Two years ago, Twitter emails offered voters a peek at state censorship. Now, they can be a road map for incoming investigators. Where they might search for wrongdoing
American voters did not vote for the government to crawl up it's own ass looking for past sins. Burn that into our brain pans. I agree about supporting Matt 100 percent, btw.
But believing that American voters are going to lose much sleep over whether or not the folks who screwed everyone over are going to be "held to account" is delusional in the extreme. They didn't give a fuck then, they don't give a fuck now, and they're definitely not going to give a fuck in the future.
Like all victims of this sort of gang screwing, the vast majority of voters just want the misery of inflation, expensive entanglements abroad, bad food, bad healthcare, and broken streets and schools to end. Period.
Yeah, we want the things you say, Paul--but we also want, many of us do, accountability for a whole range of outrages, including government censorship. It is possibility, at least theoretically, for all of these things to be addressed.
One more quick reply - I just went to X and Vivek is already squeezing GOP balls very publicly. I'd sincerely like to be proven completely wrong about my current suspicion that very little will actually change. If Elon is able to use X as the public square to actually shame Congress into doing its job I'll race to gulp down steaming piles of crow.
Change is absolutely what I want, I've just never believed I'd live to see it. I still don't.
Just finished my first plate. CR bill dead thanks in large part to Vivek, Elon, and the X community. Hope Walter's paying attention, today should put a smile on everyone's face!
Cheers. I think the "we" part needs some serious unpacking.
I noted elsewhere just now that America's response to COVID (cave, eat Ding-Dongs, hold out for a Big Pharma rescue, and avoid exercise even if that means f-ing our kids) doesn't suggest American consumers are remotely interested in tightening their own belts even a fraction of an inch.
Nothing I've seen suggests Americans have any interest in change, or doing more than stuffing their faces, binging on Netflix, and hoping that somehow things will improve - just coz. So, let me know when that community find "accountability" while engaged in online shopping. That's the real trade off and voters have demonstrated clearly where they sit.
While I can agree that many Americans do not much more that "stuffing their faces, binging on Netflix, and hoping that somehow things will improve", IMO your extrapolation to the general population is specious. We just resoundingly elected the greatest change agent since......Teddy Roosevelt? Americans DO have interest in change; the problem is staying power and attention span, IMO. We need things to get bad enough before we wake up, but it's a mistake to underestimate the basic spirit and sense of self-preservation of the American people.
Oh, please. Stop whining, europussies. The USA's got Trump back in charge, and he has a team of smart, ruthless firebrands who are willing to use all of their might to crush the world propaganda cartel in ways that even he lacks the stomach for. The deep state jackals in DC are already looking for the exits.
It's axiomatic when discussing the masses, "the American voters," to point out our willful ignorance. (You too are a member of the masses, Mr. Harper, and thank Christ people like you are out there to remind us here back in the herd that once in a while some public-spirited citizen disengages from his pursuit of Truth and Beauty to look out for our best interests.) Of course we Joe Six-Pack types just want to be left alone to live our lives, which can be difficult enough to cope with without taking to the streets or manning the barricades or whatever it is we're supposed to do to protect ourselves from being exploited by our elected representatives and their bureaucratic toadies. Oh, right, voting. There's that.
This is why a few of those perched, hawk-like, above the mob from time to time take it upon themselves to selflessly do the necessary work to keep government in check for the rest of us, you know, like the PRESS?
Well, now that the mainstream corporate press has proven to be a whorish gaggle of yuppies currying favor with the state to establish their cooperative control of us sheep, we need to rely on antiestablishment pros like Taibbi here and Schellenberger and Greenwald, et. al. to provide us lazy ignorant proles with the information we need when we decide to pry our fat asses out of our La-Z-Boys to go vote or to drop our mail-in-ballots in the nearest mail slot so we can take some comfort in the fact that our fairly elected leaders can work for us while we dutifully pay the IRS for that privilege. We'll pay attention to them during the void between football and baseball seasons.
More thanks to God are required, I suppose, for the un-vast minority who demand justice to punish "the folks who screwed everyone over" on behalf of us lumpenproles who helplessly and naïvely want "the misery of inflation, expensive entanglements abroad, bad food, bad healthcare, and broken streets and schools to end."
Tis not where we live, Bull, but how we live. I live in the present, in a world of fact, and as free of "reasons" to excuse my own dishonesty and sloth as possible. Folks are free to choose their own path. A few can't control their BMI for medical reasons. Most can, and many who can don't - at great cost to the rest of us, especially kids - see COVID lockdowns, etc.
Glad you enjoyed my comments. Many thanks for the kind words! You're welcome!
Aw hell no! 1) Too many lives were ruined and/or lost and too many economies disrupted and too many friendships and families destroyed too many freedoms trampled upon and too many trillions of dollars were stolen from treasuries . . . . all as the result of deliberate COVID lies and censorship. 2) The people and the apparatus which made all this possible lies intact, funded, and waiting for a chance to make it (or something worse) happen again. This CANNOT be allowed to stand.
Investigations, arrests, trials, and punishment must be meted out accordingly. To me that means Nuremburg-style tribunals and gallows.
They. Want all that and more. The migrant crisis has already crippled our nation. No one knows who is what or where. We are a compassionate nation, but have reached the end of our limits.
Trump should pardon Ed Snowden and make him a member of a team investigating all of this. Snowden has very useful knowledge and insight that could help a great deal.
Regrettably, I believe you are correct on both points. What Trump should do and what he will do are two different things. Perhaps, motivated by vindictiveness or retribution or some other bad motive, he'll end up doing the right thing. Maybe. But probably not.
"Virtually every media outlet stressed it was an 'independent' decision.
But as one prominent law professor explained to me, removals of this type could only work only if all of the companies censored essentially the same material at once. "
Reminds me of all the lockstep maneuvres of the COVID Mania era. We were meant to believe that governments across the West all just happened to decide upon near-identical insane actions at the same time.
Updated with US obesity graph: 1959-2018 below. Shocking!
Precisely. And let's remember how Americans responded then - more cup cakes, less exercise, more anxiety, and endless wailing for big pharma to ride to the rescue.
The fact that Americans and many here seem to believe that RFK Jr. is going to transform a nation of anxious tubbies into fit, stand strong individuals over night, or at all is the clearest sign of how warped our thinking has become.
Does anyone really believe that the average American doesn't understand that eating Ding-Dongs and sitting on the couch isn't killing us? Really?
Fat America understand full well the risks and the benefits and chooses the chocolate over the apples more than 70 percent of the time.
Americans at this point in time want to be 'taken care of' by somebody, or some entity. Do you believe people who can't or won't control what they put into their bodies are likely to be more judicious about what they put between their ears, and about what gets them off?
Well, Paul...was that in reply to my post? Or just something in general?
Here is how it works. Inducing fear/anxiety activates dependency needs in those who have not yet worked past them. They crawl back into the womb, figuratively, by running towards a master+herd which promise to take care of them. Instead of towards freedom.
The price of the former is that they will always be expected to answer as lackey to that master and herd. They will never have an "I'. Never self-differentiate. I think it's a bad deal, but this is very tempting to some. And the equally needy masters really, really hunger for the admiration of those lackeys. Match made in Heaven.
We saw this kind of set-up produced blatantly in Jonestown, for example. The psychopathic attention-seeking leader riding roughshod over the vulnerable followers. Now that is a relatively small group and a very specific context, but the general principle holds.
"Does anyone really believe that the average American doesn't understand that eating Ding-Dongs and sitting on the couch isn't killing us? Really?"
You could say the same thing about alcoholism or drug addiction or chronic gambling. Of course they understand. But the Beast of the lower brain has them in its grasp.
Ever read the work of Jack Trimpey? Kathryn Hansen?
Nope, and I regard psychological/behaviors and chemical dependencies as interdependent, but separate. Plenty of folks exercise and drink, smoke, etc. Agree very much with the lower brain being in charge. Best.
Just visited an X thread wherein a young intelligent chap admitted to complete ChatGPT dependence even for ordinary exchanges with ChatGPT providing responses, suggestions.
Which raises a question: if two such young people similarly reliant on ChatGPT are conversing, are the two really talking, or are they simply two nodes of ChatGPT talking to itself? Similarly, if individual A is relying on AI X, B is relying on AI Y, wouldn't this be AI X conversing with AI Y?
I wouldn't be surprised at all, seriously, if we manage to dumb ourselves down within a year or two, to the point where we won't know enough, as the saying goes, to pour warm piss out of our boots. For real.
Meanwhile, what's trending on Tik-Tok, and Instram? That's what's really worth discussing.
I think we need to rethink evolution as adapting. We assume "we" evolve because the body of knowledge that exists increases, as do the efficacy and variety of tools we devise. Better diets lead to taller, stronger people with longer lives among the sensible. Our brains on the other hand.
What, pray tell, do YOU do for a living while we lazy Americans apply for Social Security disability payments after we've drained our unemployment insurance pools, you sanctimonious twit?
Do you believe that the refrigerators we raid, the hovels we live in, the sewers we egest our chocolate into are built and maintained by Elon Musk's robot squad? Are the roads on which we drive to our nearest McDonald's built and maintained by hordes of illegal immigrants? Can it be true that the 82nd and 101st Airborne or the Rangers or Special Forces have already been supplanted by fat transsexuals operating Space Force drones? Has every single "native-born American" turned into the equivalent of Jabba the Hutt?
Why don't you ask the millions of "native-born Americans" who have worked themselves into arthritis or alcoholism or endless depression why they don't get busy? It's too late for you toask the native-born Americans who have worked themselves into early graves this question. More's the pity.
New York Times needs to concede and give up those 2 Pulitzer Prizes they won for fake journalism copying and pasting Intel Agency Russia Russia Russia narratives into the Gray Lady.
They should give those 2 Pulitzers to Matt Taibbi and the FBI should be required to hand deliver them to Matt's front door along with a dozen Krispy Kreme's and a heartfelt apology hand written by Christopher Wray himself.
My question is this….Even if the truth is shown, that is evidence is presented that the Biden Administration and its cohorts in innumerable Agencies violated our first amendment rights to push their agenda, just exactly what punishment will occur and who will dole out this “punishment”?
The evidence, so far I think, has helped to move public opinions and ushered in an appetite for more transparency. The election of Trump was a clear repudiation of the Democrat lead, politically motivated, globalist inspired, censorship heavy, anti-populist actions that the Biden administration embraced. Their dwindling positions of power and manipulations, while far from justice, are a satisfying blow to their narcissistic egos.
Like the "drug war" and the "illegals" problem the actual grift is swallowing billions in tax treasure. Personal privacy is the issue for our fellow citizens but the actual virtue signaling perps could care less. Placement of political operatives disguised as public servants, whose actual job is maintenance of the psyop that runs cover for the central banking DNC/IMF/EU Davos crowd, is the actual reality. Over 30 trillion dollars in largely unaccounted for public debt imprisoning Americans inside a drug addled landscape of crumbling infrastructure, gutted industry and a looted economy. Our recent Presidential election proves that a truthful/fact based American reality can overcome the "lie". Depart the psyop and live.
An after the fact investigation into Federal government control of free speech is warranted. My preferred outcome would be naming the primary individuals involved in every agency, up to and including President Biden. I am not so much looking for punishment in terms of legal convictions. With pardons in hand, legal accountability would tie up valuable time for four years or more. Tell us who these people are or were and get them out of government.
While justice would be satisfying, dismantling the architecture of federal control & manipulation of information & suppression of dissent must be the most important outcome.
And that actually happening, in a tamper-resistant manner, is still far from assured. That should be Job One for the incoming Administration. Make this sort of covert message coordination & dissent banning generally recognized & impossible in the future.
Damned good question & not easy to accomplish. That's why I say it's Job One, because we can be sure that the Deep State, the agencies, will protect themselves & they're fine with taking scorched-earth destructive action to accomplish their objectives. You _can't_ "un-ring the bell." You can only make what was done, at what cost, known & understood.
Exposure to the point where every tried-and-true maneuver they trot out is obvious & seen for what it is would be a start. Exposure of their bought-and-paid-for allies in Congress & the complicity of the traditional media, A rollback of unquestioned authorities & abilities to operate off-budget & in the dark would have to be presented & passed in Congress, essentially a reversal of the unconstitutional features of the Patriot Act & other oxymoronic legislation that gives them clear sailing as they move us to a Totalitarian state, ruled by bureaucrats & the money & power behind them.
I don't know if any of that's even possible at this point, but there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. I'm just hoping it's not a reflection off some bureaucrat's cuff links or an overdose of hopium.
You appreciate the difficulty and that is good. Too many people think this is some quick, easy fix. Even cutting off the money (which we can see the establishment Republicans aren't on board) isn't the whole story, since at some later time, the money can turn back on.
What I think it will take is exposing and driving out the people involved (from whatever hole they are hiding in). They must suffer for their error, or their error will be repeated again and again.
As Robert Barnes has pointed out, that is a double-edged sword. If you want justice, tough luck. But the blanket pardons erase their 5th Amendment protection from self-incrimination. If they have been pardoned, they can be compelled to testify, or suffer the consequences.
It may be enough, at least at the start, to shine a bright light on the who, what, and where and watch the roaches scatter.
Well, that and revoke the security clearances of anyone whose sticky fingerprints can be found on any of these activities. If nothing else, having their noses slapped out of the fresh from the source intelligence information trough would put a crimp on their value as an "expert" talking head.
Whoever doles out punishment better be ready to get punished in the next iteration. Bad business, this, not sure who started it, but it's been going on a while.
Trump may as well follow Biden's example, and provide blanket clemency for any and all persons in his administration, for any and all actions taken during the course of their lifetimes.
Subscription journalism, still in its infancy, continues to play a major role in creation of the healthy national truth/fact based conversation We the People deserve. What should have been an explosion of freedom and a new world consciousness was turned into an electronic sewer by billionaire Davos elitism and the bureaucratic surveillance mechanism that serves it. My opinion (I know you didn't ask for it)-- The advertising model that supports the MSM/psyop is in collapse. Likewise YouTube and similar platforms will eventually be forced to exist on direct subscription or perish. Individual abandonment of the psyop and a realignment/contemplation of exactly who and what We the People are allowing into our minds and lives is the beginning of a return to the healthy truth/fact based American reality all free peoples deserve. It's time to step away from the sewer, depart the psyop and live.
I'd love to believe we'd get a better-than-the-Church-Commission response to this, but I don't think we will. The corruption, and complacency, runs too deep. Sure, some of us will be upset - but we'll be dismissed as the fringe.
Don't pin your hopes on one person. Every August, Rep. Massie delivers his rebuke about the coming budget crisis that will be "resolved" by a Christmas omnibus or Continuing Resolution. Does anyone pay attention? Does anyone care? Nope - they vote for the same people, election after election.
And for gawdsakes don't plead for more Executive power at the expense of Congress.
No one. There is no one person to make it right. Begging for that is begging for Napoleon, for Caesar, and if there was ONE THING our entire federal government was designed to do, it was to keep that from happening because PEOPLE, just like you, are prone to wanting the Great Man to save them.
I am so thankful for the work you have done and hope it is utilized to punish criminals and uncover corruption. The Government is much to large and powerful no matter who is in charge.
If you are following the story out of Canada about Troodo losing two Cabinet Ministers within minutes on Monday morning -- Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland (hated by Trump) among them....one journalist finally called everyone out on the phony interpretation about Troodo going after "strong principled women".
Much as I do NOT support Troodo, neither did I support those supposedly "strong principled women" he ousted over the years. They were as bad as he was. They just happened to get caught when the music stopped. Chrystia Freeland especially.
The whole government should have resigned after a Nazi war criminal was given a standing ovation by the Canadian parliament. Maybe the whole parliament should have resigned!
Hey, the entire US Congress cheered Net N Yahoo as he told his lies while running a genocide at home. The entire western world is sick and the world will be better off without us.
I find it interesting that as of this writing, 8 people liked Gogs’s comment, but I’m the first clicking on yours. Interesting that a lot of seemingly right-thinking people still don’t have a problem with the Israeli murdering.
Exactly. You could see the Chrystia Freeland machinations begin almost immediately with her "mention" that she would be running for her seat again in the next election.
And then all that baloney about "strong principled women as martyrs to Troodo" began making the rounds.
I do not have enough negative things to say about Troodo, but Chrystia Freeland was Thing 2 to Troodo's Thing 1. For many years they were a matched set.
Now all of a sudden, we are meant to believe that she is a highly principled person being martyred by the bad guy? He IS a bad guy....but she is NOT a martyr. Given half a chance, she would do worse. She was on the board at WEF, for goodness' sake.
Freeland is the one who gleefully de-banked the Truckers and their families (she laughed while she announced this) and who has journalists in Canada arrested for asking her legitimate questions which she finds inconvenient.
Yes, she is an absolute disaster, prime purveyor of the Modern Monetary Theory which is not a theory at all, it is an alibi for those who wanted to break the bank, which is now duly broken, they have borrowed more in 9 years than all previous govt combined in 148 years and we now pay more in interest charges than we spend on health care.
She is one of the architects of this disaster, since day one in 2015.
Election now so she can lose her seat as well.
BTW, today is day 3348 in our experiment in Clown-based government, and its going as well as we always knew it would.
Pat, I called another Troodo disaster in the making when Justin came of age years ago. I could see it coming. But too many in Canada were still under the Troodo spell or the Troodo bribes.
And then JT had a little help from his friends in CCP China to win election #2 and #3.
More like Lady Macbeth and the witches together in one evil person. Hello, we had a Governor General "our Head of State representing the Queen NOW King of England", Julie Payette arrogant as a person can be. Actually beat up her husband and after finally firing her, she's on the dole for hundreds of thousands of dollars as long as she lives. Being the fool I was, I thought women couldn't be as bad as men...haaaa.
Chrystia Freeland outdoes even Julie Payette. And there are plenty of career women out there who would steamroll anyone in their way. Ethics not required.
I suspect the Bidens got revenge against the Obamas by cutting Michelle Obama off the ticket, as she had long planned to be the 2024 candidate. But for the Obamas to scream about this in public would have outed their own nefarious plans for continuing power.
It's amazing, that just the specter of Trump becoming President has inspired such panic amongst the globalists. The lights came on and the WEF roaches all started CYA operations.
Interesting article, in that it underscores the common practice of bringing up irrelevancies like a person's sex or ethnic origin to avoid discussing the real issues at hand. Deflection, in a word.
Thanks Sue. I had watched that or something similar one time, years ago, shaking my head that Chrystia Freeland would talk so supposedly sincerely about income equality. She is a board member at WEF (or was until recently....no one is sure now). She is one of the globalists who rake in as much wealth as they can for themselves, while they "redistribute" the wealth of their minions.
I recall her Plutocrats book.
All I can say is that hypocrisy is a requisite feature for any globalist. And that Chrystia was building smokescreens in those days, the better to fool the average voter.
As you may know, her grandfather was Michael Chomiak, the prominent WWII Ukrainian Nazi, and her mother left Canada to return to the Ukraine as a George Soros lawyer.
So Chrystia can try to play Anne of Green Gables all she wants, but the green paint is peeling very badly. Isn't there a green-paint role in the new film, WICKED? Chrystia might be perfect!
So glad you're continuing to dog this, Matt, and I do hope a few private sector and public sector heads will roll (figuratively, for God sakes, FIGURATIVELY!) for this obscene intrusion by the government into private companies' supposedly free speech platforms.
More proof that subscribing to Matt is the best investment I make on substack.
Is "Taibbi" related to "tabby"? Asking for a friend.
+ 100!
American voters did not vote for the government to crawl up it's own ass looking for past sins. Burn that into our brain pans. I agree about supporting Matt 100 percent, btw.
But believing that American voters are going to lose much sleep over whether or not the folks who screwed everyone over are going to be "held to account" is delusional in the extreme. They didn't give a fuck then, they don't give a fuck now, and they're definitely not going to give a fuck in the future.
Like all victims of this sort of gang screwing, the vast majority of voters just want the misery of inflation, expensive entanglements abroad, bad food, bad healthcare, and broken streets and schools to end. Period.
Yeah, we want the things you say, Paul--but we also want, many of us do, accountability for a whole range of outrages, including government censorship. It is possibility, at least theoretically, for all of these things to be addressed.
One more quick reply - I just went to X and Vivek is already squeezing GOP balls very publicly. I'd sincerely like to be proven completely wrong about my current suspicion that very little will actually change. If Elon is able to use X as the public square to actually shame Congress into doing its job I'll race to gulp down steaming piles of crow.
Change is absolutely what I want, I've just never believed I'd live to see it. I still don't.
Just finished my first plate. CR bill dead thanks in large part to Vivek, Elon, and the X community. Hope Walter's paying attention, today should put a smile on everyone's face!
More evidence I will? be proven wrong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY_glSDyGUU&t=10s
All In podcast - explain the scale, scope, ramifications of what just happened.
This is different. Start marinating those crow morsels in something that will kill their taste.
Cheers. I think the "we" part needs some serious unpacking.
I noted elsewhere just now that America's response to COVID (cave, eat Ding-Dongs, hold out for a Big Pharma rescue, and avoid exercise even if that means f-ing our kids) doesn't suggest American consumers are remotely interested in tightening their own belts even a fraction of an inch.
Nothing I've seen suggests Americans have any interest in change, or doing more than stuffing their faces, binging on Netflix, and hoping that somehow things will improve - just coz. So, let me know when that community find "accountability" while engaged in online shopping. That's the real trade off and voters have demonstrated clearly where they sit.
While I can agree that many Americans do not much more that "stuffing their faces, binging on Netflix, and hoping that somehow things will improve", IMO your extrapolation to the general population is specious. We just resoundingly elected the greatest change agent since......Teddy Roosevelt? Americans DO have interest in change; the problem is staying power and attention span, IMO. We need things to get bad enough before we wake up, but it's a mistake to underestimate the basic spirit and sense of self-preservation of the American people.
Fat America is a subset of Americans. I know fit and full of energy. Not so sure about desires to change, but we'll see.
Ditto fat Canadians, fat Brits - but as the topic includes RFK jr. riding to the rescue of the tubbies, that's America today, like it or not.
Updated with hard evidence - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10815706/figure/ijerph-21-00073-f001/
Where the FUCK do you live that makes you so high and mighty in your criticisms of us Americans?
Chew on this US obesity graph 1959-2018 tells the entire story, Bull
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10815706/figure/ijerph-21-00073-f001/
And somehow, I'm the one with the problem. Got it!
Oh, please. Stop whining, europussies. The USA's got Trump back in charge, and he has a team of smart, ruthless firebrands who are willing to use all of their might to crush the world propaganda cartel in ways that even he lacks the stomach for. The deep state jackals in DC are already looking for the exits.
It's axiomatic when discussing the masses, "the American voters," to point out our willful ignorance. (You too are a member of the masses, Mr. Harper, and thank Christ people like you are out there to remind us here back in the herd that once in a while some public-spirited citizen disengages from his pursuit of Truth and Beauty to look out for our best interests.) Of course we Joe Six-Pack types just want to be left alone to live our lives, which can be difficult enough to cope with without taking to the streets or manning the barricades or whatever it is we're supposed to do to protect ourselves from being exploited by our elected representatives and their bureaucratic toadies. Oh, right, voting. There's that.
This is why a few of those perched, hawk-like, above the mob from time to time take it upon themselves to selflessly do the necessary work to keep government in check for the rest of us, you know, like the PRESS?
Well, now that the mainstream corporate press has proven to be a whorish gaggle of yuppies currying favor with the state to establish their cooperative control of us sheep, we need to rely on antiestablishment pros like Taibbi here and Schellenberger and Greenwald, et. al. to provide us lazy ignorant proles with the information we need when we decide to pry our fat asses out of our La-Z-Boys to go vote or to drop our mail-in-ballots in the nearest mail slot so we can take some comfort in the fact that our fairly elected leaders can work for us while we dutifully pay the IRS for that privilege. We'll pay attention to them during the void between football and baseball seasons.
More thanks to God are required, I suppose, for the un-vast minority who demand justice to punish "the folks who screwed everyone over" on behalf of us lumpenproles who helplessly and naïvely want "the misery of inflation, expensive entanglements abroad, bad food, bad healthcare, and broken streets and schools to end."
Tis not where we live, Bull, but how we live. I live in the present, in a world of fact, and as free of "reasons" to excuse my own dishonesty and sloth as possible. Folks are free to choose their own path. A few can't control their BMI for medical reasons. Most can, and many who can don't - at great cost to the rest of us, especially kids - see COVID lockdowns, etc.
Glad you enjoyed my comments. Many thanks for the kind words! You're welcome!
Enjoyed your own very much, really!
Aw hell no! 1) Too many lives were ruined and/or lost and too many economies disrupted and too many friendships and families destroyed too many freedoms trampled upon and too many trillions of dollars were stolen from treasuries . . . . all as the result of deliberate COVID lies and censorship. 2) The people and the apparatus which made all this possible lies intact, funded, and waiting for a chance to make it (or something worse) happen again. This CANNOT be allowed to stand.
Investigations, arrests, trials, and punishment must be meted out accordingly. To me that means Nuremburg-style tribunals and gallows.
They. Want all that and more. The migrant crisis has already crippled our nation. No one knows who is what or where. We are a compassionate nation, but have reached the end of our limits.
Thank you for continuing to reveal the corruption of our government and big tech, Matt. You and the Racket News team are national treasures.
Trump should pardon Ed Snowden and make him a member of a team investigating all of this. Snowden has very useful knowledge and insight that could help a great deal.
Dangle the offer of immunity from prosecution to those that come forward and implicate the rest.
He should. But he won't.
For that matter Snowden would have to be foolish to accept such an offer.
Regrettably, I believe you are correct on both points. What Trump should do and what he will do are two different things. Perhaps, motivated by vindictiveness or retribution or some other bad motive, he'll end up doing the right thing. Maybe. But probably not.
Absolutely.
People would be throwing themselves out of windows if that happened. Like the scene from ROBOCOP III called "the fall of Rome" on YouTube.
"Virtually every media outlet stressed it was an 'independent' decision.
But as one prominent law professor explained to me, removals of this type could only work only if all of the companies censored essentially the same material at once. "
Reminds me of all the lockstep maneuvres of the COVID Mania era. We were meant to believe that governments across the West all just happened to decide upon near-identical insane actions at the same time.
Updated with US obesity graph: 1959-2018 below. Shocking!
Precisely. And let's remember how Americans responded then - more cup cakes, less exercise, more anxiety, and endless wailing for big pharma to ride to the rescue.
The fact that Americans and many here seem to believe that RFK Jr. is going to transform a nation of anxious tubbies into fit, stand strong individuals over night, or at all is the clearest sign of how warped our thinking has become.
Does anyone really believe that the average American doesn't understand that eating Ding-Dongs and sitting on the couch isn't killing us? Really?
Fat America understand full well the risks and the benefits and chooses the chocolate over the apples more than 70 percent of the time.
Americans at this point in time want to be 'taken care of' by somebody, or some entity. Do you believe people who can't or won't control what they put into their bodies are likely to be more judicious about what they put between their ears, and about what gets them off?
Until hard work becomes a virtue (extremely common among immigrants) native-born Americans are going to continue to want life to be one long celebration of doing not much at all. Deal with it. Obesity graph: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10815706/figure/ijerph-21-00073-f001/
Well, Paul...was that in reply to my post? Or just something in general?
Here is how it works. Inducing fear/anxiety activates dependency needs in those who have not yet worked past them. They crawl back into the womb, figuratively, by running towards a master+herd which promise to take care of them. Instead of towards freedom.
The price of the former is that they will always be expected to answer as lackey to that master and herd. They will never have an "I'. Never self-differentiate. I think it's a bad deal, but this is very tempting to some. And the equally needy masters really, really hunger for the admiration of those lackeys. Match made in Heaven.
We saw this kind of set-up produced blatantly in Jonestown, for example. The psychopathic attention-seeking leader riding roughshod over the vulnerable followers. Now that is a relatively small group and a very specific context, but the general principle holds.
Cheers, I'm not so sure. My comment was not responding to any particular point. I enjoy your response, however.
"Does anyone really believe that the average American doesn't understand that eating Ding-Dongs and sitting on the couch isn't killing us? Really?"
You could say the same thing about alcoholism or drug addiction or chronic gambling. Of course they understand. But the Beast of the lower brain has them in its grasp.
Ever read the work of Jack Trimpey? Kathryn Hansen?
Nope, and I regard psychological/behaviors and chemical dependencies as interdependent, but separate. Plenty of folks exercise and drink, smoke, etc. Agree very much with the lower brain being in charge. Best.
Just visited an X thread wherein a young intelligent chap admitted to complete ChatGPT dependence even for ordinary exchanges with ChatGPT providing responses, suggestions.
Which raises a question: if two such young people similarly reliant on ChatGPT are conversing, are the two really talking, or are they simply two nodes of ChatGPT talking to itself? Similarly, if individual A is relying on AI X, B is relying on AI Y, wouldn't this be AI X conversing with AI Y?
I wouldn't be surprised at all, seriously, if we manage to dumb ourselves down within a year or two, to the point where we won't know enough, as the saying goes, to pour warm piss out of our boots. For real.
Meanwhile, what's trending on Tik-Tok, and Instram? That's what's really worth discussing.
Cute, huh?
If human evolution can go backwards....there are many in the present era who seem to be headed for that.
Elon was on the thread. His reaction: "Yikes."
I think we need to rethink evolution as adapting. We assume "we" evolve because the body of knowledge that exists increases, as do the efficacy and variety of tools we devise. Better diets lead to taller, stronger people with longer lives among the sensible. Our brains on the other hand.
What, pray tell, do YOU do for a living while we lazy Americans apply for Social Security disability payments after we've drained our unemployment insurance pools, you sanctimonious twit?
Do you believe that the refrigerators we raid, the hovels we live in, the sewers we egest our chocolate into are built and maintained by Elon Musk's robot squad? Are the roads on which we drive to our nearest McDonald's built and maintained by hordes of illegal immigrants? Can it be true that the 82nd and 101st Airborne or the Rangers or Special Forces have already been supplanted by fat transsexuals operating Space Force drones? Has every single "native-born American" turned into the equivalent of Jabba the Hutt?
Why don't you ask the millions of "native-born Americans" who have worked themselves into arthritis or alcoholism or endless depression why they don't get busy? It's too late for you toask the native-born Americans who have worked themselves into early graves this question. More's the pity.
New York Times needs to concede and give up those 2 Pulitzer Prizes they won for fake journalism copying and pasting Intel Agency Russia Russia Russia narratives into the Gray Lady.
They should give those 2 Pulitzers to Matt Taibbi and the FBI should be required to hand deliver them to Matt's front door along with a dozen Krispy Kreme's and a heartfelt apology hand written by Christopher Wray himself.
At least one of those Pulitzer Prizes should be given to Julian Assange.
That’ll happen when OBummer gives up his Nobel Peace Prize. What a farce.
The committees that vote for these "prizes" should take a page from the MLB's steroid period. Maybe put an asterisk next to the recipients' names.
Someone from the IRS should also be present.
You beat me to it ;)
Just change the name to Pulledliesoff...
This is such an important article. Thank you for putting it together.
All my life, I’ve heard that one of the costs of freedom is eternal vigilance. I think this whole episode demonstrates the truth in that. Thanks Matt.
Freedom demands responsibility.
"Self-government won't work without self-discipline."
Paul Harvey
https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/landonlect/harveytext903.html
Ain't nobody got time for that!
My question is this….Even if the truth is shown, that is evidence is presented that the Biden Administration and its cohorts in innumerable Agencies violated our first amendment rights to push their agenda, just exactly what punishment will occur and who will dole out this “punishment”?
The evidence, so far I think, has helped to move public opinions and ushered in an appetite for more transparency. The election of Trump was a clear repudiation of the Democrat lead, politically motivated, globalist inspired, censorship heavy, anti-populist actions that the Biden administration embraced. Their dwindling positions of power and manipulations, while far from justice, are a satisfying blow to their narcissistic egos.
Like the "drug war" and the "illegals" problem the actual grift is swallowing billions in tax treasure. Personal privacy is the issue for our fellow citizens but the actual virtue signaling perps could care less. Placement of political operatives disguised as public servants, whose actual job is maintenance of the psyop that runs cover for the central banking DNC/IMF/EU Davos crowd, is the actual reality. Over 30 trillion dollars in largely unaccounted for public debt imprisoning Americans inside a drug addled landscape of crumbling infrastructure, gutted industry and a looted economy. Our recent Presidential election proves that a truthful/fact based American reality can overcome the "lie". Depart the psyop and live.
An after the fact investigation into Federal government control of free speech is warranted. My preferred outcome would be naming the primary individuals involved in every agency, up to and including President Biden. I am not so much looking for punishment in terms of legal convictions. With pardons in hand, legal accountability would tie up valuable time for four years or more. Tell us who these people are or were and get them out of government.
That would satisfy me.
While justice would be satisfying, dismantling the architecture of federal control & manipulation of information & suppression of dissent must be the most important outcome.
And that actually happening, in a tamper-resistant manner, is still far from assured. That should be Job One for the incoming Administration. Make this sort of covert message coordination & dissent banning generally recognized & impossible in the future.
Tell me how you un-ring the bell?
Damned good question & not easy to accomplish. That's why I say it's Job One, because we can be sure that the Deep State, the agencies, will protect themselves & they're fine with taking scorched-earth destructive action to accomplish their objectives. You _can't_ "un-ring the bell." You can only make what was done, at what cost, known & understood.
Exposure to the point where every tried-and-true maneuver they trot out is obvious & seen for what it is would be a start. Exposure of their bought-and-paid-for allies in Congress & the complicity of the traditional media, A rollback of unquestioned authorities & abilities to operate off-budget & in the dark would have to be presented & passed in Congress, essentially a reversal of the unconstitutional features of the Patriot Act & other oxymoronic legislation that gives them clear sailing as they move us to a Totalitarian state, ruled by bureaucrats & the money & power behind them.
I don't know if any of that's even possible at this point, but there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. I'm just hoping it's not a reflection off some bureaucrat's cuff links or an overdose of hopium.
You appreciate the difficulty and that is good. Too many people think this is some quick, easy fix. Even cutting off the money (which we can see the establishment Republicans aren't on board) isn't the whole story, since at some later time, the money can turn back on.
What I think it will take is exposing and driving out the people involved (from whatever hole they are hiding in). They must suffer for their error, or their error will be repeated again and again.
I imagine this is the purpose of blanket "pardons".
That would be a blanket admission of guilt. They don't believe they've done anything wrong.
Unfortunately, they claim that this is simply to prevent political harassment by the Trump administration. It's a figleaf a lot of people buy.
Yes, it is. It wouldn't work at all otherwise.
Then blanket pardons are not required.
As Robert Barnes has pointed out, that is a double-edged sword. If you want justice, tough luck. But the blanket pardons erase their 5th Amendment protection from self-incrimination. If they have been pardoned, they can be compelled to testify, or suffer the consequences.
It may be enough, at least at the start, to shine a bright light on the who, what, and where and watch the roaches scatter.
Well, that and revoke the security clearances of anyone whose sticky fingerprints can be found on any of these activities. If nothing else, having their noses slapped out of the fresh from the source intelligence information trough would put a crimp on their value as an "expert" talking head.
The persecuted will be running said agencies.
None, I suspect.
Whoever doles out punishment better be ready to get punished in the next iteration. Bad business, this, not sure who started it, but it's been going on a while.
Trump may as well follow Biden's example, and provide blanket clemency for any and all persons in his administration, for any and all actions taken during the course of their lifetimes.
Subscription journalism, still in its infancy, continues to play a major role in creation of the healthy national truth/fact based conversation We the People deserve. What should have been an explosion of freedom and a new world consciousness was turned into an electronic sewer by billionaire Davos elitism and the bureaucratic surveillance mechanism that serves it. My opinion (I know you didn't ask for it)-- The advertising model that supports the MSM/psyop is in collapse. Likewise YouTube and similar platforms will eventually be forced to exist on direct subscription or perish. Individual abandonment of the psyop and a realignment/contemplation of exactly who and what We the People are allowing into our minds and lives is the beginning of a return to the healthy truth/fact based American reality all free peoples deserve. It's time to step away from the sewer, depart the psyop and live.
Bunch of criminals, these government censors. Thanks for your work, Matt.
Outsourcing the censorship function to Big Tech is helpful in insulating this work from pesky FOIA suits and unwanted election results.
The question remains whether anyone will do anything about it.
The NGOs are the outsource for the global government illegal immigration operations.
NGOs almost exclusively funded by the federal govt.
"You keep using that word and I do not think it means what you think it does"
GONGO is the right word.
These are all simply govt cutouts, doing the things govt pretends not to be doing.
Use the same contractors to reverse the flow.
Until they get rid of the FISA courts & the Patriot Act, I trust NONE of them.
Don't hold your breath.
I'd love to believe we'd get a better-than-the-Church-Commission response to this, but I don't think we will. The corruption, and complacency, runs too deep. Sure, some of us will be upset - but we'll be dismissed as the fringe.
Trump was the "Law and Order President"
I'm waiting to hear him say it again, it's coming.
Don't pin your hopes on one person. Every August, Rep. Massie delivers his rebuke about the coming budget crisis that will be "resolved" by a Christmas omnibus or Continuing Resolution. Does anyone pay attention? Does anyone care? Nope - they vote for the same people, election after election.
And for gawdsakes don't plead for more Executive power at the expense of Congress.
Let me ask you this.
If you had to pin all your hopes on one person who would it be?
No one. There is no one person to make it right. Begging for that is begging for Napoleon, for Caesar, and if there was ONE THING our entire federal government was designed to do, it was to keep that from happening because PEOPLE, just like you, are prone to wanting the Great Man to save them.
Had to
You're denser than irony, aren't you?
Keep making noise!!
I am so thankful for the work you have done and hope it is utilized to punish criminals and uncover corruption. The Government is much to large and powerful no matter who is in charge.
If you are following the story out of Canada about Troodo losing two Cabinet Ministers within minutes on Monday morning -- Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland (hated by Trump) among them....one journalist finally called everyone out on the phony interpretation about Troodo going after "strong principled women".
Much as I do NOT support Troodo, neither did I support those supposedly "strong principled women" he ousted over the years. They were as bad as he was. They just happened to get caught when the music stopped. Chrystia Freeland especially.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-chrystia-freeland-is-no-martyr-for-women
The whole government should have resigned after a Nazi war criminal was given a standing ovation by the Canadian parliament. Maybe the whole parliament should have resigned!
Hey, the entire US Congress cheered Net N Yahoo as he told his lies while running a genocide at home. The entire western world is sick and the world will be better off without us.
I find it interesting that as of this writing, 8 people liked Gogs’s comment, but I’m the first clicking on yours. Interesting that a lot of seemingly right-thinking people still don’t have a problem with the Israeli murdering.
Freeland is gunning for Trudeau's job.
With that in mind, she is no more a martyr than Harris was when she stabbed Halfwit Joe in the back a couple of months ago.
Exactly. You could see the Chrystia Freeland machinations begin almost immediately with her "mention" that she would be running for her seat again in the next election.
And then all that baloney about "strong principled women as martyrs to Troodo" began making the rounds.
I do not have enough negative things to say about Troodo, but Chrystia Freeland was Thing 2 to Troodo's Thing 1. For many years they were a matched set.
Now all of a sudden, we are meant to believe that she is a highly principled person being martyred by the bad guy? He IS a bad guy....but she is NOT a martyr. Given half a chance, she would do worse. She was on the board at WEF, for goodness' sake.
Freeland is the one who gleefully de-banked the Truckers and their families (she laughed while she announced this) and who has journalists in Canada arrested for asking her legitimate questions which she finds inconvenient.
Freeland is the Elena Ceaușescu of the North.
No need to insult the memory of Elena Ceauşescu so.
Given half a chance, Chrystia Freeland would love to out-do her.
I am a woman myself btw, so I can say these things that most men would not get away with.
Happy to do so. I am so-o-o blooming tired of the leftwing totalitarianism.
Yes, she is an absolute disaster, prime purveyor of the Modern Monetary Theory which is not a theory at all, it is an alibi for those who wanted to break the bank, which is now duly broken, they have borrowed more in 9 years than all previous govt combined in 148 years and we now pay more in interest charges than we spend on health care.
She is one of the architects of this disaster, since day one in 2015.
Election now so she can lose her seat as well.
BTW, today is day 3348 in our experiment in Clown-based government, and its going as well as we always knew it would.
If they were serious about Modern Monetary Theory, they wouldn't be borrowing; they'd be printing the funds the state needs. Or wants.
That can lead to inflation, too, but at least it's cheaper.
Please don't insult the clowns, they serve a useful purpose... unless they wind up running things like Zelensky.
Pat, I called another Troodo disaster in the making when Justin came of age years ago. I could see it coming. But too many in Canada were still under the Troodo spell or the Troodo bribes.
And then JT had a little help from his friends in CCP China to win election #2 and #3.
Points for the Ceausescu reference.
More like Lady Macbeth and the witches together in one evil person. Hello, we had a Governor General "our Head of State representing the Queen NOW King of England", Julie Payette arrogant as a person can be. Actually beat up her husband and after finally firing her, she's on the dole for hundreds of thousands of dollars as long as she lives. Being the fool I was, I thought women couldn't be as bad as men...haaaa.
Chrystia Freeland outdoes even Julie Payette. And there are plenty of career women out there who would steamroll anyone in their way. Ethics not required.
WICKED!
Hillary is another prime example.
Hey man, that was Pelosi who stabbed Biden in the back. On the orders of Half-Black Jesus.
From one good Catholic to another.....Pelosi and Biden.
I am sure that Harris was in on it. She was never going to get a better shot than this one.
It’s a fascinating hidden process. I’d like to think Biden got his revenge for being knifed in the back by endorsing Harris so quickly.
I suspect the Bidens got revenge against the Obamas by cutting Michelle Obama off the ticket, as she had long planned to be the 2024 candidate. But for the Obamas to scream about this in public would have outed their own nefarious plans for continuing power.
I doubt he had much of a choice. The donors were basically going on strike, and that would be fatal to Team D across the board.
It's amazing, that just the specter of Trump becoming President has inspired such panic amongst the globalists. The lights came on and the WEF roaches all started CYA operations.
Interesting article, in that it underscores the common practice of bringing up irrelevancies like a person's sex or ethnic origin to avoid discussing the real issues at hand. Deflection, in a word.
A little history - 2012 I believe, https://youtu.be/rvIM6-BGx8I?si=D6p6dHc2WffWyF0d
Thanks Sue. I had watched that or something similar one time, years ago, shaking my head that Chrystia Freeland would talk so supposedly sincerely about income equality. She is a board member at WEF (or was until recently....no one is sure now). She is one of the globalists who rake in as much wealth as they can for themselves, while they "redistribute" the wealth of their minions.
I recall her Plutocrats book.
All I can say is that hypocrisy is a requisite feature for any globalist. And that Chrystia was building smokescreens in those days, the better to fool the average voter.
As you may know, her grandfather was Michael Chomiak, the prominent WWII Ukrainian Nazi, and her mother left Canada to return to the Ukraine as a George Soros lawyer.
So Chrystia can try to play Anne of Green Gables all she wants, but the green paint is peeling very badly. Isn't there a green-paint role in the new film, WICKED? Chrystia might be perfect!
Agree!
A dwarf with a Napoleon complex and friends in the WEF.
Absolutely.
https://www.racket.news/p/when-boring-people-turn-dangerous
So glad you're continuing to dog this, Matt, and I do hope a few private sector and public sector heads will roll (figuratively, for God sakes, FIGURATIVELY!) for this obscene intrusion by the government into private companies' supposedly free speech platforms.
Figuratively my ass. That's exactly why none do. If you don't want lamp-post decorations, you aren't serious about this shit.
Add "using their entrails as the noose to hang them with" and we are perfectly aligned.
Sorry. Madame DuFarge is not my cup of tea. I’ll settle for firings and imprisonment following actual trials.
🤔. Sorry. My English apparently isn’t very good. I’ll need a translator.
This may help if the lamp post reference is unclear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini
I'll borrow from Voltaire: pour encourager les autres.
"FIGURATIVELY'. 😉😉
Please give updates on whether there is any Trumpworld take up on your offer.