Smeared as a Russian proxy after founding a movement to "#Walkaway" from the Democratic Party, Twitter documents suggest @BrandonStraka and his followers were set up
The DOJ has just indicted the whistleblower from Texas Children's Hospital who provided evidence that they were helping children "change their sex" as young as 11, after the hospital said they weren't. It's law fare -- because the process is the punishment and most people can't fight the government.
Are you kidding me? Yes, he has been indicted with HIPPA violations which is a joke considering NOBODY EVER gets indicted with HIPPA violations although you could get your local Dr. indicted with it. Better check your facts buddy.
You should probably explain yourself further, Colin. Bannon, we all know, have all heard about, and all have an opinion on, positive, negative, or neutral.
Are you saying that Straka is a liar? What part is he lying about in that video? And if so, calling pants-on-fire without any supporting evidence won't convince many.
Sorry to gang up Colin, but that comment is right up there with “Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.” If you lead with an assertion, it’s important to follow with some facts to back it up. I tell you this because I’ve been called out myself. I’ve learned caution - and the importance of researching a point. Just do what Taibbi does. Or, do as Kenny Rogers did, use it as a lyric in a hit song. You’ll be rich, famous, and you won’t have to deal with pedants.
In college, I worked in the accounts payable department of a Big 10 university, with the stuffing and mailing of voucher checks part of my job. Voucher checks were simply bills paid out to various vendors. When a big act would come on campus, the check would cross my desk. In 1982, when the likes of Journey and Foreigner were getting checks of $75-100,000 for a concert, and the Police getting $120,000, Kenny Rogers got $175,000. That would be in excess of $650K today. Colin would indeed get rich.
I also learned that in Heart's concert rider, it was specified that the bowls of M&Ms have the green ones removed. shrug...artists.
As to the green M&M’s, I’ve heard similar tales about several artists, and it turns out the real purpose is much more benign. The thinking is that, if the venue will read the contract thoroughly and do something that trivial, then odds are that the rest of the contract has been faithfully performed. So the M&Ms were a contract equivalent of the proverbial canary-in-the-coal-mine.
OK so maybe they would set up an elaborate scheme to discredit anybody who was suggesting not voting for Democrats in the 2020 election, but they would NEVER EVER EVER stuff a ballot box at 3 am!
The laptop was the easiest thing in the world to verify. "Hello, Mr. Smith? Is this email from Hunter Biden authentic?" The fact that the media couldn't be bothered to do real journalism -- while telling everybody the story was fake -- was a huge tell.
The amazing thing is the hubris to not come groveling back in sack cloth and ashes to beg forgiveness. Instead the brazen assholes pretend that it never happened at all and we should still believe them without question. Thank god I can only react virtually, because physically - it would be autonomic and nasty.
This is in the above article, but just to highlight it for people who don't click through -- this is what NPR said of the story just before the election:
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“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel told me. “And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”
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They patted themselves on the back for failing to do their jobs!!!
A more honest story line from NPR would have read “We will not be covering any news that could possibly hurt our candidate. You can fully expect to see all negative reporting here on the Republican candidate, there will be plenty of that. But we absolutely refuse to cover anything that could possibly lessen our candidate’s chance for victory.”
which would be fine if NPR was a privately owned publication with clear political leanings.. But it's supposedly National Public Radio which is funded in big part through our federal tax dollars and it is therefore supposed to represent AMERICA not the Democratic party.
It's time we the people accept that terms like dem/lefty/right/republican capitalist/communist have actually, like our elected American political leadership, been captured, distorted and subverted to the point where they are meaningless. So Trump is in kangaroo court while DNC/surveillance spooks and operatives fund and inflict lies and trauma on the American people without end. Beyond the willingness of political/ financial rigged game players to lie, shoot, maim and destroy the lives of truth speaking Americans they deem a threat to the grift, what?
I get your perspective, Robert, but stating that all dem/lefty organizations pat themselves on the back isn't much more productive than a Democrat saying that all Republican/right-wing organizations are fascist, or X, or Y.
Broad brushstrokes are exactly what those in power want us looking at, as it helps them cause us to hate the other tribe.
Amazing that NPR still receives your tax dollars and that Terence Samuel has been rewarded and promoted for being a loyal soldier of the Democrat industrial complex.
It isn't that they couldn't be bothered they were lying. I remember my frustration listening to Leslie Stahl interview Trump, a thirty year veteran of the news business. She rudely and repeatedly claimed "it can't be verified". The original NYP story had verified all of it. That article included the FBI warrant to take the laptop, cross email verification, a copy of the contract signed by Hunter, and photo from the surveillance camera when Hunter entered the shop. They all knew from the beginning. They were ALL Lying.
Why DO criminals and the people who front for them lie? (The grift is so good and the criminal hand so heavy we the people have Biden and Trump as our choices for President of the American Constitutional Republic and most of us think that's normal.)
Glad you brought up the issue of lying. Not long ago Matt had written a piece about the struggles the NYT was having with whether or not to begin using the words lying, liar, lie. They wrote about their decision that due to the whoppers that they were hearing from Trump, that they must begin to use them. It was around that time that the entire legacy news organizations went all in on using those words in relation to one man. Trump became the King of the Liars. But since that time I feel that the majority of politicians began to take notice of the power and effectiveness of using lying much more often, much more openly, to emulate Trump, but in a slightly more sophisticated and nuanced fashion. It’s not hard at all, if you make an effort to really listen critically to what politicians say, to see it’s mostly lies. But as it is with legacy media in lockstep with the DNC and the Biden campaign, they must also lie, and protect the liars, for the noble cause of “saving democracy”. It all depends on which “side” is doing the lying don’t you see. I think it was last week when Walter and Matt were having some good laughs about the irony of the mis and disinformation folks being the ones who were the most adapt and guilty of spreading lies
Hunter and his family are trash that Hollywood would formerly have made soap operas about ("Dallas," "Falcon Crest," "Dynasty"). Trash, but with expensive tailors.
It is very interesting that Pres. Joey doesn't just associate MAGA as a side not to vote for --- but as, Evil.
As far as the 51 Hunter Laptop Be Disinformation crowd . . . Of course we should listen to their every word.
Exactly! I would be reminding people that I I I was the first and only POTUS in HIStory that won the election against a POTUS that got more votes in his second term and I didn't even have to campaign. Oh yes they want to remind The People of that, don't they?
Am surprised that NPR didn’t consult him about the laptop and that he’s not the director of foreign intelligence for some agency in this administration
I would agree. This article is long overdue. However, due to the climate, it's probably good to have out there, now that more and more people are waking up.
Besides... who doesn't need a revival for the movement? You know. Right before elections.
Let's give them something to talk about, shall we?
There is a Zen saying along the lines of, "Whatever you do is not very important; nonetheless, it is very important that you do it."
Sadly, the average working schlub who tries to understand the arcane wars of politics finds that it is like sipping from a firehose. The blast is so ferocious that it is in the end less disfiguring just to pay one's taxes, punch in on time, and love Big Brother.
Keep doing it, Matt. Someone really needs to keep doing it.
You are right, it's safer and saner to comply, especially if you have kids to support. But then I never claimed to be sane and I never believed the illusion of safety was worth giving up my sovereign self for. I hadn't heard that Zen saying, but that's pretty close to my own motto of , 'Just do what you're gonna do and let the chips fall where they will.'
yes, there were tons of #walkaway posts with tons of viral views on YouTube, and then it just all stopped suddenly. From the nature of the videos, no reasonable person could have believed they were faked. As I recall, typically it was someone just sitting in his or her car talking for 5 or 10 minutes into their phones about how they had become disillusioned with the Democratic party. Every personal testimonial video was different. It would have been practically impossible to fake this sort and volume of videos, just from the standpoint of cost. And what they did to Straka was horrible. He was totally innocent of misdeeds on J6, but they in effect forced him to plead out, and he did hard time. It was a totally disgusting page in our history. The evil people involved on the government (and tech?) side deserve long prison terms, IMO.
I think the alphabet mafia (DNC/EU/WEF/CCP) and the psyop toadies and NGO's that serve them are capable of anything. (The American Constitutional Republic isn't a piece of parchment under glass somewhere.)
I don’t remember if I saw any #walkaway videos prior to the election. I remember deciding to walk away independently and being surrounded by people, who I once trusted, that I no longer felt safe sharing my thoughts with.
I agree government insiders working to suppress the videos is election interference. Even if Russians were involved, which seems unlikely, the fact that people in government offices have pushed so hard to give voting rights to unvetted immigrants, who rely on government financial support to survive, tells me they don’t really care about foreign influence in elections. They care about what they believe guarantees they stay in power.
They turn on their supporters when they ‘aren’t supportive enough’, and demonize those who never support them. The uni-party and unelected government leaders rely on building mass hatred for anyone who challenges their power.
Americans have been conditioned to vote for the lesser of two evils, not for a good candidate, so it doesn’t matter if all candidates are bad. That is a recipe for disaster… and likely led us to where we are today. If they can convince large numbers of people that voting is pointless, or maybe even dangerous and could lead to earning the label “domestic terrorist”, then they only need a small percentage of voters to keep them in power “legitimately”.
The uni-party and other government officials say election interference by insiders “protects democracy” but anyone who challenges their right to protect Americans from things they don’t want us to hear, think, or do, “deserves to be silenced, to lose other rights, and possibly to go to jail”. Those types of words are only used by people who are doing their best to avoid transfer of power.
It worried me, after the last election, when an article was published showing how insiders proudly protected Americans from ourselves by “fortifying the election”. At a minimum, that should have prompted election interference lawsuits, if not criminal investigations. Instead, it prompted calling anyone who questioned that particular election domestic terrorists.
Trials over paying off porn stars is a repeat of impeachment for lying about consensual sex between adults - only insiders cheer for such things. The rest of the world laughs or shakes their head in disbelief.
Large-scale operations, using government resources to propagandize the public, step into real RICO territory, and misuse taxpayer funds.
THIS IS A STEP TOO FAR! IF ANYONE CANT SEE HOW DANGEROUS THIS IS- NO ONE CAN CLAIM THEY ARE SAVING DEMOCRACY.. Falsifying Evidence, Entrapment, Predictive policing... And... What the courts did to Straka was unconscionable. This guy was a clear target and they've made his life a living hell. Brandon Straka Describes Being Arrested, Sent To Prison For January 6: Misdemeanor Treated Like Felony https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/05/03/brandon_straka_described_being_arrested_sent_to_prison_for_january_6.html
Ted Gioia here on Substack writes about the bourgeoning ‘microculture.’ He writes that eventually it will completely overtake mainstream media publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
He writes:
“…indie journalism—operating on Substack, YouTube, Patreon, Medium, and other self-directed platforms—will increasingly shape the cultural dialogue, while legacy media struggles for survival.”
I don’t think he’s wrong. But, this IMO, is why Western governments all around the world have an absolute hard on to set up censoring quasi-governmental entities everywhere, before they lose the narrative completely.
Narratives and propaganda need useful idiots. The MSM is in their pockets and everything else must be silenced. The extreme hate thought laws of the UK are next to hit the US as soon as the dems manage to fix this election. Come January we are reliving 1984. I just pray that the Chicago dem convention turns into the massive shit show of 1968 and Biden shits himself off the ticket, leaving Kamaltoe to duke it out with Michelle over top spot
the corporate msms relationship to the IC is more akin to the fascist merger of public private partnerships. they should not be seen as separate entities, because effectively, they are not. big corporate media has whored itself out to become the propaganda arm ot the IC. so, if you accept the facts, when you see any and all boadcast or message from corporate media, you should always be asking yourself, what does the IC want me to think, do, and why.
Exactly the excellent question everyone should ask themselves at all times those days. What does this particular authoritarian entity in my face right now, want from me, and how far are they willing to go to get it?
The goal: A solutions oriented truth/fact based American national conversation creating a healthy and powerful human reality capable of dismantling the hyperrealistic LIE emanating from the criminal international alphabet mafia. (DNC/EU/WEF/CCP)
How many more examples do we need that America is a failed state? "A republic...if you can keep it."
The “Anti-Federalists” did try to warn us through The-Anti-Federalist-Papers. Perhaps we should review those documents again and look to the Anti-Federalists for wisdom out of this mess? They gave us the Bill of Rights! (Federalist Hamilton said the Bill of Rights was not necessary!!) We owe them that incredibly prescient wisdom. They warned us to Keep Government Closer to the People. Once the central power is far away and out of sight, WTP cannot keep an eye on it. When most of the people who are attracted to being politicians are sociopathic/ narcissistic megalomaniacs, how could a federal government not become corrupt? WTP must keep a watchful eye on all of them!
Federalism won’t end corruption, but at least it will keep the government closer to WTP.
i dont know. I am waiting for people to catch up. anyone paying attention for even just a few years should need no more evidence that we need to trash and burn this govt. its out of control corruption.
Liz, I agree with your comment citing anti federalists but Im confused by this : "Federalism won’t end corruption, but at least it will keep the government closer to WTP"
True federalism- 50 sovereign states with limited national government - still has state governments that are corrupt by corrupt humans, but at least state government is closer to the people as opposed to the corrupt national government so there’s a better chance to reign it in - maybe.
No, Federalism originally meant the 10th Amendment (and 9th too). Anti-Federalism is really nationalism. Kind orwellian, I guess. Main point is that we really don't need or want a big national government. We should ask ourselves, not which federal agencies to cut, but what federal agencies do we really need? (Defense, infrastructure, post service, et. al.)
The hard fact of the matter is that we've grown to empire size with just the 50 states. I don't think it's simply a matter of devolving power that has aggravated improperly at the federal level back to the states. Currently each representative represents (theoretically) 761,169 people. One person can't adequately do that. We started at 1 per 30,000. But that was becoming unweildly so in 1929 it was fixed by law not amendment at 435.
But there are all sorts of problems trying to fix it. 4,350 representatives couldn't hold meetings, even divided into committees. If we were using those numbers the Great Compromise that balances big and little state interests comes undone. An internet search shows significant interest in this "solution" to the EC "problem".
I don't have even the faintest of the start of an idea to fix it. But we need to grapple with it.
In the meantime, I thoroughly concur we need to move back to Constitutional order instead of hoping the Feds can fix it all. It won't solve the underlying issues but it can alleviate some of the current pain. Who knows, it might even make this observation moot.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, any eventuality that the Establishment of the day didn't like was automatically blamed on Jews.
Crops failed? Jews.
Royal fleet sank in a freak storm? Jews.
King's oldest son and heir is a barely closeted and rather flamboyant homosexual? Jews.
No evidence needed. Because Jews. What are you on their side, asking for evidence, when everyone knows that Jews can control the weather?
Today's Establishment is much more enlightened. They do not blame Jews. They blame Russia, which everyone knows has superpowers bordering on psychic mind control. Except it doesn't work on PMC goodthinkers.
There's always been the need for an "enemy"/scapegoat: Jews, Russians, Muslim extremists/terrorists, Russians again, white supremacists... IOW, any "them" at which government can point a finger so as to prevent the citizenry from pointing their fingers at the ACTUAL evildoers in the GOVERNMENT.
One of the things that's so evil about this, is that during this period Vladimir Putin was denying that Russia had anything to do with many of the disinformation campaigns it was being accused of.
It's disgusting that our politicians and intelligence services were lying and Vladimir Putin was telling the truth.
The Twitter files stories are convoluted and hard to follow—so many names, too many pronouns ("it, them, they"). This is no criticism of Matt and company, because disentangling everything is a herculean task.
One thing becoming apparent to me is that, while behind the scenes Yoel Roth etc. sound reasonable, they were disappointingly spineless about publicizing their findings. How different would things be today if they had pushed back publicly?
actually, theres a key that makes it all easy to understand. the government is run by and full of evil liars. start there and you can unpack everything pretty quickly.
They're counting on convoluted. It makes juries give up. Better still, it makes prosecutors give up because they know they'll lose the jury trying to explain it.
Sadly, this is also the root cause of bloody revolution. The typical person sees two laws depending on your societal position and they know the leadership is evil. But they can't legally seek justice. So they seek it from their own hands.
With respect to the twitter files, it's true, and It takes a while to get all of the players straight, and Matt's been at it a long time now, so for him it's easier, but if you keep reading about it (thanks Matt) the names become familiar as they are the same cast over and over again.
As Matt keeps affixing "KICK ME!" signs to the backs of the intelligence agencies I'd just like to take a moment to address Matt's personal intelligence agency internet stake out team that is, most likely, camped out up in the bleachers somewhere.
Gentlemen, I'd like to personally thank you for indicting that document scofflaw, Donald Trump, for fudging an entry on a federal form.
Over the years my wife & I have often discussed how document errors, whether intentional or not, are the cancer at the heart of our wonderful faux democracy.
Thankfully Democrats have finally stopped devoting the bulk of their crime fighting machine to things like retail theft, drug addiction, mental illness & homelessness & they now have time to take aim at the real criminals in our society, like Donald Trump, who continually flaunt our much cherished laws of data entry.
Remember gentlemen, I don't even know Matt. And if any of my previous posts have offended you wonderful intelligence folk they were written by my brother.
Not me.
And finally I would greatly appreciate it if you wonderful wonderful intelligence folk could also take aim at those spelling & punctuation errors that have become rampant since the decline of the proofreader. The internet is an especially egregious purveyor of mis- & dis-spelling so I'm hoping that you folk can pre-bunk these problems before they get further out of hand.
Long live Joe Biden!
May his invisible chairs stay visible & his bouts of confusion empower our enlightenment!!!!
I've heard things like, "...co-opted by domestic extremists and amplified by Foreign Actors" when the regime wants to discredit something so many damn times that I had completely forgotten about Walk Away and Brandon Straka.
What's jarring is the inside-baseball discussions by our "betters" in the regime who COMPLETELY BOUGHT THIS BULLSHIT. A few trolls on Facebook and these idiots think they're in a Tom Clancy novel.
Again we come to this idea of Useful Idiots and committed, strategic Marxists and where the latter end and the former begin...
...it may be 100% Idiots.
"“The sooner we can get it out there that this was an organic movement, the better… It signals to other members that they will look foolish if they cry ‘Russia!’ every time something happens on social media that they don’t like. :)”
Ahh, the lone voice of sanity. How eerily prescient, as people are still blaming Russia, and folks like me and the quoted above, we are still waiting for everybody to see how foolish they look.
Stand with Straka. Stand with Bannon. The regime is trying to send as many dissidents as possible to the gulags.
The DOJ has just indicted the whistleblower from Texas Children's Hospital who provided evidence that they were helping children "change their sex" as young as 11, after the hospital said they weren't. It's law fare -- because the process is the punishment and most people can't fight the government.
It is not true.
You are foolish to believe TrumPutin Lies.
Are you kidding me? Yes, he has been indicted with HIPPA violations which is a joke considering NOBODY EVER gets indicted with HIPPA violations although you could get your local Dr. indicted with it. Better check your facts buddy.
Show me what’s not true about the above article or the Texas Children’s case.
Stand with liars if you believe them. Stand with truth tellers if you can tell the difference.
You should probably explain yourself further, Colin. Bannon, we all know, have all heard about, and all have an opinion on, positive, negative, or neutral.
Are you saying that Straka is a liar? What part is he lying about in that video? And if so, calling pants-on-fire without any supporting evidence won't convince many.
Sorry to gang up Colin, but that comment is right up there with “Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.” If you lead with an assertion, it’s important to follow with some facts to back it up. I tell you this because I’ve been called out myself. I’ve learned caution - and the importance of researching a point. Just do what Taibbi does. Or, do as Kenny Rogers did, use it as a lyric in a hit song. You’ll be rich, famous, and you won’t have to deal with pedants.
In college, I worked in the accounts payable department of a Big 10 university, with the stuffing and mailing of voucher checks part of my job. Voucher checks were simply bills paid out to various vendors. When a big act would come on campus, the check would cross my desk. In 1982, when the likes of Journey and Foreigner were getting checks of $75-100,000 for a concert, and the Police getting $120,000, Kenny Rogers got $175,000. That would be in excess of $650K today. Colin would indeed get rich.
I also learned that in Heart's concert rider, it was specified that the bowls of M&Ms have the green ones removed. shrug...artists.
As to the green M&M’s, I’ve heard similar tales about several artists, and it turns out the real purpose is much more benign. The thinking is that, if the venue will read the contract thoroughly and do something that trivial, then odds are that the rest of the contract has been faithfully performed. So the M&Ms were a contract equivalent of the proverbial canary-in-the-coal-mine.
Please tell us, who are the liars and who are the truth tellers? Which one are you?
When we are young, we believe lies we are told because we don't know any better.
Hopefully, as we learn to discern truth from lies we stand up for truth.
That didn't really answer the question. At all. And you didn't answer mine, above.
A modicum of specifics would help as well.
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Please Grasshopper tell us what is the truth?
Don’t ask Pontius Pilatus. At least he was honest.
It's whatever they tell you it is.
Stand with them, . . . in a cage.
OK so maybe they would set up an elaborate scheme to discredit anybody who was suggesting not voting for Democrats in the 2020 election, but they would NEVER EVER EVER stuff a ballot box at 3 am!
The Hunter Biden laptop:
FBI/IC Then: RUSSIAN DISINFO!!!
FBI/DoJ Today: Prosecution exhibit #16
The laptop was the easiest thing in the world to verify. "Hello, Mr. Smith? Is this email from Hunter Biden authentic?" The fact that the media couldn't be bothered to do real journalism -- while telling everybody the story was fake -- was a huge tell.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/reprint-now-that-were-done-pretending
The amazing thing is the hubris to not come groveling back in sack cloth and ashes to beg forgiveness. Instead the brazen assholes pretend that it never happened at all and we should still believe them without question. Thank god I can only react virtually, because physically - it would be autonomic and nasty.
This is in the above article, but just to highlight it for people who don't click through -- this is what NPR said of the story just before the election:
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“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel told me. “And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”
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They patted themselves on the back for failing to do their jobs!!!
A more honest story line from NPR would have read “We will not be covering any news that could possibly hurt our candidate. You can fully expect to see all negative reporting here on the Republican candidate, there will be plenty of that. But we absolutely refuse to cover anything that could possibly lessen our candidate’s chance for victory.”
which would be fine if NPR was a privately owned publication with clear political leanings.. But it's supposedly National Public Radio which is funded in big part through our federal tax dollars and it is therefore supposed to represent AMERICA not the Democratic party.
...like all dem/lefty organizations.
It's time we the people accept that terms like dem/lefty/right/republican capitalist/communist have actually, like our elected American political leadership, been captured, distorted and subverted to the point where they are meaningless. So Trump is in kangaroo court while DNC/surveillance spooks and operatives fund and inflict lies and trauma on the American people without end. Beyond the willingness of political/ financial rigged game players to lie, shoot, maim and destroy the lives of truth speaking Americans they deem a threat to the grift, what?
Let's go BRANDON Straka!!
I get your perspective, Robert, but stating that all dem/lefty organizations pat themselves on the back isn't much more productive than a Democrat saying that all Republican/right-wing organizations are fascist, or X, or Y.
Broad brushstrokes are exactly what those in power want us looking at, as it helps them cause us to hate the other tribe.
Excellent.
Amazing that NPR still receives your tax dollars and that Terence Samuel has been rewarded and promoted for being a loyal soldier of the Democrat industrial complex.
Not so crazy when you realize all the loyal soldiers got promoted and none of them ever had to pay for their lies.
It isn't that they couldn't be bothered they were lying. I remember my frustration listening to Leslie Stahl interview Trump, a thirty year veteran of the news business. She rudely and repeatedly claimed "it can't be verified". The original NYP story had verified all of it. That article included the FBI warrant to take the laptop, cross email verification, a copy of the contract signed by Hunter, and photo from the surveillance camera when Hunter entered the shop. They all knew from the beginning. They were ALL Lying.
Why DO criminals and the people who front for them lie? (The grift is so good and the criminal hand so heavy we the people have Biden and Trump as our choices for President of the American Constitutional Republic and most of us think that's normal.)
Glad you brought up the issue of lying. Not long ago Matt had written a piece about the struggles the NYT was having with whether or not to begin using the words lying, liar, lie. They wrote about their decision that due to the whoppers that they were hearing from Trump, that they must begin to use them. It was around that time that the entire legacy news organizations went all in on using those words in relation to one man. Trump became the King of the Liars. But since that time I feel that the majority of politicians began to take notice of the power and effectiveness of using lying much more often, much more openly, to emulate Trump, but in a slightly more sophisticated and nuanced fashion. It’s not hard at all, if you make an effort to really listen critically to what politicians say, to see it’s mostly lies. But as it is with legacy media in lockstep with the DNC and the Biden campaign, they must also lie, and protect the liars, for the noble cause of “saving democracy”. It all depends on which “side” is doing the lying don’t you see. I think it was last week when Walter and Matt were having some good laughs about the irony of the mis and disinformation folks being the ones who were the most adapt and guilty of spreading lies
Exactly.
leslie stahl's "we cant verify it," comment during her intv w/ Pres Trump perfectly encapsulated the intel agency capture & moral/ethical bankruptcy of main stream media.
There was a time that would have tanked your career. Now it gets you a Pulitzer. Minions that sell their souls are rewarded handsomely.
Hunter and his family are trash that Hollywood would formerly have made soap operas about ("Dallas," "Falcon Crest," "Dynasty"). Trash, but with expensive tailors.
It is very interesting that Pres. Joey doesn't just associate MAGA as a side not to vote for --- but as, Evil.
As far as the 51 Hunter Laptop Be Disinformation crowd . . . Of course we should listen to their every word.
Why do these guys still have security clearances?
Exactly! I would be reminding people that I I I was the first and only POTUS in HIStory that won the election against a POTUS that got more votes in his second term and I didn't even have to campaign. Oh yes they want to remind The People of that, don't they?
I walked away from the Democratic Party, but no Russians had to convince me to do so.
Same
Yakov Smirnoff turned me.
Am surprised that NPR didn’t consult him about the laptop and that he’s not the director of foreign intelligence for some agency in this administration
The campaign was very compelling that’s why Dems targeted it. Straka has wrongfully been put through hell. Thank you for shedding light on this issue.
Remember PARLOR?
I would agree. This article is long overdue. However, due to the climate, it's probably good to have out there, now that more and more people are waking up.
Besides... who doesn't need a revival for the movement? You know. Right before elections.
Let's give them something to talk about, shall we?
Good reporting Matt!
There is a Zen saying along the lines of, "Whatever you do is not very important; nonetheless, it is very important that you do it."
Sadly, the average working schlub who tries to understand the arcane wars of politics finds that it is like sipping from a firehose. The blast is so ferocious that it is in the end less disfiguring just to pay one's taxes, punch in on time, and love Big Brother.
Keep doing it, Matt. Someone really needs to keep doing it.
You are right, it's safer and saner to comply, especially if you have kids to support. But then I never claimed to be sane and I never believed the illusion of safety was worth giving up my sovereign self for. I hadn't heard that Zen saying, but that's pretty close to my own motto of , 'Just do what you're gonna do and let the chips fall where they will.'
Shutting down #Walkaway was in itself enough to rig the election. I was following those videos at the time, and they were powerful.
I was following them, too, and wondered why they disappeared. Poor Brandon Straka. Imagine the frustration ...
yes, there were tons of #walkaway posts with tons of viral views on YouTube, and then it just all stopped suddenly. From the nature of the videos, no reasonable person could have believed they were faked. As I recall, typically it was someone just sitting in his or her car talking for 5 or 10 minutes into their phones about how they had become disillusioned with the Democratic party. Every personal testimonial video was different. It would have been practically impossible to fake this sort and volume of videos, just from the standpoint of cost. And what they did to Straka was horrible. He was totally innocent of misdeeds on J6, but they in effect forced him to plead out, and he did hard time. It was a totally disgusting page in our history. The evil people involved on the government (and tech?) side deserve long prison terms, IMO.
I think the alphabet mafia (DNC/EU/WEF/CCP) and the psyop toadies and NGO's that serve them are capable of anything. (The American Constitutional Republic isn't a piece of parchment under glass somewhere.)
I don’t remember if I saw any #walkaway videos prior to the election. I remember deciding to walk away independently and being surrounded by people, who I once trusted, that I no longer felt safe sharing my thoughts with.
I agree government insiders working to suppress the videos is election interference. Even if Russians were involved, which seems unlikely, the fact that people in government offices have pushed so hard to give voting rights to unvetted immigrants, who rely on government financial support to survive, tells me they don’t really care about foreign influence in elections. They care about what they believe guarantees they stay in power.
They turn on their supporters when they ‘aren’t supportive enough’, and demonize those who never support them. The uni-party and unelected government leaders rely on building mass hatred for anyone who challenges their power.
Americans have been conditioned to vote for the lesser of two evils, not for a good candidate, so it doesn’t matter if all candidates are bad. That is a recipe for disaster… and likely led us to where we are today. If they can convince large numbers of people that voting is pointless, or maybe even dangerous and could lead to earning the label “domestic terrorist”, then they only need a small percentage of voters to keep them in power “legitimately”.
The uni-party and other government officials say election interference by insiders “protects democracy” but anyone who challenges their right to protect Americans from things they don’t want us to hear, think, or do, “deserves to be silenced, to lose other rights, and possibly to go to jail”. Those types of words are only used by people who are doing their best to avoid transfer of power.
It worried me, after the last election, when an article was published showing how insiders proudly protected Americans from ourselves by “fortifying the election”. At a minimum, that should have prompted election interference lawsuits, if not criminal investigations. Instead, it prompted calling anyone who questioned that particular election domestic terrorists.
Trials over paying off porn stars is a repeat of impeachment for lying about consensual sex between adults - only insiders cheer for such things. The rest of the world laughs or shakes their head in disbelief.
Large-scale operations, using government resources to propagandize the public, step into real RICO territory, and misuse taxpayer funds.
Amen!
It wasn't simply election interference. It was EVIL.
THIS IS A STEP TOO FAR! IF ANYONE CANT SEE HOW DANGEROUS THIS IS- NO ONE CAN CLAIM THEY ARE SAVING DEMOCRACY.. Falsifying Evidence, Entrapment, Predictive policing... And... What the courts did to Straka was unconscionable. This guy was a clear target and they've made his life a living hell. Brandon Straka Describes Being Arrested, Sent To Prison For January 6: Misdemeanor Treated Like Felony https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/05/03/brandon_straka_described_being_arrested_sent_to_prison_for_january_6.html
Following Cormac McCarthy's logic WTP are already under arrest.
Ted Gioia here on Substack writes about the bourgeoning ‘microculture.’ He writes that eventually it will completely overtake mainstream media publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
He writes:
“…indie journalism—operating on Substack, YouTube, Patreon, Medium, and other self-directed platforms—will increasingly shape the cultural dialogue, while legacy media struggles for survival.”
I don’t think he’s wrong. But, this IMO, is why Western governments all around the world have an absolute hard on to set up censoring quasi-governmental entities everywhere, before they lose the narrative completely.
Think about it.
Narratives and propaganda need useful idiots. The MSM is in their pockets and everything else must be silenced. The extreme hate thought laws of the UK are next to hit the US as soon as the dems manage to fix this election. Come January we are reliving 1984. I just pray that the Chicago dem convention turns into the massive shit show of 1968 and Biden shits himself off the ticket, leaving Kamaltoe to duke it out with Michelle over top spot
the corporate msms relationship to the IC is more akin to the fascist merger of public private partnerships. they should not be seen as separate entities, because effectively, they are not. big corporate media has whored itself out to become the propaganda arm ot the IC. so, if you accept the facts, when you see any and all boadcast or message from corporate media, you should always be asking yourself, what does the IC want me to think, do, and why.
Exactly the excellent question everyone should ask themselves at all times those days. What does this particular authoritarian entity in my face right now, want from me, and how far are they willing to go to get it?
I heard that this would not happen?
It is only on-line because they are terrified.
There are whispering of making it a hybrid convention and a lot can happen in the next two+plus months, but as this Nation article points out it's hard to imagine a worse idea: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dnc-chicago-hybrid-convention/
It’s not their worst idea ever, just their worst this week.
The goal: A solutions oriented truth/fact based American national conversation creating a healthy and powerful human reality capable of dismantling the hyperrealistic LIE emanating from the criminal international alphabet mafia. (DNC/EU/WEF/CCP)
Or it goes like vice and self-immolates
How many more examples do we need that America is a failed state? "A republic...if you can keep it."
The “Anti-Federalists” did try to warn us through The-Anti-Federalist-Papers. Perhaps we should review those documents again and look to the Anti-Federalists for wisdom out of this mess? They gave us the Bill of Rights! (Federalist Hamilton said the Bill of Rights was not necessary!!) We owe them that incredibly prescient wisdom. They warned us to Keep Government Closer to the People. Once the central power is far away and out of sight, WTP cannot keep an eye on it. When most of the people who are attracted to being politicians are sociopathic/ narcissistic megalomaniacs, how could a federal government not become corrupt? WTP must keep a watchful eye on all of them!
Federalism won’t end corruption, but at least it will keep the government closer to WTP.
i dont know. I am waiting for people to catch up. anyone paying attention for even just a few years should need no more evidence that we need to trash and burn this govt. its out of control corruption.
whats WTP?
presumably We The People
Sorry - We the People
Liz, I agree with your comment citing anti federalists but Im confused by this : "Federalism won’t end corruption, but at least it will keep the government closer to WTP"
True federalism- 50 sovereign states with limited national government - still has state governments that are corrupt by corrupt humans, but at least state government is closer to the people as opposed to the corrupt national government so there’s a better chance to reign it in - maybe.
We The People
We the people
Did you mean "Anti-Federalism" in your last sentence?
No, Federalism originally meant the 10th Amendment (and 9th too). Anti-Federalism is really nationalism. Kind orwellian, I guess. Main point is that we really don't need or want a big national government. We should ask ourselves, not which federal agencies to cut, but what federal agencies do we really need? (Defense, infrastructure, post service, et. al.)
It is confusing because the anti-federalists argued for no federal government, only decentralized state governments.
18th century Newspeak
Liz - anti federalism was against a federal government - they were for revising the articles of confederation or some address to the state debts etc.
The hard fact of the matter is that we've grown to empire size with just the 50 states. I don't think it's simply a matter of devolving power that has aggravated improperly at the federal level back to the states. Currently each representative represents (theoretically) 761,169 people. One person can't adequately do that. We started at 1 per 30,000. But that was becoming unweildly so in 1929 it was fixed by law not amendment at 435.
But there are all sorts of problems trying to fix it. 4,350 representatives couldn't hold meetings, even divided into committees. If we were using those numbers the Great Compromise that balances big and little state interests comes undone. An internet search shows significant interest in this "solution" to the EC "problem".
I don't have even the faintest of the start of an idea to fix it. But we need to grapple with it.
In the meantime, I thoroughly concur we need to move back to Constitutional order instead of hoping the Feds can fix it all. It won't solve the underlying issues but it can alleviate some of the current pain. Who knows, it might even make this observation moot.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, any eventuality that the Establishment of the day didn't like was automatically blamed on Jews.
Crops failed? Jews.
Royal fleet sank in a freak storm? Jews.
King's oldest son and heir is a barely closeted and rather flamboyant homosexual? Jews.
No evidence needed. Because Jews. What are you on their side, asking for evidence, when everyone knows that Jews can control the weather?
Today's Establishment is much more enlightened. They do not blame Jews. They blame Russia, which everyone knows has superpowers bordering on psychic mind control. Except it doesn't work on PMC goodthinkers.
Scapegoating is always a dangerous and misguided way to attempt accountability. But good god are we humans ever prone to it.
Actually - they blame white people.
In the religion of leftism the devil is "systemic racism".
There's always been the need for an "enemy"/scapegoat: Jews, Russians, Muslim extremists/terrorists, Russians again, white supremacists... IOW, any "them" at which government can point a finger so as to prevent the citizenry from pointing their fingers at the ACTUAL evildoers in the GOVERNMENT.
Sometimes bad guys really are bad guys and not just state propaganda.
One of the things that's so evil about this, is that during this period Vladimir Putin was denying that Russia had anything to do with many of the disinformation campaigns it was being accused of.
It's disgusting that our politicians and intelligence services were lying and Vladimir Putin was telling the truth.
And according to the Twitter files , Putin wasn’t lying
Burn the witch!!! The modern left would make the Spanish Inquisitors blush with shame. A Russian in every pot…
Nick Pickles is the Torquemada of our times.
I'm sure you caught the movie GOYA'S GHOSTS.
I have not
I think you'd enjoy it.
And what a name. Pickles. I wonder if they both have the same haircut.
The Twitter files stories are convoluted and hard to follow—so many names, too many pronouns ("it, them, they"). This is no criticism of Matt and company, because disentangling everything is a herculean task.
One thing becoming apparent to me is that, while behind the scenes Yoel Roth etc. sound reasonable, they were disappointingly spineless about publicizing their findings. How different would things be today if they had pushed back publicly?
You are right and I really tried to do this for everyone at Wikipedia-- a table with acronyms--but it was deleted.
But here is what Matt provided if you go back to January 4, 2023--https://www.racket.news/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter
Thank you Kathleen.
actually, theres a key that makes it all easy to understand. the government is run by and full of evil liars. start there and you can unpack everything pretty quickly.
Eventually a book--or three--will be needed.
But right now, the evidence is just being dug up. And with each shovelful, things get more convoluted, and dirty.
They're counting on convoluted. It makes juries give up. Better still, it makes prosecutors give up because they know they'll lose the jury trying to explain it.
Sadly, this is also the root cause of bloody revolution. The typical person sees two laws depending on your societal position and they know the leadership is evil. But they can't legally seek justice. So they seek it from their own hands.
With respect to the twitter files, it's true, and It takes a while to get all of the players straight, and Matt's been at it a long time now, so for him it's easier, but if you keep reading about it (thanks Matt) the names become familiar as they are the same cast over and over again.
That's what I've thought since reading the first TwitterFiles.
As Matt keeps affixing "KICK ME!" signs to the backs of the intelligence agencies I'd just like to take a moment to address Matt's personal intelligence agency internet stake out team that is, most likely, camped out up in the bleachers somewhere.
Gentlemen, I'd like to personally thank you for indicting that document scofflaw, Donald Trump, for fudging an entry on a federal form.
Over the years my wife & I have often discussed how document errors, whether intentional or not, are the cancer at the heart of our wonderful faux democracy.
Thankfully Democrats have finally stopped devoting the bulk of their crime fighting machine to things like retail theft, drug addiction, mental illness & homelessness & they now have time to take aim at the real criminals in our society, like Donald Trump, who continually flaunt our much cherished laws of data entry.
Remember gentlemen, I don't even know Matt. And if any of my previous posts have offended you wonderful intelligence folk they were written by my brother.
Not me.
And finally I would greatly appreciate it if you wonderful wonderful intelligence folk could also take aim at those spelling & punctuation errors that have become rampant since the decline of the proofreader. The internet is an especially egregious purveyor of mis- & dis-spelling so I'm hoping that you folk can pre-bunk these problems before they get further out of hand.
Long live Joe Biden!
May his invisible chairs stay visible & his bouts of confusion empower our enlightenment!!!!
Huzzah!!!!
too funny.. but not really...
Spookland. "It's everywhere it's everywhere."
Wish I could laugh.
And it worked like a charm.
I've heard things like, "...co-opted by domestic extremists and amplified by Foreign Actors" when the regime wants to discredit something so many damn times that I had completely forgotten about Walk Away and Brandon Straka.
What's jarring is the inside-baseball discussions by our "betters" in the regime who COMPLETELY BOUGHT THIS BULLSHIT. A few trolls on Facebook and these idiots think they're in a Tom Clancy novel.
Again we come to this idea of Useful Idiots and committed, strategic Marxists and where the latter end and the former begin...
...it may be 100% Idiots.
"“The sooner we can get it out there that this was an organic movement, the better… It signals to other members that they will look foolish if they cry ‘Russia!’ every time something happens on social media that they don’t like. :)”
Ahh, the lone voice of sanity. How eerily prescient, as people are still blaming Russia, and folks like me and the quoted above, we are still waiting for everybody to see how foolish they look.
"Straka would go on to be arrested..."
But of course.
Great reply