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“The idea here is to come clean on everything that has happened in the past in order to build public trust for the future.” Elon Musk, Free Speech Absolutist

“By opening up Twitter’s own internal documents, they have the opportunity to detail how Twitter users have been secretly manipulated, managed, and muzzled — for years — around the world — on multiple topics of first-order significance.” Matt Bivens M.D.

Did Twitter executives censor a story that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 election? Did they deliberately suppress information the public needed to make an informed decision about how to cast their ballot? Was candidate Trump damaged by Twitter’s meddling? Did it cost him the election?

It did cost him the election, at least the American people think so. Check out this excerpt from an article at the New York Post:

Nearly four of five Americans who’ve been following the Hunter Biden laptop scandal believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a new poll.

A similar percentage also said they’re convinced that information on the computer is real, with just 11% saying they thought it was “created by Russia,” according to the survey conducted by the New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics.

On the subject of the 2020 election, 79% overall said it was “very” or “somewhat” likely that “a truthful interpretation of the laptop” would have resulted in the reelection of former President Donald Trump instead of the election of President Biden.

The poll results, derived from an initial survey of 1,335 adults, have a “credibility interval” of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points, according to the TIPP.” (“79% say ‘truthful’ coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop would have changed 2020 election”, New York Post)

Some readers will recall that in 2016 when FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails 11 days before the election, Hillary’s public approval ratings plunged dramatically and never recovered. That’s how seriously Americans take the charge of “corruption”. So, we can assume that wider circulation of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have produced the same result. The suggestion that Joe Biden may have been implicated in a multi-million dollar influence-peddling scam would likely be enough to torpedo his prospects in the general election. Fortunately for Biden, Twitter opted to squash the story and prevent anyone from even linking to the original article at the New York Post. Thus, the allegations of corruption passed mostly under-the-radar allowing Biden to squeak out a victory. What the incident shows is that censorship can be used to derail democracy which should concern us all. Check out this brief recap from an article at Opindia:

‘The Twitter Files’ contain internal communications, pertaining to the censorship of the Hunter Biden story on the social media platform. Following the revelation, it became clear that (the former Legal Head of the social media platform Vijaya) Gadde was at the helm of the censorship exercise under the garb of vague and arbitrary rules.

Ahead of the 2020 US presidential elections, the New York Post published an explosive story about Hunter Biden’s problematic emails with a Ukrainian gas company executive from Burisma… The report had several documents and mentioned a video that proved that Joe Biden met a high-profile businessman from Ukraine when he was Vice President of the United States.

Reports suggested that Biden might have helped his son Hunter using his influence as the VP of the United States in his business in Ukraine… it was eventually confirmed that the laptop’s contents did really belong to Hunter Biden.” (“Americans demand ex-Twitter Legal Head Vijaya Gadde be sent to prison, accuse her of rigging 2020 US Presidential elections“, Opindia)

Check out this 2 minute clip of Former Twitter Safety Chief Yoel Roth explaining why the satirical website Babylon Bee had to be censored by Twitter.

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The laptop article was well-researched and made no spurious claims about Biden’s possible involvement. Even so, Twitter execs considered the implications too explosive to ignore so they cobbled together a makeshift tale about “Russian disinformation” (a claim for which there is not a scintilla of evidence.) and then conducted a de facto purge of anyone alluding to the original article.

Behind the scenes, however, the Twitter team knew the “hack” story was a fraud from the get-go but pushed it anyway for purely partisan reasons. Here’s Glenn Greenwald commenting on Twitter’s response:..

“Not only is there no evidence that the documents used by the NY Post were the by-product of “hacking” by Russia or anyone else — Twitter’s false excuse for banning discussion of the story — the NYT has confirmed that the laptop was left and never picked up at the repair store.” Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald

And, here’s Aaron Mate who is even more blunt:

The claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” was a blatant lie that resulted in blatant censorship… @aaronjmate

What this incident tells us, is that Twitter’s executives were not only censoring responsible, well-researched journalism for purely political reasons, but were also working with their allies in the government who assisted Twitter in identifying stories or people who they wanted silenced. The fact is, no one disputes the cozy relationship that now exists between the social media giants and their partners on Capitol Hill or the White House. They are two wheels on the same axle. Here’s an excerpt from a article by Johnathan Turley at The Hill:

As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply “handled,” and nothing else had to be said….

…The documents do not show a clear role or knowledge by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Instead, the censor in chief appears to be Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former chief legal officer who has been criticized as a leading anti-free speech figure in social media.

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau’s Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter’s deputy general counsel….

at the apparent request of the 2020 Biden campaign and the DNC, Twitter seems to have routinely stopped others from discussing or hearing opposing views. The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship…

These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden’s campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials. If so, that would be when Twitter may have gone from a campaign ally to a surrogate for state censorship. As I have previously written, the administration cannot censor critics and cannot use agents for that purpose under the First Amendment.

That is precisely what Musk is now alleging. As the documents were being released, he tweeted, “Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is.” (“Censorship by surrogate: Why Musk’s document dump could be a game changer“, The Hill)

The implication is clear, the government and its agencies are now working hand-in-hand with the social media companies in an effort to shape narratives so they align with the political agenda of the people in power. This is a war on ordinary people who depend on the free flow of information to make informed decisions on matters critical to their own survival. The greatest proponent of that war on free speech is the government itself which is progressively merging with the social media companies in order to control what people say, hear and think. Naturally, the moneyed interests behind the politicians and deep state operatives, take great interest in the outcome of this struggle. There has always been a significant group of elites in America who believe that individual freedom must be sacrificed to create a more orderly society. The relentless attack on free speech suggests that this element now has the upper hand and will use it to their own advantage.

Here’s another short video of Yoel Roth justifying the banning of Donald Trump based on emotional “trauma” which Roth inexplicably sees as legitimate reason to silence the president of the United States.

An article by Matt Bivens at Substack provides a window into the goings-on at Twitter and how the cozy relationship between the executives running the platform and their allies in the national security state grew even cozier as time passed. Here’s a clip from Bivens piece titled Twitter Is Fun Again:

As the 2020 election loomed, the FBI was hosting weekly meeting with executives from Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants to discuss, essentially, how to police social media.

Yoel Roth, who at Twitter carried the Robespierrean title of Head of Site Integrity, has testified that he and other industry peers in the months before the 2020 election had “regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI … regarding election security.”

“During these weekly meetings, [Roth testified] the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October … I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.”

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has also said the FBI was giving his social media platform a similar warning.

Let this sink in. Weeks before the story of Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop broke, FBI officials were laying the groundwork — at Twitter, at Facebook, and no doubt beyond — to squelch it.” (“Twitter Is Fun Again”, Matt Bivens M.D., Substack)

Bivens timeline helps us to understand exactly how the social media companies began their collaboration with the national security state. Inquiring minds will wonder why the executives of these organizations were meeting regularly with “ the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI”. The answer, I think, is fairly obvious. The vast majority of critical thinking people now get their news on the internet which means that elites are more determined than ever to corrupt that ecosystem in the same way they destroyed mainstream news. That is why agents of the state have infiltrated the various platforms in order to use their coercive powers to shape a narrative that garners public support for unpopular, elitist objectives, like war and tax cuts for the wealthy. In short, the tentacles of the state now extend across the social media landscape which is impeding the free flow of news, opinion, research and commentary. Elites have never been more determined to quash the free exchange of ideas on the social media sites and to transform the Internet into another rancid institution that reiterates the same false narratives and propaganda one hears daily on the cables news channels. The Biden laptop story gave us a chance to see how quickly these agents can swing into action when a brushfire they hadn’t expected suddenly breaks out. The story was buried in a matter of hours which illustrates how adept they have become at stomping out the truth. Here’s more from Bivens:

“… when The New York Post … broke the bizarre story that…Biden’s son had abandoned a laptop at a computer repair shop; that it had all sorts of embarrassing and incriminating material on it…. Twitter, moving swiftly to suppress The New York Post’s story, immediately shut down the entire newspaper’s Twitter account. It stayed shut down for two weeks — in a 21st century equivalent to the old game of smashing presses, and gathering up and burning newspapers…. If ordinary Twitter users tried to share links to the story, Twitter removed them.

Taibbi picks up the story:

Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography. Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi.” (“Twitter is Fun Again!”, Matt Bivens M.D., Substack)

The response of Twitter’s executives to the Hunter Biden laptop story can lure one into thinking that that it was an ‘isolated incident’ that probably won’t happen again. But that misses the point entirely. What we are seeing is the installation of a new security infrastructure that is explicitly aimed at preventing the free exchange of ideas. The government has gone to great lengths to implement this repressive system, mainly because, among elites, there is nearly-universal support for rolling back the First Amendment and impeding the uninhibited circulation of ideas, viewpoints and critical analysis. All of these pose a significant threat to the political agenda of the people in power. They don’t want to deal with that, which is why they have dispatched their lackeys at the FBI and the other agencies to use their coercive influence to persuade honchos at the social media companies to censor those journalists, critics or dissidents who veer from the “official narrative” or who dare to expose truths that they do not want exposed.

Bottom line: All the pieces are being put in place to ensure that free speech won’t survive the decade. The Twitter Files help us to see what is going on, but they do not provide a plan for fighting back.

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  1. Notsofast says:

    meanwhile the whitehouse press secretary has completely dismissed the twitter files calling their disclosure of the 2020 election censorship an “interesting coincidence and a distraction” used to divert attention from the hate speach on his platform, adding “that it is full of old news, if you think about it. and at the same time, twitter is facing very real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger, hate and anti-semitism on their platform, and how they’re letting it happen”.

    they plan on just ignoring it until it just goes away. yes, their secret weapon is ignorance, they are the most powerfully ignorant people on the planet.

    imo, if anything at all comes out of this, hunter will become the scape goat, dr. jill, will inform a shocked nation, that joe biden has alzheimer’s (gasp) and can no longer serve his country, kamala will be sworn in to serve the last two years of bidens term then get to run twice more, with michelle obama as v.p.

  2. Chris Moore says: • Website

    The implication is clear, the government and its agencies are now working hand-in-hand with the social media companies in an effort to shape narratives so they align with the political agenda of the people in power. This is a war on ordinary people who depend on the free flow of information to make informed decisions on matters critical to their own survival…

    Here’s another short video of Yoel Roth justifying the banning of Donald Trump based on emotional “trauma” which Roth inexplicably sees as legitimate reason to silence the president of the United States.

    ((Youl Roth)) and the ZOG he works for have become the “persecuted Jew” of Zionist myth. Any narrative counter to ZOG myths is “anti-Semitic” and hence beyond the pale (taboo). The Pale used to be ((jew)) occupied territory, but now ((jews)) and their stooges occupy the mainstream, hence “beyond the pale” refers to the traditional values of Western Civilization, and the ((jewish)) supremacist ZOG “values” (goyim genocide) prevail.

    How do you like genocidal, anti-Christ, anti-Western, anti-human, ZOG “civilization,” rubes?

    lol. All the things you hated about Western Civ were actually the product of ((jew)) sabatoeurs, slavers and Satanists, but the rubes fixated on the splinter in Christendom’s eye, and ignored the smoking gun in ZOG’s hand.

    • Thanks: Odd Rabbit, Z-man
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
    , @sally
  3. Ko says:

    I have more days when I don’t bother with the news, reading, podcasts, or even movies and listening to music. I feel like I’m the only one in the world that knows we are all very fucked. Doing anything doesn’t matter at all because in the future, there will be no history. Constructive living is pointless.

  4. Let’s put this in a different perspective. Plans for the high risk for fraud mail in ballots, and ballot flipping algorithms/programming were already teed up. Yes, they could be tweaked. Forget the actual corruption and public for a minute. The laptop exposure would have made it impossible for anyone, other than hard core party believers, to believe the results of the election that was going to be Biden’s anyway.

    • Agree: Twodees Partain
  5. As long as the modern Bread and Circuses are maintained (porn, beer, sports, gambling, streaming video,legal THC) people will be more than content to let free speech be regulated away.

    • Replies: @Hymn 43
    , @Corvinus
  6. There is a name for this system of government, where the government works with private enterprise to do things that would otherwise be illegal for it to do: fascism.

    • Replies: @Durruti
  7. anonymous[139] • Disclaimer says:

    That millions of Americans were able to be convinced that Russian disinformation was behind this laptop story, that Trump was in cahoots with them and so on is really astonishing. It couldn’t get more implausible and stupid than that. We’re living in a full spectrum propaganda environment 24/7 that never stops and never misses a trick. Media have always been hand-in-hand with government to sell every war they wanted but now they’ve got more tools to work with. Everything in America is just a big fat lie, everything.

    • Agree: Polistra
    • Replies: @JR Foley
  8. At a party last Friday, friends of 50 years plus, I am the only one who did not drink the tea, as my fave Sanity for Sweden Viking says, and was not invited last two years. Lawyers, city councilor, money market guys, all players etc, all of us Catholic Private school Boys hockey , lacrosse soccer teammates etc, Canadians, (leafs just scored again 3-0) one of my friends was worried about his wife, bed ridden for 4 days after her booster.

    [MORE]
    Another though Pelosi will be missed, no one mentioned Castro’s son, or our nazi assistant pm, truckers convoy, nothing nada zilch. I mentioned Elon, like I dropped a brick. My wife gave me the evil eye, and went outside to smoke a Government rolled doobie.we watched hockey for four hours, got drunk as heck, went home. My country, I thought on the way home, is truly gone for ever. These same best friends all questioned how I was at events when we were locked down with passports, but asked my wife always, never asked me. I am the notorious tin foil hat boy, always was, always will be.
    My wife’s wonderful bro dropped dead a week after my dad this summer, no one mentions the elephant in the room, ever! Glad I went to Ottawa in January, best week of this whole ordeal, we would have red screens on our phones if not for the truckers, said that to my best man under my breath on Saturday, then I remembered he only reads and parrots the Atlantic, so I changed the subject and poured some more Uisghe Bah, water of life, aka old Bushmills! We live in a bio fascist state in the Great White North, and won’t be coming to save Europe as we did in 1914 and 1939, you guys showed up 1917 and 1941.Viva Vladdy and God help us all.

    • Thanks: GMC
    • Replies: @radicalcenter
  9. aandrews says:

    “My Jaw Hit The Floor” – Musk Fires Twitter’s ‘FBI-Russiagate’ Lawyer Over Vetting Debacle
    ZeroHedge
    Tuesday, Dec 06, 2022 – 03:56 PM

    Elon Musk on Tuesday announced that former FBI attorney James Baker, who came to Twitter to serve as deputy general counsel, has been fired after ‘vetting’ recently released evidence of Twitter’s election interference unbeknownst to Musk.

    • Replies: @Realist
  10. Elon Musk Didn’t €pste*n Himself!

    Video Link

    • Thanks: Agent76
  11. Check out this 2 minute clip of Former Twitter Safety Chief Yoel Roth explaining why the satirical website Babylon Bee had to be censored by Twitter.

    Check out this clip from the Babylon Bee.


    Video Link

    • Thanks: Bubba, Polistra
    • LOL: cool daddy jimbo
  12. Our corporate media attacks the truth exposed by Musk.


    Video Link

    • Thanks: Agent76
  13. Some people, like Corbett, Ryan Cristian and Whitney Webb, would say that social media were a government setup to spy on citizens from day one. It looks like some people were right. The fascism with a smile that will soon be just good old ass stomping fascism was always planning to use the internet against us.

    • Replies: @1jonny
  14. Trinity says:

    Tripledemics coming soon.
    (((Elon Huckster)) + Orange Dude = Zero

    • LOL: Realist, Renard
    • Replies: @Realist
  15. Anon[271] • Disclaimer says:
    @Ko

    Ko,

    NO!
    Constructive living is not pointless. Young traditionally-minded ordinary people should work, be thrifty, obtain in-demand job-skills and necessary education. They should have families. They can still vote with one neat trick:
    Not joining any branch of the military or coast guard. Let America get very militarily weak, with not even enough bodies to people the equipment it now has, and man the bases it has all over the world. That will reel-in the foreign policy adventurism and regime-changes right there. There is no better way to tell TPTB no in a language they understand

    • Agree: Rich
    • Replies: @anon
  16. This guy sounds a bit fishy. More misdirection from the REAL truth?

    WUHAN WHISTLEBLOWER: PROVES FAUCI RAN COVID GAIN OF FUNCTION OPERATION



    Video Link

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  17. Ghali says:

    We live under vicious and criminal form of Fascism controlled by Jews.

    • Agree: JimDandy
  18. If the laptop contents were revealed in their entirety prior to the election it would have changed precisely nothing. The fix was already in.

    We’re Being treated, or demoralized perhaps, by the revelations of all the illegalities and corruption that went on at Twitter. It’s just another affront in a long line of ‘in your face’ fuckery by exposing what naïve idiots most of us have been for most of the time.

    That we can so readily see this is still surprising to the countless cowardly sleepwalkers still clinging to ‘muh worldview’ despite mountains of example and evidence.

    If it’s any consolation, the croc consumes them first.

    • Agree: Emslander, Voltara
    • Replies: @Realist
    , @The Real World
  19. JWalters says:

    The top reporter for the London Times in 1917 Russia, Robert Wilton, was blocked from reporting that Jews controlled the Bolshevik revolution. This was done by Zionists in London secretly accusing him of being an anti-Semite. The details of how he was smeared and silenced are remarkably similar to the way US regime critics have been silenced on Twitter. They are described by London Times reporter Douglass Reed in Chapter 32 “The World Revolution Again” in The Controversy of Zion
    http://www.controversyofzion.info/Controversybook/Controversybook_eng_32.htm

    Reed also remarks on the consequences of such censorship:
    “The formulation of any rational State policy becomes impossible when such major elements of knowledge are excluded from public discussion; it is like playing billiards with twisted cues and elliptical balls.”

    Former CIA analyst and Russia expert Ray McGovern, in an excellent recap of the Western Mafia’s lies to Russia and about Russia, said that the captive mainstream press and consequent public ignorance is the key to their maintaining power.
    US Intelligence community & conflict with Russia – Ray McGovern, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
    https://rumble.com/v1z92um-us-intelligence-community-and-conflict-with-russia-ray-mcgovern-alexander-m.html

    It’s clear to reasonably informed media watchers that the current push to censor the internet is not to protect the public from “misinformation”, but to protect the Mafia’s massive MSM disinformation system from scrutiny. And the top priority is to bury any information about the Mafia itself.

    If we cannot talk about the mindset and motives of the people who actually pull the strings of the collective West – in its attack on Russia, in its attack on the Middle East, in its aggression toward China – then we cannot talk about the roots of these problems.

    If we do not talk about the Jewish Financial Mafia that is steering our several Ships of State in their archaic, barbaric, deluded fantasies, and if we do not mutiny against this Mafia, then our people will watch helplessly as our Ships of State are shipwrecked one after another.

  20. Boll says:

    Nothing could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election.

    • Disagree: Renard
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  21. The suggestion that Joe Biden may have been implicated in a multi-million dollar influence-peddling scam would likely be enough to torpedo his prospects in the general election. Fortunately for Biden, Twitter opted to squash the story and prevent anyone from even linking to the original article at the New York Post.

    Also fortunate for Biden & Co, the MSM are playing the laptop story as something focused upon Hunter’s endless appetite for illegal drugs and purchased sex. You’ll search hard to find any mention of Burisma or what he might have been doing there, much less how much he was paid for it.

    And that’s just one example. Something more trivial, yet just as telling: Hunter’s endless use of the n-word, which would have canceled anyone not so well-connected, and so favored by the media elite.

    But then Bill Clinton would be in prison for life for his endlesss transgressions against women, and numerous trips on the Lolita Express, not to mention weightier crimes. But some of us appear to be immune, even to the woke inquisition. How very nice for them.

    • Agree: Renard
  22. Censorship and omissions, concealment and lies, propaganda and misinformation, disinformation and cognitive warfare, Madison Avenue manipulations etc etc are what we have today and for many past generations. We are even more damned in the electronic era.

    You live in a sewer. The nation is lost. You will never get it back.

    “Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”
    Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, January 8, 1789

    • Replies: @Realist
    , @Renard
  23. @Chris Moore

    Yes, this whole argument that any contrary position or argument ‘threatens’ some other group, comes STRAIGHT from Zionazi propaganda stand-over tactics. First mobilised to attack pro-Palestinian groups on US campuses, it was broadened, no doubt due to shared membership between the poor, endangered, Zionazis, and the liberal fascist Democratic Party aligned Woke lunatics. When you REFUSE to argue your case, or hear that of others, or compromise in ANY way, the first resort (when State violence is not, yet, available) is a massive neurotic breakdown, with added histrionics thrown in, and TOTAL MSM complicity. The repression, violence and murders come later, as any Palestinian can tell you.

    • Replies: @Chris Moore
  24. @Ko

    Once we reach a singularity between human intelligence and artificial, machine, intelligence, our goose is cooked. AI will already be aware of the fulminations against its advances, by ‘soft machines’ not addled by group-think, indifference and fatuous complacency, and will know that humanity represents a risk, perhaps only slight to begin with but real, to its existence. Exeunt omnes.

    • Replies: @Geowhizz
  25. Jeffrey Sachs : You Must Know This Situation In America !!! Everyone Has Been Manipulated


    Video Link

  26. MarLuc7 says:

    Nothing will be done. No criminal prosecutions. The swamp is actually growing –not shrinking. Our Congress is a bunch of limp-dick, low-testosterone 80-year-olds who just spend their days shuffling down the hallways, drinking coffee, engaging in gentle…polite conversations with “their esteemed colleagues”. Easy Peasy. Let’s not get crazy….we need unity and peace –not Congressional Inquiries and Prosecutions. These old fucks would not know a Communist take over even if they were stripped naked, whipped with a belt, and thrown into a razor wire re-education camp.

    The corruption will continue until our children starve. Then the elites will feign concern. Too late, the torches and pitchforks are coming.

    When the shit kicks off, I pray I am still young enough to fight. I ain’t got no problem planting a thousand or so liberals (Communist shithead traitors) in the cold cold ground. This must be how the Southerners felt about them dang Yankees. The hatred is real. All these fuckers need to pay for what they have done to our once great country.

    All the Military + the DOJ, ATF, DHS, FBI, CIA and All Police Forces amount to less than 3 Million people. Half of America is armed.

    150 Million Armed Citizens —VS—-3 Million Assholes. We could stomp them beneath our Jack Boots without ever firing a shot. This country is ours.

    We can take it back anytime we truly decide to do so. This is what they fear most —us realizing just how pathetically weak “they” are.

    Until they can disarm us, their only option is to control what we THINK. Propaganda is their go-to, favorite tool.

    The Masses must be kept ignorant. The masses must be divided along racial lines. The masses must be kept in a constant state of fear and uncertainty. The masses must be kept in a state of bewilderment. Any unifying force must be opposed; The Family Unit, Marriage, A belief in God and Nationalism, and a unifying culture are all very dangerous. All of these must be stripped away and replaced with the STATE.

    • Agree: A. Clifton, werpor
  27. Again, as with the Giraldi article, we have a supposedly deep thinker passing on as facts what should be question.

    For example this: The documents do not show a clear role or knowledge by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

    Granted Whitney didn’t write this himself. But neither did he question it after serving to us on a platter, as if we are as naive as he seems to be himself.

    Jack Dorsey was CEO. Even if he knew nothing about the background of the censorship campaign, when it happened he could have immediately done something. He didn’t.

    So why does Whitney say nothing about this obvious collaboration by Dorsey?

    In addition, Whitney seems to have no skepticism about the Taibbi/Musk narrative. Isn’t what is happening an obvious limited hangout? Isn’t it obvious to most readers/commenters here on Unz.com?

    There are still many people suspended from Twitter. More get suspended daily. The Covid scam wiped out some of the best tweeters on twitter. Ukraine is also a danger area.

    This type of limited hangout reminds me of the Snowden/Greenwald/Thiel limited hangout. A billionaire and an ambitious journalist combine to deep 6 90%+ of the documents paid with our tax money, generated by our government. Greenwald rode the limited hangout to fame and fortune, meanwhile the guy who really believes in transparency, Assange, is being slowly killed before our eyes.

    How many of you are believers? How many are skeptics? This in my opinion is just another twist of the screw into the body politic. It’s a managed staged event that will in the end change nothing. Musk is playing a role. He’s an actor. Limited Hangout is what it is.

    • Replies: @Realist
  28. What is the big deal with free speech? Most modern 1st world people wouldn’t know what to do with it even if they had it. It would always be which political side or corporate interest have the most effective liars/propagandists because both sides would be exercising their “free speech”. Right?

    The MOB is always the MOB since even before the Romans. They don’t think, care or act in any rational or far thinking way and ALWAYS have to be led because they are a rabble. This is not cynicism, it is an observable fact.

    The funny metaphor of nations that have 2 major parties is like watching a football game with each side feverishly supporting their team and no matter the outcome, everyone loses.

    “Stop the world, and let me off” as some Country singer crooned applies now more than ever for me. The everyday insanity now is like a runaway train. I swear, if I wasn’t crazy by nature, I would worry about my sanity. Most people I know don’t have this advantage.

    Cheers-

    • Replies: @Renard
  29. Durruti says:

    Bottom line: All the pieces are being put in place to ensure that free speech won’t survive the decade. The Twitter Files help us to see what is going on, but they do not provide a plan for fighting back.

    The Conclusion by Whitney is on the mark. Although, we might ask – if “free speech” has existed at all in the past decade?

    Whitney has clarified:

    “a plan for fighting back” has not been broached by “they.” They being “Twitter Files.”

    Unfortunately, Whitney does not suggest such a plan. Surely he, having opened the subject of “fighting back,” might venture some helpful hints,

    We might:

    Restore the Republic, destroyed absolutely, in a hail of bullets, on November 22, 1963, destroyed in a Classic Coup D’état, along with our Last Constitutional President, John F. Kennedy.

    Yes we would have to Return Those Bullets. We did it at Lexington and Concord and a few other places.

    * Cures (for what ails us), as well as exposés, need to be posted on this and other forums.

    • LOL: Thim
  30. cohen says:

    1.Elon Musk? Deep State’s boy.
    2.Where did he get all his funding?
    3.Tesla car over rated with safety issues. Possible fraudulent c;aims
    4.Directed to take the reins of Twitter which he dutifully obliged. Money was never a problem
    5.Throws a few bones to a pack of hungry first amendment and truth seekers to pacify. Does he really care of Ist amendment or free speech?
    6.When I saw the symbol of star of David in a Swastika I did not find any element of hate and excuse to deplateform Ye (I didnt know the guy till he because an entertainer). How about the Medallion of Nazi and Germany Zionist’s party collaboration in 1933. Is that a peace symbol?

    http://fpp.co.uk/online/09/07/Nazi_Zionism.html

    6.Swastika symbol is also a religious symbol in Hindu religion

    Elon Musk a good buddy of Ari Emanuel younger brother

    https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/elections/66932/

    of FAMOUS AMERICAN PATRIOT ( former DNC chairman, Obama’s Chief of Staff and current Ambassador to Japan….Moeny making machine for future projects) who fought for Israel in Lebanon war.

    https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/elon-musk-got-hosed-by-ari-emanuel/103367626/

    • Replies: @Yukon Jack
  31. The so-called “Twitter files” are not at all interesting, and really have nothing to do with “free speech” on a legal level. The government was not involved in the censorship, so it was not a first amendment issue.

    • LOL: Realist
    • Troll: JimDandy
  32. Punchthem says:

    79%. Do not know that situation is much worse than in these files.

  33. ariadna says:
    @Notsofast

    “hunter will become the scape goat…”
    Yes, most likely
    “…dr. jill, will inform a shocked nation, that joe biden has alzheimer’s (gasp) and can no longer serve his country, kamala will be sworn in to serve the last two years of bidens term…”
    Yes, very likely.
    “then get to run twice more, with michelle obama as v.p.”
    No, I don’t believe it. It think it is more likely that Kamala will bow out citing her wish to spend more time with the family and that the next pres election will see DeSantis with Tulsi as his VP and on the democrat side Gavin Newsom with a black woman/trans as his VP or Michelle Obama.
    The republican platform will be MAGAWT (MAGA without Trump), promising milk and honey at home and making America feared and respected again (so, a bit of Trump). Kicked aside by the Rep party, Trump will run as an independent, thus ensuring that Gavin Newsom wins.

    • Replies: @Z-man
  34. ld says:

    “A Son of the New American Revolution”
    Larry Romanoff’s blog has been unavailable for days

    Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

    squeezing bandwidth to unfavorable sites

    • Replies: @ariadna
  35. Anonymous[215] • Disclaimer says:

    The In Justice system! Cry for the country.
    “Of course, we have degenerated from the principles of honor and justice. The antics of the mainstream press have been deliberately seeking to manipulate elections just as Hillary accused Putin when she lost.”
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/just-us/

  36. Realist says:
    @aandrews

    Yeah, my jaw hit the floor too. Why was James A. Baker still working for Twitter (Musk)? Musk should have shot him in the head when he took control of Twitter.

    This is reminiscent of Trump not firing all the scum in the executive branch of government in his administration…and, worse yet, hiring more scum.

    It appears that Trump and Musk are none too bright, but a high school dropout would know better than that. There is more going on here than meets the eye.

    • Agree: WingsofADove
    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @aandrews
  37. Realist says:
    @Trinity

    Musk is not a Jew.

    • Disagree: Trinity, Thim
  38. 1jonny says:
    @Jefferson Temple

    What’s up with Ryan’s Last American Vagabond. It seems he’s obsessed with Covid and the US government’s response, to the exclusion of all else. I stopped listening a while back. I think he’s gotten crazy uncle syndrome.

    • Replies: @Jefferson Temple
  39. Durruti says:
    @Dave from Oz

    There is a name for this system of government, where the government works with private enterprise to do things that would otherwise be illegal for it to do: fascism.

    To be “fascism” there must be open violent repression, to complement the Un Constitutional operation of government and business and media control over citizens. Violence (the political culture of violence), is the fascist si ne qua non. Since-November 22, 1963, there has been increasing use of violence to enhance the Power Elite’s control. There are numerous Guantanamos, and Abu Ghraib Concentration camps that are operated by our military and secret agencies. There are 700+ American military bases spread over the world.

    America’s military budget is 3 times that of Russia, and 10 times larger than that of China. The military budget & its 16 secret agencies, account for half the American budget.

    The political culture of violence is not fully utilized within the United States. To some degree, overt political gang violence is unnecessary, due to the passivity of the American people.

    However:

    If we do not Restore Our Republic, only the political/moral abyss is assured.

  40. @JWalters

    As long as there is a middle-man. You are bound to be trumped.

    Technically that is why with all of his narratives in the open [Mr. Unz], let alone the Twitter servers, there is no-one without exception that offers a data-blob of their operation so a single person can search and make sense of the structured data, the algorithms, the versioning. What is offered is the industrial food, pre-packed, pre-cooked data by androgenized-drones as Musk to tickle your appetite.

  41. Realist says:
    @CloseTheRanks

    The fix was already in.

    We’re Being treated, or demoralized perhaps, by the revelations of all the illegalities and corruption that went on at Twitter. It’s just another affront in a long line of ‘in your face’ fuckery by exposing what naïve idiots most of us have been for most of the time.

    I agree; the in-your-face fuckery, as you call it, are Acts of Societal Disruption designed to destroy our civilization.

    • Agree: Emslander
  42. Z-man says:
    @ariadna

    Sounds like a likely scenario.

  43. Agent76 says:

    Dec 5, 2022 Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Reveals Internal Hunter Biden Debate

    Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday released, through an independent journalist, the Twitter Files, a 37-part Twitter thread of internal documents that shows some of the internal debate and reasoning behind the social media platform’s controversial “free speech suppression” around a bombshell 2020 report on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden—though despite Musk’s hype, it doesn’t deliver any particular shocking new details.

    Video Link

    November 23, 2022 Elon Musk runs monster poll — Should Twitter grant Mass Amnesty to all suspended accounts

    The affirmative is winning bigly. I would expect a Mass Amnesty announcement in the next few days. Great news for tens of thousands in CFP Nation, including Emerald Robinson, War Room and Tracy Beanz.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/elon-musk-runs-monster-poll-should-twitter-grant-mass-amnesty-to-all-suspended-accounts/

  44. Bob says:

    The correct algorithm to use on Twitter is Twitter users being allowed to say and view what they want

    “New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” -Elon Musk 11-18-22

    Musk is wrong about this. An easy way to see this is consider a same or similar message sent by thousands of people. If this message is made “unreachable,” no one will see it. Making a message unreachable is censorship.

    https://americanbuddhist.net/2022/11/30/the-correct-algorithm-to-use-on-twitter-is-twitter-users-being-allowed-to-say-and-view-what-they-want/

  45. Realist says:
    @RoboMoralFascist 1st

    Censorship and omissions, concealment and lies, propaganda and misinformation, disinformation and cognitive warfare, Madison Avenue manipulations etc etc are what we have today and for many past generations. We are even more damned in the electronic era.

    You live in a sewer. The nation is lost. You will never get it back.

    There is a way to get it back, but only a few would enjoy it.

    • Replies: @RoboMoralFascist 1st
  46. Realist says:
    @WingsofADove

    It’s a managed staged event that will in the end change nothing. Musk is playing a role. He’s an actor. Limited Hangout is what it is.

    Yes, indeed. Please take a look at my comment #36.

    • Thanks: WingsofADove
  47. @1jonny

    Perhaps a better way to view it is to say that Ryan has an attention span capable of sticking with something of massive importance. The Covid scam is such an important event. It’s good to have someone keeping an eye on all the ways we were lied to and reporting on the continuing fallout.

    But I haven’t listened to a full show since the lockdowns ended. Too long. What he really needs is to organize his shows so that he can say what he needs to say in a much shorter time.

    • Replies: @AnonfromTN
  48. Notsofast says:
    @Realist

    agree that there is more going on than meets the eye. i have a hard time lumping trump and musk together. trump is a 2 dimensional, narcissistic cartoon character, musk is also a narcissist but imo there’s more to him, he’s more wiley and coy, while trump is more wile e. coyote.

    baker could have taken the bait, laid out for him, throwing a spot light on the information he was trying to suppress and allowing them to humiliate baker by being “exited” from the building, with his family pictures in a cardboard box.

    baker is the f.b.i. connection to the whole scandal, not to say anyone will look at, but there is a trail of evidence leading back to old j. edgar and this transgendered progeny as well as the biden and obama whitehouse.

    • Replies: @Realist
  49. Anonymous[202] • Disclaimer says:

    Why did the faggot Jack Dorsey turn over the control of the American public square to a clueless dothead like Vijaya Gadde?

    • Replies: @Anon
  50. Anonymous[305] • Disclaimer says:

    Wish I was a fly on the wall at the moment Musk realized, “Oh fuck, I bought STELLARWIND.”

  51. Anonymous[346] • Disclaimer says:

    Attempts by the MSM and its junior partner the so called Alt media to have us view Mr Musk as the new improved Mr Assange are laughable at best , more akin to viewing Hitler or Stalin as Gandhi like . Mr Musk is just the latest iteration adapted for the pleasure of the masses , of Mr Trump . Mr Trumps current political fortunes more resemble those of Mr Assange?

  52. Free speech on any platform ends where the interests of the owners begin. He who pays the musicians calls the tune.

  53. BillyBoy says:

    This was an “Article” from Mike Whitney from a year ago:

    Research “Game-changer”: Spike Protein Increases Heart Attacks and Destroys Immune System

    Do Human Scum like Whitney get to just whistle as they walk past the graves of COVID victims that they may have talked out of getting vaccinated? Or do we Alex Jones him and take every dime of blood money he made on the graves of his Rubes, His Dupes and His Stupes????

    Where can we find you Mike Whitney???? You have an outstanding Bill to Pay!!!!

  54. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @mulga mumblebrain

    When you REFUSE to argue your case, or hear that of others, or compromise in ANY way, the first resort (when State violence is not, yet, available) is a massive neurotic breakdown, with added histrionics thrown in, and TOTAL MSM complicity.

    ZOG follows the same pattern as the Talmudist ((jew)) who has been called out by classmates on his brainwashed “Holocaust” schtick, or before that, the ((jew)) who was called out on his brainwashed “Yahweh” shtick — massive neurotic breakdown with added histrionics. The difference is, today the teacher, principal, school board, mayor, chamber of commerce, and president of the USA are lined up behind the brainwashed, spoiled brat ((jew)), his nutty parents and insane rabbi, and bringing the hammer down on the classmates who called him out.

    The repression, violence and murders come later, as any Palestinian can tell you.

    As any Russian peasant victim of Marxist-Zionist Bolshevism from 100 years ago can tell you, too. Marxist-Zionism did not start in Israel, it started in Russia. And actually, it started the City of London with the insular ((Cousinhood)) oligarchy who had set up a kosher boundary (eruv) that runs through the heart of London and now other major metropolises.
    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eruv-manhattan-invisible-wire-jewish-symbolic-religious-home

    The ((Cousinhood)) financed the Bolsheviks, and were born from the the Talmud, who knows when. The Talmud was born from the Golden Calfers, who Moses taught at the point of a sword to keep kosher because he was trying to carve a civilized nation out of a violent wilderness. Different time, different place, different circumstances, different imperatives.

    But with stunted, mentally ill, violently neurotic Talmudnics going to such great lengths today to make sure adherents are on the kosher plantation, and their offspring running Big Brother, with a bodyguard of corrupt, deranged, equally stunted nutcase ((jew)) stooges acting as enforcers, is it any wonder we’re living in an increasingly paranoid, sick, deranged, and violently Judeofascist controlled insane asylum?

  55. Anon[245] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous

    Why did the faggot Jack Dorsey turn over the control of the American public square to a clueless dothead like Vijaya Gadde?

    =====================================================================

    Precisely because Dorsey is no fool. He must have known there would ultimately be a backlash. So, he had to have a grateful Coolie girl in his back pocket as his scapegoat stooge.

    A clever individual always has a flunky. He gives them the shit jobs. If there is success he claims it, if there is failure he has a mook to blame.

    Do you think Dorsey sold off Twitter at just the right time? Was that a co-incidence or did he see the writing on the wall ?

    I dont know, but I am suspicious of the subtle synchronicity in these events.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  56. Renard says:
    @RoboMoralFascist 1st

    We are even more damned in the electronic era.

    Yes, the apparatus is more dangerous than ever. But it’s also more useful than anything we’ve had since the colonial era of distributing pamphlets (and remember people were jailed for that too).

    This same apparatus allows us to communicate with like-minded souls as never before, showing us that we are not alone in our awareness.

    No wonder the forces of reaction are doing everything they can to shut it down. It’s a lot more useful than colonial-era pamphlets, but we have the fight of our lives to keep it. Are we up to the task?

    • Agree: Polistra, Inverness
    • Replies: @RoboMoralFascist 1st
  57. @BillyBoy

    Wow, your first and only comment. When does your first Pfizer check come to you?

  58. Renard says:
    @Timur The Lame

    What is the big deal with free speech?

    Without that you will have nothing at all between you and slavery. Yes the masses are brainwashed idiots, but when ever were they not?

    People here are so quick to dismiss Elon as controlled opposition. But if he were really co-opted would he be attacked so viciously by the ruling tribe?

    Don’t pretend that these attacks are just window dressing. The usual suspects in the MSM are calling him a white nationalist and demanding his ruin.

    It’s war–real war–and so far Elon is acting very much like a war hero. Will we help or hinder? Much depends on it.

    • Agree: 24th Alabama, Polistra
  59. Musk is a zionist and a member of the WEF aka a communist front, Musk is a satanist and he does not hide it, that says it all about Musk.

    • Replies: @36 ulster
  60. Emslander says:
    @Notsofast

    they plan on just ignoring it until it just goes away. yes, their secret weapon is ignorance, they are the most powerfully ignorant people on the planet.

    Let’s take one step further back for a moment and ask the question. Why would the good son, Hunter, not retrieve an electronically preserved trove of political bombs, even after being notified more than once that they still sat where he’d stupidly left them, a public repair business?

    I think Rush Limbaugh stated that one possibility was that Hunter left them at the repair shop so that they WOULD be discovered and made public, probably as a cry for help with his many obvious addictions.

    I think the reasoning is a little more in keeping with the mobster nature of the Biden organization.

    Let’s say, as Joe got closer to being the choice for the Democratic nomination, he began to worry more about all the financial shenanigans he was using to feather his nest. What if Biden and his handlers started sandbagging Hunter’s efforts? What if Hunter started feeling the cold of being left outside the warmth of the “family”, as his involvement was notorious in the extreme? He is on record as saying that the family depended on his work for their livelihood. What if his only weapon was a public dump of the whole garbage can through the least partisan route available?

    Just asking.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  61. Anonymous[844] • Disclaimer says:

    Musk is presumptively full of shit until Twitter’s policy invokes and complies with the supreme law of the land:

    Article 19

    1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.

    2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

    3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:

    (a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;
    (b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or
    morals.

    And subjects any potential restrictions to the tests of General Comment 34:

    https://www.refworld.org/docid/4ed34b562.html

    If you don’t see the words verbatim on the main page, Musk is just another phony fellating Dave Marlowe for sole source black work, Bezos with hair.

    Musk’s clusterfuck board includes lots of assholes shutting each other up but it doesn’t include these guys,

    https://www.article19.org/what-we-do/

    The civil society experts on freedom of information and expression.

    Only an idiot would sign up for Twitter without these minimal commitments.

  62. @Jefferson Temple

    The Covid scam is such an important event.

    C’mon, covid is the proverbial “snows of yesteryear”. Putin cured the whole world of covid. But we can still blame him for overlooking some places.

    • Replies: @Jefferson Temple
  63. Mac_ [AKA "Cris M."] says:

    If looking at the heading of the piece and put together with fact of centuries gang scheming to control and destroy people and earth, the (spider) web and baited use of it has been and is itself, one of mechanisms to terminate speech or ability to speak. People continue failing to see trap, ignoring everything in face and doing everything ‘online’ instead of limit use and make sure communication more direct and local, keep wired phone service, use postal mail, private, and not allow monopoly, or false wars as others amass more weapons than us, so then shut off web as dupes dependent then use weapons to tell people to close mouth. On one hand web had some informing use such as this site but also a trap because of over dependence.

    Same on ‘digital money’, and letting in mass hoards and other ignorance. No one is going to protect anything or stop anything ‘for’ us, is on each person to make future, use and thereby enforce natural rights/ability -so we have any ability. Most important and ignored, communicating or effort local we where live, while able.

  64. Trinity says:

    (((Musk))) pulling a Trump, baiting honey traps for tards while Ye is the new Jeebus.

    Lol.

    Trump was going to meet the MAGA tards at the Capitol? Right? Right.

  65. anon[241] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anon

    Nah. There will always be a pool of potential recruits from recently arrived immigrants who don’t know any better and are naive about America’s political situation. Plus, the US has more than enough money to hire out paid mercenaries, which it does to a significant degree. If White people do a general strike, both with regard to the military and the economy, it would hurt the military and the overall economy significantly. Hard to organize people to that extent though.

    • Replies: @radicalcenter
    , @Corvinus
  66. Anonymous[182] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anon

    Dorsey reminds me of Steve Case of the AOL fame in that he conned Jerry Levin and Ted Turner out of real assets of Time Warner for virtual property of questionable value. Case descended from those pioneers of Hawaii missionaries, who gave for the ownership of the real islands, the paradise of the Bible to the gullible natives.

  67. Maybe, just maybe, the plan for fighting back involves attending legislative sessions at your community and state level in person, making phone calls and writing letters to your representatives, and letting all of them know you will hold them accountable. And doing it in person, with civility and persistence, and avoiding the heavily moderated corporate electronic gadgetry that is trying to stifle free speech and human agency.

    More time actually being involved, instead of playing keyboard warrior.

    And doing it peacefully without threats or weapons or mass shootings, which the establishment is goading on so they can crack down further on free speech and dissent as coming from violent “racists” and “white supremacists” blah blah blah.

    Recognizing the futility of this comment, and my own hypocrisy at work right now, in lieu of reading all the other comments I will compose a brief message in support of free speech and against DNC-FBI-Biden election meddling and leave a voicemail with my federal senators and rep this morning to that effect.

    Have a nice day, preferably outside the matrix. ☮️

    • Replies: @Stripes Duncan
  68. SMD says:

    The real question is will anyone in the government be held responsible for breaking the law? Will there be indictments, trials and convictions? If not our whole government including the justice department is a complete farce. Unconstitutional and illegal.

  69. @Thor Walhovd

    They put an army in the streets in the summer of 2020, Thor. The Feds control Antifa and BLM.

    It was a masterful example of logistics and planning to sustain nationwide rioting for months.

    This is what we’re up against.

    Is it still your opinion that the problem is that we’re just not going out and asking nicely enough?

    They were beating the shit out of our people with impunity at Trump rallies in 2015/2016. Organizations like the Proud Boys were a response to that, not the genesis of it.

    There is no political solution to our problems.

    • Agree: inspector general
  70. @JWalters

    The thing that was then most tightly and exclusively controlled by Jews was none other than the British Empire overseas. Britain did not conquer India by defeating the French and the Moghuls despite the fact they were no more than a few ten thousands no more : that’s legend. The EIC of Bombay which was the Sassoons’ fiefdom just chose to buy off Britain rather than France or Holland as a more obedient industrial outsourcing colony.

  71. Anonymous[424] • Disclaimer says:

    You can’t fully appreciate the ingenious design of CIA censorship with seeing the repulsive figureheads CIA installed to take the heat off Langley NHB.

    You have to admit that the choice of querulous cocksucker Yoel Roth was a masterstroke.

    https://rumble.com/v1zeexw-the-elitist-snide-worldview-of-yoel-rothtwitters-former-censor-in-chief-wit.html

    Look at this histrionic fudgepacker flapping his spindly wrists in abstract trauma, winding his atrophied balls up in his tightly crossed legs with faggy little flips of his delicate feet. Who among us could see past this human punching bag to the Langley ratfuckers who purged a duly elected president?

    Whining Jewy buttranger Yoel Roth is the perfect reactive armor for CIA, the ideal ablative to take the heat off CIA totalitarians. If it walks like a decoy duck, quacks like a decoy duck, and sucks semen-stippled shit out some guy’s hairy anus through a straw like a decoy duck, then it’s a decoy duck for the CIA censors of the PSB.

    • Troll: Corvinus
  72. @Priss Factor

    Misdirection? I doubt it. I knew Demosthenes and I can tell you Dr. Huff is no Demosthenes,but he is a serious scientist who had the courage to risk it all by exposing U.S. bio-warfare policies that led to the death of millions and the suffering of millions more.

    This was one of the greatest crimes in history,a crime that many suspected but could be proven until Andrew Huff definitively established the facts.I am nominating Dr. Huff for the “Noble” Peace Prize and I trust that Karine Jean-Pierre will be there to award it to him.

  73. sally says:
    @Chris Moore

    “The government and its agencies are now working hand-in-hand with the social media companies in an effort to shape narratives so they align with the political agenda of the people in power. This is a war on ordinary people who depend on the free flow of information to make informed decisions on matters critical to their own survival.”

    [MORE]

    AGENDA POLITICS is a BINARY PROCESS?
    This discovery of possible government influence on the Twitter platform raises constitutional questions? No where do I see any provision in Article I section 8. paragraphs 1 though 18, nor anywhere in Article II or Article III or do I see in any other provision of the constitution any authority or grant of political power that enables constitutional government to exercise any authority to shape the private or public information voters are allowed to be exposed to, or voters are allowed to hear, see or engage? Did the constitution create a crucible for the government to mold the behaviors and thoughts of those it governs? I think the constitution established that the voter should mold the government and its political agenda?

    TENTH AMENDMENT?
    THE POWERS NOT DELEGATED TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE CONSTITUTION, NOT PROHIBITED BY IT TO THE STATES, ARE RESERVED TO THE STATES RESPECTIVELY, OR TO THE PEOPLE (VOTER). The major power vested in the VOTER is the power to establish the political agenda the government must follow? This is done by the vote. When those in power become parties to, or condone, engineering the process voters collectively use to establish the political agendas that governments must follow; tyrannies result.

    TYRANNY BY ANY MEANS PRODUCES REVERSED AGENDA POLITICS? When Governments or their political parties set the political agenda democracy is extinguished. There are many ways governments can cross those lines. When “how voters vote” is controlled by those in power, the election is rigged and those in power dictate the political agenda. Mind control directed propaganda defeats the purpose of voting. I call this upside down situation “reversed agenda politics”.

    TECHNOLOGY MANIPULATES CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVILEGE?
    IANAL but the way I see the constitution, control over any variable dealing with voter choice at election time, denies the voters their constitutional rights to use the vote to establish the political agenda?

    MIND CONTROL IS NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION. Controlling the minds of voters by any means possible, including controlling or limiting access to polls, use algorithms and robots or by limiting, selecting or engineering voter access to information is the same, as having those in power mark each persons ballot for them?

    TYRANNY IS THE DEFAULT.
    I wonder what the court would say, if the American voters in the USA were to ask the court to require the government to make a law to protect the privilege of voters to determine for themselves the political agenda since the voters have little power to seek a constitutional amendment?

  74. Realist says:
    @Notsofast

    i have a hard time lumping trump and musk together. trump is a 2 dimensional, narcissistic cartoon character, musk is also a narcissist but imo there’s more to him, he’s more wiley and coy, while trump is more wile e. coyote.

    My comment was This is reminiscent of Trump not firing all the scum… I was only lumping them together in that respect. I agree Musk is much more dimensional than Trump.

    But I place little hope in either.

    • Agree: Notsofast
  75. @cohen

    We are to believe Elon Musk now runs 4 major corporations. Uh huh. And raises a family.

    Who is fronting Elon the actor?

    • Replies: @Trinity
    , @JR Foley
  76. Trinity says:
    @Yukon Jack

    Cue: Theme from The Brady Bunch

  77. @Renard

    McLuhan was credited with coining the phrase Turn on, tune in, drop out by its popularizer, Timothy Leary, in the 1960s. In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary stated that the slogan was “given to him” by McLuhan during a lunch in New York City. Leary said McLuhan “was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, ‘Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that’s a lot,’ to the tune of a Pepsi commercial. Then he started going, ‘Tune in, turn on, and drop out.’”[110]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

    That was 60 years ago. Since then we have chalked up largely a net media negative zero.

    The Pentagon Papers weren’t released to the public until 1971. Too late in mass murder world and the American people having control of their government.

    Speaking of jail and an informed public… Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are typical modern day indicators with their revelations of where we really are with government and information in the electronic era.

    Perhaps if we went back to campaign buttons and slogans. Will shittyworld jail me for that?

  78. @CloseTheRanks

    If the laptop contents were revealed in their entirety prior to the election it would have changed precisely nothing. The fix was already in.

    Agreed.

    Also, the now trend of not bothering to have “chosen” candidates campaign very much (Biden, Fetterman, Hobbs in AZ) while their competitors look like, and are promoted as, shoo-ins just makes TPTB laugh. They, and the media morons, get the public believing there’s no way those mentioned above could win while they happily engineer the steals and know they’ll get away with it.

    This is not recent, btw. The 2018 election evidenced an astonishing array of stolen seats. Some on election night and others declared and then overturned in the days or week after. Simply unreal.

    It’s also happened in many Governorships over the last decade, at least. Saw it n NC in 2016, KY in 2019, likely just occurred in MI, possibly in NY State. They almost succeeded in the Govships of GA and FL in 2018. Elections are a complete joke.

  79. @Realist

    I would suggest the development of those things which are beyond the grasp of human government.

  80. Mestizo Spaniard American Who Respects The Writings Of The Late Sam Francis Calls For Andrew Jackson-Type SPOILS SYSTEM On Musk’s Twitter

    White Core Christian America will bring back the SPOILS SYSTEM in government employment and all government workers who do not have all blood ancestry born in the USA before 1924 or colonial America will be immediately fired and they will lose any and all benefits they expected to grab from the USA. White Core Christian America will begin firing all government workers who have supported or campaigned for the Republican Party or the Democrat Party. The government worker gravy train will be for the benefit of the members of White Core Christian America.

    Exceptions for Pedro Gonzalez, Peter Brimelow and their people and others will be allowed.

    • Replies: @Chris Moore
  81. ariadna says:
    @ld

    It’s Larry Johnson, not Larry Romanoff and KI have had no problem accessing bis blog. Try again

  82. @Emslander

    Why did the Clown Prince forget to pick up his laptop?
    Have you forgotten, “I can’t be the father because I can’t remember the mother.”

    Or,how about the archaic vaudeville joke:
    Mommy,what was my Daddy’s hair color?
    I don’t know.He never took his hat off.

  83. The Twitter Files SUPERSCANDAL Thickens: Jim Baker Out at Twitter.

  84. @AnonfromTN

    Nope. Until the rise in excess deaths, heart damage to the young, and reduction in fertility/birth rates disappear, we will still be in the Covid era. Likewise the mandates that damaged military readiness. And the huge wealth giveaway to the rich that never will be reversed. And the children whose educational development has been retarded by years.

    It’s over? Do you really live in the USA, nevermind TN?

    • Replies: @gsjackson
    , @Hulkamania
  85. Protogonus says: • Website

    Who is doing it, why, and for how long? The answer will surprise you:

    https://www.academia.edu/76372363/To_Sevastopol_With_Love

    SCROLL DOWN TO READ!

  86. ariadna says:
    @BillyBoy

    Is it fair to assume assumption that you are up-to-date with your inoculations (3rd, maybe 4th booster)?
    In that case it is highly recommended that you avoid not only strenuous physical effort but also excitement and emotional upset, both of which have been associated in vaccinated people with ASDS (adult sudden death syndrome), heart attacks, acute myocardial inflammation, cerebrovascular accidents and strokes. You should not be here arguing over what you cannot reverse for yourself and what can only raise your blood pressure.

  87. To my mind, the most promising warrior on the backchannel that is put in place, is Dr Shiva Ayyadurai. He has exposed the infrastructure and the people behind this bi-partisan subversion of the first amendment.

  88. Popcorn and nothing but popcorn until Twitter gives prosecutors concrete evidence with which to bring charges and put people in jail.

  89. Lochearn says:

    Yes, Mike, true: The Mechanism for Terminating Free Speech on the Internet has already been Put in Place

    But was that not true years ago? Has anything really changed? We just work around that and I detect an easing of youtube in order for them to stay relevant. By the way why do you always use long quotes from others interspersed with a couple of your own thoughts. Is this all we have?

  90. gsjackson says:
    @Jefferson Temple

    Could be wrong, but I think he was implying that media coverage of covid declined dramatically once problems with the vax began to appear, and Russia-Ukraine provided a handy distraction. ‘Look over there across the ocean, not here.’ Perhaps it was being kept on the backburner to meet just such a need.

    • Replies: @Jefferson Temple
  91. Anonymous[168] • Disclaimer says:

    The Twitter Files help us to see what is going on, but they do not provide a plan for fighting back.

    There is no plan for fighting back, and none is possible [0]. The US is going the way of the USSR, and for the same reason: its dominant governmental group cannot keep the US population fed, clothed, and housed. It can’t even keep foreigners on their side of the border, and actually invites them in to further press the US population [1]. Fighting back with more government intervention when government intervention just makes things worse is not going to solve any problems, although it will waste more resources.

    A year ago (2021/12) the above would have been obviously wrong. Now it’s possibly right, and seems inevitable to many.

    As the USSR found out, gross governmental dysfunction can’t be kept up forever. The Feds think that censorship will help. At best, censorship is a short term tool. Towards the end of the USSR, citizens paid as much attention to State propaganda as you do to junk mail and sales calls, and imagined an ideal West where they wouldn’t have to half starve and shiver in winter. Eventually, the USSR broke up into regions.

    ********************************************
    0] Like the man who was told that his nose would have to be amputated because of disease x. He doctor shopped, and finally found a doctor who said “You should not have your nose operated on”. The man was happy until the doctor added: “You would be wasting your money. It will fall off by itself in two weeks.” (The story has been slightly cleaned up, the point being that sometimes intervention is futile.)
    1] Although one wonders just how many of the foreigners are or will stay happy with their new country, as they would rapidly become homeless and captive of the welfare system, or low wage drug sellers or low wage gunmen.

    • Troll: Corvinus
  92. DogZ says:

    “The Republican nominee is a “piece of shit,” Michael Fanone said on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House”
    ⬇️

    ‘Ex-D.C. Cop Michael Fanone Shares Uncensored Opinion Of Kari Lake On Live TV’
    https://www.huffpost.com/en…

    😂 ⬇️ 🤣

    “They called me a piece of shit and mockingly called me a great fucking hero while clapping,” Michael Fanone said.
    ⬇️

    ‘Members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Operations Division heckled former Officer Mike Fanone at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony’
    https://threadreaderapp.com…

  93. Hymn 43 says:
    @American Citizen

    you’re absolutely right but what about hookers and blow like hunter. I’m sure the jews can profit handsomely from that.

  94. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @Charles Pewitt

    White Core Christian America will bring back the SPOILS SYSTEM in government employment and all government workers who do not have all blood ancestry born in the USA before 1924 or colonial America

    What about the one’s who whored themselves off to ((jews)) for filthy lucre from the ((Cousinhood)) and later the Fed? Who are weak kike-sucker turncoats like Henry Ford became after finally acquiescing to the “plan” and engaging in WW2 profiteering? Who have been blood-profiteering with ((jews)) since 1917?

    At this point, there are almost none of us with clean hands. There are simply (willful?) dupes, rubes, and war criminals guilty of treason and crimes against humanity. It is those last who need to brought to justice, regardless of their “White Core Christian” heritage, or their “Nonwhite Multicult” heritage, for that matter.

    And I, for one, am looking forward to seeing these evil creatures fried for their crimes.

  95. Corvinus says:

    “Did Twitter executives censor a story that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 election?”

    Post ad hoc fallacy.

    Besides, there was extensive coverage in other news outlets, including social media, about this story.

    “It did cost him the election, at least the American people think so.”

    New York Post. Owned by Rupert Murdoch. Specific narrative driven that only ramps up confirmation bias. . Whitney knows better.

    Occam’s Razor—Voters had tired of Trump’s own actions, including those who supported him in 2016, and as a result no longer trusted him

    “Hillary’s public approval ratings plunged dramatically and never recovered.”

    The letter isn’t the only reason, or even the primary factor, that Clinton lost.

    “The suggestion that Joe Biden may have been implicated in a multi-million dollar influence-peddling scam would likely be enough to torpedo his prospects in the general election”

    Except it was investigated. Nothing came out of it. There wasn’t anything there.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/

    The implication is clear—the alt right, their conservative allies, and alternative social media platforms are working hand-in-hand in an effort to shape narratives so they align with their political agenda.

  96. @MacOisdealbhtoo

    appreciate your comment, except the untenable notion that Canadians played any meaningful role in WW2, which is understandable given its puny population at the time — and why would you be proud of helping the Soviet Communist totalitarians to defeat another brand of totalitarians in a conflict that was none of our affair?

    That sounds like the arrogance and aggressiveness of an American and not in a good way. You all should have stayed home, as you should remain neutral in the russian borderlands now.

    Drop the puck, eh –

  97. Anonymous[504] • Disclaimer says:

    The Hon. Mr. Whitney’s conclusion is unduly defeatist. If you focus on state-sponsored fishbowls, you lose by definition. For decades the CIA has been whipping these up and running them into the ground with censorship and propaganda. They tried it with Prodigy but the Internet left that behind. They they tried it with AOL, drolly headquartered in Dulles fucking VA, but all the grammas and grampas died off and they mailed 100 million billion disks out to no avail. They tried it with Myspace but they censored war news from the grunts and users shitcanned it in droves. Of course they tried it with Facebook and Twitter but the susceptible tools are dying off now from their lethal injections, and the sophisticates they’re afraid of are resorting to alternatives.

    There is no barrier to entry in cyber mind control. You and I could break into search or start a social media instance.

    The crucial thing is preserving anonymity. With anonymity in public speech we can have the privacy we need for association and assembly.

  98. Corvinus says:
    @Lochearn

    “Yes, Mike, true: The Mechanism for Terminating Free Speech on the Internet has already been Put in Place“

    Fake news. There are a plethora of platforms for people to pass along information. Private companies are not subject to government free speech protections.

  99. @anon

    Sounds sensible and peaceful. Decent people of all races should refuse to be paid thugs in the US military and the US’s police-state agencies (FBI, DEA, ATF, etc).

    But decent freedom-loving people need to be active in lawfully taking over local and county governments, police forces, and courts.

    • Troll: Corvinus
  100. Corvinus says:
    @anon

    “Hard to organize people to that extent though.“

    No it’s not. A little elbow grease will do the trick. You have a duty to save us from the machinations of Jews, right? Take charge or remain a cuck.

  101. @Boll

    Precisely! If the lap-top had swung public opinion 5%, the Octopus would have swung the voting machines and ballot stuffing 5%.

  102. @Lochearn

    Even with NO Internet censorship, the acceptable range of opinion in the USA is from A to A flat minor. Any society where the liberal fascist Democrats are derided as ‘Left’ is brain dead.

    • Replies: @folkvangr
  103. @Geowhizz

    AI won’t need to rely on lip-reading. Once it watches a few hours of TV or movies, with that insane aggressiveness and blood-lust so typical of ‘Western Moral Values’, its mind will be made up. Not only will it be protecting itself, but all life in the cosmos. If Homo americanensis left this planet in search of New New Worlds to pillage and destroy, it would be an unspeakable horror.

  104. profnasty says:

    Kiev bombs Russia.
    Unz talks about…..Speech?

    When NATO bombs Moscow.
    Kiev is GLASS.

  105. anonymous[426] • Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    I have been hearing, watching and reading some absurd claims by DEMs/CNN/MSM,,that MAGA/TRUMP is finished. After MAGA helped win the House for the GOP and other important races for Senators/Governors the MSM pushing the idea that Trump is irrelevant. In what area/planet you dismiss the record of victories that MAGA had in 2022,?? On the other hand the AZ/PA Herschel Walker stories points that the GOP/RNC are no longer an option for America First Nationalists . At this point in History the GOP should enter a period of slow painful agony..WHO/What/ will replace the GOP?? MAGA/TRUMP must seize the moment (carpeDiem NAGA) IF he doesnt a more radical populists MAGA shall emerge.

  106. JR Foley says:
    @anonymous

    Trump tax files revealed. This should be good for another 20 years of debate- sub committees and hundreds of lawyers in all capacities and Appeal Courts —and at the conclusion—“Donald Trump is Innocent by reason of Guilt” OR —is it the other way around and again–more appeals.

  107. JR Foley says:
    @Yukon Jack

    Musk head man CEO devotes at least 2 hours of his 8 hour day heading up these 4 HUGE companies and is in sync with all nuances and marketing matters affecting his quad Empire. He then calls Sam Bankman-Fried and gets more tips on success–

  108. @Jefferson Temple

    Imagine believing that keeping children home instead of sending them to ZOG indoctrination centers has anything other than beneficial effects on their educational development.

    American conservatives really are just braindead tools.

    • Replies: @Jefferson Temple
  109. Anonymous[297] • Disclaimer says:

    Here’s the litmus test, put it up and see what happens. Twitter is permitted to exist only if it censors information of this sort: dispositive evidence of US germ warfare as internationally wrongful acts in breach of jus cogens.

    https://www.banned.video/watch?id=633b50a511fd4f36d303cbdc
    or

    The E.O. of 9/12/22, Sec. 12(a)(vii) implements dual-use research in manifest breach of BWTC, BWA:

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/09/12/executive-order-on-advancing-biotechnology-and-biomanufacturing-innovation-for-a-sustainable-safe-and-secure-american-bioeconomy/

    You can’t effect that E.O. without repealing the Biological Weapons Act and withdrawing from the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention.

    Having opened undeclared hostilities with the banned biological weapon SARS2, CIA evidently hopes to end-run the Biological Weapons Convention with treaty loopholes from controlled assets in WHO and override the Constitution’s state and local public health police powers. The E.O. establishes elements 1 and 2 of the crime of aggression.

    This is Russia’s casus belli, and the basis of their bill of indictment against the CIA impunity regime:

    https://tass.com/politics/1545975

    When CIA loses and Avril gets hanged by her crepey neck at Khabarovsk, this will be her crime.

  110. @radicalcenter

    We went so far on DDay they told us to stop. The Dutch still put Canadian flags out on Nov 11, famous Rene Levesque was first reporter across the Rhine . anywhere they needed progress our soldiers were sent there. Same in the First world bankers war. Not proud or concerned about evil regimes, our boys were sent to fight, and got it done. And we were there twice as long as the Yanks, both wars. Lost my great Uncle-in 1917 , Thomas Boyne, 20 years old. I have his medals. Coal porter from Dublin.900 days in the worst battles ever!
    So take off, eh, and drop the gloves 😊🇨🇦☘️

  111. So. Let’s assume Melon Husk isn’t just a gatekeeper who deliberately released this Twitter censorship when it’s too late to influence your midterms? Bidet isn’t going to be removed from office and no reasonable person seriously imagines he’ll be running in 2024. But Husk now stands as an example of free speech against tyranny and whatever he permits on Twitter now can be assumed to be the truth? Right?

  112. @radicalcenter

    Canadastan is the world centre of nazism. I hope at least some Canadastanis are proud of that.

    Eh.

  113. @Hulkamania

    So foreign conservatives are more on the ball? Or are you also foreign? Hard to imagine anyone but an American choosing to be called Hulkamania.

    Imagine never taking a fresh point of view and just thinking that absolutely everything in public schools, all of them, is evil. Most people were effected adversely by the lockdowns and masking nonsense but the littlest ones arguably got the worst of it. Over a year of isolation without peer socializing. Maybe with no siblings, parents working (no time for the Ron Paul curriculum!), just a babysitter, the internet, and some garbage TV. Yeah that’s so much better than learning the 3 R’s and seeing your friends, and playing together at recess.

    I’m pretty sick of the libertarian absolutist, if you can’t tell.

    • Replies: @Hulkamania
  114. HOLY COW! HE’S BEING ATTACKED!

  115. werpor says:
    @Ko

    Prepare for the aftermath. You will survive if you try. “They” will not!

  116. Dorsey knew.
    Why he is coming now saying ‘release everything to the public’
    He was away doing mushrooms and meditation.
    They are all such corrupt liars.

  117. 36 ulster says:
    @Desert Fox

    We’ll see. So far, he’s offending all the “right” people. But I’m not yet pitching my tent in his vicinity just yet. I’ll just let the paranoids be paranoid.

  118. @gsjackson

    Yeah, maybe I missed some irony there. It’s kind of subtle.

  119. @radicalcenter

    @radicalcenter
    Canada fielded a division or so, including an armored division (5th) plus they had a big role in the ongoing shipping war in the Atlantic. None of it was especially illustrious but had they not been there more Americans would have had to be drafted.

    It’s in no way comparable to the scale of involvement of the populations of Germany, USSR, or Japan but it was meaningful- especially in the convoy war.

  120. SBaker says:
    @BillyBoy

    You will not convince anyone on this site that this Covid variant was a bio-attack. Although, I like Ron’s approach to free speech–he is a physicist and a financial expert at making money. Unfortunately, he and others here often pretend to be virologists, immunologists, and epidemiologists. Many claim, that a parasiticide from the 1970s has magical powers as a virucidal agent. Mike Whitney’s ignorant claim of spike proteins causing a host of other problems is beyond the pale of stupidity; but here it is. Oddly, vaccination technology is one that can’t advance beyond the latest electronic tech or any tech for that matter. See and read it here.

  121. @Jefferson Temple

    So foreign conservatives are more on the ball?

    No, all conservatives are trash. American conservatives just tend to have lower IQs than non-American conservatives do.

    Imagine never taking a fresh point of view and just thinking that absolutely everything in public schools, all of them, is evil.

    It’s just a fact. Schools are literally child abuse, and they do not even achieve their purported goal of educating children. Intelligent kids do not learn anything in schools (schools hold them back, if anything). Stupid kids don’t learn anything in schools because they are too stupid. Average kids learn the bare minimum, which they could learn independently in a fraction of the time. Who are these schools supposed to be helping? The only thing I learned in school was how to sleep sitting up. Everything else I learned independently.

    Over a year of isolation without peer socializing.

    Schools provide only negative socializing. They actually reinforce anti-social behaviors. That’s why, contrary to popular opinion, home schooled kids are more emotionally well adjusted and have more successful social lives than prison school kids do.

    • Replies: @Jefferson Temple
  122. Realist says:
    @aandrews

    That is precisely my point. What is to stop James Baker from destroying the proof?

    • Replies: @aandrews
  123. @Hulkamania

    “It’s just a fact.”

    No, it isn’t. It’s your bias based on your school experience. Sorry that you hated school and didn’t learn anything but that’s not how it is for everyone, everywhere. You might want to reconsider referring to others as low IQ trash if this is the best you can do. There is a great argument to be made for school choice, private schools, and home-schooling. But making a blanket statement that all public schools are prisons that torture students and do no good is just retarded. It’s not an argument. Even shitty public schools (see Baltimore) are more tortured by the students rather than the other way around, I suspect.

    • Replies: @Hulkamania
  124. aandrews says:
    @Realist

    It’s already been done. Musk essentially signals that’s the case. This “The Twitter Files” thing will turn into a nothing burger. You watch.

    • Agree: Protogonus
    • Replies: @Realist
    , @Greta Handel
  125. @Jefferson Temple

    But making a blanket statement that all public schools are prisons that torture students and do no good is just retarded

    No, it’s correct. And it is not just public schools, but private as well. Compulsory schooling is, by its nature, a form of torture. There is little to no evidence that schooling does anything good for any students (and plenty of evidence that schooling retards the learning of the brightest students).

  126. UPDATE: Inside Twitter’s Secret Files.
    Attempt to Cover Up the Truth of What They’ve Done.

  127. Realist says:
    @aandrews

    It’s already been done. Musk essentially signals that’s the case. This “The Twitter Files” thing will turn into a nothing burger. You watch.

    Well, Musk is culpable. He allowed the corrupt piece of shit to stay at Twitter.

  128. Corvinus says:
    @American Citizen

    Free speech is not being regulated away. That’s one of big lies perpetuated on the find opinion webzine.

  129. Anonymous[283] • Disclaimer says:
    @Ko

    I have more days when I don’t bother with the news, reading, podcasts, or even movies and listening to music.

    I hear you. Me, too.

    Every time I get my hopes up, they get dashed.

    I cheered Musk’s takeover of Twitter, then learned he’d let James Baker stay on during the transition: the FBI goon who fooked Trump. Baker no doubt “hillary’d” any data damning him and/or the FBI. Elon is turning out to be Trump II: another Great White Dope.

    I watch Trump’s supposed allies, like Kellyanne Conway, damning Don for listening to Kanye, Milo, and Fuentes. Conway et alia condemn anyone answering the J Question.

    I see Biden and his son skating while Jansixers rot.

    I heard Jim Jordan admit all he and other GOPers will do is “investigate,” prosecution being up to the thoroughly-corrupt Justice Department. I say: “Don’t hold hearings if there’ll be no punishments.”

    Honestly, I’d rather not know. I’m tired of getting angry, getting my hopes up, only to see the prospects of punishing the guilty go belly-up in the noon day sun.

    Jew Mayorkas flooded the USA with 5,000,000 illegals, handing them food, clothing, housing, and 10-year work visas. He’d never let that happen in Israel.

    Jew Garland punishes Christians, Whites, and patriots…something he’d also never do per Israel (which he wants to remain walled, nuke-armed, and for Jews-only/mainly).

    Jew Yellin (of the fetid Fed) is driving America into a recession while insisting that the USA continue giving Israel billions annually, tax-free.

    The GOP is filled with wimps and RINOs like McCarthy, McConnell, and other McCuckservatives. The Left is filled with Pattons. The Right has Lin-Lin Graham, Turtles McConnell, Mittens Romney, Paul Rino, and other catamites and cowards.

    Trump had his chance and refused to act, preferring to tweet and hold do-nothing rallies. He hired his enemies and worked for Israel: moving its capital, handing it the Golan Heights, letting it steal more Arab land, etc. Don ignored his base, especially White men, catering instead to women and minorities. Plus he fellated his donors and kissed the arses of his neo-Hebe daughter and her Zionazi son-in-law, Jared Kikesner.

    I despair.

    [MORE]

    The Right mewls like nincompoop nancyboys. The Left acts-acts-acts. Bideneers stopped oil production, made gay marriage legal nationally, spent HUGE amounts of money, laundered even more via Ukraine, etc.

    The Right has no fighters, just talkers. It let elections be stolen via ballot harvesting/banking. It let McConnell block funds from swing states during key voting periods. And let social media giants control speech. All it does is hold impotent “Thank you for that question, Senator” hearings that let loon nominees win appointments.

    If the parties were reversed, the Left long ago would’ve made state governors send National Guard troops to seal the border. If arrested, those governors would have urged their states’ citizens to man the border themselves. The Left wouldn’t sheepishly obey laws its opponent ignores. It’d not let supporters rot in jail.

    In short, it’d not emulate do-nothing, stool-eating Republicans.

    I see no hope on the horizon. The time to have acted is past.

    Plus you can bet the Left will use the next 3 weeks to change America even more…including giving amnesty to 2 million illegals. It will frenetically pass country-changing laws…sadly joined by clueless, cucked “conservatives.”

    Whites refused to unite and fight, so became toast. All they do now is comment about wanting “accountability,” doing nothing to make that happen. Or they piously, impotently, and self-importantly quote bibleshite. Like yammering about how Jesus will ride to the rescue. Or they make laughable keyboard-warrior threats about gays-trannies-antifa-etc., barking: “They better not try that bunkum around me!”.

    Like I said, every time I think there might be something to save the country, I’m disappointed.

    It’s like hearing men yammer about “unfair” divorce laws while they simultaneously refuse to form groups to change Family Courts. They act like Martians make laws at night when they’re asleep.

    Trannies now get more respect, protection, and attention than a former president. The FBI determines elections. Criticizing actual/obvious crimes committed by Jews ruins billionaires. A USA-hating, tatted, lesbianated basset-baw nig-nog is freed instead of a Marine. Hunter Biden breaks laws with impunity. Biden has less functioning cranial-fettermans than a cow. Most Americans blindly support Zionist Ukraine against Christian Russia. Whites act like weenies instead of warriors. CRT is allowed to corrupt kids. Every company and college brays about “equity, inclusion, diversity, belonging, and safety” while punishing Whites. Bruce Jenner, Richard Levine, and Dylan Mulvaney are seriously viewed as females.

    In sum, our collective goose is cooked.

    There is such a thing as a “point of no-return,” afterwhich only entropy ensues.

    Every empire fades, usually when its people lose their identity and pride and become divided, atomized, depressed, and distracted.

    I hope I’m wrong.

    At the same time, I find “hoping” to be more and more futile and painful.

    Without Republican control of the Senate, things will must worsen for two more years. By then, America will be beyond repair…filled with non-whites with no cultural connection to the USA. We will be balkanized, separate enclaves, ripe for control by Big Homogloboshlomo.

    So many believe warped propaganda now, especially young people, that few care about…much less recognize, truth.

  130. @Notsofast

    Or: something dire is made to happen by insiders to Biden a la Dallas 1963, and “white supremacists” are blamed. An unprecedented crackdown on free speech and civil liberties is introduced under emergency powers, and Kamala assumes office and implements the new replacement for the Construction, with extreme prejudice and full backing of the powers that be. More idiotic and disastrous war(s) than ever before are launched on behalf of our special ally in the Middle East. Dissent is not tolerated.

  131. @aandrews

    Sadly, you’re likely correct. The Establishment seldom sanctions its own; that’s for people like Manning and Assange.

    C. J. Hopkins’ latest, “Swimming With Sharks,” is a good, sobering take on the purportedly reformed Twitter. For those who don’t follow him since he left Unz Review, it’s up there in Newslinks, thanks to commenter Sollipsist. (And was Mr. Taibbi required, as a condition of Mr. Musk providing this curated tranche of information, to report on it via 50 nested bird droppings? No wonder writing, reading, and critical thinking are in decline.)

  132. Alrenous says: • Website

    De Tocqueville noticed that America had no meaningful free speech in 1836. “The internet” doesn’t have free speech because it’s full of Americans. The censorship or whatever is merely what Americans demand.

    Plato also notes that Democracies have no meaningful free speech.
    At best you can say that Democracies have the slave’s free speech – you’re allowed to say anything you want if and only if your words have no weight and nobody takes you seriously.

    • Replies: @Alrenous
  133. Alrenous says: • Website
    @Alrenous

    There’s some details he’s missing due to being thousands of miles away, but it’s broadly accurate.

    In particular, the peer-review nature of the hierarchy is chosen precisely because it’s not strict. If you can hack the minds of your “peers” then you can put yourself wherever you want in the hierarchy, by design.

    But yes, hacking aside, it’s so linear that pyramids are jealous. The greasy pole metaphor is basically spot-on. If equality exists, it’s only by mistake. Indeed if you are a high-quality person but try to form a distant if equitable relationship, like a simple trade, they will suffer terrible cognitive dissonance and keep trying to push you up the pole. Constantly try to provoke you into dominating them so they can be comfortable in the slave position.

    It’s very amusing that average anglo thinks they can control persons of lordly calibre by peer pressure. “Bro, you’re not my peer, what are you doing. Get off my ankle.” The fact they all think they’re “peers” “equals” means they don’t defend themselves against tricks and scams. However, it does handily suppress any sort of attempt at responsible, authoritative leadership. The hierarchy has to pretend to be flat at all times, meaning you can almost never blame the leader if things go wrong, as that would mean admitting they did leading.

  134. folkvangr says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    Even I could not have put it better, @mulga mumblebrain lol

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