Did you have to go back and watch all of Maddow's shows during the Trump presidency to put together that montage? I hope TK News has a good medical plan because you're going to need some therapy.
People are so tired of the stupid games, the lies, the spin, the dirty politics. I stopped listening to anything state propagandists have to say (which includes most cable news and traditional news outlets). I only read their garbage to know what is definitely NOT true. That's why they are so desperate to take back control over the narrative (Ministry of Truth-style) and why they get zero dollars from me anymore.
Yo Orf, your videos are like a like a lifesaving raft to me. I'm out here drowning in an endless sea of bullshit. Keep them coming please. You had me at, "Weapons weapons weapons weapons systems weapons S200s S300s weapons."
While I don't spend much time watching mainstream news, every time I watch one of your surreal creepy mash-ups I have to wonder why anyone else bothers.
Uh...I was of the impression that some Democrats, somewhere, had some kind of involvement with, you know, the whole "Get Trump Out of Office" thing. Pretty sure they thought they did too.
But all this time...they were being puppeteered by "Bush Republicans"??
Frenkley, that sounds preposterous. Is it some version of a "QAnon"? I don't know what that is either but I hear it's pretty preposterous too.
I just find it interesting when someone complains that people have derangement syndrome when they themselves suffer from derangement syndrome.
It’s a case of “if people I disagree with have X then X is bad. If I have X then X is good” even though X is the same thing. Said more concisely, you are a hypocrite.
The worst part for me is that our tax dollars pay the corrupt on both sides. If you had to rate what we receive against what we pay, I think it is the world largest grift. And this administration is a house of cards built on love me daddy malcontents. For real, who can argue that the Clinton’s are not as slimy as anyone in politics has ever been. And what Brandon and his puppeteers have been able to set in motion will stay with us for a very long time. Devastating consequences from the elite party of inclusion who somehow manages to one up the last disaster.
The problem is that Bush and the Patriot Act (writen by Biden, but failed to advance without "a big event" like 9/11) was an Establishment Coup, not a Republican Coup; Big Democrats like Hillary and Biden (and Schiff) were complicit with the McCain, Bush and Cheney Republicans.
While I did not and do not support Trump (why is this obligatory?), the Establishment of both parties undercut him as a Duly Elected President which has changed our political system forever. Our Government bureaucrats are supposed to be apolitical; they're not. That is the crux of our problem, unelected Democrats, at the moment (it will be Republicans' turn again soon enough), acting out their politics with no accountability.
So is assassinating American citizens (without due process I might add) considered to be cleaning up Bush's messes? How about appointing Comey as head of the FBI? His handling of Syria? Maybe that's it? Or was it tossing piles and piles of cash at the auto industry? Or maybe it was the continuation, and exponential growth in the use of FISA courts and spying on American citizens? Was that part of the cleanup of Bush's messes?
You sound like you went to a Democratic party fundraiser and have a tattoo. The Bush mess was/is a giant mess. Sadly, Biden and Obama doubled down on the same mess. The drone strike king (Obama) and the man with many fingers in many pies (Biden...how soon we forget his family's deep involvement in grifting off of Ukraine...notice how no one asks these questions in a press conference?). It's one long conga line of b.s. artists. But yeah, it's the Republicans.
Sadly, we may learn that the electorate will move Dems out, and Repubs back in so we can have a repeat of the Bush years.
Your two half assed blog entries totally have me foo-- I mean they totally lend you credibility. Hello completely normal Trump Republican! Nice to meet you! Cary on redpilling those Clinton derangement syndrome conspiracy nutters. For Trump.
Stand in front of a mirror and say that to your reflection ten times with the same fervor you had when you first wrote it here. Now tell yourself that you typed these words to a complete stranger and plead with yourself to seek therapy.
How is Greenwald a "Bush Buttboy" and why do you insist on using stupid, tired, 12th grade homophobic slurs as your insult of choice?
P.S. I have no problem defending his record on Bush wars even though I'm actually banned from Greenwald's Substack for 99 years because I called him out on a glaring blind spot I encountered regarding his and The Intercept's (intentional non) coverage of the war on Syria. He refused to acknowledge it and got all thin skinned. There are some Wikileaks cables that showed Greenwald and his editorial staff almost certainly were aware of some of the American and Gulf Monarchy plans for Syria. No other outlet covered them either. I'm convinced that there was a CIA or NSA hand guiding the decision not to publish those particular leaks.
He doesn't blame Bush's wars on Hillary, dude. He blamed the NATO bombing of Libya on Hillary's State Department, the continuation of the boondoggle in Afghanistan, the war on Syria and the surge in Iraq on the Obama administration. In fact Obama and Hillary were carrying out parts of the PNAC plan which was signed off on by her husband. Find me one example of Greenwald blaming Bush's wars on Hillary or Obummer.
I might add that the Syrian civil war was in reality - to the Obama administration and Hillary - another poke at Russia's ability to project its own power into the oceans. When Obama's folks succeeded in carrying out the coup in Ukraine, Russia saw the writing on the wall and annexed Crimea because that is their OTHER warm water naval port.
Moral of the story: Bush, Obummer, Hillary are all warmongers. Trump would have had his own war on either Iran or Venezuela if he was elected to a 2nd term.
You can't be serious. 4+ years of this b.s. polluting the airwaves, the daily countdowns, the walls closing in and here we are, just as some of suspected, utter garbage. Both parties deserve scrutiny as they pile drive the US experiment into the dirt. Each party has contributed to the mess. It's ok to shine a bright light to watch the rats scramble for cover. thanks Matt. If only there was a way to eliminate both political parties...and drive the $ out of the election process.
Voltaire could really write some great quips. Not sure what he'd say about today's age. Possibly that automatic espresso makers were great (he had quite the coffee habit), but otherwise that we were governed by a class of violent, greedy chimps.
I got into this discussion/argument with a Ghanaian professor of mine about AIDS. He was like “Everyone thinks Africans run around having sex with monkeys” and I was like “As a stereotype that is wrong, but in a continent of 1 billion people, there are probably at least 4 or 5 sick pervs out there”, and he conceded the point.
Jumped on my bed, until the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" Very irritating. Chimps said federal regulations required inspection and testing of bed for spring safety. Also found my CO2 emissions, when I exhale, to be a global warming threat to the planet. Ordered me to cease my pollution immediately, after finding out I'm a Chicago area Republican. "When I die and they lay me to rest, gonna vote in the way that's the best" for the Democrat Chicago Machine.
Voltaire? Is that French for, chicken shit excuse? I was going to do the right thing but then my Voltaire flared up. Less Voltaire, more Snowden. I was tempted to go along to get along. But I found my inner Snowden.
So why be sad about the consequences of being a little bitch in a little bitch culture? Isn’t there something on tv? The only thing worse than bad people doing bad things is when good people stand by and watch.
Chuck, you are late to the party and all this sentiment and aggression would have been much utilized 20 years ago when the last vestiges of power were subsumed by the state. To die a pyrrhic but figurative death here trying to incite action is like ant taking on an army of elephants.
Again, it is positive you want to create change, but a huge piece of creating it is knowing the system, system history, and all of your adversaries. This means you have to do more work than stir up online emotional platitudes.
So why are we talking about it? Or why are you talking about it? To make sure no one has hope? Why? You already stated that there isn’t any. Are you anti hope? Are you shorting humanity? It’s not because of bad people. It’s because of cowards. Buck up.
I think Obama answered this better than I ever could. Hope is jargon. It's anti-analysis and more branding. But its presence or absence should not be the basis for action, because "AND I WILL STATE THIS AGAIN" --- power has seized control over all the levers of change. Read your Chris Hedges to understand all the ways this has happened under the neoliberal regime starting with the Reagan administration all the way to present.
Or read your Mirowski (Road to Mont Pelerin), if your analysis and prescription are wrong, you have wasted everyone's time and energy around you. It is not about hope. Solutions are about finding elite weaknesses and exploiting them, and then preparing for counter responses ---- and if you have not been paying attention a few counter responses are:
1. Stagnant wages for the last 30 years
2. Double digit inflation
3. Debt based economy creating a rentier class
4. Massive criminogenic systems in healthcare, finance, education, foreign policy
5. Unaffordable housing, gutting out the middle class, and creation of US sacrifice zones
6. Foreign wars of imperial dominance trying to maintain a unipolar world order
7. Intelligence and military contractor influence (CIA, NSA, FBI, and Blackwater)
8. Propaganda aimed at both parties (divide and conquer)
9. Privatization schemes, Cryptocurrencies, and massive un-prosecuted fraud
10. Loss of the dollar hegemony and world's reserve currency
11. Pissing off the rest of the world so that it makes nuclear conflict more likely.
12. Climate inaction, Drug Markets supported, and Corrupt Policing
13. Failure to create an effective policy to combat a deadly pandemic
They have been sticking it to the public for a long time --- in fact, British parliament labor leader Tony Benn said it best --- Power does not want a healthy, well-informed, electorate capable of democratic rule because if it allowed this, then they would be prosecuted for their crimes. Benn always said, if we can build armies/weapons to kill people, then we can build/fund projects to love them. When is the last time your government cared about you?
The truth is that the first rule of neoliberalism ---- please fuck off and die. Second rule is please do this faster. Third rule of neoliberalism is to see rules 1 & 2.
You need to slow your roll, killer. You sound like an aggrieved soft body clickety clacking on his keyboard all day. The quote was not cited as a warning. The past is prologue.
I was going to retort on one of your riveting articles comment section but the echo of that empty space would be distracting. I assure you my body fat can best be described as un-American. But even if I’m a cow I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying.
"I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying," says the titan of intellect with the anonymous handle to the guy using his real name.
Comment away, killer. Just don't hurt yourself. Is my willingness to suggest you slow your roll because you're embarrassing yourself offensive to you? Then slow your roll.
Chuck campbell? That’s anonymous? Ok. You’re assertion that if I were not a specimen my thoughts are somehow less relevant (I am a specimen) . But my intellect is at best borderline. My consternation is the result of super intelligent people on this thread (not you) acting as if we are powerless. I’m relatively new to Taibi etc. but the eeyore ass drivel on this comment thread speaks to why we are where we are. All the indicators suggest that historical “consent manufactures” are being discarded as liars. All the sincere smart people ( not you) are winning and are on the verge of meaningful change. Is that ok super star? Or should I jump in the box car with the other chicken little fucks? I’m happy to embarrass myself. Or am I embarrassing others by exposing their big brains( not you) and their lack of resolve?
LOL. Type Chuck Campbell into Google, friend. How this is not obvious to you is interesting in itself, but "Chuck Campbell" is in the same taxonomy of common names as "Mike Jones" and "John Smith."
I have no problem with your perspective. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with much of it. But when you come out like John Wayne and immediately accuse me of a "chicken shit excuse" just because I shared a single Voltaire quote? Yeah, I'm going to tell you to pump your brakes.
This is a wonderful concise record of what went down. It really does make you wonder about our government and the media. I remember thinking during Russia gate when will the madness stop. It did stop and then we got Covid madness and now we have Ukrainian madness where our government is using Ukrainian citizens as cannon fodder. Thank you for fighting the good fight. Keep up the good work
Good work indeed and you make it interesting. Unfortunately, I sincerely doubt that 1% of the population could or would ready the entire piece. Only interested in spectacle. That, of course is why you do it as a podcast. Now, people giving up reading.. that is scary!
The damage done is incalculable and yet none are held accountable. They're already reporting Sussman's lawyers are saying, "So what?" Doesn't matter that he lied. After all Hillary and all the ABC government officials have lied repeatedly under oath before congress.
The damage includes the election of the most incompetent, demented President in our history, the least qualified VP, and cabinet officials who are totally unqualified for their jobs. Open borders, sky high inflation and out of control crime. All of this started in the Clinton campaign offices back in 2015.
This is what the slow motion suicide of the Democrat Party looks like. The media is already dead to most thinking Americans but they are too stupid to just lay down. A new paradigm is emerging and reporters like Glenn, Mike Taibbi, Dan Bongino and others will be the tourchbeares in the coming decade. Quoting any legacy media as proof of anything is a sure way to be laughed out of the room. History will marvel at the complete clueless and hubris ridden institutions that existed during the first decades of the 21st Century.
The last 6, 7, however many years has seen one pretty big change in my behavior. I no longer consume "news" in nearly the quantity I used to.
Right now, sitting at my desk, the house is silent. Wouldn't have been, Morning Edition would have been running.
I was a news junkie from the mid 80s. Back when the cool kids listened to public radio. I was "informed", I knew what was up! For years before kids our Sunday routine was to grab the local papers (Detroit News and Free Press) and the Sunday NYT, go to Bob's Big Boy, and take up a table for quite a while reading the papers over coffee and breakfast.
Consumption continued for decades. I love history; spent two years in graduate school early this century thinking I wanted to be a history teacher. Till I discovered how batshit crazy "the academy" is. (the willful destruction of language/meaning shocked me.) Did I really want to hang with these people as "colleagues" for the rest of my days? lol... nope. Even with that experience, still didn't really doubt the veracity and integrity of most news. Sure there were agendas; first thing I would read in all papers was the editorials. I like good faith discussion and argument. But journalists - purveyors of fact, not editorial - I held in high esteem; they did necessary work that I respected. They had my trust. No longer.
Today I can honestly say I have not read more than a smattering of the NYT since the 2016 election cycle. Hehe, my early 30+ years in tech has given me the skills to, uhem, circumvent most paywalls, but even with that I generally don't bother. I look around the “news” space with the sole purpose of staying informed as a matter of defense; what is the party line and how does it (if it does at all), threaten me and mine.
I trust very little news that I read. If I’m reading it then someone wants to persuade me, not inform me. It’s all editorial now. And their crossing the Rubicon of lying to get that done means I can’t even have a good argument with them.
Seems pretty odd that EVERY leftist communication or radio system appears over time to commit suicide. Leftism is an aggressive cancer. Good sober left leaning radio and print outlets over time are usually taken over by the more radical elements of the ideology. There is never any room for reasoned well thought out left of center political positions. With the left it always ALL or nothing.
The cancer that is leftism always consumes any moderate or reasonable leftwing politics. They don;'t just drift left into radicalism but are subject to a scorched earth policy by their radical comrades. No other points of view are ever tolerated so in the end self destruction is the only path for radical leftism. There is NEVER enough or an end game for their politics except of course total dominance. Cancer is like that.
Leftism always imposes purity tests -- see the Red Guards, Khmer Rouge et al -- which means anyone who criticizes leftist orthodoxy inside a left-leaning organization is run out on a rail, which just drives organizations further and further left until they collapse from irrelevance and infighting over who is purer.
National Petroleum Radio, indeed. When Frontline became defense contractor propaganda during the first Gulf war, Moyers getting censored, akin to Phil Donahue on network TV, that's what did it for me. Fortunately these new platforms enable the likes, no pun intended, of Matt & Matt.
Hey Eric, like you I was a news junkie. Back in the day I read The Freep, Detroit News, WSJ and NYT daily, and then 1/2 of local TV news and 1/2 hour of National. Until 2016 I watched Morning Joe daily, for up the full three hours. I did a full year off in 2017, and the only 'news' I pay for any more is Glenn, Matt, Bari and a couple other substacks and the WJS Op/Ed page. I don't believe anything else on TV or print.
LOL! Amy NJ friend screenshots that for me and emails it… The Sunday NY Times ( I did the Crossword for thirty years) costs $12 here in Western Colorado and I refuse to give them that $ for the rubbish they publish..actually that could be their new motto “ The Rubbish We Publish “
Spot on. The nerd in me can't resist the Wordle, despite my contempt for the NYT, which I suppose makes me a sellout. So when I'm done, I get linked to the freebie Bee, who validates me every time. Ah, those participation trophies......... wonder if 'trump' will get the same treatment as 'fetus' .......
Glen, Matt, Bari, all great. But as one poster said, people are only interested in the spectacle. This is less like the slow evaporation of the Democrtaic party and more like witnessing the country circling the drain in painfully slow motion.
The danger is that when the people get fed up they have a tendency to elect awful demagogues because said demagogues "stand up to the elites." Either way we lose.
Dead on. But they are in essence 'leaving us no choice' at this point. Do these folks ever worry about the effects of the path they have chosen. Clearly NOT. Their choice is the perceived pursuit of influence and power at any price. Atlas Shrugged being played out in real time. It is always interesting to me that former Soviet citizens are absolutely dead on in describing what is now going on within American society.
You are a couple elections ahead of me. I don’t plan to vote again. I spent most of my previous votes since 1974 on third/fourth/fifth party candidates thinking that was some kind of protest. It’s not. Participation is complicity.
On the other hand, I am interested in finding amusing ways to mess with The System. For example, I do appreciate people who use their vote for write-in candidates—a great power I wish more people and organizations would use. Write-ins, at least, generally require human attention to read our scribbles (I think), so it keeps the human vote-counters busy and annoyed and could create delays that prevent the cable news channels from trying to call the election by midnight on Election Day.
But my latest theory is it might be even more disruptive to cast an empty ballot. I’m not sure how empties are tabulated—there are probably so few in number it is easy to simply put them in the discard pile and ignore their statistical importance. But what would happen if a significant percentage—say ten per cent—of ballots cast were empty? At the very least, this would make the elections officials nervous that their machines were hacked—hacked in unexpected/unplanned ways, I mean. Or, if the public learned that there were so many empties cast, it would further erode trust in the voting machines at least, and perhaps in the entire electoral system…if it’s even possible to further to erode that trust.
When I was an election judge, empty and spoiled ballots were separated out of the scanning machine. The empties were tossed. The spoiled examined to determine if they could be "unspoiled", but there were never enough of them to make it worth our time.
All that hard work by Clinton, her lackeys, the corporate media, and operatives in the CIA and FBI to get rid of Trump, and they replace him with . . . Joe Biden? Did they really think this through?
Let us not forget surrender to terrorists, starting new global conflicts, proposing amendments to international public health treaties that strip sovereignty, destroying energy infrastructure, fomenting hate, aiding in human and drug trafficking, enriching the military industrial complex...All in 18mos
Rather anecdotal but I clearly remember when things shifted to corruption back in the 1980’s when I was in the real estate business in Vermont a previously honest and ethical lawyer pulled a crooked stunt and didn’t care because he had adopted “plausible denial” from the Clintons. To me this was the beginning of the ends justify the means political culture. Oh, Vermont has gone on to be the perfect little Marxist utopia.
The V.P. position has too often been occupied by a less than a stellar intellect and often by a political hack. Truman was an example of a product of a political machine but when he ascended to become POTUS he seemed to rise to the occasion.
Sometimes a dolt is really not so clueless as he/she appears. V.P. Harris might be the exception. She seems to have been carried by the wind into every political position without any effort or accomplishment. She is young and should be sharp but appears as clueless as a "valley girl" on ludes. Her speeches sound like a child trying to act like an adult. Politics aside how can the Democrats, with a straight face, condone this ongoing farce.
She's made a lot of people suspicious about how she managed to become California's Attorney General. As a former career California prosecutor I don't think she's up to (or has ever been capable of) prosecuting even an entry-level garden-variety misdemeanor DUI case. The only conclusion I can come up with is that corruption w/in this state's Democratic supermajority party is obviously as deep as it's long-standing.
Holeee-shit, what do people think it means, when they say she was "Willie Brown's protege."? She rose to the AGs office without ever being subjected to a vote or public performance review, just promotion after promotion with no real record of accomplishment to account for it.
Chaney certainly rose to the occasion by becoming POTUS- without having to get elected as such. It may be awhile before that magic act is surpassed. Heck, it was so magical that it was largely unrecognized by the general public. Then or now.
No defense of Chaney but hating him and his politics is no reason to think he was not a shrewd, hard nosed D.C. operative. The entire meme of him being the shadow POTUS is a bit of manufactured political attack. He did have undue influence on G. Bush but that is true of a few other V.P.'s too. Harris could not even get a few votes in the primary. She personally was rejected by Democrats only to be tapped by Biden because of her gender and race. Other V.P's have been selected for their regional appeal or vote getting ability so Biden's criteria had some basis. Thing is she is a huge drag on this Administrations' agenda and public face.
I don't hate Cheney or his politics. I simply believe he and the most of the Bush cabinet members should be in jail right now for illegally invading another sovereign nation. This resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent lives and U.S. military service members. It also unnecessarily cost the U.S. taxpayer an estimated $7-8T of net operating debt that has hamstrung our national security and economic prosperity ever since. If Americans were not so easily manipulated into war and blood lust, these murderers would, at a minimum, have been impeached while in office.
No, Quayle was as dumb as he looked. He belongs in this category as well.
You exaggerate about Harris. She doesn't sound like a moron. She just sounds like a cloyingly bland, milquetoast, paint-by-numbers politician who's phoning it in, with literally nothing original to say. That's acceptable, maybe, for a House rep from Nobodycaresville county, but not for the freaking VP of the nation.
She happened to fit the bill, in terms of gender and ethnicity, in order to allow Biden to be appointed. She also passed the same teleprompter reading class with high marks...and extra credit for never deviating from the script.
Because she’s nowhere near as dumb as she acts , it’s a cynical dumbing down of the message that appeals to her constituents and got her elected multiple times, her constituents being among some of the most insipid, simple morons in the country .
While the act might get you elected on a local or even Statewide election it is not so "cute" when practiced on a national scale or the worldwide stage. As a V.P.. if possible she should drop the dumb act, if it is an act. I really think she is either of a low IQ or has some sort of learning disability. Complexity and nuance appear to be beyond her abilities.
She is what it looks like when you fuck your way into politics, and then become the face of an ideology, and then allowing this to outpace learned skill. At every single point she failed up, simply because she was what the modern Democratic party wants to look like: multi-cultural, female centric. But when you put superficial characteristics ahead of earned skills such as appealing across aisles to an oppositional group, giving speeches, and various other skills that politicians who fight their way up the ladder learn, Harris is what you get.
She might be a bright person, but she doesn't have the chops to be running at the level of VP, let along president. And no amount of smarts will cover for that.
They were just run of the mill politicians. Problem is there are no "qualifications" for holding political office. You get what you get from the general population. Hopefully the good cancels out the bad or the bad is not as bad as we might think. Then again the voters are not the "cream of the intellectual crop" either. Then again those geniuses like Robert McNamara and other "academics" can and do cause havoc on a large scale. No real solution to the disparate abilities of elected officials except an unbiased free press. Thing is that ship has sailed and the media now chooses sides.
There is one major qualification. Unbridled Narcissism. Normal people don't think of themselves the way politicians do. They recognize their own personal flaws, and understand that no one person can 'change the world.'
Maybe we should move to an "arranged marriage" situation. In my state we vote for Lt. Gov separately from Gov. Maybe we should be doing the same on the national level; vote for President separately from Vice Pres. Then they have to figure out how to work with each other rather than compete with each other which has been Harris' MO. She loathes the fact that the demented Biden is actually in the place she thinks she should be in.
You're absolutely correct that "[w]ithout accountability civilization is lost."
Lying -- like any other deeply antisocial behavior, including theft, murder, etc. -- can be justified by one "side" only when, say, (the human beings on) that side are under a genuine existential threat, and are so through no fault of its own. But then, of course, those sides are at war.
Among today's greatest threats to the West is that lying is being *normalized*, no longer an occasion that is duly punished once exposed. It now regularly supports, in tandem, such things as the murder widely justified through warmongering, and the theft justified in bankstering.
No, we got the Patriot Act. And the public keeps electing folks that aim to keep it operational--forever. Time for everyone to demand that be flushed down the toilet. That's how a functioning Republic would work.
You see, the real culprits here are not the neocons who installed the Patriot Act, greenlit a new level of surveillance state, and left a generation of soldiers dead or damaged.
The real culprit is the people who elected them, re-elected them, and continue to re-elect them. The solid half of the public--spanning both the GOP and the Dems-- who like to complain about the Bush/neocon wars now, but supported them with chest-beating enthusiasm, because they turned off their brains and let themselves be led around by a narrow, short-sighted jingoistic fever after 9-11.
As Carlin said, people claim "politicians suck!", but maybe, just maybe, they suck because something else sucks even more. Like...the public. The public sucks. (or at least about 60-70% of it)
I disagree. Those are all flavors of the executive branch. I still believe the free press to be the only legitimate 4th branch of government. However they've been MIA for decades now-- or (arguably) more. My goal is help Substack change that reality by being a paid and active subscriber. I appreciate everyone else here doing the same--regardless of their beliefs or opinions.
Thanks for speaking to my point. However, I doubt Trump showed any "new path[s]" during his tenure. He had 4 years to begin turning the aircraft carrier around. I didn't see it change course, substantively, one bit. The swamp stayed full to the brim.
There is no accountability at the FBI. Read the latest whitewash of how they handled the case against Nasser (the USA Gymnastics team doctor and pervert). There is no accountability in the DoD - look at all of the Generals that lied about what was going on in Afghanistan (or worse, didn't even know they were lying). Look at the cops in Uvalde, TX.
Millions suffered from the financial criminals and their enablers in government throughout the Western world. Millions thrown out of their home's by the criminal rule of law. Many of them black and the people re elected Obomber. Anyone who has any faith or hope in the system has my sympathy, you are beyond hope.
Thing is, those people being IN those homes was part of the scam. The crime wasn't throwing them out of the houses, the crime was giving them mortgage loans they couldn't realistically be expected to pay off.
And without an independent press to report it, there never will be accountability. This next election is desperate in two parts: First, I think the Dems can corrupt the voting process sufficiently to ensure they never lose again, but I don't think it's in place enough to cover the huge disgust people feel for their capitulation to the crazies in their party. Second, if they ever DO get in power again, the last bastion to fall with be the judicial system. Not sure how they're going to manage it, perhaps by "court-packing" and increasing the number of judges suddenly, when they hold all the appointment power.
They they will hold the culture, the press, the corporations, the universities and the judicial system. And we're done.
Here in CA we're already there with a one-party system, the Dems having achieved it with the jungle primary and unsupervised ballot boxes. Nutsom actually came out and said it; The republican party is done in CA.
I always found the "election was stolen" by Trump supporters childish and petulant, except that in a sense, they were right. The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting. What the Democrats and their allies in the FBI and media did is a different kind of election theft. They broke laws and abused government powers to delegitimize an opponent, spent years investigating him on nothing more than fiction, and awarded themselves prizes for journalism in the process.
The failure of the Democrats and the progressive institutional media to recognize that the loss of confidence by the conservative half in the voting process has less to do with wild theories of mysterious ballots and broken pipes on election night, but far more to do with that they clearly rigged the laws and abused government powers to take down a sitting president. After all, the same people who'd easily break laws and commit grave corruption are certainly people who'd have no problems with faking ballots because it'd be in the name of good. I don't think they necessarily did the latter, but they definitely did the former, and therein lies the problem and the massive lost of confidence by large numbers of Americans in the electoral system. And it automatically corrupts future elections too as long as nothing happens and the guilty parties simply walk away intact.
"The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting."
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Yet to this day nobody can explain why the swing states stopped counting when Trump only needed one or two more states, then in the morning those states were flipped based on numbers so lopsided they weren't repeated anywhere else in the country. In other words, Biden got exactly the votes he needed, exactly WHERE he needed them, and exactly WHEN he needed them.
And none of this has been explained at all. Instead the Democrats put up walls in DC, arrested anybody near 1/6, and have acted EXACTLY LIKE a group that stole the election.
Agree. I have no idea if there was actual large-scale vote malfeasance during the election. However, the way "the elite" have reacted seems exactly how someone would react if there was.
If something happened, it happened with Covid mail in ballots and ballot harvesting before Election Day. If Trump wasn’t a nimrod concerning bureaucracy, he would have had the DoJ investigating/cracking down on these practices years in advance of the election.
Absurd. "To this day" every one of the patently absurd arguments Trump's lackeys' trotted out as evidence of election theft have been explained ad nauseam. Just because you like to pretend that Trump's delusions are real does nothing to change this. Has "The Kraken" put in an appearance yet? Maybe you should send Sidney Powell some money so she can get that out at some point. Maybe call up Mike Lindell and see how his tireless investigation is going? Wasn't that going to rock everyone's world a while back? Hell, track down that guy who, back in 2016, was claiming that he had ALL the evidence of "millions" of illegal votes for Clinton in California. Millions I say! He was going to present the evidence and blow everyone's mind with The Truth, wasn't he?
Really? Because I still haven't seen a good explanation of GA kicking people out of the counting process and then pulling ballots from under tables to restart 'counting' when nobody was looking.
The 'fact checkers' simply state the ballots weren't in suitcases, so it's fine.
The 'fact checkers' state a whole lot more than that: No one was "kicked out" of the room. The people in the room were either 'cutters' (prepping ballots for scanning) or 'scanners' who were actually doing the scanning(counting). The 'cutters' had finished - all ballots were opened and placed back into the cases. They then left because THEIR WORK WAS DONE. Those aren't "witnesses" they are the workers. And they weren't "kicked out", they had finished and were leaving for the night. The scanners were just continuing to go about their business of SCANNING THE PREPARED BALLOTS. And every bit of this is attested to by the TRUMP SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS who were in charge of the process.
There. I did your homework for you. But you people always operate in bad faith. You never saw a "good explanation" because you never looked - just blindly accepted whatever OAN or Sidney Powell said.
I have the video that OAN showed right in front of me. Where are the "witnesses" being dragged out? I don't see anyone yelling or protesting or being escorted from the premises. I see some bored looking people going about their work. Where, exactly, in the video is the diabolical activity you allege? I assume you are the person whose been hiding the "Kraken"? Why haven't you released it yet? And as a reminder: you are several comments in now, and have presented no response besides, "Nuh uh!".
Seems odd that the assertions and caterwauling by Al Gore and the entire Democrat Party in 2000 were never met with much criticism but were encouraged and even sent to the Supreme Court for settlement. No nut job name calling for this hysterical mob. Many books were written by dissatisfied Democrats about this election without them being castigated and attacked.
While this 2020 election might have been on the up and up it sure had all the hallmarks of a rigged enterprise. The average individual, whose confidence is necessary, sure did not think Mr. Biden was a stellar example of an 83 million voter winner.
While ALL the Trump haters did not car one way or the other but only wanted him gone even if it were a stolen election. Not ONE Democrat even questioned one vote tells you all you need to know about that Parties concern for an honest election. They had scores of attorneys and Judges standing by in the event that Trump was declared the winner.
This was not an election but a managed stage show to rush Biden's installation into the Office of the Presidency. Even the video evidence of 2000 Mules does not change ONE Democrats mind. That should tell you all you need to know about their unbiased take on this election. Move on nothing to see here. If 2000 Mules were made by Mike Moore after a Biden loss there would be the usual riots and intimidation by the Communists and their Democrat pawns.
In 2000, the entire election came down to a few hundred votes in one state. And the state's governor was the brother of one of the candidates. If there was ever a time for adjudication, this was it.
And yes, Al Gore, who was claiming even before the election that if he lost it was because Bush cheated, then ran around the country filing a series of lawsuits that got laughed out of court for their absurd claims, called up Secretary's of State to demand that they "find some more votes", and after the Supreme Court ruled, tried to overthrow the results, tried to get Democrats to make up fake sets of electors, AND sent a violent mob to attack Congress and stop the certification... Oh wait. He did NONE of those things. He called up Bush and conceded.
Oh no! Democrats wrote angry books afterwards!? Inconceivable! What horror! How dare they!
Hmm, next, you babble nonsensically for s couple paragraphs about the "average individual, whose confidence is necessary"(this sounds like a bad Japanese to English translation: "I'm disrespectful to dirt! Can't you see I'm serious?") and some silly movie from that guy, whatisname, that Indian-American ex con who only dumb right wingers like. John Philip Sousa, right? Didn't he play in a marching band or something?
Anyway, then you are going on about why didn't Democrats challenge any votes, I think. I mean, they won. Why bother challenging anything? And the Democrats had "scores of attorneys and Judges standing by"? Really? Where? Were they all hiding in a closet? Maybe stashed in bunkers? If you are going to just make things up, it helps to add some details. They lend increased verisimilitude.
Meanwhile, reality showed us that Trump REALLY DID have a bunch of lawyers standing by in the event that Biden was declared the winner. Project much?
You are really coming off badly here. I recommend reading your post a few times BEFORE making it public.
Maybe they didn’t steal the election. But Donna Brazil’s book concedes that rigging and stealing elections is in their tool box. Your condescending makes you look even dumber than you actually are. Keep talking so as to confirm.
You can't explain away 2000 Mules. I think Trump's an unethical grifting moron, and I also believe, as the Time article pretty much stated in an almost visible watermark, that the DNC, with a long history of urban election chicanery, used COVID and absentee ballots to produce votes.
And I also believe Gore would have won that election had SCOTUS not stopped the counting, and think we'd have been in a much better position had he won instead of the Neocons.
Lol. I don't need to explain away any of Dinesh D'Souza's ridiculous movies. They are not now, nor have ever been, of any value whatsoever, either factually or artistically. There are so many superior options, why waste precious time on something so far beneath me?
And what Time article "proves" that the 2020 election was stolen? Seems like that would be big news.
Oh, and of course you like to "believe" the election was stolen but can't produce a shred of evidence. Meanwhile, it doesn't seem at all weird to you that Trump, the least popular president ever, who despite being enormously out-voted and barely squeaked into office because of the Electoral College, and spent the next 4 years basically pissing off everyone except his little cult, somehow got 74 million votes when EVERYONE was turning out to vote against him? Sounds a lot more likely that Republicans were manufacturing votes.
Finally, as far as humility goes, there is nothing arrogant about blowing up pathetic arguments with extreme prejudice. Rather, it is richly deserved and those making said pathetic arguments ought to be properly humiliated into, hopefully, shutting up until they gain some measure of intelligence and maturity, and are capable of presenting a worthwhile case.
Half of those judges who adjuncticated the election irregularities (ones only Trump officials saw) were republicans. The 2000 mules? i've seen it and thought it was hilarious, how anyone could imagine that video footage (which is rather easily created these days, but even if it weren't) presented anything like 'proof'. Also, the so called 'data' were given to Georgia election officials (all republicans) who examined it and said there is no there there. It is fabricated. You don't need evidence for an opinion, but you actually need evidence in a court of law. It is also hilarious you think because you cannot imagine Joe Biden being the winner, it must not have happened. Trump lost; get over it.
After 2016 huge segments of American society never accepted Trump's win and continued to believe with all their hearts that he stole the election with Russian help.
Delusional thinking is probably equally divided within the political junky world. With modern instant communication and the social media platforms this tendency is multiplied by 1000 so we have this ongoing cacophony of disgruntled voters. Not sure it it will be any different next election.
Very, very simple to discredit. Since they claimed to have the geo-location of the cell phones of the mules just go and interview a sampling of those identified and show them the video and request an explanation. If they don't have one and are instructed as to their legal jeopardy some might just give up the scheme and who paid them or gave them the ballots to dump.
Or if this is made up it will become obvious instantly and the law suits can begin. Lot of money being made by the producers and if fake it would be nice to relieve them of it. But seems no one wants to make a pile of money challenging the movie. Odd lawyers are always skulking around like vultures when there is easy money to be made. Any law suits filed yet?
Boom
Did you have to go back and watch all of Maddow's shows during the Trump presidency to put together that montage? I hope TK News has a good medical plan because you're going to need some therapy.
Nice work Matt & Matt! :)
During the Trump era they used to say "the walls are closing in". LOL
Heck yeah! I’d forgotten that dum-de-dum-dump phrase.
People are so tired of the stupid games, the lies, the spin, the dirty politics. I stopped listening to anything state propagandists have to say (which includes most cable news and traditional news outlets). I only read their garbage to know what is definitely NOT true. That's why they are so desperate to take back control over the narrative (Ministry of Truth-style) and why they get zero dollars from me anymore.
Yo Orf, your videos are like a like a lifesaving raft to me. I'm out here drowning in an endless sea of bullshit. Keep them coming please. You had me at, "Weapons weapons weapons weapons systems weapons S200s S300s weapons."
PS Weapons
While I don't spend much time watching mainstream news, every time I watch one of your surreal creepy mash-ups I have to wonder why anyone else bothers.
^^russianbot
Very mature gene. I’m guessing you took the blue pill?
Uh...I was of the impression that some Democrats, somewhere, had some kind of involvement with, you know, the whole "Get Trump Out of Office" thing. Pretty sure they thought they did too.
But all this time...they were being puppeteered by "Bush Republicans"??
Frenkley, that sounds preposterous. Is it some version of a "QAnon"? I don't know what that is either but I hear it's pretty preposterous too.
I once read that somewhere a village was missing it’s idiot. I think we found it!
I just find it interesting when someone complains that people have derangement syndrome when they themselves suffer from derangement syndrome.
It’s a case of “if people I disagree with have X then X is bad. If I have X then X is good” even though X is the same thing. Said more concisely, you are a hypocrite.
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Keep drinking the Kool Ade Mr. Frenkle.
Wow, how clever. Did you finish elementary school? Your language conveys a lack of intellect and educational achievement.
What level of educational achievement do you think is required for tard-flaming?
An imbecile speaks
The worst part for me is that our tax dollars pay the corrupt on both sides. If you had to rate what we receive against what we pay, I think it is the world largest grift. And this administration is a house of cards built on love me daddy malcontents. For real, who can argue that the Clinton’s are not as slimy as anyone in politics has ever been. And what Brandon and his puppeteers have been able to set in motion will stay with us for a very long time. Devastating consequences from the elite party of inclusion who somehow manages to one up the last disaster.
The problem is that Bush and the Patriot Act (writen by Biden, but failed to advance without "a big event" like 9/11) was an Establishment Coup, not a Republican Coup; Big Democrats like Hillary and Biden (and Schiff) were complicit with the McCain, Bush and Cheney Republicans.
While I did not and do not support Trump (why is this obligatory?), the Establishment of both parties undercut him as a Duly Elected President which has changed our political system forever. Our Government bureaucrats are supposed to be apolitical; they're not. That is the crux of our problem, unelected Democrats, at the moment (it will be Republicans' turn again soon enough), acting out their politics with no accountability.
thanks for saying this...very true.
So is assassinating American citizens (without due process I might add) considered to be cleaning up Bush's messes? How about appointing Comey as head of the FBI? His handling of Syria? Maybe that's it? Or was it tossing piles and piles of cash at the auto industry? Or maybe it was the continuation, and exponential growth in the use of FISA courts and spying on American citizens? Was that part of the cleanup of Bush's messes?
You sound like you went to a Democratic party fundraiser and have a tattoo. The Bush mess was/is a giant mess. Sadly, Biden and Obama doubled down on the same mess. The drone strike king (Obama) and the man with many fingers in many pies (Biden...how soon we forget his family's deep involvement in grifting off of Ukraine...notice how no one asks these questions in a press conference?). It's one long conga line of b.s. artists. But yeah, it's the Republicans.
Sadly, we may learn that the electorate will move Dems out, and Repubs back in so we can have a repeat of the Bush years.
For someone who complains about Matt having CDS it certainly appears like you have BDS. But that’s just an observation.
Now... even imbecilic humor has its place.
You still believe Russian collusion which means you are a total fucking moron
Give him a break. Leaving a cult is difficult.
Your two half assed blog entries totally have me foo-- I mean they totally lend you credibility. Hello completely normal Trump Republican! Nice to meet you! Cary on redpilling those Clinton derangement syndrome conspiracy nutters. For Trump.
I prefer Killary.
Dude, not even a non-binary, Hermaphrodite has Cliton Derangement syndrome.
Did you get lost on you way to the David Frum substack?
Unfortunately i will miss being assraped by Bush GOP as i am Canadian.
Amusingly, Trudeau is catcher NOT a pitcher. I am positive Freeland, as a woman of NO principles, both pitches (with a strap-on) and catches.
Stand in front of a mirror and say that to your reflection ten times with the same fervor you had when you first wrote it here. Now tell yourself that you typed these words to a complete stranger and plead with yourself to seek therapy.
Tissue?
Isn't it politically incorrect to keep howling "assraped" ?
The butthurt is deep in this one ^^
How is Greenwald a "Bush Buttboy" and why do you insist on using stupid, tired, 12th grade homophobic slurs as your insult of choice?
P.S. I have no problem defending his record on Bush wars even though I'm actually banned from Greenwald's Substack for 99 years because I called him out on a glaring blind spot I encountered regarding his and The Intercept's (intentional non) coverage of the war on Syria. He refused to acknowledge it and got all thin skinned. There are some Wikileaks cables that showed Greenwald and his editorial staff almost certainly were aware of some of the American and Gulf Monarchy plans for Syria. No other outlet covered them either. I'm convinced that there was a CIA or NSA hand guiding the decision not to publish those particular leaks.
He doesn't blame Bush's wars on Hillary, dude. He blamed the NATO bombing of Libya on Hillary's State Department, the continuation of the boondoggle in Afghanistan, the war on Syria and the surge in Iraq on the Obama administration. In fact Obama and Hillary were carrying out parts of the PNAC plan which was signed off on by her husband. Find me one example of Greenwald blaming Bush's wars on Hillary or Obummer.
I might add that the Syrian civil war was in reality - to the Obama administration and Hillary - another poke at Russia's ability to project its own power into the oceans. When Obama's folks succeeded in carrying out the coup in Ukraine, Russia saw the writing on the wall and annexed Crimea because that is their OTHER warm water naval port.
Moral of the story: Bush, Obummer, Hillary are all warmongers. Trump would have had his own war on either Iran or Venezuela if he was elected to a 2nd term.
Regardless you never told us how Greenwald is a Bush "Buttboy" - care to explain with links to things he's actually said?
You have never one anything
Thank you
You can't be serious. 4+ years of this b.s. polluting the airwaves, the daily countdowns, the walls closing in and here we are, just as some of suspected, utter garbage. Both parties deserve scrutiny as they pile drive the US experiment into the dirt. Each party has contributed to the mess. It's ok to shine a bright light to watch the rats scramble for cover. thanks Matt. If only there was a way to eliminate both political parties...and drive the $ out of the election process.
….And drive the $ out of politics.
Please eat a bag of dicks.
Is he fully clothed?
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. - Voltaire
Voltaire could really write some great quips. Not sure what he'd say about today's age. Possibly that automatic espresso makers were great (he had quite the coffee habit), but otherwise that we were governed by a class of violent, greedy chimps.
What have chimps ever done to you?
I think people need to do less things to chimps. You know where monkeypox comes from?
I got into this discussion/argument with a Ghanaian professor of mine about AIDS. He was like “Everyone thinks Africans run around having sex with monkeys” and I was like “As a stereotype that is wrong, but in a continent of 1 billion people, there are probably at least 4 or 5 sick pervs out there”, and he conceded the point.
Jumped on my bed, until the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" Very irritating. Chimps said federal regulations required inspection and testing of bed for spring safety. Also found my CO2 emissions, when I exhale, to be a global warming threat to the planet. Ordered me to cease my pollution immediately, after finding out I'm a Chicago area Republican. "When I die and they lay me to rest, gonna vote in the way that's the best" for the Democrat Chicago Machine.
Yup, greedy chimps with bad cases of “Money Pox” ..
Voltaire? Is that French for, chicken shit excuse? I was going to do the right thing but then my Voltaire flared up. Less Voltaire, more Snowden. I was tempted to go along to get along. But I found my inner Snowden.
Actually Snowden is a fine example of Voltaire's point.
So why be sad about the consequences of being a little bitch in a little bitch culture? Isn’t there something on tv? The only thing worse than bad people doing bad things is when good people stand by and watch.
Chuck, you are late to the party and all this sentiment and aggression would have been much utilized 20 years ago when the last vestiges of power were subsumed by the state. To die a pyrrhic but figurative death here trying to incite action is like ant taking on an army of elephants.
Again, it is positive you want to create change, but a huge piece of creating it is knowing the system, system history, and all of your adversaries. This means you have to do more work than stir up online emotional platitudes.
So why are we talking about it? Or why are you talking about it? To make sure no one has hope? Why? You already stated that there isn’t any. Are you anti hope? Are you shorting humanity? It’s not because of bad people. It’s because of cowards. Buck up.
I think Obama answered this better than I ever could. Hope is jargon. It's anti-analysis and more branding. But its presence or absence should not be the basis for action, because "AND I WILL STATE THIS AGAIN" --- power has seized control over all the levers of change. Read your Chris Hedges to understand all the ways this has happened under the neoliberal regime starting with the Reagan administration all the way to present.
Or read your Mirowski (Road to Mont Pelerin), if your analysis and prescription are wrong, you have wasted everyone's time and energy around you. It is not about hope. Solutions are about finding elite weaknesses and exploiting them, and then preparing for counter responses ---- and if you have not been paying attention a few counter responses are:
1. Stagnant wages for the last 30 years
2. Double digit inflation
3. Debt based economy creating a rentier class
4. Massive criminogenic systems in healthcare, finance, education, foreign policy
5. Unaffordable housing, gutting out the middle class, and creation of US sacrifice zones
6. Foreign wars of imperial dominance trying to maintain a unipolar world order
7. Intelligence and military contractor influence (CIA, NSA, FBI, and Blackwater)
8. Propaganda aimed at both parties (divide and conquer)
9. Privatization schemes, Cryptocurrencies, and massive un-prosecuted fraud
10. Loss of the dollar hegemony and world's reserve currency
11. Pissing off the rest of the world so that it makes nuclear conflict more likely.
12. Climate inaction, Drug Markets supported, and Corrupt Policing
13. Failure to create an effective policy to combat a deadly pandemic
They have been sticking it to the public for a long time --- in fact, British parliament labor leader Tony Benn said it best --- Power does not want a healthy, well-informed, electorate capable of democratic rule because if it allowed this, then they would be prosecuted for their crimes. Benn always said, if we can build armies/weapons to kill people, then we can build/fund projects to love them. When is the last time your government cared about you?
The truth is that the first rule of neoliberalism ---- please fuck off and die. Second rule is please do this faster. Third rule of neoliberalism is to see rules 1 & 2.
So you are here, signaling your superior bravery, rather than, you know, acting?
speaking of bitchy [snap-snap]
You need to slow your roll, killer. You sound like an aggrieved soft body clickety clacking on his keyboard all day. The quote was not cited as a warning. The past is prologue.
I was going to retort on one of your riveting articles comment section but the echo of that empty space would be distracting. I assure you my body fat can best be described as un-American. But even if I’m a cow I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying.
"I would relish the opportunity to meet you in person to discuss your willingness to suggest what I need to do. I’m super easy to find. Try trying," says the titan of intellect with the anonymous handle to the guy using his real name.
Comment away, killer. Just don't hurt yourself. Is my willingness to suggest you slow your roll because you're embarrassing yourself offensive to you? Then slow your roll.
Chuck campbell? That’s anonymous? Ok. You’re assertion that if I were not a specimen my thoughts are somehow less relevant (I am a specimen) . But my intellect is at best borderline. My consternation is the result of super intelligent people on this thread (not you) acting as if we are powerless. I’m relatively new to Taibi etc. but the eeyore ass drivel on this comment thread speaks to why we are where we are. All the indicators suggest that historical “consent manufactures” are being discarded as liars. All the sincere smart people ( not you) are winning and are on the verge of meaningful change. Is that ok super star? Or should I jump in the box car with the other chicken little fucks? I’m happy to embarrass myself. Or am I embarrassing others by exposing their big brains( not you) and their lack of resolve?
LOL. Type Chuck Campbell into Google, friend. How this is not obvious to you is interesting in itself, but "Chuck Campbell" is in the same taxonomy of common names as "Mike Jones" and "John Smith."
I have no problem with your perspective. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with much of it. But when you come out like John Wayne and immediately accuse me of a "chicken shit excuse" just because I shared a single Voltaire quote? Yeah, I'm going to tell you to pump your brakes.
My fav Voltaire quote; “Common sense is not so common”
This is a wonderful concise record of what went down. It really does make you wonder about our government and the media. I remember thinking during Russia gate when will the madness stop. It did stop and then we got Covid madness and now we have Ukrainian madness where our government is using Ukrainian citizens as cannon fodder. Thank you for fighting the good fight. Keep up the good work
Don’t forget monkeypox madness!
But first, test all the nursery school kids for Monkeypox.
Mask up!
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Good work indeed and you make it interesting. Unfortunately, I sincerely doubt that 1% of the population could or would ready the entire piece. Only interested in spectacle. That, of course is why you do it as a podcast. Now, people giving up reading.. that is scary!
I would rather read the article, than watch a video.
You need to grow up douchebag.
You’re an illiterate emotionally challenged child. Grow up. Last warning.
The damage done is incalculable and yet none are held accountable. They're already reporting Sussman's lawyers are saying, "So what?" Doesn't matter that he lied. After all Hillary and all the ABC government officials have lied repeatedly under oath before congress.
Without accountability civilization is lost.
The damage includes the election of the most incompetent, demented President in our history, the least qualified VP, and cabinet officials who are totally unqualified for their jobs. Open borders, sky high inflation and out of control crime. All of this started in the Clinton campaign offices back in 2015.
This is what the slow motion suicide of the Democrat Party looks like. The media is already dead to most thinking Americans but they are too stupid to just lay down. A new paradigm is emerging and reporters like Glenn, Mike Taibbi, Dan Bongino and others will be the tourchbeares in the coming decade. Quoting any legacy media as proof of anything is a sure way to be laughed out of the room. History will marvel at the complete clueless and hubris ridden institutions that existed during the first decades of the 21st Century.
The last 6, 7, however many years has seen one pretty big change in my behavior. I no longer consume "news" in nearly the quantity I used to.
Right now, sitting at my desk, the house is silent. Wouldn't have been, Morning Edition would have been running.
I was a news junkie from the mid 80s. Back when the cool kids listened to public radio. I was "informed", I knew what was up! For years before kids our Sunday routine was to grab the local papers (Detroit News and Free Press) and the Sunday NYT, go to Bob's Big Boy, and take up a table for quite a while reading the papers over coffee and breakfast.
Consumption continued for decades. I love history; spent two years in graduate school early this century thinking I wanted to be a history teacher. Till I discovered how batshit crazy "the academy" is. (the willful destruction of language/meaning shocked me.) Did I really want to hang with these people as "colleagues" for the rest of my days? lol... nope. Even with that experience, still didn't really doubt the veracity and integrity of most news. Sure there were agendas; first thing I would read in all papers was the editorials. I like good faith discussion and argument. But journalists - purveyors of fact, not editorial - I held in high esteem; they did necessary work that I respected. They had my trust. No longer.
Today I can honestly say I have not read more than a smattering of the NYT since the 2016 election cycle. Hehe, my early 30+ years in tech has given me the skills to, uhem, circumvent most paywalls, but even with that I generally don't bother. I look around the “news” space with the sole purpose of staying informed as a matter of defense; what is the party line and how does it (if it does at all), threaten me and mine.
I trust very little news that I read. If I’m reading it then someone wants to persuade me, not inform me. It’s all editorial now. And their crossing the Rubicon of lying to get that done means I can’t even have a good argument with them.
My car radio was pretty much tuned to NPR full time for30 years. My children grew up with it. I turned it off around 2019.
National Propaganda Radio--why bother?
Seems pretty odd that EVERY leftist communication or radio system appears over time to commit suicide. Leftism is an aggressive cancer. Good sober left leaning radio and print outlets over time are usually taken over by the more radical elements of the ideology. There is never any room for reasoned well thought out left of center political positions. With the left it always ALL or nothing.
The cancer that is leftism always consumes any moderate or reasonable leftwing politics. They don;'t just drift left into radicalism but are subject to a scorched earth policy by their radical comrades. No other points of view are ever tolerated so in the end self destruction is the only path for radical leftism. There is NEVER enough or an end game for their politics except of course total dominance. Cancer is like that.
Leftism always imposes purity tests -- see the Red Guards, Khmer Rouge et al -- which means anyone who criticizes leftist orthodoxy inside a left-leaning organization is run out on a rail, which just drives organizations further and further left until they collapse from irrelevance and infighting over who is purer.
turned it off in 2009 after a 20 year run
National Petroleum Radio, indeed. When Frontline became defense contractor propaganda during the first Gulf war, Moyers getting censored, akin to Phil Donahue on network TV, that's what did it for me. Fortunately these new platforms enable the likes, no pun intended, of Matt & Matt.
Hey Eric, like you I was a news junkie. Back in the day I read The Freep, Detroit News, WSJ and NYT daily, and then 1/2 of local TV news and 1/2 hour of National. Until 2016 I watched Morning Joe daily, for up the full three hours. I did a full year off in 2017, and the only 'news' I pay for any more is Glenn, Matt, Bari and a couple other substacks and the WJS Op/Ed page. I don't believe anything else on TV or print.
"crossing the Rubicon of lying"
exactly!
Finally, someone is describing my journey in life with respect to the "news". Kudos.
Now give us some details about your first couple of dates.
Amen brother!
NYT’s Spelling Bee tells me I’m good at it everyday. Great for my self esteem.
LOL! Amy NJ friend screenshots that for me and emails it… The Sunday NY Times ( I did the Crossword for thirty years) costs $12 here in Western Colorado and I refuse to give them that $ for the rubbish they publish..actually that could be their new motto “ The Rubbish We Publish “
Spot on. The nerd in me can't resist the Wordle, despite my contempt for the NYT, which I suppose makes me a sellout. So when I'm done, I get linked to the freebie Bee, who validates me every time. Ah, those participation trophies......... wonder if 'trump' will get the same treatment as 'fetus' .......
Glen, Matt, Bari, all great. But as one poster said, people are only interested in the spectacle. This is less like the slow evaporation of the Democrtaic party and more like witnessing the country circling the drain in painfully slow motion.
The danger is that when the people get fed up they have a tendency to elect awful demagogues because said demagogues "stand up to the elites." Either way we lose.
Dead on. But they are in essence 'leaving us no choice' at this point. Do these folks ever worry about the effects of the path they have chosen. Clearly NOT. Their choice is the perceived pursuit of influence and power at any price. Atlas Shrugged being played out in real time. It is always interesting to me that former Soviet citizens are absolutely dead on in describing what is now going on within American society.
True, Trump/Hillary; Trump/Biden; Obama/McCain; Obama/Romney; Bush/Kerry;
Can't think of a single election where I really had an honest choice. I started sitting them out in 2016.
You are a couple elections ahead of me. I don’t plan to vote again. I spent most of my previous votes since 1974 on third/fourth/fifth party candidates thinking that was some kind of protest. It’s not. Participation is complicity.
On the other hand, I am interested in finding amusing ways to mess with The System. For example, I do appreciate people who use their vote for write-in candidates—a great power I wish more people and organizations would use. Write-ins, at least, generally require human attention to read our scribbles (I think), so it keeps the human vote-counters busy and annoyed and could create delays that prevent the cable news channels from trying to call the election by midnight on Election Day.
But my latest theory is it might be even more disruptive to cast an empty ballot. I’m not sure how empties are tabulated—there are probably so few in number it is easy to simply put them in the discard pile and ignore their statistical importance. But what would happen if a significant percentage—say ten per cent—of ballots cast were empty? At the very least, this would make the elections officials nervous that their machines were hacked—hacked in unexpected/unplanned ways, I mean. Or, if the public learned that there were so many empties cast, it would further erode trust in the voting machines at least, and perhaps in the entire electoral system…if it’s even possible to further to erode that trust.
When I was an election judge, empty and spoiled ballots were separated out of the scanning machine. The empties were tossed. The spoiled examined to determine if they could be "unspoiled", but there were never enough of them to make it worth our time.
All that hard work by Clinton, her lackeys, the corporate media, and operatives in the CIA and FBI to get rid of Trump, and they replace him with . . . Joe Biden? Did they really think this through?
Yes they did and YES, it worked. Biden is perfect for them.
after all, when he begs out of running in 2024, who do you think the donkeys will put in his stead?
If joe for a second veers from their agenda- watch how fast an investigation into his son appears.
Let us not forget surrender to terrorists, starting new global conflicts, proposing amendments to international public health treaties that strip sovereignty, destroying energy infrastructure, fomenting hate, aiding in human and drug trafficking, enriching the military industrial complex...All in 18mos
Not sure what you mean by "All", but the Clinton damage is vast and wide...and started long before 2015.
Rather anecdotal but I clearly remember when things shifted to corruption back in the 1980’s when I was in the real estate business in Vermont a previously honest and ethical lawyer pulled a crooked stunt and didn’t care because he had adopted “plausible denial” from the Clintons. To me this was the beginning of the ends justify the means political culture. Oh, Vermont has gone on to be the perfect little Marxist utopia.
I agree except Dan Quayle was pretty unqualified
The V.P. position has too often been occupied by a less than a stellar intellect and often by a political hack. Truman was an example of a product of a political machine but when he ascended to become POTUS he seemed to rise to the occasion.
Sometimes a dolt is really not so clueless as he/she appears. V.P. Harris might be the exception. She seems to have been carried by the wind into every political position without any effort or accomplishment. She is young and should be sharp but appears as clueless as a "valley girl" on ludes. Her speeches sound like a child trying to act like an adult. Politics aside how can the Democrats, with a straight face, condone this ongoing farce.
She's made a lot of people suspicious about how she managed to become California's Attorney General. As a former career California prosecutor I don't think she's up to (or has ever been capable of) prosecuting even an entry-level garden-variety misdemeanor DUI case. The only conclusion I can come up with is that corruption w/in this state's Democratic supermajority party is obviously as deep as it's long-standing.
We know how she became AG. It was at the intersection of Slutsville and WOC.
There's a reason why so many refer to her as "Heels up Harris".
Nice summary but why no mention of Willie Brown?
Carried by the wind is a nice euphemism for sleeping your way to the top
She won at the pole.
Holeee-shit, what do people think it means, when they say she was "Willie Brown's protege."? She rose to the AGs office without ever being subjected to a vote or public performance review, just promotion after promotion with no real record of accomplishment to account for it.
😂😉😂😉
Chaney certainly rose to the occasion by becoming POTUS- without having to get elected as such. It may be awhile before that magic act is surpassed. Heck, it was so magical that it was largely unrecognized by the general public. Then or now.
No defense of Chaney but hating him and his politics is no reason to think he was not a shrewd, hard nosed D.C. operative. The entire meme of him being the shadow POTUS is a bit of manufactured political attack. He did have undue influence on G. Bush but that is true of a few other V.P.'s too. Harris could not even get a few votes in the primary. She personally was rejected by Democrats only to be tapped by Biden because of her gender and race. Other V.P's have been selected for their regional appeal or vote getting ability so Biden's criteria had some basis. Thing is she is a huge drag on this Administrations' agenda and public face.
I don't hate Cheney or his politics. I simply believe he and the most of the Bush cabinet members should be in jail right now for illegally invading another sovereign nation. This resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent lives and U.S. military service members. It also unnecessarily cost the U.S. taxpayer an estimated $7-8T of net operating debt that has hamstrung our national security and economic prosperity ever since. If Americans were not so easily manipulated into war and blood lust, these murderers would, at a minimum, have been impeached while in office.
I don’t know, I think Obama is doing a good job currently phoning it in
I think she is over Xanaxing for GAD…General Anxiety Disorder… the inappropriate cackling is also a symptom.
I think that might be a great 'distance diagnosis'.
"V..P. Harris might be the exception."
No, Quayle was as dumb as he looked. He belongs in this category as well.
You exaggerate about Harris. She doesn't sound like a moron. She just sounds like a cloyingly bland, milquetoast, paint-by-numbers politician who's phoning it in, with literally nothing original to say. That's acceptable, maybe, for a House rep from Nobodycaresville county, but not for the freaking VP of the nation.
Counterpoint: being a cloyingly bland milquetoast anything who phones it in is not acceptable for any human being.
If it's unacceptable, then how do you plan on addressing that unacceptability? Bear in mind that doing nothing means you've accepted it.
She happened to fit the bill, in terms of gender and ethnicity, in order to allow Biden to be appointed. She also passed the same teleprompter reading class with high marks...and extra credit for never deviating from the script.
Because she’s nowhere near as dumb as she acts , it’s a cynical dumbing down of the message that appeals to her constituents and got her elected multiple times, her constituents being among some of the most insipid, simple morons in the country .
While the act might get you elected on a local or even Statewide election it is not so "cute" when practiced on a national scale or the worldwide stage. As a V.P.. if possible she should drop the dumb act, if it is an act. I really think she is either of a low IQ or has some sort of learning disability. Complexity and nuance appear to be beyond her abilities.
She is what it looks like when you fuck your way into politics, and then become the face of an ideology, and then allowing this to outpace learned skill. At every single point she failed up, simply because she was what the modern Democratic party wants to look like: multi-cultural, female centric. But when you put superficial characteristics ahead of earned skills such as appealing across aisles to an oppositional group, giving speeches, and various other skills that politicians who fight their way up the ladder learn, Harris is what you get.
She might be a bright person, but she doesn't have the chops to be running at the level of VP, let along president. And no amount of smarts will cover for that.
That’s why she didn’t even get 2% of the vote in the primaries…
Yeah, Quayle was no Spiro Agnew or Kamala Harris, for sure!
From my perspective, you can add Spiro Agnew, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale and Al Gore to that list.
They were just run of the mill politicians. Problem is there are no "qualifications" for holding political office. You get what you get from the general population. Hopefully the good cancels out the bad or the bad is not as bad as we might think. Then again the voters are not the "cream of the intellectual crop" either. Then again those geniuses like Robert McNamara and other "academics" can and do cause havoc on a large scale. No real solution to the disparate abilities of elected officials except an unbiased free press. Thing is that ship has sailed and the media now chooses sides.
There is one major qualification. Unbridled Narcissism. Normal people don't think of themselves the way politicians do. They recognize their own personal flaws, and understand that no one person can 'change the world.'
Maybe we should move to an "arranged marriage" situation. In my state we vote for Lt. Gov separately from Gov. Maybe we should be doing the same on the national level; vote for President separately from Vice Pres. Then they have to figure out how to work with each other rather than compete with each other which has been Harris' MO. She loathes the fact that the demented Biden is actually in the place she thinks she should be in.
Nice hair, though, and that's worked for Newsome and Romney so...who's up next?
You're absolutely correct that "[w]ithout accountability civilization is lost."
Lying -- like any other deeply antisocial behavior, including theft, murder, etc. -- can be justified by one "side" only when, say, (the human beings on) that side are under a genuine existential threat, and are so through no fault of its own. But then, of course, those sides are at war.
Among today's greatest threats to the West is that lying is being *normalized*, no longer an occasion that is duly punished once exposed. It now regularly supports, in tandem, such things as the murder widely justified through warmongering, and the theft justified in bankstering.
All trust has been broken so lying succeeds.
War justifies murder, which imo is why we got the forever war against terror in 2001. Whoever did it, it was used as a power grab.
And check the list of geniuses who continually vote to renew The Patriot Act. We were like lambs led to the slaughter.
No, we got the Patriot Act. And the public keeps electing folks that aim to keep it operational--forever. Time for everyone to demand that be flushed down the toilet. That's how a functioning Republic would work.
Ding ding ding.
You see, the real culprits here are not the neocons who installed the Patriot Act, greenlit a new level of surveillance state, and left a generation of soldiers dead or damaged.
The real culprit is the people who elected them, re-elected them, and continue to re-elect them. The solid half of the public--spanning both the GOP and the Dems-- who like to complain about the Bush/neocon wars now, but supported them with chest-beating enthusiasm, because they turned off their brains and let themselves be led around by a narrow, short-sighted jingoistic fever after 9-11.
As Carlin said, people claim "politicians suck!", but maybe, just maybe, they suck because something else sucks even more. Like...the public. The public sucks. (or at least about 60-70% of it)
Not only that, we got Homeland Security, and ODNI. Plus a fourth branch of government, consisting of the
ODNI, DOJ, and FBI. The intelligence branch.
I disagree. Those are all flavors of the executive branch. I still believe the free press to be the only legitimate 4th branch of government. However they've been MIA for decades now-- or (arguably) more. My goal is help Substack change that reality by being a paid and active subscriber. I appreciate everyone else here doing the same--regardless of their beliefs or opinions.
That's okay. You believe whatever you like.
Thanks for speaking to my point. However, I doubt Trump showed any "new path[s]" during his tenure. He had 4 years to begin turning the aircraft carrier around. I didn't see it change course, substantively, one bit. The swamp stayed full to the brim.
There is no accountability at the FBI. Read the latest whitewash of how they handled the case against Nasser (the USA Gymnastics team doctor and pervert). There is no accountability in the DoD - look at all of the Generals that lied about what was going on in Afghanistan (or worse, didn't even know they were lying). Look at the cops in Uvalde, TX.
The FBI has been CONTINUOUSLY caught spying on Americans. It just happened again about a month ago.
Their response is to say, “sorry, we’ll fix it and do better”. But they do neither. There seems to be no mechanism to hold them accountable.
Yeah and really “ at this point, what difference does it make ?? “ More arrogant vitriol from the Queen of Mean.
But but but but trump!
Millions suffered from the financial criminals and their enablers in government throughout the Western world. Millions thrown out of their home's by the criminal rule of law. Many of them black and the people re elected Obomber. Anyone who has any faith or hope in the system has my sympathy, you are beyond hope.
Then Pooh said, “Fuck off Eeyore”
Thing is, those people being IN those homes was part of the scam. The crime wasn't throwing them out of the houses, the crime was giving them mortgage loans they couldn't realistically be expected to pay off.
And without an independent press to report it, there never will be accountability. This next election is desperate in two parts: First, I think the Dems can corrupt the voting process sufficiently to ensure they never lose again, but I don't think it's in place enough to cover the huge disgust people feel for their capitulation to the crazies in their party. Second, if they ever DO get in power again, the last bastion to fall with be the judicial system. Not sure how they're going to manage it, perhaps by "court-packing" and increasing the number of judges suddenly, when they hold all the appointment power.
They they will hold the culture, the press, the corporations, the universities and the judicial system. And we're done.
Here in CA we're already there with a one-party system, the Dems having achieved it with the jungle primary and unsupervised ballot boxes. Nutsom actually came out and said it; The republican party is done in CA.
I always found the "election was stolen" by Trump supporters childish and petulant, except that in a sense, they were right. The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting. What the Democrats and their allies in the FBI and media did is a different kind of election theft. They broke laws and abused government powers to delegitimize an opponent, spent years investigating him on nothing more than fiction, and awarded themselves prizes for journalism in the process.
The failure of the Democrats and the progressive institutional media to recognize that the loss of confidence by the conservative half in the voting process has less to do with wild theories of mysterious ballots and broken pipes on election night, but far more to do with that they clearly rigged the laws and abused government powers to take down a sitting president. After all, the same people who'd easily break laws and commit grave corruption are certainly people who'd have no problems with faking ballots because it'd be in the name of good. I don't think they necessarily did the latter, but they definitely did the former, and therein lies the problem and the massive lost of confidence by large numbers of Americans in the electoral system. And it automatically corrupts future elections too as long as nothing happens and the guilty parties simply walk away intact.
"The voting may have been "clean" by the established rules, but there's more than one way to steal an election that doesn't involve voting."
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Yet to this day nobody can explain why the swing states stopped counting when Trump only needed one or two more states, then in the morning those states were flipped based on numbers so lopsided they weren't repeated anywhere else in the country. In other words, Biden got exactly the votes he needed, exactly WHERE he needed them, and exactly WHEN he needed them.
And none of this has been explained at all. Instead the Democrats put up walls in DC, arrested anybody near 1/6, and have acted EXACTLY LIKE a group that stole the election.
Agree. I have no idea if there was actual large-scale vote malfeasance during the election. However, the way "the elite" have reacted seems exactly how someone would react if there was.
It doesn't even have to be large-scale. 5 Democratic stronghold cities in 5 battleground states is all it took.
which is why the "widespread" modifier was always a red herring.
Mayor Daley (father) showed how to do this.
American Pharoah is a great book.
He was sui generis, that's for sure.
When the marketing department brands it, "The Big Lie," it does appear someone is trying too hard.
If something happened, it happened with Covid mail in ballots and ballot harvesting before Election Day. If Trump wasn’t a nimrod concerning bureaucracy, he would have had the DoJ investigating/cracking down on these practices years in advance of the election.
If Trump was consistent in defending democracy there would have been an investigation into the DNC primary “collusion.”
Most definitely
As has been said many times "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it just might be a duck."
Absurd. "To this day" every one of the patently absurd arguments Trump's lackeys' trotted out as evidence of election theft have been explained ad nauseam. Just because you like to pretend that Trump's delusions are real does nothing to change this. Has "The Kraken" put in an appearance yet? Maybe you should send Sidney Powell some money so she can get that out at some point. Maybe call up Mike Lindell and see how his tireless investigation is going? Wasn't that going to rock everyone's world a while back? Hell, track down that guy who, back in 2016, was claiming that he had ALL the evidence of "millions" of illegal votes for Clinton in California. Millions I say! He was going to present the evidence and blow everyone's mind with The Truth, wasn't he?
You right wing nut jobs are all the same.
Really? Because I still haven't seen a good explanation of GA kicking people out of the counting process and then pulling ballots from under tables to restart 'counting' when nobody was looking.
The 'fact checkers' simply state the ballots weren't in suitcases, so it's fine.
The 'fact checkers' state a whole lot more than that: No one was "kicked out" of the room. The people in the room were either 'cutters' (prepping ballots for scanning) or 'scanners' who were actually doing the scanning(counting). The 'cutters' had finished - all ballots were opened and placed back into the cases. They then left because THEIR WORK WAS DONE. Those aren't "witnesses" they are the workers. And they weren't "kicked out", they had finished and were leaving for the night. The scanners were just continuing to go about their business of SCANNING THE PREPARED BALLOTS. And every bit of this is attested to by the TRUMP SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS who were in charge of the process.
There. I did your homework for you. But you people always operate in bad faith. You never saw a "good explanation" because you never looked - just blindly accepted whatever OAN or Sidney Powell said.
Wow you're high. That's not even close to what happened and it's plain by watching the video
I have the video that OAN showed right in front of me. Where are the "witnesses" being dragged out? I don't see anyone yelling or protesting or being escorted from the premises. I see some bored looking people going about their work. Where, exactly, in the video is the diabolical activity you allege? I assume you are the person whose been hiding the "Kraken"? Why haven't you released it yet? And as a reminder: you are several comments in now, and have presented no response besides, "Nuh uh!".
Even the bluest shitlibs concede Bernie got jobbed by the DNC on HRC direction. Yes I shot the sheriff but this deputy thing is an outrage? Stfu
Seems odd that the assertions and caterwauling by Al Gore and the entire Democrat Party in 2000 were never met with much criticism but were encouraged and even sent to the Supreme Court for settlement. No nut job name calling for this hysterical mob. Many books were written by dissatisfied Democrats about this election without them being castigated and attacked.
While this 2020 election might have been on the up and up it sure had all the hallmarks of a rigged enterprise. The average individual, whose confidence is necessary, sure did not think Mr. Biden was a stellar example of an 83 million voter winner.
While ALL the Trump haters did not car one way or the other but only wanted him gone even if it were a stolen election. Not ONE Democrat even questioned one vote tells you all you need to know about that Parties concern for an honest election. They had scores of attorneys and Judges standing by in the event that Trump was declared the winner.
This was not an election but a managed stage show to rush Biden's installation into the Office of the Presidency. Even the video evidence of 2000 Mules does not change ONE Democrats mind. That should tell you all you need to know about their unbiased take on this election. Move on nothing to see here. If 2000 Mules were made by Mike Moore after a Biden loss there would be the usual riots and intimidation by the Communists and their Democrat pawns.
In 2000, the entire election came down to a few hundred votes in one state. And the state's governor was the brother of one of the candidates. If there was ever a time for adjudication, this was it.
And yes, Al Gore, who was claiming even before the election that if he lost it was because Bush cheated, then ran around the country filing a series of lawsuits that got laughed out of court for their absurd claims, called up Secretary's of State to demand that they "find some more votes", and after the Supreme Court ruled, tried to overthrow the results, tried to get Democrats to make up fake sets of electors, AND sent a violent mob to attack Congress and stop the certification... Oh wait. He did NONE of those things. He called up Bush and conceded.
Oh no! Democrats wrote angry books afterwards!? Inconceivable! What horror! How dare they!
Hmm, next, you babble nonsensically for s couple paragraphs about the "average individual, whose confidence is necessary"(this sounds like a bad Japanese to English translation: "I'm disrespectful to dirt! Can't you see I'm serious?") and some silly movie from that guy, whatisname, that Indian-American ex con who only dumb right wingers like. John Philip Sousa, right? Didn't he play in a marching band or something?
Anyway, then you are going on about why didn't Democrats challenge any votes, I think. I mean, they won. Why bother challenging anything? And the Democrats had "scores of attorneys and Judges standing by"? Really? Where? Were they all hiding in a closet? Maybe stashed in bunkers? If you are going to just make things up, it helps to add some details. They lend increased verisimilitude.
Meanwhile, reality showed us that Trump REALLY DID have a bunch of lawyers standing by in the event that Biden was declared the winner. Project much?
You are really coming off badly here. I recommend reading your post a few times BEFORE making it public.
Maybe they didn’t steal the election. But Donna Brazil’s book concedes that rigging and stealing elections is in their tool box. Your condescending makes you look even dumber than you actually are. Keep talking so as to confirm.
You can't explain away 2000 Mules. I think Trump's an unethical grifting moron, and I also believe, as the Time article pretty much stated in an almost visible watermark, that the DNC, with a long history of urban election chicanery, used COVID and absentee ballots to produce votes.
And I also believe Gore would have won that election had SCOTUS not stopped the counting, and think we'd have been in a much better position had he won instead of the Neocons.
Both/and. And humility. Try it.
Lol. I don't need to explain away any of Dinesh D'Souza's ridiculous movies. They are not now, nor have ever been, of any value whatsoever, either factually or artistically. There are so many superior options, why waste precious time on something so far beneath me?
And what Time article "proves" that the 2020 election was stolen? Seems like that would be big news.
Oh, and of course you like to "believe" the election was stolen but can't produce a shred of evidence. Meanwhile, it doesn't seem at all weird to you that Trump, the least popular president ever, who despite being enormously out-voted and barely squeaked into office because of the Electoral College, and spent the next 4 years basically pissing off everyone except his little cult, somehow got 74 million votes when EVERYONE was turning out to vote against him? Sounds a lot more likely that Republicans were manufacturing votes.
Finally, as far as humility goes, there is nothing arrogant about blowing up pathetic arguments with extreme prejudice. Rather, it is richly deserved and those making said pathetic arguments ought to be properly humiliated into, hopefully, shutting up until they gain some measure of intelligence and maturity, and are capable of presenting a worthwhile case.
Half of those judges who adjuncticated the election irregularities (ones only Trump officials saw) were republicans. The 2000 mules? i've seen it and thought it was hilarious, how anyone could imagine that video footage (which is rather easily created these days, but even if it weren't) presented anything like 'proof'. Also, the so called 'data' were given to Georgia election officials (all republicans) who examined it and said there is no there there. It is fabricated. You don't need evidence for an opinion, but you actually need evidence in a court of law. It is also hilarious you think because you cannot imagine Joe Biden being the winner, it must not have happened. Trump lost; get over it.
After 2016 huge segments of American society never accepted Trump's win and continued to believe with all their hearts that he stole the election with Russian help.
Delusional thinking is probably equally divided within the political junky world. With modern instant communication and the social media platforms this tendency is multiplied by 1000 so we have this ongoing cacophony of disgruntled voters. Not sure it it will be any different next election.
Very, very simple to discredit. Since they claimed to have the geo-location of the cell phones of the mules just go and interview a sampling of those identified and show them the video and request an explanation. If they don't have one and are instructed as to their legal jeopardy some might just give up the scheme and who paid them or gave them the ballots to dump.
Or if this is made up it will become obvious instantly and the law suits can begin. Lot of money being made by the producers and if fake it would be nice to relieve them of it. But seems no one wants to make a pile of money challenging the movie. Odd lawyers are always skulking around like vultures when there is easy money to be made. Any law suits filed yet?
Paid Brockroaches are super fucking boring.
Exactly.
It has not been explained because "that," as in "this," attains purchase exclusively in your fantasies.
You can keep ignoring the elephant in the room but you look increasingly partisan simply calling names and always siding with the swamp.