and for every other story that truly makes journalism as it was always meant to be, a work of art mixed with American sweat and dirt. The actual work seems extremely tedious and difficult. All who care to know will have a record to dispute the narrative and if it takes 50 years, it won't matter what they write now. The truth will out. I have been printing all of these stories out, putting them in plastic, and adding them to the collection of important things to know to pass down to my sons and my nieces and nephews. I refuse to let these spineless snakes write the only version because that version is a lie.
I’ve said for years I’d pay for a nicely edited print copy of Matt’s best Substack pieces. Emphasis on the hard reporting on Russiagate of course, but don’t forget pieces like his epic and hilarious takedown of Robin DiAngelo that kept his readers sane in 2020.
Make no mistake I love Matt's writing. However, this piece shows why I think Matt is a treasure. It's old school beat reporting. As time passes a good beat reporter gets better for a simple reason - experience with the topic. Ins, outs, systems, orgs, players, context, where the saints reside, where the bodies are buried, whatever you want to call it. That doggedness along with a gift for writing (IMO) and a devotion to objectivity and truth, is what created this piece. Matt has a few beats. When he reports on one I listen. And yeah, sometimes his writing is funny as hell.
I liked when he chronicled Kathryn Maher’s joyless holidays
Brava, Brandy, well said!
Thank you 😊
Well said and although I rarely print anything, I think I'll do the same.
Same. I had to do an hour's work to get the printer working. 🤣
Bravo!
I’ve noticed more TV journalists and podcasters are quoting you on this huge story
We need you
It’s exhausting, annoying and frustrating as hell but a constant and insistent drum beat of “no, you lied and were wrong and no amount journalistic gymnastics can distract from that fact” is required as many times as necessary until the Grey Lady drains their swamp.
agree
Matt so overmatches the NYT
Good point, Mike. NYT can line up every asset they have in a row, and they still won't extend beyond Matt's shadow! Pulitzer my ass.....
They're handicapped by being a large institution.
They're handicapped due to their own insulated incompetence following a 40 year plus run being the authority on everything while slurping up USAID money.
Fat and now bloated and unable to even roll itself back over.
Like a tick.
Fabulous article, Matt. You lay it all out in meticulous fashion. You are a real journalist.
YES MATT!
Just the use of the word “messy” in an alleged news story? What editor would let that happen? It is all POV now, and their POV is being exposed.
This country’s salvation is new media.
Thank you, Matt, for staying on this story and correcting their lies with the truth. Please don’t let up. One thing I especially appreciate here is the measured and factual response to the ”it’s Epstein distraction!” attempts to distract. It seems progressives *always* do what they accuse others of doing!
Forget it, Matt. It’s Chinatown.
My favorite movie of all time, but NO!
We will NOT allow this.
She's my sister... She's my daughter!
John Huston on the Cuban cigars. " Rolled on the plump white thighs of virgins". Everyone has a line they remember from Chinatown.
Exactly why I like the movie.
Matt is on the right side of history. This must be said.
These people circle the wagons and lie, lie, lie. The only hope for truth is that the traditional media sources get obliterated because people see through their lies, and we have new media sources who actually are interested in and willing to tell the truth. Like yourself.
They are not only circling the wagons, but digging 6’ x 3’ ditches behind those wheels to duck and cover, while picking off as many attackers as possible. The Old West is alive and kicking today. Giddy up!
Just glad I lived long enough to see another person know the antithesis of chaff. 👍
You can always tell when Matt is annoyed by the churls in media: he rains flaming meteors of fact in a swirl of incandescent truth.
imagery is cosmic here.
Well played!
Hunter S. Thompson lives!
I've said it before, I'll say it again, "Go Matt Go!" As mind numbing as this stupidity is, I mean consider the source(s), keep it coming until we all have it by memory.
It is horrific this could have happened in America; but it did and we gotta face it and deal with it.
Cathartic. I needed that.