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Laura Ingraham claims there is a leftist “plan” to “overthrow” the government. What in the world is she talking about?
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 10/22/26
Republicans are panicking and right-wing media are desperately churning out “fear porn” as polls continue to point to a devastating midterm environment for their party with less than two weeks remaining before election day. From presidential rallies to Fox News primetime, MAGA stalwarts are trying to bolster their party’s turnout by warning Republican voters that if they do not go to the polls, their freedom and very lives may be at stake.
That increasingly deranged environment is generating a level of demagoguery that at times becomes simply absurd.
Fox host Laura Ingraham, for example, announced on her show Wednesday that if Democrats win control of the U.S. House and Senate, a leftist cabal of activists, journalists, “top former staffers” in the Obama and Biden administrations, and even Democratic governors will carry out a plot to force President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act as a mechanism to “dissolve” the U.S. Constitution and “crush their enemies.”
The argument that the left is planning to destroy the federal government if and only if Democrats triumph in the midterms makes a lot of sense as an attempt to scare Republicans to the polls but none at all as a plot in its own right.
Questions abound: Why in the world is this plan only enacted after Democrats achieve actual congressional power for the first time in Trump's second term? If there is clear evidence of a sweeping plot including “top” Obama and Biden officials, why is the best example Ingraham can point to former Obama White House ethics lawyer Norm Eisen talking about protecting the Constitution with legal action? Why does the plan revolve around getting Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act — an outcome MAGA pundits like Ingraham herself have been lobbying for and Democrats have publicly opposed?
Lastly, why does Ingraham think this grand conspiracy is underway? We don’t really know — she cited no direct evidence for what on-screen Fox graphics described as “The Left’s Plan To Overthrow The U.S. Gov’t.”
But Ingraham’s claims align with a conspiracy theory that Jennica Pounds, a right-wing influencer who goes by the pseudonym DataRepublican and briefly worked for the Defense Department this year, floated over the weekend based on videos of activist meetings she obtained. Pounds’ claim of a leftist “operational plan” seems to be much less than advertised — but has nonetheless been trumpeted this week by prominent MAGA figures like Glenn Beck, Vince Coglianese, Jesse Kelly, and podcaster-turned-deputy-FBI-director-turned-podcaster Dan Bongino.
It’s the sort of wildly incendiary claim that should demand copious evidence before making it to the airwaves of a major news outlet — but Fox is a MAGA propaganda network devoted to Republican electoral victory at any cost.
Unpacking Ingraham’s evidence-free claim of a leftist plot
Ingraham built her conspiracy-minded edifice on a faulty foundation.
She began her opening monologue on Wednesday by using a deceptively cropped video snippet of Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) to allege that the former CIA officer had promised “punishment for young conservatives.”
While many on the right have tried to generate outrage based on that false interpretation, Slotkin had actually been discussing how providing “accountability” for mid-level enablers of the Trump administration’s corruption could disincentivize similar behavior in the future.
From there, Ingraham pivoted to arguing that Democratic victories would hasten the downfall of the republic. “If voters give Democrats control of the House and even the House and the Senate, the punishment that Slotkin alludes to will be severe,” she claimed, adding that such punishment would be “meted out not only against individuals and corporations that work with Trump, but against the democratic system itself.”
After explaining that an unnamed leftist “they” intend to “force Trump's hand and use Paris riots, perhaps, as their guide,” Ingraham laid out her understanding of the “plan.”
“Now, the radical left's current thinking is that if they're able to mobilize in huge numbers in the streets, President Trump, if it's nationwide, will decide to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows him to deploy the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement,” she said. “Activists will then claim widespread abuses as the military struggles to restore law and order. Then the press will collaborate with activists, amplifying their wild claims with video snippets on social media.”
“Then blue state governors — this is their dream — seeing the chaos, will unite to try to override federal authority, take over federal functions, and eventually even rewrite our Constitution or just dissolve it altogether,” she continued.
Ingraham went on to claim that “this scenario is being openly discussed among top former staffers of Obama and Biden, former government employees of agencies like USAID, and of course community organizers” — but provided no examples of anyone actually discussing such a scheme.
Instead, Ingraham claimed that the plot’s adherents say they’re “reforming the government” rather than “overthrowing it,” adding, “former USAID staffer Danielle Reiff makes it sound like utopia.” Ingraham then played a brief clip of Reiff appearing on a December edition of Dr. Paul Zeitz’s Revolutionary Optimism Podcast and saying: “You have to reform your institutions so that it, you know, that becomes the foundational framework for society. And so, we're going to have to, if we want to live in peace and deeper democracy, reform our legal frameworks to foster collaboration across divides and unity and diversity.”
The Fox host later described Eisen as “one of the godfathers of this effort” because he “advances the fraudulent claims that democracy is in crisis.” But she provided no evidence actually linking him to the supposed “plan,” instead airing a clip in which Eisen is asked if he thinks of his work as part of a “war” and replies, “Yes — peaceful, lawful, vigorous battle, you do have to think of it in those terms to stop what Donald Trump began after the 2020 election and has continued a coup against the Constitution.”
Ingraham concluded her monologue by suggesting that “the real tyrant” is not Trump but “Democrats like Slotkin, who want to remake the government to crush their enemies.”
Ingraham then brought on Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), telling him, “These conversations, this playbook, is real. They might not be able to get there in the next year or so, but they have that plot cooking.”
Schmitt replied in part that “their march through the institutions is almost complete” and “the goal is absolute and total control” with “no room for dissent.”
“When you go vote, there’s a lot of issues that are on the table that you’re voting on, but I think a central issue is what the Democrats are willing to do with power,” he added. “They’re telling us all over again, and I think it’s terrifying and why this election is so important.”
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From the October 21, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle.
What “conversations”? What “playbook”? Who is supposed to be behind this “plan,” and how developed is it?
Ingraham didn’t say.
Where we think this is coming from
Jennica Pounds is a MAGA influencer with nearly 1 million followers who posts online under the moniker DataRepublican and is perhaps best known for accusing a Trump administration official who was attempting to hand her a scoop of trying to entrap her to commit a crime. Following that August debacle, she and the Pentagon disclosed that she had been secretly working as a special government employee for the Defense Department (according to Pounds, she applied for a credential as a “journalist” in the Pentagon press corps, received a press pass in April, held it until June, and joined the administration in July).
Soon after her Pentagon role became public, Pounds launched a website mapping left-wing groups called “DSA Explorer.” And on Sunday, Pounds (“fresh off her brief stint as a Special Government Employee with the Pentagon,” according to RedState’s writeup), claimed online that she had obtained access to a vast trove of transcripts and recordings of online meetings of progressive activists.
She then laid out a narrative that closely resembled what Ingraham ran with on Wednesday:
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.
What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become “foot soldiers” in constant clashes with the administration to cross a “red line” or invoke a “doomsday scenario” - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a “young and brown” demographic.
But the 1-minute video snippet Pounds appended to her post does not show anything like a well-developed “operational plan” to do anything at all, much less one involving DSA “foot soldiers” plotting to force an invocation of the Insurrection Act.
Indeed, Pounds appears to be taking a series of disaggregated remarks from different people at different calls and events and weaving them together into a single coherent apocalyptic narrative. By her own subsequent admission, “almost nobody knows the ‘grand plan’ so to speak,” the various parties “simply agree to play a role.”
The video attached to Pounds’ original post, titled “April 10, 2026 - R2T core team call,” shows Reiff and Zeitz, from the podcast clip Ingraham aired, on an online video call with three other individuals. Zeitz recounts a recent meeting he and Reiff had with more influential figures at Governors Safeguarding Democracy, described as “a forum that convenes Democratic governors,” to discuss their “work around the emergency scenario planning.”
Reiff then says that they were asked in the meeting to develop “a panel of a couple of people who could talk to the governors, who could do a briefing for the governors and walk them through like the doomsday scenario and help them think through what their options are as a response,” and adds that such an opportunity would be “a huge breakthrough for us.”
That video and others Pounds released triggered a firestorm on the right, with influencers and podcasters largely adopting her narrative.
But Tim Pool, of all people, suggested she’d gotten out over her skis.
“Many people have asked me my thoughts on this and asked me what I think is going on, and I’ve said, listen, DataRepublican, with all due respect, coming out and just saying I have this data is not enough to launch a story,” he said on his show on Tuesday. “I cannot just come out and say hey, guys, someone says they’ve seen stuff the DSA is doing.”
That’s apparently a higher standard than Fox requires — because if Ingraham were aware of hard evidence of the leftist plot to destroy the country she claimed exists, she surely would have aired it. Instead, her coverage leaves so many obvious questions unanswered that it only emphasizes just how frenzied the network has become as it tries to concoct enough “fear porn” to save the GOP from electoral devastation.
Is it possible Pounds has a recording of random activists proposing something resembling her above plan? Sure, but that wouldn't be evidence of a grand conspiracy involving people with actual power and influence — and says nothing about the plausibility of such a plot, which in this author's opinion is frankly nonsensical.
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How Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Investigation Failed to Become the New QAnon
by Mike Rothschild
10.19.26 |
In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.
People love a grand conspiracy. The bigger the scheme is, the more people get drawn into it. And the more details and players that are involved, the more believable it seemingly becomes. After all, who would go to the trouble of making up something so complicated? It must be true.
And nobody loves a conspiracy more than President Trump. He and his inner circle especially seem to have fallen in love with what has literally been dubbed “The Grand Conspiracy.” It’s a hopelessly complex, entirely unevidenced theory claiming that a high-ranking group of political figures have been plotting in the shadows for years to stop Donald Trump from making America great again through investigations, indictments and impeachments. It has all the hallmarks of the type of grandiose schemes that Trump supporters especially fall for: countless players, sprawling plots, intricate secrets, and a total lack of evidence that it actually took place.
Despite lacking cogent answers to foundational questions such as “what it is” and “who is doing it,” revenge for the Grand Conspiracy has been a driving force in the administration, prompting an investigation that has trundled along over the last year and a half, involving dozens of officials looking for some reason to indict the president’s enemies.
And there are many, many enemies. They include a greatest hits of Trump’s obsessions and grievances, from former special counsel Jack Smith to minor players like former FBI agent Peter Strzok, and even former President Barack Obama himself. According to Grand Conspiracy believers, they are all powerful Deep State figures who supposedly worked together in a single, years-long scheme to destroy Trump and undo the will of the people.
Precisely what these conspirators have actually done remains unclear — even, seemingly, to the prosecutors themselves, who, per the Wall Street Journal, complained to the Justice Department that they weren’t getting much guidance from the local U.S. attorney. The probe is now being run out of Washington, where it continues to baffle those assigned to move it forward.
In the last few weeks, there have been a host of indications that DOJ efforts to prosecute these figures — and tie them all together into one grand scheme — are falling apart. And, as the Grand Conspiracy prosecution flails at DOJ, the claims also aren’t doing much in the court of public opinion, where Republicans are looking for anything they can find to shore up their crumbling midterm prospects.
Trump has, in the past, excelled at turning his personal grievances and enemies into Republican grievances and enemies. But people aren’t especially interested anymore, at least not if one looks at the Republican Party’s numbers in 2026 midterm polling and beyond. Trump voters seem to now be wondering how Trump’s beefs and feuds impact their own lives. They continue to express their disappointment that the president hasn’t curbed inflation, went to war in Iran despite explicit promises of no new wars, and has failed to bring closure to the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.
With the GOP’s midterms prospects looking bleak, Trump’s most loyal influencers are nonetheless leaning into the Grand Conspiracy narrative to present the illusion that everything is going to work out if they just hang on a little longer and vote Republican. Over and over during the past year, everyone from mainstream pundits like Sean Hannity and Dan Bongino to candidates like Mike Lindell and a host of anonymous conspiracy theorists have played up the Grand Conspiracy as the investigation that will finally bring down the Deep State and bring Trump the vindication he has always deserved.
“John Brennan and Jack Smith have some real, major explaining to do, and that they’re probably going to be under some major indictments in the Grand Conspiracy hearing,” declared Benny Johnson in an October interview with Roger Stone where the two traded speculation about the activities of the “seditious cabal” that’s tried to ruin Trump’s life.
“If Jack Smith is not held accountable, you are going to have a very angry base,” conservative writer Julie Kelly declared on Trump stalwart Mark Levin’s radio show a day earlier. “We already saw the Russiagate perps get off. Hopefully, we’ll have some accountability in Florida and the Grand Conspiracy investigation.”
Like so many other past Trump-world conspiracy theories and “investigations that will reveal everything,” Grand Conspiracy believers are setting themselves up not for triumph, but for more disappointment.
What Does the Grand Conspiracy Involve?
Like many conspiracy theories with countless components and players to track, the intricacies of every allegation in the “Grand Conspiracy” are too complicated to cover in full. They are also irrelevant to understanding the greater gist of the theory, because many either don’t exist in a way that can be proven, or are not crimes at all. The more you examine the details, the more you drift away from the bigger picture.
The short version of the supposed scheme involves everyone from Barack Obama and Joe Biden to Hillary Clinton and James Comey. Glimpses of the conspiracy can, its proponents hold, be seen in in countless forms: Jack Smith’s probe into Jan. 6; the Steele Dossier that gave us infamous allegations like the “pee tape”; Trump’s impeachments; the Biden-era Jan. 6 and classified documents indictments; the New York hush money case involving Stormy Daniels; and the numerous FBI probes into Russian interference in 2016 and Trump’s ties to Moscow.
All of the above was done to subvert Trump’s landslide victories, and to take Trump off the board because he was a threat to the Deep State’s control over global politics, the conspiracy theory holds. Despite failing in 2016, the conspiracy plotters continued to make his life miserable while he was in office through impeachments and probes, then they tried to put him in prison after the 2020 election was stolen from him. Even after he won again, the legal warfare and persecution have never stopped.
But now Trump is taking action. The “Grand Conspiracy” investigation is how the investigators will be investigated, and how the persecutors will be persecuted. Running for a time out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida, the sprawling probe has involved major Justice Department figures, countless prosecutors and agents, and untold millions of dollars spent running down something that continues to elude basic understanding or evidence, all the while trying to turn it into something that a jury might be able to make heads or tails of. It’s not going well so far.
The Grand Conspiracy and QAnon
If all of this is starting to sound like a more official version of QAnon, there’s a reason. It’s a more official version of QAnon.
Like the “Grand Conspiracy,” QAnon — which began in October 2017 with a series of cryptic 4chan posts about Hillary Clinton’s imminent “arrest” — revolves around Trump’s enemies being brought to justice in a secret, yet satisfying way. In thousands of cryptic riddles meant for followers to decode, Q promised military tribunals for supposed Deep State luminaries like Obama, the Clintons, George Soros, and countless others.
The conspiracies it alleged became hopelessly complicated, virtually impossible for anyone to fully understand. Many, in fact, were contradictory and nonsensical, based on phony “evidence” or vague predictions. And nothing Q “predicted,” from Clinton’s arrest to public executions of Democrats to the revealing of secret new technologies and cures for disease, ever happened.
Trump, of course, is the focal point of both movements. In the “Grand Conspiracy,” he is the target of the Deep State, fighting for his freedom and his very life. Meanwhile in QAnon, the Deep State is Trump’s target, with the president personally posting on 4chan when he needs to communicate with his followers.
But while the context is different, they share a similar devotion to fantastical stories over facts, to compelling narratives over actual ones. And they share many of the same characters. Kash Patel promoted QAnon on numerous occasions, while “Grand Conspiracy” figures like DOJ special prosecutor John Durham and former FBI director James Comey also had prominent places in Q’s narrative, as both heroes and villains.
Ultimately, QAnon wasn’t started by Trump’s inner circle, but they found it useful to exploit its tenets. The “Grand Conspiracy,” of course, comes directly from Trump and his allies. But not only is it floundering legally, it’s not clear if the plot is proving useful to keeping the base engaged and, ultimately, to the GOP’s electoral chances.
The issue with the “Grand Conspiracy” is not the prospect of its targets being hauled off to prison. It seems unlikely to ever get that far. It’s that government-endorsed conspiracy theories like it, when they find an audience, are remarkably durable and excel at driving anger toward enemies of the state. They can move people toward violence, unhinged hatred, and even betraying their own country; all in service of a paranoid plot that doesn’t exist and nobody can prove.
Revolutionary France was full of bloody acts of revenge against supposed plots by foreign and domestic enemies working in vast spheres of influence that could never quite be proven. During the leadup to the Civil War, countless citizens of both the North and South believed the other side was plotting with foreign agents and secret societies to take over their states. And the rise of Nazism was fueled by relentless propaganda accusing a web of international Jewish financiers of “backstabbing” an undefeated Germany at the end World War I as part of a communist conspiracy that needed to be violently destroyed to save the Reich.
Fortunately, the Grand Conspiracy does not seem to be enjoying the same success as those historical precedents. Even QAnon managed to keep generating discussion and speculation for years, gaining new followers even as it recycled its plots and descended into inscrutable riddles. It created a narrative that has stubbornly lodged itself into mainstream conservatism. The “Grand Conspiracy,” meanwhile, is quietly flopping, as prosecutors fail to bring the investigation to fruition, and Republican voters worry more about gas prices and food costs than who might have committed minor infractions a decade ago.
But like Revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, even the grandest conspiracy outlives its usefulness when people figure out they’re being had. And the “Grand Conspiracy” might have already hit that point. It’s not moving the needle with voters, and it’s not actually getting anyone convicted.
When it fails, it will require yet another new conspiracy theory to explain how it all went wrong.
Mike Rothschild writes Rough Edges for TPM, covering fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. He is a journalist and expert in the growth and impact of conspiracy theories. He is the author of the first complete book on the QAnon conspiracy movement, 2021’s The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything; as well as Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories in 2023.
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0:00one of the unseen threats to that very thing which is the threat of those in our government who believe that they are
0:077 secondsabove the constitution that they are above the will of the American people more commonly known as the deep [music] state. These are people who operate quietly below the surface.
0:1818 secondsThey are the career officials, the senior [music] administrators, the unelected managers of national security or intelligence who see elections and
0:2727 secondsthe American voters as a nuisance because they think that they're more important than any election than any
0:3636 secondspresident and that they are more qualified to run our country than those who we elect [music] to serve our country as leaders. Now, as we talk
0:4545 secondsabout defending our Constitution and the integrity of our democratic republic, I'll share one of the unseen threats to
0:5454 secondsthat very thing, which is the threat of those in our government who believe that they are above the Constitution, that they are above the will of the
1:031 minute, 3 secondsAmerican people, more commonly known as the deep state.
1:081 minute, 8 secondsThese are people who operate quietly below the surface. They are the career officials, the senior administrators, the unelected managers of national
1:161 minute, 16 secondssecurity or intelligence who see elections and the American voters as a nuisance and an obstacle that gets in
1:251 minute, 25 secondsthe way of them achieving their own objectives because they think that they're more important than any election, than any
1:341 minute, 34 secondspresident, and that they are more qualified to run our country than those who we elect to serve our country as leaders.
1:461 minute, 46 seconds[applause]
1:471 minute, 47 secondsThese are people who outlast every administration.
1:531 minute, 53 secondsThey know where the files are. They control the flow of information.
1:571 minute, 57 secondsI can tell you from firsthand experience. They try to sloww walk an order or directive that they disagree with. They will selectively leak to the
2:052 minutes, 5 secondspress in order to discredit any official who is seeking to hold those accountable for abusing their power.
2:142 minutes, 14 secondsAnd I've also seen how they try to shape an intelligence product to tell the president what they want him to hear
2:222 minutes, 22 secondsrather than ensuring that he hears the truth.
2:272 minutes, 27 secondsI saw this firsthand and fought it every day in my role as director of national intelligence, carrying out President
2:342 minutes, 34 secondsTrump's mandate, which is transparency, accountability, declassification, and telling the American people the
2:432 minutes, 43 secondstruth. And that was the message I delivered to those I worked with every day from day one to the very last day when I walked out of the door. It is
2:502 minutes, 50 secondsalways the right time to tell the truth to the American people.
2:562 minutes, 56 seconds[applause]
3:033 minutes, 3 secondsSo, I did my best while there to shine a light into corners that had been kept dark for too long.
3:103 minutes, 10 secondsI'll tell you, the resistance was strong and real, sophisticated and immediate.
3:193 minutes, 19 secondsI could share a long list of anecdotes and experiences. the means of retaliation and resistance.
3:273 minutes, 27 secondsSome would be so petty they would make you laugh. I'll give you one quick example.
3:343 minutes, 34 secondsI needed a a placemat, a big piece of paper printed out for something I needed to share with the president. Had a meeting with him that was supposed to be
3:433 minutes, 43 secondsat 10:00 a.m. in the Oval Office. And there was someone there in my agency that was detailed from a different agency who was responsible for printing these things.
3:533 minutes, 53 secondsAnd so I was waiting. Time was 9:15, 9:30. I got to go. I didn't have what I needed.
4:004 minutesAnd uh long story short, the president needed to push the meeting back an hour, which saved me because this guy who was responsible for printing
4:094 minutes, 9 secondsrefused to print it because he disagreed with what was on the paper.
4:144 minutes, 14 seconds[laughter]
4:164 minutes, 16 secondsAnd turns out he actually did print it, but then he locked it in his desk and refused to open his desk.
4:234 minutes, 23 secondsmy chief of staff went down and said, "The director needs to present this to the president. We need this." And he said, "Nope, I refuse."
4:314 minutes, 31 secondsAnd so my chief brought down my head of general counsel, who said, "The director needs this for
4:384 minutes, 38 secondsthe president. I refuse." And he would not do this until his boss back at his
4:474 minutes, 47 secondshome agency said it was okay to do it. ridiculous.
4:584 minutes, 58 secondsThere are other examples that are far more serious and grave that would make
5:065 minutes, 6 secondsyou concerned for the integrity and future of our republic as I am.
5:135 minutes, 13 secondsWe must remain vigilant.
5:175 minutes, 17 secondsThis isn't a Democrat or Republican issue. These people have been doing this across administrations for decades and longer.
5:265 minutes, 26 secondsThey thrive in the gaps between elections. They are deeply entrenched in the bureaucratic infrastructure. But fundamentally the quality that these
5:355 minutes, 35 secondspeople share is that they put themselves, their own interests, their own objectives
5:435 minutes, 43 secondsahead of our constitution and the best interests of the American people.
5:505 minutes, 50 secondsThe work of exposing and dismantling these entrenched power structures is not finished.
5:565 minutes, 56 secondsWe the people must continue to hold our leaders accountable to to fight against these deep state actors because they are
6:056 minutes, 5 secondsthe nameless, faceless force within our government that doesn't care about you.
6:116 minutes, 11 secondsThey don't care about our freedom. They don't care about our security. They care about themselves and their own power.
6:206 minutes, 20 secondsThe future is in our hands. We must remain vigilant.
6:266 minutes, 26 secondsI want to close by sharing another story with you about another of the signers of our declaration, someone named Abraham Clark.
6:356 minutes, 35 secondsHe was also a delegate from New Jersey, a lawyer. Got New Jersey in the house here. I see.
6:436 minutes, 43 secondsHe was a lawyer and a man of modest means compared to many of his colleagues.
6:496 minutes, 49 secondsHe signed the Declaration of Independence and then went and sent his two sons off to fight in the Revolutionary Army.
6:566 minutes, 56 secondsThe British captured both of his sons and sent them to a prison ship that was anchored in a New York harbor on a vessel called the Jersey.
7:067 minutes, 6 secondsIt was very well known as the hell ship because it imprisoned 11,000 American captives who would die on that vessel.
7:177 minutes, 17 secondsThe conditions were deliberately brutal.
7:217 minutes, 21 secondsMen starved and died of disease and froze to death.
7:267 minutes, 26 secondsAbraham Clark's sons were treated with a special level of cruelty because the British knew who their father was. One
7:347 minutes, 34 secondsof his boys was put in solitary confinement. No food, no light, left to die in the darkness as a message to his father.
7:467 minutes, 46 secondsAnd then the British came to Abraham Clark with an offer. They said, "Reant.
7:527 minutes, 52 secondsCome out publicly in support of the king and parliament.
7:567 minutes, 56 secondsDenounce the Declaration of Independence and we will send you back your boys."
8:068 minutes, 6 secondsJust stop for a moment and think about how that would feel if you were Abraham Clark being presented with that proposition.
8:208 minutes, 20 secondsHe knew his sons were dying on that ship and all he had to do was say I was wrong. All he had to do was say that
8:288 minutes, 28 secondssigning the Declaration of Independence was a mistake and that the crown was right and the idea of America as an independent nation was wrong. And if
8:378 minutes, 37 secondsAbraham did that, said those words, even if he didn't mean them, they would set his sons free.
8:468 minutes, 46 secondsAbraham said no.
8:518 minutes, 51 secondsHe said no because he understood that there are moments in life and in
8:598 minutes, 59 secondshistory when you must choose between what is easy and what is right.
9:059 minutes, 5 secondsAnd the choice that you make in that moment defines not just your own life but potentially the lives of countless generations who will follow.
9:189 minutes, 18 secondsHis sons survived the hellship.
9:259 minutes, 25 seconds[applause]
9:299 minutes, 29 seconds[applause]
9:309 minutes, 30 secondsAnd Abraham Clark lived to see the nation that he helped create take its early steps.
9:399 minutes, 39 secondsBut the courage that he showed in that moment of being presented with a truly impossible decision is the legacy and
9:489 minutes, 48 secondsthe responsibility that every one of us carries today.
9:549 minutes, 54 secondsSo at this moment, it's an opportune time for us to ask ourselves, what does it mean to be a patriot?
10:0210 minutes, 2 secondsIt's not just a feeling.
10:0410 minutes, 4 secondsIt's not just a wearing of a flag on our lapel.
10:0810 minutes, 8 secondsIt's not just putting our hand over our heart when we sing the national anthem.
10:1710 minutes, 17 secondsPatriotism is love expressed through action.
10:2310 minutes, 23 secondsLove of our country and a deep gratitude for our freedoms that define who we are.
10:3210 minutes, 32 secondsAnd now, as we celebrate this 250th birthday of our great nation, action is needed.
10:4110 minutes, 41 secondsWhile we are not in a position where we have to hide in caves or sleep in the woods, the struggle we face today is for
10:4910 minutes, 49 secondsthe heart of our nation, for the integrity of our elections and the preservation of our freedoms enshrined in our constitution.
10:5910 minutes, 59 secondsWe will not win that struggle by sitting back and saying someone else got it. Someone else will fight this
11:0911 minutes, 9 secondsfight. Someone else is better, more equipped, more capable of fighting this fight.
11:1711 minutes, 17 secondsEvery one of us as proud Americans has a role to play and a responsibility to step in the arena and fight this fight.
11:2611 minutes, 26 seconds[applause]
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April 20, 2026, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
ALEX JONES (HOST): So, last segment I was breaking down how the federal courts wouldn't let the Democrats criminally shut us down, so they have the state court order the electricity and internet shut off. They're already starting to turn it off. We may make it to April 30th, I'm not sure, but that's the date when we know after that things are shutting down.
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So Trump knows it's Paul Weiss law firm that ran the lawsuits against him and against me. They did a $40 million settlement with him and admitted it was illegal. But remember six months ago, Todd Blanche killed the criminal investigation into what they were doing to me. He shut down Ed Martin.
So Trump has joined with the Democrats to shut us down. And I haven't really shot a report on this yet, but I'm going to do it the next few days, that has all the details and all the proof and the documents in it, and that the CIA, FBI ran all this, came out in court in our depositions, that Trump signed on to the deep state closing us and is bragging about it.
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President Donald Trump’s media ecosystem for a long time depended on major online brands like The Daily Wire and Blaze Media, but as one of their fellow conservative publications pointed out, Trump’s coalition is dissolving — and with it, the base of support upon which many of these media outlets once stood firm.
“Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is in trouble on YouTube, losing significant numbers of subscribers—with Shapiro himself down a whopping 80,000 in the first quarter of the year, according to a new survey of political channels by researcher Kyle Tharp,” wrote The Bulwark’s Will Sommer on Monday. “It’s more proof that dissident and increasingly anti-Trump voices like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have the energy in right-wing media. Shapiro, by contrast, is stuck defending an unpopular war with Iran.”
Sommer noted that even Shapiro’s attempts to offset losses to his political brand by crafting mainstream motion pictures has failed.
“Deadline reports that the set of the Daily Wire’s upcoming film Run Hide Fight Infidels is in chaos, with black mold on the site, a tree branch hitting a crew member, and actor Jonathan Majors falling out of a window during a recent shoot,” Sommer wrote. “Undeterred by crew complaints, producers say they won’t negotiate on safety ‘with communists.’ By communist, they mean unionized crew members.”
Sommer also took shots at Blaze Media, an outlet owned by Glenn Beck, which is facing problems because of a journalist associated with them who spread an incorrect story about the January 6th coup attempt.
“Back in November, the conservative media outlet the Blaze claimed that reporter Steve Baker had the scoop of the century: compelling evidence that the pipe bombs planted outside Republican and Democratic headquarters on January 6th were laid by a Capitol Police officer,” Sommer wrote. “Blaze founder Glenn Beck declared it would be ‘the biggest scandal of my lifetime, maybe in the last hundred years.’ Republican members of Congress like Anna Paulina Luna and Thomas Massie championed the story, saying it was proof the deep state was behind January 6th.”
Yet the story proved not to be true, with Blaze Media retracting it in December, and Sommer wrote that Baker “was fired on Wednesday morning, as the publication faces the possibility of a massive libel judgment over the story.”
Beck has a long history of extravagant behavior, perhaps becoming most famous for dramatically crying during many of his speeches. Beck remains a stalwart in the conservative movement, although Shapiro has wavered somewhat at times. In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Shapiro admitted to David Remnick that he does not believe Trump is entirely honest and that he has concerns about the Trump family’s involvement in cryptocurrency schemes.
"I raised red flags on my show, consistently, about how I thought this was wrong. If the name were Biden instead of Trump, people would be screaming bloody murder," Shapiro told Remnick. "And this was not beneficial to President Trump’s agenda, either. So, sure, that concerns me."
Speaking with this journalist for Salon Magazine in 2019, Shapiro also admitted that he has been singled out for hate by some of his own far right supporters because of his Jewish background.
“I’ve gotten enormous amounts of hatred from the alt-right, and while folks on the far left try to lump me in with the alt-right, that is the height of absurdity on every possible level,” Shapiro said. “I mean, it’s honestly one of the most reprehensible things that I’ve experienced personally, people trying to lump me in with people who have legitimately threatened to kill my children … so that’s always a party.”
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Republican Colorado Rep. Scott Bottoms told parishioners at his church Sunday that the FBI was responsible for the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, 9News reports.
“I believe it's the FBI,” Bottoms, who had no evidence to back up his claim, said from the church pulpit, according to 9News. “I’m not talking about the Democratic Party. I’m talking about the people that are controlling our country. The people that have been controlling the FBI, controlling the State Department.”
Bottoms is the pastor at the Church of Briargate in Colorado Springs and is notorious for espousing Q-Anon conspiracy theories and extremist far-right rhetoric. He was elected to represent Colorado Springs in 2022.
Bottoms said Sunday the reason Trump survived the attack is because God protected the former president, 9News reports, and that there will not be an election in November unless Trump is dead. His claims were without any evidence.
“This is just the beginning,” Bottoms said. “They need that man dead.”
Bottoms previously sparked controversy by claiming the FBI facilitated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and by calling his fellow lawmakers “pedophiles,” according to Colorado Politics.
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all say fed deep state set up BS
Five years after January 6, the diehards came back to the scene of the crime. Pardoned rioters, conspiracy theories, and a fierce counter-protest collided on the National Mall. Jared Poland gives his take to Sam Stein on what he found from reporting on the ground as Americans argue again over what really happened on Jan. 6.
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I was there during January 6. We're here
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for um Ashley Babbett and a couple other
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people that we lost. And you know, I'm
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here fighting with the Proud Boys.
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Mhm. and I'm here to just put up a good
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fight. You know,
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when you think of that day, what what
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what does it make you think about?
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Uh we were set up, you know, it was
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supposed to be an amazing day and we're
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set up by the FBI. You know, other
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people pretended to be us and it was it
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was supposed to be a great day, but it
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was a horrible day. You know, it was
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just a fun day, like a tour basically,
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and they got set up. So, I feel bad for
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them. You know, luckily I didn't have to
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go to prison, but I'm here because all
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the people that did have to go to
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prison. I was in the goolog for many
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months. I'm one of those that was hunted
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down.
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140 Republican congressmen were going to
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object that day and I believe it was 12
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senators as well, which is one reason
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they had the insurrection, the
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fedsurrection as we call it. It was an
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inside job. Uh I think the government
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attacked the people. People were up
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there assembling and they were they were
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basically forced into a I mean a lobster
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trap. Lobster trap, that's what they
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call it.
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And I saw it when I got there. They were
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they were throwing fire bomb smoke bombs
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into the crowd trying to agitate the
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crowd. I thought the crowd was actually
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very well behaved all things considered
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there really wasn't I mean when you
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really look at the big picture almost a
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million people
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a lot worse could have happened. Our
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government uh set us up. They allowed us
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to walk in there and then they hunted us
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down like terrorists and prosecuted us
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in an unfair court system. And uh that's
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exactly what it means. Um you know
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mainstream media won't tell the truth.
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They won't show you the truth. uh they
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they're never going to tell show
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evidence that's out there. They refuse
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to put it on TV and uh continue to call
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it an insurrection when we all know it
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was a fedsurrection. There are hundreds
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of uh undercover u FBI agents dressed as
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Trump supporters there
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rally I attended. I attended the one in
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November, December, and January 6. I
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went to January 6 because my vote in New
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Jersey was never counted. If you uh
certified a stolen election, each one of
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you committed treason.
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Uh we did not went to overthrown the
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government.
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Uh we did not go to do any act of
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violent. Uh we were attacked by the
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capital police. We were attacked by um
um the SWAT I guess they got whatever
the SWAT
people that they got. Uh we were set up.
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It was a complete setup. And who do you
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think set you up?
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Well, Nancy Pelosi, why did she uh
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decline the National Guard that day? Uh
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there was even not even one predicate.?
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There's some videos of the capital
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police giving tour to one of the J6ers.
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A lot of the J6ers, every Senate member
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who was here to fight that election that
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day, they come each one of them, they
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commit a treason. We want
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accountability.
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It's not that Trump, he's the president
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of this country. He cannot go prosecute
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people. That's your job. PAM BONDI Bam bounty. You
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need to do something or nicely we tell
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you step down.
Tarrio:
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I don't want any violence to happen to
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those people that perpetrated these
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crimes against humanity, against
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Americans.
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But I want them to pay.
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That's right.
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They made an example out of us.
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That's right.
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And we need to make an example out of
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them. ...
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December 11, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Mr. Attorney General, thank you so much for being on the show today. Those are, like, we just had Barry Loudermout on. He's running the January 6 committee. It's just like a complete barn burner. I know that you're here serving as our state AG. But if you don't mind, can I ask you about an a national issue, which is some of the concurrent investigations that are going on, whether it be Thomas Crooks, or Tyler Robinson, or the pipe bomber? What would be your advice in order to get the American public read in on so many of these issues that seem to be kind of fraying the country right now? Right?
JAMES UTHMEIER (FLORIDA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL): My advice would be to investigate to the fullest. Ask every question. Thank you, Benny, for continuing to ask these questions. I think the American people have lost faith and credibility in law enforcement. They hear about inquiries, investigations that don't actually go anywhere. Things just get swept up the rug. We stop asking questions. And at the end of the day, we don't give the American people the answers they need. The questions you're asking are the right ones. There's a lot that doesn't make sense. People can call us conspiracy theorists, but I think you're on to something that's massively important, for our country and its history.
JOHNSON: There's no such thing as a conspiracy theory. I mean, that's a slur.
That's a slur that was made up after JFK was shot. And what did we learn just a month ago based on Anna Paulina's investigation here from the great state of Florida? Well, we found out that the CIA has been withholding a document that proves that they bumped into Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico, that they were working — at the very least, they were working in tandem with him on various operations. This has been proven. We have the documents now. And so it's actually — you're a conspiracy theorist if you don't think that there was some type of intel involvement and at least the operation — operability of Lee Harvey Oswald. They've now just completely admitted it. The records are there. The documents are there. And so, yeah, who was right all along? Right?
UTHMEIER: Yeah. The deep state for decades has been hoping that people at home will not ask questions, that they are not smart enough to figure out the truth. And, again, God bless you for digging into it. Representative Luna is doing a great job on many fronts. And, here in Florida, where we see wrongs that need to be righted, we will dig in, and and we will absolutely investigate and prosecute to the fullest. You got my word on that.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y) is blaming Speaker Mike Johnson for the rejection of an oversight provision she included in the annual defense policy bill the House wants to pass next week .
“I just walked out of a briefing on this issue this morning CONFIRMING everything I posted yesterday, that, yes, in fact, the Speaker is blocking my provision to root out the illegal weaponization that led to Crossfire Hurricane, Arctic Frost, and more,” said Stefanik on X. “He is siding with [Rep.] Jamie Raskin [D-Md.] against Trump Republicans to block this provision to protect the deep state.”
Stefanik further threatened to be a vote against the defense bill if her provision remains out: “This is an easy one. This bill is DOA unless this provision gets added in as it was passed out of committee.”
Stefanik’s proposal requires the public disclosure of all “FBI counterintelligence investigations into presidential and federal candidates seeking office.” It is designed to combat what Stefanik and other Republicans consider politically motivated investigations related to Russian interference in the 2016 election and former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into President Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the election in 2020.
Johnson denied the allegation on Monday.
“All of that is false. I don’t exactly know why Elise won’t just call me,” said Johnson, adding that he sent her a text message denying knowledge of the treatment of the provision and claiming that “it hasn’t even made it to my level.”
“The way regular order works is it has to go through a committee of jurisdiction if it is to be attached to the NDAA, and this provision she was working on, I think, is under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary,” Johnson said. “… [T]he chairs and the two ranking members of the committees of jurisdiction … at least three out of four have to agree … to put it on the bill. Well, in this case, I found out last night — it wasn’t even on my radar — that that apparently didn’t happen. I haven’t even talked to those chairmen … but apparently the two chairs and the two rankers in both chambers did not agree and so that provision was dropped from the NDAA.”
Stefanik summed up Johnson’s claim s “just more lies from the Speaker.”
“And in true to form, the Speaker texted me yesterday claiming he ‘knew nothing about it.’ Yeah right. This is his preferred tactic to tell [lawmakers] when he gets caught torpedoing the Republican agenda. It wasn’t ‘on your radar?’ This is the ONLY provision in the bill to root out the deep state rot,” Stefanik said.
She went on to argue that dropping her provision was “not regular order,” as Johnson claimed.
“Regular order is a members’ provision that passed out of committee should be heard on the floor and not struck down by a Democrat minority member in a closed-door meeting,” Stefanik said. “My provision passed out of the House Intelligence Committee, which is the committee of jurisdiction. You torpedoed this siding with Jamie Raskin. You said you would fix it, so fix it.”
Another Republican lawmaker, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.), who recently announced she was quitting the House after President Donald Trump attacked her for supporting the release of the criminal file of convicted sex trafficker (and Trump’s friend) Jeffrey Epstein, similarly blasted Johnson.
“No surprises here,” posted Greene on X. “As usual from the Speaker, promises made promises broken. We all know it.”
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11/26/2025
When six Democratic senators with military and intelligence community experience posted a video last week calling on people now serving to refuse to carry out illegal orders, President Trump and many of his supporters lost it – even though the video was simply reminding servicemembers of their obligation under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The White House has walked back Trump’s initial outbursts calling for execution of the senators, but he said Sunday he still wants to see “the traitors that told the military to disobey my orders” in jail. He reposted a Truth social post calling the senators “traitorous sons of bitches” and “pompous traitorous communists” who “should be impeached and prosecuted.”
The senators have reported receiving death threats, and Trump allies are fanning MAGA outrage with false characterizations of the senators’ video.
Many MAGA attacks ignored the essential point of the senators’ video, which was to urge servicemembers not to obey illegal orders.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who has overseen official brutality against immigrants and their defenders, falsely claimed, “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection” and told Fox News viewers that it was “a general call for rebellion.”
Last week Libs of TikTok posteda claim that “Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth.”
On Sunday, the Republican National Committee sent an email claiming “Democrats want to stage a military coup” and falsely claiming that the video “called for an all-out coup against President Trump and Pete Hegseth” by “directly asking troops to disobey their orders.”
The RNC called the senators “disgusting socialists” and claimed they were “urging INSUBORDINATION.”
On Monday, the Washington Examiner’s Elizabeth Stauffer wrote that “Democrats are openly calling for a military mutiny.” She said the senators’ video had “all the hallmarks of a psychological operation lifted straight from the CIA’s playbook.”
Political dirty trickster Roger Stone claimed Monday that the video “is a call to arms for a revolt” and complained that “congressional seditionists” were emboldened by the fact that the Justice Department has not moved quickly enough to prosecute former “Deep State” officials.
Gary Bauer—yes, he’s still at it—used his daily newsletter to attack the senators for “stoking division and fueling mistrust in our government, which is the goal of our enemies”—and, let’s be honest, is the hallmark of Trump and the MAGA movement.
The Pentagon announced that Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain, would be investigated and could be recalled to active duty to face a court martial over what Hegseth claimed was a “seditious” video.
Kelly and the other senators made it clear that they were not cowed by Trump’s bluster, and many of their congressional colleagues came to their defense. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado called it “a decisive moment.” Crow wrote on X, “Trump is trying to incite violence, intimidate, and punish those who speak up to hold him accountable. But the only thing we fear is not rising to this moment and defending the country we love.”
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger said in a videothat military officers are told on “day one” of their training that they are obligated to not follow unlawful or illegal orders. Kinzinger called the Defense Department’s threat “chilling” and said it was designed to strike the fear of God into former officers who are publicly critical of Trump.
A rare critical voice from a sitting Republican came from Rep. Don Bacon who wrote that he thought the senators’ video was a bad idea, but that talk of sedition and threats of court martial were “crazy.”
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November 24, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Carl Higbie Frontline
CARL HIGBIE (HOST): Folks, don't doubt me on this one. I literally did this in other countries.
But this is just the current lever being pulled. They've been prepping this for 10 years. They've been trying to cast Donald Trump as crazy, unconstitutional or whatever else, trying to create the vulnerability to crack his support. And none of it's true. Here from the manual quote, a vulnerability — it's critical when its exploitation will significantly influence the threat's ability, the threat being Trump — ability to conduct support or operations; operations in this case, meaning carefully convinced young service members that striking a drug boat in international waters might be an illegal order without saying it, because it's not.
Oh, Carl, the military can't — the CIA can't actually be using a psy-ops campaign on the American people. You bet they can.
You ever heard of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948? This actually prohibited the US government from disseminating government-funded propaganda or psychological operations materials on American citizens. Well, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was incorporated into the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, signed by president, then Barack Obama, changed that. Specifically, section 1078 — got the receipts, folks. The primary goal was to remove limits to the United States government's ability to counter foreign propaganda. This basically showed the government the ability to influence US public opinion. I mean, don't even get me started on the Patriot Act and how it allowed it to spy on all Americans, but whatever.
So think about this.
If your opinion has gone negative of Trump, especially in the last few weeks, folks, you are likely a victim of a massive psy-ops.
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The point was to convince half the country before an election it was, though. Hunter Biden's laptop, with the 51 former officials saying that it's Russian disinformation. With the Trump very fine people comment where they literally tried to erase the other half of his sentence that said, quote, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis. They should be condemned totally. Covid, oh, and the power grab that followed that as a response. That was a test to see how far they could go and what they could get away with. These are all psy-ops on the American people, straight out — literally verbatim out of the Army field manual.}:
This illegal order campaign that they're running, no different. That is why they need to recall these people to active duty and court martial them for sedition, because the US government right now, via those six Democrats, is treating American citizens like our own enemy combatants.
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Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist and host of InfoWars, appears to have been given considerable insider information pertaining to President Donald Trump's campaign of legal revenge against his perceived enemies, based on a new analysis from The Bulwark, which called the situation "deeply troubling."
The efforts to bring lawsuits against prominent Democrats and opponents of the president, including former FBI head James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, have been ongoing for the past few months but have hit numerous snags in recent days. Among them, ABC News reported that the Department of Justice and the FBI are investigating whether the heads of the investigative efforts, Ed Martin and Bill Pulte, “enlisted individuals outside the Department of Justice to probe allegations of mortgage fraud." MS Now also reported that a federal grand jury is reviewing allegations that the two “illegally shared sensitive grand jury information with unauthorized people.”
Little is known about which individuals Martin and Pulte may have divulged sensitive legal information to, but an analysis of past posts and comments from Jones by the Bulwark suggests that he may have been one of them. As far back as August, just a few weeks prior to the indictment against Comey, Jones shared a video to X in which he claimed to have had long talks with “high-level DOJ sources” and was “authorized to tell you basically everything they told me except a few things,” mentioning grand jury investigations into James and Special Counsel Jack Smith, among other things.
“There are a whole bunch of grand juries open and I know where and a lot more,” Jones said in the August 23 post. “And I can tell you Trump is cracking the whip and pushing through the DOJ, any of the bureaucrats that are trying to block this and [Trump] is in daily communication with the patriots in there."
A day later, on August 24, Jones shared another video with the caption "MEGA-BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE!!!” in which he claimed to have had a 45-minute-long conversation with Martin specifically. Martin has a history withJones, appearing on InfoWars several times over the years.
“I’ve known Ed [for] twenty-five years and he’s one of the most stalwart, trustworthy people, everybody knows that,” Jones said. “He [Martin] has full discretion from the president to say whatever he wants, he decided to tell me."
Jones claimed that Martin had shared his strategy for pursuing prosecutions against top Democrats, including "about twenty" things that were "over-the-top, bombshell important.”
“They’ve got grand juries open in Virginia, Missouri, New York, and a bunch of other states,” Jones said. “And I don’t mean just one per state... I can tell you that there’s process crimes all over the place in this. So when you see people indicted for process crimes, that’s not because they’re limiting it, that’s to get them in the bear trap, and then to get them to roll over. They’re gonna get ’em any way they can."
While Jones named several figures who have since faced indictments, he also mentioned Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson as another target, citing allegations that he incited city residents against ICE officers. Later, on September 14, Jones shared a photo of himself with Martin with the included caption, “The Deep State is in DEEP S---!”
Assuming Jones is telling the truth, what else did Martin tell Jones about his investigations into top Democrats?" the Bulwark's analysis concluded. "We do not know. We do know that the relationship between Martin and Jones is deeply troubling, given Martin’s roles inside the DOJ. It shows that Martin is pursuing an extreme, sensationalist agenda—not justice."
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In recent weeks, Donald Trump’s supporters have begun to align around the idea that a Democrat-led “grand conspiracy” – potentially involving former president Barack Obama – has been plotting against the US president since 2016. The narrative is that the 2016 Russia investigation, which resulted in the Mueller inquiry was part of this deep-state opposition to Trump, as was the investigation into the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.
The focus of the fightback by Trump’s supporters is in Miami, where a Trump-appointed US attorney, Jason A. Reding Quiñones, has begun to issue subpoenas to a wide range of former officials.
This has included former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page and former director of national intelligence James Clapper, all of whom were involved in the federal investigation into alleged links between Russian intelligence and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The way the so-called conspiracy is unfolding will feel familiar to anyone who has watched US politics closely in the past decade. There’s been a constant stream of allegations and counter-allegations. But the narrative from the Trump camp is that the powerful “deep state” forces have been arrayed against the president. The “two-tier” justice system that has persecuted Trump can only be rebalanced by pursuing those who investigated him in 2017 and 2021.
The Grand Conspiracy contains similarities with other prominent conspiracy theories and how they spread. The QAnon movement, whose most famous claim is of a global paedophile ring run out of a Washington pizza parlour involving senior Democrats, is one where disparate claims are sporadically and partially evidenced. The political potency of these claims does not sit in the individual pieces of evidence but in the overarching story.
The story is that hidden government and proxy networks manipulate the truth and judicial outcomes and that only through pressure from “truthers” (what many people in the US who believe conspiracy theories call themselves) will wrongdoers be brought to account. Once these ideas are popularised, they take on a momentum and a direction that is difficult to control.
Campaign of ‘lawfare’
Soon after his inauguration, Trump set up a “weaponization working group” within the Department of Justice. Its director, Ed Martin, said in May that he would expose and discredit people he believes to be guilty, even if the evidence wasn’t sufficient to charge them: “If they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them. And we will name them, and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed.”
In the US the norm has been to “charge crimes, not people”, so this modification fundamentally changes the focus of prosecutors.
Former FBI director James Comey responds to his indictment by grand jury in September.
The recent subpoenas in Florida show this principle at work, effectively making legal process into the punishment. Even without full court hearings on specific charges, being forced to provide testimony or documents creates suspicion around those who are targeted. Criticism from legal officials that this is a “indict first, investigate second” method suggests that this is a break from historical norms.
Lawfare, defined as “legal action undertaken as part of a hostile campaign”, doesn’t require a successful prosecution. It merely requires enough investigative activity to solidify a narrative of suspected guilt and enough costs and pressure to seriously inconvenience those affected by it. In the new era of digital media, it’s enough to degrade the standing of a political opponent.
In that way, political retaliation has become a prosecuting objective. This is clear from what the US president has indicated in his frequent posts on his social media platforms for his enemies, such as former FBI director James Comey, who investigated his alleged links to Russia, or Adam Schiff, the senator who led his impeachment in 2019.
Hardball politics or authoritarianism?
Political scientists argue that authoritarianism is something that happens little by little. Some of these steps involve using state power to target political opponents, degrading checks and balances and making loyalty a legal requirement.
There are reasons to believe that the US seems to be tracking this trajectory currently, certainly when it comes to using the Justice Department to harass the president’s political enemies and pushing back against court judgments while attacking the judges that have issued them.
Further slides towards authoritarianism are possible because of the political potency of contemporary conspiracy movements. The right-wing QAnon movement, for example, has been exceptionally agile. It has offered its followers identity, community spaces and a logic that encourages active participation, exhorting believers to “do your own research”, for example.
In the wake of the near daily addition of material from the investigations into the allegations that the late financier, Jeffrey Epstein, ran a sex trafficking ring, involving some influential US citizens, many American citizens have concluded as a general truth that their elites do hide things. This makes it far simpler for broader conspiracies to gain traction and more difficult for politicians and journalists to work out what is conspiracy and what is evidence. This is creating a problematic feedback loop – hints of wrongdoing fuel public suspicion, and public suspicion fuels the idea of a further need for investigation.
But to suggest that anyone has control over this would be wrong. These movements can just as easily consume those seen as supporters as they do those seen as enemies. Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s determination to release the full and unredacted Epstein files could well produce negative outcomes for some Maga supporters, including prominent ones.
So, the transformation of legal process into public spectacle in America is suggestive of a drift towards authoritarianism. America’s famous “constitutional guardrails” of separation of powers, independent courts, juries and counsels will be pivotal in preventing this. They will need to stand firm.
The grand conspiracy theory might be more about seeking to isolate, and financially and emotionally exhaust opponents, while at the same time destroying America’s system of checks and balances. It might work.
Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, *University of Hull
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Far-right influencers are looking to Miami as a venue to pursue "long-promised charges of a 'grand conspiracy'" against President Donald Trump’s perceived adversaries, according to a New York Times report.
The influencers have even found a federal prosecutor there— Jason A. Reding Quiñones, Trump-appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who was sworn into office in August 2025 and is currently a central figure in a high-profile investigation into a 2017 intelligence community assessment regarding Russian election interference.
As for their alleged 'grand conspiracy,' the Times explains that its theory is "still unsupported by the evidence."
"A cabal of Democrats and 'deep-state' operatives, possibly led by former President Barack Obama, has worked to destroy Mr. Trump in a yearslong plot spanning the inquiry into his 2016 campaign to the charges he faced after leaving office," the Times explains.
Last week, however, Reding Quiñones issued over two dozen subpoenas, including to officials who took part in the inquiry into ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, the Times writes.
Among the recipients include familiar Trump foils: James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence; Peter Strzok, a former F.B.I. counterintelligence agent who helped run the Russia investigation; and Lisa Page, a former lawyer at the bureau.
The Florida investigation currently focuses on a "January 2017 intelligence community assessment about Russian interference in the 2016 election, particularly the role played by John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, in drafting the document," the Times says.
The Brennan investigation started "after criminal referrals to the Justice Department by top Trump intelligence officials," the Times writes, and was assigned to David Metcalf, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, "who was given special authority to scrutinize and possibly prosecute Mr. Brennan, according to four people with knowledge of his actions who requested anonymity to discuss an open matter."
Metcalf held senior Justice Department positions during the first Trump administration.
The Brennan case, however, was transfered from Metcalf to Reding Quiñones, "as part of a decision to greatly expand the scope of the Brennan investigation into other, unspecified activities, according to two people with knowledge of the situation," the Times explains.
The Florida subpoenas, the Times explains, "seek documents or communications related to the intelligence community assessment from July 1, 2016, through Feb. 28, 2017, according to people familiar with them. It commands the recipients to provide them to prosecutors in Miami by Nov. 20."
Despite the dubious nature of these investigations, the Times says, they do have one thing on its side.
"Reding Quiñones, a military veteran, has pursued his mandate to hunt down Mr. Trump’s foes with a gung-ho attitude that has endeared him to the president and the small but influential cadre of loyalists pushing hardest for prosecutions," notes the Times.
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Jesse Watters: “The Democrat reaction to January 6 was worse than January 6”
Watters: “What they need to do is either appoint a special counsel or have some sort of Senate select committee”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 10/07/25 6:39 PM EDT
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From the October 7, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): The Democrat reaction to January 6 was worse than January 6. We only know this from a whistleblower. Wray buried this inside some secret vault somewhere. A whistleblower had to come bring this to our attention. Imagine what else we're about to find out.
So, they cracked into these phones. That means you know where the senator was, exactly, who was calling him, who he called, how long the phone conversation was, and that's an incredibly abusive overreach. And what they were probably trying to do is cast this wide net to create some grand criminal conspiracy and indict the entire Republican Party. And they used the guy that prosecuted war crimes in the Hague to do it.
This guy should be in prison. And what they need to do is either appoint a special counsel or have some sort of Senate select committee to go up, do hearings, put Wray, put Garland, put Smith under oath, and if they lie, you throw them in prison.
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Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 10/07/25
Republicans and their right-wing media allies yesterday spun out frothy allegations about former special counsel Jack Smith purportedly “spying on Republican senators” in order to forestall tough questions about the state of the Justice Department. But their dark conspiracy theory immediately collapses under scrutiny.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was slated to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for what seemed fated to be a grueling hearing. Potential avenues for congressional oversight could include the unprecedented weaponization of her department as an extension of President Donald Trump’s will; the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein saga, including the location of the Epstein “client list” she once claimed to possess and a potential presidential pardon for the notorious sex offender’s chief accomplice; and the legal authority for the deployment of the U.S. military on American streets.
But FBI Director Kash Patel, his deputy Dan Bongino, and the stenographers at Fox News were happy to try to help her out of that tough spot. On the afternoon before the hearing, Fox News Digital reported that “former Special Counsel Jack Smith was allegedly tracking the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican Senators as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.” The October 6 article was based on a document “recently discovered by FBI Director Kash Patel and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital,” which states that an FBI special agent “‘conducted preliminary toll analysis’ on the toll records associated with” eight senators and one member of the House as part of Smith’s probe, which at the time was called Arctic Frost. The story also included quotes from Bongino, whom the report said would be meeting with the affected members of Congress that day.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, subsequently posted the document on social media, saying that it “shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues.” He added, “BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE.”
Their allegations were quickly promoted by MAGA media outlets and on Tuesday morning were highlighted by Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee as they sought to shield Bondi from criticism.
But legal reporters explained that there’s not much to the story — the FBI needed to review the toll records of senators in order to establish who Trump and his alleged co-conspirators were trying to contact before and during the January 6 insurrection.
Smith’s final report cites such toll records in a footnote for its statement that “at around the same time as he issued his 6:01 p.m. Tweet [telling his supporters occupying the U.S. Capitol to leave], Mr. Trump tried to reach two U.S. Senators, and he also directed Co-Conspirator 1 to call Members of Congress and attempt to enlist them to further delay the certification” of the electoral votes, as MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian reported.
“It actually seems sort of obvious that if you’re investigating a former president of the United States for trying to subvert an election, you’d probe some of contacts he and alleged co-conspirators had with people he was trying to enlist/pressure to overturn the results,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney noted.
“In other words, if you start from the premise that the entire probe was political, then seeking lawmakers’ toll records would be inherently bad,” Cheney added. “But if you view the probe as righteous or justified, then it’s not hard to see why those records would be pertinent.”
You won’t have trouble guessing which side the MAGAsphere came down on. Trump gave clemency to all the January 6 defendants, including those convicted of assaulting police and seditious conspiracy, still falsely claims to have won the 2020 election, and clearly believes that the only thing wrong with his election subversion plot was that it was unsuccessful. On Monday, his loyal propagandists at Fox and Newsmax leaped into action to promote the purported FBI bombshell.
On Fox, Newsmax, “stunning” story shows Smith conducted an “enemies list investigation,” is “going to go to jail
Just minutes after Fox News Digital published its story, Fox host Will Cain declared it “pretty stunning.” He went on to claim that Democrats had engaged in “projection when it comes to authoritarianism. But if this doesn't fit the bill, this doesn't fit the definition, what is the definition of authoritarianism?”
His guest, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), replied, “This is the quintessential definition of it.”
Later that night, Fox host Jesse Watters claimed that the story shows that “Biden's FBI was spying on Republican senators.”
His prime-time colleague Sean Hannity hosted right-wing journalist John Solomon, who declared that “Arctic Frost is starting to look like an enemies list investigation” and “a really troubling diagram of how the deep state was working under Joe Biden. The FBI, the DOJ working hand and glove to spy, pry, into the lives, the conversations, and the data of Republicans.”
Solomon went on — somehow maintaining a straight face — to accuse the FBI of potentially “intruding on a constitutionally protected event” because, in the time period for which the bureau sought the toll records, Congress had been certifying the election (except when they were evacuated in the face of a violent mob of Trumpists).
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The rhetoric was similarly over-the-top in the prime-time hours of Fox competitor Newsmax.
“Jack Smith, bad guy, and I think he's just been busted in something really bad,” host Greg Kelly said at the top of his segment on the report. He described the FBI’s actions as “illegal,” adding, “Jack Smith, I think you’re going to go to jail.”
Fellow host Rob Schmitt didn’t seem to understand what the story was actually about, even as he promoted it to his audience. He told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), “You had your phone tapped by Jack Smith,” and asked the senator to “illustrate to us how big a deal this is.” Johnson gently corrected Schmitt, saying that investigators had only obtained “metadata,” before claiming that the report “should shock and outrage every American.”
(Newsmax quickly updated its chyron from “FBI: JACK SMITH TAPPED PHONES OF GOP SENATORS” to “FBI: JACK SMITH SNOOPED ON GOP PHONES.”)
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January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 09/29/25
The right-wing conspiracy theory that hundreds of plainclothes FBI agents who were deployed to respond to the riotous mob at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, had actually incited the crowd in a “Fedsurrection” spread through the right-wing conspiracy echo chamber over the weekend and reached President Donald Trump in just over 36 hours after its inception.
Elements of the right-wing media, led by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, spent years concocting an alternate narrative of January 6 in which the rioters were heroes, any violence was actually caused by federal agents, and the resulting prosecutions of perpetrators constituted a brutal campaign of government repression.
Following Trump’s return to office, his pardoning of the rioters, and the firings and demotions of prosecutors and FBI agents who handled their cases, this is effectively the position of the United States government.
Given those dynamics — and the president’s willingness to promote any lie, no matter how far-fetched, as long as it fits his biases — false claims supporting the narrative of January 6 as an “inside job” can spread with alarming speed.
Late on September 25, right-wing journalist John Solomon’s Just the News outlet published a story with the headline “FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns.’”
“The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI's rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to ‘wokeness’ and allowed its employees to become ‘pawns in a political war,’ according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years,” Solomon and Steven Richards wrote in the article’s first paragraph.
Solomon and Richards did not reveal until the story’s 11th paragraph that the agents had been deployed “after the violence started.” The pair lifted up complaints from FBI agents that in an emergency situation — in which thousands of people had laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, assaulting scores of law enforcement officers and threatening the safety of the entirety of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, as well as Vice President Mike Pence, who were assembled to count the electoral votes — those agents had been hurriedly assigned riot control duties even if they lacked training and gear for that purpose.
Solomon and JustTheNews both shared the story on X using the text of the headline. And right-wing conspiracy theorists quickly responded by assuming that the report fit their assumption that January 6 was a false flag operation.
Retired Gen. Mike Flynn, who served briefly as Trump’s national security adviser during his first term, said of the story: “The question this begs is; was there sedition or conspiracy committed on the part of the DOJ & FBI at the time?”
“You don’t just have 274 FBI agents or employees show up to execute this massive of a ‘fedsurrection.’ This required foreknowledge (intent),” he added.
MAGA poster Bill Mitchell likewise claimed that the FBI agents had been “infiltrators.”
Trump himself quickly adopted this misreading of the JustTheNews report. He posted to a Truth Social midday on September 27 that “it was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed… 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax.” He added that the reporting showed that “FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘Law Enforcement Officials,’” and demanded the identities of the FBI agents involved.
Trump’s post brought a new wave of right-wing conspiracymongering over the report, with various MAGA figures claiming that it showed there had been a “Fedsurrection” in which FBI agents acted as “provocateurs.”
FBI Director Kash Patel stepped in to try to tamp down the situation. Without admitting that Trump was wrong, he said in a statement to Fox News Digital that “Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police – something that goes against FBI standards,” for which he blamed “corrupt leadership.”
Faced with the same situation, presumably Patel would have allowed the January 6 insurrection to proceed, rather than violating standards by sending FBI agents to quell it?
By Sunday morning, the false claim about the FBI agents had been thoroughly baked into mainstream GOP discourse.
When CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) whether rule of law applies “to people who stormed the Capitol on January 6,” Johnson replied, “I’m glad you brought that up,” citing “new information over the last couple of days” about how “there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd on January 6.”
Tapper quickly cut him off, saying that according to Patel, “They were sent there to do crowd control because of everything that was going on. They weren’t — it wasn't a false flag operation, as President Trump suggested.”
But Johnson, who was among the members of Congress evacuated to a secure location during the riots, replied, “Well, Jake, wait a minute. Hold on, Jake. How do you know that? Right? There's a lot of questions.”
He added: “There's videos, and it's always been disputed, what involvement some of those persons engaged in, what involvement they had. Did they spur on the crowd? Did they open the gates to allow them in? I don't know. These are questions. But they should be answered.”
Johnson went on to say that a House subcommittee newly established to reinvestigate the attack would get to the bottom of the situation.
The campaign by the Trump administration and MAGA media in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination to depict political violence as purely a phenomenon of the left raises some obvious questions, among them, “What about January 6?” A pro-Trump mob, summoned to Washington, D.C., by the president and incited by his calls for them to “fight,” descending on the U.S. Capitol and assaulting numerous law enforcement officers while sending Congress into hiding would surely seem to qualify.
The answer is that on the right, the January 6 rioters have been reimagined as the good guys.
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On Thursday, September 25, John F. Solomon and Steven Richards of the right-wing website Just the News reported that on January 6, 2021, the FBI "deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol" in an "operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI's rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to 'wokeness' and allowed its employees to become 'pawns in a political war,' according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years."
But according to Politico's Kyle Cheney, that characterization of the FBI presence at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 is "wildly" misleading.
Solomon tweeted the Just the News article, posting, "Breaking: FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political 'pawns.'"
But Cheney, on September 26, responded to Solomon with a tweet of his own, explaining, "This story is being wildly misrepresented — these were not undercover agents embedded in the crowd. They were part of the multi-agency law enforcement response *after* the Capitol was attacked, as the documents themselves make clear."
Cheney, in a separate tweet, elaborated, "In fact, the 'bombshell' here was reported by the inspector general 10 months."
Former Newsmax reporter Breanna Morello asked Cheney, "Where does it say they responded after? Can you link the source please?" — to which the Politico reporter responded, "In the doc itself: 'responded to the Capitol,' Including group that responded to pipe bomb, explosives in van and team that helped clear inside the building. Long known FBI had large number of personnel on the scene as part of many agencies/departments that assisted."
Liberal journalist and former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann had a scathing response to Solomon and Richards' reporting in Just the News.
Olbermann tweeted, "Yes. OTOH Solomon is so rabid he doesn't realize the implication of his lie here is: Trump-controlled FBI 2025 leaks that Trump-controlled FBI 2021 sent plants into a Trump crowd to foment a Trump coup on January 6. Seems kinda...self-incriminating."
In a different September 26 tweet, the former MSNBC host told Solomon, "So Trump's FBI led by a Trump Appointed Director leaks that Trump's previous FBI led by a different Trump Appointed Director sent agents into a Trump crowd to aid a Trump coup to benefit Trump? In other words Trump just confessed to J6. Gotcha. Cool."
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In Washington, DC — where protesters are speaking out against President Donald Trump's federalizing of local law enforcement —
a man is being charged with felony assault for throwing a Subway sandwich at a police officer.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted the arrest in a late Thursday morning, August 14 post on X, formerly Twitter.
"If you touch any law enforcement officer," Bondi tweeted, "we will come after you. I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice — NO LONGER. Not only is he FIRED, he has been charged with a felony. This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ. You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement."
READ MORE:'That's how this ends': George Conway reveals 'the only way' to stop Trump's 'gangsterism'
Bondi's post is drawing some scathing responses from X users, some of whom are attacking her as a hypocrite in light of the fact that Trump granted federal pardons to the January 6, 2021 rioters — including those who violently attacked police officers that day.
Reporter Sam Youngman tweeted, "When you know DOJ reporters are too chickens—— to call you on your obvious hypocrisy.'"
Attorney Tracey Gallagher posted, "You mean like the DOJ employing Jared Wise, a Jan. 6 defendant who called cops 'Nazis' and urged the crowd to 'kill em' as they stormed the Capitol? By the way Bondi hitting someone with a sandwich under state or federal law is not a felony.(18 U.S.C. § 111) you are missing an element here."
Gallagher, in a separate tweet, wrote, "You're missing the element of a deadly weapon OR GBI you have neither."
READ MORE:'Disgusting': MAGA erupts at Democratic governor over 'classless' remark about Trump 'bro'
Self-described "constitutional conservative" Kelly McCarty humorously posted, "Sandwich crime arrests should always be the top priority for the DOJ."
Attorney James Hess commented, "But you won't go after people on the Epstein list?"
X user Pat Greentree wrote, "But if you work for a foreign spy agency and traffic children to US leaders for blackmail purposes they will protect you. THIS is the deep state, not a guy throwing a sandwich."
READ MORE:'Severe pushback': House Republicans fear constituent revolt over divisive new proposal
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July 21, 2025, edition of Stay Free with Russell Brand, streamed on Rumble
RUSSELL BRAND (HOST): It feels like you're saying to a degree — [UNINTELLIGIBLE] I don't even understand this. I can always feel his aura. But that Trump isn’t governing in the way that his mandate — Trump’s not governing in the way that he was elected to govern, whether that’s the, you know, Epstein list, whether that’s the ongoing wars, whether it’s the migrant crisis in spite of his successes at the borders. So aren’t we then starting to, and I recognize that the revelations around Barack Obama and that stuff is exciting, but we all kind of knew that anyway, and maybe it could be regarded as something of a distraction.
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Even after the election of Trump part 2.0, which seemed like a significant, almost seismic event in American politics. The arrival of Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy, all of this stuff. And I know we’re less than a year in. It seems like, maybe, you know, we’re still talking about the same stuff. Foreign aid that’s risible. Foreign aid that’s supporting wars. Relationship with Israel or Jordan — pick a country, pick an enemy, pick an ideological opposition. Waste. B.S. We’re talking about the same things. Media corruption. The same things are happening.
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REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): What’s happening right now is the Republican Party — and they didn’t want to, they more were dragged kicking and screaming into supporting Donald Trump. And now — but they’ve all come in and whether they really truly believe or not, they’re all wearing their MAGA hats and pretending to cheerlead behind him.
But here’s, here’s the warning for the Republican Party. If you can’t — you can’t go out and talk about deep state actors that committed treason and election fraud and rich, powerful, elite cabals if you’re not gonna hold these people accountable. The base is past it. They — That has been red meat that’s been dangled out for years now. I mean, since 2017, we’ve been hearing about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice and Samantha Powers and all these people — James Comey, you know, Brennan, like all these people. But yet if there’s never any accountability, the base is like, “tell me why I should care.” And that’s actually where it’s coming. That’s how, I mean, it’s a dangerous situation to continue to say “these are the bad guys” and then never hold them accountable. But the Republican Party doesn’t realize where they are in the big picture of things. They have an opportunity to actually correct the wrongs and actually to turn the ship around and get the right course going for America, actually care about the American people, turn your policies back to America first. Stop spending so much damn money.
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July 21, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): General, your name is mentioned in these documents. You've been on our program for years. You've been writing books. You've been crying out from the wilderness about what they did to you. What a remarkable moment. And the floor is yours. The landscape has been set. General, what do you see happening next?
MICHAEL FLYNN (GUEST): Yeah. Well, a couple of things. I — and I have made this recommendation that I think that all of these people that are involved, starting with Obama on down, they all ought to have their passports revoked, and people need to be checking private airplanes and private airfields for anybody trying to abscond the country and get the heck out of dodge here. So, that's number one.
I do think that just as was done to President Trump, when they when they raided his home at Mar-a- Lago because they thought that there was — and they planted evidence there in that case — but I do think that what the DOJ should be considering, if not getting ready to conduct, is a raid of Barack Obama's home up there at Kalorama, in Washington DC where he's been since he left — you know, physically left the White House. You know, he's been running the White House, you know, all during the Biden regime.
And I do think that there's some other places that need to be raided where there are likely, you know, a lot of evidence, a lot of receipts, so to speak, in many of these people that are part of the Obama White House as well as the Biden White House. I mean, I just heard the great David Schoen talking about the former deputy attorney general of Monaco who also was the homeland security adviser to Barack Obama. So that's number one. That's — those are, you know, things that need to be considered right now. And I'm — I was ready to wake up this morning to hear about some of these raids that should have been going on.
There should, as a minimum, be a task force assembled by — of federal law enforcement authorities as well as a assigned dedicated, you know, prosecutor at the DOJ level, at the attorney general level, someone who is working directly for her and for the president of the United States. This has gotta happen very quickly.
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July 21, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Final question, general. Since you are a military man, you rose to the highest conceivable ranks within the military and within the civilian structure in the White House. Your credentials are impeccable. When Stephen Miller calls this a seditious conspiracy, when Tulsi Gabbard calls it a traitorous act, treason against our country — those seem like legal terms, but also really military terms. And since Barack Obama was the commander-in-chief, what angle would it be to go at this from a military perspective? Perhaps you could explain what is treason and seditious conspiracy mean from a military perspective. Would you advise them to go after them on those terms?
MICAHEL FLYNN (GUEST): I would. I absolutely would. I would advise them to go after on those terms and make sure that they have them locked in tight in terms of the legalities.
But what I want people to understand is, you know, after World War II, we had the Nuremberg trials, and there was a lot of people that were found guilty. And because they stood at — when they got on the stand, they said, well, I was just following orders. Well, Jim Clapper, John Brennan, Jim Comey, Susan Rice, Sally Yates, and many others, Lisa Monaco, many, many others, you're not gonna get away with it.
If Barack Obama directed you, and it appears that he did — this is very intentional. This eight December 2016 meeting that they had where it looks like — which was something that was not on my radar, Benny. So this is a new piece of evidence that Tulsi has exposed.
That to me, you know, in addition to some of the other critical criminal evidence that has been discovered, yeah, I think that they're gonna have to look at conspiracy, treason, traitorous activities by some of these people and particularly starting at the very top, and that would be Barack Obama.
They were ready to convict and throw Donald Trump in prison for the rest of his life, Benny. And so, you know, all bets are off when it comes to immunity. There's no immunity for this president, not for President Obama for what he did.
JOHNSON: Could you have a military tribunal for the commander-in-chief?
FLYNN: I'm not — you know, I don't know. But, you know, but it'd ought to be explored, Benny. It should be explored.
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The MAGA movement is in disarray as President Donald Trump continues to defend his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case while many of his right-wing supporters are growing increasingly outraged about what they see as cover up.
As Right Wing Watch reported last week:
When Axios reported earlier this week that a memo produced by President Donald Trump's Justice Department and FBI concluded that there is "no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a 'client list' or was murdered," the MAGA movement went into full meltdown.
For years, MAGA activists have been convinced that the Epstein files contained the key to finally taking down the "deep state" and that Trump was the only politician in America with the courage to release them; a belief that was eagerly fueled by members of Trump's own administration.
Since then, things have only gotten worse as Trump is now lashing out at his own supporters for having "bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker."
Religious-right broadcaster and full-blown Trump cultist Eric Metaxas waded into the maelstrom on his radio program the other day, lamenting that a demonic "spirit of division" is dividing the MAGA movement and urging everyone to trust Trump because his presidency has been "God's mercy to America."
"This is a great administration," Metaxas declared. "This is an administration so great we don't deserve it, and this is God's mercy to America to give us these heroes. From Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pete Hegseth, down the line; hero after hero after hero."
Metaxas was agog at "the idea that people would snipe in this way" about anything done by Trump and his administration.
"At some point, you have to really trust that Donald Trump does care about what we care about," Metaxas asserted. "I'll tell you right now folks, if you think Donald Trump would not do everything he possibly could to crush pedophile sex trafficking, I think you're crazy."
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June 25, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire'sThe Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Again, the leaks that are happening to The New York Times are happening for a reason. They're happening for a reason. People leak to the media in order to obtain a political result. If the goal is to undermine President Trump's credibility, if the goal is to undermine the more hawkish side of the Trump administration and to undermine President Trump's foreign policy, that's the goal, and you should all see the goal because leaks don't happen in a vacuum. They don't magically appear. A leak to the media is not like a leak in your shower head. It is a deliberate attempt to undermine the foreign policy of the president of the United States. That's what it is. Or it is leaked by the president of the United States. You can tell this ain't from the president. You can tell. So that means it's someone else, someone with an agenda and a group of people with an agenda. You might call them a deep state inside the Trump administration, actually, who have attempted to undermine the president's foreign policy every step of the way through coordinated leaking and messaging with their allies outside.
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April 23, 2025, edition of Loomer Unleashed on Rumble
LAURA LOOMER (HOST): And we're also going to address the recent allegations coming out of the Department of Defense that there is a soft coup taking place against Pete Hegseth, our defense secretary. And this is something that I've been reporting on. As we know, there were a lot of GOP senators who didn't want to necessarily confirm Pete Hegseth for his position of defense secretary.
I've always been an adamant supporter of Pete. He's somebody that I've known for a long time. He's a personal friend of mine, and I think he's going to do a great job as defense secretary. But it's not a surprise to anybody, or it shouldn't be a surprise at least that the deep state and all of these RINO obstructionist senators want to have control over the military industrial complex.
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April 9, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): We didn't want to kill Barack Obama, we just didn't think he was legally qualified to be president because of where he was born. And then Hillary, we didn't want to kill, we were just so afraid of her, we thought she'd kill us first.
But we do this in other countries. The CIA literally uses the same exact propaganda to stir up cultures in other countries to topple dictatorships we don't like. Now, we're doing it in our own country, and it's like almost working.
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Charlie Kirk says that with Trump back in office, he no longer has to fear being hauled out of bed by the FBI in the middle of the night: "For 4 years, we lived under a Soviet-style sword of Damocles that was kind of hanging over us, that could drop at any time."
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- Since the MAGA cult cannot accept that Trump's policies are tanking the economy, Bill Mitchell says something "fishy as hell" must be going on: "Is this the deep state fighting back?"
- Ben Quine of Christians Engaged warns that by teaching evolution in school, students are "being taught that the Bible is not reliable." Such a teaching, Quine says, "brings death."
- Lucas Gage declares that "the Jew is going to Jew as Jews always do" and that "the problem is we allow him to Jew all over the place without stopping him."
- Andrew Torba proclaims that "Christian Nationalists are ascendant and so it’s best for you to start productive dialogues with us now instead of demonizing us while you still have a slight political advantage that is quickly slipping away and into our hands."
- Finally, MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn believes that he has found a loophole that will allow President Donald Trump to serve as president again, despite the 22nd Amendment. Vaughn says Donald Trump Jr. can simply get elected president, name his father as vice president, and then resign.
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February 19, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Julie, good morning to you and a very lovely morning. We are one step closer to Kash Patel. Let's begin with that. A very squishy 48-45 vote to — for cloture and to bring an executive session forward. Do you have any reporting that says that we may need to do extra work or arm twisting in the Senate for Kash?
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): Not that I see, but, of course, something like that is always possible. You do have — look, this is the appointment, Benny, as you know that the deep state, the ruling class is most afraid of. So I'm sure they are twisting arms as heavily as they possibly can to get some, defectors, Republican defectors, but they will pay a price if anyone prevents the confirmation of Kash Patel.
Because as you noted, he himself has been a victim of the lawfare, political lawfare by the previous Department of Justice. He has had a front row seat to all of this dating back to his work on, Devin Nunes' intelligence committee. He is the one that really found the ties between the DNC, Hillary Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS, all tied to the Steele dossier. So he's got — but he's a professional, as you know, Benny. He's a very serious individual. He was a public defender and a prosecutor. So, he is going to exhume all the skeletons out of the FBI, hold people accountable, and clean up that agency to the extent that it's even possible.
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in a “meandering” speech filled with off-script jokes, recycled campaign lines, and religious-themed policy announcements, President Donald Trump addressed religious and political leaders at the controversial National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. He pledged to “protect Christians” and announced plans to direct the U.S. Department of Justice to create a task force to “eradicate” what he called “anti-Christian bias.”
“Well, we wanna bring religion back stronger, bigger, better than ever before. It’s very important,” the President declared. “We have to have religion and it suffered greatly over the last few years, but it’s coming back.”
“We have to bring religion back. We have to bring it back much stronger. It’s one of the biggest problems that we’ve had over the last fairly long period of time. We have to bring it back.”
He promised to “protect Christians” in schools, the military, in government, workplaces, hospitals, public squares, and said, “I will always protect religious liberty,” as he continued unveiling religious policy promises.
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“And that is why today,” he declared, “I’m announcing that I will be creating a brand new presidential commission on religious liberty. It’s gonna be a very big deal, which will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right. Unfortunately, in recent years, we’ve seen this sacred liberty threatened like never before in American history. There’s nothing happened like the last four years what’s happened with so many things have gone bad, but religion, what they’ve done, and the persecution that they’ve executed, have been just horrible.”
“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible. The IRS, the FBI, terrible, and other agencies,” Trump alleged. “In addition, the task force will work to fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers, nationwide. We’ve never had that before, but this is a very powerful document I’m signing, you’ve got it, you get it now.”
Trump praised himself for “showing up to the Prayer Breakfast,” falsely implying that his predecessors had not. He also hinted at the possibility of running for a third term—an idea some Republicans are backing with congressional legislation—and firmly asserted that the President of the United States should be a person of faith.
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“We have a mandate and lets say the most consequential election in 129 years, and that’s good because I’m a believer, like you’re a believer, and we want to have a believer in this position,” Trump said.
“I really believe you can’t be happy without religion, without that belief,” he added. “Let’s bring religion back. Let’s bring God back into our lives.”
The President mentioned the tragic loss of 67 lives in a recent mid-air crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, saying their time on earth was over but they are now with God. He swiftly transitioned to talk about the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, declaring, “It was God that saved me,” and claiming his son Don’s embrace of religion had increased as a result.
Before falsely claiming, as he has countless times before, that his election allowed Americans to once again say, “Merry Christmas,” Trump said that “from the very beginning of our republic, America has always been a nation founded by people of faith and strengthened by the power of prayer and united by four simple, but very beautiful words: ‘in God we trust.’ And you all know there was a movement to get that out.”
“In God We Trust,” was officially adopted as the motto of the United States in 1956.
He also told attendees, “we get rid of woke over the last two weeks.”
The American Humanist Foundation on Thursday declared that the “National Prayer Breakfast and its ties to the Fellowship Foundation, an extreme Christian Nationalist organization, are a sham. Holding a government-run, taxpayer-funded Christian ceremony in the U.S. Capitol disrespects the secular ideals that founded this country.”
Watch the videos above or at this link.
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President Donald Trump’s Justice Department last week distributed a survey to FBI agents asking about their roles in the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol — and some agents are taking the questioning as a sign of a potential purge of those perceived as disloyal to the president, Politico reported Sunday.
The 12-question survey, due Tuesday, asks agents about their role in the Jan. 6 investigations. It asks, for example, about whether they handled arrests, conducted surveillance, or testified in trials, among other types of involvement.
Concerns about mass firings are by no means unfounded. Last week, the Justice Department fired at least two dozen prosecutors who worked on cases related to Jan. 6. According to a memo, their employment has "hindered the ability" of the D.C. U.S. attorney to "faithfully implement the agenda that the American people elected President Trump to execute." Trump ended the four-year criminal investigation into the attack on his first day in office, pardoned Jan. 6 rioters, and ordered the DOJ to drop pending charges.
READ MORE:'Donald Trump's promised revenge tour is likely just getting started': military analyst
As the DOJ probes FBI involvement, not all agents are complying. An anonymous lawyer representing several FBI agents told Politico that some employees are pushing back against the inquiry, telling subordinates not to turn the surveys in.
“There’s growing resistance from among the SACs [special agents in charge],” they said. “Some are telling people beneath them, don’t submit it, or don’t submit it right away … Some are saying, we will submit it as leadership only.”
The Justice Department also asked for a list, due Tuesday, of employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases.
The FBI Agents Association, a group providing advocacy for active and retired FBI agents, wrote to members that employees carrying out their jobs legally should not be treated as though they had carried out any wrongdoing.
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“We understand that this feels like agents and employees are being targeted, despite repeated assurances that ‘all FBI employees will be protected against political retribution,’” the association wrote. “Employees carrying out their duties to investigate allegations of criminal activity with integrity and within the rule of law should never be treated as those who have engaged in actual misconduct.”
“We continue to hear rumors of dismissals/security revocations, or individuals who have been told to expect dismissals on Monday,” the association wrote. “Again, we have no confirmation of any such events. Please be cautious in sharing and spreading what could be misinformation. We do not need any more stress on those potentially impacted.”
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January 21, 2025, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
ENRIQUE TARRIO (GUEST): I'd like to thank again President Donald J. Trump for helping us through these difficult times and releasing me, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola. Right? And all the J6ers. We went through hell, and I'm gonna tell you, it was worth it, because what we stood for and what those guys stood for was what we've been fighting for and what we saw yesterday on the inauguration stage. I can't tell you it's been easy, but I will tell you it's been worth it.
And, Alex, I mean, everything that they concocted. Even you, everything that they concocted against you, I mean, we see how this system could be weaponized, and we need people like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and the rest of Trump's cabinet to right all these wrongs. I'm happy in my heart. I love what's transpired in the past just couple hours, and there's a couple J6ers that are still in prison, that are waiting to be released.
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TARRIO: They didn't care about the evidence. They cared about putting Trump supporters in prison. Well, now it's our turn. Now it's our turn. I'm happy that the president's focusing not on retribution and focusing on success, but I will tell you that I'm not gonna play by those rules. The people who did this, they need to feel the heat. They need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted. They pardon the J6 committee? Fine. In this country, our case proves that you could be put in prison for anything. They need to be imprisoned. We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay for what they did.
ALEX JONES (HOST): Well, I mean, let's be clear. Trump talked about getting the economy going and success. That's key to keeping his support to do the rest. But to have our success, we have to put the deep state in prison. Fauci, the traitor Milley, the J6 people.
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In the wake of former President Donald Trump's reelection, former Trump White House chief strategist and podcaster Steve Bannon spoke to the secretive Council for National Policy, a coalition of Christian nationalists and right-wing activists that was deeply engaged in the plot to keep Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election.
Bannon, fresh from his stint in prison for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, told the CNP audience that the Senate's role is simply to confirm whoever Trump nominates and celebrated that conservatives are on the verge of having a complete monopoly on the Supreme Court.
"Donald Trump took a bullet to the head, and then four months later won in a landslide," Bannon proclaimed. "He can pick anybody he wants to serve in his government and all I wanna hear is a cheery 'aye, aye' from the United States Senate."
"It's advice and consent," Bannon said. "We'll take your advice, but you're going to give us your consent."
The Senate serving as a mere rubber stamp for the president is, of course, not what the Constitution proscribes, but the fact that Bannon's bellicose pronouncement received raucous applause says a lot about the CNP's supposed reverence for the nation's founding document.
Bannon then hailed Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Matt Gaetz as "the Four Horsemen of the deep state apocalypse" and vowed that all four are "going to be confirmed." Since Bannon delivered his speech, Gaetz has already withdrawn his nomination and the other three are all plagued by controversy.
"We we have a unique time," Bannon continued. "We have the White House, we have the executive branch. We have the House and the Senate—small majorities, but we have them. We have the courts. And if we do our work and stop [Sen.] Elizabeth Warren—there are 47 court openings right now—if we stop her in the Senate between now and [January] 20th, we will actually redo the district court level. And then these corrupt appellate courts. And guess what? We're going to get two or three pickups in the Supreme Court. We're going to go for a 9-0 court of conservatives."
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Trump FBI nominee has a full 'enemies list' — Here’s who’s on it - Alternet.org
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podesta? deep state
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November 9, 2024 edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Is there a necessity for a special counsel since Jim Jordan looks like he’s going to be on it, a special prosecutor and if so, would you be available to assist them, sir?
RUDY GIULIANI: Well, the answer is yes to all of those, there’s certainly is a need for a special prosecutor and I certainly would be available to help, I probably know it better than anyone from the very beginning. And you have to do this, Steve.
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BANNON: What’s your current situation? You talk about the deep state coming after somebody, they are trying to destroy one of the greatest Americans, living Americans, Rudy Giuliani, before our eyes. Tell the audience what’s going on.
GIULIANI: Well, right now, based on a judgment that is easily reversed, the $145 million judgment to two women where I’m not able to use the tape recordings or video recordings that support the truth of everything I say because they’ve been taken off the tape deceptively.
I’ve been given a tape of what they did at the center that’s missing three hours and they rejiggered the numbering so it looked like it was consistent. And I discovered that. And in my bar association proceeding the judge ignored it. It would completely prove that -- although the $145 million is absolutely ridiculous even if I did what they say I did, I can show definitively that I didn’t.
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Once Trump captured the GOP and ascended to the presidency in 2017, that bubble served him and his interests. Within it, for example, his supporters were convinced by a sprawling conspiracy theory portraying the then-president as the victim of a shadowy “deep state” cabal that justified vast retribution.
MAGA propaganda machine helped carry Trump back to the White House — and it’s not done poisoning America
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 11/07/24
Donald Trump was reelected president on Tuesday, four years after fomenting a coup which saw a mob of his supporters storm the U.S. Capitol and then leaving the White House in disgrace. He owes his return at least in part to a rankly dishonest right-wing information ecosystem that helped carry him through countless scandals that would have ended the careers of most politicians, driving his comeback to the pinnacle of power.
Conservative audiences are dependent on a right-wing media complex that bombards them with falsehoods and grievances while dissuading them from consulting any alternative sources of information, be they legacy news outlets or government officials or medical experts.
:{Once Trump captured the GOP and ascended to the presidency in 2017, that bubble served him and his interests. Within it, for example, his supporters were convinced by a sprawling conspiracy theory portraying the then-president as the victim of a shadowy “deep state” cabal that justified vast retribution.}:
The January 6 insurrection presented Trump’s propagandists with a crossroads. Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire includes right-wing bastions like Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Post, privately sought for him to become a “non person.” But Tucker Carlson and his allies at Fox and elsewhere instead went to work creating a counternarrative in which Trump was blameless. People who knew better either played along or actively participated in the whitewashing of that day.
Trump’s various indictments for a host of crimes provided additional hinge points. Right-wing media figures who could have used evidence of his abject criminality as a rationale for cutting him loose instead rallied to him and sought to delegitimize those seeking to bring him to justice.
The right-wing media bubble’s eagerness to excuse Trump’s actions gave him a dominant position in the Republican primary. As he romped to the nomination, his opponents complained that they were unable to gain traction because the party’s propaganda wing had united behind him.
Trump again became the nominee of one of the two major parties. He selected Ohio Sen. JD Vance, a Carlson favorite, as his running mate, and demonstrated the importance of the right-wing echo chamber by giving Carlson himself a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention.
With the general election set between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, right-wing propagandists went to work holding the GOP base together with a combination of grievance-mongering and silence.
They flooded the zone with a bogus narrative of “migrant crime” while ignoring evidence that violent crime was actually plummeting from its Trump-era high.
They instructed their audiences to treat immigrants as a scapegoat, falsely claiming that federal disaster aid desperately needed to respond to hurricanes had been siphoned off to benefit migrants and ginning up grotesque lies about Haitian immigrants eating pets.
They lashed out at the press, urging the Republican base to treat Trump’s poor showing in his debate against Harris as the result of media bias.
When an unprecedented string of former Republican officials and Trump’s own former administration aides came forward with dire warnings of what Trump did in his first term and could do in a second one, they hid the news from their audiences.
And they kept quiet on a host of unpopular aspects of Trump’s policy agenda, from Social Security to reproductive rights, while beating back burgeoning scandals over his alleged January 6 crimes, communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and a political event at Arlington National Cemetery.
Journalists and political strategists will spend the next weeks and months grappling for explanations as to how Trump returned to the White House. But without the support of the right-wing propaganda machine, he would not have been in position to sweep his party’s nomination in the first place — and in an evenly divided country amid a global anti-incumbent wave, that provided a strong position to win the presidency.
Now, the same propagandists who helped him back to power are poised to help him carry out his extreme agenda of destruction and retribution.
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Conservatism is dead. Conspiracism is dancing on its grave
Lindsay Beyerstein October 31, 2024
Conspiracist ideology has consumed the Republican Party. At his rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump pledged to demolish the deep state, drive out the globalists, and rout the fake news media. Speaker after speaker referenced the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, a dogma that was once confined to the manifestos of mass shooters, but which is now the Trump campaign’s closing argument for the presidency.
Former Fox host Tucker Carlson, who promoted the Great Replacement over 400 times on his now-defunct show, told the crowd at Madison Square Garden that the political class “despises [the people] and their values and their history and their culture and their customs really hates them to the point that it’s trying to replace them.”
The former president’s son, Donald Trump, Jr, was even more explicit.
“The Democrat[sic] Party has forgotten about Americans. Rather than cater to Americans, they decided, “You know what? It would just be easier to replace them with people who will be reliable voters.”
"Our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote," Trump Sr., said last month.
The Republican National Committee under Lara Trump is claiming that millions of undocumented migrants could vote next week. A vast body of research, including recent audits by Republican-controlled states like Georgia, has found that voting by non-citizens is essentially non-existent.
By hyping this fake threat, Republicans are creating a pretext to challenge the election if Trump loses, putting a racist spin on their perennial allegations of voter fraud, and creating excuses for Republican governors to purge their voter rolls.
However, this obsession with non-citizen voting goes deeper than that. The lie of mass voting by undocumented migrants is the conceptual glue that binds the three major components of their conspiracist ideology: The Deep State, the Big Lie, and the Great Replacement.
Let’s review their delusional belief system:
The Deep State is a shadowy network of elites inside and outside of government who supposedly direct the course of history. This cabal is responsible for everything from Trump’s impeachments and prosecutions to voting laws and immigration policy. Some say it controls the weather.
The Big Lie is the debunked claim that voter fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 election. Trump kicked off his Madison Square Garden rally by vowing to “totally obliterate the Deep State.”
The Great Replacement is the charge that the Deep State is deliberately importing migrants in order to replace white Americans, a process sometimes known as “white genocide.” The lie of massive noncitizen voting explains why the Deep State is supposedly importing all these migrants to commit election fraud.
These beliefs meld seamlessly into a paranoid whole. Trump told rally-goers in Atlanta that the only reason Democratic immigration policy must be the result of evil or stupidity. “Well, they’re not stupid because anybody that can cheat on elections that good is not stupid,” Trump told rally-goers in Atlanta. “But I never really talked about the third reason because it’s so sinister, but they want to sign these people up to vote, and if they do that, this country is destroyed.”
Trump has been blaming migrants for his political failures for years. In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote and blamed it on millions of illegal voters. Incredibly, Trump claimed that he would have won deep blue California – a state he lost by 30 points and 4 million votes – if not for those improbably civic-minded migrants. Trump convened a special commission to investigate voter fraud, which fizzled without finding evidence of the conspiracy.
Conservative ideology as we knew it is dead.
Conspiracism is all.
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Busted: Armed man arrested at rally tied to Trump's 'secretary of retribution'
Ivan Raiklin takes the stage to speak at a New Hampshire Election Security Seminar presented by the New Hampshire Voter Integrity Group in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., November 19, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Jordan GreenandRaw Story October 21, 2024
The man arrested with guns outside Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, Calif. on Oct. 12 had spoken about assassination attempts against the former president less than two weeks earlier with a retired Army lieutenant colonel who calls himself Trump’s “secretary of retribution.”
Vem Miller, a 49-year-old former music video director who now produces conspiracy-driven documentary films, interviewed retired Lt. Col. Ivan Raiklin, known for circulating a “Deep State target list” against Trump’s political enemies. The interview was produced for the America Happens Network, a company co-founded by Miller that describes itself as “the anti-thesis of what the mockingbird media has to offer.”
“You know, you inspire me,” Miller told Raiklin during the interview, which was posted on the video platform Rumble on Oct. 1. “This episode’s actually going to be called, ‘What are we going to do once they steal the election,’ because that’s certain, 100 percent certainty that they’re going to steal this. And we need to be prepared.”
“I already have a plan,” Raiklin responded. “I have the counter-strategy. I’ve already war-gamed basically their next 15 moves. I got 30 moves ahead of it. I’m doing worse-case [sic] scenario. And if worse-case [sic] scenario doesn’t happen, we win, right? But I’m always planning for the worse case [sic] scenario that they can do, both within their law, legal authority, and beyond of what they’re capable of.
“So, the categories of what they’re gonna do is they’re gonna continue to try to assassinate Trump,” Raiklin continued. “I already got a plan in response to that and what should take place.”
“Tell me that,” Miller interrupted. “Say it.”
“No, no, no,” Raiklin responded. “I don’t need to put it out. Because if I put it out, people are going to think I’m trying to advocate for that to take place. I’m not. But you always have to have someone planning out worst case already in advance that has already thought through it, so that immediate action takes place. I’ve already thought through that deliberately. I got a response for that. It’s going to be worse for them if that takes place.”
Vem Miller (right) speaks with Ivan Raiklin during a taping of his show "Blood Money," which was posted to Rumble on Oct. 1.(Screengrab / America Happens Network)
Raiklin added that he had already explained his thinking during an appearance on InfoWars with conspiracy trafficker Alex Jones in February 2024.
During that exchange, Raiklin told Jones: “This is a message directly to every single person on the Deep State target list. My assessment — Ivan Raiklin’s assessment that if you assassinate any political presidential candidate, whether it’s RFK, whether it’s Trump, guess what? America will do the following: Immediately, they will respond in kind.
“If they do that, option 2 behind Trump is going to be so much better for us, and so much worse for them,” Raiklin continued.
“I was about to say, if they kill him that’s best-case scenario,” Jones agreed. “From a sick level, from a sick level medium, oh, please kill him. It’s so good after that.”
Raiklin added: “It’s going to be the best cleansing and the fastest cleansing that we’ve ever seen in my lifetime. I assess with almost certainty, with the highest level of confidence, that if they assassinate Trump, it is so game over for them.”
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, himself a fervent Trump supporter, told reporters during a press conference that a deputy arrested Miller when he stopped his vehicle at the inner perimeter of the rally. Miller had been allowed to drive through the outer perimeter, Bianco said, because it appeared that he was either a VIP or press.
But at a checkpoint for the inner perimeter, the sheriff said the deputy noticed that the “interior of the vehicle was in quite disarray.” The deputy also noticed a homemade license plate that led him to conclude that the driver was a sovereign citizen. Bianco said the deputy found multiple driver’s licenses and passports with different names. Eventually, the deputy also found a loaded handgun and a shotgun, the sheriff said.
The arrest took place before Trump arrived at the rally. Bianco said Miller was arrested for illegal firearms.
"If you're asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt," Bianco said.
Miller denied that he had any intent to assassinate Trump, calling himself “100 percent a Trump supporter” in an interview with Fox News. He also denied that he is a sovereign citizen or that he was carrying fake documents.
Mindy Robinson, one of Miller’s partners at the America Happens Network, angrily posted on X that Miller’s arrest was retribution from the “Deep State.” Miller and Robinson released a six-hour documentary, which opens with an apocalyptic assessment of current events centered on the first assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pa. before moving to its main subject: the armed standoff in 2014 that pitted the Bundy family and their supporters against the FBI.
“Vem just exposed a huge Deep State coverup involving the feds and the Bundy ranch scandal,” Robinson wrote on X on Sunday. “So, I firmly believe this is 100% some kind of setup in retribution for exposing it. That, or Trump’s security team is a bunch of dips---s trying to make up for how badly they failed in Pennsylvania with any kind of ‘win’ they can get, fake or not.
“There isn’t a universe his intention was to kill Trump,” Robinson continued. “He’s worked too hard in this movement to expose the Deep State and all the people against him. If he had guns in his car that were illegal, whooptie-f---ing do As a pro-2A advocate, ask me if I give a s--- about a good guy with a gun in an unsafe s---hole like California. It doesn’t even make sense why his passes would be fake either when we’re both usually invited as media to these things.”
Raiklin’s response to the news of his associate’s arrest was uncharacteristically muted.
“My hunch is there will be lots of retractions,” he posted on X on Sunday. “And the sheriff will have egg on his face as his stunt will be the end of his gubernatorial run before it even started.”
Vem Miller (right) speaks with Ivan Raiklin about assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump.roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms
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Vice presidential hopeful JD Vance recently took the stage at an event organized by the most influential far-right pastor you’ve never heard of. His name is Lance Wallnau and he popularized a doctrine that calls for Christians to conquer every sphere of society from the government to professional sports.
Wallnau is a self-proclaimed Christian Nationalist who preaches that leftists aren’t even people, just vessels for demons. He accused Vice President Kamala Harris of witchcraft. He prayed for God to kill Trump’s enemies. Wallnau’s message is a mishmash of Bible memes and conspiracy theories. He preaches the Big Lie as gospel truth, fusing Christian nationalism and election denialism.
In 2020, Wallnau gathered the faithful for the insurrection of January 6th. Today, he’s responsible for a good chunk of the Trump campaign’s Get Out the Vote effort. He rails against George Soros, the globalists, the World Economic Forum and vaccines. He hypes quack stem-cell therapies and Donald Trump figurines as fervently as he hypes Jesus.
Most importantly, Wallnau preaches that Donald Trump is a modern-day King Cyrus, a heathen anointed by God. The upshot is that no matter how immoral, blasphemous or criminal Trump is, it doesn’t matter because he’s God’s instrument to impose Christian dominion. If you’ve ever wondered why evangelicals don’t care that Trump is a philandering felon, Wallnau’s King Cyrus meme explains a lot.
JD Vance is not an evangelical, but he seemed at home at the Courage Campaign. At least, he seemed as comfortable as he gets in the presence of actual voters. And why not? Vance is the interface between the C-suites and the fever swamps of Magaland. It’s why he spends so much time on weird podcasts. As a Yale-educated US senator, he legitimates the fringe. As a rightwing podcast bro, he shores up the Trump ticket’s bona fides with the supplement-slurping conspiracist base.
One of Vance’s key functions is to validate all the factions of the maga conspiracist coalition.
Conspiracism is the overarching ideology of the maga movement. The three pillars of the maga platform are the Deep State, the Big Lie and the Great Replacement, and Vance eagerly expounds on all three.
Moreover, Vance moves effortlessly among integralist Catholics, protestant New Apostolic Reformation types, and the more secular Silicon Valley contingent exemplified by Elon Musk.
Vance’s other role is to reassure the more staid elements of the conservative coalition that unchecked conspiracism is politically useful. In 2021, Vance exhorted the future leaders of the conservative movement tomake common cause with Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and other raving conspiracy theorists. According to Vance, the conservative movement is doomed unless it makes common cause with lunatics.
“Believing crazy things is not the mark of whether somebody should be rejected. Believing important truths should be the mark of whether we accept somebody, and if they believe some crazy things on the side, that's fine," Vance said. "Doesn't mean you have to defend their craziest views. But by all means, if this movement is going to survive, we need to speak for truth.”
The truth, according to Vance, is that an international cabal of financier sex perverts is ruining our society. This is the closest thing Vance has to an ideology. Like Wallnau, Vance is willing to use flawed instruments. As long as someone’s willing to affirm the core conspiracy premise, Vance is flexible about whether it’s dressed up in religious lingo, or whether his brother- or sister-in-paranoia also believes in Jewish space lasers or a federal plot to turn the frogs gay.
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September 17, 2024, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime
JESSE WATTERS (HOST): The Biden-Harris administration wants you to keep your nose out of their business. Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy says the feds are waging a prosecutorial turf war with the state of Florida to keep total control of the case. Why? Because Biden has his fingerprints all over this.
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That's the Secret Service director admitting that president Biden is personally involved in Trump's security detail. Joe Biden, the man who can't protect our border has gotten personally involved in protecting Donald Trump. Biden is directing which assets Trump's allowed to have and not allowed to have. The same guy who raided Trump's house is in charge of protecting his life. The same guy who calls him a threat is in charge of protecting him from threats. And Trump's been shot twice -- almost twice.
If Joe Biden really wanted to provide Donald Trump with proper security, he would. But after two assassination attempts, there are still gaping holes. The Biden White House still labels him a threat. I guess it all makes sense. Why would you protect a man you consider a threat?
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September 6, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The deep state's boarded the Russia Express as well, talk about déjà vu. Same old claims of election interference, all of it a pretext to get back into the censorship game.
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Project 2025 contributor asks Trump if the assassination attempt on him could have been an “inside job”
Trump told Monica Crowley: “There's so many things going on here that you do have to wonder. ... I wasn't thinking this way three weeks ago. But the more you see it, the more you start to say there could be something else.”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 08/30/24
Project 2025 is a massive right-wing plan led by the Heritage Foundation to provide policy and staffing to a future Republican president. Monica Crowley is a former Trump administration official and right-wing media figure touted for a position in a second Trump term; she is listed as a contributor in the Project 2025 policy book, Mandate for Leadership.
On August 29, Crowley interviewed former President Donald Trump on her podcast, with the two discussing the possibility that the assassination attempt was an “inside job.”
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CitationFrom the August 29, 2024, edition of The Monica Crowley Podcast, streamed on Rumble
MONICA CROWLEY (HOST): Two final questions for you, Mr. President, with regard to the assassination attempt. The more we see what happened that day, the more suspicious it all looks. It looks like the three-letter agencies are slow walking a lot of this evidence, a lot of the videos, etc. Does it look increasingly to you like this was a suspicious — maybe even inside job?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, it's strange. The father hired the most expensive lawyer, and he lives in the area, supposedly not very much money. He hired the most expensive lawyer. Think of this. Who's paying for this lawyer in Pennsylvania? High end, very, very expensive lawyer, top of the line, right? You know, where does he get the money to hire a lawyer that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars? Is the lawyer doing it for free? I doubt it. Are the Democrats paying for his legal fees? Is Marc Elias involved and that group? Is Weissmann involved? I don't know. Maybe they are. Maybe they're not. But who's paying for this lawyer?
Then you have the case of all of these apps that they can't get open. They can't get his phones open. And, you know, it's very suspicious, very suspicious. Why can't they get the apps open? Why can't the FBI get the apps open? Don't forget the head of the FBI said I may have been hit by shrapnel or some flying glass, OK? And that was even disputed by — all you have to do is take a look at it. They've shown it 50 different ways, 200 different ways, but that was their first — you know, he may have been hit by some shrapnel, you know, to maybe just grazed by a little shrapnel, and they knew that wasn't true.
So you say, why did they say that? Why did the director say that? Because that was so far off. He met with a tremendous — I mean, even his own side said, “You can't say that. There was no glass.” He's — I guess he said maybe the teleprompter. It's not even glass. It's something else. But, it wasn't broken. But, you know, you say, why did he say that?
There's so many things going on here that you do have to wonder. You do have to wonder. But they have apps or they have some things, and they're foreign-based from what I understand. And you say, like, why is it that they can't get them open? Apple should open them easily. You know, when they were going after you and all your friends, they were able to open up their phones very easily, right? But for an assassin, they can't get their phones open. I think those phones ought to be opened by this afternoon because they're foreign based.
And I think they ought to get — and I think they ought to find out who's paying for the lawyer, where's the money coming from, because I wasn't thinking this way three weeks ago. But the more you see it, the more you start to say there could be something else, and that's really dangerous for the country. So, you know, I think they should clear up all that. This shouldn't be like the Kennedy where they're waiting for so many years. I'll be opening that up, like, on my first week, but, you know, they have — everybody waits for it, the Kennedy assassination. This shouldn't be that. They should have all the facts. And, you know, it's harder to get the facts as time goes by, but they ought to get those phones open, and they ought to find out who he's been speaking to. That's what I think.
CROWLEY: Well, you know, 60 years later, we're still talking about the Kennedy assassination, right?
TRUMP: Yeah.
CROWLEY: But you were shot five or six weeks ago, and the imperial media, the regime, they've all buried it. They don't want anybody talking about it, which also lends credence to this idea that this is very suspicious —
TRUMP: Yeah, true.
CROWLEY: — and could have been an inside job. Before —
TRUMP: They don't wanna talk about it.
CROWLEY: No, of course not.
TRUMP: They don't wanna talk about it.
CROWLEY: Of course not. Which also —
TRUMP: Tells you bad things.
CROWLEY: It raises big suspicions.
TRUMP: Well they didn't wanna talk about the election of 2020 either.
CROWLEY: Right.
TRUMP: They just don't wanna talk about it because they know they're guilty as hell. And the only way you can stop it — it's amazing. People that want to have a fair election are indicted. The people that cheated on the election are allowed to keep cheating.
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- We are not at all surprised to learn that far-right Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon
that the Civil War was “atrocious and wrong and unjust.”
- Self-proclaimed “prophet” Amanda Grace
that “Aaron Burr was a deep state operative.”
- Mark Meckler claims that “England has fallen”: “It’s now a totalitarian state, primarily run by a Muslim theocracy.”
- Why do Christian nationalists like Richard Harris know so little about history? No, the Founders did not “put religious freedom the first of the first of the first” in the Bill of Rights. They actually put no establishment of religion first and even that was an accident of history.
- Finally, Nick Fuentes is vowing to wage war against the Trump campaign and MAGA cultist Brenden Dilley is not happy about.
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Right-wing media and social media users spread conspiracy theories about the Trump rally shooting
WRITTEN BY ALEX KAPLAN & PAYTON ARMSTRONG
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JASON CAMPBELL & NOAH DOWE
PUBLISHED 07/16/24
Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, right-wing media figures and social media users have spread baseless conspiracy theories and claims about the shooting.
They have amplified a 4chan hoax that the Secret Service gave a stand-down order during the shooting; made baseless allegations that Alex Soros was connected to the shooting; falsely claimed a protester at a 2016 Trump rally was the shooter; suggested the shooting could be attributed to the intelligence community, the “deep state,” foreign actors, or an “RNC/Israeli hit job”; and connected the assassination attempt to biblical prophecy and “the hand of God.”
- ## A gunman attempted to shoot Trump at a July 13 rally
- On July 13, a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, injuring Trump, killing one rally attendee, and seriously wounding two others. The 20-year-old suspected gunman reportedly opened fire from a rooftop near the rally, and was fatally shot by the Secret Service. His motivation remains unclear. The New York Times, [7/14/24]
- ## Far-right figures spread a 4chan hoax that there was a stand-down order before the shooting
- A 4chan poster falsely claimed to be a law enforcement sniper who was at the Pennsylvania rally and said the Secret Service “refused to give the order to take out the perp.” A user on 4chan’s far-right “politically incorrect” message board (commonly known as “/pol/”) claimed to be “the officer in the famous photo of the two snipers on the roof at Trump's rally” and said that they “had the assassin in my sights for at least 3 minutes, but the head of the secret service refused to give the order to take out the perp.” The Associated Press reported that the claim was false, noting that “the Secret Service and the Butler Police Department say they have no agents, officers or employees with the name of the person claiming to be the sharpshooter.” 4chan, [7/14/24; The Associated Press, 7/15/24]
Social media users earned tens of thousands of shares and likes promoting the 4chan post. Multiple users, including QAnon figure Nicholas Veniamin, shared the 4chan posts or its claims, raking up tens of thousands of shares and “likes” on X and Instagram. According to CrowdTangle, posts on Instagram sharing the 4chan hoax received more than 80,000 interactions. Twitter/X, [7/14/24, 7/14/24, 7/14/24, 7/15/24; Instagram, 7/14/24; CrowdTangle, accessed 7/16/24; Media Matters, 3/4/22]
A post amplifying the 4chan hoax was one of the top posts on Reddit’s conspiracy subreddit. On the prominent subreddit “r/conspiracy,” a user posted an image of the 4chan post — though they added, “BIG grain of salt recommended.” The post was one of the top posts in terms of “upvotes” in a 24-hour period between July 14 and July 15. Reddit, [7/14/24, 7/15/24; Media Matters, 9/18/23]
- ## QAnon figures revived a baseless conspiracy theory that Alex Soros had threatened Trump, apparently suggesting it was connected to the shooting
- In January, Alex Soros was baselessly accused of threatening Trump after posting an article from The Atlantic on social media. Conspiracy theorists baselessly accused Alex Soros — the son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros and a frequent target of right-wing attacks and antisemitic conspiracy theories — of threatening Trump after he posted an Atlantic article that featured stock photos of a bullet hole and someone holding cash on X (formerly Twitter). Media Matters, [1/23/24]
QAnon figure Woke Societies after the shooting: “Don’t forgot Alex Soros posted this in January of this year. Demons.” Telegram, [7/13/24; Media Matters, 4/18/22]
QAnon figure Pepe Lives Matter: “Remember when Alex Soros tweeted a bullet shot with the number 47 in this ominous tweet that people thought was about Donald Trump and now he was just shot.” Telegram, [7/13/24, 1/7/21]
QAnon figure Ben Moore, known online as “Sun Tzu,” responded to a user claiming Alex Soros “hinted at what was coming in a X post” by asking if George and Alex Soros should “be designated as enemy combatants at this point.” Twitter/X, [7/15/24; Media Matters, 4/24/24]
Ann Vandersteel, who has promoted QAnon, posted an image of Alex Soros’ tweet with the text “Remember this?” Twitter/X, [7/13/24; Media Matters, 6/7/24]
A user on the online forum GreatAwakening, which is dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory, shared a post saying “Y’all remember when Alex Soros posted $47 and a bullet hole?” GreatAwakening, [7/14/24; Media Matters, 6/30/20]
- ## Far-right figures falsely claimed a protester at a 2016 Trump rally was the shooter
- QAnon figure QAnon John falsely claimed that “a guy affiliated with ANTIFA” was actually the shooter. John Sabal, known online as “QAnon John,” falsely posted that the shooter was actually “a guy affiliated with ANTIFA that was actually arrested back in 2016 for being involved in an Anti-Trump protest in Pittsburgh,” and that in response he was “calling on the FBI, DHS & DOJ to designate ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.” Reuters reported that the claim is false, noting that the 2016 protester was “not the suspect identified by the FBI as the shooter” and that the photo shared online “does not resemble the suspect identified by authorities.” Gab, [7/14/24; Dallas Observer, 8/31/21; Reuters, 7/15/24; WTAE, 4/14/16]
Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone claimed that “a number of people have contacted me to say that the shooter is not the man they’ve identified.” During an appearance on conspiracy theory network Infowars, Stone said that “a number of people have contacted me to say that the shooter is not the man they’ve identified, but rather” someone else — the same person mentioned by QAnon John — “who appears to more closely resemble the picture we've been shown that is allegedly the corpse of the shooter.” [Infowars, The Alex Jones Show, 7/15/24]
- ## Far-right figures baselessly suggested the shooting could be attributed to the “intelligence agencies,” the “deep state,” foreign actors, or “an RNC/Israeli hit job”
- White nationalist Nick Fuentes floated the idea that “the intelligence agencies” could have been behind Trump‘s shooting. During an X Space discussion following the attempted shooting, Fuentes claimed that “it was either the intelligence agencies or it was these other guys who are gonna benefit with a more favorable advocate in the White House” — after listing people and entities including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ukraine — who “tried to knock him out” with the attempted shooting. Twitter/X, [7/13/24]
Alex Jones claimed that the Trump shooting was “clearly” done by the “deep state.” In the X Space with Fuentes, Jones claimed of the attempted shooting, “Clearly this was deep state.” He said it was evidence of “the deep state trying to kill him,” adding, “This was no accident, in my view.” Twitter/X, [7/13/24]
White nationalist Stew Peters baselessly claimed it was “an RNC/Israeli hit job.” According to Peters, “Everyone is blaming Biden and the Dems when this was clearly an RNC/Israeli hit job.” Twitter/X, [7/13/24; Media Matters, 3/13/23]
Right-wing personality Candace Owens said that if she were a conspiracy theorist, she might think the FBI was behind the Trump shooting. While discussing on her YouTube show the FBI’s efforts to access the alleged shooter’s phone (which it has since done), Owens said, “If I were a conspiracy theorist, and I’m not — I’m not a conspiracy theorist — some people might be thinking, though, those conspiracy theorists might be thinking, like, maybe it’s because the FBI did it. Maybe the FBI doesn’t want to get into the phone that connects the kid to the deep state.” YouTube, *Candace Owens*, [7/15/24; The New York Times, 7/15/24]
QAnon figure Clandestine claimed, “Whether this was a CIA-coordinated plot, or just a lone shooter, the Deep State are responsible regardless.” Jacob Creech, known online as “Clandestine,” added, “Either they planned the hit, or their years of violent rhetoric and endless MSM propaganda, created the vitriol that led to the attack.” Telegram, [7/14/24; Anti-Defamation League, 4/5/22]
- ## Far-right Christian media and right-wing social media influencers invoked biblical prophecy and “the hand of God” in discussing the shooting
- Charisma News, which has been a sponsor of the ReAwaken America Tour led by Michael Flynn, published multiple articles linking the assassination attempt to biblical prophecy. An article titled “3 Prophecies Fulfilled with the Trump Assassination Attempt” claimed that “at least three different prophetic voices have had words about something massive that was coming to America.” Another article, titled “Prophecy Foretold Attempted Assassination Months in Advance” and focused on a March 2024 interview with guest Brandon Biggs, stated that “the events of Saturday, July 13, appear to have fulfilled the prophecy Biggs gave in startlingly accurate fashion.” Charisma News, [7/14/24, 7/14/24; Rolling Stone, 2/28/23]
Self-described prophet Amanda Grace said “prayer matters” because the assassination attempt was “meant to kill him and by the hand of God it grazed him” and claimed the “Lord warned” her that it would happen. Grace added: “Saul did this to David. This is that same spirit rising up. Saul attempted to kill David on multiple occasions and never was able to succeed.” She also suggested that God had warned her multiple times that Trump would be hurt, claiming that “the Lord warned [on] June 8” and “he warned it again two days ago.” YouTube, *Ark of Grace Ministries*,[
; Media Matters, 5/30/24] VID]
While discussing the assassination attempt on FlashPoint, commentator and self-described prophet Lance Wallnau mentioned a prophetic “decree” and attributed Trump’s survival to “the impulse of God or an angel that enabled him to not be hit.”Wallnau said that “the brush with mortality is a moment also for President Trump to realize that God himself is preserving him. And let’s agree together in this decree that he will have an ear to hear in every key situation what the spirit of God is actually saying. And he’ll wisely and shrewdly navigate, turning to the left or to the right as the wisdom of God dictates, and that he will stay one step ahead of death.” Twitter/X, [7/13/24; Rolling Stone, 9/29/22]
Far-right figures Dom Lucre and Jack Posobiec shared a video of supposed prophet Brandon Biggs predicting three months ago that Trump would be injured. Lucre wrote that “the prophet Brandon Bible’s prophecy about Donald Trump’s assassination attempt from 3 months ago has resurfaced” and said, “This has been biblical since day one.” Posobiec, who has a penchant for spreading conspiracy theories, amplified the video to his 2.5 million followers. Twitter/X, [7/14/24, 7/14/24; The Washington Post, 8/15/17; Forbes, 7/27/23]
Christian nationalist pastor Sean Feucht shared the video of Biggs and wrote, “Prophecy from March 14, 2024 about Trump being shot in the ear in an assassination attempt!” Twitter/X, [7/14/24; Media Matters, 9/14/23]
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one of Donald Trump's vice presidential shortlisters was scorched by political experts and onlookers on Saturday after the GOP lawmaker put the blame for the rally shooting attempt at the feet of President Joe Biden.
Trump earlier in the day appeared to be shot in the ear as he addressed a rally in Pennsylvania. The former president was tackled by U.S. Secret Service agents, who have been criticized for their response to the emergency threat.
Trump's statement from his social media site focused on the fact that such an event shouldn't occur in the U.S., while Senator J.D. Vance had a different take on it.
Vance stated on social media that the shooting "is not just some isolated incident."
"The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs," he claimed on Saturday. "That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination."
Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, called Vance's statement "extremely unhelpful, reckless, and dishonest."
"It turns up the heat and invites retribution," he added over the weekend. "We should demand better from our leaders."
Norman Ornstein — who is an emeritus scholar at the Koch-funded American Enterprise Institute — said that Vance "is not a leader."
"He is a pandering, cowardly, disgraceful lickspittle to Trump and and Putin," he said Saturday. "That he would say this is a true reflection of who he is."
@JDCocchiarella, a Democrat, said, "F--- JD Vance and this disingenuous and dangerous statement."
Vance's statement comes after another GOP lawmaker, Mike Collins, got himself in hot water by stating that President Joe Biden himself had ordered the shot at Trump.
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Retribution is at the center of Donald Trump’s third presidential election campaign.
“I am your warrior,” Trump proclaimed earlier this year. “I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
Trump’s loyal surrogates have duly embraced the project — perhaps no one more zealously than Ivan Raiklin, a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who bills himself as the former and would-be president’s “future secretary of retribution.”
Raiklin is seeking to enlist so-called “constitutional” sheriffs in rural, conservative counties across the country to detain Trump’s political enemies. Or, as he says, carry out “live-streamed swatting raids” against individuals on his “Deep State target list.”
“This is a deadly serious report,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told Raw Story. “A retired U.S. military officer has drawn up a ‘Deep State target list’ of public officials he considers traitors, along with our family members and staff. His hit list is a vigilante death warrant for hundreds of Americans and a clear and present danger to the survival of American democracy and freedom."
READ:Trump's far-right army is threatening bloodshed — believe them
Raskin called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to “denounce this dangerous plot and to repudiate threats of, and planning for, political violence from any quarter. Bipartisan opposition to vigilante violence and assassination plots is essential for American government to continue.”
The list Raiklin has been circulating since January is extensive.
It includes numerous Democratic and Republican elected officials; FBI and intelligence officials; members of the House Select January 6 Committee; U.S. Capitol Police officers and civilian employees; witnesses in Trump’s two impeachment trials and the Jan. 6 committee hearings; and journalists from publications ranging from CNN and the Washington Post to Reuters and Raw Story — all considered political enemies of Trump.
Julie Farnam, a former U.S. Capitol Police employee named on the list who as assistant director of intelligence and interagency coordination warned about the potential for violence in advance of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, said she would not be intimidated by the list.
“Any hit list is designed to impart the silence and fear of those named on it,” Farnam told Raw Story. “But silence is victory for those who write such lists. Conversely, speaking the truth without fear will always be the undoing of those who seek to intimidate and spread hate in our world. I can never be silenced.”
In addition to Farnam, the list includes nine current or former U.S. Capitol Police employees. The agency declined to comment for this story.
Raw Story is not publishing the full list given the potential risk posed to people unaware that they’re on it.
One individual named on the list who spoke on condition of anonymity noted that Raiklin is associated with retired Lt. General Michael Flynn.
“And Trump himself has repeated on dozens of occasions calls for revenge, retribution and retaliation,” the person told Raw Story. “This is another example of that broader phenomenon of revenge against political enemies that animates the former president and his entire movement, and for that reason should concern us all.”
The Trump campaign did not respond to emails requesting comment for this story.
‘Attack on our democracy’
The accusations of “treason” and other imagined offenses leveled by Raiklin against these individuals are typically based on fanciful legal theories and outlandish factual claims, if anything at all.
For example: Raiklin, in a podcast, suggested without evidence that the unidentified person responsible for setting pipe bombs outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee on Jan. 6, 2021, was “a subordinate-surrogate of the Capitol Police Board,” which oversees the Capitol Police.
But Raiklin is nothing if not self-assured that the “evidence” he’s gathering on anti-Trump “deep state” plotters is real. So real, it seems, that Raiklin claims the material — fully revealed — would establish probable cause for county sheriffs across the nation to issue arrest warrants for various high-ranking officials who have, in one way or another, run afoul of Trump.
Under Raiklin’s objectively bizarre plan, the sympathetic sheriffs would deputize some 75,000 military veterans — veterans he claims have been pushed out of service because they refused to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates — to carry out the arrests.
Raiklin has gone so far as to pitch his plan to a group of far-right sheriffs who met in Las Vegas in April.
Public records requests filed by Raw Story with dozens of county sheriff offices reveal that word of Raiklin’s efforts has reached the email inboxes of sheriffs from Wisconsin to Oklahoma.
But Raiklin’s effort to enlist these sheriffs appears to be foundering: Not one has openly signed on, and even some who are sympathetic to his cause publicly warn that his plan violates due process.
Undaunted, Raiklin has attempted to build relationships with conservative members of Congress, and aides to two Republican lawmakers who chair influential House committees confirmed to Raw Story that they are familiar with him.
An overriding reason for why Raiklin hasn’t been entirely marginalized or relegated by fellow conservatives to the realm of kooks and gadflies?
Raiklin uses the kind of hyperbolic language that Trump himself uses — and that Trump’s base eats up.
He gives federal agencies and media outlets Trump-like nicknames such as “FB-Lie,” “Faux-litico” and “National Poison Radio.”
“My nickname is the Deep State marauder, aka the mauler,” Raiklin told a group of election deniers in New Jersey earlier this year. “And I like using ice picks instead of poking the bear.”
In a video posted in May to X, which now accrued more than 10 million views, Raiklin said, “Expect to see live-streamed swatting raids of every single individual on that Deep State target list, because the precedence has already been set.”
Notwithstanding Raiklin’s claim that his plan would be “legal, moral and ethical,” swatting — the false reporting of an emergency to garner a response from law enforcement for the purpose of harassing a target — is illegal.
Raiklin has nevertheless promoted the idea in podcast interviews, multiple posts on X, a press conference and conversations with prominent far-right extremists.
In recent days, Raiklin’s rhetoric has escalated beyond setting out future hypothetical scenarios for retribution.
He mocked one former federal employee blocking him on X while suggesting that the targeted individual “wants me to speak to him in person” and asking him for his “preferred punishment for committing treason.”
And during a podcast, he claimed to be surveilling a U.S. Capitol Police employee, whom he mentioned by name, “both physically and digitally.”
Experts worry that provocative rhetoric from figures such as Raiklin could impose a climate of fear on civil servants simply trying to do their jobs. Even worse, Raiklin’s rhetoric could inspire violence against them.
“The idea that you would target anyone that was there on the basis of allegiance to the rule of law and the Constitution is really scary,” Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, told Raw Story.
Stier’s organization promotes professional, merit-based civil service as a pillar of good governance — a notion that he said is being increasingly challenged.
“This represents, in my view, an attack on our democracy,” Stier said. “We have a rule of law. If any civil servants are violating the law, there are mechanisms in place to hold them accountable. Vigilantism is not the way to have a society function.”
Raiklin responded to a phone call requesting comment by posting a recording of the voicemail on his X account on Tuesday, while commenting: “Looks like Elements of the Deep State Target List have asked @jordangreennc of Raw Sewage to try to find out more about my list….”
Later, he acknowledged a set of written questions submitted by Raw Story but didn't answer them, while accusing Raw Story and "domestic terrorist leftists" of hounding him.
"Look at my entire Deep State target list," Raiklin said. "That is the beginning. This is the scratching of the surface of who is going to be criminalized for their treason, okay?"
One prominent media organization named on Raiklin’s “target” list expressed concern for its journalists, five of whom also appear on the list by name.
“The conspiracy theories underpinning this list are baseless, and the calls for targeted harassment are dangerous,” Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesperson for the New York Times, told Raw Story. “The Times reporters on the list are simply professional journalists doing their jobs. Swatting is a criminal offense, and in the event of any instances directed at our employees, the Times will work with law enforcement to prosecute those responsible.”
Said Raw Story Publisher Roxanne Cooper: “Purposefully threatening and endangering the safety of working journalists is both reprehensible and illegal, and the American public should reject and denounce anyone who engages in such behavior.”
CNN, Reuters, the Atlantic and American Oversight declined to comment on Raiklin. Emails to the Washington Post, Politico, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC, whose journalists are also named on the list, went unreturned.
Who is Ivan Raiklin?
As the 2020 election approached, conspiracy minded Trump supporters with active Twitter accounts were in abundance. Most never broke through the incessant MAGA noise, or merely added another note to its election denialism dissonance.
Raiklin was different.
He was a seasoned veteran with a background in military intelligence who wound up playing a small but significant role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election in Trump’s name.
Following a distinguished career in the U.S. Armed Forces in which he served as a military attaché to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and foreign affairs specialist assigned to the Ukraine Crisis Team, Raiklin left the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2017 to run for U.S. Senate in Virginia, according to the Washington Post.
At the time, Raiklin’s candidacy in 2018 provided little indication of the MAGA loyalist relishing the destruction of Trump’s enemies that he would become.
If anything, Raiklin fashioned himself as a force of apolitical positivity.
“The reason I’m running is that we’ve had such a negative political atmosphere the past couple years,” Raiklin told theCourierin Iowa. “I want to inject a ‘positive disruption’ in the political conversation. Being a veteran of 20 years, I’m pretty much a political agnostic.”
But Raiklin didn’t get far: He failed to garner a sufficient number of signatures to make it onto the Republican primary ballot. And when he sued the Virginia GOP and the state Department of Elections, claiming that he was unfairly excluded, a federal judge tossed out the suit.
Following his disappointing foray into electoral politics, Raiklin began his turn toward Trump’s MAGA movement.
In 2019, he appeared at a QAnon-themed fundraiser for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, whom Raiklin met in 2010. (Flynn and Raiklin have become close in recent years, with Raiklin urging Trump to select Flynn as his vice presidential running mate and Flynn featuring Raiklin in his current speaking tour.)
Roughly a week after the 2020 election, when major media outlets had called the election for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, Raiklin went on Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory show InfoWars and confidently predicted that Trump would ultimately obtain the necessary number of electoral votes to secure reelection.
“I absolutely guarantee it,” he said. “One hundred percent. Unequivocally. Full stop. There is no possibility that he does not reach 270.”
It's a classic example of how Trump’s followers often act on Trump’s wishes or anticipate his desires without receiving specific directives.
For months, Trump had been saying that the only way he’d lose the election is if Democrats stole it through fraud. Now, Trump had lost, and Raiklin was arguing that Trump was winning, against all evidence.
Raiklin, in essence, operates as an agent of Trumpism independent of Trump.
And as the 2024 election nears, the same dynamic is apparent: Trump articulates the broad themes, and his supporters scramble to put them into practice.
“Stand back and stand by” set the stage for the Jan. 6 insurrection in 2021, and now, “I am your retribution” serves as a solicitation to supporters such as Raiklin to put together specific plans for retribution against Trump’s political enemies.
‘Operation Pence Card’
Raiklin’s primary contribution to the effort to overturn the 2020 election is a memo he drafted for the benefit of Trump’s presidential campaign.
Entitled “Operation Pence Card,” it proffered a novel legal argument that Vice President Mike Pence held the authority to set aside electoral votes from states narrowly carried by Biden.
The plan is widely associated with attorney John Eastman, who now faces charges of racketeering and conspiracy in Georgia, and with conspiracy, fraud and forgery in Arizona.
But Raiklin actually tweeted out his plan one day before Eastman drafted his now-infamous stop-the-steal memo. And Raiklin wielded enough influence that Trump himself, on Dec. 23, 2020, retweeted Raiklin’s “Operation Pence Card” tweet to his tens of millions of followers.
Around the same time, Raiklin dined with then-Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who attended a meeting at the White House along with other House Republicans to discuss plans to object on Jan. 6 to the congressional certification of the presidential election — the final, generally ceremonial step before a presidential inauguration.
On Jan. 4, 2021, Raiklin had told Jerome Corsi, a longtime conspiracy theorist, that with regard to Trump supporters descending on Washington, D.C. en masse: “I am not calling for any violence, but at the same time, I can’t stop people from committing it.”
Raiklin was present at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 when a pro-Trump mob breached Congress’ defenses and temporarily stopped lawmakers’ electoral vote certification. Raiklin has not been charged with any crime related to the attack.
Following the Jan. 6 attack, the Army Reserve opened an investigation into whether Raiklin violated its rules against partisan political activity, but by early 2022, the service had cleared him of wrongdoing.
Raiklin has said the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have also investigated him, but those investigations likewise concluded without formal accusations of wrongdoing against Raiklin.
“So what does that trigger me to do?” Raiklin said during a presentation to a group of election deniers in New Jersey in February. “It weaponizes me against them. And so, since they haven’t found anything, and you’re investigating me, sir, I have the capability and capacity to start digging into you, your family, your friends, your associates — every single thing that you do in your life.”
Whitewashing the crimes of violent J6 rioters
While avoiding prosecution himself, Raiklin has eagerly taken up the cause of defendants who claim they were wrongfully prosecuted for their role in the Jan. 6 attack.
In June, Raiklin held a press conference in Detroit to promote his “live-streamed swatting raids” scheme. He did so alongside Treniss Jewell Evans III, who served a 20-day prison sentence for illegally entering the Capitol. Also speaking at the press conference: Sarah McAbee, the wife of a former sheriff’s deputy who is currently serving a 70-month sentence for assaulting a Washington, D.C., metropolitan police officer.
Ronald Colton McAbee, Sarah McAbee’s husband, wore patches with the word “SHERIFF” and the emblem of the anti-government Three Percenter movement on his clothing while taking part in an hours-long battle at the mouth of the Lower West Terrace Tunnel on Jan. 6.
A GiveSendGo campaign to support his wife applauds McAbee for answering “the call to stand up for our nation,” but following his conviction the Department of Justice described him as witnessing rioters knock an officer defending the U.S. Capitol to the ground. McAbee’s response was the opposite of rendering aid, according to the government.
After the officer was kicked and stripped of his baton by rioters, the government contends that “McAbee stepped into the archway, grabbed the officer’s leg, and pulled him further toward the crowd. When a second MPD officer stepped off the police line to assist the downed officer, McAbee stood up, yelled at the officer who had stepped out to assist, and then swung his arms and hands towards the officer’s head and torso. McAbee made contact with the officer and was wearing the reinforced gloves at the time of the assault.”
In the run-up to Jan. 6, Raiklin had baselessly ascribed the legitimate election of Joe Biden to “domestic fraud” committed by people “potentially under foreign actors’ payroll.” Now, at the press conference in Detroit in June 2024, Raiklin was inverting the violent crimes committed by Trump supporters to portray them, not the officers defending the Capitol, as the victims.
“You need to know who is coming after us,” Raiklin said, naming two people who are part of the U.S. Capitol security apparatus. Without presenting any evidence, Raiklin accused one of the men of “weaponizing and working with the DOJ… to criminalize against Sarah’s husband.”
Cultivating relationships with House Republicans
All the while, Raiklin is forging ties with Republican lawmakers who are sympathetic to the Jan. 6 rioters.
While leveling outlandish charges of criminal misconduct at federal civil servants, Raiklin has become a familiar presence at congressional committee hearings controlled by Republican lawmakers eager to downplay the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, or, alternately, shift blame to Democrats for the violence.
Raiklin has sat in the gallery behind the witnesses in at least five House committee hearings over the past year.
Among them: the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the House Oversight and Accountability Committee chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
“I don’t just sit back behind the witnesses when I’m in the House,” Raiklin said on a podcast in May. “For 15 months, I’ve been grinding day in and day out talking to dozens of members of Congress giving ideas on what needs to be done.”
On another podcast, Raiklin said: “The only person that understands this is a guy by the name of Barry Loudermilk…. Why? Well, because he’s doing the right thing. And I get an opportunity to explain this to him and his staff regularly.”
Nick Petromelis, an aide to Loudermilk, told Raw Story he, Petromelis, is “familiar” with Raiklin.
Loudermilk ignored a request from the now-defunct House Select January 6 Committee to explain a tour he gave to constituents on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. His committee deposed Farnam, the former U.S. Capitol Police intelligence leader who is on Raiklin’s target list, last month.
Austin Hacker, an aide to Comer, likewise said he, Hacker, was aware that Raiklin had attended House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearings.
Despite promising in late May that he would find out whether Comer had personally spoken to Raiklin, Hacker stopped responding to follow-up messages from Raw Story.
Raiklin said on a podcast in May that he has sent his “Deep State target list” to Comer, Jordan and the Administration Oversight Subcommittee chaired by Loudermilk.
Hacker told Raw Story that Comer, his boss, does not have the “target list” document. Aides to Jordan and the House Administration Oversight Committee did not respond to emails from Raw Story seeking confirmation that they received copies of the list.
None of the three House members responded to requests for comment about whether they support Raiklin’s antics.
Raiklin has singled out other members of Congress for praise. Of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who filed legislation to hold U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt,” Raiklin said she “has exhibited the maximum courage that her position allows.”
Luna’s legislation would hold the attorney general in “inherent contempt” for refusing demands to turn over audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Biden, related to Biden’s retention of classified documents in the garage of his Delaware home. “Inherent contempt” is a tool that would allow the House sergeant-at-arms to take Garland into custody and compel him to sit for a congressional proceeding. Raiklin told one podcaster that he “saw” Luna at a congressional hearing in May.
Luna’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
‘Go to the maximum level’
While cultivating ties with members of Congress, Raiklin has been lobbying sheriffs — with mixed results — to join his effort.
To reach potentially sympathetic sheriffs, Raiklin has focused on an organization called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
Under the leadership of Richard Mack, a former sheriff from Arizona, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association has promoted the controversial view that county sheriffs are the highest law in the land and are within their rights to ignore any federal and state laws that they deem to be unconstitutional.
But Mack told Raw Story he has severed ties with Raiklin since talking with him in early June, and that he disapproves of Raiklin’s rhetoric.
During the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association’s annual convention during April in Las Vegas, Raiklin asked a panel of sheriffs if they would “be willing to go to the maximum level to create consequences for these federal actors” whom he claimed had committed “seditious conspiracy.”
The response was less than promising.
Still, the potential for violence should not be discounted, according to Devin Burghart, executive director of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights and someone who has been monitoring the far right for more than three decades.
“It is certainly not out of the realm of possibility to see them using the office of the sheriff and posses they wish to create to start rounding up political opponents,” Burgart told Raw Story. “Right now, in the far right, the promotion of post-election violence and bloody political retribution has become disturbingly commonplace. In that context, the results of the election are almost an afterthought — only important in determining whether their murderous rage will have state sanction.”
While the far-right’s willingness to escalate may increase as the election approaches, at the time of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association convention in April, the two elected sheriffs on the panel were taking a cautious approach.
Sheriff Bob Songer from Klickitat County in Washington state told Raiklin that much as he might want to help, he doubted many prosecutors would be willing to press charges.
Sheriff Dar Leaf from Barry County in Michigan, put it more forcefully.
“We’re not going to be able to just go out and arrest,” he said. “We’ve got to do a grand jury indictment, just like the Constitution says.”
Leaf’s far-right credentials would seem to make him a prime candidate for Raiklin’s project. He gained national notoriety in 2020 when he suggested that members of an anti-government militia accused of attempting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer might have been trying to carry out a citizen’s arrest.
Leaf has falsely claimed that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, and a lawyer representing Leaf reportedly sought evidence from an ad hoc group organized by lawyer Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn in December 2020 that could be used to justify “issuing probable cause warrants to sequester Dominion voting machines.”
But if Raiklin and his allies were discouraged by Leaf’s response at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association convention, they haven’t given any indication of it.
During a podcast appearance with Mark Finchem, a former Arizona state representative who took part in the effort to overturn the 2020 election, Raiklin said he was certain that the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association could help “identify which county sheriffs would be clamoring, clamoringto prosecute these scum.”
“I know one,” Finchem replied. “Dar Leaf in Barry County, Michigan.”
Reached by Raw Story earlier this month, Leaf said that despite fielding a question from him at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association convention, he doesn’t know who Raiklin is.
Leaf reiterated his rejection of Raiklin’s plan by expressing an aversion to politically motivated prosecutions.
Furthermore, Leaf warned that if indictments were obtained through grand juries “stacked” with Trump supporters, any criminal activity uncovered through depositions would be thrown out “because we started out breaking the law.”
Among dozens of other sheriff’s offices across the country contacted for this story, two in Wisconsin — Burnett County and Polk County — confirmed receiving an email with the subject heading: “Ivan Raiklin Requests Deputization of 80K Veterans” that linked to Raiklin’s video and encouraged them to get in contact.
“Please Watch this viral video that has garnered 9.8M views in 5 days,” it reads. “Important you understand. Remember your Oath.”
Raiklin’s name landed in one other sheriff’s inbox through a subscription to the “General Flynn Newsletter,” which is promoting the documentary about the former national security adviser.
The email, received by Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado in Oklahoma, describes Raiklin as a member of a team “hand-selected” by Flynn to provide event attendees “with an informative and unforgettable experience.”
The email describes the “General Flynn was Framed Evidence Wall,” a visual prop that Raiklin uses prior to each film screening that presents “an exhaustive timeline and link analysis of all the major political and government officials at the most senior levels that weaponized against General Flynn to prevent him from exposing their corruption.”
During his months-long campaign, Raiklin has continuously referenced Mack and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in an effort to build credibility for his plan.
During his press conference with Treniss Evans in Detroit, Raiklin mentioned that the previous evening he’d “had a very long conversation with a guy by the name of Sheriff Mack” on the topic of “vetting and communicating with sheriffs.”
On a livestream of the press conference, Raiklin displayed a photo of the two men huddling over a laptop, suggesting a collaborative effort.
In a recent interview, Mack told Raw Story at the time that he had been “getting all sorts of calls” about Raiklin.
But since that meeting, Mack said he has soured on Raiklin’s plan.
“I’m afraid I don’t approve of some of his language, the hyperbole, the rhetoric,” Mack said.
For the same reason, Mack said, he resigned from the Oath Keepers. Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right group that recruited from the ranks of retired law enforcement and military veterans, is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy at a federal prison in Cumberland, Md.
“It’s not where CSPOA can go,” Mack said, adding that he and Raiklin “are not working together at all.”
Since early June, Mack said that the two men have not spoken or exchanged any emails.
“Quite frankly, he talks about that list of 350 people — I’m sure they can afford lawyers,” Mack said. “It reeks of lawsuits, and it doesn’t follow due process.”
During his press conference with Evans, Raiklin said the two men are planning to attend the Sheriffs Association of Texas’ annual conference in Fort Worth, Texas, this month and pitch their plan.
“I would say that my inbox has been interesting lately with the amount of sheriffs that have an interest in seeing Texas uphold the United States Constitution, and preserve the way of life that we’ve come to expect as constitutionally guaranteed,” Evans said during the press conference.
But Mack said Raiklin’s score is currently 0.
“I know a lot of sheriffs, especially in Texas,” Mack told Raw Story. “I do not believe he has a single sheriff aligned with him. He’s never been able to give me a name.”
‘It’s so easy to learn where they live’
While cultivating relationships with members of Congress, lobbying sheriffs and recruiting volunteers to join posses tasked with detaining political enemies, Raiklin has also forged relationships with other extremists, seeming to cast about for a legal rationale in support of his scheme.
Over the past six months, Raiklin has appeared on at least three podcasts with Dr. Pete Chambers, who helped organize a “Take Our Border Back” convoy earlier this year to support Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defiance of the federal government.
Like Raiklin, Chambers is a retired lieutenant colonel who formerly served in the Army Special Forces. Following his retirement from the military and later, in 2022, from the National Guard, Chambers joined the “sovereign citizen” group, whose members shot a man and took him hostage in 1997.
Chambers said when he watched Raiklin’s viral video outlining his plan to carry out “live-streamed swatting raids” against his “Deep State target list,” he recalled that he said to himself: “Ivan, you’ve just kicked open the door, and we’re going to have to back your play. And we can. And we’ve got the receipts to do it.”
During the conversation between the two men, Chambers referenced something called “the doctrine of lesser magistrates.” Although the term is rooted in the 16th century Protestant Reformation in Europe, it was more recently popularized by Matthew Trewhella, a Wisconsin pastor who has advocated killing abortion doctors.
Michael Flynn has recommended Trewhella’s 2013 book, The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government,as “a masterful blueprint showing Americans how to successfully resist tyranny.”
Trewhella’s book also received a plug at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association convention where Raiklin attempted to sell the sheriffs on his “live-streamed swatting raids” plan.
Chambers seemed to acknowledge the improvisational nature of applying a 16th century religious doctrine to an ideological battle with Trump’s political adversaries in the United States of America in 2024.
“We’re building a plane and flying it here, I would say,” he said. “However, it is legal, moral and ethical…. If we can get together and develop the alliances of these sheriffs, then we decrease the space that these people can then maneuver.”
‘Gonna face those guns’
Next week, barring something cataclysmic, Trump will officially become the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee.
Trump will become the nominee despite being convicted of 34 felonies in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case in Manhattan, and he still faces dozens of additional federal and state charges despite a recent Supreme Court ruling that granted Trump — and any future president — immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts” they took as president.
Trump is as defiant as ever.
“I did nothing wrong. We’d have a system that was rigged and disgusting. I did nothing wrong,” Trump said June 27 in his debate against Biden.
On a parallel track, Raiklin’s embrace of lawlessness appears to be growing stronger.
In June, Raiklin published a 76-minute video of himself speaking with Cliven Bundy, a 78-year-old Nevada rancher who is perhaps the ultimate icon of the far-right anti-government movement. In 2014, Bundy’s refusal to pay grazing fees to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management led to an armed standoff between the FBI and militia members, along with other supporters, including Richard Mack from the CSPOA.
Raiklin flattered Bundy during the exchange as “quite the legend,” while describing the federal government as “the most corrupt institution on the planet.” The two men agreed that “the militia” — a term used to describe armed citizens — “puts a check on the federal government.”
The rhetoric used by the two men became increasingly confrontational, with Bundy accusing the federal government of plotting to kill Americans. Cliven Bundy noted that his son, Ryan Bundy, was wounded, and a friend, LaVoy Finicum, was killed during a traffic stop during the Malheur National Forest occupation in Oregon in 2016.
“They don’t have those bullets to fight our enemy across the border,” Bundy charged. “They’ve got those bullets to kill us in America.”
Raiklin then quoted the Bible to suggest the proper response was “an eye for an eye.”
Bundy lamented that sheriffs across the country did not heed his call in 2014 for them to disarm federal agents in their jurisdictions.
“I said, ‘If you don’t disarm them, one of these days you’re going to face those guns,’” Bundy recounted.
“Now, we’re getting closer,” he quickly added. “Gonna face those guns.”
Raiklin, in response, appeared to advocate for doxing federal agents.
“Oh yeah, we’re not only going to do that,” he said. “Again, they’re going to experience the most peaceful, legal and moral, ethical and patriotic endeavor they’ve ever experienced in their life. Every one of them. Because we have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people that will facilitate them experiencing that.
“Because it’s so easy to learn where they live,” Raiklin continued. “Each one. Where their homes are. Who they’re related to. Where they frequent. What kinds of vehicles they own. What kinds of devices they own and that they emit GPS geo-tracking data. Which social media apps they use. We monitor all their communications.”
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former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is promoting “Flynn,” a new film that portrays him as a heroic figure battling persecution by the deep state traitors he claims went after him as a way of bringing down Donald Trump. Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI, then withdrew his plea and was ultimately pardoned by Trump after the 2020 election, touted his movie in an appearance on the radio show of religious-right conspiracy theorist Eric Metaxas this week.
After Trump’s 2020 election defeat, Flynn backed Trump’s lies about the election and urged Trump to declare martial law. He has spent the post-Trump-administration years promoting conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and extremist figures as part of the ReAwaken America tour. In 2022, historian and authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat called Flynn “one of the most dangerous individuals in America today.” Last year, Right Wing Watch published “12 Reasons Donald Trump’s Pledge to Hire Michael Flynn is a Five-Alarm Threat to Democracy.”
Flynn told Metaxas and his listeners that what is happening to Trump in the courts is a continuation of a “coup” against Trump and the U.S. that was started by Barack Obama in a January 2017 White House meeting, where he said Obama and his advisers talked about how to get Flynn out of the way so they could go after Trump. It was all designed, he claimed, “to continue to control the levers of power within our government.”
That’s an interesting framing, because the thrust of Project 2025, a massive undertaking by Trump allies across the right-wing movement in the U.S., is to seize the levers of power in government and force civil servants and federal agencies to bend unquestioningly to Trump’s will if he returns to the presidency. Trump and his allies have made clear that he will use that power to seek revenge and retribution against his enemies, something Metaxas and Flynn are clearly looking forward to. Here’s Metaxas:
Trump has to win. The left will do literally anything. They would really love to put a bullet in his head. But they’re not going to be able to do that. But they might try. They’ll do anything. They’ll start World War III. They’ll do anything. Because they do not care whether people die, whether the country goes under, they just want power. That’s all they care about.
They can and will do anything to prevent him getting back in. But if he does get back in by the grace of God, that’s the starting line. We have a lot of work to do.
Metaxas said the “evil” deep state is “at war with we, the people,” and asked Flynn if Trump understands that he needs to put the right people in place to gut the deep state. Yes, Trump realizes it, said Flynn. “He knows what he’s got to do. And he’s fully prepared to do it.” More from Flynn:
I know that he realizes that the people he brings into his inner circle going back into the White House have to be really dedicated patriots who have not only his objectives and what he wants to accomplish, but also people who are prepared and ready to do the necessary functions of government and to hold people accountable. We have to have one standard of justice in this country, and people are going to need to be held accountable.
Flynn portrays Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence as part of the “uniparty establishment” plot against him, and portrays himself as the ultimate honest man, taken down by scheming insiders for being unwilling to lie in the service of power, a mythology that is likely to be swallowed whole by the MAGA faithful. Mother Jones magazine’s Stephanie Mencimer has called Flynn’s new movie “a triumph of revisionist history” and an “example of how good right-wing filmmakers have gotten at making these sorts of propaganda films.” In her review Mencimer wrote, “If Flynn the movie fails to shed much light on the unraveling of Flynn the man, it does succeed as a painful reminder of what the Trump years were like—with all the chaos and corruption—and a foreshadowing of what might happen should he be elected again.”
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May 22, 2024, edition of Newsmax's *Eric Bolling: The Balance
ERIC BOLLING: I have to bring some of these things up. You're so right about all these things. License to kill - now, mind you, Mar-a-Lago is a secure location. It has U.S. Secret Service all over the place all the time. Those documents weren't gonna get stolen or mutilated during a raid.
License to shoot and kill — there were innocent people standing around Mar-a-Lago. People staying there, friends, guests. What happens if Donald Trump is there and sees someone — an FBI agent roughing up Barron Trump or Melania Trump in their — in her closet, which we know they went through, and decides to push back? Is there gonna be a gunfight at Mar-a-Lago because the FBI and the Secret Service are going to get into it? I'd also like to point out that picture we showed a couple of times with the classified documents that FBI gave us was fake, staged. Those aren't the documents they found. The documents they found that were classified, didn't have those markings on it.
That is a picture the FBI put together to make it look worse than it was. I can't even begin to tell you how angry I am at what's going on because they can do — Stephen, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was put in place for this and they're showing us that they are a tyrannical government that we need to be armed to protect ourselves from. Am I wrong?
Media Matters' Matt Gertz previously discussed the MAGA claims regarding FBI guidelines on use of force at Mar-a-Lago:
Over a handful of hours on Tuesday, the right’s conspiracy theory ecosystem concocted a sinister plot by President Joe Biden to assassinate his predecessor out of the banal fact that FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting a court-ordered search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.
Hundreds of pages of filings were unsealed on Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case, revealing that the former president — who is charged with 40 federal criminal counts related to his alleged willful retention of documents after leaving the White House — had multiple documents marked “classified” in his bedroom that were discovered months after the 2022 search.
Credible outlets reviewed the documents and produced a wave of news stories detailing what a judge described as “strong evidence” of Trump’s allegedly criminal acts. Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA media supporters ginned up a counternarrative based on a credulous reading of a deceptive argument from Trump’s lawyers that was included in the unsealed documents.
A Fox News reporter has since noted that the same “standard” use of force policy was in place when FBI agents visited the home of President Joe Biden.
Regarding Bolling's claim that the photo at Mar-a-Lago was staged, The New York Times reported in 2022:
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump took to his social media site to say that “the F.B.I., during the raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending that it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see.”
But the genesis of the photograph appears to be in keeping with standard protocols for how federal agents handle evidence they come across in a search.
The folders were arrayed by agents at Mar-a-Lago after being removed from what the filing indicated was Mr. Trump’s office — they were not discovered scattered on the floor, according to two federal law enforcement officials.
The Justice Department would not comment on the specifics of the photograph. But it is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items are properly cataloged and accounted for.
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donald Trump and his allies are falsely claiming President Joe Biden, the U.S. Dept. of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had a plot to assassinate his top political rival, the ex-president, during the execution of a search warrant in 2022 at Mar-a-Lago. Critics, including law enforcement experts, are blasting Trump and his MAGA associates for the “dangerous” lie.
On Tuesday a U.S. District Judge unsealed court documents in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Espionage Act case against Trump where he faces 40 felony counts, most over his alleged unlawful removal, retention, and refusal to return classified documents including some of the nation’s top nuclear secrets.
One of those filings, as The Washington Post reported, was a law enforcement documents that included a standard statement reminding FBI agents on the Bureau’s policy on the use of deadly force, “which says officers may resort to lethal force only when the subject of such force poses an ‘imminent danger of death or serious physical injury’ to an officer or another person.”
But on Tuesday, Trump explosively posted on Truth Social, “WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!”
READ MORE: Trump Adviser Scanned and Saved Contents of Box That Had Classified Docs: Report
Later, in a fundraising email Trump went much further.
“They were authorized to shoot me!” the subject line reads, according to an archive of political emails.
“TRUMP ALERT,” it begins. “BREAKING FROM TRUMP: BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME!”
“You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable… Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
Attorney and former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa observed, “Including the deadly force policy [in] an ops plan is SOP [standard operating procedure]. But just so I make sure I’m following the plot, according to Trump’s position in court, what he is accusing Biden of would be perfectly legal and within the scope of his ‘official’ powers, right?”
Trump repeatedly has insisted presidents must have complete and total “absolute immunity.” His attorneys have argued in federal court and before the U.S. Supreme Court a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate his political rival and it would be lawful, as was noted here:
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was among the top allies who falsely characterized the court filing.
“The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light,” she posted to her official federal government account on X. “Does everyone get it yet???!!!! What are Republicans going to do about it?” hold my beer
She also wrote: “This is grounds for impeachment of Wray and Garland. Trump and team was cooperating the entire time with the FBI,” Greene claimed, both of which are false.
READ MORE: ‘Incomprehensible’: More Classified Docs Were Found at Mar-a-Lago, Unsealed Court Filing Reveals
“Was deadly force authorized against Biden for his docs? Were they going to shoot SS then Pres Trump, Melania, and Barron too??? Speaker Mike Johnson fully funded the DOJ and FBI plus new building and tied our hands behind our backs to hold them accountable. We have the power of the purse and Johnson has handed the purse to Chuck Schumer. All of this is unforgivable.”
Fox News Business host Maria Bartiromo also promoted the false claims Wednesday morning:
NBC News’ Ryan Reilly mockingly explained the situation: “GOP members of Congress think the feds wanted to assassinate Trump and so they did a raid on his place in Florida when they knew him to be in New Jersey because Mar-A-Lago was closed for the season.”
Meanwhile, critics are sounding the alarm on Trump’s and the GOP’s lies.
“This is wildly irresponsible, even for professional troll like Marjorie Taylor Greene,” wrote conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg. “FBI knew Trump wasn’t there. It was all coordinated with Secret Service in advance. This is deeply dangerous bullshit.”
“Trump wasn’t there,” said talk radio host Joe Walsh, a former GOP U.S. Congressman, responding to U.S. Rep. Greene’s remarks. “Everything was coordinated with Secret Service & local law enforcement. Even for you, this is a deeply irresponsible and dangerous thing to say.”
David Axelrod, the former top Obama strategist and White House advisor, remarked, “This is patently nuts…and dangerously provocative!”
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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday claimed that President Joe Biden and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) planned to "assassinate" former President Donald Trump.
The MAGA lawmaker also claimed that she attempted to warn the ex-president of such matters.
"The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light," Greene wrote via X/Twitter. "Does everyone get it yet???!!!! What are Republicans going to do about it? I tried to oust our Speaker who funded Biden’s DOJ AND FBI, but Democrats stopped it."
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She also claimed, "I made sure that he knew."
The Georgia Republican leader was responding to Truth Social post from Trump, in which he wrote: "WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the 'Icebox,' and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden's DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREATTO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE -25TH AMENDMENT!"
Retired FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi responded to Greene's claim, noting that "every FBI operations order contains a reminder of FBI deadly force policy."
The Dispatch Editor-In-Chief Jonah Goldberg commented: "This is wildly irresponsible, even for professional troll like Marjorie Taylor Greene. FBI knew Trump wasn’t there. It was all coordinated with Secret Service in advance. This is deeply dangerous bulls—t."
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Columnist Goldie Taylor's replied to Greene, saying, "Something is really wrong with you."
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How Fox hosts are reacting to the collapse of their FBI “informant” story
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The right’s flagging effort to impeach President Joe Biden took another blow last week when the Justice Department said that Alexander Smirnov, an FBI informant, had made up his accusation that Biden and his son Hunter had each taken $5 million bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch, and charged him with lying to the bureau.
Smirnov’s tale, chronicled in a much-ballyhooed FBI FD-1023 report released last year, was described by House Republicans as the “heart” of their case against the president. “The most corroborating evidence we have is the 1023 form from this highly credible confidential human source,” House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in a January interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Right-wing Fox propagandists like Hannity had relentlessly promoted the informant’s claims, touting his purported credibility while ignoring the flimsy, sensational nature of his Biden bribery allegations. But they aren’t responding to his arrest by leveling with their viewers or reflecting on why they were taken in by unverified claims that “proved” what they desperately wanted to believe. Here’s what they’re doing with the news instead.
1. Ignoring it
Fox provided a mere 31 minutes of coverage of Smirnov’s indictment from Thursday through Monday. That total is noticeably scant given how loudly the network previously trumpeted the informant’s allegations; Fox mentioned “Biden in the context of ‘bribe’ or ‘bribery’ more than 2,600 times” in the year before his arrest, The Washington Post’s Philip Bump reported.
Several shows that typically provide robust coverage of the Hunter Biden probe ignored it; Fox & Friends provided only a single headline read, while The Ingraham Angle did not address the story at all (the latter featured interviews with a “body-language expert” as well as purported comedian Jimmy Failla on Thursday).
2. Claiming this actually makes Republicans look good
Hannity has been pilloried by the press for his credulous treatment of the informant’s claims; he promoted them on his Fox show in at least 85 segments last year, touting them as evidence of “public corruption” and “bribery.”
When the host finally addressed the informant’s arrest on Friday, rather than acknowledging that he had served as the willing tool of the Republican politicians who sought to inject the informant’s story into the public discourse, Hannity claimed that the new developments actually make those Republicans look good.
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CitationFrom the February 16, 2024, edition of Fox News' Hannity.
The Fox host acknowledged that he had “talked a lot about” the 1023, but presented it as “very damning, but a very, very small part of what is the large body of evidence in the Biden impeachment inquiry.” After rattling off a string of falsehoods familiar to his show’s regular viewers but inscrutable to normal people, Hannity claimed that Smirnov’s arrest “raises a lot of questions” — but for the FBI, not Republicans like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who released the 1023 form, or right-wing media figures like himself who promoted it.
“When presented with information from a source that the agency so trusted for what, now 14 years, the FBI, as exposed by Sen. Grassley, they sat on that 1023 document and they did so for years,” Hannity claimed. “He was still working for the FBI and without any performance of any due diligence, they never looked into it.”
“So it's clear that only after Sen. Grassley made the 1023 public that the FBI then investigate the allegations of the document,” he added.
Hannity was somewhat more candid on his radio show Friday. “I'm mad that the FBI informant, the 1023 form in this case, that now this guy has been charged,” he said. “It appears that Alexander Smirnov was not to be trusted.”
“I guess I was stupid,” he concluded.
3. Layering on more conspiracy theories
The right-wing media have spent the last several years constructing a ludicrous, overarching conspiracy theory that federal law enforcement agencies are left-wing institutions which persecute conservatives. Some of Fox’s biggest conspiracy theorists are leaning on that to explain Smirnov’s arrest, alleging that the informant’s story is true and he’s only being charged with a crime because the deep state is trying to help Biden.
Prime-time host Jesse Watters — who has promoted a lengthy list of conspiracy theories, including spreading doubt about the brutal assault of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband during a home invasion — claimed on Friday that Smirnov had been arrested because “he was too credible.” He attributed the charges to the president directly, alleging that “this is the second informant Biden has arrested for blowing the whistle about his bribes” (it is true that this is the second indictment of a supposed “whistleblower” whose unverified, dramatic claims were previously touted by Republicans and right-wing media).
Watters went on to claim that “everyone who blows the whistle on the Biden syndicate or is connected to it has been arrested.” He then brought on former FBI agent Stuart Kaplan, who claimed that the Bidens “took out a hit on this informant, Smirnov. They have now disabled him, and now the public is going to believe, well, this guy is a liar.”
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Maria Bartiromo, whose treatment of purported election fraud during the 2020 election helped put Fox on the hook for a record defamation settlement, offered a similar reaction to Smirnov’s indictment on her Fox Business show on Friday.
4. Diverting viewers to a different, similarly dubious Biden scandal
Some Fox hosts are following the right's typical cycle by moving on to a new MacGuffin after the failure of the old one.
Fox host Brian Kilmeade, for instance, presented Smirnov’s arrest as part of a “rollercoaster week” for “the Biden family business drama.” He briefly noted that Smirnov had been charged with fabricating the Biden bribery story, adding that it “turns out not to be true, but keep in mind that is an FBI informant, nothing to do with Republicans.”
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CitationFrom the February 17, 2024, edition of Fox News' One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.
Having relieved Republicans and their media allies of any responsibility for endlessly promoting Smirnov’s tale, Kilmeade moved on to the new shiny object: the deposition of Tony Bobulinski, a disgruntled former business partner of Hunter Biden.
“He knows it all,” Kilmeade raved. “He testified that he has got receipts. He's got emails. He has got text messages showing that this business existed and thrived.”
“I cannot wait to see this publicly,” he concluded. “I can't wait to read the transcripts. That's all coming your way, he is going to testify.”
Sure, Bobulinski told his story on Fox’s own airwaves nearly four years ago and it dissolved under scrutiny. But this time … this time is going to be different.
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On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, the right-wing Real America’s Voice network sponsored an online Twitter space town hall hosted by Human Events Daily podcaster and pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec and featuring conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, former Trump official Michael Flynn, and political dirty trickster Roger Stone. The more than two-hour conversation on Elon Musk’s X platform was a window into the fearmongering and conspiracy theories being used to rile up Trump’s base for this year’s presidential election.
The MAGA celebrities had good and bad news for their fans, telling them:
- Trump is heading for a landslide in the GOP primaries and victory in the presidential election;
- Trump’s enemies are in a “total panic” and will stop at nothing to deprive him of his rightful power, including a “racial uprising” and “subversion.”
- The MAGA movement must drive conservative turnout to record highs to overcome efforts to rig the election against Trump.
Jones and others worked themselves into a lather over recent news coverage about legal experts, democracy advocates, and members of Congress thinking about ways to protect against the prospect of a vengeance-seeking, authoritarian President Trump giving orders to misuse the military against his political opponents.
Jones claimed that Trump opponents are scheming to generate a “communist uprising” and “racial uprising” against Trump while stripping him of the power to quell the violence. “Subversion against the country is treason,” Jones said. “It is a coup.” He suggested that Trump’s enemies are “scared to kill Trump” so they are “war-gaming their plan B.”
Flynn went even further, calling the preparations to resist potential authoritarian orders by Trump “a form of subversion,” but adding that there might not even be an election. He suggested that Democrats are plotting “other scenarios” and “other plays” that would leave the country with something other than a duly elected president.
Flynn also insisted that “there’s no way in the world they’re going to allow a Joe Biden to go to a convention this summer” and said there are behind-the-scenes plans to get Biden “out of the way.”
“Do not underestimate this enemy,” Flynn said. “And I call them that very precisely because they are adversaries of our way of life, they are adversaries of our constitutional duties and responsibilities. And these are, many people are anti-American. They’re part of the Democratic Socialist Party of America, or worse, the Communist Party of America, and they are inside of our government. They’re inside of our institutions.”
Who exactly is the enemy? Among the people and institutions cited by Jones, Flynn, Stone, and Posobiec were Barack and Michelle Obama, the Clintons, former Attorney General Eric Holder, philanthropist George Soros, “globalists” in general and the World Economic Forum in particular, and “communists” in government and other institutions.
Among the plots they attributed to these enemies are a coming purge of military leadership, a potential assassination attempt, the release of a new virus before the election, and “domestic terror” in the form of a “racial uprising.” Flynn claimed that the left in America is “replaying” the “Bolshevik revolution of the 1920s.”
Jones said that Trump needs to be telling Americans that “they’re up against a deep state coup.” Flynn, who had supported calls for Trump to declare martial law in December 2020, insisted that “we’re in the middle of a coup,” adding, “The coup has been ongoing, folks.”
Jones, Flynn, and Stone posturing as defenders of democracy comes across as high-level gaslighting given that they were all deeply involved in “Stop the Steal” efforts to keep Trump in power illegally after voters rejected his bid for reelection.
“We really have a country to save and the only guy that’s capable of doing that right now in sort of the near term is Donald J. Trump,” said Flynn, who travels the country with the Christian nationalist ReAwaken America tour, which uses MAGA celebrities to draw in audiences who are then exposed to far-right ideology and conspiracy theories.
The panelists were careful to say that, while Trump’s momentum has his opponents in a panic, MAGA activists would still have to work hard to ensure his victory. Jones promised to knock on doors to help achieve the 75 to 80 percent conservative voter turnout he said would be needed to overpower attempts to rob Trump of the election.
The group also speculated about potential running mates for Trump. Roger Stone said he’d like to see former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on the ticket, but Flynn said that he knows Gabbard and is “not a fan.” Flynn said Trump should “absolutely not” consider Nikki Haley, saying she would undermine him “from day one.” Sen. Rand Paul’s name was floated for vice president or Secretary of State. Stone said Flynn should serve as Secretary of Defense.
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eric Trump broadcast a barrage of fabrications and falsehoods about America, Democrats, and President Joe Biden, while promoting blatant propaganda supporting his father, Donald Trump, as voters went to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the New Hampshire presidential primary.
“You know there’s an all out war on family in this country,” Eric Trump declared while speaking to Newsmax. “There’s an all out war on God and religious freedom in this country. There’s certainly an all out war on freedom of speech and [the] First Amendment, you know, in this nation you guys have seen that, you’ve covered it probably every single day for the last three years.”
“People are sick and tired of nonsense,” Trump continued, offering up no examples to support his claims. “People want our economy back. They want low gas prices again, they don’t want World War Three to break out all over the world. They want to be able to, you know, worship God and speak freely and not be censored and not be de-platformed, and not have war waged against them and their their quality of life every single day. People are sick and tired of the games, and you know, they want to be able to live the American dream and that’s what my father did.”
Speaking to Ben Bergquam on the far right wing website Real America’s Voice, Eric Trump claimed, “they have weaponized the system so viciously, so nasty, that they thought he would actually drop out,” referring to Donald Trump’s presidential race.
Donald Trump is facing 91 criminal charges across four cases in three jurisdictions. He is also facing civil cases involving business fraud and defamation, and is now an adjudicated rapist, according to a judge.
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“That was always their intent, you know, make it so painful for him that he didn’t want to stay in the race that he wanted to drop out that, you know, he realizes that his life and Mar-a-Lago would be exponentially nicer and more comfortable and everything else and give it back to the political elites in DC and, frankly, he did the exact opposite.”
He also claimed, “they weaponized every AG [attorney general] and DA [district attorney] in the country to go after him similarly, civilly and criminally.”
“It’ one sham after another,” Trump said, referring to efforts in multiple states to implement the 14th Amendment’s automatic, self-executing requirement that insurrectionists cannot hold office.
“And frankly, I think he’s made a lot of Americans really question their government, which is necessary, certainly in the world that we live in now, it’s so apparent what they’re doing. It’s also very sad because you would expect that America would be a lot better than that.”
“Democrats spent 20 years weaponizing every single system of government that we had, they weaponized the military, they weaponized DOJ, they weaponized the FBI, they’ve, they’ve weaponized all of it,” Eric Trump claimed.
Eric Trump also spoke with right-wing British politician turned broadcaster, Nigel Farage, in a Great Britain News interview, saying, “being president is the last thing that Donald Trump needs,” and claiming his father “can be living a much better life than getting indicted for nonsense because they want to weaponize the entire system.”
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“Every single one of us. We get subpoenaed every day. We get this,” Trump declared. “Donald Trump’s better life is not in politics, and he does it every single day because he loves it. He loves his country, he loves the Western world.”
Also on Real America’s Voice, Eric Trump declared, “Joe Biden is the worst president that we’ve ever seen.”
Speaking to NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Eric Trump claimed the enthusiasm in New Hampshire is the best he’s ever seen. Some journalists have said the enthusiasm is not there.
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JESSE WATTERS (HOST): The Central Intelligence Agency has been interfering in our elections for years. 1964, 1968, 2016, 2020, just to name a few. And in 2024, Biden's going to need all the help he can get. Black, Hispanic, youth support -- evaporating. And he's losing to Trump in every battleground.
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But maybe Biden knows something we don't. Maybe he thinks it's in the bag. Maybe it is in the bag. A former CIA analyst says we can expect the intelligence agencies who've been turbocharged by diversity, equity, and inclusion to reemerge this year and subvert the Republican nominee.
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So the deep state went woke in order to kneecap Republican presidential candidates who threaten their corporate and ideological agenda. That's what DEI has really been about: using inclusivity as an excuse to hire ideological hit men and hit women to do the dirty work. Remember, you're not allowed to ask recruits about their politics. But if you hire DEI-type recruits, you can assume what their politics are without having to ask.
Also, remember, the CIA does the bidding for corporate America. And if a Republican candidate threatens corporate America's agenda by controlling the border, starting trade wars with China, challenging the Green New Deal, they'll be dealt with by the CIA -- especially a CIA stacked with liberal recruits who think they're saving democracy, but they're only saving a CEO's bottom line.
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During his tenure at Fox News, Jesse Watters has risen from compiling blatantly racist on-the-street ambush interviews for disgraced former Fox host Bill O'Reilly to becoming one of the network’s highest-rated hosts.
That rise has been fueled in part by Watters' embrace of the network's favored conspiracy theories, including questioning the integrity of the 2020 election, casting doubt on a 10-year-old rape victim to push radical anti-abortion narratives, and baselessly scapegoating offshore wind energy development for the deaths of endangered whales.
Since the departure of top-rated Fox host Tucker Carlson, Watters has taken up his former colleague’s mantle in the Fox prime-time lineup as the network’s preeminent merchant of nonsense — which, like Carlson, he often camouflages in “just asking questions”-type language. In fact, irresponsibly floating outrageous conspiracy theories with no evidence has become a hallmark of Watters’ top-rated show.
Media Matters found that in 2023, Watters toyed with at least 24 different conspiracy theories, ranging from the threat of “transhumanism” turning everyone into mindless robots to baseless accusations of corruption at the highest levels of government.
- ## Jesse Watters has spread many of the right's favorite debunked conspiracy theories during his decades-long career at Fox News
- Watters played a pivotal role in a smear campaign denying the existence of a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to Indiana to receive an abortion due to Ohio’s anti-abortion laws. Watters spent multiple shows discrediting the initial report and targeting the doctor who provided the abortion, arguing that the story was a “hoax” to fearmonger about the consequences of restricted health care access. In July, the rapist that Watters said didn’t exist was sentenced to life in prison. Media Matters, [7/13/22, 7/15/22, 7/6/23; The Daily Beast, 7/14/22]
- Watters was the first Fox News host to falsely claim that offshore wind developments resulted in whale deaths. While he had no evidence to back up his claim, Watters ran numerous segments suggesting that the recent deaths of whales across New York and New Jersey beaches were caused by the development of offshore wind turbines. This narrative became a recurring talking point used by right-wing media and conservative politicians to slow renewable energy development. Media Matters, [2/2/23, 7/17/23; NPR, 2/22/23]
- Watters has cast doubt on election integrity in the 2020 election. Watters emphasized that Biden “allegedly” got more votes than any previous presidential candidate. Watters also pushed lies about Arizona’s election audit, claiming that tens of thousands of “questionable ballots” were found in Maricopa County. Media Matters, [10/8/22, 1/20/22]
- Watters was instrumental in spreading doubt about the attack on Paul Pelosi, saying, “If we’ve learned anything about the Pelosis, you just gotta keep asking questions.” Watters continued to “keep asking questions” about Pelosi’s attack even after police released body cam footage that seemingly undermined Watters’ preferred — and extremely homophobic — narrative that Paul Pelosi was attacked by his leftist gay lover: “We still don’t know who opened the door. Was it Paul? Was it the cops? Did they not play that part of the footage in the courtroom? Why is this, such a simple detail, so hard to pin down?” Watters asked. Twitter/X, [10/31/22; Media Matters, 12/16/22]
- ## In 2023, Jesse Watters pushed even more outlandish conspiracy theories
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Biden administration is selling oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China in order to buy guns for IRS agents. Watters alleged a scheme between the Biden administration and the Chinese Communist Party to “prop up Democrats before the midterms” by selling “taxpayer oil to the Chinese, the companies with the Hunter connection, and then use the revenues to buy guns for IRS agents.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/2/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: The CIA is working with drug cartels to “destabilize Mexico” and ensure a cheap labor market. Watters claimed it is “suspicious” that the Biden administration seemingly “buries” stories about the threat of cartels at the southern border, then suggested the supposed leniency was due to the FBI and CIA helping Biden win the 2020 election after then-President Donald Trump threatened the cartels with a border wall. Watters cited an unnamed “journalist” to boast that this theory used to be considered a “conspiracy,” but now “everybody just assumes” the CIA is working with cartels. He warned his audience “the U.S. government's working with the narcos” to keep Mexico as an “economic puppet” and “juicy labor with natural resources that our multinationals can take advantage of.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/6/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: PBS gave a softball interview to Biden because he threatened to defund the network. Watters claimed that PBS did not hold Biden accountable “for being crooked” because the public broadcast network is “a government-owned channel” that “is doing interviews with their own boss.” He suggested that Biden threatened to take away the outlet’s funding if it asked uncomfortable questions, saying, “Hey, take it easy on me or I am going to cut your paycheck.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [2/9/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Global warming is solely “corporate propaganda” encouraged by big businesses to price gouge their products.Watters downplayed the threat of global warming as “a sunburn” and argued that climate change is “more about corporate propaganda. They’re just saying, ‘You have to buy, or you’re going to die.’” Watters explained that “you’ve got to get a new car, you got to get solar panels, you got to get a new stove,” while corporations “get the money and our prices go up.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [2/1/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Democrats colluded with the FBI, CIA, and Big Tech to censor conservatives and hijack elections. Watters touted the debunked “Twitter Files” to assert that Democrats colluded with the FBI, CIA, and Big Tech to censor conservatives and rig the 2020 election for Joe Biden. Watters claimed that instead of refuting the accusations, Democrats decided to “punish these journalists for blowing up the silent censorship arm of the Democratic Party.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [3/9/23; Media Matters, 12/15/22]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain are going to use offshore windmills to spy on the U.S. In an effort to villainize green energy, Watters suggested that offshore wind would become “our biggest national security threat.” He then described how Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain “own our precious coastlines for wind” and warned that those countries could be susceptible to foreign bribes to spy on the United States. “Sure, they're our allies, but every ally can flip,” he said. “Our enemies would pay good money to these countries for a slice of our coast.” In an interview with Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Watters said that “a couple decades ago, we were killing a lot of Nazis,” and questioned whether Germany could put “little espionage technology” into the windmills or even “launch a missile” from them. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [3/24/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Biden administration is paying $100 million to “fight extremists” as a bribe to exploit African countries for their resources and ensure the implementation of the Green New Deal. Watters claimed that Biden sent Vice President Kamala Harris to pay off African countries to allow the U.S. to mine minerals needed for electric vehicle manufacturing and the Biden family could make money on “the front and the back end.” Watters called Harris “the Black face of American colonialism” and alleged that the $100 million in security aid Harris announced was a bribe to allow the United States to “plunder every inch of Africa until every American child rides an electric school bus.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [3/27/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Joe Biden is a pivotal member of the “deep state” who orchestrated all of Trump's legal woes, including his impeachments, criminal indictments, and the FBI search in Mar-a-Lago. Watters falsely suggested Biden “spied on the Trump campaign,” sent “a political hitman into the DA’s office” to arrest him in New York, and even “personally signed off on the raid on Mar-a-Lago.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [4/4/23; CNN, 8/29/20; Media Matters, 9/6/22]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Democrats don't want Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to debate Joe Biden because he will expose that the CIA killed President John F. Kennedy. After playing a clip in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he had “overwhelming evidence” that his uncle was killed by the CIA, Watters suggested that “maybe this is why the Democrats are trying to keep RFK. Jr. off the debate stage” because “they do not want him talking.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [5/8/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Target is working with the “rainbow mafia” to fund gender-affirming surgery in schools. After suggesting that Pride Month is a “Trojan horse” to sexualize kids, Watters decried “the rainbow mafia” and attacked Target for pushing inclusivity a “little too far” by selling trans-inclusive clothing. Watters later cited a report by Fox News Digital to claim that Target is “funding the sex-change surgeries in schools behind parents’ back and the nuking of Mount Rushmore.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [6/5/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: As vice president, Joe Biden was working as “an intelligence op” for the FBI, which then installed Biden as president after blackmailing him for a decade.Watters claimed without evidence that then-Vice President Joe Biden was acting as “one of the FBI’s top informants” and “took a $5 million bribe … from a foreign national in exchange for a policy decision” without President Barack Obama’s knowledge. Watters reasoned that the FBI “put their guy in the White House” because it has blackmail over Biden, who was “installed” by the bureau “so that he can take orders.” Over the next month, Watters repeated this conspiracy theory. On the June 26, 2023, edition of Jesse Watters Primetime, the host declared, “I know Joe Biden is an intelligence op.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [6/5/23, 6/15/23, 6/26/23, 11/30/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Secret Service “incinerated” the cocaine found in the White House to protect Hunter Biden. Watters suggested that the incineration was intentionally planned to prevent evidence from coming forward. “Did the White House blow up the coke while they were testing it for fingerprints, or after they tested it?” Watters asked, declaring that “when you destroy evidence, you're participating in a cover-up.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/18/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: The details in the drowning death of the Obama family’s personal chef don’t add up. Citing a Daily Mail report, Watters cast doubt on the circumstances of the death of the Obama family’s personal chef, Tafari Campbell, who drowned in a pond near the ex-president’s home on Martha’s Vineyard. “There is something strange going on with the police call logs on the night Obama’s chef drowned,” Watters said. “In the section where the cops are supposed to write the reason for the call, it was left blank. Could be a mistake, but every other call that night was properly filled out.” Even though police ruled Campbell’s death an accident, Watters baselessly suggested that a conspiracy might be afoot. When police released the audio of two 911 calls reporting the drowning, Watters told his audience those calls were “heavily redacted, likely in order to protect the first family,” before raising a series of bizarre questions about why those calls did not mention the Obamas or the staffer that was supposedly with Campbell when he died. “There's no mention of the Obama's on the call. But we now know the former president arrived at the incident command post after the 911 call was placed and spoke to Secret Service and police. There's also no mention on the call of the female Obama staffer who was paddle-boarding with Tafari when he drowned,” Watters said. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/27/23, 10/24/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: “Big trans” preys on “confused kids” for profit. Watters blamed the media pushing “gender fluid ideology on children,” which he claimed had created “a generation of kids doing harm to themselves” by seeking gender-affirming care. “Big Trans is taking advantage of confused kids and they’ve created a billion-dollar industry that preys on minors,” Watters added. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/27/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Russia's attacks on the Donbas region of Ukraine had something to do with a “blackmail operation” involving Ukrainian energy company Burisma and the Bidens. During an interview with Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy, Watters hinted at an apparent blackmail scheme between the Biden family and the Ukrainian government that supposedly influenced Russia to attack the Donbas region of Ukraine. Watters suggested that Burisma, the now-defunct Ukrainian energy company that once counted Hunter Biden among its board members, “had the oil and gas leases … for the Donbas region,” which supposedly indicated to Watters that a “a big blackmail operation” was underway. “We might have something on this tomorrow,” he teased. Seemingly intrigued by Watters’ vague suggestion of Biden family corruption, Campos-Duffy agreed, “We’re shoveling money there … to cover up the tens of millions of dollars that the Biden family took,” before adding, “I’m really happy you’re on that story, I really think there’s something there.” Watters never revisited the supposed blackmail scheme. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/31/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Grand Canyon National Monument is a Biden scheme to funnel uranium money to foreign governments.Watters claimed that President Biden declared the Grand Canyon a national monument to block uranium mining in the canyon’s surrounding areas to fund “Russia’s dangerous uranium monopoly.” Watters then speculated on Biden’s motives, questioning why the president’s “entire energy policy favors Russia and China.” “Well, does it have anything to do with the three and a half million dollars the Russians paid the Biden's? Or the Porsche Panamera that the Kazakhstanis gifted Hunter? Does it have anything to do with the three and a half carat diamond that the Chinese slipped the first son? There's something very mysterious going on in the international uranium market that involves the Bidens and the Russians.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [8/8/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Weather Channel is a Biden propaganda outlet.Watters claimed the Weather Channel gave Joe Biden a softball interview because “the owner of the Weather Channel is a prolific Democrat donor.” He continued, “A corrupt, confused, weak, and terrified man is being protected by the ideological professional class who runs corporate media.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime,* [8/9/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Biden and his team are doing “absolutely nothing” to stop fentanyl trafficking because “they prefer a passive public.” “China’s sending us the fentanyl, the Mexicans are trafficking it here, and Joe’s doing absolutely nothing about it. Why?” Watters asked, before answering his own question. “The professional class decided it's okay to kill yourself. It's pro-euthanasia. They find this behavior acceptable. They prefer a passive public.” Watters added that those in power are “fine” with “tranq heads and fentanyl heads” because — unlike the “wild” people who were addicted to stimulants during the crack epidemic — “they’re not asking questions, they’re not participating, and they’re not a threat.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [8/9/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion training is a “shakedown” to encourage more racism so diversity trainers get paid. Watters argued DEI training was a “shakedown” in which diversity consultants earned “big money” training corporate employees on racism in the workplace so that their companies could publicly broadcast — and profit from — the idea that they are not racist. (“My company is not racist, please buy our products,” Watters described.) Watters’ guest, Erec Smith, a “former diversity trainer” turned supposed whistleblower, argued that diversity trainers like racism because it keeps them in business. “If you’re making all that money off racism, the last thing you want is for racism to go away. You’re going to perpetuate it. You’re going to see it where it isn’t,” Smith claimed. Summarizing Smith’s arguments for his audience, Watters said, “They were seeing racism where it never existed in order to get paid.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [8/28/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Biden family’s Chinese business partners paid them in diamonds to avoid the IRS. Watters baselessly claimed that a Chinese company illegally paid the Biden family in diamonds to avoid drawing the attention of the IRS. “Everybody knows diamonds [are] a time-tested way to launder money, and hide that money from IRS agents,” Watters said, adding, “Diamonds and art, both spaces that Hunter plays in. There’s no paper trail or record-keeping with diamond transactions.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/18/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is the victim of a smear campaign engineered by the CIA and the Biden administration as part of a conspiracy to help Democrats. After Menendez, the former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and extortion related to his dealings with the Egyptian government, Watters argued that the CIA was using “the same Trump playbook they used last time” to smear Menendez as a “traitor” and a spy. Watters baselessly alleged that Menendez — who has since been accused of acting as an unregistered agent of Egypt’s government — was “such a threat to Democrats” that the Biden administration and the CIA “smeared [him] as a spook” to supposedly cover up President Biden’s criminal behavior. “What does gold bar-Bob have on the Bidens? That’s the question,” Watters said. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [9/29/23; Associated Press, 9/22/23, 10/12/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Biden framed Menendez as a ploy to sell Turkey F-16s and grant Sweden NATO membership.Watters alleged that President Biden had hatched a scheme with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to remove “gold bar-Bob Menendez” from office because he was supposedly holding up the sale of $20 billion worth of F-16 jets to Turkey, which was in turn blocking Sweden’s entrance into NATO. “Look how nicely things fall into place for Biden and his boys, when two gold bars are found in a Senator's house,” Watters said, before adding, “Eh, it's probably a conspiracy theory.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [10/2/23]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: Joe Biden is installing kill switches to disable cars on Election Day and keep people from voting. Watters falsely claimed a provision in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act stipulating that new vehicles should include drunk driving prevention technology by 2026 was a ploy engineered by “big tech and big government to monitor your freedom of movement.” Watters also speculated that the Biden administration could “hit the kill switch on every pickup truck in Pennsylvania on Election Day” to keep people from voting. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [11/8/23, Associated Press, 3/3/22]
- CONSPIRACY THEORY: “Transhumanist” tech executives and the Biden administration want to turn you into a mindless “RoboCop.” Watters said “executives in Silicon Valley and the eggheads at the World Economic Forum” want to “transform what it means to be human” through transhumanism: the technological enhancement of human brains and bodies using microchips and other implants. “It’s not just about dominating your attention with their screens, apps, and devices, and extracting all of your information for cash. It’s also about control,” Watters declared.” Once you join their universe, you’re dependent on them — they can control you, track you, or they can turn you off.” Watters hosted Laura Aboli, whom he introduced as an “activist and entrepreneur.” Aboli claimed that President Biden had signed an executive order that would “channel funding and resources to bioengineering and biomanufacturing” for the “transhumanist agenda.” Watters asked, “Like we all get turned into RoboCop?” “I’m afraid that’s probably what they want for us,” Aboli replied. Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [11/20/23; The Guardian, 5/6/18]
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conspiracy theorists have a long history of using terms like "inside job" and "false flag" to describe tragic events, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre of 2012 (which Infowars' Alex Jones claimed was really a conspiracy against gunowners). The January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building has been a major focus of conspiracy theorists as well —including Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), who claimed, without evidence, that the FBI helped engineer that attack during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 15.
Questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray, the far-right MAGA congressman claimed there is a "tremendous amount of evidence" of FBI involvement. And Higgins pushed Wray for details on the FBI's "confidential human sources at the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 here in D.C."
Wray told Higgins, "If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically not."
Higgins, however, continue to push the conspiracy theory that FBI agents encouraged the January 6, 2021 attack. And he claimed that "ghost busses" full of FBI informants went to Washington, D.C. that day to cause problems.
When Wray said he was unfamiliar with the term "ghost busses," Higgins replied, "It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes."
The MAGA congressman told the Homeland Security Committee, "This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these busses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6. And your day is coming, Mr. Wray."
READ MORE:Trump official sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in January 6 insurrection
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conspiracy theorists have a long history of using terms like "inside job" and "false flag" to describe tragic events, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre of 2012 (which Infowars' Alex Jones claimed was really a conspiracy against gunowners). The January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building has been a major focus of conspiracy theorists as well —including Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), who claimed, without evidence, that the FBI helped engineer that attack during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 15.
Questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray, the far-right MAGA congressman claimed there is a "tremendous amount of evidence" of FBI involvement. And Higgins pushed Wray for details on the FBI's "confidential human sources at the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 here in D.C."
Wray told Higgins, "If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically not."
Higgins, however, continue to push the conspiracy theory that FBI agents encouraged the January 6, 2021 attack. And he claimed that "ghost busses" full of FBI informants went to Washington, D.C. that day to cause problems.
When Wray said he was unfamiliar with the term "ghost busses," Higgins replied, "It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes."
The MAGA congressman told the Homeland Security Committee, "This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these busses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6. And your day is coming, Mr. Wray."
READ MORE:Trump official sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in January 6 insurrection
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an 11 23
conspiracy theorists have a long history of using terms like "inside job" and "false flag" to describe tragic events, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre of 2012 (which Infowars' Alex Jones claimed was really a conspiracy against gunowners). The January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building has been a major focus of conspiracy theorists as well —including Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), who claimed, without evidence, that the FBI helped engineer that attack during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 15.
Questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray, the far-right MAGA congressman claimed there is a "tremendous amount of evidence" of FBI involvement. And Higgins pushed Wray for details on the FBI's "confidential human sources at the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 here in D.C."
Wray told Higgins, "If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically not."
Higgins, however, continue to push the conspiracy theory that FBI agents encouraged the January 6, 2021 attack. And he claimed that "ghost busses" full of FBI informants went to Washington, D.C. that day to cause problems.
When Wray said he was unfamiliar with the term "ghost busses," Higgins replied, "It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes."
The MAGA congressman told the Homeland Security Committee, "This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these busses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6. And your day is coming, Mr. Wray."
READ MORE:Trump official sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in January 6 insurrection
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conspiracy theorists have a long history of using terms like "inside job" and "false flag" to describe tragic events, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre of 2012 (which Infowars' Alex Jones claimed was really a conspiracy against gunowners). The January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building has been a major focus of conspiracy theorists as well —including Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), who claimed, without evidence, that the FBI helped engineer that attack during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 15.
Questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray, the far-right MAGA congressman claimed there is a "tremendous amount of evidence" of FBI involvement. And Higgins pushed Wray for details on the FBI's "confidential human sources at the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 here in D.C."
Wray told Higgins, "If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically not."
Higgins, however, continue to push the conspiracy theory that FBI agents encouraged the January 6, 2021 attack. And he claimed that "ghost busses" full of FBI informants went to Washington, D.C. that day to cause problems.
When Wray said he was unfamiliar with the term "ghost busses," Higgins replied, "It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes."
The MAGA congressman told the Homeland Security Committee, "This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these busses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6. And your day is coming, Mr. Wray."
READ MORE:Trump official sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in January 6 insurrection
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an 11 23
conspiracy theorists have a long history of using terms like "inside job" and "false flag" to describe tragic events, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre of 2012 (which Infowars' Alex Jones claimed was really a conspiracy against gunowners). The January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building has been a major focus of conspiracy theorists as well —including Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), who claimed, without evidence, that the FBI helped engineer that attack during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 15.
Questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray, the far-right MAGA congressman claimed there is a "tremendous amount of evidence" of FBI involvement. And Higgins pushed Wray for details on the FBI's "confidential human sources at the Stop the Steal rally on January 6 here in D.C."
Wray told Higgins, "If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically not."
Higgins, however, continue to push the conspiracy theory that FBI agents encouraged the January 6, 2021 attack. And he claimed that "ghost busses" full of FBI informants went to Washington, D.C. that day to cause problems.
When Wray said he was unfamiliar with the term "ghost busses," Higgins replied, "It's a vehicle that's used for secret purposes."
The MAGA congressman told the Homeland Security Committee, "This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these busses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6. And your day is coming, Mr. Wray."
READ MORE:Trump official sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in January 6 insurrection
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Inside the Mar-a-Lago Premiere of 'Police State': 'We're Already in One'
Trump wasn't at Mar-a-Lago for a red-carpet movie premiere Wednesday night, but his presence was felt — and celebrated — by around 500 conservative influencers, media personalities and politicians who partied at the former president's Florida home without him.
The premiere was for Dinesh D'Souza's documentary, Police State, about allegedly normal, harmless Americans who say they've been arrested, harassed or censored by various branches of the U.S. government.
While not there, Trump posted online his support for the film and midway through the party D'Souza read the message aloud to guests. The movie exposes "the witch hunt that the deep state has against me. And the police state is coming for you," Trump wrote.
D'Souza also alluded to a civil trial where Trump is accused of exaggerating the value of his assets, including Mar-a-Lago, which Trump said was worth more than $1 billion while a judge has said it's value is between $18 million-$27 million.
"It's hard to believe this place is worth only $18 million," D'Souza told the assembled in a large hall near the swimming pool.
"Maybe some of us should buy it; sell it for $400 million and use the profits to buy Fox News," he joked to laughter and applause.
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While progressives typically dismiss D'Souza's work as conspiratorial, a Rasmussen poll in September found that 72 percent of voters are worried that the U.S. is becoming a police state, which the poll described as a tyrannical government that engages in mass surveillance, censorship, ideological indoctrination and targeting of political opponents.
What Americans fail to agree on is from which side of the aisle the threat comes from. D'Souza's film tries to make the case it is mainly from the left, though he does criticize a few Republicans — most notably former President George W. Bush — for their alleged contributions.
Progressives also often discount D'Souza's movies because he pleaded guilty in 2014 to enlisting the help of a straw donor so that he could give more money than was allowed by law to a Senate candidate.
After D'Souza served his sentence, Trump pardoned him, and D'Souza briefly revisits the episode in his movie.
While Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie an 82 percent audience score at time of publishing, a critic at the progressive outlet, Mother Jones, calls it the work of "far-right fringe characters" and laments: "None of the alleged victims in Police State are innocent people like George Floyd or Breonna Taylor, who literally died at the hands of overzealous cops."
But at Wednesday's premiere, the movie earned a standing ovation.
Off to the sidelines, D'Souza told Newsweek that he has run into several odd problems in the distribution and marketing of the film, which he says has thus far played for two nights at mostly sold-out theaters, raking in about $1.5 million.
Most notably, he accused the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury of "intercepting" a $106,000 payment to Salem Media to purchase ads for the movie.
"We now have to retrieve our funds, and it's going to be a hassle," he said.
Newsweek has reached out to the Treasury Department and will update this story should it respond.
Newsweek reviewed documentation indicating that the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has held up funds D'Souza attempted to wire to Salem for the purpose of advertising.
OFAC's stated mission is to enforce trade sanctions based on national security goals that include terrorist threats, weapons of mass destruction and narcotics traffickers.
"Why would they intercept our domestic wire? They can't seize our money and pretend there is some legitimate government purpose for doing it," D'Souza said.
D'Souza, a former adviser to President Ronald Reagan, is the right's most successful producer of conservative documentaries. In 2012, his debut movie, 2016: Obama's America, scored $33 million at the box office, enough to become the second most popular political documentary of all time, after Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
Partners in the film include YouTube competitor Rumble, which is streaming the movie, and talk-radio host Dan Bongino.
Ahead of the film, Bongino motioned toward Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski and said: "His idea was to create a free speech, free idea platform...Make no mistake — this guy's got a lot of guts."
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake told Newsweek: "We are living in a police state. It's pretty apparent. Look at January 6 and the two tiers of justice. Our rights are slipping away and more people are waking up to it."
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D'Souza said that authorities who claimed to be saving democracy, upholding the rule of law, fighting misinformation and saving lives with COVID restrictions have abused their power.
A police state is "coming to us in disguise. It's coming to us marching behind the slogans of virtue," he said. "The task of this film is to strip away the facade."
When D'Souza introduced the families of some of those who were arrested during the January 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, the crowd applauded.
Will Pope, who attended the premiere and the riots, and has been charged with several crimes associated with the latter, told Newsweek: "Nobody there that day was trying to overthrow the government. Most are normal people who don't mean you any harm, and they love America."
Actor Kevin Sorbo, who played TV's Hercules in the 1980s and stars mostly in faith-based films like God's Not Dead nowadays, told Newsweek: "Free speech has been disappearing quickly. That's the truth, but the truth is kryptonite to Hollywood and to Washington, D.C."
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is facing charges in Fulton County, Georgia, that allege he tried to subvert the will of voters in 2020, similar to charges against Trump, told Newsweek that the mainstream media is biased against conservatives.
"The coverage is consistent with the country. A large percentage of it, through Biden, is becoming fascist," he said. "The coverage is despicable, disgraceful, unpatriotic and, at times, supportive of criminal conspiracies, and I include Newsweek."
Fox News personality Leo Terrell, who switched from liberal to conservative in 2016, told Newsweek that Police State is a timely movie for all Americans, but added: "Liberals won't watch it, but they should."
Actor Nick Searcy, who plays a composite FBI character in Police State, was at the January 6 riots and made a documentary about it, dubbed Capitol Punishment. He told Newsweek that he's working on a sequel.
"The suppression of free speech should concern both sides. The intimidation of everyday Americans can happen to anyone," he said.
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CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Now look, Joe Biden is a traitor, I just think everyone is taking the wrong, I think they're burying the lede here. Like, wow. Okay, yeah, the FBI had informants and they knew that, you know, Joe Biden was super corrupt and all that. Okay. I see it a little bit differently.
I don't like this new standard where all of a sudden the FBI just permanently spies on the people, the individuals holding government positions that the people deem in power.
I don't think that's a good -- that’s a good track record for the country. Now the counterargument is that the FBI is not arresting Biden and they have all of this information and he is a traitor and he was doing these things. And they're not arresting him. That's a fair argument.
What I'm trying to say though is that this story should be, in a legitimate country, a reason for a bipartisan Church and Pike Committee to get the FBI to heel. That's what it should be in a functioning country.
And, we’ll get into this in the next segment, it probably means that the FBI was blackmailing Joe Biden and using the informants as a way to control him. But that's not okay. That's really bad. Again, I'm not a defender of Joe Biden. He should be in Gitmo. He's a traitor to the country.
This is just going to happen to the next president. What's going to say, if Donald Trump wins in a triumphant victory, what’s to say that they won't just blackmail him and they won't just spy on him?
This is how the administrative state rolls. This fourth branch of government is actually running the country, regardless of who is president.
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The FBI killed a Utah man who issued numerous death threats. Far-right figures are now claiming the Biden administration is coming to kill conservatives.
Emerging narratives echo right-wing reaction to the infamous 1992 raid in Ruby Ridge, Idaho
WRITTEN BY MADELINE PELTZ
PUBLISHED 08/11/23
After a Utah man was shot and killed by the FBI following a months long investigation into threats against President Joe Biden, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and other public officials, some extremist right-wing media figures are now spinning the incident to claim the federal government is willing to kill any critic of Democrats.
In the early morning hours of August 9, the FBI served warrants at the home of Craig Deleeuw Robertson, who was killed by an agent. According to CBS News, charging documents against Robertson alleged that he made multiple explicit “online posts” that “showed an intent to kill Mr. Biden,” who was scheduled to appear in Utah later that day. The charging documents reportedly claim Robertson also wrote about fulfilling a “dream” of killing Bragg, the New York DA who earlier this year indicted former President Donald Trump. NBC News reported that the FBI alleges Robertson’s social media posts also “mentioned many other politicians, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.”
There is a significant lack of information regarding Robertson’s death so far. NBC reports that the raid is “under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division,” and according to CBS, “authorities have not publicly confirmed the man who was killed is the man named in the complaint.” And any government killing is worth giving heavy scrutiny to, regardless of the circumstance. There are reasonable questions here and the FBI must answer them or be held accountable.
Some right-wing media figures, however, have already jumped to extreme fearmongering about the incident to claim the Biden administration is intentionally using deadly force against Democrats’ online critics.
“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander wrote on Telegram: “The FBI is now killing online critics of Biden. This is all by design."
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On his Real America’s Voice show, neo-Nazi collaborator Jack Posobiec said, “This looks like a show of force. This looks like a message. This looks like a message being sent to the people of this country — threaten us and we’ll show up at your home at 6:15 in the morning and take you out. That’s what it looks like, folks.”
On Twitter (recently rebranded as X), “alt-right” activist and rape apologistMike Cernovich wrote that Robertson’s death “was to send a message” after the “FBI assassination team” had “sworn an oath to demons.”
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On Fox News, Laura Ingraham said the killing “kind of amounts to a smear” with the “implicit” message to “millions of Americans who may have supported President Trump or other conservatives implying that they can’t be trusted or, I don’t know, is it when in doubt, shoot first, ask questions later?”
Other far-right figures posted similar comments about the incident on social media, writing that the FBI had shot Robertson “in cold blood because he criticized Joe Biden online,” and claiming that the government “basically said that they wanted to kill a Biden critic to set an example.” On GETTR, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon simply wrote, “In Cold Blood,” and linked to a tweet from Posobiec.
This commentary is reminiscent of the radical right’s reactions to the Ruby Ridge incident of 1992, an 11-day standoff in Idaho between federal agents and the family of Randy Weaver, a Christian fundamentalist affiliated with the far-right white separatist movement. The standoff resulted in the deaths of Weaver’s wife, son, and a federal marshal.
On the August 10 edition of his show THOUGHTCRIME, Charlie Kirk specifically invoked Ruby Ridge and the deadly 1993 siege on a cult compound in Waco, Texas, saying “We know from Waco and Ruby Ridge that there's some really bad people that could be in the FBI. We know that.”
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Rudy Ridge became a critical political touchstone among far-right activists and inspired acts of domestic terrorism, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured 759.
In a 2017 interview with ABC News, Jess Walter, a reporter who covered the incident of Ruby Ridge, explained, “The fallout from Ruby Ridge was [that it] sort of mainstreamed some of those really right-wing conspiratorial beliefs and, in many ways, when you have conspiracy buffs saying the government’s out to kill you, and then a case like that happens, it just continues to reverberate and echo.”
“Right-wing media starts in the era after this,” the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Heidi Beirich also noted. “All of this builds out of the rage that was symbolized with this event.”
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a seasoned Federal Bureau of Investigation counterintelligence officer told the United States Senate Judiciary Committee that he was ordered by his superiors to "stop investigating Rudy Giuliani and to cut off contact with any sources who reported on corruption by associates of former President Donald Trump," according to a whistleblower complaint that was exclusively obtained by Business Insider's Mattathias Schwartz.
"The agent, who served 14 years as a special agent for the bureau, including a long stint in Russia-focussed counter-intelligence, claims in a 22-page statement that his bosses interfered with his work in 'a highly suspicious suppression of investigations and intelligence-gathering' aimed at protecting 'certain politically active figures and possibly also FBI agents' who were connected to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs," Schwartz writes. "Those figures, the statement claims, explicitly included 'anyone in the [Trump] White House and any former or current associates of President Trump.'"
Schwartz explains that the employee's account was "apparently leaked and posted in mid-July to a Substack newsletter. Insider has independently obtained a copy of the complaint and verified its authenticity, but has not corroborated all of its claims."
READ MORE: 'They’re coming for everyone': Looming Georgia indictments send Trump allies running for cover
The unnamed individual said in an interview with Insider that he was motivated by the desire to "policymakers accountable, whether they're on the left or the right."According to Schwartz, the whistleblower felt the FBI was at "a decision point" and wondered, "Are we going to do public corruption or not?"
Schwartz continues, "The whistleblower told Insider that he was finally ordered to stop investigating Giuliani and the rest of the Trump White House in August 2022, after months of what he says were persistent efforts to frustrate his work,at a meeting with three FBI supervisors at a bureau field office. Insider was able to confirm the agent's account of the meeting with a second source with knowledge of what took place."
Schwartz notes that "the directions he received included a strict prohibition on filing intelligence reports relating to Giuliani or any other Trump associate" during an August 2022 meeting where he was fed "performance issues and concerns" despite having "eight consecutive years of "excellent" or "outstanding" work.
"In one case, the statement says, the agent developed information from confidential informants that Giuliani had allegedly done paid work for Pavel Fuks, a Ukrainian oligarch and 'asset of the Russian intelligence services.' (That charge was previously reported by Rolling Stone.) The whistleblower also looked into claims that Giuliani had fraudulently raised money from investors to produce a never-completed film about Joe Biden in the months before the 2020 election," Schwartz explains. "The agent's reporting on Giuliani wasn't received well in the bureau's New York field office, his statement says. 'In the midst of my reporting involving Giuliani, which had previously been identified by my supervisor as 'high impact,' my management told me they received a call from a supervisor in [the New York field office], who they did not identify,' the statement says. 'This supervisor had taken issue with my reporting.'"
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'If I was the deep state': Pro-Trump activists release disturbing campaign ad
Brandon GageJuly 25, 2023
Conservative pollster Frank Luntzon Tuesday shared a disturbing digital campaign spot to Twitter's rebranded X that alleges a vast conspiracy orchestrated by "the deep state" to hoodwink the American people. The one-hundred-ten-second video — which concludes by crediting the "Dilley Meme Team" and former President Donald Trump's "online war machine" — contains sinister male-voiced narration declaring that most significant events and major domestic issues in recent memory were lies.
"This is the most alarming political ad I've seen this year," wrote Luntz, who urged users to post their reactions.
The project's ten proclamations are virtually indistinguishable from indicted criminal defendant Trump's grievance-saturated attempt to return to the White House:
If I was the deep state and I wanted todestroy America, I would rig the election with a puppet candidate, one that was so compromised that they would never say a word about it. I would create a false flag that allows for mail-in ballots. I would be in charge of the ballot-counting machines.I would create a false flag to blame all who question the results of the election.
If I was the deep state,I would prosecute anyone that went against me. I would sue and prosecute anyone that spoke up about the fraudulent election. I would use my powers to shut down all your internet businesses and bankrupt you.
If I was the deep state, I would make everyone an example why you should never question a Democrat ever winning an election. I would imprison my foes. I would use my corrupt das and blackmail judgesto destroy you. I would make sure all crimes I ever committed never happened. I would prosecute my biggest competition. I would make sure they could never run for office ever again.
If I was the deep state, I would convince everyone that Ukraine Nazis were good and women are men.
If I was the deep state, I would own every politician that mattered.
If I was the deep state, I wouldpush my pedophilia ambitions on you.
If I was the deep state, you'd question your sexual identity, but not the medical establishment.
If I was the deep state, you would fear to ever resist me.
If I was the deep state, you would wish I was really the devil.
If I was the deep state, I would say mission accomplished.
READ MORE: Robert Reich: A Trump loss in 2024 will show that Americans 'reject fascism' and cherish 'the rule of law'
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january 6 defendant Alan Hostetter will reportedly rely on three conspiracy theories at his trial, each of which he could have seen repeatedly on Fox News.
Hostetter, a former police chief, was initially charged alongside four other January 6 defendants who the government has accused of being Three Percenters — an extremist, anti-government ideology. The judge severed his case, however, “in a nod to the unusual nature of Mr. Hostetter’s proposed defense,” according to the New York Times.
The Times further reports:
Acting as his own lawyer, Mr. Hostetter has said that he intends tofight charges of conspiracy and obstruction based on what he calls“three fundamental pillars”: that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald J. Trump; that he and other rioters had no desire to disrupt the challenges to the vote results that were taking place inside the Capitol on Jan. 6; and that, therefore, the assault on the building had to have been staged by “federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.”
Fox News embraced Hostetter’s first false claim — that the 2020 election was stolen — across nearly the entire network.Fox cast doubt on the election results almost 800 times in the two weeks after it called the race for President Joe Biden, and falsely claimed machines run by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic were unreliable or had been hacked to change vote totals. Dominion sued Fox for defamation, forcing a massive settlement on the day the trial was set to open. Smartmatic also filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox, which is ongoing.
Fox News also pushed Hostetter’s second inaccurate claim,that the rioters were simply tourists or otherwise not looking to disrupt the transfer of power. As recently as this March, prime-time host Laura Ingraham argued the insurrectionists were “old ladies walking through the halls of Congress taking selfies.” In January, her guest Miranda Devine, a Fox News contributor, claimed “most of the people that they've been rounding up are just guilty of trespassing. A lot of them were confused.” Fox’s Mark Levin said the rioters were simply “parading on public lands,” and compared them to “people in the civil rights movement.” On the day after the riot, Fox & Friends insisted the insurrectionists were at the Capitol to “voice their concerns” and to “defend our Republic.” That type of language was a fixture of Fox’s coverage, with on-air talent and guests calling the rioters “nonviolent” and “political prisoners." [twt]
hostetter’s final claim, that theinsurrection was an inside job orchestrated and manufactured by federal law enforcement, was also a mainstay on Fox News. Like much of the network’s January 6 revisionism, this particular myth was largely, but not exclusively, driven by former marquee star Tucker Carlson. He filled his prime-time show and a documentary-style series called Patriot Purge with unsupported allegations that the riot was driven by FBI agents or informants, a claim that doesn’t stand up to even the mildest scrutiny.
Carlson promoted the series on Fox & Friends, during which co-host Brian Kilmeade asked, “Do you think maybe, perhaps and maybe you don't want to give away your series, you find indications that the FBI was actually pushing for this invasion?”
Hostetter recently criticized the network’s decision to fire Carlson in a rambling, incoherent defense motion that also referenced the JFK assassination and The Wizard of Oz. Prior to his ouster, Carlson had defended Hostetter as a victim of deep state persecution.
But Carlson wasn’t alone in spreading the conspiracy theory that the federal government was behind the attempted insurrection. Ingraham devoted a segment in October 2021 to the conspiracy theory that a man named Ray Epps was an FBI informant who had surreptitiously provoked the riot. She suggested in March of this year that FBI informants were “working the crowd either before they entered the Capitol or while they were in the Capitol.” Her guest in that segment was American Greatness’ Julie Kelly, a leading January 6 conspiracy theorist, who frequently pushed the same line on Carlson’s program as well.Levin interviewed Kelly in November 2021, asking, “Was this attack on the Capitol building instigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on January 6?” And a guest on the radio program of Fox’s Sean Hannity recently suggested that then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “planned and conjured up” the riot to add drama to her daughter’s documentary film.
As the Times reports, prosecutors in Hostetter’s case are worried about the trial devolving to a “circuslike atmosphere.” If it does, Fox News will have played no small role in providing the elements for Hostetter’s spectacle.
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PETE HEGSETH (FOX HOST): It's so scary for our country, and that's why I do think that it will have the effect of Republican voters who maybe were looking at the field of options saying, "I don't have an option now." And I'm not saying this is every Republican out there, I get it -- but if I'm voting for someone else, I'm giving in to the scheme of the establishment that wants to force me in a different direction.
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX HOST): I couldn't agree more with you on that. If you are a Republican and you don't want Democrats, the media or the establishment -- or the uni-party as you call it -- or the DOJ to pick your candidate, there's no choice then to go, "You know what you, we are going to pick our own guy, and it's going to be Donald Trump." It's just looking like that.
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Jeffrey Clark, Former DOJ Official Implicated in Attempts to Overturn 2020 Election, Now Has Put Forward Maximalist ...
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The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden
Conservatives with close ties to Donald J. Trump are laying out a “paradigm-shifting” legal rationale to erase the Justice Department’s independence from the president.
Donald Trump stands on a stage and points. He is in front of large white columns outside his golf club and an American flag is on the stage.
“I will totally obliterate the Deep State,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday evening at an event at his club in Bedminster, N.J., hours after his arraignment on federal charges.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
By Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman
June 15, 2023
When Donald J. Trump responded to his latest indictment by promising to appoint a special prosecutor if he’s re-elected to “go after” President Biden and his family, he signaled that a second Trump term would fully jettison the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence.
“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” Mr. Trump said at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., on Tuesday night after his arraignment earlier that day in Miami. “I will totally obliterate the Deep State.”
Mr. Trump’s message was that the Justice Department charged him only because he is Mr. Biden’s political opponent, so he would invert that supposed politicization. In reality, under Attorney General Merrick Garland, two Trump-appointed prosecutors are already investigating Mr. Biden’s handling of classified documents and the financial dealings of his son, Hunter.
But by suggesting the current prosecutors investigating the Bidens were not “real,” Mr. Trump appeared to be promising his supporters that he would appoint an ally who would bring charges against his political enemies regardless of the facts.
The naked politics infusing Mr. Trump’s headline-generating threat underscored something significant. In his first term, Mr. Trump gradually ramped up pressure on the Justice Department, eroding its traditional independence from White House political control. He is now unabashedly saying he will throw that effort into overdrive if he returns to power.
Mr. Trump’s promise fits into a larger movement on the right to gut the F.B.I., overhaul a Justice Department conservatives claim has been “weaponized” against them and abandon the norm — which many Republicans view as a facade — that the department should operate independently from the president.
Two of the most important figures in this effort work at the same Washington-based organization, the Center for Renewing America: Jeffrey B. Clark and Russell T. Vought. During the Trump presidency, Mr. Vought served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Clark, who oversaw the Justice Department’s civil and environmental divisions, was the only senior official at the department who tried to help Mr. Trump overturn the 2020 election.
Jeffrey B. Clark was the only senior official in the Justice Department who tried to help Mr. Trump overturn the 2020 election.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times
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Along with Mr. Clark, Russell T. Vought argues that presidents should treat the Justice Department no differently than any other cabinet agency.
Mr. Trump wanted to make Mr. Clark attorney general during his final days in office but stopped after the senior leadership of the Justice Department threatened to resign en masse. Mr. Clark is now a figure in one of the Justice Department’s investigations into Mr. Trump’s attempts to stay in power.
Mr. Clark and Mr. Vought are promoting a legal rationale that would fundamentally change the way presidents interact with the Justice Department. They argue that U.S. presidents should not keep federal law enforcement at arm’s length but instead should treat the Justice Department no differently than any other cabinet agency. They are condemning Mr. Biden and Democrats for what they claim is the politicization of the justice system, but at the same time pushing an intellectual framework that a future Republican president might use to justify directing individual law enforcement investigations.
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New revelations. The 49-page indictment against Donald Trump and a personal aide, Walt Nauta, revealed a host of potentially devastating new details in the Justice Department’s inquiry into the former president’s mishandling of classified documents. Here are some of the most significant allegations:
There was a stunning pattern of obstruction. Prosecutors say Trump willfully ignored a May 2022 subpoena requiring him to return the documents — and took extraordinary steps to obstruct investigators. The indictment details how Nauta, at Trump’s direction, moved 64 boxes of documents so that Trump’s lawyer could not find them.
Boxes of documents were stored in a bathroom. In April 2021, Trump’s employees needed to move dozens of boxes from a ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “There is still a little room in the shower where his other stuff is,” one aide texted another. The boxes were hauled to a small bathroom and piled up nearly to the tiny chandelier next to the toilet.
Documents were stored sloppily. The indictment shows a picture of a box of top secret national security documents that in 2021 had spilled onto the floor of a Mar-a-Lago storage room accessible to many of the resort’s employees.
Trump made a “plucking motion.” The indictment recounts how Trump and his lawyer discussed what to do with a folder of 38 documents with classification markings. The lawyer said Trump made a “plucking motion” that implied, “why don’t you take them with you to your hotel room and if there’s anything really bad in there, like, you know, pluck it out.”
Trump was recorded sharing secrets. The indictment says Trump was recorded at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., showing off secret U.S. battle plans to a writer. Trump described the material as “highly confidential” and “secret,” while admitting it had not been declassified.
Trump showed a secret map to a staff member. In August or September 2021, Trump shared a top secret military map with a staff member at his political action committee who did not have a security clearance; he warned the person not to “get too close.”
One of Trump’s lawyers is a key witness. Some of the most potentially damning evidence against the former president came from notes made by one of his lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran. The lawyer’s notes essentially gave prosecutors a road map to building their case.]]
Mr. Clark, who is a favorite of Mr. Trump’s and is likely to be in contention for a senior Justice Department position if Mr. Trump wins re-election in 2024, wrote a constitutional analysis, titled “The U.S. Justice Department is not independent,” that will most likely serve as a blueprint for a second Trump administration.
Like other conservatives, Mr. Clark adheres to the so-called unitary executive theory, which holds that the president of the United States has the power to directly control the entire federal bureaucracy and Congress cannot fracture that control by giving some officials independent decision-making authority.
There are debates among conservatives about how far to push that doctrine — and whether some agencies should be allowed to operate independently — but Mr. Clark takes a maximalist view. Mr. Trump does, too, though he’s never been caught reading the Federalist Papers.
In statements to The New York Times, both Mr. Clark and Mr. Vought leaned into their battle against the Justice Department, with Mr. Clark framing it as a fight over the survival of America itself.
Conservatives have been attacking President Biden and the Justice Department, claiming it has been “weaponized.”Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
“Biden and D.O.J. are baying for Trump’s blood so they can put fear into America,” Mr. Clark wrote in his statement. “The Constitution and our Article IV ‘Republican Form of Government’ cannot survive like this.”
Mr. Vought wrote in his statement that the Justice Department was “ground zero for the weaponization of the government against the American people.” He added, “Conservatives are waking up to the fact that federal law enforcement is weaponized against them and as a result are embracing paradigm-shifting policies to reverse that trend.”
Mr. Trump often exploited gaps between what the rules technically allow and the norms of self-restraint that guided past presidents of both parties. In 2021, House Democrats passed the Protecting Our Democracy Act, a legislative package intended to codify numerous previous norms as law, including requiring the Justice Department to give Congress logs of its contacts with White House officials. But Republicans portrayed the bill as an attack on Mr. Trump and it died in the Senate.
The modern era for the Justice Department traces back to the Watergate scandal and the period of government reforms that followed President Richard M. Nixon’s abuses. The norm took root that the president can set broad policies for the Justice Department — directing it to put greater resources and emphasis on particular types of crimes or adopting certain positions before the Supreme Court — but should not get involved in specific criminal case decisions absent extraordinary circumstances, such as if a case has foreign policy implications.
Since then, it has become routine at confirmation hearings for attorney general nominees to have senators elicit promises that they will resist any effort by the president to politicize law enforcement by intruding on matters of prosecutorial judgment and discretion.
As the Republican Party has morphed in response to Mr. Trump’s influence, his attacks on federal law enforcement — which trace back to the early Russia investigation in 2017, the backlash to his firing of then-F.B.I. director James B. Comey Jr. and the appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel — have become enmeshed in the ideology of his supporters.
Mr. Trump’s top rival for the Republican nomination, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, also rejects the norm that the Justice Department should be independent.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has likewise argued that the Justice Department should be an extension of the executive branch.Credit...Kate Medley for The New York Times
“Republican presidents have accepted the canard that the D.O.J. and F.B.I. are — quote — ‘independent,’” Mr. DeSantis said in May on Fox News. “They are not independent agencies. They are part of the executive branch. They answer to the elected president of the United States.”
Several other Republican candidates acknowledged that Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents — as outlined in the indictment prepared by the special counsel, Jack Smith, and his team — was a serious problem. But even these candidates — including Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, and former Vice President Mike Pence — have also accused the Justice Department of being overly politicized and meting out unequal justice.
The most powerful conservative think tanks are working on plans that would go far beyond “reforming” the F.B.I., even though its Senate-confirmed directors in the modern era have all been Republicans. They want to rip it up and start again.
“The F.B.I. has become a political weapon for the ruling elite rather than an impartial, law-enforcement agency,” said Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, a mainstay of the conservative movement since the Reagan years. He added, “Small-ball reforms that increase accountability within the F.B.I. fail to meet the moment. The F.B.I. must be rebuilt from the ground up — reforming it in its current state is impossible.”
Conservative media channels and social media influencers have been hammering the F.B.I. and the Justice Department for months since the F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago, following a playbook they honed while defending Mr. Trump during the investigation into whether his campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
Senator Tim Scott is among the other Republican presidential candidates who say the Justice Department is politicized.Credit...Travis Dove for The New York Times
On its most-watched nighttime programs, Fox News has been all-in on attacks against the Justice Department, including the accusation, presented without evidence, that Mr. Biden had directed the prosecution of Mr. Trump. As the former president addressed his supporters on Tuesday night at his Bedminster club, Fox News displayed a split screen — Mr. Trump on the right and Mr. Biden on the left. The chyron on the bottom of the screen read: “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.”
As president, Mr. Trump saw his attorney general as simply another one of his personal lawyers. He was infuriated when his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, recused himself from the Russia investigation — and then refused to reverse that decision to shut down the case.
After firing Mr. Sessions, Mr. Trump believed he had found someone who would do his bidding in William P. Barr, who had been in the role during George H.W. Bush’s presidency. Mr. Barr had an expansive view of a president’s constitutionally prescribed powers, and shared Mr. Trump’s critical views of the origins of the Russia investigation.
Under Mr. Barr, the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors’ recommendations on the length of a sentence for Mr. Trump’s longest-serving political adviser, Roger J. Stone Jr., and sought to shut down a case against Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who had already pleaded guilty. Both cases stemmed from the Russia investigation.
But when Mr. Trump wanted to use the Justice Department to stay in power after he lost the election, he grew enraged when Mr. Barr refused to comply. Mr. Barr ultimately resigned in late 2020.
Jonathan Swan is a political reporter who focuses on campaigns and Congress. As a reporter for Axios, he won an Emmy Award for his 2020 interview of then-President Donald J. Trump, and the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award for “overall excellence in White House coverage” in 2022. @jonathanvswan
Charlie Savage is a Washington-based national security and legal policy correspondent. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald. His most recent book is “Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy.” @charlie_savage • Facebook
Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent and the author of “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.” She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on President Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. @maggieNYT
A version of this article appears in print on June 16, 2023, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Allies Plan to Stifle Justice Dept.. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Powerful people installed Biden so that he can take orders, not give them. Joe Biden's been groomed his whole career to take orders. And now that he's literally slept his way to the top, they won't let him go anywhere. The FBI put their guy in the White House. "You think we're just going to, like, let voters decide if he should serve four more years? We can't afford to take that risk."
Joe Biden has been an intelligence op since he was vice president. One of the FBI's top informants, a guy with impeccable credentials, a great track record, reported an allegation that Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe -- right under Barack Obama's nose -- from a foreign national in exchange for a policy decision. They've been blackmailing Joe Biden with this for a decade. Well, until a whistleblower came forward. And now, James Comer wants the document released to Congress and the FBI's caught in a cover-up.
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HANNITY (HOST): We get to the 2020 election and what happened? They had Hunter Biden's laptop since December of 2019. They verified it according to John Solomon [NOTE NO ID AFFILIATION] in the spring of 2020.
But yet, we had FBI agents that were meeting weekly in the months leading up to the 2020 election pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story by telling them directly, "You're likely going to be the victim of a misinformation campaign. It may be about Hunter. It may be about Joe Biden. You better be ready." But they knew the laptop story was coming and they knew Rudy Giuliani had a copy of it.
JEANINE PIRRO (GUEST): Well, you know what the problem is with that? The problem is that is election interference. That is a crime. It's not only a constitutional violation of the First Amendment and the right of the press to be able to discuss things that are in the news. But they literally interfered with an election. We know that by the polls that came out afterwards that indicated that people would have changed their votes.
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two House Republican leaders on Wednesday in a letter to CIA Director William J. Burns threatened to subpoena the agency over documents that they say show a coordinated effort to falsely discredit an ongoing Hunter Biden investigation.
Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Turner, both Ohio Republicans, said in a news release that they have “renewed their requests for documents related to the investigation and warned that compulsory process may be necessary if the agency does not comply.”
Jordan, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and Turner, who chairs the Intelligence Committee, in the letter said their committees are investigating an Oct. 10, 2020 “Public Statement” signed by 51 former intelligence community officials on the president’s son’s emails.
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“This statement, signed by former intelligence community officials using their official titles and emphasizing their national security credentials, suggested that public reporting about Hunter Biden’s business dealings and Biden family influence-peddling ‘ha[d] all the hallmarks of a Russian information operation,’” the letter said.
“We have since learned that the statement was drafted and disseminated following communications between former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell and Biden campaign advisor—now Secretary of State—Antony Blinken.”
Jordan and Turner in the letter said the CIA is in possession of documents that are “responsive to our requests and necessary to our oversight.”
“The Committees have received evidence that the CIA, or at least an employee of the CIA, may have helped to solicit signatories for the statement about Hunter Biden,” the letter said.
“If accurate, this information raises fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA in helping to falsely discredit allegations about the Biden family in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election.”
The letter said that the CIA provided a “minimal production of documents” on May 9 but said the CIA admitted it hadn’t performed a comprehensive records search, noting that a CIA staffer in a May 12 phone conversation, committed to cooperating in full with the Committees’ oversight.
“We fully expect the CIA to produce all responsive documents to the Committees’ March 21, 2023, request in unredacted form no later than May 30, 2023. If the CIA does not produce all responsive documents, the Committees may resort to compulsory process.”
Read the full letter here.
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Representative James Comer (R-Kentucky, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, once again fell flat during an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo over supposed evidence of criminal activities that the GOP claims to have accumulated against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Following a series of unendearing interviews this week, Comer on Thursday insisted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice are stymieing their probe into the clandestine connections that Republicans believe the Bidens have with international interests.
Politico noted on May 3rd that while Comer and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) "asserted that the FBI has material outlining 'an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions,'" Comer and Grassley have "provided no further detail on the nature of those allegations."
READ MORE: House GOP Oversight warns DOJ: 'Do not indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday'
Politico also explained that although "Comer and Grassley say they became aware of the potential existence of material underpinning the anti-Biden allegations from a'highly credible whistleblower' who contacted lawmakers to assert knowledge of a conversation the FBI had with a confidential source... the two Republicans provided no information on the purported whistleblower’s background, or how that person would have knowledge of an alleged conversation with an FBI source."
Over the past week, Comer and his confederates have stumbled when questioned about what proof they have against the Bidens, prompting skepticism among normally friendly conservative media anchors.
Such was the case on Thursday when Comer spoke with Bartiromo.
"And we're going to move forward with Plan B and I, and it's unfortunate that we have to do this. It's unfortunate that, uh, neither Senator Grassley nor I have one ounce of confidence in the leadership of the FBI right now, or the DOJ. Uh, but we're gonna move forward. They're not going to obstruct our investigation or corruption in this White House. And we're gonna continue to, to press and, and get answers and provide the American people with the facts," Comer said.
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Congressman, what's Plan B?" Bartiromo asked.
Comer had no substantive response.
"Well, stay tuned. Maria. You'll be the first person that'll know. I, I can assure you," he replied. "But it's, uh, you know, we assumed the FBI would continue this pattern of behavior of, uh, you know, acting independently. I mean, this is an example of the deep state, uh, and thefourth branch of government."
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READ MORE: 'Show the goods': Fox News host calls out House Republican over lack of Hunter Biden evidence
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Right-wing media are fearmongering that the FBI is waging “an assault on religion and Christianity” after an internal memo was leaked from the FBI about investigating potential radicalization at select traditionalist Catholic churches in Virginia. However, the memo was withdrawn and the FBI has reiterated that it does not open investigations “based on the religious beliefs—to include Catholicism—of the subject involved.”
In February, internal documents leaked to a right-wing former FBI agent revealed that the FBI had attempted to develop insider sources in select traditionalist Catholic churches in Richmond, Virginia, to investigate possible radicalization. On April 10, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued a subpoena for FBI Director Christopher Wray to release the records on these probes, accusing the bureau of seeking to “enlist Catholic houses of worship as potential sources to monitor and report on their parishioners.”
The internal memo makes reference to the FBI’s interest in identifying “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics,” who are described as having an “adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.” Christopher Dunham, the FBI’s acting assistant director of congressional affairs, has said that the report “did not meet the FBI's exacting standards and was withdrawn,” and “upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters removed it from our internal system. The FBI also initiated a review — which is now ongoing.” Dunham also stressed to Jordan that the bureau “does not categorize investigations as domestic terrorism based on the religious beliefs—to include Catholicism—of the subject involved."
But in reaction to the news, right-wing media freaked out about the memo, calling it “an assault on religion and Christianity” and an example of the government’s “targeting of faithful Catholics,” while others pressured the FBI to instead target “Antifa and the trans radicals”:
- During the April 11 episode of Hannity, Fox News host Sean Hannity described the memo as “an assault on religion and Christianity.” Hannity also asked guest Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) if Attorney General Merrick Garland was lying during his Senate testimony about “sending agents into Catholic churches.”
- On the April 11 episode of Fox News’ Outnumbered, radio host Ben Ferguson said the FBI’s memo is an example of what “communists used to do, which is target people you want to take out,” and criticized the organization for “go[ing] after an entire religion.”
- During the April 11 episode of Fox & Friends, Fox News media contributor Leo Terrell called the FBI’s probe into Catholic churches “a war by the extreme left against religion” and claimed that “the far left haveweaponized the FBI.”
- Radio host Benny Johnson tweeted on April 11: “Why is the FBI targeting Catholic churches? If they want to root out domestic terrorism, they should probably start with Antifa and thetrans radicals. Not Christians.”
- The Federalist’s April 11 article, titled “House Weaponization Committee Subpoenas FBI Director Over Agency Targeting Catholics,” described the memo as a “targeting of faithful Catholics by the premier U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agency” and attacked the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops for not speaking out against the FBI.
- “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander sent out a Telegram message on April 10, calling the FBI “apostates” and warning his followers to “be careful of Feds infiltrating the Church and our political movements. They’re here to break us up.”
- Alexander also called theFBI “sickos” for “spying on Catholics while they fake worship.”
- In reference to the FBI memo, Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren tweeted, “The assault on Christianity continues! The FBI sought to develop sources in Catholic churches to combat domestic terrorism?! You’ve got to be kidding me!”
- Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk attacked the FBI for investigating domestic extremism in Catholic churches, asking if it would investigate “radical trans groups like the one that assaulted Riley Gaines? Or militant pro-abortion groups like Jane's Revenge? Or Treehouse Antifa that attacked Cop City?”
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aha hmmn: talk radio is losing meaning as podcasts can have video? buth thse build on radio foundation?
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/radical-right-wing-broadcaster-pete-santilli-calls-for-obama-and-clinton-to-be-executed-in-response-to-trumps-indictment/
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when news reports first broke that former President Donald Trump was likely to be indicted over the hush money payments he made to a pornographic actress with whom he had an alleged extramarital affair, radical right-wing broadcaster Pete Santilli reacted by calling on the military and law enforcement to round up former President Barack Obama and other members of a supposed “criminal cabal,” line them up against a wall, and execute them.
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santilli is a right-wing conspiracy theorist who was deeply involved in the 2014 Bundy standoff and who once declaredthat he wanted to shoot Hillary Clinton “right in the vagina.” Give that Santilli has used his radio program to encourage violence against his perceived political opponents in the past, it was no surprise when he reacted on Saturday to the news that Trump had in fact been indicted by doubling down on his call for the military to rise up and execute Obama and others.
Santilli used the Saturday program of his “The Pete Santilli Show” to lay out a plan that he said will result in Trump being restored to the White House by the end of the month. Santilli’s plan revolves around having 150 million United States citizens send $1 to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign as a pledge of their intention to vote for him. Once Trump raises $150 million in individual $1 donations, Santilli asserted that this would conclusively demonstrate that there is no need for a presidential election in 2024 at which point the military would immediately restore Trump to office and execute his political enemies.
Santilli said this would be a “constitutional restoration” that he likened to the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1989.
“Every single one of you that’s wearing a badge and a gun, be forewarned: We the people are rising. Serve us,” Santilli declared. “It’s not sooner or later; it’s now.”
“I’m escalating things because they’re escalating taking away my freedom,” he continued. “I wanted to wait till 2024, but no, they want to meddle in my election in 2023. Not sooner or later, now! I’m liighting the candle. Will you join me?”
“You in the military, you need to work for us and protect us,” Santilli said. “Ceaușescu was taken to the concrete wall and executed as a symbol of what I’m talking about. I want to set up a scenario where themilitary and the police have no choice but to execute Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton—through proper process. I’m not in charge of that.… I think I share a lot in common with150 million other people that don’t want communism, and if we come together and we say that the military and police are to set up a law that requires when you get overthrown by we the people and a constitutional restoration happens, that you should be swiftly brought to a concrete wall andhold a little hearing and fire away."[vid]
it is worth remembering that Santilli has hosted numerous Republican candidates for office on his show including Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel, Arizona congressional candidate Jerone Davison, and Kari Lake. Lake, the broadcaster-turned-MAGA-cultist who lost her bid for governor of Arizona last year, appeared on Santilli’s show in February, where she praised Santilli and agreed with his assertion that thenation has been overthrown by “a CIA coup.”
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-host-pete-hegseth-trump-mugshot-will-be-symbol-resistance-against-uniparty-deep-state
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Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) revealed over the weekend that he and other right-wing lawmakers may intend to pursue criminal charges against members of the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection.
"Is there a chance that you guys could prosecute certain members of Congress, Congress, or former members of Congress over the January 6th riots?" asked Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson.
"I, I, I would not, uh, leave it just that. I think there's also military that are involved and I think that there, you know, heads have to roll.Otherwise, you condone this, uh, lawlessness and that's what America sees. We see lawlessness in Chicago. We see lawless on our border. We see lawlessness everywhere," Gosar said. "And that's part of the purpose. Precipitating actions that congresses is had allowed."
How Paul Gosar emerged as a far-right favorite and subsequently the 'most dangerous man in Congress’
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https://www.mediamatters.org/murdoch-family/steve-bannon-claims-tucker-carlson-had-one-night-push-january-6-revisionism-murdochs
https://www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-criticizes-tucker-carlsons-rewriting-january-6-it-wasnt-peaceful-event
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https://www.alternet.org/ryan-zinke-accuses-deep-state/
United States Congressman Ryan Zinke (R-Montana) delivered a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday in which he proclaimed that a "deep state" along with "liberals" are engaged in a sinister agenda targeting himself and other conservatives.
Prior to his election to Congress in the November 2022 midterms, Zinke served as secretary of the interior under former President Donald Trump. He resigned in December 2018 amid a flurry of ethics scandals and suspicions of corruption.
Nonetheless, on Tuesday, Zinke declared himself a victim of a vast conspiracy and endorsed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-California) proposal to create a subcommittee tasked with investigating various federal agencies that have open inquiries into Trump.
READ MORE: Paul Krugman: House Republicans’ economics are as 'divorced from reality' as their election lies
"Mister Speaker, I rise today in support of a select committee to investigate the weaponization of the federal government, something I have a lot of experience firsthand. I proudly served as the fifty-second secretary of interior, and despite the deep state's repeatedly attempts to stop me, I stand before you as a duly elected member of the United States Congress andtell you that a deep state exists and it is perhaps the strongest covert weapon the left has against the American people," Zinke said.
"There is no doubt the federal governmentdeep state coordinates with liberal activists and uses politicians and willing media to carry their water. The deep state runs secret messaging campaigns with one goal in mind – to increase its power to censor and persuade the American people. Dark money groups, funded by liberal billionaires and foreign investors, funnel money to shell organizations and repeatedly attempt to destroy the American West. They want to wipe out the American cowboy completely,remove public access to our lands, and turn Montana into a national park. They want to control our land and our lifestyle," Zinke alleged before claiming that he amassed so-called evidence from a right-wing non-profit.
"Mister Speaker," Zinke added, "I'd like to submit a five-part series of investigative articles by the Capitol Research Center entitled,Arabella's Long War Keep It in the Ground into the congressional record."
Watch below or at this link.
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Special counsel Robert Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr, uncovered possible financial crimes by Donald Trump but made no attempt to prosecute them, The New York Times reveals in massive, bombshell report published Thursday after a months-long investigation.
“Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump. The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it,” The Times’ Charlie Savage, Adam Goldman, and Katie Benner report.
The “potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes” came during a trip Barr and Durham, his special counsel, took together. They “decided that the tip was too serious and credible to ignore.”
But, “Mr. Durham never filed charges, and it remains unclear what level of an investigation it was, what steps he took, what he learned and whether anyone at the White House ever found out. The extraordinary fact that Mr. Durham opened a criminal investigation that included scrutinizing Mr. Trump has remained secret.”
That’s just one aspect of The Times’ extensive and disturbing report.
It also reveals that there was little justification for Barr to install Durham as a special counsel to investigate what Trump wrongly maintained was an unjustifiable investigation into his ties to Russia.
In fact, The Times “found that the main thrust of the Durham inquiry was marked by some of the very same flaws — including a strained justification for opening it and its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theories that would never be charged in court — that Trump allies claim characterized the Russia investigation.”
In another shocking revelation, The Times reports Durham “used Russian intelligence memos — suspected by other U.S. officials of containing disinformation — to gain access to emails of an aide toGeorge Soros, the financier and philanthropist who is a favorite target of the American right and Russian state media.”
The Times does not explain how Durham obtained the Russian disinformation.
“Mr. Durham used grand jury powers to keep pursuing the emails even after a judge twice rejected his request for access to them. The emails yielded no evidence that Mr. Durham has cited in any case he pursued.”
Attorneys on Durham’s team apparently had significant qualms with his actions, leading at least two to resign.
“There were deeper internal fractures on the Durham team than previously known,” The Times reports. “The publicly unexplained resignation in 2020 of his No. 2 and longtime aide, Nora R. Dannehy, was the culmination of a series of disputes between them over prosecutorial ethics. A year later, two more prosecutors strongly objected to plans to indict a lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign based on evidence they warned was too flimsy, and one left the team in protest of Mr. Durham’s decision to proceed anyway. (A jury swiftly acquitted the lawyer.)”
BARR THREATENED NSA
The Times also reports that Attorney General Barr bought into Trump’s false claims that there had been “no collusion” between the Trump camp and Russia.
Importantly,The Times states point-blank that the Mueller Report “detailed ‘numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign,’and it established both how Moscow had worked to help Mr. Trump win and how his campaign had expected to benefit from the foreign interference.”
According to The Times’ account, “soon after giving Mr. Durham his assignment,” in May of 2019, “Mr. Barr summoned the head of the National Security Agency, Paul M. Nakasone, to his office. In front of several aides, Mr. Barr demanded that the N.S.A. cooperate with the Durham inquiry.”
The NSA is a wholly separate entity from the Dept. of Justice. It is an agency under the Dept. of Defense and reports to the powerful Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Barr apparently did not care, and, “repeating a sexual vulgarity, he warned that if the N.S.A. wronged him by not doing all it could to help Mr. Durham, Mr. Barr would do the same to the agency.”
DURHAM TRIED TO SCUTTLE A REPORT’S FINDING THAT TRUMP-RUSSIA INVESTIGATION WAS WARRANTED
“Mr. Durham’s team spent long hours combing the C.I.A.’s files but found no way to support the allegation” that the investigation into Trump and Russia was the result of some anti-Trump deep state operation.
Barr and Durham actually “traveled abroad together to press British and Italian officials to reveal everything their agencies had gleaned about the Trump campaign and relayed to the United States, but both allied governments denied they had done any such thing. Top British intelligence officials expressed indignation to their U.S. counterparts about the accusation, three former U.S. officials said.”
The Dept. of Justice’s Inspector General’s investigation found there was, in fact, sufficient cause for the DOJ to have opened up the Trump-Russia investigation, contrary to Barr’s personal beliefs.
So he tried to have that finding removed from the final report.
The Times reports that “the broader findings contradicted Mr. Trump’s accusations and the rationale for Mr. Durham’s inquiry,” which should have shut down what ultimately became Durham’s four-year long investigation that netted almost nothing.
The DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, “found no evidence that F.B.I. actions were politically motivated. And he concluded that the investigation’s basis — an Australian diplomat’s tip that aTrump campaign adviser had seemed to disclose advance knowledge that Russia would release hacked Democratic emails — had been sufficient to lawfully open it.”
So Barr tried to discredit Horowitz’s report.
“Minutes before the inspector general’s report went online, Mr. Barr issued a statement contradicting Mr. Horowitz’s major finding, declaring that the F.B.I. opened the investigation “on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient.” He would later tell Fox News that the investigation began “without any basis,” as if the diplomat’s tip never happened.”
Read the entire Times report here.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-appeared-one-fox-news-top-january-6-conspiracy-theorists-sell-his-conspiracy
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ted Cruz appeared with one of Fox News’ top January 6 conspiracy theorists to sell his conspiracy-laden book
WRITTEN BY SOPHIE LAWTON
PUBLISHED 10/24/22
SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX) APPEARED ON MARK LEVIN’S FOX NEWS SHOW TO PROMOTE HIS NEW BOOK, JUSTICE CORRUPTED: HOW THE LEFT WEAPONIZED OUR LEGAL SYSTEM,AND PARTICIPATED IN AN INTERVIEW FILLED WITH CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND ELECTION DENIALISM.
Appearing on October 23, Cruz told Levin he wrote the book because Democrats have “turned the Department of Justice, they’ve turned the FBI, they’ve turned the intelligence community into political enforcers.” He said the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden has been taken over by the “deep state” and said it poses “a fundamental threat to our liberty.”
Levin is one of Fox News’ biggest election denialists and a major apologist for the January 6 insurrection:
- Levin defended Donald Trump’s fake elector scheme and the former president’s claims of a stolen election. He claimed that “the system is built for objections” and that “when people say that Trump was trying to reverse an election — it's not over until Congress says it's over.”
- Levin also claimedTrump’s potential tampering with January 6 witnesses would not be against the law and downplayed claims Trump directed the Secret Service to bring him to the Capitol on January 6.
- When coup memo author John Eastman was under investigation by the January 6 committee, Levin repeatedly defended the disgraced law professor, saying he “didn’t do anything that was corrupt.” Levin demanded the release of emails between him and Eastman secured by the committee, claiming, “I'd love to know how they got them, apart from what's in them. Nobody came to me, I didn't get a subpoena.”
- Levin also downplayed texts from Fox host Sean Hannity used by the January 6 committee to show Hannity’s hypocrisy over the insurrection.
- Levin downplayed sedition charges against members of the paramilitary group the Oath Keepers, claiming that “it’s still not an insurrection.”
- Levin attacked the January 6 committee, telling his audience, “I hope you don’t watch,” and calling the hearings “ridiculous.” He has also called the committee “an internal enemy” and said it represents “unprecedented totalitarianism.”
- He called for Republicans to investigate the January 6 committee and even threatenedstaffers.
- Levin pushed the lie that Vice President Mike Pence could have stopped the certification of the 2020 election and the conspiracy theory that the FBI instigated the insurrection.
- Prior to the January 6 insurrection, Levin pushed members of Congress to reject the election results, claiming refusing to do so is equivalent to “shredding the Constitution.”
Given Levin’s history, It is no surprise that Cruz decided to promote his revisionist history book on his show.
When asked about the Department of Justice’s handling of January 6 insurrectionists, Cruz said his book includes “the first inside account of what happened on January 6.” Cruz showed that the book includes both election denial and references to right-wing conspiracy theories, noting, “I take them through the evidence of election fraud and voter fraud in November 2020, which the Democrats and the corporate media insist doesn’t exist,” and, “I ask in the book questions like, who is Ray Epps?” (Right-wing media baselessly accused Ray Epps of being an FBI plant who incited the insurrection.
[vid oct 23 life, lib & levin
cruz also revealed that his book discusses “George Soros prosecutors,” saying there is “a really dangerous phenomenon where Soros has put millions in terms of electing radicals who let violent criminals go.” Cruz used the Waukesha, Wisconsin, massacre suspect as an example, claiming a “George Soros prosecutor” let him out of jail before he drove a car into a parade, repeating a conspiracy theory about the event and a commonright-wing trope about the philanthropist
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In a bizarre parting comment to promote the book, Cruz noted the last time he was on Levin's show to promote a book it “shot to number on the Amazon bestseller list” and was released “when Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died,” noting “I'm hopeful we'll see the same thing.” sales vs death presumably
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EASTMAN justifies election fuckery b/c deep state , also says secret compartment of bogus votes in machines GUK
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holy trickydick Batman!
In a column for MSNBC, the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI claims something stinks about reports that former FBI directorJames Comey and former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe were each subjected to a rare and intrusive IRS audits after falling out of favor with Donald Trump.
According to New York Times report, the two high-ranking officials who were ousted by the former president were on the receiving end of rarest of all tax audits jokingly known as "an autopsy without the benefit of death,” and the fact that Trump loathed both men for not buckling to his demands should set off red flags about political manipulation.
In his column Frank Figliuzzi pointed out: "There were almost 153 million individual returns filed for 2017, and the IRS selected only 5,000 for this most comprehensive of audits — that’s about one return out of every 30,600. If that’s not 'random' enough for you: McCabe’s attorney was audited, too."
According to the former FBI man, Trump has often made mention of rogue federal employees doing political dirty work and that should be taken as a clue that something is rotten in the IRS.
"During Trump’s administration, we heard him endlessly rant about a so-called 'deep state' of federal employees buried deep within government agencies and intent on using their positions to do him harm. What we really need to know is the extent to which Trump appointees and loyalists who abused their positions may still be in government and still working on behalf of a former president instead of working for the American people," he wrote before focusing on current IRS commissioner Charles Rettig -- h who happens to be a Trump appointee.
Lauding the IRS announcing an inspector general investigation, Figliuzzi suggested Rettig should be taken off-duty until the inquiry is completed.
"Rettig should be walked out of his office — now. At a minimum, he should be suspended pending the Inspector General inquiry.If the IG determines anyone at IRS violated the law, there should be a criminal referral and a swift prosecution," he wrote. "Congress too must open an investigation into what transpired with these highly invasive audits and plug any gaps identified in a program that may well have been misused to target Americans."
Conceding it might all be an extraordinary coincidence, he added, "...a potential abuse of a system that touches every American’s life is a matter that goes beyond Trump and his own penchant for vengeance. Americans need to trust that their government will not turn its full punitive powers against them simply because they incurred the wrath of a president. If not, this will someday happen again – and we’ll all be wondering how we ignored the lightning strikes that set our democracy ablaze."
You can read more here.
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plus quasi-legally it is self-defense; also note 2nd civil war as false flag deep state plot
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Ali Alexander, an organizer with the so-called Stop the Steal campaign, told radical conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Wednesday that “there is a time for legitimate violence when there is legitimate tyranny.” The two agreed that now is not the time but began to discuss what would constitute “legitimate tyranny.”
Alexander and Jones are people of interest to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Alexander organized the rallies and strategy of the Stop the Steal campaign, which perpetuated the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and worked desperately to keep him in power, while Jones and his InfoWars’ crew spoke at the rallies and advertised the campaign on their networks.
In December, Alexander sat for eight hours of testimony in front of the House select committee and threw fellow rally organizers, Amy and Kylie Kremer and Katrina Pierson, under the bus;Jones says he pled the Fifth when he met with the committee. Last Friday, Alexander told the New York Times through a lawyer that he would cooperate with the Department of Justice in its investigation of the attack. But by Tuesday, Alexander joined Jones on “InfoWars” to suggest he would never do so.
On the Wednesday edition of “InfoWars,” Alexander repeated part of his conspiracy theory that he shared with Jones the day prior: that the Jan. 6 investigations were part of a“deep state” plot to get rid of elections, the Republican Party, and Christians, with the goal to usher in a “stateless New World Order.” A civil war orchestrated by the deep statewould be central to this effort, according to Alexander. In response to Jones asking how to avoid such a civil war, Alexander suggested viewers pray, before discussing “legitimate violence.”
“The second byproduct of prayer is that it makes us sane,” Alexander said. “So when we’re getting this deluge of persecution, we’re not saying, in our gut primal level, ‘We need to go bomb something, we need to go shoot something’; it’s ‘I will not give them an inch or become the monster they want us to become.’”
“Now, folks, I’m going to say something really crazy,” Alexander continued. “I’m not going to deny that the people have the right of revolution. I’m not going to deny 1776. I’m not going to deny there is a time for legitimate violence when there is legitimate tyranny. And by the way, the Declaration of Independence even outlines—”
“Says it’s your right and duty,” Jones interrupted. “But they are just losing right now, we’re winning politically. We don’t want to do it yet, but you’re not denying we have the right.”
“Right,” Alexander replied. “I’m not denying the—I’m saying it’s not the time now, that’s for sure.”
“But it’s definitely a card we have in our hand we’re allowed to play,” Jones said.
“Right! Right,” Alexander said.
“When all else is lost you gotta do it,” Jones said.
“If they start ripping your children from your home and doing reassignment surgeries—” Alexander began.
“Everyone knows when the time is,” Jones interrupted. “The point is,anybody trying to lure you into plots to kidnap governors, anybody who wants you tooffensively attack, that’s not what we do.”
“Frankly, a discerning mind and a mind in prayer, frankly, would not punch cops at the Capitol, would not kidnap governors,” Alexander said.
“You know it makes us look bad!” Jones said
“And it won’t be successful,” Alexander said.
“Not only do I not want to randomly punch cops, it’s dumb!” Jones exclaimed.
“It’s very dumb,” Alexander agreed. “It’s dumb, and it displeases God I think. But you know, these cops need to stop complying with COVID orders and lockdowns and stealing.”
“Yeah, no, they’re putting themselves in that position,” Jones said.
Alexander regularlyuses violent rhetoric and has called for civil war and rebellion. On the eve of the insurrection, Alexander led a Stop the Steal crowd in chants of “Victory or death!” and declared “1776 is always an option.”
As Luke O’Brien reported in HuffPost, Alexander considers violence a “natural right”:
On Twitter, Alexander had called violence a “natural right.” He was a prominent influencer on the platform, with almost 200,000 followers. “I am a sincere advocate for violence and war, when justified,” he tweeted in 2019. “I recognize no law above what is natural and good.” A militant Christianity has permeated his extremism; he has spoken often about being an agent of God.
Tags: Alex Jones Ali Alexander Capitol Insurrection conspiracy theories Jan. 6 violent rhetoric InfoWars
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'Birds Aren’t Real': How a mock conspiracy theory caught on with the far right
A Birds Aren't Real billboard in Memphis in 2019, Wikimedia Commons
Alex Henderson April 18, 2022
When Arkansas native turned Memphis resident Peter McIndoe invented the Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy theory in January 2017 — the month of former President Donald Trump’s inauguration — he was making fun of far-right conspiracy theorists. It was an exercise in political satire; McIndoe, now 23, was mocking the type of MAGA Republicans who listen to listen to Alex Jones’ “Infowars” and embrace Pizzagate and other ludicrous conspiracy theories. But Birds Aren’t Real caught on, and according to The Guardian’s Zoe Williams, some conspiracy theorists on the far right actually take it seriously.
Birds Aren’t Real claims that the “Deep State” killed off all of the real birds in the United States and replaced them with drones that are made to look like birds — and the drones are being used to spy on Americans. McIndoe never really believed that, but he found that some far-right conspiracy theorists took him seriously and believed that all the birds flying around were drones.
McIndoe, Williams notes, unveiled his Birds Aren’t Real claims at a rally in Memphis in January 2017.
“Someone was filming him and put it on Facebook,” Williams explains. “It went viral, and Memphis is still the center of the Birds Aren’t Real movement. Or is it a movement? You could call it a situationist spectacle, a piece of rolling performance art or a collective satire. MSNBC called it a ‘mass coping mechanism’ for Generation Z, and as it has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, ‘mass,’ at least, is on the money.”
The audience for far-right conspiracy theories only grew during Trump’s four years in the White House, from QAnon to the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. And according to Williams, Birds Aren’t Real is “the most perfect, playful distillation of where we are in relation to the media landscape we’ve built but can’t control, and which only half of us can find our way around.”
“It’s a made-up conspiracy theory that is just realistic enough, as conspiracies go, to convince QAnon supporters that birds aren’t real, but has just enough satirical flags that Generation Z recognizes immediately what is going on,” Williams observes. “It’s a conspiracy-within-a-conspiracy, a little aneurysm of reality and mockery in the bloodstream of the mad Pizzagate-style theories that animate the ‘alt-right.’”
McIndoe recalls that he was shocked by how quickly Birds Aren’t Real caught on.
The Arkansas native/Memphis resident told The Guardian, “I remember seeing videos of people chanting: ‘Birds aren’t real,’ at high-school football games, and seeing graffiti of birds aren’t real. At first, I thought: ‘This is crazy,’ but then I wondered: ‘What is making this resonate with people?’…. Teenagers understand it, they don’t need footnote.”
McIndoe himself isn’t a MAGA Republican or a far-right Christian nationalist; he was a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016. But he grew up around evangelical Christian fundamentalists in a rural area of Arkansas, and Birds Aren’t Real was his way of mocking the far right — even though some conspiracy theorists took it seriously.
“Real conspiracy theorists will approach me like I’m their brother, like I’m part of their team,” McIndoe told The Guardian. “They will start spouting hateful rhetoric and racist ideas, because they feel as if I’m safe.”
McIndoe doesn’t believe that the demand for far-right conspiracy theorists will be going away anytime soon. In fact, he believes the worst is yet to come.
“I don’t think the madness is going to necessarily end,” McIndoe told The Guardian. “I think the lunacy is going to become more intense.”
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https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/lin-wood/
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/msnbc-angelo-carusone-describes-how-fox-news-picking-crazy-things-fever-swamps-and-pushing
ALICIA MENDEZ (HOST): Time, again, to raise the alarm about the danger of selling lies as journalism. We know the 1/6 committee has revealed texts from Fox News hosts sent to members of the Trump administration as the riot unfolded. But now Fox is apparently so powerful that it now has a sitting senator backtracking, and apologizing for calling the Capitol a terrorist attack. Joining us now to discuss, the president of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone. Angelo, thank you so much for being with us. Listen, this is your bread and butter. This is what you do day in, day out. So when I saw this, I needed to know what you thought about why this unfolded the way it did, what it tells us about Fox News, and what it tells us about the state of the Republican Party.
ANGELO CARUSONE (PRESIDENT OF MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA): Well, there's a lot there. And I would just say there's one thing that's really important here, it's that one of Ted Cruz's penances wasn't just that he had to backtrack. During that same segment, he also endorsed and started to carry water for Tucker Carlson and Fox News’ conspiracy theory that the attack on January 6 was actually a FBI-orchestrated false flag operation. That happened in that exact interview as well, and that was Ted Cruz's way of trying to demonstrate that – to get Tucker and the audience to believe them.
And the reason I start with that example is because it illustrates a few things: One, that it is really here that Fox is really at the nexus of power. Because they weren’t just able to get him to apologize and to backtrack, but actually to start carrying water for Fox News' narrative. And that's where the power really comes from. And if I would describe it, I would say it's unrivaled agenda-setting power at this point. And that was always their purpose. Remember, they were born – I think the way you described it at the beginning was spot-on. They’re not a news operation, they were born as a political operation. That was the entire theory behind Fox News. Sure, they make a bunch of money on the side, but that isn't the goal. The goal really is political power, and the Ted Cruz thing is just an example of it.
MENDEZ: The reason I was so struck by this, and you know, is we always come back to this question of who is a trusted messenger, who could actually be the person to say the election was fair and true and we have to believe this vote count and we have to move on, and what happened on January 6 was an attack on American democracy and here's the path forward. When you see someone who attempts to do that even for a fleeting second, then taken down so quickly, it diminishes hope that there is even a possibility that there can be that messenger. Because the other side is clearly so powerful.
CARUSONE: Yes, it does. It actually does diminish that hope, because we actually need Fox's – I mean, just imagine COVID and the way that the country responded to a public health crisis, not a political question, but a public health crisis, if Fox News didn't begin by calling COVID a hoax. Then promotes – for two months promoting a fantasy treatment of hydroxychloroquine, and then the remaining summer downplaying the threat of the virus, and then now, of course, their antagonism toward vaccinations. It would be a different response, right? I mean, and that just illustrates to your point how depressing it can be sometimes. And that doesn't mean we're stuck with it. I think part of it is, and I think broadly themedia and the public has been slow to react, because, you know, we value free speech and they exploit that. They exploit one of the American values, is that we care about freedom of expression and free ideas. They exploit that, and that means they exploit that to get away with accountability.
And so many have said, well, they get to have their opinions, they get to have their take, but what the result of that is, is that we ignore their destructive influence. And then as a result of that, then the accountability and consequences needed to diminish and dilute what that destructive potential really is. I mean, they have hosted people who don’t – members of Congress that don’t support Joe Biden as president more than 947 times. Ted Cruz is an anomaly on Fox News, not the norm, when it comes to who they host and who they promote. And if you think about that in the context of his political aspirations -- and he's not the only one, he can't run for president if Fox News ices him out. It's a dealbreaker, forget about it. There's no chance.And that then portends the future and it gets to, I think, an important part of this discussion, which is that we're going to have to recognize the threat and then start to take more serious concerted efforts to hold them accountable and force some change.
MENDEZ: Angelo, I only have about 30 seconds left, but I want to loop back to something you said in that first answer, which is that what struck you wasn't just the fact that Ted Cruz came on and apologized, but then he was forced to carry water for this conspiracy theory. What does it tell you that a year out, they are feeling the need to complicate and heighten the lies that they have already put out there?
CARUSONE: Yeah. This is exactly how they're going to retain their power. And it says a lot about what this means for the future. Because I said they were unrivaled. And the reason they are unrivaled is because Limbaugh is not around anymore and the rest of the right-wing media is really fragmented. The way that Fox has responded is by picking up crazy things from the fever swamps, things that wouldn't have made Fox News five years ago, and now they're actively now promoting them on the channel. The FBI false flag thing is one of these examples. And so what does that mean? More stuff coming from what otherwise would have been the fringes that never would have seen the light of day. And so the fact that they're going to turn people like Ted Cruz into validators and messengers for it is quite bad.
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Steve Bannon regularly hosts a QAnon adherent to push for a Pennsylvania election “audit”
Toni Shuppe and Audit The Vote PA’s connections to QAnon closely mirrors groups associated with the Arizona “audit”
WRITTEN BY JUSTIN HOROWITZ
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DANIL CUFFE
PUBLISHED 09/17/21
Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been frequently hosting QAnon conspiracy theorist Toni Shuppe on his podcast to push election lies and advocate for a Pennsylvania “audit” of the 2020 election.
Toni Shuppe is a founding member and the director of Public Relations of Audit The Vote PA, an “election integrity” group whose goal is to jumpstart an Arizona-style audit of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. Shuppe and her group have pressured state Senate members repeatedly via social media to advocate for their cause.
With the recent development of Pennsylvania Republicans subpoenaing personal voter information, Audit The Vote PA’s tactics on the ground, connections to QAnon, and relationships with state senators are starting to closely resemble that of the Arizona election audit.
Audit The Vote PA’s organizing work and conspiracy theories even led to an election commissioner in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, to receive death threats after one of the group’s leaders instructed her followers to email the commissioner their “thoughts.” This incident also mirrors incidents in Arizona and other states in which federal officials have faced death threats over election audits.
A June report from Insider detailed Audit The Vote PA’s connection to Pennsylvania Republican state Senator and QAnon adherent Doug Mastriano. Mastriano has appeared at multiple Audit The Vote PA-sponsored events and is listed as the featured speaker on more than one occasion. Insider’s report also described Shuppe’s own history of promoting QAnon hashtags and the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
When asked by Insider if Audit The Vote PA was associated with QAnon, the group stated that none of the organizers “consider themselves followers of QAnon" and are “aware” but “not affiliated” with the conspiracy theory.
However, Shuppe’s history of promoting these conspiracies goes beyond this reporting.
Based on a Media Matters review, there are multiple online instances of Shuppe using the QAnon hashtag “WWG1WGA,” promoting QAnon literature, posting a 9/11 conspiracy theory meme (claiming the terrorist attack was a distraction from a “gold heist”), and advertising her group’s interview with QAnon influencer RedPill78. (Zak Paine, who uses the pseudonym RedPill78, participated in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol).
During a Facebook live on January 8, Shuppe admitted to being “outside” of the Capitol during the insurrection. She claimed she didn’t see any of the “horrific things” because there are “lots of angles” of the building. During her live, Shuppe also pushed the QAnon-linked conspiracy theory that Italy meddled in the 2020 election (they didn't).
Toni Shuppe's Facebook Page
Shuppe and her lackeys were also present at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s “cyber symposium"where he spent three days spewing election conspiracy theories claiming that China rigged the 2020 election. After the event, Audit The Vote PA wrote on Telegram that one of its “biggest takeaways from the Symposium” was that “the deep state is 100% real.”
Now, Shuppe is a regular on Bannon’s podcast where she constantly updates his listeners on a Pennsylvania election “audit.”
During one of Shuppe’s podcast appearances on September 3, Bannon promoted her audit “petition” of the Pennsylvania results and asked her to talk more about it. In her response, Shuppe suggested that voter fraud evidence “has been swept under the rug.” She continued, stating that she was “clueless about politics as of March 1, 2020” and said she believes that her effort to start an audit is “evidence of God working through me” to find someone “to be held accountable” for election “anomalies.”
Shuppe also claimed during this appearance that she “personally knocked on doors" and found “proof" that ballots were "messed with.”
CitationFrom the September 3, 2021, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic
During another appearance on September 8, Shuppe promoted Audit The Vote PA’s canvass of voters in Pennsylvania. She shared that her group knocked on resident’s doors to question them about “how they voted in 2020” and “how many people are registered to vote at their house and how many people from that house actually voted.” Shuppe claimed her group is finding “massive discrepancies” and that even as far back as November and December, the group had found “78,000 phantom votes” — a number her group had extrapolated after surveying just 1,600 households. She admitted that there are people saying that Audit The Vote PA is “intimidating people, but they are completely lying.”
Bannon also brought up a canvass report linked with Liz Harris — another QAnon adherent who played a large role in bringing an audit to Arizona and conducted a voter canvass with results that were eventually debunked.
In May 2020, the Department of Justice sent a letter to the Arizona Senate stating that a voter canvass in Arizona could possibly violate federal law against voter intimidation. It is unclear whether Shuppe’s canvass violates federal law because of the accusations of intimidation by Pennsylvania residents.
CitationFrom the September 8, 2021, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic
Similarly to the QAnon groups associated with the Arizona audit, Audit The Vote PA’s pressure campaigns and groundwork seemingly appear to be helping to advance the push for a Pennsylvania audit. Shuppe has applied continued pressure on Pennsylvania state Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, a Republican, on Bannon’s show.
Just days before the Pennsylvania state Senate approved subpoenas for personal voter information from the 2020 election, Shuppe appeared on War Room to blast Corman for not asking “the right questions,” and instructed her followers to “go on their social media pages and comment” because “it's the equivalent of calling them out in the public square, if you will.” Shuppe also suggested that the state Senate “remove” Corman from the president pro tempore position when it goes back in session.
Toward the end of the interview, Bannon implied that “confrontation at the Senate level” is the right move because it’s “not moving quickly enough.”
CitationFrom the September 9, 2021, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic
For months, Bannon has had an obsession with bringing election “audits” to all 50 states and sees Pennsylvania as a particularly attractive place to spread his election fraud conspiracy theories. During the September 15 edition of his podcast, he explained that Pennsylvania is “different” because it is one of the “big industrial states that have been controlled by Democrats” and a grassroot movement pursuing an audit there will force “the establishment to respond.”
CitationFrom the September 15, 2021, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic
Bannon will not stop until he has undermined election integrity across the entire nation, and he will continue to bring conspiracy theorists and wackjobs along for the ride.
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Seminole County, Florida school board has been holding a marathon meeting on masks, which started Thursday at 8:30 AM, and is still going on after nearly nine hours. While there were many anti-science extremists, one parent's speech stood out.
A man who identified himself as Jeff James declared "there are more variants planned," the vaccine is "not a vaccine it's an experimental drug," called mask mandates "charades," and falsely claimed that "masks don't work."
"Masks are pretty much a device to enslave children, make them obedient,so they just learn to obey and not think for themselves. We need critical thinking. We don't need children that are going to be little puppets that don't say anything to speak out for themselves. We need leaders not followers."
But James did not stop there.
"The deep state medical establishmentwants all of us to be depopulated," he declared, before announcing his support for far right wing doctors whose anti-vaxx and science denialism have been repeatedly debunked. "I know you guys think that's a conspiracy theory but it's not. It's a conspiracy fact, they're all in cahoots with each other, to depopulate us, they want us divided. They want all of us to fight each other so they can win," he said, without actually explaining who "they" are....
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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) suggested on Sunday that Joe Biden's administration may use "computer-generated graphics" to fake the president's speeches.
Nunes made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News after he was asked about Biden's performance at a recent CNN town hall event.
"You know it's getting bad when the propaganda machine that the Democratic socialists control in this country -- they control 95% of the media or so," he opined. "And then you take the big tech oligarchs that control and censor what we receive via social media. When that poison gets to the average independent American, that propaganda, you know it's bad when they can't even find a 15- or 30-second soundbite out of a full-hour town hall that they can plug into their own propaganda machine."
Nunes added: "I mean, it's getting really bad. It's not just the president. They can't get any soundbites from the vice president either."
The Republican lawmaker claimed that deep state actors are "almost to the point where they're going to have to start using computer-generated graphics in order to give to the propaganda machine because they can't get good clips to sell what they're trying to sell here in Washington, which are policies that are running the country into the ground."
Watch the video below from Fox News.
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Tucker Carlson sounds increasingly frantic as Fox News refuses to corroborate his claim about the NSA
Fox News
Cody Fenwick June 30, 2021
Fox News host Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell allegation on his Monday night show: The National Security Agency, he said, was "monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air."
He added: "We have confirmed that."
Has it, in fact, been confirmed? Throughout the day Tuesday, many observers noted that the serious accusation seemed surprisingly absent from the dominant narratives on the rest of Fox News, even though it would seem to be a major story of interest beyond just the single hour Carlson hosts if it were true. But it appeared the news division of the network — traditionally considered separate from opinion shows like Carlson's — couldn't back up the claim.
On Fox News' website, an article repeated Carlson's allegations. Yet it didn't provide any new reporting, it just printed a transcript of Carlson's show. The headline on the article simply attributed the claims about the NSA to Carlson himself, though the front page of the website seemed to promote his claim as true with a different headline: "Tucker Carlson blasts Biden's NSA for spying on him to get show off the air."
And then on Tuesday evening, the NSA itself directly contradicted Carlson's central claim:
After that statement was posted, Carlson responded on air, sounding increasingly frantic about the situation, calling it "beyond Orwellian":
Carlson noted that the statement didn't specifically deny that the NSA had read his emails. On Monday, he suggested that he had confirmed the claim that NSA read his private messages because the whistleblower had "repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails." Of course, that wasn't all he said — he had alleged, and claimed he had confirmed, that the NSA was planning to leak his communications to force him off the air. That's what the NSA denied, and it's not clear if Carlson is retracting that claim.
Reached for comment, Fox News did not answer questions about whether the news section had corroborated Carlson's claim about the NSA or whether Fox News stood by his allegations in light of the NSA's denial. Instead, a spokesperson directed AlterNet to Carlson's comment about the matter on his Tuesday night show.
It is possible that, despite not being a target for intelligence collection, Carlson's correspondences were picked up by the NSA because he was communicating with another person who is being lawfully surveilled by the NSA, likely someone outside the U.S. (This wouldn't even necessarily implicate Carlson in any wrongdoing at all — members of news organizations have a legitimate interest in speaking with people who may attract the U.S. government's surveillance.) There are procedural safeguards in place designed to protect U.S. citizens who end up picked up in lawful surveillance in this manner, though critics argue that these safeguards are insufficient to protect civil liberties.
It's not clear if Carlson is still standing by his claim that the NSA is monitoring his communications and planning to reveal them in order to push him out of his job. That's an extreme claim and would be an egregious abuse of power. On Tuesday, Carlson was more focused on the simple allegation that the NSA had read his emails, or at least was refusing to deny that they had, and he compared the experience to "living in China." He accused the Biden administration of overreach by targeting right-wing terrorism.
But while it's convenient for Carlson to try to blame Biden, the nature and power of the U.S. national security state are products of bipartisan agreement. They've developed in large part in the aftermath of 9/11 when conservatives like Carlson cheered the power of the state. Republicans could have worked to roll back these powers when they had greater control in Washington, D.C. under Donald Trump, but they never did, even when they were rhetorically outraged about government surveillance, because they like having these powers.
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Global politics expert explains why it’s so hard to ‘deprogram’ Trumpian conspiracy theorists
Supporters of Donald Trump near the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, Tyler Merbler
Alex Henderson January 26, 2021
The word "deprogramming" is typically used in connection with extremist religious cults such as the Unification Church, the Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation or Jim Jones' the People's Temple, but cults can be political as well — for example, the QAnon movement. Political science expert Brian Klaas, in a Washington Post op-ed published on January 25, lays out some reasons why it is so difficult to "deprogram" Americans who have embraced far-right political cults and outlandish conspiracy theories.
"For the past four years, the United States was governed by a conspiracy theorist in chief," explains Klaas, who teaches global politics at University College London. "Whether by retweeting QAnon accounts from the Oval Office or painting himself as the victim of shadowy 'deep state' plots at rallies, President Donald Trump injected the toxin of baseless conspiratorial thinking straight into America's political bloodstream. On January 6, America saw how far that venom had spread as a ragtag group of militias, racist extremists and flag-waving disciples of Trumpism stormed the Capitol."
The January 6 "insurrectionists," Klaas adds, had certain things in common: they were "unified by their support for Trump" and were also "conspiracy theorists."
"There is no doubt: the United States has a serious problem with pathological political delusions," Klaas warns. "So, do we have any hope of deprogramming the millions of Americans who are devoted to dangerous lunacy? Don't hold your breath….. Once people have gone far enough down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking, it can be nearly impossible to get them back out."
Klaas goes on to list some reasons why it is so difficult to "deprogram" conspiracy theorists. According to Klaas, "First, conspiracy theorists are far more likely to have a Manichaean worldview, meaning they interpret everything as a battle between good and evil….. Second, those who seek to debunk conspiracy theories are precisely the people that true believers distrust [WICKED PROBLEM?]…. Third, these organized mass delusions are designed to resist debunking."
There's a joke among critics of far-right conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones that goes something like this: what did the Alex Jones listener say when told that there is no New World Order? The listener said, "Yeah, that's what the New World Order wants you to think." It's a joke, but it speaks to one of the important points Klaas makes in his op-ed — that when someone pushes back against conspiracy theorists, they sometimes respond by digging in even more.
A variety of media outlets, from CNN and MSNBC to Mother Jones and The Nation, have been relentless when it comes to debunking the far-right conspiracy theories that came from the Trump Administration and its sycophants. But Klaas notes that "if someone believes the media is controlled by sinister but unseen puppet masters, fact- checks from CNN will never convince them they're wrong."[// CLIMATE SCI, IF EXPERTS SAYS IT IT IS WRONG]
"For the past four years," Klaas notes, "those who have worked hardest to dispel QAnon believers of their fantasies are the very people that 'Anons' trust least: anti-Trump academics like me, news outlets such as the Post and politicians who they believe to be co-opted by the 'deep state.' Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler have documented the risks of a backfire effect, in which correcting misperceptions actually ends up entrenching them. In the world of conspiratorial thinking, the harder the pushback, the greater the proof that a coverup is afoot."
According to Klaas, the "rise of social media" has made it much easier for far-right conspiracy theorists to live in a bubble.
"Bowling alone has been replaced by tweeting together — a cardboard cutout for real social interaction, but one that has a seductive allure to millions of people," Klaas warns. "Many of the fanatics who stormed the Capitol were neither poor nor social misfits, but rather, had found a digital community to augment or replace their offline one. We can no longer pretend that conspiracy theorists are beneath our attention. They've shown they have tremendous capacity to inflict damage on society."
Klaas discussed his Post op-ed during a January 26 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Watch the video below:
'Coalition Of Reality' Needed To Combat Conspiracy Theories, Says Writer | Morning Joe | MSNBC
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The QAnon General: Tracing the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Michael Flynn
By Karim Zidan | December 18, 2020
RETIRED ARMY GEN. Michael Flynn was speaking to a crowd of unmasked Trump loyalists on the steps of the Supreme Court when Marine One flew overhead, soliciting cheers from the delighted audience. Flynn—a special guest speaker at the Dec. 12 rally—stopped mid-sentence and stood in awe of the helicopter while the crowd attempted to sing the national anthem.
“That’s pretty cool,” said Flynn, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser for 22 days before resigning and eventually pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador. “Imagine just being able to jump in a helicopter and just go for a joy ride around Washington.”
The retired Army lieutenant general continued where he left off, echoing unfounded allegations that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden because of widespread voter fraud. He called for “fair, transparent counts,” demanded that Americans get the “truth,” and called out the “media” for its supposed censorship of that truth.
“We’re waging a battle,” Flynn told the raucous crowd.
Flynn’s remarks came a day after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit from Texas that sought to overturn Biden’s wins in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Despite the judicial decision, Flynn encouraged the crowd to have faith in their president and to seek out “avenues” to challenge the results of the election, insisting that the “courts aren’t going to decide who the next president of the United States is going to be. We the people decide.”
“In this crucible moment of our time, we have to pray that truth triumphs over lies, justice triumphs over abuse and fraud, honesty triumphs over corruption,” Flynn said. “Our sacred honor triumphs over infamy.”
After concluding his speech, the disgraced general, who has since been pardoned by Trump, stopped to enjoy his growing fandom among Trump loyalists. He smiled as the crowd chanted “Fight like Flynn” and was even chased by ravenous fans who screamed “We love you, general!” before being stopped by his bodyguards.
Despite Flynn’s unceremonious exit from Trump’s administration in 2017, the retired general remained popular with fringe corners of Trump’s loyal fanbase, including adherents of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory. For years, Flynn has been an important component of the QAnon community, a portion of whom believe he holds pivotal secrets about the so-called “deep state.” His recent presidential pardon reinvigorated their conspiracy theories and validated his status as a hero to their cause—a cause that the general appears to have embraced himself.
“Flynn Facts”
IN JULY 2016, Michael Flynn delivered a fiery speech at the Republican National Convention targeting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her handling of top secret information. After calling Clinton “weak,” “spineless,” and “reckless,” Flynn led chants of “Lock her up” with the crowd in attendance.
“Yeah, that’s right; lock her up,” Flynn said while clapping into the microphone.
Less than seven months later, Flynn was dismissed from his post as Trump’s national security adviser shortly after The Washington Post revealed that the general had spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, about sanctions between the two nations, and had later lied to the FBI about the conversation with Kislyak. Flynn continued to deny the accusations in the days leading up to his firing on Feb. 13, 2017.
Two months later, acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified to a Senate Judiciary panel that she believed “Gen. Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians.”
“To state the obvious, you don’t want your national security adviser compromised by the Russians,” Yates, who was later fired for refusing to defend Trump’s travel ban, added.
By Nov. 30, 2017, Flynn had signed a plea agreement with special counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, in which he acknowledged lying to the FBI about his sanctions conversation with Kislyak. Then, on Dec. 1, Flynn pleaded guilty and began cooperating with the special counsel’s investigation into the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election.
“I recognize that the actions I acknowledged in court today were wrong, and, through my faith in God, I am working to set things right,” Flynn said in a statement that day. “My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsel’s Office reflect a decision I made in the best interests of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions.”
Flynn’s plea agreement was a significant development in the Russia probe at the time. The retired lieutenant general was one of Trump’s top advisers during the 2016 presidential campaign. Though a registered Democrat, Flynn campaigned for Trump and attacked Clinton, even going so far as to accuse her and her aides of child-sex trafficking. Ironically, his son, Michael Flynn Jr., lost his job as one of Trump’s aides after posting similar tweets involving the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Flynn’s political tenure began long before Trump was campaigning for the U.S. presidency. In 2012, President Barack Obama promoted Flynn to director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, elevating him to one of the most powerful positions in U.S. military intelligence. During his time as head of the DIA, U.S. intelligence officials became concerned by Flynn’s contacts in Moscow. According to the New York Times, Flynn also made baseless assertions about Islam—he once incorrectly claimed that Islamic law, known as Shariah, is spreading in the United States—which his subordinates have labeled “Flynn Facts.” He was dismissed by Obama in 2014 and retired from the U.S. Army after 33 years of service later that year.
Michael Flynn seated two seats down from Vladimir Putin at RT gala in Moscow, Russia (Credit: Wikicommons)]
Following his retirement, Flynn founded the Flynn Intel Group Inc, a consulting agency that provided intelligence services for governments. In 2015, he attended a gala for the Russian state-owned RT media company in Moscow, Russia, where he was seated two seats down from Russian President Vladimir Putin and was paid $45,000 to give a talk during the event. Then, during the 2016 presidential campaign, it was revealed that Flynn was paid more than $500,000 to represent the interests of the Turkish government. While he did not work directly for the Turkish government, the firm that hired him is owned by a Turkish-American businessman with ties to Erdogan’s government. Flynn also failed to file paperwork registering as a foreign agent.
Despite his past role as a foreign agent and lobbyist for foreign interest in the U.S., when QAnon—a far-right, pro-Trump conspiracy theory that claims a cabal of elite pedophiles consisting of Hollywood actors, Democrats, and high-ranking officials are behind a global child sex-trafficking ring—was born was internet message boards in 2017, the retired general was seen as an ally to the cause. When he was being investigated by the FBI, many QAnon adherents expected him to be exonerated of all alleged crimes in the Russia probe. His delayed sentencing on several occasions only helped fuel the conspiracy theories regarding his innocence.
By July 2019, Flynn fired the attorneys who helped negotiate his plea agreement and hired Sidney Powell, a QAnon supporter who would later become known for filing the infamous “Kraken” lawsuit alleging widespread election fraud in the 2020 election. (Read Right Wing Watch’s in-depth reporting on Sidney Powell here). At Powell’s urging, Flynn moved to withdraw his guilty plea, citing a breach in the plea agreement, and further proclaiming his innocence. Then, following pressure from Trump who called for the charges against Flynn to be dropped, the Department of Justice filed motions to dismiss the case. The motion was then put on hold by the federal judge overseeing the case as he reviewed the request.
Despite the snag, Flynn would soon be a free man, ready to assume his figurative role as the QAnon general.
The Digital Soldiers [interesting grafix]
“IT IS MY Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon,” Trump tweeted on Nov. 25, 2020. “I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!”
The move had been expected. Trump had hinted back in March that he was “strongly considering” pardoning Flynn, despite the fact that the retired general had not yet been sentenced. The pardon was met with criticism from Democrats—Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it “an act of grave corruption and a brazen abuse of power” in her official statement—while Trump loyalists celebrated the decision to save a man they viewed as a political casualty. Even the White House described Flynn as an “innocent man” and the “victim of partisan government officials engaged in a coordinated attempt to subvert the election of 2016.”
In the weeks that followed, Flynn underwent a strategic public relations campaign, which included appearances on Fox News and the right-wing Epoch Times,public speeches (as seen at the Jericho March on Dec. 12), and even a few radio hits on “The Dan Bongino Show,” among others. His aim was not only to rehabilitate his own public image, but to stand in vehement opposition to Biden’s imminent presidency.
During media appearances, Flynn repeated baseless conspiracy theories about election fraud and Dominion Voting Systems, citing his lawyer Sidney Powell’s “Kraken” lawsuits. He alleged that “thousands” of Americans have come forward with grievances and proof regarding voter fraud and that transparency is required to ensure the sanctity of the election process. During a recent appearance on Fox News (his third since being pardoned), Flynn suggested that Americans will “not allow” Biden’s inauguration to go ahead in January 2021.
Flynn also encouraged Americans to boycott the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, despite the fact that the winners will help determine which party will control the Senate. “We have to get the last election right before we start talking about any other runoff election like they are down in Georgia. That’s a falsehood that people shouldn’t even be considering right now,” he said.
While much of Flynn’s arguments are rooted in references to QAnon-linked conspiracy theories, the former three-star general has also pandered to the group by appearing on podcasts hosted by QAnon influencers. During a Dec. 4 appearance on “The Matrixxx Groove Show,” a podcast that claims to have the “most red-pilled audience” and is popular within the QAnon community, Flynn revealed that the show’s “listeners have inspired us and allowed us to fight the deep, deep corruption that we face in our government.”
“The digital army that we have is unstoppable,” Flynn continued. “The digital soldiers that we have are committed, dedicated servants of our country.”
This is not the first time that Flynn has referenced the term “digital soldiers.” The general first used the term during a November 2016 speech to the Young America’s Foundation, where he bragged about being the general of an “army of digital soldiers” that waged an “insurgency” to “take over” information and the media. The term has since been adopted by QAnon adherents, many of whom view themselves as digital soldiers fighting against the forces of the so-called deep state.
Flynn has continued to reference digital soldiers during media appearances and on social media—it is one of the main hashtags on his Twitter bio, along with #TakeTheOath, which is also a reference to QAnon. During his interview with “The Matrixxx Groove Show,” he referred to digital soldiers as the “largest law firm in the world” because they would “enlighten the people of this country and also the tactical legal team that we have, eventually led by America’s guardian angel of justice, Sidney Powell.”
To close out his appearance on the show, Flynn hinted that he is on the run from the deep state, “I’m on the move. I gotta make sure I’m a moving target because these son-of-a-guns, they’re after me, in a literal and a figurative sense at some time.”
The general’s deepening ties to QAnon have been apparent for several months now, well before he was pardoned in November. On Independence Day, Flynn posted a video of himself alongside members of his family reciting the QAnon slogan “Where we go one we go all,” making Flynn the most prominent former U.S. official to publicly stoke QAnon.
Michael Flynn taking QAnon oath with family members (Credit: screenshot)]
Flynn’s overt show of support to the QAnon movement has only helped energize a community that has been struggling to stay on message in the wake of Trump’s election loss and Q’s limited drops. While QAnon adherents would have preferred to see Flynn exonerated instead of pardoned, as the latter suggests guilt, they have used the pardon as a sign that thing are going according to plan.
“Any anons apart from myself getting goosebumps now that Flynn is free?” an admin of a QAnon channel with thousands of subscribers asked on Nov. 28. (Anon refers to anonymous users.)“My whole body is in goosebumps.”
“I am anxious to see Gen. Flynn in action,” another replied.
The lionization of Flynn within the QAnon movement emphasizes his importance to the movement. For QAnon adherents, the idea that a three-star lieutenant general and former high-ranking U.S. official supporting their community validates their efforts and proves that the deep state exists. When he refers to them as digital soldiers, he is exciting the countless QAnon followers who feel compelled to take matters into their own hands and legitimizing their undertaking.
QAnon meme referencing digital soldiers (Credit: Telegram) band of bros]
The QAnon community was further electrified on Dec. 1 when Flynn retweeted a call for Trump to temporarily suspend constitutional order and declare martial law to have the U.S. military oversee a new presidential election—a topic that had been popular within QAnon circles in the weeks following the Nov. 3 election. One QAnon follower in a private QAnon channel called for martial law after stating that Americans have “no Supreme Court, no DOJ, no FBI to protect us from the Government,” while another suggested that worldwide martial law would “fix” the “fucking fake Media.”
Not only is Flynn an important figure within the QAnon conspiracy theory, he is also a key proponent of the movement. His willingness to pander to the dangerous far-right conspiracy theory, encourage its adherents to continue tumbling down their rabbit holes, and promote totalitarian militaristic policies such as martial law raises concerns about his potential to further radicalize Trump loyalists ahead of Biden’s inauguration.
After spending 33 years as a decorated combat veteran who retired from the military with three stars, Flynn has now assumed the role he seems to have long dreamed of: the star general leading a digital army in service to Q.
Tags: Barack Obama Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Lin Wood Michael Flynn Robert Muller Sidney Powell conspiracy theories Deep State Pizzagate QAnon
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EMILY CHANG (HOST): Now, President Trump has retweeted QAnon content on multiple occasions, but continues to claim he hasn't heard of them. What's your take on that?
ANGELO CARUSONE: I think it's the same thing that we saw back in 2016, during -- in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Trump repeatedly retweeted the "white genocide" hashtag and prominent members of the white genocide community, which is essentially a racist organization, it's an idea that's pretty racist, then he would sort of claim he didn't know anything about it.
But constantly they interpreted it as a wink and a nod, and as a result of that, that community grew, and it wasn't that long after he was in office that we saw Charlottesville. It's a similar pattern here, which is that most of the retweets of QAnon and promotion of QAnon from Trump has actually taken place since April, more than half of those two -- over 250 have happened in the last few months.
So, it's obviously an intentional electoral strategy, the same thing that those candidates saw in sort of becoming QAnon adherents in order to break through their primaries and win them, as I think what you're seeing Donald Trump do at a national level.
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Militias?!
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Oath Keepers militia, which is comprised of “former law enforcement officials and military veterans,” is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “one of the largest radical anti-government groups in the U.S. today.” This week, Oath Keepers militia leader Steward Rhodes told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that members of his militia will be at polling locations on Election Day to “protect” Trump voters.
Rhodes went on to make many other unhinged statements on the program, including that the militia would follow directives from President Donald Trump totake members of the “deep state” into custody and “do what we have to do,”and that Oath Keepers will “be in range” of Washington D.C., to stop a “Benghazi-style” attack on the White House on election night, among other statements. Rhodes also hyped the possibility of a second civil war where his “battle-hardened” supporters kill the “street soldiers” and “command and control” of “the radical left.”...
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/john-ratcliffe-back-his-bullshit-and-fox-news-loves-it
John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s handpicked director of national intelligence, is selectively declassifying documents related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. His politically motivated disinformation campaign puts bolstering the president’s faltering reelection chances above U.S. national security. And he has found eager partners at Fox News. The network’s hosts are lapping up the story and baselessly claiming that it vindicates their conspiracy theories that the federal investigation into Russia’s actions was an anti-Trump witch hunt.
For years, Fox has been trying to delegitimize the voluminous evidence that Russia helped Trump win the 2016 election. Russian President Vladimir Putin personally “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed” at helping Trump defeat his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to the U.S. intelligence community. That campaign included a Putin-directed effort to hack and release Democratic emails and an array of interactions between Trump associates and Russians with ties to the Kremlin. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Russian operation led to the successful prosecutions of various close supporters of the president. But for Fox’s propagandists, the real story has been “Obamagate,” the right’s spittle-flecked conspiracy theory postulating that “deep state” elements in the U.S. government dreamed up a Russia “hoax” in order to stop Trump.
Trump, a Fox obsessive, is an eager “Obamagate” proponent, and over the last few years, he has replaced key figures in his administration with partisan Fox favorites who are willing to use their positions to prop up the network’s unhinged conspiracy theory. He removed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from the Mueller probe, in favor of William Barr, who has worked to stymie Mueller-related prosecutions while ordering and overseeing a federal criminal probe into the origins of the Russia investigation. He used the same playbook at the top of the intelligence community, ousting Joseph Maguire, whose office had warned of Russian interference in the 2020 election, and subbing in Richard Grenell, a former Fox contributor who used the office to create fodder for pro-Trump conspiracy theorists.
And now Ratcliffe, who replaced Grenell in May after gaining Trump’s favor despite a lack of experience in intelligence because the president liked his anti-Mueller rants on Fox, has levied his own salvo. On Tuesday, he selectively declassified and released two heavily redacted documents: a set of handwritten notes former CIA Director John Brennan took after briefing President Barack Obama in July 2016 and a memo the CIA prepared for the FBI summarizing intelligence. Those documents undergird a Russian intelligence assessment Ratcliffe described in a letter he sent last month to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Fox, unsurprisingly, was given the exclusive on the documents, and it credulously reported that they reveal that Brennan briefed Obama on Clinton’s “purported ‘plan’ to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as ‘a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server’ ahead of the 2016 presidential election.”
If Ratcliffe’s aim was to create political ammunition for the president and his Fox propagandists, he succeeded. The story led the network’s website on Tuesday night and was treated as a “bombshell” by Fox’s pro-Trump prime-time and morning hosts, who alleged that it proved that Clinton had “invented the Russia hoax” to deflect attention from her email server. And Trump furiously tweeted about the story on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, demanding arrests for what he baselessly termed had been an attempted “COUP."
This is nonsense.
The Russia probe did not begin due to anything Clinton did in July 2016. It was initiated based on earlier intel that George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, had disclosed that Russia had political dirt on Clinton.Papadopoulos, a bipartisan Senate report later assessed, was a “potential vector for malign Russian influence” who learned about the Russian hacking campaign from an individual with Russian ties and almost certainly informed the Trump campaign.
The notion that Clinton was secretly scheming to link Trump to Russia to avoid talking about her email server doesn’t meet the laugh test. At the time Brennan was briefing Obama, that hacking campaign was ongoing. WikiLeaks had just released thousands of Democratic National Committee emails, it was widely believed that those emails had been stolen by Russian hackers, and Clinton’s campaign was publicly denouncing Trump for calling on the Russian government to produce her emails while also denying that government’s involvement.
Ratcliffe’s selective redactions were also deceptive.“Four people familiar with the matter said the Russians’ assessment of Clinton was only one part of a larger intelligence report that was billed as an initial examination of Russian cyberattacks targeting the 2016 election, and was not the reason that it was referred to the bureau,” Politico reported Tuesday. Likewise, Brennan explained to CNN that the notes Ratcliffe released showed him “giving examples of the type of access that the US intelligence community had to Russian information and what the Russians were talking about and alleging.”
Moreover, the Russian intelligence assessment Ratcliffe produced had previously been rejected on a bipartisan basis as likely Russian disinformation intended to distract from their hacking of the Democratic National Committee as those documents were released.
This pipeline from the DNI’s office to Fox will continue as long as Trump is president. Ratcliffe is doing exactly what Trump wants him to do, using the power of the director of national intelligence to boost his reelection. And Fox is doing what they always do, serving as a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party.
Meanwhile, the Russian effort to help Trump win the 2020 election continues.
Rep. John Ratcliffe loves Fox's Russia probe conspiracy theories. He was just confirmed to oversee U.S. intelligence.
07/29/19 1:02 PM EDT
The Foxification of the intelligence community follows the DOJ script
02/21/20 2:04 PM EST
“Obamagate” is just a rebrand of the right’s bogus “deep state” conspiracy theory
https://www.mediamatters.org/trumprussia/obamagate-just-rebrand-rights-bogus-deep-state-conspiracy-theory
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last weekend, President Donald Trump unleashed a series of Mother's Day tweets accusing former President Barack Obama of an unspecified crime, referring to it as “Obamagate.” Trump later went as far as to suggest that Obama and the Democratic presidential front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden, should be in prison.
However, Trump has hardly been clear on what crimes Obama allegedly committed. When a Washington Post reporter asked, Trump responded, “You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers -- except yours.”
While the president has not offered details, anyone who has watched Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show over the past three years can recognize that Trump’s “Obamagate” is just an attempted rebrand of the right’s years-in-the-making “deep state” conspiracy theory, sometimes called Russiagate. Media Matters has documented the origins of the conspiracy theory, the role of Attorney General Bill Barr’s politicized Justice Department, and key players in right-wing media who have spread its baseless claims.
What is “Obamagate?”
“Obamagate” is just another version of the right’s “deep state” conspiracy theory
According to right-wing media, over the last several years government bureaucrats who held their positions during previous administrations comprise a “deep state” that has worked to undermine the Trump administration. This deep state conspiracy theory has evolved into a reflexive defense of Trump in a wide array of circumstances, from the Ukraine scandal that led to his impeachment to his administration’s handling of the coronavirus.
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the core allegation made by Trump and his right-wing media allies is that in 2016, the Obama administration and the FBI, led by then-Director James Comey, sought to prevent Trump from becoming president. When that didn’t work, conservative media claim, the Obama administration and FBI officials sought to enact a backup plan to stop Trump in the form of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.
Since 2017, right-wing media have consistently and repeatedly called for retaliatory investigations against a slew of top FBI and Obama administration officials who they view as aiming to end Trump’s presidency, including Obama and Comey. Some Republican politicians have also joined in or at least publicly attempted to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the Mueller investigation. Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Devin Nunes (R-CA) have each appeared on Fox repeatedly to push deep state conspiracy theories, especially on Hannity, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is conducting his own investigation into the FBI’s Russia probe.
Recent events led to an escalation in “Obamagate”
Attorney General Bill Barr has increasingly politicized the Justice Department in pursuit of Trump’s political goals, and his efforts came to a boiling point recently when the DOJ moved to throw out the case of Trump ally Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges of lying to the FBI.
Supposedly vindicated by the attempted dismissal of Flynn’s case, right-wing media are now intensely focused on the January 2017 eventspreceding Flynn’s FBI interview that ultimately resulted in his guilty plea -- an interview that the right claims was engineered, in part by Obama, to trap Flynn into lying to the FBI.
Recently uncovered documents in Flynn’s case have also served as fodder for right-wing media in claiming that the FBI and Obama administration officials were trying to undermine Trump’s presidency. Newly released transcripts from interviews conducted by the House Intelligence Committee during its Russia probe also have brought accusations from the right against top FBI officials and House Democrats.
On May 13, GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) releasedwhat the right is interpreting as a list of people who may have unmasked Flynn’s identity in the transcripts of his December 2016 conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Right-wing media and their allies believe if they can identify who unmasked Flynn and prove that the official (or officials) illegally leaked Flynn’s identity to the press, then that proves the Obama administration tried to sabotage the Trump administration. In reality, the list has little significance and isn’t nearly the bombshell that right-wing media are trying to make it out to be. It is unlikely the original Flynn unmasking is even on the list. [don jr claims biden personally unmasked him in booktv lib priv 10/20?]
While there are some legitimate problems with the FBI’s conduct over the course of the Mueller investigation, Trump and his media allies' efforts to muddy the waters by cherry-picking information to weave complex, self-serving theories will ultimately make any significant reform difficult by further demoralizing an already overly politicized agency.
How the DOJ is being used to carry out the political goals of the deep state conspiracy theory
Bill Barr’s role
Trump’s media allies have held Attorney General Bill Barr up as the man who will be able to carry out their retaliatory investigative goals. The attorney general has been trying to undercut any investigation into the president’s connections with Russia during the 2016 election even before he was nominated to his post. Moving to drop the charges against Flynn is only the latest example in a long list of actions Barr has taken to increasingly politicize the Justice Department to help Trump and his allies:
- Late 2018: Barr sent a memo to members of the Trump administration detailing his view that Trump’s firing of and later fervent ridiculing of Comey were not obstructions of justice.
- February 2019: Barr was sworn in as U.S. attorney general.
- March 2019: Barr took steps to mislead the public and undercut the conclusions of the Mueller investigation, issuing a summary memo with cherry-picked conclusions before the redacted version of the report was released.
- May 2019: Barr announced an administrative review into the origins of the Mueller investigation led by John Durham, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut.
- October 2019: It was reported that the Durham review into the origins of the FBI investigation was now a criminal investigation.
- January 2020: Barr moved to interfere in cases close to Trump, including by changing the DOJ’s sentencing recommendations in the Flynn case.
- February 2020: Barr moved to interfere in the Roger Stone case, another criminal case against a close Trump ally, replacing the DOJ attorneys overseeing the case.
- May 2020: The DOJ attempted to drop charges against Flynn and released documents pertaining to the January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting that is at the center of the Obamagate conspiracy theory. The judge has not formally dropped the charges and is asking for third party amicus briefs for advice on the situation.
Right-wing media figures have heaped praise on Barr for going after the “deep state.” They are also doubling down on claims that Flynn was a victim and never did anything wrong.
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Durham probe’s role
Since October 2019, when he was appointed by Barr, U.S. Attorney John Durham has been leading a criminal inquiry into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. That probe was reportedlyexpanded again in May. Now, right-wing media are focusing on identifying which Obama administration officials were aware of the calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador, which has become a key question in Durham’s probe.
On April 24, The New York Times reported that Durham was looking into a 2017 column written by The Washington Post’s David Ignatius about Flynn’s call to Kislyak -- revealing that Durham was examining not only the origins of the FBI investigation, but also whether Ignatius’ source was intentionally trying to damage the Trump administration.
The predecessor to the Durham probe, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation into the Mueller investigation, fell shortof reaching the right-wing media’s desired conclusion: incriminating Trump’s enemies. But Hannity and others have remained optimistic that Durham, and Barr, will deliver the retaliatory results that they have been looking for.
Key figures involved in pushing the years long deep state conspiracy theory
Sean Hannity
Fox News prime-time host Sean Hannity has played an outsized role in the promotion of the “deep state” theory, using his three-hour daily radio show and nightly Fox program as a conduit to hammer the supposed details and call for retaliation against perceived “deep state” operatives. Hannity frequently hosts guests who have been consistent drivers of the “deep state” conspiracy theory since 2016, and his show’s influence on Trump is well-documented.
Since leaving office, Obama has remained a frequent target of Hannity’s ire -- for instance, in August 2019, the Fox host said that “it’s time for Obama to be put under oath” about his role in Flynn’s case. And now, Hannity has quickly latched onto the president’s rebranding of Russiagate as “Obamagate.” Last week, Hannity suggested that Obama was sending coded messages “to deep state operatives to go out and do more dirty work."[vid]
Jarrett
Gregg Jarrettis a Fox News legal and political analyst and Hannity regular who is known for pushing deep state conspiracy theories about the Mueller investigation. Trump has even promoted Jarrett’s book The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.
Jarrett has regularly called for retaliation against those involved in Obama’s administration and the Mueller investigation; he has described Trump as the real “victim” of Russian collusion; and in March 2018, Jarrett called for Obama to be subpoenaed.
Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing
Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing are a husband-and-wife legal duo who have frequently pushed deep state conspiracy theories on Fox and were implicated along with Rudy Giuliani in trying to dig up dirt on Biden as part of the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
The pair have close ties to Barr going back years and have frequently assured Hannity and others that Trump’s attorney general will successfully carry out the retaliatory aims of the deep state conspiracy theory against Obama and FBI officials. In one example, after Barr announced counter investigations into the Mueller investigation, diGenova reassured Hannity that Barr will “conclude” that “it all started in the White House. Barack Obama knew about this from day one.” In the same appearance on Hannity, Toensing predicted that several Obama officials would be implicated, including Biden and Obama himself. [vid]
Solomon
John Solomonis a former opinion columnist and vice president at politics outlet The Hill who was instrumental in pushing the Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory. He pushed misinformation so often and had so many conflicts of interest that The Hill reviewed his writings, added disclaimers to his pieces on Ukraine, and announced changes in internal policy to avoid similar problems in the future. Solomon became a Fox News contributor in October 2019, and now frequently appears on Hannity. He is also legally represented by Toensing and diGenova, and some of the legal duo’s other clients have ended up as sources for Solomon’s “reporting.”
Solomon has demonized the Mueller investigation for years; in 2017, when he was the chief operating officer for Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Circa website, he and his colleague Sara Carter primarily focused on undermining the origins of the Mueller investigation.
In 2017, Solomon also emerged as a key anti-Mueller figure on Fox News -- especially Hannity -- where he continued to spread misinformation and call for retaliation against Obama and FBI officials. Solomon’s slanted reporting has been a fundamental part of Hannity’s conspiracy theories, and Hannity has called for Solomon to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
Sara Carter
Sara Carter is a Fox News contributor who, along with Solomon, has played an outsized role in promoting the deep state conspiracy theory on Hannity’s show over the last several years. In 2018, Carter called the Mueller investigation a “bloodless coup.”
Carter has regularly promised that indictments against FBI and Obama officials are imminent, usually basing her information on unnamed sources.
After Barr announced counter-investigations into the Mueller report in 2019, Carter predicted that there are “a number of indictments that are on the way” and claimed that the investigations will “lead all the way back to the White House. … And I’m talking about the Obama administration." [vid]
Dan Bongino is a Fox News contributor who frequently appears on Hannity’s show to rail against the Muellerinvestigation and call for retaliation against FBI and Obama officials, whom he has accused of trying to launch a “coup” to get rid of Trump.
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs is a Fox Business host whose sycophantic, pro-Trump commentary makes his show a hot spot for anti-Mueller deep state narratives.
In 2018, Dobbs called the Mueller investigation an “ideologically inspired jihad” and he has been calling for Obama to be investigated since 2017. Last week, Dobbs accused Obama of orchestrating a plot to “overthrow” Trump.
Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro is a Fox News host and former judge who is known for her extremist rhetoric and for having a close relationship with the president.
Pirro has been railing against the Mueller investigation since 2017, when she called it a “fishing expedition” and demanded a “cleansing” of FBI and DOJ officials “who should not just be fired, but who need to be taken out in handcuffs." Since then, Pirro has consistently called for retaliation against various officials in the Obama administration, FBI, and DOJ. Recently, Pirro accused the judge in Flynn’s case of being part of a political conspiracy, claiming that Judge Emmet Sullivan is an “activist judge” and part of “the left coming in” to the justice system.
Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton has remained a key figure in promoting the right-wing media’s deep state conspiracy theory, arguing for years that the Mueller investigation was a plot to destroy Trump’s presidency.
In 2018, Fitton called on the president to pardon anyone brought up on charges related to the Mueller investigation, saying that Trump should “just pardon everybody, you know, just have a field day,” including people Fitton admitted may actually be guilty.
Fitton has also been trying to link Obama to the deep state conspiracy theory for years. In February 2018, Fitton claimed on Fox News that he “always wondered why President Obama has skated really free from any serious inquiries about his involvement in the Russia investigations.”
When the DOJ moved to throw out Flynn’s case, Fitton’s statement at Judicial Watch claimed that “the targeting of General Flynn was a key part of the Obama/Clinton/Deep State coup against President Trump.”
The Federalist
Ben Domenech, Sean Davis, and Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist and its publisher Ben Domenech, co-founder Sean Davis, and senior editor Mollie Hemingway have also spent years hammering the idea that the Trump administration was the target of a deep state plot that goes all the way to Obama himself.
In a recent article summarizing Obamagate, which it calls “the biggest political scandal of our time,” The Federalist referred to the Mueller investigation as an “organized effort by the Obama administration to nullify the results of the 2016 presidential election,” claiming that it was “in effect an attempted coup.”
Key officials targeted by the deep state theory
Barack Obama
Although it did not originally bear his name, Obama and members of his administration have been the main target of this conspiracy theory as right-wing media try to rebrand the Russia investigation as illegitimate or as a setup by the Obama administration to undermine Trump. Other accusations against Obama have included claims that he was actively enabling Russian interference in the 2016 election and that a “deep state” consisting of Obama-era officials is still working in government and taking orders from the former president.
The deep state theory’s evolution, Obamagate, has focused on a January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting that has come under criticism on the right because during that meeting, Obama expressed knowledge of Flynn’s contacts with the Russian ambassador. The conspiracy theory generally accuses Obamaof having been aware of plans by FBI and DOJ officials to launch an investigation into Flynn and other Trump associates and to destroy Trump’s presidency. Former Obama-era officials have disputed whether Flynn came up at all in the meeting. Regardless, right-wing media allege that Flynn needed to be gone or he’d find out what Obama and his administration had been up to, so the former administration set Flynn up. This theory gained even more traction last week, when House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) released a series of transcripts from the Mueller investigation, including interviews with some Obama-era officials who testified they had no evidence of collusion in the interactions between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Joe Biden
The former vice president got caught up in the deep state conspiracy theory when right-wing media started accusing Crowdstrike, the company that secured the Democratic National Committee’s servers when they were hacked in 2016 by Russians, of being Ukrainian-owned and helping to falsely accuse Russia of the hack. Neither of these things are true, but right-wing investigations into Ukraine spun off into falsely accusing Biden of trying to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired to protect his son, a scandal which backfired and ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment.
Biden also attended the January 5, 2017, Oval Office intelligence briefing and, according to a memo from former national security adviser Susan Rice, Biden stayed behind after the meeting along with Comey and a few others. Right-wing media claim Obama at that point told him about the Flynn-Kislyak calls. The right has been increasingly hammering Biden’s supposed connection to the deep state since he became the presumed Democratic presidential nominee.
Sally Yates
In the past, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates has been a right-wing media target for allegedly leaking information to the press and pushing the infamous dossier of opposition research compiled by Fusion GPS’ Christopher Steele, even though she supposedly knew it was full of “Russian lies,” that ultimately led to the wiretap of Trump adviser Carter Page.
Yates also attended the January 5, 2017, Oval Office intelligence briefing and was part of the group that was told to stay behind after the briefing by Obama, who then told them about Flynn’s contacts with the Russian ambassador. According to documents released as part of the DOJ’s attempt to drop the case against Flynn, she was surprised that the president knew that Flynn and Kislyak had talked in December 2016. Yates later said she was concerned Flynn was susceptible to blackmail. Right-wing media argue that makes her pivotal in what they view as a setup against Flynn.
Susan Rice
Right-wing media often accuse former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice of unlawfully “unmasking” or revealing the identity of American citizens on tapped calls with foreign entities. Trump allies claim that Flynn was unmasked illegally, which supposedly led to him being set up by the FBI. Rice has also been accused of leaking information to reporters toward the end of Obama’s administration.
Rice also attended the January 5, 2017, Oval Office intelligence briefing and later wrote in a recently released memo that she and Biden were in attendance after the main briefing when they learned about Flynn’s contacts with the Russian ambassador. Right-wing media have seized on her memo as providing further details about what they were told in the meeting, including that Obama supposedly cautioned Comey and Yates to consider withholding information about Russia from the incoming administration.
James Comey
Right-wing media view Comey as a major driver of the FBI corruption that they claim tried to destroy Trump’s presidency, and they falsely accuse him of leaking information to the press. The former FBI director oversaw the start of the investigation into Flynn, which right-wing media argued was illegitimate even before Barr’s DOJ moved to throw it out.
Comey also attended the recently uncovered January 5, 2017, Oval Office intelligence briefing and stayed behind to talk to Obama about Flynn. In court documents, Yates recalled that Comey suggested that Flynn may have violated the Logan Act, a law meant to prevent private citizens from interfering in foreign policy disputes (following DOJ’s move to drop the Flynn case, some conservatives have argued the law should be repealed).
James Clapper
Russiagate promoters accuse the former director of national intelligence under Obama of leaking classified information and pursuing illegitimate investigations. The right has also frequently mischaracterized his statement that there was “no evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Clapper also attended the January 5, 2017, Oval office intelligence briefing, and recent revelations have now led to speculation from right-wing media that Clapper lied to Congress in July 2017 about whether he personally briefed Obama on the phone calls between Flynn and Kislyak.
Andrew McCabe
Right-wing media blame the former deputy FBI director for pushing the Steele dossieralong with Comey and allege that he lied to FBI investigators about classified leaks to the media.
In February, the Justice Department moved to drop an investigation ordered by Barr into whether McCabe lied to the FBI, infuriating the right and renewing claims of a DOJ bureaucratic “deep state.”
John Brennan
Right-wing media allege that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the origins of the Trump/Russia investigation confirmed that former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress about whether the Steele dossier was used in the Obama administration’s intelligence community assessment on Russian election interference.
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
Peter Strzok is a former FBI agent who became a right-wing media target because leaked texts between himself and Lisa Page, a former FBI attorney, allegedly showed an anti-Trump bias in the special counsel investigation. The texts also revealed they were having an affair, which led to vicious attacks from both right-wing media and the president.
According to recently declassified documents, Strzok moved to keep the Flynn probe open on January 4, 2017, after it was set to be closed. Right-wing media have characterized this move as interference to illegitimately continue an investigation and said the Logan Act was potentially used as justification.
Nellie and Bruce Ohr
Nellie Ohr worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the firm that dug up information that led to the infamous Steele dossier. Many on the right point to the fact that her husband, former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, is a high-ranking DOJ official as further evidence of the “deep state,” and Hannity has called for retaliatory investigations against both.
Samantha Power
The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is one of a handful of officials that right-wing media suspect of leaking sensitive information to the press toward the end of Obama’s presidency and conspiring to stop Trump’s presidency. Like Yates, she has often been accused of illegally unmasking American citizens, especially by Hannity.
Rod Rosenstein
Right-wing media have previously alleged that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein knowingly lied to the FISA court to illegally target Trump aide Carter Page by using Clinton’s “phony dossier that was full of Russian lies” without informing the court of its origins or noting that it was unverified. They falsely claim this is vindicated by the Horowitz report.
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Trump administration and Fox News are trying to gin up a scandal that would do to the 2020 election what Hillary Clinton's emails did to the 2016 election. There's no reason that anyone has to play along with the deceit.
The short version:
- President Donald Trump's handpicked director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, is selectively leaking documents to pro-Trump outlets, usually Fox News.
- These documents relate to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
- Pro-Trump personalities at Fox use the documents to claim that Russian interference was a hoax, usually saying that Hillary Clinton herself ginned up the hoax.
- There is no reliable evidence for these claims. To the contrary, a bipartisan Senate committee found numerous ways that Russia interfered -- even more than Robert Mueller uncovered in his investigation.
- The Russia probe began based on intel that Trump 2016 campaign adviser George Papadopoulos has disclosed that Russia had political dirt on Clinton.
- None of this reality is reflected at Fox News, which keeps up talk of "Obamagate" as the election draws near.
- Numerous sources have told media outlets that Ratcliffe's redactions were deceptive.
Objectively speaking, there is no reason to be talking aboutClinton's emails in 2020. She's not on the ballot, and a multi-year investigation by the State Department concluded in 2019 that there had been no mishandling of classified information.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-deep-state-conspiracy-is-about-to-go-into-overdrive?ref=scroll
Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive
by Ronald Radosh
The American right has advanced nutty conspiracy theories for decades. But the one we’re about to see play out will make Joe McCarthy look like an amateur.
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IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
The Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive
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https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/bombshell-report-reveals-trumps-careless-belief-early-on-that-covid-19-was-deep-state-conspiracy
CNN’s Jake Tapper did a special walking through the timeline of the COVID-19 crisis and the denial from President Donald Trump leading up to the middle of March.
While the virus was spreading across the world, President Donald Trump believed that all of the warnings from his government were just more from the “deep state” trying to conspire against him and his presidency.
“His focus, much of it, was on the U.S. Senate,” said Tapper of Trump in January.
“In his view, it was the so-called deep state, people in government who were hell-bent on bringing him down,” said Mark Mazzetti, New York Times investigative reporter. “So, by the time the coronavirus pandemic really started to worsen in the United States and scientists and experts were telling him of the problem, he saw some of these people as just an extension of the deep state, and so that led to I think, some of the skepticism that he had towards the advice he was being given"
Trump issued his China ban, but according to the report, public health experts said that Trump assumed it would take care of everything. He then took his foot off the gas for weeks, ignoring the virus and having political rallies throughout the country instead of focusing on the crisis.
Political correspondent Sara Murray explained that public health experts “really look with despair at those couple of weeks because they say whatever your feelings were on the travel ban at the time, it was a perfectly fine and reasonable step to take, and he bought himself a little bit of time, and then he just squandered it.”
While the FDA acted quickly to issue test kits, they quickly found that the tests weren’t working. Precious time was wasted because the FDA blocked anyone else from creating a test.’
“There was a test available from the world health organization, but the CDC did not choose to get it, and nobody inside the government asked outside labs to help,” said Tapper.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta said that it was clear in early February that there was human to human contact.
Warning stacked up health experts, but they all went ignored. When one Trump official crafted a memo about the crisis, the president became enraged that someone put something down on paper about the virus. In the notorious “Red Dawn” email chain on Feb. 9, the government health experts were calling for social distancing. It was five weeks later that Trump would finally agree to it. But on that same day, Trump’s team was giving a briefing to governors where they were saying it was a serious problem.
“They gave us a pretty detailed outline of what they felt was happening with this virus,” said Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R). “We knew this was going to be a serious crisis.”
In early February, Trump was telling everyone that the virus was going to be down to zero cases in the United States, but behind the scenes, his experts were preparing for cases to go from 15 to millions.
See clips of the special below:
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20190814 : Russiagate as a smoke screen for the struggle between two powerful groups of the US elite ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190814* There is little chance that Western elites will behave any differently than a street corner drug dealer ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190802 : Last night Tulsi Gabbard went after Harris on her support of the for profit prison system in Cali at the expense of human beoings ( Aug 02, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190802 : Gabbard Hammers Harris After Foreign Agent Or Traitor Accusations ( Aug 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190802 :The Empire Is Coming For Tulsi Gabbardby Tom Luongo ( Aug 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190802 : Harris' press secretary Ian Sams unleashed a string of tweets about Gabbard being an "Assad apologist", which was followed by a deluge of establishment narrative managers who sent the word "Assad" trending on Twitter ( Aug 02, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190802 : Brutus questions whether "democracy" is sensible in a nation of three million! ( Aug 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190802 : In 2008, Obama was touted as a political outsider who will hose away all of the rot and bloody criminality of the Bush years. He turned out to be a deft move by our ruling class ( Aug 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190802 : Trump Pretends to Like Union Members -- But He Really Likes the Fat Cats by Tom Conway ( Aug 02, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190802 : Gotta love it! Democrats are beside themselves with outrage at Russian meddling but they could care less about election meddling that cost them wins in 2000 (Florida), and 2004 (Ohio.) ( Aug 02, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190802 : Does the New York Times Have an Editing Program that Automatically Puts "Free" Before "Trade? ( Aug 02, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190802 : A lot of US debt is "invested" in bombing sand piles for Prince bin Salman. ( Aug 02, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190802 : It is quite intriguing that so many of these cases involve the sort of criminal or sexual misbehavior that would be ideally suited for blackmailing powerful individuals who are less likely to be vulnerable to other influences ( Aug 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190802 : Well-placed contemporary sources have claimed that Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy Jewish lawyer, purchased the secret correspondence between Woodrow Wilson and his longtime mistress ( Aug 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190801 : Tulsi Big Donor Gains--Now at 120,228> ( Aug 01, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190801 : Tulsi's Last Stand? The most interesting Democrat running for president could be felled by a party that cares more about wokeness than war by W. James Antle III ( Jul 31, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190801 : Liberal Media Is Freaking Out Over Gabbard's Destruction Of Harris by Caitlin Johnstone ( Aug 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190801 : A suggested explanation off Tulsi's strategy: Why go after Biden? He's already imploding; she would only look cruel, beating up on a senile old man ( Aug 01, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190801 : Harris's spokesman explains Tulsi's takedown of Kamala It was Russia! caucus99percent ( Aug 01, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190801 : Comey Avoids DOJ Prosecution On Memo Leak; FISA Abuse Still On The Table ( Aug 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190801 : The two party system institutionalizes the capture of the political process by special interests, dichotomized into two differently armed powers of equal importance. ( Aug 01, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190801 : I could live with Gabbard replacing Bolton or Pompeo in a second Trump administration ( Aug 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com)
20190801 : One advantage of the two party system ( Aug 01, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190731 : ET TU, TULSI??? ( Jul 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190731 : Gabbard says she will end these endless regime-change wars and use the "trillions of dollars we have been wasting on these wars and these weapons" on domestic spending. ( Jul 31, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190731 : Team D would rather lose to Trump than reform. This is entirely consistent with The Iron Law of Oligarchy and especially The Iron Law of Institutions. ( Jul 31, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190731 : Jack Ruby was the Mafia capo of Dallas ( Jul 31, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190731 : Stages of capitalist development explain more than white papers and propaganda can conceal. ( Jul 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190730 : The -Existential Battle- Is for Control of the Democratic Party ( Jul 30, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190730* The main task of Democratic Party is preventing social movements from undertaking independent political activity to their left and killing such social movements ( Jul 30, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
20190730 : Mystery Airstrikes On Iraqi Camp Were Israeli Stealth Jets In Anti-Iran Escalation ( Jul 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190730 : 'Never-Googlers' Take Extreme Measures To Avoid Data Tracking ( Jul 30, 2019 , yro.slashdot.org )
20190729 : The great antisemitism witchhunt McCarthyism redux by John Wight ( Jun 29, 2019 , OffGuardian )
20190729* Looks like E>pstein turned informant for Mueller s FBI in 2008. Likely earlier ( Jul 11, 2019 , caucus99percent.com ) [Recommended]
20190729 : Pizzagate: Do We Know The Full Scope Yet?! ( Jul 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190729* American Ron Unz on Pizzagate ( Jul 29, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190729 : Longtime NYPD said as a father it was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen. ( Jul 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190729 : Deep State Wants Epstein Gone by Greg Hunte ( Jul 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190729 : Once you start researching the Epstein matter - not for the lurid details - but the unprecedented, jaw dropping preferential treatment of an actual human sex trafficker ( not this fake #metoo hysteria) all hope is lost. ( Jul 29, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190729 : American Pravda John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate by Ron Unz ( Jul 29, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190729* The hidden control mechanism of what the late Paul A. Samuelson called our "democratic oligarchy". ( Jul 29, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190729* The Real Reason The Propagandists Have Been Promoting Russia Hysteria by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jul 28, 2019 , ronpaulinstitute.org ) [Recommended]
20190728* Mueller Crumbles Under Questioning by Barbara Boland ( Jul 28, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190728 : The CIA Wants To Hide All Its 'Assets' ( Jul 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190728* Antisemitism prejudices projection on Russians ( Jul 28, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190728 : Tulsi, Israel and BDS movement ( Jul 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190728 : Washington's Blog, 13 Shocking Facts about Robert Mueller ( Jul 28, 2019 , washingtonsblog.com )
20190728 : Dementia or very skillful, convincing acting: Mueller would have looked a lot better if he had only taken the time to read... the Mueller report. ( Jul 28, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190728 : The Russiagate Fever is breaking caucus99percent ( Jul 28, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190728 : I hate to say it, but corporate Democrats along with those who Maddow has totally brainwashed are still true believers in the entire lie. ( Jul 27, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190728 : There may be some fireworks with that judge because of Mueller's statements. He was expressly warned by the judge that she would consider a range of sanctions were there any repetition ( Jul 28, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190728 : Another Epstein Domino Trump's National Security Advisor tied to Epstein Maxwell Cabal ( Jul 28, 2019 , www.veteranstoday.com )
20190727 : Luongo Gabbard Going After Google Is Double Plus Good ( Jul 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190727 : Mueller Magoo by W. James Antle III ( Jul 25, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190727 : Hillary and Obama brought slavery back to Libya and ISIS and the largest refugee crisis since WW2 to Syria ( Jul 27, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190727* Russia interfered on a massive scale ($3,684 was spends on ads on which $1932 on promoting Trump) and is doing it again as we sit here! Just how massive? They spent $100,000 on clickbait ads from a company owned by a man who was in a photo with the evil mastermind! ( Jul 27, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190727* Understanding the Roots of the Obama Coup Against Trump by Larry C Johnson ( Jul 27, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190727 : The Tyranny Of The Police-State Disguised As Law-And-Order ( Jul 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190727 : Pornographic Democracy by Linh Dinh ( Jul 27, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190726 : Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Co-Sponsors Audit The Fed Bill ( Jul 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190726 : The Dems Have No Trump ( Jul 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190726* Tucker What should happen to those who lied about Russian collusion ( Jul 26, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190726* Tucker: Democrats believed Mueller would save America ( Jul 26, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190726 : Of Two Minds - Epstein and the Explosive Crisis of the Deep State ( Jul 26, 2019 , www.oftwominds.com )
20190726 : Of Two Minds - Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits ( Jul 26, 2019 , www.oftwominds.com )
20190725* Dems ratpack of reparations freaks, weird sexual curiosities, and race hustlers is actually a fifth column for Trump re-election by Fred Reed ( Jul 25, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190725 : Everybody complains about politicians. ( Jul 25, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190725 : When Alex Stamos announced that the Internet Research Agency's ad buys were a drop in the ocean, Zuckerberg was promptly taken to the Congressional Woodshed and told to report to the Atlantic Council. ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190725* The Epstein Case Is A Rare Opportunity To Focus On The Depraved Nature Of America s Elite ( Jul 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190724 : Robert Mueller literally just said he wasn t familiar with Fusion GPS ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190724 : Fraud of Facebook user numbers ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190724 : If one accepts that FB user numbers are fraudulent, the Russiagate narrative falls apart. ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190724 : In case you didn't notice, Mueller has been enjoined from making any more claims about those Facebook pages as products of Russian state actors, since the accused unexpectedly showed up in court and demanded discovery of evidence, which Saint Santa Claus Mueller was unable to provide. ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190724 : The degradation of political elites is a universal phenomenon. Of course, first of all it is noticeable in relation to the Western elites (American, European), but this can also be found in the post-Soviet space ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190724 : Like his hero Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson believes history will treat him kindly because HE intends to write it." ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190724 : The world's "leadership class" really is bereft of any level of competence or standing: trump, boris, macon, ursula (and remaining eucom and IMF "leaders"), pompeo, bolton, pence, nitenyahoo,et al. and on and on. ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190724 : The "deep state" of intelligence agencies of the 5 eyes work together serving one master the Global Power elite. Just look at the amount of activity of MI6, GCHQ through the "Integrity Initiative" planting spies in the Sanders campaign and Halper in the Trump operation. ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190724 : Is Facebook a user inflation racket? ( Jul 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190723* John Helmer MH17 Evidence Tampering Revealed by Malaysia – FBI Attempt To Seize Black Boxes; Dutch Cover-Up of Forged Telephon ( Jul 23, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
20190723* Not The Onion NY Times Urges Trump To Establish Closer Ties With Moscow ( Jul 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190723 : Some thoughts about Mueller testimony ( Jul 23, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190723 : >Robert O. Paxton's "The Five Stages of Fascism" by Lambert Strether ( Jul 23, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190722 : The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class ( Jul 22, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
20190722 : Comey Under DOJ Investigation For Misleading Trump While Targeting Him In FBI Probe ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190722 : Report on evidence of felonies violating Civil Rights, and bribery by foreign agents, implicating United States Special Counsel Robert S Mueller III as a criminally-tainted agent of foreign racketeering interests ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190722 : Wehret den Anf ngen ( Jul 22, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
20190722 : Zionists in the Bush Administration ( Jul 22, 2019 , newobserveronline.com )
20190722 : All Hail Europe's Permanent Ruling Class ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190722 : War Profiteers And The Demise Of The US Military-Industrial Complex ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190721* Breaking: Clinton Just Got Devastating News ( Aug 12, 2016 , beforeitsnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190721 : Merchants of Death business uber alles" as the new interpretation of "Drain the Swamp" election time slogan by Trump administration ( Jul 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190720* New US Pentagon Chief Vested Interest in War Conflict ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org ) [Recommended]
20190720 : I want so much to sic Tulsi on creepy, Tio Joe, accomplice of banksters and credit card companies and also of the serial drone murderer. ( Jul 20, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190720 : The European Union's New Executive Kowtows to the Left ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190720 : The Decline of Our Nation's Generals by Andrew Bacevich ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190720 : House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them by John M. Donnelly ( Jul 15, 2019 , www.rollcall.com )
20190720 : the lyme disease bio-weapon mess has got coverage in Le Monde a couple of days ago ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190720 : The US Police-State Is Now Undeniable... by Eric Zuesse ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
20190720 : Western Interests Aim To Flummox Russia ( Mar 03, 2017 , www.unz.com )
20190720 : Orwell, Inc. How Your Employer Spies On You From When You Wake Up Until You Go To Bed ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190719 : The 'Unconstitutional Animus' Against UK Labour Leader by Johanna Ross ( Jul 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190718 : Brennan used using Dmitri Alperovitch of 'Crowdstrike' as a tool to corrupt the processes of investigation of DNC leaks. ( Jul 18, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190717 : 13 Russian Indictments -- Letter From Putin to Mueller ( Jul 15, 2019 , medium.com )
20190717 : Sic Transit Gloria Mueller by Ray McGovern ( Jul 17, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190717 : Who's Afraid of William Barr by Stephen F. Cohen ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.thenation.com )
20190717 : The only real difference between China and the US is that the Chinese have no expectation of liberty ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190717 : The key role of MSM is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time by PAUL STREET ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190715 : "Where is the evidence [for Russigate]? There is none." ( Jul 15, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190714 : Putin as an old fashioned liberal who opposes neoliberalism ( Jul 14, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190714* MODELS OF POWER STRUCTURE IN THE UNITED STATES Political Issues We Concern ( Sep 07, 2011 , politicalissues.blog.com ) [Recommended]
20190713 : I wonder what percentage of veterans got "woke" to this before Tulsi Gabbard? ( Jul 13, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190713 : The return of Weimar Berlin - Lawlessness, Inequality, Extremism, Divisiveness and Crime ( Feb 13, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
20190713* Mueller Does Not Have Evidence That The IRA Was Part of Russian Government Meddling by Larry C Johnson ( Jul 13, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190713 : Concord Management and the End of Russiagate by Daniel Lazare ( Jul 13, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190712 : Congress and the courts are the enablers of America's destruction. Legislation is morality; it's the definition of how you live together, where people can live together and raise their families. Our Congress instead serves the sex industry ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190712 : The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within America's Power Elite: book on the pedophile "epidemic in America and the purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190711 : As Acosta told his interviewers in the Trump transitiotion team "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone" ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190711 : Epstein, Trump and CIA ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190710 : Podesta vs Epstein ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190710 : RAY MCGOVERN ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190710 : Neoliberal elite suicide rate might increases dramatically over the next six months. ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190709* Epstein and the conversion of politicians into "corrupt and vulnerable" brand ( Jul 09, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190709 : Gabbard is NOT a member of the CFR. She has by her own admission, attended some meetings as an invited guest ( Jul 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190709 : CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller's Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia Meddling Claims. ( Jul 09, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190709* Ex-FBI, CIA Officials Draw Withering Fire on Russiagate by Ray McGovern ( Jul 08, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190709 : Luongo- Epstein s Arrest Tells Me Trump Is Now Out For Blood by Tom Luongo ( Jul 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190709 : Aldous Huxley said something that points exactly what happening in the world now ( Jul 09, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190707 : Ship of Fools- Liner Notes ( Jul 07, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190707 : Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. History of false flag operations by J.P. LINSTROTH ( Jul 07, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190706 : Believe it or Not, Pimplegate is REAL! ( Jul 06, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190706 : Brave Congressman Blasts 2-Party System as 'Existential Threat to America' then Quits His Party ( Jul 04, 2019 , thefreethoughtproject.com )
20190706 : This election will spawn losers all over the place; the most tragic losers will be those that voted a supposed maverick into the high office in order to fight the 'liberal' or whatever establishment hoping to bring jobs back to the people. ( Nov 10, 2016 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190706 : Same old, same old, same old, same old. Prospective candidates spewing out the same tired old hot air about how, this time, it really, really, really, really will be different. ( Jul 06, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190706 : Many critics will blame Putin for betraying Assad, but I think he is merely showing that he is a master negotiator who recognizes the importance of 'good' relations with Turkey, and knows he will not get everything he wants in Syria ( Jul 06, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190706 : I do think the protest against the Iraq war was a watershed moment, when the protests were simply ignored, and the in your face response by the powers that be. ( Jul 06, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190706 : US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home by DAVE LINDORFF ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190706 : Peace though procurement malpractice ( Jul 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190706 : Back to Roman numerals in the USA? 56% of American parents not wanting Arabic numerals taught to their children ( Jul 06, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190706* Mueller Report Gets the Trump Tower Meeting Wrong; Promotes Browder Hoax by Lucy Komisar ( Jul 03, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190706 : The Antiwar Movement No One Can See by Allegra Harpootlian ( Jul 02, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190705* Who Won the Debate? Tulsi Gabbard let the anti-war genie out of the bottle by Philip Giraldi ( Jul 02, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190705 : Political and media elites had been captured by unshored corporate money. Our voices had become irrelevant. ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190705 : They bet on you do nothing and dependent on the fake elections. ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190705 : Sweden sought Assange for 8 or 9 years to arrest him. This is the reason he spent 7 years in the embassy. Now he was arrested but Sweden doesn't want him (at least until now). ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : Tulsi as the only genuine antiwar candidate that might truly be electable ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : Voice of Tulsi supporters at unz.com ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : Why not support someone who appears to be genuinely opposed to the wars? ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : MSM are going to largely ignore Tulsi or even demonise her, because it is the Praetorian Media who now decide who will be the the American President. ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : Neoliberal MSM seem to use against Tulsi the Russia smear ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : Looks like Trump lost anti-war right ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : The armed forces are just a bunch of heavily entrenched welfare recipients who get uniforms, guns, bombs etc. , and are always angling for more money ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : Bush Sr. and his CIA drug dealing ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190704 : any and all individuals who conspired to defraud the United States into illegal war of aggression should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190702 : A lot of wanderers in the US political desert recognize that all the two party duopoly can offer is a choice of mirages ( Jan 02, 2019 , caucus99percent.co )
20190701 : We must end these interventionist wars as they suck the life blood out of doing the positive things that must be done to benefit Americans. ( Jul 01, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190701 : NYT is totally subservant to MIC and intelligence agencies and it shows ( Jul 01, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190701 : The Return of Sammy Glick by Martin Sieff ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
20190701 : Tulsi on Bill Maher (video) ( Jul 01, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190630 : First Democratic debate Demagogy on social issues, silence on war by Patrick Martin ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.wsws.org )
20190630 : New York Times exploits Parkland tragedy to escalate anti-Russian campaign by Andre Damon ( Feb 21, 2018 , www.wsws.org )
20190630* Orwell s 1984 No Longer Reads Like Fiction It s The Reality Of Our Times by Robert Bridge ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190630 : Paradigms Flip as Trump and Tulsi Emerge as the Winners of the Democratic Party Debate -- Strategic Culture ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
20190630 : Barak and CIA ( Jun 30, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
20190630 : Eisenhower called it the 'military-industrial complex.' It's vastly bigger now. ( Jun 26, 2019 , Washington Post )
20190630 : Two cheers for chickenhawks ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190630* USG's Bizarre Change of Position in the Roger Stone Case by Larry C Johnson ( Jun 30, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190630 : Following In Rome's Footsteps Moral Decay, Rising Inequality by Charles Hugh Smith ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190630 : What if the entire youth culture of the 1960s was created not as a grass-roots challenge to the status quo, but as a cynical exercise in discrediting and marginalizing the budding anti-war movement ( Jun 30, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
20190630 : Aggressive US Lies and Misleads to Justify War on Iran by William Boardman ( Jun 26, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
20190630 : Mainstream Media Outraged! That US Missiles Are In Unknown Libyan Rebel Hands ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190629 : The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is Isolationism by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190629 : Everyone's Got A Surveillance Score And It Can Cost You Big Money ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190629 : Have You Heard Of The CIA s Iran Mission Center by Vijay Prashad ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190628 : On Chosen-mess by Gilad Atzmon ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190628 : Pathetic, the whole debate were pathetic ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190628 : The Tulsi Effect Forcing War Onto the Democratic Agenda by Danny Sjursen ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190628 : A strain of foreign policy restraint may be emerging in the Democratic party ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190628 : Tulsi Gabbard was interviewed by Tucker Carlson after the debate ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190628 : Tulsi punched well above her weight ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190628 : Neoliberal wing of Democratic Pary (Coinines) are about power and money. Sanders and Gabbard rock the boat and the party establishment will never forgive them for that. ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190628 : Memo to Trump Trade Bolton for Tulsi by Pat Buchanan ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190628 : Bolton Gets Ready to Kill New START by Daniel Larison ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190628 : How Russia's President Putin Explains The End Of The '[neo]liberal' Order ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190628 : Neoliberal MSM proposed set of debate questions for Bernie Sanders ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190628* Tulsi Gabbard vs Bolton ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190628 : CIA role from the Dulles Brothers onwardst is to protect and support all members of the Oligarchy of Money from the 1% to Big Oil to Big Finance from that pesky Democratic Government and the troublesome Rule of Law. ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190627 : Guardian attacks Tulsi ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190627 : Book review: Dealing with the Russians ( Jun 27, 2019 , irrussianality.wordpress.com )
20190627 : Some Tulsi Gabbard quotes from the debate ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190627 : Media And Public Disagree On Tulsi Gabbard's Debate Performance ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190627 : Neoliberal MSM try to denigrate Tulsi success in the first Democratic debate ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190627 : 2020 Democrats Must Address Our Addiction to Military Spending by Katrina vanden Heuvel ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.thenation.com )
20190627 : The Real Winner Of Last Night's Democratic Debate ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190627* Western News Agencies Mistranslate Iran's President Speech - It Is Not The First Time Such 'Error' Happens ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190627 : The Hijacking of American Nationalism ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190627 : Crisis of neoliberalism hits the US military industrial complex by Matt Stoller and Lucas Kunce ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190627 : Consistency in the US Presidents betrayal of their voters is simply remarable ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190627 : The Myth of Russian Media Influence by Larry C Johnson ( Jun 27, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190626 : Arms Dealers and Lobbyists Get Rich as Yemen Burns by Barbara Boland ( Jun 25, 2019 , theamericanconservative.com )
20190626 : Trump's jingoism can hurt his chances for re-election. Can it ? ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190626* Opinion - NY Times admits it sends stories to US government for approval before publication ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.informationclearinghouse.info ) [Recommended]
20190626* The first rule of political hypocrisy: Justify your actions by the need to protect the weak and vulnerable ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190625 : Tulsi No More Presidential Wars Act ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190625 : Tulsi Gabbard Receives Amazing Welcome and Cheers from South Carolina Democratic Convention ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190625 : Tulsi on Iraq war and Trump administration and some interesting information about Bolton ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190625 : What Explains the Ferocity of the Attack Against Donald Trump by Robert W. Merry ( Jun 14, 2019 , nationalinterest.org )
20190625 : Read THIS Before Cheering the Next War Zero Hedge ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190624 : Tony Blair was accused of the crime of aggression but the Judges said he could not be prosecuted ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190624 : Google's Chrome Web Browser Has Become Spy Software ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190623 : I have no idea how Rand became the poster child for the libertarian movement ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190623 : It's erroneous to think state capitalism = soviet russia style dictatorships. ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190623 : The basic axiom of libertarian political theory holds that every man is a self-owner, having absolute jurisdiction over his own body and property. But without the means to protect, defend and preserve these things that one "owns", provided by the state, it amounts to very little. ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190623 : Many Anarchists have a libertarian mindset, and seek cooperation (rather than a competition in who can break the most windows), but reject the dominance and structures of the elite, which are usually completely undemocratic. ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190623 : No, that is not anarchy. That is a load of selfish bastards claiming to be anarchists and using this as a justification for their being selfish bastards. ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190623 : As former right-wing operative Allen Raymond famously said: "this is not about morality, this is about winning" ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190623 : Argentina s Economic Misery Could Bring Populism Back to the Country by Peter S. Goodman ( May 10, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
20190623* How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx by George Monbiot ( Mar 05, 2012 , www.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
20190622* A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to New Departement of Defence rule: Internet Users Who Call For Attacking Other Countries Will Now Be Enlisted In The Military Automatically ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190622 : That's why we are safe :-) ( Aug 01, 2014 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190622 : Americans hardly care who dies wherever as long as they can find themselves shoping goods they do not need with the money they do not have ( Jun 21, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190622* Use of science by the US politicians ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190622* Why The Empire Is Failing The Horrid Hubris Of The Albright Doctrine by Doug Bandow ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190622 : How Madeleine Albright Got the War the U.S. Wanted by Gregory Elich ( May 13, 2019 , www.globalresearch.ca )
20190622 : The Myopia of Interventionists by Daniel Lariso ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190622 : The Myopia of Interventionists by Daniel Lariso ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190621 : Disgraced Vice President of Walt Disney Convicted of Child Rape, Gets 6 Years by Matt Agorist ( Jun 21, 2019 , thefreethoughtproject.com )
20190620 : The Omnipresent Surveillance State by John W. Whitehead ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190620 : Trump Says DOJ Investigating Whether Obama Tapped His Phone ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190620 : False Flags The Process of False Flagging the World towards War. The CIA Weaponizes Hollywood by Larry Chin ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.globalresearch.ca )
20190620 : Bias, Lies Videotape Doubts Dog Confirmed Syria Chemical Attacks ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190620* The difference between old and new schools of jounalism: old-school journalism was like being assigned the task of finding out what "1+1 =?" and the task was to report the answer was "1." Now the task would be to report that "Some say it is 1, some say it is 2, some say it is 3." ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
20190619 : Trump has drained the swamp right into his administration ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190619 : How to stop Google and Facebook from strangling journalism ( Jun 19, 2019 , theweek.com )
20190619 : The fantasy of online privacy ( Jun 19, 2019 , theweek.com )
20190619* Investigation Nation Mueller, Russiagate, and Fake Politics by Jim Kavanagh ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
20190619 : Just for shits and giggles, a brief reminder of some of US "evidence" and false flags (all lies) in service of these "endeavors" previously ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190619 : The Warm War Russiamania at the Boiling Point by Jim Kavanagh ( Apr 02, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190619* Bias bias the inclination to accuse people of bias by James Thompson ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190618 : I think i know who killed Jesus ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190618 : Washington s Dark Secret The Real Truth about Terrorism and Islamic Extremism by John Maszka ( Jun 08, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
20190618 : Wikileaks CIA Stole Russian Malware, Uses It to Misdirect Attribution of Cyber Attacks ( Jun 12, 2019 , russia-insider.com )
20190618 : Every empire is a dictatorship. No nation can be a democracy that s either heading an empire, or a vassal-state of one by Eric Zuesse ( Jun 10, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190618 : Have the neoliberal ruling elite gotten lazy or stupid ( Jun 14, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190618 : The people in the USA are as good as anywhere, but only as trained as their culture tells them to be. Perhaps the future holds some spark of brightness for the people. ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190618 : MIC vs FIRE sector ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190618 : America's Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We Can't Get Rid of Them ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.oftwominds.com )
20190618 : Are Microsoft The Pentagon Quietly Hijacking US Elections ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190618 : The American Cult of Bombing and Endless War ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190618 : Gina Haspel What to Know About the New Director of the CIA ( May 08, 2019 , fortune.com )
20190618 : More NSA Documents Released ( May 07, 2019 , rightoftheright.com )
20190618 : The people in the USA are as good as anywhere, but only as trained as their culture tells them to be. Perhaps the future holds some spark of brightness for the people. ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190617 : America's Legacy of Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer ( Jun 10, 2019 , www.fff.org )
20190616* Rule of law in Murrika is kaput ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190616 : When false information is specifically political in nature, part of our political identity, it becomes almost impossible to correct lies. ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.politico.com )
20190616 : Cover-Ups and Truth Tellers ( Jun 16, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190616 : Trump s Lies vs. Your Brain by Maria Konnikova ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.politico.com )
20190616 : Cult of the Irrelevant -- National Security Eggheads Academics ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190616 : Court Transcript Exposes Facebook's View User Privacy Is Legally Non-Existent ( Jun 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190615 : U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia s Power Grid by David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth ( Jun 15, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
20190615 : In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc by Nicole Perlroth and Scott Shane ( May 25, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
20190615 : Two filthy NYT neocons try to provoke Russia to attack the USA power grid ( Jun 15, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
20190615 : Facebook and ebola virus ( Jun 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190615 : False flags here, false flags there, false flags everywhere. All too further the aims of the masters of the universe ( Jun 15, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190615 : Overfill Crowds in NYC for Tulsi Town Halls ( Jun 15, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190615 : 7 Reasons to Doubt US Version of Gulf-of-Oman Incident Consortiumnews ( Jun 14, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190615 : The Democrats engineered another win for Trump. Now why is that? ( Jun 15, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190615 : The queen of RussiaGate is going to be asking questions at the debates ( Jun 15, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190614 : Russiagate is an institutional initiative of CIA. Current DCI Gina Haspel was in London marshalling the foreign intelligence cutouts for the anti-Russian war propaganda that got repackaged for publication as Dem oppo research. ( Jun 14, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190614 : How NeoCon Billionaire Paul Singer Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
20190614 : It has been amusing to watch the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets express their dismay over the rise and spread of 'fake news.' ( Jun 14, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190614 : Total control of narrative means total control of population ( Jun 14, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190614 : They won't need to talk about Gabbard after the first debates, unless she can get polling over 2% there will be no more for her. ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190614 : When FiveThirtyEight asked 60 Democratic Party activists whom they didn't want to win, Tulsi Gabbard came in first out of 17 candidates ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190614 : Sanders-Gabbard: cannot say it often enough especially as Tulsi appears to terrify the democratic nomenklatura. ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190614 : Molly McKew, the information-warfare goddess ( Jun 14, 2019 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
20190614* With Russiagate, we Soviet immigrants were finally forced to reckon with the bigotry of America's elite ( Jun 14, 2019 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com ) [Recommended]
20190613 : A loyal servant of empire -- Crowdstrike CEO -- is well-rewarded for his role in creating Russiagate hysteria by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jun 13, 2019 , caitlinjohnstone.com )
20190613 : The most obvious obstacle for Tulsi is DC's foreign-policy Establishment (aka The Blob) -- the think-tankers and politicians and media personalities and intelligence professionals and defense-company contractors who determine the bounds of acceptable thinking on war and peace. ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190613 : 'Completely baseless' Tulsi slams US media smears against her campaign ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190612 : Trump Threatens Merkel With Pipeline Sanctions, US Troop Cut by Josh Wingrove ( Jun 12, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190611* The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction by John W. Whitehead ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.theburningplatform.com ) [Recommended]
20190611 : Cult of personality as integral feature of neofascism ( Jun 11, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
20190611 : Where exactly Peter Strzok (22 years in the FBI) learned that he had a right to interfere in a U.S. election to damage a candidate that he opposed ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190611* A Word From Joe the Angry Hawaiian ( Jun 11, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com ) [Recommended]
20190611 : Rachel Maddow Is Among the Moderators of the First Democratic Debate ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.thecut.com )
20190611 : One of the older male anchors on financial TV today noted, in a very condescending tone, that for some reason Elizabeth Warren has an attitude when it comes to corporations ( Jun 11, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
20190611 : Hillary Clinton's Russia collusion IOU The answers she owes America ( Jun 11, 2019 , thehill.com )
20190611 : Luke Harding is back with one of his bullshit exclusives in the Guardian. ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190610 : John Brennan 'Pathological Deceiver' Trump 'Rankles Me to No End' ( Jun 10, 2019 , www.breitbart.com )
20190610 : Pompeo s promise to intervene against Corbyn should surprise no one by Catte Black ( Jun 10, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190610 : The key to prosecuting Assange has always been to punish him without again embarrassing the powerful figures made mockeries by his disclosures by Eric Zuesse ( Jun 10, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190609 : Donald Trump isn't Mussolini or Hitler yet - but he's not far off by Patrick Cockburn ( Jun 09, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190608 : Neoliberal MSM are out to kill Tulsi chances by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190608 : Sanders burns Bill Kristol over 'foolish' pushing for Iraq war, asks where his apology is ( May 28, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190608 : JFK went against the flow of the good old boys and their networks ( Jun 08, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190607 : How can you have any faith or trust in a government when CIA is completely out of control? ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190607 : The CIA is completely out of control. This begs the question, as to why do, or should, American citizen vote for candidates when those candidates are effectively being managed by the CIA ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190607 : The CIA and security services have every right to know who is who on all and every politician and their staff ( Aug 01, 2014 , www.theguardian.com )
20190607 : The power of neoliberal brainwashing by Jason Holland ( Jun 01, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
20190607 : CIA admits to spying on Senate staffers by Spencer Ackerman ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190607 : Brennan: I'm Still Waiting For Republican Rats To Realize The Trump Ship Is Sinking ( May 01, 2019 , www.realclearpolitics.com )
20190607 : Tulsi Gabbard Pushes No War Agenda – and the Media Is out to Kill Her Chances by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 06, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
20190607 : Plutocracy needs Neo-McCarthysim to survive ( Jun 07, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
20190607 : Tucker It wasn't 'spying,' it was 'investigating' ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190606 : Odd NYT 'Correction' Exculpates British Government And CIA From Manipulating Trump Over Skripal Novichok Incident ( Jun 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190605 : Trumpies should bear in mind that Gallagher's own fellow Seals testified against him that's how depraved this guy Trump is pardoning is. ( May 21, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190605* Due to the nature of intelligence agencies work and the aura of secrecy control of intelligence agencies in democratic societies is a difficult undertaking as the entity you want to control is in many ways more politically powerful and more ruthless in keeping its privileges then controllers. ( Apr 27, 2019 , crookedtimber.org ) [Recommended]
20190605* Do Spies Run the World by Israel Shamir ( May 22, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190605 : 'Unlimited reach, no safeguards' Snowden warns of greatest social control scheme in history ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190605 : Military Intelligence? by Hugh O'Neill ( Jun 05, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190604 : Google Parses Your Gmail For Financial Transactions by Mark Jeftovic ( Jun 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190604* Attkisson 10 Questions I d Ask Robert Mueller (If I Were Allowed) ( Jun 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190603 : China's Cyber-Authoritarianism is on the March - ( Jun 03, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190603 : DNC changing the rules of the debates ( Jun 03, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190603 : The growth of the USA is going to depend on the ability of the people in government to disband the CIA which is similar to a dictator with absolute power and no accountability ( Jun 03, 2019 , russia-insider.com )
20190603 : Who Shot Down Flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 ( Jun 03, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190602 : Trump Declares War On Silicon Valley- DoJ Launches Google Anti-Monopoly Probe - ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190602 : As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190602 : Snowden Most Effective Means Of Social Control In The History Of Our Species Now In Place ( Jun 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190602* Somer highlights of Snowden spreach at Dalhousie University ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190602 : Russiagate Is The #1 Threat To US National Security, Cohen ( Jun 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190531 : Comments on Official Response by OPCW to the Engineering Assessment on Douma ( May 29, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190531 : Satire is no longer possible with the US neoliberal MSM constantly moving uyp the upper limits of stupidity ( May 31, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190531 : Threats to the neoliberal world order to be discussed at Bilderberg meeting ( May 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190530 : Tulsi is charismatic, as well as calm and collected. ( May 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190530* Whatever you may think of Trump, the people who set out to 'get him' are the scum of the Earth ( May 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190530 : >The Real Bob Mueller ( May 29, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190530 : Mueller is the master of cover up at service of the Depp State ( May 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190530* Everyone here at moa is saying much the same: the CIA is running the usa at this point.. Mueller is ex CIA... So, basically the mueller investigation a cover up and BS for the lemmings... It seems to have worked to a limited degree.. ( May 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190530 : Russiagate is yet another proof that the CIA is running the USA and they pay well ( May 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190529 : Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied ( May 29, 2019 , news.sky.com )
20190529* With Russiagate, we Soviet immigrants were finally forced to reckon with the bigotry of America's elite by Yasha Levine ( May 28, 2019 , thegrayzone.com ) [Recommended]
20190528 : Iran Won't Reward Trump's Aggression by DANIEL LARISON ( May 28, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190528 : Comey Slams Trump's FBI Probe 'There Was No Coup, These Are Lies, Dumb Lies' ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190528 : Fake Dossier -Creator Steele Refuses To Cooperate With AG Barr s Probe ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190528 : PODCAST Michael Brenner on Trump-Russia It's about the Russian mob, not the Russian government -- but Mueller won't go there ( May 23, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190528 : New York Times Supports False Trump Claims About An -Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program- That Does Not Exist ( May 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190528* Any time you read an article (or a comment) on Russia, substitute the word Jew for Russian and International Jewry for Russia and re-read. ( May 28, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190527 : Neofascists as a variety of True Believers ( May 27, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190527 : The Pathology of John Bolton by Joe Lauria ( May 23, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190526 : Global Elites Started The Russia Nonsense by Thomas Farnan ( May 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190524 : Paul R. Grenier On Natasha Bertrand's McCarthyite Hit Piece ( May 22, 2019 , eastwestaccord.com )
20190524 : Theresa May Cries As She Announces June 7 Resignation ( May 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190523 : Guccifer 2.0 Was Not a Russian Creation by Larry C Johnson ( May 23, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190523 : The language metadata artifacts are practically worthless for attribution ( May 23, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190523 : Your smartphone is leaking your information Bram Bonn TEDxGhent - YouTube ( May 23, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190523 : How to Avoid Surveillance...With Your Phone Christopher Soghoian TED Talks ( May 23, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190523 : William "Bill" Binney, former NSA technical director on how NSA track you. From the SHA2017 conference in Netherlands ( Aug 08, 2017 , youtube.com )
20190523 : Look at their prime creation of the new millennium: Barack Obama. ( May 23, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190523 : Recall Julian Assange's remarks to John Pilger, that Hillary was a cogwheel in a system of gears that includes Wall Street and foreign lobbyists as well as the intelligence agencies ( May 23, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190523 : Connections to CIA from major tech companies ( May 23, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190522* NATO has pushed eastward right up to its borders and threatened to incorporate regions that have been part of Russia's sphere of influence -- and its defense perimeter -- for centuries ( May 21, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190522 : The Great Power Game is On and China is Winning ( May 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190521 : Where Lyme Disease Came From and Why It Eludes Treatment by David Swanson ( May 17, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190521 : Why does Barsoomian, possibly a CIA operative, merit any mention? BECAUSE She is Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's WIFE! " ( May 21, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190520 : Technology, Convenience.....and Death ( May 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190520 : EP.744 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel -- Joe Biden's Conventional Wisdom is AMERICAN IMPERIALISM! ( May 11, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190520 : The US must NOT go to war with Iran ( May 16, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190520 : Tulsi Update 19 May 2019 (Rogan Bump, Oliver Stone) ( May 20, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190520 : The Democrats just led the country on a three year-long wild goose chase. Will they apologize by Mike Whitney ( May 20, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190520* "Us" Versus "Them" ( May 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190519 : Tulsi Gabbard Says Boost From Putin Fans Is Fake News ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190519 : Lawrence Wilkerson Warns The US Is Driving Down A Highway To War With China ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190519 : Why The Takedown Of Heinz-Christian Strache Will Strengthen The Right ( May 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190519* Some Shocking Facts on the Concentration of Ownership of the US Economy ( May 19, 2019 , russia-insider.com ) [Recommended]
20190519* How Russiagate replaced Analysis of the 2016 Election by Rick Sterling ( May 19, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org ) [Recommended]
20190519 : French researchers have completed their Map of Neoconservative Networks. It's interactive and gives links to each neocon/neocon group. ( May 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190519* Intel agencies of the UK and US are guilty of fabricating evidence, breaking the laws (certainly of the targeted countries, but also of the UK and US), providing fake analysis and operating as evil actors on the dark side of humanity ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190519 : The OPCW, Douma, The Skripals ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190518 : It's time to question the wisdom of our growing exposure to waves, streams of electrons, that we already have for a couple of decades ( May 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190518 : Democracy works in the USA is you abstract from such minor things as the level of connection of past US presidents to CIA, money in politics, pervasive propaganda and so on ( May 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190518 : 'US already spying on public, Huawei threat unproven' Swann ( May 16, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190518 : WaPo confirmed today that Tulsi is one of the 11 guaranteed a debate spot ( May 16, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190518 : Is Trump a double dealer. Why Trump Administration Withholds Information That Could Debunk Russian Interference Claims ( May 16, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190517 : Bob Goldstone letter ( May 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190517 : Texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page AG Lynch knew how the Clinton email case would end ( Jan 21, 2018 , hotair.com )
20190517 : Tulsi Gabbard's Campaign Is Being Boosted by Putin Apologists by Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein ( May 17, 2019 , www.thedailybeast.com )
20190517 : What Putin And Pompeo Did Not Talk About ( May 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190517 : Lavrov to Pompeo: And what's the US doing in the Eastern Hemisphere ( May 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190517 : US military complex is a 'malignant virus' that's evolved to defend itself ( May 17, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190516 : A Polyarchy is a system in which power resides in the hands of self-selected elite. The rest of the population is to be fragmented and distracted. They are allowed to participate every couple of years by voting. That's it. ( May 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190516 : FBI-CIA Dispute Erupts Over Whether Comey Or Brennan Pushed Steele Dossier ( May 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190516* Tulsi Gabbard for President - Stephen Lendman ( May 16, 2019 , stephenlendman.org ) [Recommended]
20190516 : Farage Gabbard - Lions Of The Great Realignment ( May 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190516 : Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Russia Must Face Consequences for Continued Aggression in Ukraine Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard ( Mar 17, 2014 , gabbard.house.gov )
20190516 : I have never seen such transparently obvious bullshit from UK elite befores" ( May 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190516 : What motive would they possibly have, these enormous corporate media conglomerates to disinform the Western masses, or to manufacture an official narrative that allows them to systematically eliminate any type of speech they deem to be Russian disinformation, or extremist content, or a conspiracy theory, or simply too dangerous, divisive, or confusing to circulate among the general public? ( May 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190516* The Disinformationists by C.J. Hopkins ( May 16, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190515 : CNN MSNBC Caught Meddling in US Democracy by Joe Giambrone ( May 15, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190515* Russia-gate s Monstrous Offspring ( May 14, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190515 : THIS IS ILLEGAL!! Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's BRILLIANT Takedown of Trump's Illegal War in Syria ( Apr 14, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
20190515* Ron Paul on Tulsi Gabbard - YouTube ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190515 : BREAKING Tulsi Gabbard Receives Another Major Endorsement (Ron Paul) ( May 06, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190515 : Chris Hedges Fascism in the Age of Trump ( May 15, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190515 : Tucker vs critic who calls him cheerleader for Russia ( Jul 12, 2017 , www.youtube.com )
20190515 : Op-Ed-O-Matic Write Doomsday Screeds Like the Pros by Peter Van Buren ( May 13, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190515 : Bernie Sanders on trade with China, health care and student debt ( May 07, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190515 : They can't even say it ( May 15, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190515 : They hate us for our freedom 2.0 ( May 15, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190514 : Facebook and Google Must Be Regulated Now The American Conservative ( May 14, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190514* The Propaganda Multiplier How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics ( Jun 01, 2016 , www.globalresearch.ca ) [Recommended]
20190514 : 1984 Turns 70-Years-Old In A World That Looks A Lot Like The Book ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190514 : Gabbard Says She'd Drop All Charges Against Assange And Snowden ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190514* iJews and the Left-i by Philip Mendes A Review, by Brenton Sanderson - The Unz Review ( May 14, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190514 : Why Everyone in the U.S. Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead naked capitalism ( May 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190514* Despite a $ 22 Trillion National Debt, America Is on a Military Spending Spree. 800 Overseas US Military Bases by Masud Wadan ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.globalresearch.ca ) [Recommended]
20190514 : Tulsi Brings Lefty Foreign Policy To Righty Audience -- It Works ( Mar 5, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190513 : Glenn Greenwald Interviews Rep. Tulsi Gabbard About Foreign Policy and Her 2020 Campaign - YouTube ( May 09, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190513 : Tulsi Gabbard's Perfect Solution To Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190513 : Bringing Soldiers Values to the White House - YouTube ( May 13, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190513* Not Just Ukraine; Biden May Have A Serious China Problem As Schweizer Exposes Hunter s $1bn Deal ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190513 : Crappy little countries ( Apr 30, 2003 , www.leftbusinessobserver.com )
20190513 : 'Politically motivated' Butina verdict a 'shameful stain' on US justice Russian Foreign Ministry -- RT World News ( May 13, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190513 : Although NSA discovered irregularities in the Spring, they didn't get aired until October? Maybe because he reports to the President? ( May 13, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190513 : How US and Foreign Intel Agencies Interfered in a US Election by Larry C. Johnson ( May 07, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190513 : EXPLOSIVE FOIA Documents Show Evidence of Weissmann/Mueller Entrapment Scheme ( May 11, 2019 , theconservativetreehouse.com )
20190513 : Brennan has no vision or compass or pronciples. Like a dog, he will hunt and maul anything that is approved by the Power ( May 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190513 : Still voting for Big Brother You might be a low-information voter ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190513* US Foreign Policy as Bellicose as Ever by Serge Halimi ( May 10, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
20190512 : Fox Host Tries to Get Tulsi Gabbard to Attack Bernie -- She Doesn't Take the Bait ( May 12, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190512* Is rabid warmonger, neocon chickenhawk Bolton a swinger? That s a mental picture that s deeply disturbing yet funny at the same time ( May 12, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190512 : Nova The Spy Factory Full Video ( May 12, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190512 : The Trans-Pacific Partnership, stopping Brexit, and abandoning an Atlanticist foreign policy were opposed by a CIA and corporate political establishment, who created the fake Steele dossier to bring down Trump ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190512 : Brennan and 9/11 ( May 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190512 : Judgment Day For John Brennan by Mike Whitney ( May 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190512 : Neoconservativsm is a distinct ideology brought into being by U of Chicago professor Leo Strauss and his ex-Trotskyist acolytes. It is American exceptionalism on steroids and its core tenet is that American society needs elite rulers to guide the retarded masses who are too stupid to know what their best interests are. ( May 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190512 : The Brainwashing Of A Nation ( May 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190512 : Jimmy Dore The US is a MAFIA STATE! - YouTube ( May 12, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190512* Charting a Progressive Foreign Policy for the Trump Era and Beyond ( May 10, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190512 : Bernie seems to lack the spine. Tulsi on the other hand is a tough cookie -- but could she ever find adequate military and DOJ support? ( May 12, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190512 : Trump about to dump Bolton caucus99percent ( May 12, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190512 : Gina Haspel Conned Trump with British Lies into Expelling Russian Diplomats over Skripal Case ( Apr 17, 2019 , larouchepub.com )
20190511 : Russiagaters now represent an interesting new supported by intelligence agencies "for profit" sect. That's why Mueller report can't shake their convictions, it just increase their zeal ( May 08, 2019 , opensociet.org )
20190511 : Russiagate is Dead, Long Live Russiagate. ( May 11, 2019 , www.reddit.com )
20190511 : From Russiagate to Gunboat Diplomacy by Branko Marcetic ( May 11, 2019 , jacobinmag.com )
20190511 : Spygate (aka Russiagate) was a program to entrap and smear Trump as a Putin stooge by top officials in the Obama administration, directly interfering in a presidential election. ( May 11, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190511* Whitney Judgment Day Looms For John Brennan ( May 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190511 : Rachel Maddow s Craziest Russia Video Ever! ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190511 : A Texan Looks At Lyndon: A Study In Illegitimate Power ( May 31, 2003 , www.amazon.com )
20190511 : The Untold Facts of John Brennan s Career of Treachery by Richard Galustian ( www.zerohedge.com )
20190511* Intel and Law Enforcement Tried to Entrap Trump by Larry C Johnson ( May 04, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190511* Christopher Steele, FBI s Confidential Human Source by Publius Tacitus ( Aug 08, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190511 : Report How Fusion GPS and the Obama Administration Weaponized the Trump Dossier by Kristina Wong ( Dec 24, 2017 , www.breitbart.com )
20190511 : Paul Craig Roberts Warns A CIA-led Coup Against American Democracy Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes by Paul Craig Roberts ( Dec 17, 2016 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190511 : US Army Colonel Pentagon's Latest China Report A Budget Ploy To Bleed The Taxpayer ( May 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190511* CIA Paid $100,000 To Shadowy Russian For Dirt on Trump, Including Sex Video by Chuck Ross ( Feb 10, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190510 : Flailing Fox Host Smears Tulsi To Her Face In Bizarre Segment ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190510 : The key role of British intelligence in Spydate (aka Russiagate) ( May 03, 2019 , www.theepochtimes.com )
20190510* Mueller Report - Expensive Estimations And Elusive Evidence by Adam Carter ( May 06, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190510* Obama administration raced to obtain FICA warrant on Carter Page before Rogers investigation closes on them and that was definitely an obstruction of justice and interference with the ongoing investigation ( May 03, 2019 , www.theepochtimes.com ) [Recommended]
20190510* What was the meaning of the term "insurance policy" in Stzok messages to Lisa Page ( May 03, 2019 , www.theepochtimes.com ) [Recommended]
20190510* The Battle Between Rosenstein and McCabe ( May 03, 2019 , www.theepochtimes.com ) [Recommended]
20190510 : The Three Purposes of Russiagate by Paul Craig Roberts ( Apr 01, 2023 , ahtribune.com )
20190510 : In some respects, the neoliberal MSMs has played the most disingenuous of roles is Spygate (aka Russiagate) ( May 03, 2019 , www.theepochtimes.com )
20190510 : The role of Obama administration in spygate (aka Russiagate) ( May 03, 2019 , www.theepochtimes.com )
20190510 : Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie by Craig Murray ( Apr 06, 2019 , ahtribune.com )
20190510 : Neoliberal pressititutes can not scream "Mexican scum" or "Chinese scum" or "Indian scum." Russian bigotry is, is the only "politially correct" bigotry among the neoliberal media ( May 10, 2019 , ahtribune.com )
20190510 : The Russian Menace has been a very lucrative racket for the caste of Imperial Servants and MIC -- paying the mortgages, car loans, kids' college tuitions, for thousands of think-tankers, military contractors, academics and journalists ( May 10, 2019 , ahtribune.com )
20190509 : James Comey Donald Trump indictment possible after presidency by Victor Morton ( May 09, 2019 , m.washingtontimes.com )
20190509 : Tulsi Gabbard just pushed back on the Harris/Hirono war on the K of C. ( May 09, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190509* Trump DID commit obstruction of justice... he refused to force HIS Dept of Justice to indict Hillary, Comey, Brennan and Clapper ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190509* Trump DID commit obstruction of justice... he refused to force HIS Dept of Justice to indict Hillary, Comey, Brennan and Clapper ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190508 : Tulsi said the US basically needs to let Venezuelans handle their own internal political affairs. ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190508* Obama Spied on Other Republicans and Democrats As Well by Larry C Johnson ( May 08, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190508 : Huawei Hypocrisy by Craig Murray ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190508 : It is the ultimate irony that how the old Soviet Union's judiciary used to function is now becoming standing operating procedure in the United States ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190508 : America's Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190508 : Tulsi is coming back to California she will be in Malibu May 12 and Santa Monica May 13 ( May 08, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190508 : CNN Looks Humiliated On Russiagate While Backpedaling ( May 08, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190507 : James Comey is in trouble and he knows it ( May 07, 2019 , thehill.com )
20190507 : The DNC Debates, the MSM and Tulsi ( May 07, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190507 : The anger towards Silicon Valley is growing on the left and right simultaneously ( May 07, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190507 : Tulsi Gabbard: Most Attacks I Get Are From Democrats ( May 07, 2019 , www.reddit.com )
20190507* Chris Hedges: The Demonization of Russia is Driven by Defense Contractors ( Apr 05, 2019 , dandelionsalad.wordpress.com ) [Recommended]
20190506 : Trump is a Symptom of 40 years of NeoLiberalism and the Corporate Capture of the US government. ( May 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190506 : This podcast interview with Lisa Pease on her new 500-page primary-sourced book, A Lie Too Big To Fail, on the RFK assassination, is fascinating, sobering, terrifying. ( May 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190506 : President Trump promised to drain the swamp, and he flooded his national security team with that exact swamp ( May 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190506 : Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190505* Did Mueller substituted Russia for Israel in his report ( May 05, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190504 : Did NSA Admiral Mike Rogers Warn Trump On November 17th, 2016 ( Mar 06, 2017 , anamericancomment.blogspot.com )
20190504 : Papadopoulos even talks about U.S. military attach s, DIA guys, in on this coup. ( May 04, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190504 : This Was Not Spying, It Was Entrapment Bongino Spits Fire As Nunes Demands Mifsud Docs ( May 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190504 : The American intelligence community captures all the fiber optic communications of all people in America. This mass suspicionless surveillance is unlawful and unconstitutional ( May 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190504 : "Trump Was Not Just Spied Upon, It Was Entrapment" ( www.youtube.com )
20190504 : Geraldo Were investigators trying to entrap Trump ( May 03, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190503 : The Russiagate Hoax -- Cutting to the Chase caucus99percent ( May 03, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190503* Former high-ranking FBI officials on Andrew McCabe's alarming admissions ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190503* Andrew McCabe played the key role in the appointment of the special prosecutor ( Mar 02, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190503 : WaPo, CNN Virtually Silent After NYT Reveals 2nd FBI Spy Sent To Infiltrate Trump Campaign ( May 03, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190503 : There Was Spying NYT Admits Obama Admin Used 'Honeypot' To Spy Against Trump Campaign In 2016 ( May 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190503 : The Obama administration for more than four years before the 2016 election allowed four contractors working for the FBI to illegally surveil American citizens ( May 01, 2019 , www.realclearpolitics.com )
20190503 : These reporters and networks have been named in the WikiLeaks to have colluded with the DNC or Hillary campaign during the 2016 election cycle ( May 03, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190502* Checkmate - How President Trump s Legal Team Outfoxed Mueller by Will Chamberlain ( May 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190501 : It is not amazing. That's about intelligence agencies control, nothing else. ( May 01, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190501 : I think it is an exercise in self delusion when people think they can become educated voters or citizens. It is not happening. ( May 01, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190501 : On Venezuela, America Should Check Its Regime Change Impulses at the Door ( May 01, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190501 : Russians, Russians, Russians. Now under each bed ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190501 : Tulsi Brings Lefty Foreign Policy To Righty Audience -- It Works ( Mar 5, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190430 : Here's how much global military spending rose in 2018 ( Apr 30, 2019 , www.defensenews.com )
20190430 : Is Auntie Gina just the titular head of Al-CIA? ( Apr 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190429 : DiGenova Destroys Media's Reckless Promotion Of Trump Tower Meeting As Crime ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190429* The Mueller Report Indicts the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory by Aaron Maté ( Mar 26, 2019 , outline.com ) [Recommended]
20190429 : How AI Systems Could Threaten Democracy naked capitalism ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190429 : AP Exclusive Google tracks your movements, like it or not ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.apnews.com )
20190429 : Consortium News' Record on Russiagate -- How CN Covered the 'Scandal' No. 7 'Russiagate Is No Watergate or Iran-Contra' Consor ( Apr 29, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190429 : This is why Russia Gate is never going away ( Apr 29, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190429 : Angry Bear " Panetta and Trump Who are You Calling Chumps ( Apr 29, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
20190429 : Russiagate vs Watergate ( Apr 29, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190429 : Deputy AG Rosenstein Submits Resignation Letter Our Nation Is Safer ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190429 : Is Annexing the West Bank a 'Moral Right' by Paul Gottfried ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190429 : It is more probable that some patriots at NSA seeing what was going on hacked and leaked emails not wanting corrupt Hillary and criminal empire taking hold of US gov rather than Russians doing such ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190429 : Heritage Foundation + the War Industry What a Pair by Paul Gottfried ( Nov 30, 2017 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190428* The British Role in Russiagate Is About to Be Fully Exposed ( Apr 22, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190428* Tit For Tat: Why Did Mueller Let Trump Off the Hook by Mike Whitney ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190428 : New York opens probe into Facebook's hoarding of 1.5 million users email address book ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190428 : Sounds like Brennan's CIA laundered information to EX-CIA Nellie Ohr when she was working for Fusion GPS who then laundered this info to Steele ( Apr 28, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190428 : Fake news takedown Journalist shreds Rachel Maddow's Russiagate conspiracies -- RT USA News ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190428 : Julian Assange is a vilified human being. ( Apr 28, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190428 : The US Deep State truly exists on another plane of unreality ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190428 : SBS broadcast a 4 part doco called The Fourth Estate in June last year. It's about the NYT unhealthy obsession with Trump ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190428* Breath of fresh air--real journalism again! Have so much respect for Chris Hedges and Aaron Mate, great work! ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190428* On Contact Russiagate Mueller Report w- Aaron Mate ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190428 : Did The Russians Really Interfere In US Elections ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190428 : Russiagate post-mortem by Andrew Korybko ( Apr 28, 2019 , inforos.ru )
20190428 : People take this repetition as a substitute for proof due to a glitch in human psychology known as the illusory truth effect, a phenomenon which causes our brains to tend to interpret things we've heard before as known truths ( Apr 28, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190428 : Mueller's Report Was a Media Rorschach Test ( theatlantic.com )
20190427 : The Noose Tightens on the British Empire ( Apr 18, 2019 , larouchepac.com )
20190427 : Mueller s $35 Million Gaslighting of the American People ( Apr 22, 2019 , larouchepac.com )
20190427 : Butina case was "political and fabricated from air poisoned with Russophobia". ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190427 : Top German Journalist Admits Mainstream Media Is Completely Fake We All Lie For The CIA ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190426* Mueller investigation was launched in order to investigate the obstruction of his investigation ( Apr 26, 2019 , off-guardian.org ) [Recommended]
20190426 : How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost by John Solomon ( Apr 26, 2019 , thehill.com )
20190426 : Immigrant neocon class ( Apr 26, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190426* Jared Kushner, Not Maria Butina, Is America's Real Foreign Agent by Philip Giraldi ( Apr 25, 2019 , ronpaulinstitute.org ) [Recommended]
20190426 : Russiagate will scarcely matter to most voters by election time 2020. But might give some advantage to Trump playing "false victum" of the witch hunt ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190426* Intelligence agencies meddling in elections ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190426 : Gabbard is serious person, while Sanders ais a sheepdog for Establishment ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190425 : Ecuador President Lenin Moreno on revoking Julian Assange's asylum ( Apr 11, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190425 : Trump promotes conspiracy theory that UK helped Obama administration spy on his presidential campaign ( Apr 25, 2019 , independent.co.uk )
20190425 : Historical info on stolen votes in the USA: Johnson victory in Texas senator race was due to election fraud ( Apr 25, 2019 , irrussianality.wordpress.com )
20190425 : 'The Devils Chessboard' (by DAvid Talbot) provides a riveting account of how cold war paranoia became the engine to so much US thinking culminating in the murder of JFK ( Apr 23, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190425 : It goes without saying that Trump would covet an opportunity to settle scores with the Democratic Party over that witch hunt, which, in cahoots with the mainstream media, stalked the US leader and his administration for two painstaking years. ( Apr 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190425 : A Sign Of The Times Court Documents Indicate 7,819 Boy Scout Troop Leaders Abused 12,254 Victims ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190424 : The HUGE lie that Russia was somehow hacking the DNC was the Insurance Policy ( Apr 24, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190424 : Viable Opposition ( Apr 24, 2019 , viableopposition.blogspot.com )
20190424 : Obama bait and switch maneuver ( Apr 24, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
20190424 : Libya has lost their country to terrorist thugs, their infrastructure has been destroyed, their wealth has been stolen and continues to be stolen. They have had one million Libyans killed. ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190424 : A President is a prisoner of the White House like a Pope is a prisoner of the Vatican. ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190424 : Only herd-minded human livestock believe the unsubstantiated assertions of opaque and unaccountable government agencies about governments who are oppositional to those same agencies ( Apr 24, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190424 : Integrity Initiative - Driving A Wedge Between Russia and the West ( Jan 21, 2019 , viableopposition.blogspot.com )
20190424 : One of the reasons I voted for DJT was because I wanted to know if the unelected elites (who control the Deep State) would ever voluntarily surrender the reigns of power in DC without bloodshed. ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190424 : Why then Mueller backed off (in panic) from the indicted' readiness to show up in court? ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190423 : Stephen Cohen about Tulsi ( Apr 23, 2019 , therealnews.com )
20190423 : US Hoped Putin Would be a 'Sober Yeltsin' - RAI with Stephen Cohen (3-5) ( Apr 23, 2019 , therealnews.com )
20190423 : Groupthink at the CIA by Philip Giraldi ( Aug 01, 2017 , www.unz.com )
20190423 : CIA, the counerstone of the deep state, might have agenda that is radically different from the US national interest and reflect agenda of the special interest groups ( May 23, 2017 , nakedcapitalism.com )
20190423 : Crowdstrike and the reprise of the Iraq-WMD Fiasco ( Feb 03, 2017 , consortiumnews.com )
20190422 : John Helmer The Julian Assange Case Now Puts the US on Trial in a British Court Is There a Get-Out-of-Jail Card for Assange ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190422 : The US regime of total surveillance and Assange ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190422* FBI top brass have been colluding with top brass of CIA and MI6 to pursue ambitious anti-Russian agenda ( Mar 10, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190422 : On Contact: Russiagate Mueller Report with Aaron Mate ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190422 : Are US neocons "the possessed" ? ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190422 : Congress members and top talking heads as foot soldiers of neo-McCarthyism campaign unleashed by intelligence agencies ( Apr 22, 2019 , theduran.com )
20190422* Current Neo-McCarthyism hysteria as a smoke screen of the UK and the USA intent to dominate European geopolitics and weaken Russia and Germany ( Jul 24, 2018 , angrybearblog.com ) [Recommended]
20190422 : Brzezinski s Warning to America by Mike Whitney ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190422 : Hitler has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life ( Apr 22, 2019 , kunstler.com )
20190421 : The remarkable susceptibility of the American people to propaganda has to do with the philosophical tradition of pragmatism: What is true is that what is useful in our lives ( Apr 20, 2019 , therealnews.com )
20190421* Makes me wonder if this started out as a standard operation by the FBI to gain leverage over a presidential contender ( Apr 21, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190421 : It is stunning that the entirety of federal law enforcement, intelligence, and State department embraced and fortified Russian misinformation in their jihad against Trump ( Apr 21, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190421 : Tulsi Gabbard on Twitter If our leaders media want to protect our elections, not just score political pts, first most imp ( Apr 21, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190421 : Tulsi Pushes Forward ( Apr 20, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190421* Even if we got a candidate against the War Party the Party of Davos, would it matter? Trump betayal his voters, surrounded himself with neocons, continues to do Bibi's bidding, and ratcheting up tensions in Latin America, Middle East and with Russia. What's changed even with a candidate that the Swamp disliked and attempted to take down? ( Apr 21, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190421* Muller report implicates Obama administration in total and utter incompetence, if not pandering to the foreign intervention into the USA elections. The latter is called criminal negligence in legal speak. ( Apr 21, 2019 , angrybearblog.com ) [Recommended]
20190421 : the current situation is "USSR reversed", in that the US now feels the need to "mute" Russia but Russia does not feel the need to "mute" the US. ( Apr 21, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190421 : Bernie Steals the 'No More Wars' Issue From Trump by Patrick J. Buchanan ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190421 : The US Deserves Its Own Nuremberg Trials ( Mar 23, 2019 , www.truthdig.com )
20190421* Psywar: Propaganda during Iraq war and beyond ( Apr 21, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190421 : NYT The Tables Have Turned -- Time To Investigate The FBI, Steele And The Rest Of The Witch Hunters ( Apr 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190421 : Washington Post's Max Boot Has No Clue What a Neocon Is ( Apr 21, 2019 , splinternews.com )
20190421 : Escobar The Deep State Vs. WikiLeaks by Pepe Escobar ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190421 : Exploring the Shadows of America s Security State Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother ( Aug 26, 2017 , www.unz.com )
20190421 : Mark Ames: The FBI Has No Legal Charter But Lots of Kompromat ( May 16, 2017 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190421 : CIA created ISIS and it went out of control ( Nov 23, 2015 , Zero Hedge )
20190421 : Classified America: Why Is the US Public Allowed To Know So Little by Robert Koehler ( May 14, 2017 , original.antiwar.com )
20190421* John Brennan's Police State USA ( Oct 22, 2017 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190421* Deciphering Trumps Foreign Policy by Oscar Silva-Valladares ( Oct 28, 2017 , ronpaulinstitute.org ) [Recommended]
20190421* Special Counsel Mueller -- Disingenuous and Dishonest by Larry C Johnson ( Apr 20, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190421* Whenever someone inconveniences the neoliberal oligarchy, the entire neoliberal MSM mafia tells us 24 x7 how evil and disgusting that person is. It's true of the leader of every nation which rejects neoliberal globalization as well as for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ( Apr 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190421 : Is the CIA Reformable by Melvin A. Goodman ( Jul 21, 2017 , www.truth-out.org )
20190421* George Papodopoulus was entrapped by individuals linked to British MI-6 and the CIA with offers to provide meetings with Russians and Putin. The Mueller account is a lie ( Apr 20, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190421 : The Internet Research Agency only spent, according to the report itself, only spent $100,000, actually, on their activity in terms of buying advertising in Facebook and Twitter ( Apr 20, 2019 , therealnews.com )
20190421 : CNN's Dana Bash Warns Trump If You Cross The Deep State, They Will Get Back At You; Even If You re The President by Tim Hains ( May 17, 2017 , www.realclearpolitics.com )
20190420* Trump has certainly made the world safer ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
20190420* Sure, blame those guys over there for Hillary fiasco and hire Mueller to get the goods . That s the ultimate the dog ate my homework excuse. ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
20190420 : Did Assange lied about Seth Rich? ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190420 : Caitlin Johnstone Debunks All The Assange Smears ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190420 : Brennan should be investigated for unleashing neo-McCarthysim compaign and put of trial ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190420* Trump has certainly made the world safer ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
20190420 : When I see the right-of-center DNC supporters saying, "Our democracy has been attacked," I an reminded of the interview Hermann Goering gave while he was waiting to be executed. ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190420 : Is Trump a neofascist due to his aggressive foreign policy and promotion of economic Lebensraum for the USA ? ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190420 : Here is an interesting interpretation of Trumps selection of cabinet and advisor positions ( Nov 20, 2016 , marknesop.wordpress.com )
20190420 : The Guccifer 2.0 Gaps in Mueller s Full Report undermine the validity of findings ( Apr 10, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190420 : The culprit is most likely the same of always, US and Israel intelligence, acting directly or through contractors... ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190420 : What shocked me most from the recent story here about Torturer Gina Haspel lying to Trump wasn't that she did it. The woman has no scruples at all, and her misbehavior is hardly a surprise. ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190419* Tulsi Gabbard: People get into a lot of conversations about political strategies I might get in trouble for saying this, but what does it matter if we beat Donald Trump, if we end up with someone who will perpetuate the very same crony capitalist policies, corporate policies, and waging more of these costly wars? ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190419 : Early Assange quote ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190419 : One way to deflect and mask ignorance is to build a monument of commemoration. ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190419 : The problem is that no one in the USA gives a s**t about facts. The Government is immune from public opinion ( Apr 18, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190419 : The USSR was a kind of guarantor of sanity of the USA elite, supressing built-in suisidal tendences. With it gove they went off the rail ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190419 : People get into a lot of conversations about political strategies I might get in trouble for saying this, but what does it matter if we beat Donald Trump, if we end up with someone who will perpetuate the very same crony capitalist policies, corporate policies, and waging more of these costly wars? ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190419 : Haftar's LNA has won this war, though many battles will be fought ahead, the LNA has brought a very united support from Egypt, KSA and UAE and with that it brings France, Russia and now the US in supporting it, either as opportunistic, individual agenda or simply to speed up the peaceful process. ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190419 : Why Russiagate Will Never Go Away by Rob Urie ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190419 : The connection between pro-Israel Lobby efforts and the covert operations and overt invasions of America's national security state. ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190419 : The culprit is most likely the same of always, US and Israel intelligence, acting directly or through contractors... ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190419 : The USSR was a kind of garantor of sanity of the USA elite, suppressing built-in suicidal tendences. With it gone they went off the rail ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190419 : What shocked me most from the recent story here about Torturer Gina Haspel lying to Trump wasn't that she did it. The woman has no scruples at all, and her misbehavior is hardly a surprise. ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190419 : The UK government and the media, had lost all moral authority ( Apr 17, 2019 , craigmurray.org.uk )
20190419 : HARPER RUSSIAGATERS IN IG CROSSHAIRS ( Apr 17, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190419 : RussiaGate Is Dead! Long Live Russiagate! ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190418 : LIVE Wikileaks editor-in-chief holds presser on new criminal case involving Julian Assange ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190418 : Wikileaks started as a Chinese dissident project which certainly had the support of the US military-intelligence complex. It quickly became something else, ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190418 : Cover-Up Smoking Guns on Clinton Emails ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190418 : Were FBI honchos on drugs when they went to such an extent to entrap Trump and smear him as Putin's bitch? ( Apr 18, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190418 : The FBI Tried and Failed to Entrap Trump by Larry C Johnson ( Apr 18, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190418 : Do some research and you will find Hilary and her husband worked for Pappy Bush ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190418 : This Deep State stooge Mueller now looks like a compete idiot ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190418 : It seems highly reasonable to conclude the NY Times item has blown away any remaining truthfulness to the Skripal Saga and the entire Saga ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190418 : A bill 'Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act (DASKA) of 2019,' has been introduced in the Senate which will ' require the Secretary of State to determine whether the Russian Federation should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190418 : Halper, Dearlove, and Haspel propbaly run a join operation to initiate a new McCarthyism compaign. With the cornerstone step of Brannan-sponsored US IC "findings" (17 intelligence agencies agree!! Except not - that was a lie) ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190418 : What will happen once Nord Stream II is finished? Where is Europe heading next, especially in its relationship with the USA and Russia? ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190418 : Post Putin Russia. Will it survive and prosper? ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190418 : OSCE observers released their preliminary report on the results of the first round of the presidential election ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190418 : The USA Ukrainian endgame is to carve another Poland from the Russian population, as a means to weaken the Russian State ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190418 : The Saker interviews Dmitry Orlov ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190418 : The Ukrainian State Investigation Bureau launched a criminal case on "the intentional surrender" of Crimea against Verkhovna Rada Speaker Andrei Paruby, Secretary of the Ukrainian Council of National Security and Defense Alexander Turchinov, former Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk and others ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190418 : Honest Government Ad on Julian Assange (hilarious video!) ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190418 : NYT reported on children and ducks not merely as a quote of CIA director, but as a straight fact. ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190418 : The problem with the west is not so much cultural as it is economic the west is a giant Ponzi scheme that must ultimately collapse as all 'financialized' economies have collapsed since the beginning of money as any careful reader of Michael Hudson can tell you ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
20190417* Haspel is not the "underling". Trump is the underling. Sure, being that he is also an oligarch makes Trump's role in the show complicated, but Presidents are installed in order to serve the oligarchy, and the CIA are top level strategists/enforcers for the oligarchy. ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190417* The media's interest in the well-being of a foreign population is directly proportional to the West's interest in toppling its government, while editorial standards are inversely proportional to its enemy status ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190417* Six US Agencies Conspired ... ( Apr 17, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190417* Deep State and the FBI Federal Blackmail Investigation ( Feb 23, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org ) [Recommended]
20190417* Did CIA Director William Casey really say, We ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false ( Sep 01, 2013 , www.quora.com ) [Recommended]
20190417 : Ecuador sells off Assange to US Ron Paul ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.presstv.com )
20190417 : The Fly in the Mueller Ointment ( Apr 17, 2019 , original.antiwar.com )
20190417 : What Are We to Make of Gina Haspel by Publius Tacitus ( Mar 19, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190417 : Haspel used brazen manipulation of her boss, who happens to be a commander in chief of a nuclear power. It looks like waterboarding Trump with the stream of lies. ( Apr 17, 2019 , craigmurray.org.uk )
20190417 : Gina Haspel the CIA torturer extraordinaire ( Apr 17, 2019 , craigmurray.org.uk )
20190417 : Gina Haspel As If Nuremberg Never Happened ( Mar 19, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190417 : If y ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190417 : Trey Gowdy Calls Hillary Clinton a Habitual Serial Liar ( Jan 28, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
20190417 : Never underestimate the CIA by Nancy O'Brien Simpson ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.veteranstoday.com )
20190417 : A bridge from fiction to reality ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190417 : Haspel revelation sheds a whole new light on the death of those two poor little hamsters, or was it guinea pigs, said to be starved while the police was investigating the premises of Skripal. ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190417 : Putin's remark about people with breifcases and impotent US presidents ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190416 : Trump as a useful idiot of the Deep State ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190416 : No One Can Trust Trump ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190416* The incompetent, the corrupt, the treacherous -- not just walking free, but with reputations intact, fat bank balances, and flourishing careers. Now they re angling for war with Iran. ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190416* CIA Director Used Fake Skripal Incident Photos To Manipulate Trump ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190416 : The Six Degrees of Paul Manafort caucus99percent ( Apr 16, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190416 : Ray on Why the Deep State Hates Julian Assange ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190416 : Is the NYT promoting Gina Haspel as someone who deserves a more influential position than the nation's top torturer? ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190416 : Trump was transparently chosen to be the fake "agent of change" for the other half of the US population, just as Obama before ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190416 : Trump doesn't strike me as someone with principles or opinions of his own. He will say and do whatever his base of "deplorables" likes to hear and whatever helps him get what he wants. ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190416 : Andrew O'Hagan Ghosting Julian Assange LRB 6 March 2014 ( Apr 16, 2019 , lrb.co.uk )
20190416 : In terms of banking, here is a great explanation, including The City of London that owns UK: ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190416 : Why tiny groups are able to control large mass of population ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190415* Do you need to be stupid to support Trump in 2020, even if you voted for him as lesser evil in 2016 ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190415 : 4 Myths About Julian Assange DEBUNKED Zero Hedge ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190415 : Julian Assange Is Guilty Of Only One Thing: Revealing The Evil Soul Of US Imperialism ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190415 : A letter to the> President Trump from former voter ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190415 : War is the force that gives America its meaning. ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190415 : Iraq Wrecked Me for Nothing The American Conservative ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190415 : The Elite prosper from war that is why there has been continual war and slaughter on their behalf ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190415 : Neoliberal globalization is under sieve, countries that refuse to unconditionally open markts to transnationals and be vassal of Washington are now labeled as authoritarian ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190414 : It has since been revealed that Epstein had 21 different phone numbers for contacting his friend Bill Clinton, who, court records allege, "frequently flew" on Epstein's private jet between 2002 and 2005. ( Apr 14, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190414 : You could not get a more sinister confluence of political fraudsters by Michael Tracey ( Apr 12, 2019 , spectator.us )
20190414 : Robert Kaplan Writes In Defense Of Slavery ( Mar 21, 2014 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190414 : Neocons vs Jews ( Mar 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
20190414 : The Complete Unexpurgated AIPAC Tape from 1993 ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
20190414 : Ethno-Centrism Myths and Mania by James Petras ( Apr 17, 2017 , www.unz.com )
20190414 : 'Boom!' an autopsy of the media after the Mueller bombshell by Michael Tracey ( Apr 04, 2019 , spectator.us )
20190414 : Edward Snowden: Surveillance Is About Power ( Apr 14, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190414 : The FBI/CIA gang is also very stupid. From Halper-the-spy and his incompetent handler Brennan to the obnoxious Zionists of Ledeen kind they, the members of the "gang", show incompetence and the self-endangering and stupid amorality. ( Apr 14, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190414 : Assange rendition might backfire for Trump administration ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190413* Russophobia, A WMD (Weapon Of Mass Deception) by Jean Ranc ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190413 : How about a paedophile UK Prime Minister never investigated ? ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190413 : CIA s 60-Year History of Fake News How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190413 : Trump Puts America Last by Daniel Larison ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190413 : GOVERNMENT IS BAD, BUT THE DEEP STATE IS PURE EVIL ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190412* Putin was KGB agent crowd forgets that Bush Sr was long time senior CIA operative and the director of CIA ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190412 : The main goal of those who started Russia probe was to unleash neo-McCarthyism compaign, not so much to attack Trump who provided to the Deep State everything they wanted: he expanded the military budget, cut taxes, reduced regulations ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190412 : Tulsi might get a considerable part of nationalists voters who previously voted for Trump ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190412 : Gabbard on Assange arrest ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190412 : Was McCain a fake candidate selected to ensure Obama win and Trump another fake candidate who accidentally won? ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190412 : Skripal, the Russkies and Bellingcat ( Sep 27, 2018 , investigatingimperialism.wordpress.com )
20190412 : Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden You Decide by Glenn Greenwald ( Jun 05, 2015 , theintercept.com )
20190412 : Met Police Arrests Julian Assange ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190412 : It appears Assange was able to trigger the kill switch. There's been a massive data dump at Wikileaks ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190412 : Assange, Snowden and Greenwald ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190412 : Edward Snowden and Julian Assange Betrayed ( Feb 24, 2014 , homment.com )
20190412 : Is Mueller another of Putin's puppets? I ask because it simply isn't credible that he couldn't find any evidence of collusion, as Adam Schiff has seen it and he has said so repeatedly. ( Apr 12, 2019 , consentfactory.org )
20190412 : U.S. attorney general's 'spying' remarks anger Democrats ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.reuters.com )
20190412 : A Dummies Guide To What Dems Will Say When Mueller Report Is Released ( Apr 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190412 : John Bolton Took Money From Clinton Foundation Donor, Banks Tied To Cartels, Terrorists, Iran by William Craddick ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190411 : Putin Derangement Syndrome After Mueller ( Apr 11, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
20190411 : Vindicated At Last, Thank You General Barr by Larry C Johnson ( Apr 11, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190411 : Interview transcripts from Congress on FBI officials Bill Priestap and James Baker by Robert Willmann ( Apr 11, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190411 : The dubious products of the glorified diploma mills we call "higher education" are often the most gullible and dim-witted ( Apr 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190411 : Tulsi Hits 65,000 Donors!!!---UPDATE caucus99percent ( Apr 11, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190411 : A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. ( Apr 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190410* Habakkuk on cockroaches and the New York Times ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.wsws.org ) [Recommended]
20190410* A demoralized white working and middle class was willing to believe in anything, deluding themselves into reading between the barren eruptions of his blowzy proclamations. They elevated him to messianic heights, ironically fashioning him into that which he publicly claims to despise: an Obama, a Barry in negative image, hope and change for the OxyContin and Breitbart set ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190410 : Trump and low-information voters ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190410 : "First the poor taxpayers, robbed by the politicians of one great party and then by those of the other, turn to a group of free-lance rogues in the middle ground -- non-partisan candidates, Liberals, reformers, or what not: the name is unimportant. ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190410 : I must apologize to the cockroaches for the distress caused to them for being compared to @nytimes ( Apr 10, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190409* The ruthless neo-colonialists of 21st century ( Apr 09, 2019 , failedevolution.blogspot.com ) [Recommended]
20190409 : Russiagate The Great Tragic Comedy of Modern Journalism by Matt Bivens, ( Mar 25, 2019 , blog.usejournal.com )
20190409 : Trump clamors for new regime change wars -- Iran, Venezuela ( Feb 09, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190409 : Trump, Netanyahu, Saudis leading us closer to catastrophe ( Apr 09, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190409 : Tulsi Gabbard SMASHES HER CRITICS In Corporate News - YouTube ( Apr 09, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190409 : Launched under the pretext of a UN resolution authorizing the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya to halt the supposed (but non-existent) threat of a massacre in the eastern city of Benghazi, the war saw money and arms poured into Islamist militias and lavished on Al Qaeda operatives, who were backed by a relentless bombing campaign, which included nearly 30,000 sorties in the course of seven months. ( Apr 09, 2019 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
20190409 : Part of the problem may be that the American oligarchy is now believing its own bullshit, or put another way, has descended into decadence. ( Apr 09, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190408* Aaron Maté Was Also Right About Russiagate ( Mar 31, 2019 , scotthorton.org ) [Recommended]
20190408 : Opinion Russians Always Knew There Was No Collusion ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
20190408 : 7 years after the US - led by Obama, Hillary @SamanthaJPower - bombed Libya in the name of "humanitarianism" along with the UK France then utterly ignored it, the country is so violent, unstable dangerous that US troops can no longer safely remain ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190408 : Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance ( Apr 08, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190408 : Journalist Media's Mueller leaks are a sign of desperation ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190407* Nunes The Russian Collusion Hoax Meets An Unbelievbable End ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190407 : The chain of events that led to the publication of the DNC emails is highly suspect ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190407 : Operation Gladio The Unholy Alliance Between The Vatican, The CIA, The Mafia ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190406* The Magnitsky Act-Behind the Scenes ASEEES ( Apr 06, 2019 , www.aseees.org ) [Recommended]
20190406* Trump is for socialism but only when it comes to funding US military industry Tulsi Gabbard ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.rt.com ) [Recommended]
20190406 : Relationship with Russia is the main casualty of Russiagate ( Apr 06, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190406 : Despicable warmonger Max Boot is FullOfSchiff ( Apr 06, 2019 , www.breitbart.com )
20190406 : USA is neo-McCarthyism hysteria resemble some obsure religious cult, not a civilized country ( Apr 06, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190405 : Tulsi Gabbard is the only candidate with any real substance on either side of the political divide. ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190405 : Tulsi Continues April 03, 2019 (Donors, Dore, Iversen) ( Apr 03, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
20190405 : Looking at the Integrity Initiative it's clear that information warfare at all levels - academia, the media, on down to the little subsidized web sites and right on down to the individuals who are paid to insert comments on social media - is now regarded in England as an integral part of Intelligence work ( Apr 05, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190404* How Brzezinski's Chessboard degenerated into Brennan's Russophobia by Mike Whitney ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190404* Was John Brennan The Russia Lie Ringleader ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190404 : In this interview Cenk asks Tulsi directly if she opposes the Isreal Occupation, she says ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190404 : If one recognizes that Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard, American Primacy Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997)" in replacing "Lebensraum" with "control over Eurasia", "Tausendj hriges Reich" with "American Primacy" ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190404 : Fascism A Warning by Madeleine Albright ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
20190404 : The NSA access was enabled by changes to US surveillance law introduced under President Bush and renewed under Obama in December 2012 ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190404 : As Merkel is the USA stooge, and Germany needs to be freed from the USA vassalitete, and re-installed as an independent country; Putin should do is set up a "Free" German government in K nigsburg just like the US is doing with Gaido in Venezuela. ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190404 : But current American elites have no concept of own actions having consequences ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190404 : I think you should distinguish between the deep state and the elite. The former are primarily concerned with US primacy. The elite are economic internationalists and focused on profit. ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190403* What We Can Learn From 1920s Germany by Brian E. Fogarty ( Apr 03, 2019 , www.commondreams.org ) [Recommended]
20190403 : Putin says Trump's opponents have invented 'spymania' to block the U.S. president's agenda ( Dec 14, 2017 , www.latimes.com )
20190402* Requiem to Russiagate by CJ Hopkins ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190402* 'Yats' Is No Longer the Guy by Robert Parry ( Apr 11, 2016 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190402 : Poroshenko was just a US marionette which helped to loot the country and impoverish Ukrainian people ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190402 : On The Incorrigible Hypocrisy Of The Conservative Neocons ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190402 : The abuse of power of the special counsel is a deadly cancer on American democracy. ( Mar 27, 2019 , www.tabletmag.com )
20190402 : Mr Cohen and I Live on Different Planets ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
20190402 : Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190402 : The latest Integrity Initiative dump by Anonymous ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190402 : Shadowbanning ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190401* Amazon.com War with Russia From Putin Ukraine to Trump Russiagate (9781510745810) Stephen F. Cohen Books ( Apr 01, 2019 , www.amazon.com ) [Recommended]
20190401 : Trey Gowdy Adam Schiff is a 'deeply partisan person' ( Apr 01, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190401 : Johnstone Leaked '401'-Page Mueller Report Proves Barr Lied, Collusion Theorists Vindicated ( Apr 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190331* Because of the immediate arrival of the Russia collusion theory, neither MSM honchos nor any US politician ever had to look into the camera and say, I guess people hated us so much they were even willing to vote for Donald Trump ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190331* What is the purpose of Russiagate hysteria? ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190331 : Taibbi On Russiagate America s Refusal To Face Why Trump Won ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190331 : US Army Major Warns Dems Trump Will Wipe The Floor In 2020 Unless You Fix Foreign Policy ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190331 : Issue Brief Distinguishing Disinformation from Propaganda, Misinformation, and "Fake News" NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.ned.org )
20190331 : Disinfo Maginot Line Protecting EU From Russian Influence By Manufacturing History ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190331 : How Google Tracks Your Personal Information – Featured Stories – Medium ( Mar 31, 2019 , medium.com )
20190331 : Woodward was Naval intelligence. Watergate was the coup that established the Bush cabal. ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190331 : Russiagate The Great Tragic Comedy of Modern Journalism ( Mar 31, 2019 , blog.usejournal.com )
20190331 : Trump and GOP Allies Want Investigation of Mueller Probe s Roots ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190331 : Bacevich on despicable propagandist of Iraq war, chichenhawk Robert Kogan by Andrew J. Bacevich ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190331 : All I can see in Russigate is that two faction of the US elite seem to be fighting amongst themselves. With Russigate (IMO) providing cover for this power struggle ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190331 : Seems to me what that BigLie's of Us propaganda is this tale: Relations with Russia during the post-USSR age were going along swell until Russia began involved in the Venezuelan Crisis. ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190330* The Real Costs of Russiagate ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.thenation.com ) [Recommended]
20190330* You don't like Trump? Bolton? Clinton? All of these people who are in or have passed through leadership positions in America are entirely valid representatives of Americans in general. You may imagine they are faking cluelessness to avoid acknowledging responsibility for their crimes, but the cluelessness is quite real and extends to the entire population. ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190330 : John Brennan, embattled ex-CIA chief, meets with Rep. Hoyer, Democrats to discuss national security issues Fox News ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.foxnews.com )
20190330 : Why Is The Washington Post Inventing Warming Ties Between Trump And Moscow ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190330 : Bacevich on despicable propagandist of Iraq war, chichenhawk Robert Kogan by Andrew J. Bacevich ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190330 : China's Ambassador to Canada Exposes the White Supremacist Five Eyes Surveillance State ( Mar 30, 2019 , theduran.com )
20190330 : Why There'll Be No US-Russia Reset Post-Mueller ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190329 : The president-elect requested security clearance for Kushner to attend top-secret presidential briefings ( Mar 23, 2017 , www.theguardian.com )
20190329 : America is a banana republic! FBI chief agrees with CIA on Russia alleged election help for Trump ( www.sott.net )
20190329 : Early troubling sign of Trump: most individuals Trump is considering for his administration, including those already picked have a deep-seated obsession with Iran ( www.moonofalabama.org )
20190329 : Nickolas Kristof again demonstrates the level of neocons panic and his MIC lobbyist credentials by Nicholas Kristof ( Dec 12, 2017 , nytimes.com )
20190329 : Donald Trump just another say-anything-to-get-elected phony by Chuck Baldwin ( Nov 17, 2016 , www.newswithviews.com )
20190329 : America is a banana republic! FBI chief agrees with CIA on Russia alleged election help for Trump ( www.sott.net )
20190329* Trumps billionaire coup détat: Donald Trump is about to break the record of withdrawing his promises faster than any other US president in history ( Mar 22, 2017 , failedevolution.blogspot.gr ) [Recommended]
20190329 : 8 Cases That Prove The FBI CIA Were Out Of Control Long Before Russiagate ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190329 : Initial hopes on Trump attacking neoliberalism proved to be illusions. He is a Republican Obama by Paul Craig Roberts ( Mar 04, 2017 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190329 : Donald Trump meets with prominent Sanders supporter Tulsi Gabbard ( Nov 23, 2016 , www.theguardian.com )
20190329 : Gabbard is inspiring... I can't see anyone winning against imperial propaganda at this point, but I will support her as much as I can ( Mar 29, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190329 : Unfortunately, in every way that matters, RussiaGate has been a complete success ( Mar 29, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190329 : That has always been the main goal of Russiagatevent: brainwashing the US public to convice her of Russian enmity and aggression ( Mar 29, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190329 : Angry Bear Maybe No Conspiracy Or Coordination, But Lots And Lots Of Collusion ( Mar 29, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
20190329 : Jimmy Dore -- a lonely fighter with NeoMcCartyism ( Mar 29, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190329 : Taibbi: As the Mueller Probe Ends, New Russiagate Myths Begin by Matt Taibbi ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.rollingstone.com )
20190328 : Both Clinton and Trump were close to Epstein. To me this smells like there was a bi-partisan consensus to bury Lolita Express scandal ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190328 : NeoMcCartyism campaign will continue despite another blow for the reputation of the American MSM ( Mar 28, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190328 : Bernie Repeats CIA Talking Points On Venezuela ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : NeoMcCartyism has done immense damage to Russo-US relations. Will it be repaired? Can it be repaired? ( Mar 28, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190328 : Trump Supporters Are Switching To Tulsi Gabbard - YouTube ( Mar 28, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : Tulsi Gabbard is scary. Scary good. #CNNTownHall by OpenMind ( Mar 28, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : Tulsi Gabbard Schools Dianne Feinstein on 'Medicare For All' by The Humanist Report ( Apr 22, 2017 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : Tulsi Gabbard 2020 Progressive Powerhouse by Thersites the Historian ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : Why Tulsi Gabbard is hated by AIPAC members - YouTube ( Mar 28, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : Michael Tracey interviews Tulsi Gabbard - YouTube ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : Tulsi Gabbard talks about AIPAC by Rod Webber ( Mar 28, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : BREAKING Tulsi Beating Kamala Harris-Cory Booker In New Daily Kos Poll by MCSC Network W/ Niko House ( Mar 07, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : BREAKING Tulsi Gabbard Puts Morning Joe Host In Her Place! - YouTube ( Feb 06, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : Tulsi Gabbard on NHPR's The Exchange by New Hampshire Public Radio ( Mar 22, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190328 : How Millions Were Duped By Russiagate The Illusory Truth Effect ( Mar 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190327 : Mueller definitely influenced midterm election ( Mar 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190327 : John Brennan Pulls a 180 on MSNBC Says He Might Have Received Bad Information - Sara A. Carter ( Mar 27, 2019 , saraacarter.com )
20190327 : Trump s recognition of the Golan Heights marks the total capture of US policymaking in the Middle East by pro-Israel right ( Mar 27, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190327 : Israel's Moves to the Right by Lawrence Davidson ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190327 : Russia is perforce the enemy that Washington needs in order to stay in the business of Empire by David Stockman ( Mar 27, 2019 , original.antiwar.com )
20190327 : EconoSpeak Maybe No Conspiracy Or Coordination, But Lots And Lots Of Collusion ( Mar 26, 2019 , econospeak.blogspot.com )
20190327 : Russia and the Democrats by Rob Urie ( Mar 27, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190326 : When Are We Going To Tackle The For-Profit Monopolies Which Censored RussiaGate Skeptics? by Charles Hugh Smith ( Mar 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190326 : I am impressed by the sheer silliness of Russiagate and the tenacious ignorance of those who still believe the corporate media. ( Mar 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190325* Russiagate was never about substance, it was about who gets to image-manage the decline of a turbo-charged, self-harming neoliberal capitalism by Jonathan Cook ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
20190325* Spygate The True Story of Collusion (plus Infographic) by Jeff Carlson ( Oct 12, 2018 , www.theepochtimes.com ) [Recommended]
20190325* Another SIGINT compromise ... ( Feb 28, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190325 : Crocodile tears: M>adCow crying for indictments after setting up public hostility to Russia for a decade or more. ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190325 : The Narrative Is Dead! Long Live The Narrative! ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190325 : Russiagate is looking like this generation s WMD – a catastrophe for the reputation of the news media: ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.politifact.com )
20190325 : Bush lied, people died, Obama lied people died, Trump lied people died. What changed? ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190325 : It Was All a Lie ( Mar 25, 2019 , theamericanconservative.com )
20190325 : Russiagate Revisited by Jackson Lears ( Feb 22, 2018 , lrb.co.uk )
20190325 : With Mueller Done, WSJ Urges Probe The Real Scandal ( Mar 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190325 : Ari Fleischer Lied, and People Died by Scott Ritter ( Mar 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190325 : R.I.P. Russiagate. Here's What We Learned by Leonid Bershidsky ( Mar 25, 2015 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190324 : The Israel-gate Side of Russia-gate by Dennis J Bernstein ( Dec 25, 2017 , consortiumnews.com )
20190324* The accountability that must follow Mueller's report ( Mar 24, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190324* "Russia Gate" investigation was a color revolution agaist Trump. But a strnge side effect was that Clintons have managed to raise a vicious, loud mouthed thug to the status of some kind of martyr. ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190324* With RussiaGate Over Where's Hillary ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190324* One could wish that DOJ IG Horowitz could investigate and sanction British Intelligence for its use of official and non-official officials in starting this debacle. ( Mar 24, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190324* The manner in which Guccifer 2.0's English was broken, did not follow the typical errors one would expect if Guccifer 2.0's first language was Russian. ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190324* One thing left out is the ability of readers to call BS on a story i.e. a robust comment section for debates. ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190324 : No matter the result, what is found or is not, to the neocons/neolib Establishment, Trump will always be waiting for his next check written in Cyrillic and denominated in rubles. ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190324 : Taibbi It s Official - Russiagate Is This Generation s WMD ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190324 : The main reason Mueller has served up his nothing burger is because to produce enough "evidence" to impeach Trump would require publicly exposing the full extent of the Deep State illegal spying, hit squads (his name was Seth Rich) and electoral manipulations so common in the US today ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190324 : Poor Travolta. With Mueller finished, US media turns to John Travolta for collusion gossip ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190324 : Tulsi Gabbard is less than 20K individual donations away from getting on the debate stage! ( Mar 22, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190323* Brennan pipe dream obliterated. The color revolution against Trump failed ( Mar 23, 2019 , dailycaller.com ) [Recommended]
20190323* Mueller stopped following the money the moment he realized it was all leading back to Israel. ( Mar 23, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190323 : FLASHBACK John Brennan Predicted Additional Mueller Indictments Just Two Weeks Ago ( Mar 23, 2019 , gaysfortrump.org )
20190323 : When the tide subside Brennan is swimming naked ( Mar 23, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190323 : Former CIA Director John Brennan Bashed on Twitter for Inaccurate Prediction of Coming Mueller Indictments by Chris Morran ( Mar 23, 2019 , www.newsweek.com )
20190323 : Mock The Russiagaters. Mock Them Ruthlessly by Caitlin Johnstone ( Mar 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190323 : " ... the accountability that must follow Mueller's report." The Hill ( Mar 23, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190323 : For decades, Space has been a model of cooperation between global superpowers. But such cooperation is the latest victim of the new Cold War. Trump/Neocon efforts to start a space war/arms race will lead to destruction of our country and planet. ( Mar 23, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190322* Glenn Greenwald on Twitter The Mueller investigation is complete and this is a simple fact that will never go away ( Mar 22, 2019 , twitter.com ) [Recommended]
20190322 : I wonder what Mr. Kagan has to say now about authoritarian regimes?! ( Mar 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190322 : Tulsi will probably pick-up some additional independents voters with her condemnation of Trump impulsive decision about Golan heights ( Mar 22, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190322 : Robert Mueller Submits Report on Trump Russia Probe ( Mar 22, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190322 : So you ask what I will change? I will change our priorities so we stop wasting trillions of our dollars on wasteful counterproductive wars ( Mar 22, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190322 : Muller investigation is actually a farce, huge waste of money and their narrative is dead ( Mar 22, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190321 : Jared Kushner WhatsApp, Private Email Democrats Demand Records - Bloomberg ( Mar 21, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190321 : Trump, Bolsonaro and the danger of fascism ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.wsws.org )
20190320 : Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Threatens Trump Mueller Will Soon Likely Put Your Political and Financial Future in Jeopardy ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.thegatewaypundit.com )
20190320 : John McCain Associate Provided Dossier to Obama National Security Council Breitbart ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.breitbart.com )
20190320 : The difference between Tulsi and Sanders: Sanders will not touch provate banking ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190320 : Merkel is the most servile lackey that the US could wish for ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190320 : The US wants Brazil to join NATO ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190320 : Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou - Observations by Walrus. ( turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190320 : Vladimir Putin celebrates birthday on ice in celebrity hockey match ( Oct 07, 2015 , The Guardian )
20190320 : The Opportunity Cost of America s Disastrous Foreign Policy by Vlad Sobell ( Mar 18, 2015 , Russia Insider )
20190320 : Sanders was a sheepdog> ( May 31, 2017 , jackrabbit.blog )
20190320 : Fool me once... Here is an interesting info of the stage of public mind mid 2016. I see no poseter that suspect that Sanders is a turncoat, who eesentially spend all those hard earned money and then folded to hillry formally giving her votes of people who supported Sanders becuase that hate Hillar and neoliberalims too much. I wonder how many suckers will support him for 2020 ( www.theguardian.com )
20190320 : Despicable Max Boot does not even have courage to admit his Iraq war warmongering crimes, which are crimes against humanity if we use Nuremberg statute ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190320 : Sorry Bernie, this time I'm going with Tulsi ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190320 : Neoliberal MSM all invte Tuslsi to ask her if whe was Asssad girlfriend. What a despible bootomfeeders ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190320 : Anti-semitism became a form of Neo-McCarthyim ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190320 : The sex slave scandal that exposed pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein by Maureen Callahan ( Oct 09, 2016 , nypost.com )
20190320 : Britain s witchfinders are ready to burn Jeremy Corbyn by Jonathan Cook ( Mar 01, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190320 : The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Building 7 ( Sep 15, 2012 , WashingtonsBlog )
20190320 : Tulsi Gabbard's appearance on Stephen Colbert by Kim Iversen ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190319 : ALERT Tulsi Gabbard Demolishes The View co-host Meghan McCain - YouTube ( Feb 21, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190319 : Tulsi 2020! No other democrat focuses on Foreign Policy like her! Tulsi Gabbard Speaks in San Francisco ( Mar 19, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190318* Journalists who are spies ( Mar 03, 2006 , www.nytimes.com ) [Recommended]
20190318 : Christopher Steele s Former MI6 Boss Calls Dossier Overrated ( Mar 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190318* FULL CNN TOWN HALL WITH TULSI GABBARD 3-10-19 ( Mar 18, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190318* Doublethink and Newspeak Do We Have a Choice by Greg Guma ( Aug 21, 2017 , www.globalresearch.ca ) [Recommended]
20190318* The Why are the media playing lapdog and not watchdog – again – on war in Iraq? ( Oct 10, 2014 , The Guardian ) [Recommended]
20190318 : College-entrance-exam cheating scandal exposes corrupt aristocracy (Video) ( Mar 18, 2019 , theduran.com )
20190318 : Boeing Tumbles On Grand Jury Subpoena Probing 737 MAX Approval ( Mar 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190318 : Tulsi Smashes CNN's Pro War Horribleness ( Mar 18, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190318 : Boeing Drops as Role in Vetting Its Own Jets Comes Under Fire ( Mar 18, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
20190318 : The U.S. Shouldn t Seek New Ideological Confrontations Abroad by Daniel Larison ( Mar 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190317* Mueller uses the same old false flag scams, just different packaging of his forensics-free findings ( Mar 17, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
20190317* VIPS- Mueller's Forensics-Free Findings ( Mar 13, 2019 , Consortiumnews ) [Recommended]
20190317 : Epstein, Clinton and Trump are all connected to Lolita Express scandal ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190317 : CIA Director Gina Haspel is Complicit with the Coup ( Mar 13, 2019 , patriots4truth.org )
20190316 : Kept Secret For 17 Years Intel Memo Warned Bush's Iraq Invasion To Create Perfect Storm ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190316 : CIA Blames Its Proxy For Its Raid On North Korea's Embassy In Spain ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190315 : What the Strzok-Page 'insurance policy' text was actually about - The Washington Post ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.washingtonpost.com )
20190315 : Omidyar's Democracy Fund has also helped to finance the "News Integrity Initiative," a name that evokes the U.K.'s notorious Integrity Initiative. ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190315 : If Germany tries to close NATO conmmand center very likely, a color revolution will break out in Germany ( Mar 15, 2019 , nationalinterest.org )
20190315 : The Battle for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy Has Begun by Ted Galen Carpenter ( Mar 14, 2019 , nationalinterest.org )
20190314 : Top Mueller Prosecutor Weissmann Steps Down In Latest Sign Probe Ending ( Mar 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190313 : Sic Semper Tyrannis The Paul Manafort sentence and the notorious and diabolical federal sentencing guidelines ( Mar 13, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190313 : Stephen Colbert, millionaire mouthpiece for billionaire war mongers. tried to ambush Tulsi and failed. ( Mar 13, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190313 : Tulsi Gabbard: The US Government s Treatment of Wikileaks Will Have a Chilling Effect on Investigative Reporting ( Mar 09, 2019 , heavy.com )
20190313 : Tulsi Gabbard on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange ( Mar 13, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190313 : Tulsi Gabbard comments on WikiLeaks' Julian Assangr are encouraging for anti-war independents' ( Mar 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190313 : Please consider looking at the Wikileaks video linked below? It illustrates a barbaric type of war crime-free unaccountability to "international law," including a lawless US military Rules of Engagement modus operandi ( Mar 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190313 : Neoconservatives use of projection ( Mar 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190312 : "One nation, under God and all of his defense contractors " ( Mar 12, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190311* Bruce Ohr, Liar or Moron by Larry C Johnson ( Mar 11, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190311 : Major Cracks in the Pedophile Ring ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.sott.net )
20190311 : Is There Any Real Evidence of Elite Pedophile Sex Rings Involving Government Pop Culture – Collective Evolution ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.collective-evolution.com )
20190311 : Bruce Ohr s Testimony Contradicts Testimony Provided By Rosenstein And Simpson by Sara Carter ( Mar 08, 2019 , saraacarter.com )
20190311 : CNN 2020 Town Hall Live Stream Time, How to Watch Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Buttigieg, John Delaney at SXSW ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.newsweek.com )
20190311 : Anyone remember Mullah Omar ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190311 : Not one critical word about people throwing Molotov cocktails ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190311 : Military industrial complex might struggle for relevance as the country ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190309 : Intelligence Contractors Are a real danger to the US national security ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190309 : Another crazy demand: Trump Asks Germany, Japan To Pay For Being Occupied ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190309 : Journalist Confronts CNN Over Smear Piece ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190309 : Zuckerberg's new 'privacy-focused vision' for Facebook is just PR and damage control by Danielle Ryan ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190309 : Government-To-Facebook Pipeline Reveals A Corrupt Mix Of Social Media The State ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190309 : Gone When They Get Your Vote ( Mar 09, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190309 : Germany served its sentence; now the US troops should simply leave the country ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190309 : According to the text of the application Dems candidates swear to be "faithful" to the "interests, welfare and success of the Democratic Party," but not to its principles. That's because there aren't any. ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190308 : The Orientalism of Western Russophobia by Max Parry ( Mar 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190307* Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you by Dylan Curran ( Mar 28, 2018 , www.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
20190307 : Guardian adopted nazy propaganda cartoons to demonize Russia ( Mar 07, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190307 : The democracy problem that has been brewing for 40 years has been the practical curtailment of representative democracy in the West. The chief driver of this has been the institutional encroachment of the market, from supranational bodies down to local authorities. ( Oct 07, 2016 , stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com )
20190307 : "Fake Wrestling" theory ( Mar 07, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190307 : Will Russiagate witch hunt be replaced with Chinagate ( Mar 07, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190306 : The faces of US elite: The marasmic McCain, marasmic Pelosi, and hysterical Max Boot, the openly lying Clapper and the hate-filled profiteer Brennan ( Jul 27, 2017 , www.unz.com )
20190305* The Shadow Governments Destruction Of Democracy ( Feb 19, 2017 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190305 : The political purpose behind Nadler investigation can best be summed up in this quote concerning the Benghazi hearings. In September 2015, Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy famously said Clinton s numbers are dropping because we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. ( Mar 04, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190305 : Now the majority of the people do not believe anything coming from two major parties. The proper term is alienated. That's why Trump ( Feb 12, 2017 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
20190304 : Corporatism masquerading as Liberty ( Jan 18, 2014 , creditwritedowns.com )
20190304 : Psychological Warfare and the New World Order: The Secret War Against the American People by Servando Gonzalez ( Mar 09, 2016 , www.amazon.com )
20190304 : Bill "amusing nuclear war" Maher is really out of his mind ( Mar 04, 2019 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
20190304 : It is important to Americans that they always are doing the right thing, the just thing, the altruistic thing, and that nothing so smutty as American profit and financial gain come into it. It is for this reason they are fed such self-serving pablum daily by their news media. ( Mar 04, 2019 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
20190303 : Netanyahu's Possible Indictment and Jewish Dialectics by Gilad Atzmon ( Mar 01, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190303 : CrossTalk on Tulsi Gabbard Peace Candidate ( Feb 20, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190303 : Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Regime change wars have disastrous consequences ( Feb 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190302 : Tancredo Would Republican Establishment Use Impeachment to Block Trump Agenda ( Dec 18, 2016 , www.breitbart.com )
20190302 : How do you like the NKVD libruls afraid of Trump bringing fascism who were running a gestapo (the FBI wiring tapping other countrys Ministers) on US citizens of the opposing party? ( Feb 19, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190302 : Watters Words The swamp strikes back ( Feb 18, 2017 , www.youtube.com )
20190302 : The billionaire Warren Buffett to Trump: "I feel that way no matter who is president, the CEO -- which I am -- should have the ability to pick people that help you run a place." ( Jan 21, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190302 : I don't think much of Trump but it is kind of amusing to see the elites, who screwed over most of the population, now having nervous breakdowns ( Jan 20, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190302 : Trump is the Republican Obam ( Mar 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190301 : ...a nation divided against itself ... ( Feb 28, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190227* Their votes mean absolutely nothing, and that the entire American electoral system is just a simulation of democracy ( Feb 27, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190227 : Mueller investigation was clearly was part of the leverage used to get control of Trump ( Feb 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190227 : Barr is CIA's shyster lawyer, Mueller is CIA's cleaner. Both FBI and DoJ are completely controlled by CIA "focal points" (Dulles' term) or dotted-line reports (Bush-era Newspeak.) ( Feb 27, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190227 : Microsoft employees petition against Hololens contract with US Army ( Feb 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190226* Neoliberalism by Julie Wilson ( Oct 09, 2017 , www.amazon.com ) [Recommended]
20190226 : Banning Huawei in the US will hurt US Huawei dealers more than it will hurt Huawei. ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190226 : That might have left people with the false impression that their votes mean absolutely nothing, and that the entire American electoral system is just a simulation of democracy, and in reality they are living in a neo-feudalist, de facto global capitalist empire administrated by omnicidal money-worshipping human parasites that won't be satisfied until they've remade the whole of creation in their nihilistic image ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190226 : Warren Joins Bernie In Rejecting Private Fundraisers.. For Now - YouTube ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190226 : The USA elite will never willingly give up their power. It has to be taken from them. ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190226 : Nobody will be doing a fine job for the country because CIA doesn't give a rat's ass about the country ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190226 : Calling a spade a spade ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190226 : Civilizations are only held together by the "glue" of shared beliefs. The deep-state-media-complex has just applied a solvent to the very glue that holds the entire culture together. ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190226 : Corrupt and decaying neoliberal elite and Gramsci's idea of hegemony ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
20190225 : Forget Jussie Smollet, Here Are the Real False Flags by Kevin Barrett ( Feb 25, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190224* David Stockman on Peak Trump : Undrainable swamp (which is on Pentagon side of Potomac river) and fantasy of MAGA (which become MIGA -- make Israel great again) ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.antiwar.com ) [Recommended]
20190224 : Sarah Abed on Twitter You ve really folded under pressure @TulsiGabbard. You know for a FACT that #Assad isn t a brutal dictator by Sarah Abed ( How the Revolution Could Devour Bernie by W. James Antle III ( Feb 24, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190224 : Did Bernie effectively killed Tulsi campaign? ( Feb 24, 2019 , www.antiwar.com )
20190224 : Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Warmongers in Their Ivory Towers by Eric Garris ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.antiwar.com )
20190223 : Chances for Tulsi might improve if she view her followers as a party and uses method of political parties struggle for power in her compaign ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190223 : Smartphone Apps Sending Intensely Personal Information To Facebook - Whether Or Not You Have An Account ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190223 : FBI EXTENSIVE ILLEGAL SURVAILANCE PROGRAM ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190222* Neo-McCarthyism is used to defend the US empirical policies. Branding dissidents as Russian stooges is a loophole that allow to suppress dissident opinions ( Feb 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190222 : FBI Official Admits To Infiltrating Trump Campaign - Just Don't Call It Spying ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190222 : And please refrain from that socialized, government organized power grid ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190222 : The Assad apologist smear ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.thedailybeast.com )
20190221 : Bottom feeders from The View try to bute Tulai. It did not work well ( Feb 21, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190221 : FBI s Top Lawyer Thought Hillary Clinton Should Be Criminally Prosecuted - Was Persuaded To Change His Mind ( Feb 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190221 : Russiagate In Flames No Evidence Of Collusion, New Findings Challenge DNC Hack Narrative ( Feb 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190219* Tulsi Gabbard kills New World Order bloodbath in thirty seconds ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.veteranstoday.com ) [Recommended]
20190219* Warmongers in their ivory towers - YouTube ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190219 : TULSI GABBARD For POTUS 2020! Congresswoman Gabbard Holds Meet And Greet In New Hampshire! ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190219 : THE NEW YORK TIMES IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190219 : Tulsi Gabbard Elizabeth Warren in 2020 Who Can Beat Trump ( May 11, 2017 , www.youtube.com )
20190219 : Foreign Policy is More Than Just War and Peace ( Nov 14, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
20190219 : Tulsi Gabbard Reveals Amazing Progressive Legislative Agenda ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190219 : P>ositions - tulsi ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.reddit.com )
20190219 : Wow, I absolutely love every point she made, what a breath of fresh air ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190218* Do You Believe in the Deep State Now by Robert W. Merry ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190218* Joe Rogan Experience #1170 - Tulsi Gabbard ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
20190218 : Tulsi on the issues Run Tulsi Run - Tulsi Gabbard for President in 2020 ( Feb 18, 2019 , runtulsirun.net )
20190218 : While highly unlikely Tulsi Gabbard might be able to do what Trump failed to do and appeals directly to the people of the USA to back her in a ruthless campaign to drain the swamp (meaning showing the door to the Neocons and their Deep State) ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190218 : TOP 24 QUOTES BY TULSI GABBARD A-Z Quotes ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.azquotes.com )
20190218 : Tulsi 2020 Anti-war Democrat says she s running for US president ( Jan 12, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190218 : Support Tulsi Gabbard: it takes real political skills to succeed in America as a Hindu-nationalist, anti-gay racist, Putin toadie, and Assad apologist ( Feb 18, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190218 : Tulsi Gabbard, A Rare Anti-War Democrat, Will Run For President by Kevin Gosztola ( Jan 14, 2019 , shadowproof.com )
20190218 : Tulsi Gabbard Smears Debunked by Jimmy Dore ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190218 : Links below could be summed up Gabbard is not pro-Israel enough . But the real reason for such a hostility towards her is that she is against foreign wars of choice ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190218 : Facebook labelled 'digital gangsters' by report on fake news by David Pegg ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
20190218 : So how did the Israelis manage to shift US policy 180 degrees, like a parasite taking over the host's brain? ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190217* Was Trump was a deep state man from day one, just like Obama, Bush, Clinton and all the rest? ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190217* Trump is Russian asset memo is really neocon propaganda overkill ( Jan 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190217* The goal of any war is the redistribution of taxpayer money into the bank accounts of MIC shareholders and executives ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190217 : Two Trump Cabinet Officials Were Ready To Support 25th Amendment Coup As Rosenstein Tallied Votes ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190217 : Tulsi Gabbard evades the press, and for good reason. ( Feb 06, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190217 : Why Conservative Media and the Far Right Love Tulsi Gabbard for President by Maxwell Tani, Kelly Weill ( Jan 15, 2019 , www.thedailybeast.com )
20190217 : Tulsi Gabbard explains why she will run for president ( Jan 12, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190217 : H.R. 1249, the INF Treaty Compliance Act, to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used for weapons that would breach the INF treaty ( Feb 17, 2019 , twitter.com )
20190217 : About TULSI 2020 ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.tulsi2020.com )
20190217 : Tulsi sure is hated by the neocons and neolibral intelligentsia, but she would, more than any other candidate, actually start to heal this country ( Feb 17, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190217 : What a crew we have today: Bolton is evil, Pompeo is a liar, Pence is a moralizing buffoon ( Feb 17, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190217 : Individuals whose predictions were right-on received absolutely no boost in prestige for their prescience. Ron Paul is the most obvious example. Every warning Paul made about these "interventions" happened. ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190217 : The question of accountability ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190217 : Bill Kristol and Max Boot are not an expect in military technology, or security issues. They are experts in peddling MIC product to the US public ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190217 : It is easy for them to make the recommendation to head into to war for two very simple reasons. The first is that it will not require any personal sacrifice. The other reason is that it will not require any sacrifice of those closest to them. ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190217 : The goal of the neocons was to exploit 9/11 to destroy countries in the Middle East that posed a threat to Israel ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190217 : One problem with neocons middle East policy ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190217 : Wouldn't surprise me one bit if Kristol and Boot work for the CIA and MI6. They tend to lead with placed stories, either before or after events, helping to persuade those who have yet to make up their minds or those looking to have someone else do their thinking for them ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190217 : There's No Denying It; It Was Never Anything But a Coup! ( Feb 17, 2019 , larouchepub.com )
20190216* MSM Begs For Trust After Buzzfeed Debacle by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190216* Death Of Russiagate: Mueller Team Tied To Mifsud s Network ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190216 : "Semi-intelligence agences" is a very sad joke ( Jul 27, 2018 , thesaker.is )
20190216 : Eugene McCarthy never became President, but he changed national politics. Gabbard could have a big impact even if she does not win. ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190216 : Do American people care enough about war to vote for Tulsi Gabbard ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190216 : President Trump is Saudi Arabia's bitch Hawaii Rep SLAMS Trump ( dailymail.co.uk )
20190216 : Yea, John McCain was a truly historic person. So far, he was the only person in history who managed to totally disable an American aircraft carrier. ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190216 : What other organization/group then CIA is capable of such as perfect job of covering their tracks ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190216 : There is a tendency, especially among dissenters and conspiracy theorists, to equate the Kennedy family with the Gracchi brothers of the great late Roman republic ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190216 : The Broken Presidential Destiny of JFK, Jr. by Laurent Guyénot ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190216 : Is Tulsi Gabbard for Real by Philip Giraldi ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190216 : Libya was a war crime. ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190216 : Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around? Pundits like Max Boot and Bill Kristol got everything after 9/11 wrong but are still considered experts. by Tucker Carlson ( Feb 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190215 : Tulsi Gabbard Pres. Trump -- STOP treating our troops as political pawns - YouTube ( Feb 14, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190215 : Morning Joe Attacks Tulsi For Opposing War - YouTube ( Feb 07, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190215 : Media Erasing Tulsi Gabbard From Presidential Campaign by The Jimmy Dore Show ( Feb 15, 2019 , The Jimmy Dore Show )
20190215 : Israel lobby proves Ilhan Omar's point ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190215 : Glenn Greenwald Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar Criticizing Israeli Lobby AIPAC Is Not Anti-Semitic ( YouTube video )
20190214 : Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Urges Support for Paid Family and Medical Leave Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard ( Feb 14, 2019 , gabbard.house.gov )
20190213* MoA - Russiagate Is Finished ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190213* Making Globalism Great Again by C.J. Hopkins ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190213* Stephen Cohen on War with Russia and Soviet-style Censorship in the US by Russell Mokhiber ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
20190213 : Pro-Israel Lobby Caught Boasting of Its Influence in Washington by Ryan Grim ( Feb 13, 2019 , theintercept.com )
20190213 : Congress Has Not "By Law" Vested The Attorney General With Authority to Appoint the Special Counsel ( Feb 13, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190213 : Opinion The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics by Paul Krugman ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
20190213 : Tulsi rocks ( Feb 13, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
20190213 : The rules are different for members of Israel lobby. ( Feb 13, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190213 : There's Something Eerily Familiar About the West's Approach to Venezuela ( Feb 13, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190212 : Tulsi was just on CNN talking about CIA funding of "terror-linked groups" in Syria ( Feb 12, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190212 : AIPAC is not a PAC in American law and thus cannot make political contributions, but it illegally controls a lot of real PACs and has a lot of political influence in the Jewish community. ( Feb 12, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190212 : The problem with the Florida senator is his absolute blind obedience towards the Zionist state, his engagement against the BDS movement and his loyalty to Israel's stalwarts in the US. He is not the only US politician in Congress who is in the pocket of the Zionist lobby. At least the American Middle Eastern policy is run by the Zionist Israel Lobby in the US. ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190212 : Being Marco Rubio: The boyish senator from Florida is owned by the Israel Lobby by Philip Giraldi ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190212 : Snowden revelations did not chnage thebahviour of JoeUser ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190212 : Walter Jones, Congressman Behind Freedom Fries Who Turned Anti-War Firebrand, Dies At 76 ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190212 : Rethinking America's Military Industrial Complex by Tim Kirby ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190211 : Trump has tried to turn his presidency into a personality cult rather than MAGA ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190210* Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache by Fred Reed ( Feb 10, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190210 : Deranged Madeline Albright famously told Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children, due to Clinton s years of punative sanctions, was worth it ( Feb 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190210 : In 2008, Obama was touted as a political outsider who will hose away all of the rot and bloody criminality of the Bush years. He turned out to be a deft move by our ruling class. Though fools still refuse to see it, Obama is a perfect servant of our military banking complex. ( Feb 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190210 : Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache by Fred Reed ( Feb 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190209 : Facebook The Government's Propaganda Arm ( Feb 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190209 : PRETTY FREAKY If America Turns to Fascism, Populism Will Be at Its Heart. ( Feb 09, 2019 , prettyfreaky.blogspot.com )
20190209 : Mueller Annoyed By Chipper, Overeager Adam Schiff Constantly Sending Him Evidence He's Already Uncovered ( Feb 09, 2019 , politics.theonion.com )
20190209 : Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell ( Sep 23, 1998 , home.isi.org )
20190208* To understand Steele and the five eyes involvement in the Russia hoax you need to go to the library ( Feb 08, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
20190208 : For a well-documented, quite different analysis of the Kennedy assassination see "Partners in Crime: The Rockefeller, CFR, CIA and Castro Connection to the Kennedy Assassination." ( Feb 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190208 : Amazing that a bunch of academics would "criticize" the CIA and leave out all the real facts about the CIA. ( Feb 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190208 : The CIA Then and Now Old Wine in New Bottles by Edward Curtin ( Feb 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190207 : Government shutdown, Venezuela Donald Trump evolves into the best propagator of neoliberal fascism that tends to become a norm ( Feb 07, 2019 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
20190207 : Never underestimate the USA greed. ( Feb 07, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190206 : Bari Weiss Has the Stupidest Take on Tulsi Gabbard Yet ( Feb 06, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190206 : NYT Columnist Calls Tulsi Gabbard 'Assad Toady,' Can't Define or Spell Term ( Feb 06, 2019 , sputniknews.com )
20190206 : Tulsi is a threat to the status quo...watch the DNC torpedo her candidacy ( Feb 06, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190206 : Tulsi Gabbard Rips Interventionism In First Campaign Ad ( Feb 06, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190206 : Senate Investigating Mueller FBI's Prosecution Of Orgy Island Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein ( Feb 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190206 : Ignore the Free-Riding International Peanut Gallery ( Feb 06, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190205* The neocon s strategy ( Dec 28, 2018 , www.rightweb.irc-online.org ) [Recommended]
20190205 : The Weekly Standard A Record of Failed Regime Change by Jacob Heilbrunn ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.nybooks.com )
20190205 : NYTimes Journo Melts Down On Joe Rogan s Show ( Feb 05, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190205 : Tucker Carlson Dismantles Pro-War Stooge ( Feb 05, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
20190205 : If only Trump invades Venezuella neocons like Max Book will be with him in one headbeat ( Feb 05, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
20190205 : The Problem of Max Boot by Corey Robin ( Feb 05, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
20190205 : On Max Boot conversion to Neoliberal Democrats ( Feb 05, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
20190205 : When Conspiracy Is The Only Explanation For Failed Neo-Liberal Dreams by William S. Smith ( Feb 05, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190205 : SUBSCRIBE WITH GOOGLE ( Feb 05, 2019 , www.kansascity.com )
20190205 : John Bolton Insists Iran Likely Harboring Dangerous Terrorist Osama Bin Laden ( Feb 05, 2019 , politics.theonion.com )
20190205 : Refusal to hand over Venezuelan gold means end of Britain as a financial center Prof. Wolff -- RT Business News ( Feb 05, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190205 : Sic Semper Tyrannis Is this the Trump Doctrine - TTG ( Feb 05, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190204* Trump s Revised and Rereleased Foreign Policy: The World Policeman is Back ( Aug 09, 2017 , zeroanthropology.net ) [Recommended]
20190204 : Tulsi Gabbard Slams Neocon-Neolib Warmongers After NBC Propaganda Exposed ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190204 : Iraqis Want No Part of Trump s Iran Obsession by Daniel Larison ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190204 : Angry Bear " Reagan's Tax Cuts and the Volcker Recession ( Feb 04, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
20190204 : It case of Venzuella coup it looks like we are dealing with a "Skripal tactic": do something so ridiculously stupid and offensive that it places all your vassals before a stark choice: either submit and pretend like you did not notice or, alternatively, dare to say something and face with wrath of Uncle Shmuel (the Neocon's version of Uncle Sam) by The Saker ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190204 : There are various elite groups jockeying for power, but Intelligence community remains tha core of the Deep State ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190204 : A great example of waste and corruption in the US military is the plan to rebuild and reopen Tyndall Air Force base ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190204 : Why does everyone make Trump out to be a victim, poor ol Trump, he's being screwed by all those people he himself appointed, poor ol persecuted Trump. Sounds like our Jewish friends with all the victimization BS. ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190204 : Trump logic of betrayal of his voters ( Feb 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190204 : US Sanctions as a Tool To Perpetuate Neocolonialism ( Feb 04, 2019 , original.antiwar.com )
20190203 : Trump Should Call Congress's Bluff on Our Endless Wars by W. James Antle III ( Feb 03, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190203 : Mocking Mueller's Collusion-Free Collusion Indictment Of Roger Stone ( Feb 03, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190202 : Brazil, Fascism and the Left Wing of Neoliberalism ( Feb 02, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
20190202 : In Tit-For-Tat, Russia Suspends INF Treaty; Putin Slams US Demolishing Global Security ( Feb 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190202 : One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Secretly Sharing Data With The FBI ( Feb 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190202 : European Companies Won t Dare Use SWIFT Alternative To Send Money To Iran ( Feb 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190131 : Venezuela color revolution plot thickens ( Jan 28, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190131 : Former FBI agents played a role in the JFK assassination ( Jan 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190131 : Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jan 31, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190130 : The US is needing a war to rally its people around the flag and to attempt to keep its hand on the Rudder of the world. ( Jan 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190130 : It has only recently become clear (to most) that Trump is a faux populist frontman ... the Republican Obama. ( Jan 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190130 : Just one more to a long list of Trump appointments. I believe Trump is some kind of pervert, like the ones that like to get whipped, only Trump likes to get stabbed in the back ( Jan 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190130 : National socialism vs Marxist socialism ( Jan 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190129* After hiring Abrams the next logical step would be hiring Hillary or Wolfowitz. WTF Is Trump Thinking ( Jan 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190129* Guardian became Deep State Guardian ( Dec 22, 2018 , off-guardian.org ) [Recommended]
20190129 : So which of Trump s nominees gets kneecapped by Deep State first? Michael Flynn ( Dec 15, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190129 : Once Barr is installed in office, stand by. The Department of Justice and the FBI will received the equivalent of a high powered enema. Both are sick institutions and need to have the feces flushed out ( Jan 19, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190129 : Scheer The Illegal CIA Operation That Brought Us 9-11 ( Jan 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190129 : FBI, CIA [supposedly] Told WaPo They Doubted Key Allegation In Steele Dossier but Wapo still run their own anti-Trump campaign popularizing Steele dossier. ( Dec 16, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190129 : Protection rackets reach new heights. US debt is growing exponentially, until it doesn't. What then? The Yugoslavia solution, 50 odd countries from the no longer united states? ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190126* Can the current US neoliberal/neoconservative elite be considered suicidal? ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
20190125 : Clinton Emails Reveal France, U.S. Looted Oil Gold In Libya ( Jan 13, 2016 , www.youtube.com )
20190125 : Re-Colonisation ( Jan 25, 2019 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
20190125 : The 'Springtime for Strongmen' and the Myth of Retrenchment by Daniel Larison ( Jan 25, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190125 : Big Tech Merging With Big Brother Is A Big Problem ( Jan 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190124 : Looks like some users left Facebook, or never existed ( Jan 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190124 : The Iraq War cheerleaders who are still around 15 years later by Sarah Wasko ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.mediamatters.org )
20190124 : Trump Derangement Syndrome and the NATO Fetish of the Progressive Left by David Stockman ( Jan 21, 2019 , original.antiwar.com )
20190124 : This write-up is an uncanny coincidence for me as I just watched the four part movie The Lobby (UK) yesterday. As I watched the maneuvers of the israeli's lobby groups and their wilful political accomplices, I kept smiling seeing how much they are putting into an unwinnable war. They seem not to learn from history. ( Jan 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190124 : Max Boot Is Sorry for Backing the GOP and Iraq War by Peter Maass ( Oct 13, 2018 , theintercept.com )
20190124 : Intelligence agency officials carefully monitor the activities of the two main parties, keeping a vigilant eye out for any deviations from the national security consensus in Washington ( Jan 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190124 : The New Gray Lady is a Comfort Woman for the War Party ( Jan 15, 2019 , original.antiwar.com )
20190124 : The Integrity Initiative web site has been scrubbed and their twitter acct is now by invitation only ( Jan 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190123 : The powerful wider Lobby didn't waste a minute in destroying Occupy Wall Street, and now they're going after every movement that aligns itself with Palestinian rights and trying to destroy the fledgling careers of two powerful pro-Palestinian female voices in Congress. ( Jan 23, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190123 : Worst secret agent ever ( Jan 15, 2019 , irrussianality.wordpress.com )
20190123 : Curious Bedfellows The Neocon And Progressive Alliance To Destroy Donald Trump by Philip Giraldi ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190122 : At the end of the day, Trump Tower Moscow has never happened - and Trump himself has turned out to be the worst Putin Puppet ever after slapping heavy sanctions on Moscow and selling Ukraine weapons that the Obama administration wouldn t. ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190122 : Bottomfeeder neocon Kristol make a mark again by smearing white kids ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.foxnews.com )
20190122 : Benito Mussolini defined fascism as "Barely able to slip a cigarette paper between business and government." ( Jan 22, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190122 : The Fetishization of the Corporate Media by C.J. Hopkins ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190122 : Here are 11 questions you should ask Libertarians to see if they're hypocrites by RJ Eskow ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.alternet.org )
20190122 : Warning Neocons Joining Democrats to Support War by Martin Armstrong ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.investmentwatchblog.com )
20190122 : Banned by Facebook for Telling the Truth by Israel Shamir ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190122 : The Corrosion of Conservatism Why I Left the Right ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
20190122 : Washington Monthly Neocons Paved the Way for Trump. Finally, One Admits It ( Jan 22, 2019 , washingtonmonthly.com )
20190122 : They're back Here's how the neocons are regaining power in Trump's America – Alternet.org ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.alternet.org )
20190122 : At least we get technology development, an industrial base and decent manufacturing jobs out of DoD ( Jan 22, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190122 : The National Security Agency Is A Criminal Organization by Paul Craig Roberts ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190121* Beyond BuzzFeed The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing US Media Failures On The Trump-Russia Story by Glenn Greenwald ( Jan 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
20190121 : Control of money and control of information are two keys to the making other states vassals. The American military and CIA have provided most of the overt and covert 'muscle' for that control system.political power ( Jan 21, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190121 : France hits Google with record €50mn fine over 'forced consent' data collection ( Jan 21, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190121 : Anti-Trump Frenzy Threatens to End Superpower Diplomacy by Stephen F. Cohen ( Jan 16, 2019 , www.thenation.com )
20190120 : The USA LGBT political correctness bites Tulsi ( Jan 20, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190120 : WikiLeaks disturbing and hopeful findings on Tulsi Gabbard s path to progressiveness ( Jan 20, 2019 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
20190120 : Gabbard seems to think of international relations in a different register, seeing states as rational agents pursuing their national interests mainly in self-preservation and self-defense ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190120 : Buzzfeed, Question Time the purpose of Fake News by Kit Knightly ( Jan 20, 2019 , off-guardian.org )
20190120 : This organisation and all of those part of it should be treated as enemies of the people, as they have attacked, disingenuously and using smears ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190120 : I used to worry that a president Hillary Clinton would make Democratic Party a party of neocons. It turns out Donald did the trick by Jack Hunter ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190120 : Has the USA become an elite club for financial bandits manipulating sheep under the name "American Nation". ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190120 : Even as an old timer, I am drawn to the arguments made by our "Dissident Right"(DR), who seek to find a Third Way between destructive international capitalism and destructive international socialism ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190120 : Dear [neoliberal] elites ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190120 : In fact, we don't have a real democracy anymore. We have a Potemkin Village democracy. ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190120 : Degeneration of the US neoliberal elite can be partially attributed to the conversion of neoliberal universities into indoctrination mechanism, rather then institutions for fostering critical thinking ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190120 : The desperate efforts of the Western neoliberal establishment to build a new propaganda machine by globinfo freexchange ( Dec 25, 2018 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
20190120 : I've been wondering what's fueling Israel anti-Iran obsession, given that Iran has never threatened Israel. The dominant factor which comes to mind is the Holocaust Conference held in Tehran in 2006 to examine the numerous inconsistencies in the Official Narrative. ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190119* According to Wolin, domestic and foreign affairs goals are each important and on parallel tracks ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190119 : We are being played Judging from his appointment Trump is really a Republican Obama ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190119 : Did Israel won or lost by unleashing civil war in Syria with its Washington boss and protector ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190119 : Putin Asks And Trump Delivers - A List Of All The Good Things Trump Did For Russia ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190119 : The central political question in all Western societies is -- how far will the masses be able to control the naturally-abusive tendencies of the elite? ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190119 : The Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190119 : Integrity Initiative was formed soon after Kissinger's Op-Ed in August 2014 and before Trump began his run for President. ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190119 : Treatment of Russians in the US MSM echoes the German Nazis their treatment of Slavs in thisr media (slaves, unter menchen) ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190119 : The Mockingbird Media lies and equivocates about everything. Insofar as the deep state spider's web of hegemony spreads all over the world and becomes more odious, the lies become more copious and more predictable, and their acceptance more and more relies upon the lever of public credulity and Neoliberal Newspeak ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190119 : Oh, nothing new; extortion, perjury, forty per cent, face-grinding. ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190118 : On the British Establishment ( Jan 18, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190117 : Seymour Hersh George H.W. Bush Team Leaked To Media To Reveal CIA's Iran-Contra Affair ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190117 : The Kennedy Assassination plot overlord was Naval Intelligence. ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190117 : Yinon Plan, Israeli strategic plan to ensure regional superiority, stipulates that Israel must balkanize neighboring Arab states ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190117 : Managerialism is synonym for corporatism ( Jan 17, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190117 : The Coke or Pepsi and parties is a perfect corporatist arrangement, which guarantee filtering out any opposition to the oligarchy in 99 percent of elections ( Jan 16, 2019 , theguardian.com )
20190117 : The rise of National Socialism in Germany in the 30s had many causes and some surprising supporters ( Jan 17, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190117 : The Deep State is not monolithic ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190117 : What makes folks think that the Bush secret cabal has gone away? ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190117 : Another bit of evidence backing my hypothesis that the CIA quickly gained control of the Executive branch of the Federal government soon after its inception. ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190117 : Longtime Reporter Leaves NBC, Accuses Media of Lionizing Destructive Organizations Like the FBI ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190117 : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/f-35-program-costs-jump-to-406-billion-in-new-pentagon-estimate ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190117 : We are disenfranchised by what the elites are saying because the elites control the narrative in a way that makes sure the power will always reside with them. ( Jan 17, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190116 : Tulsi Gabbard knew that Hillary Clinton was a real menace so she not only endorsed Bernie Sanders but quit her vice-chair post at the DNC in order to do so since the DNC laws insisted that the DNC stay neutral ( Jan 16, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
20190116 : Corporatism is the control of government by big business. This is what we have in the USA today. The main difference between corporatism and fascism is the level of repressions against opposition. Corporatism now tales forma of inverted totalitarism and use ostracism instead of phycal repressions ( Jan 16, 2019 , profile.theguardian.com )
20190115* Apparently, the FBI, and not the CIA, are the real government. ( Jan 15, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
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20190115 : Here's a good reason to support Tulsi Gabbard. Look at who opposes her ( Jan 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190115 : Apparently, the FBI, and not the CIA, are the real government by Colonel Pat Lang ( Jan 15, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190115 : The Trump-Russia Scam - How Obama Enabled The FBI To Spy On Trump ( Jan 15, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190115 : The man behind the Russiagate hoax set to resign (Video) ( Jan 15, 2019 , theduran.com )
20190114* Tulsi Gabbard, A Rare Anti-War Democrat, Will Run For President ( Jan 14, 2019 , shadowproof.com ) [Recommended]
20190114 : The L>obby at work ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190114 : I feel like the U.S. is an occupied country, invaded by corporate lobbyists. We have the kind of crap government you get from occupations. ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190114 : The Russia Hoax The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump by Gregg Jarrett ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
20190114 : Lobby at work ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190114 : Ship of Fools How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
20190114 : Deep State is a new "Inner Party" ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190113 : Deep State neutered Trump: I have been FAR tougher on Russia than Obama, Bush or Clinton. Maybe tougher than any other President ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
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20190113 : NSA Director Mike Rogers visit to Donald Trump ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190113 : What is wrong with Trump ( Jan 13, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190113 : So even if the IRA didn't manage to make a profit, the net cost for them must have been much lower than $100,000 ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190113 : Mitt Romney, Commander of the Fake Internationalists by Doug Bandow ( Jan 10, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190113 : Those Porky Pentagon Earmarks Never Really Went Away ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190113 : Until we have more action on this than just some furious tweets, it doesn't matter ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190113 : RFK knew how it works. RFK junior explained the reason for RFK's focus on organized-crime until CIA whacked him. That's why his book was made to sink without a ripple. ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190113 : CIA is boosting the volume of its anti-Russian vilification because more and more CIA assets are getting flushed out. Stephan Halper is an obvious spook. Page is the corniest traitor since Lee Harvey Oswald ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190113 : This nasty neocon Rachel MadCow ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190113 : The only reason the evil bastards who control our society can get away with their treachery is because most of the American people are out to lunch on the most important issues of our time. ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190113 : The USA repeats the history of the later Roman empire, with the army and intelligence agencies firmly in control ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190113 : Republican politicians may invoke the rhetoric of free markets to justify cutting taxes for the rich and benefits for the poor, or removing environmental regulations that hurt polluters' profits, but they don't really care about free markets per se. After all, the party had little problem lining up behind Trump's embrace of tariffs ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
20190112 : Trump Goes On Epic Tweetstorm After NYT Reveals FBI Witch Hunt Escalation Following Comey Firing ( Jan 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190112 : CLASSIFIED The most powerful investor you never heard of by globalintelhub ( Jan 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190112 : Mass Dementia in the Western Establishment by Diana Johnstone ( Jan 12, 2019 , www.unz.com )
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20190111 : As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, The Party's Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic And Pro-War Than Republicans by Glenn Greenwald ( Jan 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190111 : The ticking time bomb is because a large part of young people working now are working on non – permanent contracts that don t pay benefits. These people won t have any pension at all and there are a lot of them ( Jan 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190111 : That is another surefire sign of degeneracy: when a regime can only produce incompetent, often old, leaders who are completely out of touch with reality and who blame their own failures on everyone but themselves ( Jan 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190111 : Rosenstein expected to leave Justice Department; Barr tells lawmakers he won't interfere with Mueller ( Jan 11, 2019 , www.chicagotribune.com )
20190110 : How the Hawks Prevailed on Syria by Daniel Larison ( Jan 09, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190110 : Stuff To Read Integrity Initiative, Skripal, Kaspersky ... ( Jan 10, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190110 : Rosenstein Protected Mueller by Bending Justice Department Rules ( Jan 10, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
20190109 : What is absolutely remarkable to me in a very bad way is that this piece of trash received 681 reviews on Amazon, only 21 with one star and the balance above that for an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 ( Jan 09, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190109 : Mattis One More General For The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone ( Jan 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190108* Shock Files- What Role Did Integrity Initiative Play in Sergei Skripal Affair- - Sputnik International ( Jan 08, 2019 , sputniknews.com ) [Recommended]
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20190106 : Neocons in US universities: the fact that obviously deranged fanatic Albright has students is a testimony to a sewer level of the US "elite-producing" machine and a pathetic sight contemporary US "elite" represents. ( Jan 06, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190106* British elite fantasy of again ruling the world (with American and Zionist aid) has led to a series of catastrophic blunders and overreaches in both foreign and domestic policies. ( Jan 06, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
20190106 : Integrity Initiative - New Documents From Shady NGO Released ( Jan 04, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190106 : Intelligence stooges dominate Western MSM or How Putin s Russia Weaponizes Everything ( Dec 17, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190106 : Integrity initiative is Gladio 2.0 in disguise ( Jan 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190106 : Is Integrity Initiative controls the USA media as well ? ( Jan 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190106 : Is BBC a part of Integrity Initiative ? ( Jan 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190106 : "Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project" might well be tied to "Integrity Initiative". ( Jan 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190105 : Everything Madeleine Albright Doesn t Like is Fascism by Guillaume Durocher ( Jan 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190105 : Obama as the agent of the Deep State consciously deciving his voters with faux populism promises which he never intended to follow ( Jan 05, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190105 : Are Trump's senior people going rogue? ( Jan 05, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190105 : 'Operation Iris' more New documents tie Integrity Initiative to spin of Skripal affair ( Jan 05, 2019 , www.rt.com )
20190104 : Return of the Neocons ( Jan 04, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190104 : Anonymous Data Collection Is More Risky Than Users Think ( Jan 04, 2019 , www.itprotoday.com )
20190104 : Theres only one thing necessary to maintain the respect and affection of DCs ruling political and media class: affirm standard precepts of US imperialism and militarism ( Jan 04, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
20190104 : Eric Dubelier emerges as Robert Mueller's top courtroom adversary by Rowan Scarborough ( Jan 01, 2019 , www.washingtontimes.com )
20190104 : Trump Fought For His Withdrawal For a Year by Willy B ( Jan 04, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
20190104 : Trump Walks Back Syria Pullout As Noose Tightens ( Jan 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190103 : Twenty-one days after NSAM 263 and the State Department memo, President Diem is overthrown, and twenty-one days later, President Kennedy is overthrown. ( Jan 03, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190103 : Russia-mania takes over the world ( Jan 03, 2019 , theduran.com )
20190103 : John Helmer- Lunatic Russia-Hating in Washington Is 70 Years Old. It Started with Joseph Alsop, George Kennan and the Washington Post ( Jan 03, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
20190103 : Neoliberal Totalitarianism And The Social Contract ( Jan 18, 2018 , countercurrents.org )
20190103 : Five Political Predictions for 2019 by Daniel R. DePetris ( Jan 01, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
20190103 : Graham and Our Confused Syria Policy by DANIEL LARISON ( December 31, 2018 )
20190102* Russian bots - How An Anti-Russian Lobby Creates Fake News ( Feb 20, 2018J , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
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20190102* Did Mueller Patched Together Much of His Indictment from 2015 Radio Free Europe Article ? ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190102* That madness of the US neocons comes from having no behavioural limits, no references outside of groupthink, and manipulating the language. Simply put, you don't know anymore what's what outside of the narrative your group pushes. The manipulators ends up caught in their lies. ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
20190102 : Meet The Cabal That Are Framing Domestic American Activism As "Russian Influence" and "Fake News" ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190102 : American People Admit Having Facebook Data Stolen Kind Of Worth It To Watch That Little Fucker Squirm ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.theonion.com )
20190102 : Buchanan How The War Party Lost The Middle East ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190102 : Mideast wars were cooked up by loyal-to-Israel neocons ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190102 : IOW time is running out for the neo-cons, and they're only going to get Iran destroyed and hold onto power in the US through an outright Bolshevik style coup against the public (some kind of fabricated National Emergency) ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190102 : T>he NY Times exposes how aligned the globalist leftist elite is with the NEOCON globalist elite. ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190102 : Israel is hardly a normal country. It is an Apartheid Colony ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190102 : Israel is not interested in fighting this fight alone. It has dragged others into it, including the US. ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190102 : The proximate reason why Iran is a problem in this region is because Israel cannot resolve the Palestinian issue. Iran is basically a gigantic wag the dog. Without this external ginned up threat, Israel is simply stuck in a Palestinian mire ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
20190102 : Britain must surely be in the running for the Wooden Spoon award doe 2018 ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190102 : The demonization of Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela might be connected with oil depletion ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190102 : Election tampering via false identity by Democratic operatives: The cleverest trick used in propaganda against a specific country is to accuse it of what the accuser itself is doing. ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
20190102 : Russia has really become the all-purpose pouvantail scarecrow, specter of doom, etc. An awareness of the high costs of divisiveness if uncontrolled - massive social unrest, at extreme, civil war -- and that these are to be avoided, is evidenced. ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
20190101 : Israel is Bad for America by Philip Giraldi ( Jan 01, 2019 , www.unz.com )
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Old News ;-)
[Aug 14, 2019] Russiagate as a smoke screen for the struggle between two powerful groups of the US elite
Apr 02, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Zachary Smith , Apr 1, 2019 5:14:39 PM | 93 ">link
@ bevin #90
But that doesn't bother Trump, Bolton, Pompeo and their mob. They think quarter by quarter. Immediate gratification is the name of their game. They know that "in the long run we are all dead". And they don't care what happens then.
Your viewpoint is the same as that of Jonathon Cook. He says "Russiagate" was a faction fight between two groups of the Power Elites.
One wanted to keep 'putting the lipstick on the pig' which is predatory Capitalism, and the other wants to let it all hang out and rape the planet NOW.
Just as there was a clueless "liberal" cheering group for Mueller, the Looters have a fan club among the "right". Both sets of the applauding groups are just puppets. And of course neither has recognized their true role in the unfolding dramas.
[Aug 14, 2019] There is little chance that Western elites will behave any differently than a street corner drug dealer
Highly recommended!
If UK government is an example -- they are already on the same level. Look at Skripal case.
Notable quotes:
"... Now people might say "see the elites succeeded, they crushed the democratic will, got their policies enacted and successfully replaced Democracy with Oligarchism while the sheep did nothing". But this is actually where the elites (Political, Economic and Technical) show their utter incompetency in understanding statecraft and governance. ..."
"... The greatest danger to any state is NOT foreign invasion or even a rebellion by the peasants. Rather it is internal conflict between the elites within the society. ..."
"... If the elites sabotage the legitimacy of the vote by propagandized the masses so that they can't make informed decisions or become to apathetic to vote, then the entire process by which Western Elites resolve internal conflicts in irrevocably tainted and delegitimized, what will happen next time the elites have an major internal dispute? The losing side will simply see the failure of their political position as the result of them not being corrupt and dishonest enough to beat the other side so they will response by trying to subvert the other side's policies through even more corrupt and dishonest actions. ..."
"... Hilary vs Trump is a good example of where the US (and the west in general) is heading, there's scarcely a hair's difference between the policies these two advocated and the terrible consequences that the commoners will be subjected to regardless of who ended up winning the presidency. However, that hair's difference, while having no real impact of the massive majority of the world's population, it still meant tens of BILLIONS of dollars going to one group of elites vs another group of elites. ..."
"... Linking this back to Assange, he campaigned against the Western Elites control of the narrative and for that "crime" they will destroy him whatever the cost to the Empire's prestige, reputation, trust and self-worth. ..."
Apr 12, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Kadath , Apr 11, 2019 9:56:58 AM | link
@Cynica #30,
oh, I quite agree that the UK government is deliberately torpedoing Brexit through a deliberate campaign of profound incompetence in the hopes that this will allow them to prevent Brexit without outraging the voting public. However, my assertion is that the US & UK elites while think this campaign is oh so clever and will allow them to subvert the will of the people, they are in fact showing their true incompetence by choosing this method of Publicly campaigning on one policy to get elected, then deliberately and obviously sabotaging it.
in civics 101 we are taught that the advantage of a Democracy is that an "informed populous, making informed decisions will enact informed policies that accurately represent the will of the people (and hopefully be the best policies overall). of course, we all know in reality that the political & economic (and now the technical elites) have always despised the whole concept of Democracy because it restricts their power. Their current vision for subverting the will of the people is through total information control or the "control of the narrative" as they call it. But at the end of the day all this really means is a massive domestic propaganda campaign aimed at the seething masses of plebeians aimed that tricking the masses into voting as the elite require. However, a Democracy is still a Democracy so deliberately mis-informing the populous into voting for policies that are bad for the people, but good for the elite will create a dispirited, apathetic population that isn't politically invested in the government.
Now people might say "see the elites succeeded, they crushed the democratic will, got their policies enacted and successfully replaced Democracy with Oligarchism while the sheep did nothing". But this is actually where the elites (Political, Economic and Technical) show their utter incompetency in understanding statecraft and governance.
The greatest danger to any state is NOT foreign invasion or even a rebellion by the peasants. Rather it is internal conflict between the elites within the society. When civics 101 teachers say that "informed populous, making informed decisions will enact informed policies that accurately represent the will of the people", what they really mean (without being able to forthrightly state) is that through the mandate of the vote the populous will resolve specific conflicts between the elites and that the legitimacy resolution of the dispute is intrinsically & inseparably tied to the legitimacy of the vote.
If the elites sabotage the legitimacy of the vote by propagandized the masses so that they can't make informed decisions or become to apathetic to vote, then the entire process by which Western Elites resolve internal conflicts in irrevocably tainted and delegitimized, what will happen next time the elites have an major internal dispute? The losing side will simply see the failure of their political position as the result of them not being corrupt and dishonest enough to beat the other side so they will response by trying to subvert the other side's policies through even more corrupt and dishonest actions.
Hilary vs Trump is a good example of where the US (and the west in general) is heading, there's scarcely a hair's difference between the policies these two advocated and the terrible consequences that the commoners will be subjected to regardless of who ended up winning the presidency. However, that hair's difference, while having no real impact of the massive majority of the world's population, it still meant tens of BILLIONS of dollars going to one group of elites vs another group of elites.
Everyday, throughout the world, people are killed over essentially trivial amounts of money ($20 drug deals gone bad, $10,000 life insurance schemes), does anyone really think that in a conflict over billions of dollars, Western elites will behave any differently than a street corner drug dealer. Bear in mind, that we have overwhelming evidence that the Iraq War, the Libyan war and the Syrian "civil" war were about Western interest's desire to loot these countries natural resource (and the Western tax payer to boot!).
Linking this back to Assange, he campaigned against the Western Elites control of the narrative and for that "crime" they will destroy him whatever the cost to the Empire's prestige, reputation, trust and self-worth. But as I said, their too greedy to see the bigger picture and how their actions against truth, justice, and democracy will place the dagger in the hand that slits their own throats. What group (the public at large, the military, a subgroup of the elite, etc...) specifically does the deed is irrelevant, without a legitimate way to resolve the inevitable internal conflicts between the elites, the end result is clear, societal collapse.
[Aug 02, 2019] Last night Tulsi Gabbard went after Harris on her support of the for profit prison system in Cali at the expense of human beoings
Aug 02, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
ilsm , August 01, 2019 at 11:15 AM
Last night Tulsi Gabbard went after Harris on her support of the for profit prison system in Cali at the expense of human beoings......
soon enough Harris supporters were tweeting that Gabbard is an "Assad apologist".
"Assad apologist is war monger agit prop against anyone who might get in the way of the profitable forever wars for al Qaeda (in Idlib etc) and the Saudi royals.
im1dc": propagandizing for the war profiteers is not limited to the press it is in the diverse democrat campaigns pandering for contributions caring nothing for the US or humans in general. Gabbard being the obvious exception garnering their sound bites.
anne -> ilsm... , August 01, 2019 at 11:38 AM
The Joseph McCarthy-style attack on the Representative by the California Senator and associates is shocking and dangerous and revealing of "character."
[Aug 02, 2019] Gabbard Hammers Harris After Foreign Agent Or Traitor Accusations
Aug 02, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
After Democratic 2020 candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) dressed down Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) over her criminal justice record, Harris hit back - suggesting that Gabbard is somehow 'below her' - and an "apologist" for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
In case you missed the original smackdown:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxaRt-LlpEk
In response, Harris thumbed her nose at Gabbard , telling CNN 's Anderson Cooperafter the debate: "This is going to sound immodest, but obviously I'm a top-tier candidate and so I did expect that I'd be on the stage and take some hits tonight ... when people are at 0 or 1% or whatever she might be at , so I did expect to take some hits tonight."
Harris added "Listen, I think that this coming from someone who has been an apologist for an individual , [Syrian President Bashar al] Assad, who has murdered the people of his country like cockroaches. She has embraced and been an apologist for him in the way she refuses to call him a war criminal. I can only take what she says and her opinion so seriously, so I'm prepared to move on."
Wait a second...
Tulsi wasn't having it. In a Thursday interview with CNN 's Chris Cuomo, Gabbard punched back - saying "[T]he only response that I've heard her and her campaign give is to push out smear attacks on me, claim that I am somehow some kind of foreign agent or a traitor to my country, the country that I love, the country that I put my life on the line to serve , the country that I still serve today as a soldier in the Army National Guard."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wO9EV3-fd1o?start=70
Gabbard also made clear that she believes Assad is " a brutal dictator, just like Saddam Hussein, just like Gaddafi in Libya ," adding "The reason that I'm so outspoken on this issue of ending these wasteful regime change wars is because I have seen firsthand this high human cost of war and the impact that it has on my fellow brothers and sisters in uniform. "
[Aug 02, 2019] The Empire Is Coming For Tulsi Gabbard by Tom Luongo
Notable quotes:
"... When Lindsey Graham tweets about Tulsi Gabbard twice after a debate, when the Washington Post neocons like Josh Rogin are attacking her , you know she's got their panties in a bunch. ..."
"... You expect it from the Harris camp, obviously. But when it comes directly from people like Navid Jamali (double agent, navy intelligence, MSNBC contributor) you know the empire is beginning to get worried. ..."
"... Gabbard is now getting the Ron Paul treatment. It will only intensify from here. They will come after her with everything they have. ..."
"... When the Empire is on the line, left and right in the US close ranks and unite against the threat. The good news is that all they have is their pathetic Russia bashing and appeals to their authority on foreign policy. ..."
"... The colonial masters have been forgetting that more and more people are not benefitting from having like 800 military bases/wars/colonies all over and want them dissolved. Go Gabbard. ..."
"... The longer the US acts like a colonial power, the more painful the dismantling will be. ..."
"... Harris is done. Tulsi destroyed her. ..."
Aug 02, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Tom Luongo via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
The second debate among Democratic hopefuls was notable for two things. The lack of common decency of most of them and Tulsi Gabbard's immense, career-ending attack on Kamala Harris' (D-Deep State) record as an Attorney General in California.
Harris came out of the first debate the clear winner and Gabbard cut her down to size with one of the single best minutes of political television since Donald Trump told Hillary Clinton, "Because you'd be in jail."
Gabbard's takedown of Harris was so spot on and her closing statement about the irresponsible nature of the Trump Administration's foreign policy was so powerful she had to be actively suppressed on Twitter. And, within minutes of the debate ending the media and the political machines moved into overdrive to smear her as a Russian agent, an Assad apologist and a favorite of the alt-right.
Now, folks, let me tell you something. I write and talk about Gabbard a lot and those to the right of me are really skeptical of her being some kind of plant for Israel or the establishment. If she were truly one of those she wouldn't have been polling at 1% going into that debate.
She would have been promoted as Harris' strongest competition and served up for Harris to co-opt.
That is not what happened.
No, the fact that Gabbard is being smeared as viciously and baselessly as she is by all the right people on both the left and the right is all the proof you need that she is 1) the real deal and 2) they are scared of her.
When Lindsey Graham tweets about Tulsi Gabbard twice after a debate, when the Washington Post neocons like Josh Rogin are attacking her , you know she's got their panties in a bunch.
You expect it from the Harris camp, obviously. But when it comes directly from people like Navid Jamali (double agent, navy intelligence, MSNBC contributor) you know the empire is beginning to get worried.
Gabbard is now getting the Ron Paul treatment. It will only intensify from here. They will come after her with everything they have.
In the past week she's destroyed Kamala Harris on national TV, sued Google for electioneering and signed onto Thomas Massie's (R-KY) bill to audit the Federal Reserve. What does she do next week, end the Drug War?
Tulsi Gabbard is admittedly a work in progress. But what I see in her is something that has the potential to be very special. She's young enough to be both passionately brave and willing to go where the truth takes her.
And that truth has taken her where Democrats have feared to tread for more than forty years: the US Empire.
The entire time I was growing up the prevailing wisdom was Social Security was the third rail of US politics. That, like so many other pearls of wisdom, was nonsense.
The true third rail of US politics is empire. Any candidate that is publicly against the empire is the enemy of not only the state, it's quislings in the media, the corporations who profit from it and the party machines of both the GOP and the DNC.
That is Gabbard's crime. And it's the only crime that matters.
When the Empire is on the line, left and right in the US close ranks and unite against the threat. The good news is that all they have is their pathetic Russia bashing and appeals to their authority on foreign policy.
Foreign policy, by the way, that most people in America, frankly, despise.
And the response to her performance at the second debate was as predictable as the sun rising in the east. It's also easily countered. Gabbard will face an uphill battle from here and we'll find out in the coming weeks just how deep into Trump Derangement Syndrome the average Democrat voter is.
If she doesn't begin climbing in the polls then the Democrats are lost. They will have signed onto crazy Progressivism and more Empire in their lust to destroy Donald Trump. But they will lose because only a principled anti-imperialist like Gabbard can push Trump back to his days when he was the outsider in the GOP debates, railing against our stupid foreign policy.
No one else in the field would be remotely credible on this point. It's the area where Trump is the weakest. He's not weak on women's rights, racism, gay rights or any of the rest of the idiotic identity politics of the rest of the Democratic field.
He's weakest on the one issue that got him elected in the first place, foreign policy. Hillary was the candidate of Empire. Trump was not. It's why we saw an international conspiracy formed to destroy him and his presidency. Now that same apparatus is mobilized against Tulsi Gabbard.
That's good. As a solider she knows that when you're taking flak you are over your target. Now let's hope she's capable of sustaining herself to push this election cycle away from the insanity the elite want to distract us with and make it about the only thing keeping the world from healing, ending the empire of chaos.
uhland62 , 1 hour ago link
Those who benefit from the US being a Colonial Empire are closing ranks and that is certainly a huge endorsement for Gabbard.
The colonial masters have been forgetting that more and more people are not benefitting from having like 800 military bases/wars/colonies all over and want them dissolved. Go Gabbard.
The longer the US acts like a colonial power, the more painful the dismantling will be.
vasilievich , 1 hour ago link
Do politicians control the military, especially the strategic arm and weapons of mass destruction, both here in the US and in Russia? Perhaps only partially, and even that is doubtful given rapidly unfolding emergency situations. A convincing case could be made that it's too late, that war is inevitable.
CashMcCall , 3 minutes ago link
You sound intelligent. Read Herman Kahn's treatise "On Thermonuclear War." It is mathematical. But Basically nuclear war is out of hands of politicians. But it won't start from large nuclear powers. If Iran sunk a US Carrier, there would be NO NUCLEAR WAR PERIOD. But a nuclear war could be caused by an accident of smaller powers but it would be very limited and not spread.
"The more destructive we [America] look, the less they like us and our program. To the extent that some in our midst talk and threaten potential world annihilation as a U.S. defense measure, we focus undeserved attention on ourselves as being dangerous and even irresponsible -- appearing to be willing to risk uncounted hundreds of millions or billions of bystanders as to our selfish ambitions and desires." Herman Kahn...
That quote typifies Trump's cavalier yapping about nuclear weapons and his threats in the last year to expunge North Korea, Iran and most recently Afghanistan. This is the kind of conversation that most people in the world hate and they hate Trump and the United States for it. The US is blamed for Trump's loose cannon conduct. So that generates concern and heightens the potential for a nuclear weapons accident.
As for the world, it would survive a nuclear war. Many people would survive just as the animals of Chernobyl have survived and thrived even though radioactive. Dumb politicians like Trump that talk out their *** and sound imbalanced appear flaky. Rest assured the Joint Chief's would never let Trump near a nuclear weapon.
With nuclear war you also have to mathematically project dud rockets and rockets that land on your own people or detonate at launch.
stilletto2 , 1 hour ago link
Forget Biden, a deadbeat deep state ***. he could never be elected being such a MIC pawn. Just go Tulsi first (with Rand Paul would be good!) . She'll have to dig deep in the shitheap to find another honest Dem to play sidekick. But Tulsi stands out above them all as intelligent and independant. No surprise the Dem and Rep MSM ****-spewers are attacking her. Go tulsi -the only candidate i would vote for (since they'll nobble her candidacy i guess i wont be voting).
Liked Trump when he was anti-swamp. But they nobbled him and now he's just a ***-pawn. So sad he sold his balls.
MaxThrust , 1 hour ago link
I like Tulsi but to be Anti-War and a member of the CFR is a massive contradiction.
Mount Wannahockalugi , 2 hours ago link
Tulsi's predicament if of her own doing. She's to the right for today's Dems, but still too far to the left for the GOP. Her positions on the 2nd Amendment and accusing Trump of being an Al Qaeda sympathizer have pretty much killed her chances with moderates, too. She's not really that sane, she just looks that way because the rest of the Dem candidates are socialist whack jobs.
empire explosives , 2 hours ago link
Ultimately, she does not need the Dems or the GOP. just the people.
Boogity , 2 hours ago link
Newsflash: Trump does support Al Qaeda by virtue his blind support of the Saudi regime which champions, funds, and spreads Sunni Wahhabism, the violent Jihadist core philosophy of both Al Qaeda and Isis.
CashMcCall , 1 hour ago link
She is not a draft dodger like Trump.
StephenHopkins , 2 hours ago link
The new Bernie Sanders. But I think Tulsi is genuine, and honest. That's why they have to neutralize her.
Rufus Temblor , 2 hours ago link
Compare Tulsi Gabbard to Kamala Harris. Harris is a frontrunner for the nomination only because she is a she and is half black. That is all she has going for her. She owes her political career to her willingness to **** an old geezer politician from California (Willie Brown?) As a result, she became state AG. Which shows you just how corrupt politics is at the state level. Now she's a real candidate for the demorat nomination even though she is a a total POS, especially compared to someone like Gabbard, who has served her country, talks straight, and doesn't take **** from the pompous a-holes in the dem establishment. I hope she stays in the race.
CashMcCall , 1 hour ago link
Harris is done. Tulsi destroyed her.
[Aug 02, 2019] Harris' press secretary Ian Sams unleashed a string of tweets about Gabbard being an "Assad apologist", which was followed by a deluge of establishment narrative managers who sent the word "Assad" trending on Twitter
Aug 02, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Caitlin Johnstone chimes in link
In the race to determine who will serve as Commander in Chief of the most powerful military force in the history of civilization, night two of the CNN Democratic presidential debates saw less than six minutes dedicated to discussing US military policy during the 180-minute event.
That's six, as in the number before seven. Not sixty. Not sixteen. Six. From the moment Jake Tapper said "I want to turn to foreign policy" to the moment Don Lemon interrupted Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard just as she was preparing to correctly explain how President Trump is supporting Al-Qaeda in Idlib, approximately five minutes and fifty seconds had elapsed.
...
Harris' press secretary Ian Sams unleashed a string of tweets about Gabbard being an "Assad apologist", which was followed by a deluge of establishment narrative managers who sent the word "Assad" trending on Twitter, at times when Gabbard's name somehow failed to trend despite being the top-searched candidate on Google after the debate. As of this writing, "Assad" is showing on the #5 trending list on the side bar of Twitter's new layout, while Gabbard's name is nowhere to be seen. This discrepancy has drawn criticism from numerous Gabbard defenders on the platform.
"Somehow I have a hard time believing that 'Assad' is the top trending item in the United States but 'Tulsi' is nowhere to be found," tweeted journalist Michael Tracey.
[Aug 02, 2019] Brutus questions whether "democracy" is sensible in a nation of three million!
Aug 02, 2019 | www.unz.com
Jacques Sheete , says: August 2, 2019 at 12:16 pm GMT
@Bert
Democracy was the next step, but it only works in small polities.
And for very short periods of time.
Anyway, yours is a key concept that most 'Merkins are completely ignorant of, yet some of the anti-federalists were aware of it. Here, Brutus questions whether "democracy" is sensible in a nation of three million !
Now, in a large extended country, it is impossible to have a representation, possessing the sentiments, and of integrity, to declare the minds of the people, without having it so numerous and unwieldly, as to be subject in great measure to the inconveniency of a democratic government.
The territory of the United States is of vast extent; it now contains near three millions of souls, and is capable of containing much more than ten times that number. Is it practicable for a country, so large and so numerous as they will soon become, to elect a representation, that will speak their sentiments, without their becoming so numerous as to be incapable of transacting public business?
It certainly is not.
Brutus, (Robert Yates), To the Citizens of the State of New-York, October 18, 1787
[Aug 02, 2019] In 2008, Obama was touted as a political outsider who will hose away all of the rot and bloody criminality of the Bush years. He turned out to be a deft move by our ruling class
Aug 02, 2019 | www.unz.com
anonymous [340] Disclaimer , says: July 30, 2019 at 1:16 pm GMT
@Miro23 No, some saw this well in advance:
"In 2008, Obama was touted as a political outsider who will hose away all of the rot and bloody criminality of the Bush years. He turned out to be a deft move by our ruling class. Though fools still refuse to see it, Obama is a perfect servant of our military banking complex. Now, Trump is being trumpeted as another political outsider.
A Trump presidency will temporarily appease restless, lower class whites, while serving as a magnet for liberal anger. This will buy our ruling class time as they continue to wage war abroad while impoverishing Americans back home. Like Obama, Trump won't fulfill any of his election promises, and this, too, will be blamed on bipartisan politics."
Linh Dinh, "Orlando Shooting Means Trump for President," @ The Unz Review (June 12, 2016).
anonymous [239] Disclaimer , says: July 30, 2019 at 2:01 pm GMT
Note how the 'free press' of the US has been not only complicit in all this every step of the way but is coordinated with it, staying silent about things in front of its nose and launching propaganda campaigns on cue. Obviously the media is in close cooperation with elements of the political establishment. Oh, but we have the freest media in the world. I know so because I read it in the newspaper.
[Aug 02, 2019] Trump Pretends to Like Union Members -- But He Really Likes the Fat Cats by Tom Conway
Notable quotes:
"... This isn't a glitch. It's a pattern. Although Trump is fond of surrounding himself with union members and asserting that they love him, he doesn't really like unions, especially ones that challenge him or dare to question his lies. Remember how he personally attacked Steelworker Chuck Jones who exposed Trump and Pence for claiming to save 1,100 jobs at Carrier when they really preserved only about half that many -- and then only after a grant of $7 million from the taxpayers of Indiana? ..."
"... A president who supported organized labor would oppose freeriders who won't pay their fair share but still want all the benefits of union membership. A president who supported unions would not issue executive orders crippling unions representing federal workers. A president who supported unions would not delay or eliminate health and safety regulations designed to protect workers from sickness and death. ..."
"... That's not Donald Trump. He supported Mark Janus, an Illinois government employee who wanted everything for nothing. Janus was fine with collecting the higher wages that the labor union representing him secured for workers, but Janus didn't want to contribute one red cent for that representation. ..."
"... So with right-wing corporate billionaires picking up the tab for him, Janus took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ordered unions to provide workers like Janus with essentially a free lunch. That is, the court said unions must represent freeloaders like him, but those workers don't have to pay anything for all they get -- no dues, no fees, nothing. ..."
"... And then there are his labor secretary choices. First he wanted Andy Puzder, CEO of the restaurant corporation that owns Hardee's and Carl's Jr., an opponent of raising the minimum wage who said he preferred machines to humans. Puzder withdrew, and Alexander Acosta took over until he was forced to resign last month as a result of the unconscionable plea deal he gave an accused molester a decade ago when Acosta was a federal prosecutor. ..."
"... Now the interim secretary is Patrick Pizzella, who lobbied for years to prevent Congress from extending minimum wage requirements to the Northern Mariana Islands , a commonwealth of the United States, where workers were paid as little as $1 an hour but the corporate bosses got to mark the merchandise produced there as Made in America. I guess that's how you Make America Great Again, huh? ..."
"... Now, Trump has picked Scalia, son of the late, anti-worker Supreme Court justice. This is the guy who killed a proposed ergonomics rule to protect workers against injuries from repetitive motions, denigrating the research as "junk science" and "quackery." ..."
"... This is the guy who stopped the fiduciary rule that would have required brokers to act in clients' best interest rather than brokers' personal financial benefit by forbidding brokers from recommending investments that paid brokers big commissions but provided clients with low returns. This corrupt practice costs workers and retirees about $17 billion a year . ..."
"... Scalia is a corporate shill. And he'd be reporting to Trump, whose slavish support of corporate bosses over working Americans has revealed he's nothing more than a poser in a red MAGA baseball cap. ..."
"... The decline of the unions has been 50 years in the making under Democrats and Republicans. Blaming Trump is a convenient scapegoat and pinata for the left, but just the icing on the cake for decades of bad DC policies. Trump didn't create the Rust Belt or sign NAFTA. ..."
"... The strange thing is that with the Trump administration attacking all of the American friends/allies, no one is willing to step in and help America with curtailing Chinese trade abuses. ..."
"... I think the point they're making is by no means that this started with Trump, or that the Democrats have been all that great. Merely that he's been significantly worse (and many of the examples are egregiously anti-labor actions that would not have been done under a Clinton ((or a Bush or Romney for that matter)) and that the preposterousness of his thin pretence at being a friend of labor is an order of magnitude greater even than Biden's. ..."
Aug 02, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
By Tom Conway, the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW) . Produced by the Independent Media Institute
Donald Trump: billionaire of the people. When he ran for office, he said , "The American worker will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them."
And how's that working out for the American worker? Not very well, actually, not very well. When it comes down to picking sides -- standing up for workers' rights or lining the pockets of CEOs and shareholders -- Trump aligned himself and his policies with the fat cats. This cost workers money and safety. The truth is that American corporations got a president who protected them and fought for them.
The proof is in Trump'slegislation, regulation and secretary selections. The most recent example is Trump's Twitter appointment of Eugene Scalia as Secretary of Labor. This is the department specifically designated to "foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners, job seekers, and retirees." Scalia, though, has made his fortune over decades by fighting to ensure that the big guys -- corporations -- don't, in fact, have to abide by regulations intended to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the little guys -- wage earners, job seekers, and retirees.
That is who Trump chose to protect wage earners -- a corporatist so egregious that when former President George W. Bush wanted Scalia as Labor Department solicitor, Bush had to give him a recess appointment because Republicans in the Senate balked at approving him.
This isn't a glitch. It's a pattern. Although Trump is fond of surrounding himself with union members and asserting that they love him, he doesn't really like unions, especially ones that challenge him or dare to question his lies. Remember how he personally attacked Steelworker Chuck Jones who exposed Trump and Pence for claiming to save 1,100 jobs at Carrier when they really preserved only about half that many -- and then only after a grant of $7 million from the taxpayers of Indiana?
A president who supported organized labor would oppose freeriders who won't pay their fair share but still want all the benefits of union membership. A president who supported unions would not issue executive orders crippling unions representing federal workers. A president who supported unions would not delay or eliminate health and safety regulations designed to protect workers from sickness and death.
That's not Donald Trump. He supported Mark Janus, an Illinois government employee who wanted everything for nothing. Janus was fine with collecting the higher wages that the labor union representing him secured for workers, but Janus didn't want to contribute one red cent for that representation.
So with right-wing corporate billionaires picking up the tab for him, Janus took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ordered unions to provide workers like Janus with essentially a free lunch. That is, the court said unions must represent freeloaders like him, but those workers don't have to pay anything for all they get -- no dues, no fees, nothing.
Of course, there is no such thing as a free lunch. The whole point of Janus' and the billionaires' court crusade was to bankrupt and try to kill unions. And Trump was on their side.
If Trump really were the billionaire of the people, he'd have stood with the union. That's who Trump promised that he would protect, the organization of average people trying to earn an honest living and standing up to big government and big corporations.
But he didn't.
That was in June of last year. Just last week , Trump went to court seeking enforcement of his executive orders restricting unions representing federal workers and enabling him to quickly fire workers. The unions contend Trump does not have this authority. This is not settled in court yet, but Trump is asking a judge to let him impose the orders before it is.
That sounds like a president using all of the power of big government to step on the tens of thousands of little guys who do the grueling work, day after day, to ensure the federal government serves the American people reasonably well.
There's even more. So much more.
Trump slow-walked implementation of silica and beryllium exposure safeguards intended to save workers' lives and delayed a rule requiring mine operators to identify potential hazards before workers begin their shifts. He helped thwart an attempt to extend overtime pay to 4 million workers . Trump blocked a rule that would have made it harder for corporations that violate labor laws to get federal contracts. Trump lifted not one finger to help those crushed by a starvation $7.25 minimum wage not raised in a decade .
And then there are his labor secretary choices. First he wanted Andy Puzder, CEO of the restaurant corporation that owns Hardee's and Carl's Jr., an opponent of raising the minimum wage who said he preferred machines to humans. Puzder withdrew, and Alexander Acosta took over until he was forced to resign last month as a result of the unconscionable plea deal he gave an accused molester a decade ago when Acosta was a federal prosecutor.
Now the interim secretary is Patrick Pizzella, who lobbied for years to prevent Congress from extending minimum wage requirements to the Northern Mariana Islands , a commonwealth of the United States, where workers were paid as little as $1 an hour but the corporate bosses got to mark the merchandise produced there as Made in America. I guess that's how you Make America Great Again, huh?
Now, Trump has picked Scalia, son of the late, anti-worker Supreme Court justice. This is the guy who killed a proposed ergonomics rule to protect workers against injuries from repetitive motions, denigrating the research as "junk science" and "quackery."
This is the guy who argued that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency of the Labor Department, had no authority to regulate worker safety at SeaWorld after a 12,300-poundorca that had killed twice before attacked and drowned a trainer in front of hundreds of horrified children.
This is the guy who stopped the fiduciary rule that would have required brokers to act in clients' best interest rather than brokers' personal financial benefit by forbidding brokers from recommending investments that paid brokers big commissions but provided clients with low returns. This corrupt practice costs workers and retirees about $17 billion a year .
This is the guy who persuaded an appeals court to force card dealers in Las Vegas to split the tips they earn with their supervisors.
This guy is among the lawyers representing a petroleum producers' trade association that is suing to overturn a California regulation calling for worker participation to improve refinery safety. The state passed the legislation after a refinery fire in Richmond, California, sent 15,000 nearby residents to hospitals and doctor's offices for treatment, mostly for breathing problems. The lawsuit was filed in July, just days before an explosion and fire at an Exxon Mobil refinery in Texas that injured 37 people.
Scalia is a corporate shill. And he'd be reporting to Trump, whose slavish support of corporate bosses over working Americans has revealed he's nothing more than a poser in a red MAGA baseball cap.
Partyless Poster , , August 2, 2019 at 4:22 pm
So this is whats exasperating, if the Democrats actually hammered on these issues the would have so much support, instead its Russia Russia Russia all the time. "Inauthentic opposition" its like they don't want to win.
John Beech , , August 2, 2019 at 4:24 pm
Come on, nobody likes dealing with unions, not even Bernie. I suspect he's been hoist by his own petard because he's now on the horns of the pay dilemma of private enterprise due to his campaign workers unionizing and making pay demands.
Dealing with a labor union presents me with a conundrum. While I agree with the philosophy of a labor union, and for them having a voice because they 'should', I break with them in favor of management's view of union labor. Why? It's because the union members aren't good team players.
Sadly – and proving my pay grade doesn't extend high enough to have all the answers – I also break with one of management practices. This because I feel management are also poor team players because they pay themselves so darned much it seems unfair.
Basically I feel like one for all and all for one works for Musketeers and teams, the spirit falls apart with private capital. And that Marx business of, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" is a proven loser.
I theorize each time it's because labor and management aren't really working for one team. How is Southwest's vaunted employee owned doing? Everybody happy? I doubt it. I almost wish there were privately held companies where there's an owner and employees, and employee-owned only. And publicly held must be accountable to government oversight to prevent abuses.
Why? I suspect if 'all' shares of Southwest were owned by the employees 'only' then the collectively 'they' would be rich in fact because only they owned the means of production (moving people and cargo via air for lucre).
Anyway, the key part everybody forgets about Marx is he prefaced the above in part with . . ."after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want."
This is an important point being overlooked because it presupposes people 'want' to go to work. Don't know about you but I don't really know many who want to work. Most would rather sip margaritas on the beach instead of going into work. Thus, as long as this is the case, the Marxist dream is just that, a pipe dream because most folks are 'lazy' – or put another way – don't want to exist only to work. Don't really blame them.
Anyway, if we recognize the truth of this (that many don't especially want to work), then it follows we also receive less productive work from some vs. others, then paying everybody the same is inherently unfair. And by extension, setting a minimum pay means everybody at that level is worth the same, and we know this isn't true!
So if you here are are forced to accept the validity of some of this, e.g. some who will show up and be a warm body – but – won't be a team player and give their heart to doing the best job, and others won't show up for a paycheck at all if not forced by want, then everybody isn't worth the same wage! In fact, is it unreasonable to presuppose some simply aren't worth a minimum amount of pay? Further to the point, forcing a minimum pay becomes in some terms, almost immoral and the antithesis of freedom because we don't receive some fair bit of labor in exchange from some.
Could this be why so many, especially amongst the working poor, are simply against Socialism/Communism/Marxism even if they can't put the 'why they're against it' into words? Yes, I know they're not the same but they'll be tarred with the same brush by Capitalist forces so the answers needs must.
Anyway, circling back, I am delighted with Bernie's newfound union involvement from management's perspective. Why? It's because I very much look forward to see how his views evolve.
skippy , , August 2, 2019 at 5:16 pm
I think the American neoliberal matrix has shifted social perspectives during its decadal tenure E.g. there is only the Market where one can become a Kardashian, Entertainment, IT, YouTube Vloger, et al and Brand Name Commodity for sale . individual needs and wants expressed in a manner Marx never envisioned.
The financial elites are already on Mars for all intents and purposes .
YankeeFrank , , August 2, 2019 at 7:32 pm
Oh please, all this team player talk and some people don't deserve a minimum wage do you have any idea how massively the US employee is exploited and trashed by the "team players" in management?
Everyone, even those who don't want to work, deserve to live. You have apparently imbibed the capitalist mantra that work defines moral value so fully that anyone who can't or won't work should starve.
The fact is our society produces so much surplus value it could (and does) afford to support a substantial number who don't work for various reasons (mainly disability due to working physically demanding jobs for decades that ruin their bodies). Work doesn't equal morality. Try to dig yourself out of the neoliberal mindset, its inhumane and morally hollow.
jrs , , August 2, 2019 at 7:51 pm
+1000 even those who don't want to work, deserve to live.
Besides the fact that I suspect there are actually VERY FEW who don't want to do any work. The beef isn't actually with this tiny minority but that they don't work to some capitalists definition of optimum (explotation). When a medieval peasant spent less time working than we do. So maybe they are working like medieval peasants which should actually be MORE THAN possible, if technology has done anything, but oddly since all the wealth funneled to the top, it's not.
Left in Wisconsin , , August 2, 2019 at 7:36 pm
Anyway, if we recognize the truth of this (that many don't especially want to work), then it follows we also receive less productive work from some vs. others, then paying everybody the same is inherently unfair. And by extension, setting a minimum pay means everybody at that level is worth the same, and we know this isn't true!
No doubt some workers do more and/or better work than others but, for almost all jobs, it is a myth that there is an economically fair way to pay workers based on their productivity. Because outside of a few truly solo occupations, all output is collective output – there is no way to distinguish each individual worker's contribution to that output. So pay is always a socio-economic outcome, based as much on social convention and bargaining power as any putative economic contribution. At one time, this was well and truly understood. But economists have massively obfuscated this common-sense point.
The fairest pay for production workers (regardless of what industry they work in or what goods or services they produce) is the pay that those workers, via their union, determine to be most fair. The reason why unions always push for equal pay for the same job is because they view favoritism as a more serious offense against fairness than someone not as talented getting the same pay as someone more talented.
Darthbobber , , August 2, 2019 at 7:58 pm
I recommend William Morris's excellent essay, "Useful Work versus Useless Toil." Conveys very well the problems with most employment.
Morris was quite good, BTW, at presenting his understanding of Marc's central points in an empirical English fashion.
Andy Raushner , , August 2, 2019 at 4:53 pm
Considering a producer led recession is starting, Trump has problems.
John Beech , , August 2, 2019 at 6:32 pm
Well, defacto, President Trump doesn't actually have a problem with such a recession because he's on Mars with the rest of the elites. It's 'we the people' who have the problem because we're the ones who actually suffer in a recession.
Louis Fyne , , August 2, 2019 at 5:23 pm
" Not very well, actually, not very well. When it comes down to picking sides -- standing up for workers' rights or lining the pockets of CEOs and shareholders -- Trump aligned himself and his policies with the fat cats . "
Oh, if only Democrats were in complete control of the White House, Senate and House at some point within the past 10 years!
The decline of the unions has been 50 years in the making under Democrats and Republicans. Blaming Trump is a convenient scapegoat and pinata for the left, but just the icing on the cake for decades of bad DC policies. Trump didn't create the Rust Belt or sign NAFTA.
just saying.
The Rage , , August 2, 2019 at 5:51 pm
NAFTA is a big nothing. It helped boost capital flows which capital needs for production. US growth is running above shrinking supply, which rejects your point.
The post-war era is the only time in is history, workers made such gains. Pretty clear why.
Just Saying ..
Noel Nospamington , , August 2, 2019 at 6:17 pm
The USA has had trade surpluses with Canada under NAFTA:
The United States has a $12.5 billion trade surplus with Canada in 2016. Canada has historically held a trade deficit with the United States in every year since 1985 in net trade of goods, excluding services. The trade relationship between the two countries crosses all industries and is vitally important to both nations' success as each country is one of the largest trade partners of the other.
And yet Trump blackmailed Canada into the USMCA which is far worse than NAFTA for both countries, and provides more benefits to large multi-national corporations.
Lets hope that the American congress kills USMCA, and leaves NAFTA in place.
The strange thing is that with the Trump administration attacking all of the American friends/allies, no one is willing to step in and help America with curtailing Chinese trade abuses.
Darthbobber , , August 2, 2019 at 8:04 pm
I think the point they're making is by no means that this started with Trump, or that the Democrats have been all that great. Merely that he's been significantly worse (and many of the examples are egregiously anti-labor actions that would not have been done under a Clinton ((or a Bush or Romney for that matter)) and that the preposterousness of his thin pretence at being a friend of labor is an order of magnitude greater even than Biden's.
[Aug 02, 2019] Gotta love it! Democrats are beside themselves with outrage at Russian meddling but they could care less about election meddling that cost them wins in 2000 (Florida), and 2004 (Ohio.)
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JohnH -> EMichael... , July 26, 2019 at 07:25 AM
Gotta love it! Democrats are beside themselves with outrage at Russian meddling but they could care less about election meddling that cost them wins in 2000 (Florida), and 2004 (Ohio.) And they won't say a word about blatant meddling going on right now. In fact, they want to turn the meddlers into censors to determine what information the American people can use to make decisions about who will govern them:
"On June 28th, 2019 in the immediate hours following the first Democratic Presidential debate, millions of Americans were searching online for information about Tulsi Gabbard. In fact, according to multiple news reports, Tulsi was the most searched candidate on Google. Then, without any explanation, Google suspended Tulsi's Google Ads account.
For hours, Tulsi's campaign advertising account remained offline while Americans everywhere were searching for information about her. During this time, Google obfuscated and dissembled with a series of inconsistent and incoherent reasons for its actions. In the end, Google never explained to us why Tulsi's account was suspended.
Google controls 88 percent of all internet search in the United States – essentially giving it control over our access to information. That's one reason why Tulsi has been a vocal proponent of breaking up the tech monopolies. And no matter what the motivation was for doing so, Google's arbitrary and capricious decision to suspend Tulsi's Google Ads account during a critical moment in our campaign should be of concern to all political candidates and in fact all Americans. Because if Google can do this to Tulsi, a combat veteran and four term Congresswoman who is running for the nation's highest office, Google can do this to any candidate, from any party, running for any office in the United States."
Vote for Tulsi! End election meddling by Big Tech, banksters, billionaires, and multi-nationals, meddlers that the Democratic yield shields.
ilsm -> JohnH... , July 28, 2019 at 05:14 PM
You cannot make up the effects of unaddressed angst (now mass psychosis) over Hillary (put her in jail) losing to Trump!
Thy delude themselves to think that putting the deep state in the middle of election campaigns and who they can talk to, might as well ask the Gestapo!
[Aug 02, 2019] Does the New York Times Have an Editing Program that Automatically Puts "Free" Before "Trade?
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anne , August 02, 2019 at 04:21 AM
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/does-the-new-york-times-have-an-editing-program-that-automatically-puts-free-before-trade
August 1, 2019
Does the New York Times Have an Editing Program that Automatically Puts "Free" Before "Trade?"
By Dean Baker
Readers must be wondering because it happens so frequently in contexts where it is clearly inappropriate. The latest example is in an article * about the state of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination following the second round of debates.
The piece told readers:
"After a few candidates used the Detroit debate to demand that Mr. Biden account for Mr. Obama's record on issues such as deportations and free trade, Mr. Biden was joined by some of the former president's advisers, who chastised the critics for committing political malpractice."
The word "free" in this context adds nothing and is in fact wrong. The Obama administration did virtually nothing to promote free trade in highly paid professional services, like physicians services, which would have reduced inequality. It only wanted to reduce barriers that protected less educated workers, like barriers to trade in manufactured goods.
And, it actively worked to increase patent and copyright protections, which are the complete opposite of free trade. These protections also have the effect of increasing inequality.
Given the reality of trade policy under President Obama it is difficult to understand why the New York Times felt the need to modify "trade" with the adjective "free." Maybe it needs to get this editing program fixed.
* https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/us/politics/biden-obama.html
[Aug 02, 2019] A lot of US debt is "invested" in bombing sand piles for Prince bin Salman.
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ilsm -> RC (Ron) Weakley... , July 23, 2019 at 04:05 AM
A lot of US debt is "invested" in bombing sand piles for Prince bin Salman.
The budget deal raises the pentagon's budget from $733 to 738B the 733B the glut that got through the House.
The total US G debt is pretty close to the sum of pentagon largesse since 1947.
RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to ilsm... , July 23, 2019 at 04:22 AM
According to Tim Taylor we should save some of that sand. Maybe sand will be the next oil for funding ME dictators.
Hey, everyone loves a parade and what's a parade without tanks? If gives us something in common with the commies. On the one hand, this is a paranoid world and on the other hand, people love to see stuff get blown up. Battling against empire is an uphill battle with a long historical track record of failures so obscure that mostly no one has even ever heard of them. I guess if someone is committed to fighting a losing battle then they might as well go for losing big.
mulp -> RC (Ron) Weakley... , July 24, 2019 at 05:50 AM
"According to Tim Taylor we should save some of that sand. Maybe sand will be the next oil for funding ME dictators"
Wrong kind of sand. Not sure why, but water borne sand is jagged, but wind borne sand is smooth.
RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to mulp ... , July 24, 2019 at 09:52 AM
[Good to know. Thanks. Do you think that finite (made from desert sand) will eventually be formulated to last long enough for general construction use?]
https://materialdistrict.com/article/finite-concrete-desert-sand/
Finite: a more sustainable alternative to concrete made from desert sand
26 March 2018
Sand is worldwide in high demand and heavily used in many industries, especially construction. With deserts full of it, one can easily be fooled into thinking that sand is an almost infinite resource. However, desert sand has little use; the grains are too smooth and fine to bind together, so it is not suitable for the making of for instance concrete. The start-up Finite, founded by researchers from Imperial College London, created a material composite made with desert sand that serves as a more sustainable alternative to concrete.
The supply of construction-grade sand is dwindling worldwide. This type of sand is stripped from beaches and riverbeds, but because of the heavy use, the supply is diminishing rapidly. Desert sand, on the other hand, is plentiful. This sand is not used in construction, as its grains are too smooth and fine to bind together for building materials.
The newly developed composite makes use of desert sand and "other abundant fine powders that traditionally have no use". According to the inventors, Finite can be turned into structures that have the same strength as housing bricks and residential concrete.
The material is more environmentally friendly than concrete, with a concrete footprint that is less than half that of concrete. Unlike concrete, which must be either downcycled or sent to the landfill at the end of its life, the new material can easily be reused as it can be remoulded for multiple lifecycle uses. The material can be coloured using natural dyes.
Finite can be used in desert areas, made with local sand rather than imported concrete. For now, the material is only suitable for temporary constructions, after which the material can be reused or left to decompose. For permanent structures, the material still has to pass rounds of testing and regulations...
Fred C. Dobbs said in reply to ilsm... , July 23, 2019 at 05:59 AM
As ice melts, Greenland could become big sand
exporter: study https://reut.rs/2Gmryx1
Alister Doyle - February 11, 2019
OSLO (Reuters) - Greenland could start to export sand in a rare positive spinoff from global warming that is melting the island's vast ice sheet and washing large amounts of sediment into the sea, scientists said on Monday.
Mining of sand and gravel, widely used in the construction industry, could boost the economy for Greenland's 56,000 population who have wide powers of self-rule within Denmark but rely heavily on subsidies from Copenhagen.
By mining sand, "Greenland could benefit from the challenges brought by climate change," a team of scientists in Denmark and the United States wrote in the journal Nature Sustainability.
The study, headlined "Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland", said the Arctic island would have to assess risks of coastal mining, especially to fisheries.
Rising global temperatures are melting the Greenland ice sheet, which locks up enough water to raise global sea levels by about seven meters (23 ft) if it ever all thawed, and carrying ever more sand and gravel into coastal fjords.
"You can think of it (the melting ice) as a tap that pours out sediment to the coast," said lead author Mette Bendixen, a researcher at the University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.
Worldwide demand for sand totaled about 9.55 billion tonnes in 2017 with a market value of $99.5 billion and is projected to reach almost $481 billion in 2100, driven by rising demand and likely shortages, the study said.
That meant a rare opportunity for the island. ...
RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to Fred C. Dobbs... , July 23, 2019 at 09:56 AM
"As you be muche the worse. and I cast awaie.
An yll wynde, that blowth no man to good, men saie.
Wel (quoth he) euery wind blowth not down the corn
I hope (I saie) good hap [luck] be not all out worn." - John Heywood - 1546
Fred C. Dobbs said in reply to RC (Ron) Weakley... , July 24, 2019 at 03:57 AM
Hmmm. "It's an Ille Wynde
that blows no Bodye Goode?"
RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to Fred C. Dobbs... , July 24, 2019 at 05:03 AM
Mister Sandman brings dream to Greenland.
RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to RC (Ron) Weakley... , July 24, 2019 at 05:06 AM
Mister Sandman is moving into Frosty the Snowman's old digs in uptown Nuuk.
anne , July 23, 2019 at 04:11 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/opinion/biden-sanders-health-care.html
July 22, 2019
Biden and Sanders, Behaving Badly
A bad-faith debate over health care coverage.
By Paul Krugman
Health care was a key factor in Democrats' victory in the 2018 midterm elections, and it should be a big plus in 2020 as well. The shared Democratic position -- that every legal resident should have access to affordable care, regardless of income or health status -- is immensely popular. The de facto Republican position -- that we should go back to a situation in which those whose jobs don't come with health benefits, or who suffer from pre-existing medical conditions, can't get insurance -- is so unpopular that G.O.P. candidates consistently lie about their own proposals.
But right now, two of the major contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, are having an ugly argument about health care that could hurt the party's chances. There are real, important differences between the two men's policy proposals, and it's fine to point that out. What's not fine is the name-calling and false assertions. Both men are behaving badly. And for their party's sake, and their country's, they need to stop it.
Let's back up. There are, broadly speaking, two ways a country can try to achieve universal health insurance. One is single-payer: The government simply pays the bills. The other retains a role for private insurance but relies on a combination of regulations and subsidies to ensure that everyone gets covered.
We don't have to speculate about how these systems would work in practice, because every advanced country except the U.S. has some form of universal coverage. Some, like Canada and Britain, use single-payer (in Britain the government also operates the hospitals and pays the doctors). Others, like Switzerland and the Netherlands, have a large role for private insurers.
The clean little secret of health care is that both approaches work when countries try to make them work. In fact, we can see both systems at work right here in America.
More than 100 million Americans are covered by Medicare or Medicaid, which are both single-payer programs; despite Ronald Reagan's ominous warnings back in 1961, neither destroyed American freedom. Since 2014, millions more have been covered by the Affordable Care Act, which was underfunded and has been subject to extensive Republican sabotage; nonetheless, states like California that have tried to make the act work have experienced huge declines in the number of residents without insurance.
Which brings us back to the Democratic quarrel.
Sanders, of course, has made Medicare for All his signature proposal. Could such a plan work? Absolutely. But there are two valid criticisms of his proposal.
First, it would have to be paid for with higher taxes. While many people would find the increased tax burden offset by lower premiums, the required tax increases would be daunting. And while Sanders has in fact proposed a number of new taxes, independent estimates say that the revenue they'd generate would fall far short of what his plan would cost.
Second, the Sanders plan would require that roughly 180 million Americans give up their current private insurance and replace it with something different. Persuading them that this would be an improvement, even if true, would be a tall order. Indeed, there's good reason to believe that eliminating the option of retaining private insurance would be an electoral loser. (Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, take heed.)
On the other side, Biden is proposing to build on Obamacare. That can sound like tinkering at the edges. But his actual plan is much bigger and better than is widely realized, with large increases in funding, a public option, and more. It would, arguably, bring the A.C.A. close to the standards of successful European systems.
That said, the Biden plan would preserve the crazy-quilt, Rube Goldberg aspects of our current system, which impose a lot of unnecessary costs and make it too easy for people to fall through the cracks.
So there's plenty of room for a good-faith Sanders-Biden argument. Unfortunately, that's not the argument they're having.
Instead, Sanders is arguing that only single-payer can purge "corporate greed" from the system -- an assertion belied by European experience -- and broadly hinting that Biden is in the pocket of corporate interests. That's a criticism you can level about some of Biden's past policy positions, like his advocacy of the 2005 bankruptcy law. But it's not a fair criticism of a health plan that's actually pretty good, and which most people would have considered radical just a few years ago.
For his part, Biden is declaring that the Sanders plan would undermine Medicare. In fact, it would enhance current recipients' benefits. And it's a bad sign that Biden, who poses as Obamacare's great defender, is using a G.O.P. scare tactic familiar from the utterly dishonest campaign against the A.C.A. No Democrat should be stooping to that level.
Unfortunately, Biden and Sanders will be appearing on different nights during the next Democratic debates. So it will be up to other candidates, or the moderators, to put them on the spot. It's time for both men to stop poisoning their own party's well.
ilsm -> anne... , July 23, 2019 at 04:18 AM
It may get ugly if Sanders points to the elephant in the room......
US remains, and Obamacare did nothing to alter it, the only "developed" country where establishments that finance the health of human beings are run as profit generating businesses.
ilsm -> ilsm... , July 23, 2019 at 01:47 PM
The established democrats are against any progress, as they diss Bernie they are done with me.
mulp -> ilsm... , July 24, 2019 at 06:41 AM
Medicare is a bad model for health care because its based on a piece work production system, ie, payment only for doing medical work, and no payment for preventing preventable medical treatment.
For example, prescribing opiates repeatedly was paid for each and every time, but working to not prescribe opiates is not.
And now getting people off it opiate addiction is paid for, but not working with patients to prevent addiction to opiates.
Thanks to Nixon, a number of very good HMOs were created and required to be options in employer benefit programs, in NH, this resulted in half of all NH residents picking the HMO Mathew Thornton health plan over BCBS which in 1970 covered 80% of NH residents. The HMO only had clinics covering only 60-70% of the population while BCBS paid almost any doctor in the four state region.
MTHP was extremely well liked. It provided great health care. Doctors ran it, not bean counters. Doctors didn't need to invent diseases to get paid for spending time with patients.
But Bernie has stated that HMOs are bad because they seek to not provide medical treatments, as if health care is about making patients suffer both illnesses and then the treatments.
HMOs operate on the Deming model. Design the system for high quality so less work is required, thus lower cost to deliver the best outcome, whether a qualty car, walkman, TV, health.
JohnH -> anne... , July 23, 2019 at 07:46 AM
Coming from Krugman, with a view of how he trashed Bernie's plan on behalf of Hillary in 2016, this is pretty rich.
I guess it's up to Krugman to decide when it's OK to behave badly
And then he attacks Bernie's plan: people won't want to pay more in taxes to fund Medicare for All. Nowhere is it mentioned that the taxes would be in lieu of insurance premiums and as we all know (!!!) people are just delighted to pay those insurance companies because, you know it's better to be ripped off by private enterprise than to pay taxes for real insurance coverage with no deductibles and co-pays!!!
Krugman just can't seem to wean himself of those industry talking points
Christopher H. said in reply to anne... , July 23, 2019 at 07:58 AM
Krugman has gone back to his 2016 ways. It is really sad. I'm surprised Kurt and EMike haven't joined him yet. There's still time.
"It's time for both men to stop poisoning their own party's well."
You need to turn out your base to win, not soft-peddle to win in purple and red states.
Hillary tried EMike's and the centrists' strat and she lost.
If Biden is the nominee, there's a chance he could lose, but then Krugman was never serious about beating Trump despite his overheated rhetoric.
Julio -> anne... , July 23, 2019 at 10:27 AM
"And while Sanders has in fact proposed a number of new taxes, independent estimates say that the revenue they'd generate would fall far short of what his plan would cost."
Mealy-mouthed way of saying that Sanders is lying.
JohnH -> anne... , July 23, 2019 at 01:11 PM
It seems that Krugman is programmed to object strenuously to anything that does not preserve the inefficient, Rube Goldberg health insurance system were have in place today. And here I thought that economists were all about efficiency!!!
I guess industry talking points override efficiency!!!
anne , July 23, 2019 at 04:13 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/opinion/2020-trump-economy.html
July 18, 2019
Deficit Man and the 2020 Election
The Trump bump probably peaked too early.
By Paul Krugman
I've seen a number of people suggest that the 2020 election will be a sort of test: Can a sufficiently terrible president lose an election despite a good economy? And that is, in fact, the test we'd be running if the election were tomorrow.
On one side, Donald Trump wastes no opportunity to remind us how awful he is. His latest foray into overt racism delights his base but repels everyone else. On the other side, he presides over an economy in which unemployment is very low and real G.D.P. grew 3.2 percent over the past year.
But the election won't be tomorrow, it will be an exhausting 15 months from now. Trump's character won't change, except possibly for the worse. But the economy might look significantly different.
So let's talk about the Trump economy.
The first thing you need to know is that the Trump tax cut caused a huge rise in the budget deficit, which the administration expects to hit $1 trillion this year, up from less than $600 billion in 2016. This tidal wave of red ink is even more extraordinary than it looks, because it has taken place despite falling unemployment, which usually leads to a falling deficit.
Strange to say, none of the Republicans who warned of a debt apocalypse under President Barack Obama have protested the Trump deficits. (Should we put Paul Ryan's face on milk cartons?) For that matter, even the centrists who obsessed over federal debt during the Obama years have been pretty quiet. Clearly, deficits only matter when there's a Democrat in the White House.
Oh, and the imminent fiscal crisis people like Erskine Bowles used to warn about keeps not happening: Long-term interest rates remain very low.
Now, the evidence on the effects of deficit spending is clear: It gives the economy a short-run boost, even when we're already close to full employment. If anything, the growth bump under Trump has been smaller than you might have expected given the deficit surge, perhaps because the tax cut was so badly designed, perhaps because Trump's trade wars have deterred business spending.
For now, however, Deficit Man is beating Tariff Man. As I said, we've seen good growth over the past year.
But the tax cut was supposed to be more than a short-run Keynesian stimulus. It was sold as something that would greatly improve the economy's long-run performance; in particular, lower corporate tax rates were supposed to lead to a huge boom in business investment that would, among other things, lead to sharply higher wages. And this big rise in long-run growth would supposedly create a boom in tax revenues, offsetting the upfront cost of tax cuts.
None of this is happening. Corporations are getting to keep a lot more of their profits, but they've been using the money to buy back their own stock, not raise investment. Wages are rising, but not at an extraordinary pace, and many Americans don't feel that they're sharing in the benefits of a growing economy.
And this is probably as good as it gets.
I'm not forecasting a recession. It could happen, and we're very badly positioned to respond if it does, but the more likely story is just a slowdown as the effects of the deficit splurge wear off. In fact, if you believe the "nowcasters" (economists who try to get an early read on the economy from partial data), that slowdown is already happening. For example, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York believes that the economy's growth was down to 1.5 percent in the second quarter.
And it's hard to see where another economic bump can come from. With Democrats controlling the House, there won't be another big tax cut. The Fed may cut interest rates, but those cuts are already priced into long-term interest rates, which are what matter for spending, and the economy seems to be slowing anyway.
Which brings us back to the 2020 election.
Political scientists have carried out many studies of the electoral impact of the economy, and as far as I know they all agree that what matters is the trend, not the level. The unemployment rate was still over 7 percent when Ronald Reagan won his 1984 landslide; it was 7.7 percent when Obama won in 2012. In both cases, however, things were clearly getting better.
That's probably not going to be the story next year. If we don't have a recession, unemployment will still be low. But economic growth will probably be meh at best -- which means, if past experience is any guide, that the economy won't give Trump much of a boost, that it will be more or less a neutral factor.
And on the other hand, Trump's awfulness will remain.
Republicans will, of course, portray the Democratic nominee -- whoever she or he may be -- as a radical socialist poised to throw the border open to hordes of brown-skinned rapists. And one has to admit that this strategy might work, although it failed last year in the midterms. To be honest, I'm more worried about the effects of sexism if the nominee is a woman -- not just the sexism of voters, but that of the news media, which still holds women to different standards.
But as far as the economy goes, the odds are that Trump's deficit-fueled bump came too soon to do him much political good.
ilsm -> anne... , July 23, 2019 at 04:21 AM
There remains time for democrats to preside over a new debt ceiling crisis...... anything to oust Trump!
Cover will be provided by the, 30 months too long, Mueller circus.
Christopher H. said in reply to anne... , July 23, 2019 at 09:12 AM
Krugman was predicting overheating in 2016. It would be nice if he admitted when he was wrong.
He's very dismissive of monetary policy and the Fed here. Maybe the Fed has been overly tight?
Maybe Trump's jawboning on the Fed pushed it to stop tightening?
You won't get honest objective answers from Krugman. He's much like the Republicans who are always lying.
mulp -> Christopher H.... , July 24, 2019 at 06:48 AM
Right, zero inflation, just housing prices going up 10% per year.
Hey, you are getting richer as the house you can't buy because your savings and income isn't rising faster than 10% per year so you can finally go into debt and then do cash out refis so you have a constant 80% debt in rising "wealth".
Constantly increasing debt on constantly incressing "wealth" is not inflation.
Just keep saying "there is no inflation, just higher living costs".
Christopher H. said in reply to mulp ... , July 24, 2019 at 08:15 AM
asset appreciation isn't *inflation*
inflation is all prices going up like in the 1970s.
This is why I skip your comments
kurt -> mulp ... , July 25, 2019 at 04:12 PM
You are correct in that housing should be included in CPI. It is now most families biggest cost and housing insecurity is a thing.
Christopher H. said in reply to kurt... , July 27, 2019 at 10:00 AM
Dean Baker disagrees with you and I'd take his opinion over yours and mulps any time of the day. He called the housing bubble.
My guess is that you have no idea but just wanted to try to troll me.
http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/inflation-housing-2018-06.pdf
Measuring the Inflation Rate:
Is Housing Different?
anne , July 23, 2019 at 04:20 AM
http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/the-aging-crisis-is-actually-just-a-labor-crisis-for-the-wealthy
July 22, 2019
The "Aging Crisis" Is Actually Just a Labor Crisis for the Wealthy
By Dean Baker
The New York Times told us * last week that China is running out of people. That might seem an odd concern for a country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, but you can read it for yourself:
"Driving this regression in women's status is a looming aging crisis, and the relaxing of the draconian 'one-child' birth restrictions that contributed to the graying population. The Communist Party now wants to try to stimulate a baby boom."
What exactly is supposed to be China's "aging crisis?" China has had a low birth rate for the last four decades, as the government consciously tried to slow the country's population growth. As a result, it does have an aging population and a declining ratio of workers to retirees, but this raises the obvious question, "So what?"
We see endless news articles and columns implying that the prospect of a declining number of workers supporting a growing population of retirees is some sort of crisis. The people making such assertions really need some knowledge of demographics.
The United States and other wealthy countries have been seeing drops in the ratio of workers to retirees for many decades. In the U.S. case, we went from having 5.1 workers for every Social Security retiree in 1960 to just 2.8 workers for each retiree today.
We pay higher taxes for Social Security and Medicare today than we did in 1960 (Medicare did not yet exist), but few would say that current tax rates are a crisis. If China has to see equivalent increases in taxes in the next decade or two to support its retirees, it is hard to see it as a major problem.
Reporters and media commentators like to report on taxes as the biggest concern for working people, but as economists like to point out, the main factor determining living standards is what goes into workers' paychecks, not what the government takes out in taxes.
The Social Security payroll tax rose by 6.4 percentage points between 1960 and 1990. The Medicare tax rose by 2.95 percentage points, for a total increase in federal payroll taxes of 9.35 percentage points.
In spite of this large increase in payroll taxes over this period, workers enjoyed considerably higher after-tax wages in 1990 than in 1960. This was true because real wages rose, especially in the first part of this period (1960 to 1973), when real wages for the typical worker rose at a 2.2 percent annual rate.
The story is even more dramatic in China. Real wages have risen just over 7.0 percent annually over the last decade. Suppose wage growth slows to 5.0 percent over the next two decades. Suppose the country has to raise taxes on workers by 20 percentage points over this period to cover the cost of its aging population. In that case, after taxes, wages would still be more than twice as high as they are today. What is the problem?
The basic story is that if an economy maintains a healthy rate of productivity growth, which allows for healthy real wage growth, then the demographic changes are a relatively small matter. This doesn't mean that society will not face some problems in adjusting for the needs of an aging population ? the U.S. faced many problems associated with the care and education of the Baby Boomers when we were children ? but these problems are far from insoluble.
If simple arithmetic shows that the people shortage story is nonsense, then why does it continually appear in the media? The most obvious explanation is that the concerns over a smaller workforce fall into the well-known "it's hard to get good help" problem.
This is the standard refrain of rich people, employers and major media outlets. A smaller labor market could present employers with a world where workers have more bargaining power and can therefore demand wage increases that are equal to, possibly even greater than, the rate of productivity growth.
As workers move from lower-paying to higher-paying ? and therefore higher productivity ? jobs, it will be harder to get people to work at many of the lowest-paying jobs, such as domestic workers, valets in restaurants, and other jobs that primarily involve providing services to the wealthy.
That probably does look like a crisis to a small segment of the population. The wealthy may really have some cause to be concerned about the prospect of a declining population and workforce. The rest of us, not so much.
* https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/asia/china-women-discrimination.html
mulp -> anne... , July 24, 2019 at 06:57 AM
The workers in fast food serve primarily the wealthy???
The workers in dollar stores serve primarily the wealthy?
The workers serving the wealthy are primarily middle class, whether food service, retail, child care, etc.
The problem for China is providing opportunity for the young entrepreneurs. Without an abundant eager labor force, the old established businesses will dominate and slow change. Thhey won't be challenged to do better.
Joe , July 23, 2019 at 04:31 AM
Modern money theory and its challenges - VoxEU
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Some misperceptions.
MMT is not modern, it is standard generational practice.
Given the nearly unlimited history of humans doing MMT some rules have emerged:
1) MMTs generally last anywhere from three days to three months.
2) The exception to rule 1 is war time where MMT hangs around with price controls.
3) We have a legal issue. This is the first time we have done a good old MMT using double accounting money, we usually do it by repricing gold or exiting the gold market.
I am not sure we have the brains in DC to pull this off without a nightmare result, due to MMT becoming a tribal slogan with no real definition attached.
im1dc , July 23, 2019 at 04:52 AM
The 'Bond Market' agrees with S. Warren, to a point...
S. Warren does not have a friend in Bond World yet they agree...interesting
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/454198-the-bond-market-agrees-with-elizabeth-warren-up-to-a-point
"The bond market agrees with Elizabeth Warren, up to a point"
By Desmond Lachman, Opinion Contributor...07/23/19...07:30 AM EDT
'The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill'
"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is not known for her enthusiasm for the financial markets in general and for the bond market in particular. But there seems to be one important point on which Warren and the world's bond markets currently agree: both the U.S. and the rest of the world could soon be heading for a nasty economic recession.
In a recent article, Warren warned that the odds of another economic downturn were high and growing. In her view, this is due to the precarious state of our economy, which is built on an excessive amount of household and corporate debt. That makes the U.S. economy particularly vulnerable to a number of serious shocks that she now sees on the horizon and that she thinks "could cause our economy's shaky foundation to crumble."
By its nature, the bond market does not spell out the reasons why it prices bonds in any particular manner. But we can infer the bond market's economic outlook from market bond prices.
One indication that the government bond markets now seem to be sharing Warren's gloomy economic prognosis is the fact that long-term U.S. Treasury bond rates have declined to significantly below the Federal Reserve's short-term policy rate. This so-called yield curve inversion implies that the U.S. Treasury bond market is expecting that the U.S. economy will soon go into a recession that will keep interest rates low for a long time.
A more dramatic indication of sovereign bond market pessimism is the fact that a record US$13 trillion of global sovereign bonds, and around one half of all European sovereign bonds, now offer negative interest rates."...
RC (Ron) Weakley , July 23, 2019 at 04:54 AM
RE: Acknowledging and pricing macroeconomic uncertainties
Lars Peter Hansen, Thomas Sargent 22 July 2019
False pretences of knowledge about complicated economic situations have become all too common in public policy debates. While we do know some things, we don't know everything. We believe that prudent decision-making should acknowledge what we don't know. Decision makers should strive to quantify dimensions of their ignorance and adjust their decisions accordingly. This essay describes a tractable approach for acknowledging, characterizing, and responding to the limited understandings discovered by researchers' efforts to interpret existing evidence by using theories and statistical methods available at any particular moment.
An economic model tells how chance, occurrences, and purposeful decisions influence future outcomes. Economic researchers use formal statistical models to describe and interpret data and to formulate policy advice for government and private decision makers. Whether they acknowledge it explicitly or not, real world decision makers also use models or 'views' about how their decisions affect future outcomes. Because they ignore some forces and oversimplify others, all models are just approximations to reality, some better than others depending on the purposes to which they are put. Furthermore, at any time, we can choose among multiple models and are unsure how much credibility to assign to each of them.
Data can surely help us assess the credibility of alternative models, but the real world is so complicated and data are so limited that data can only tell us so much. Therefore, economic modellers and decision makers require ways to express their opinions about the plausibility and usefulness of alternative models for the problem at hand. Because data are only partially informative about a model's plausibility, a decision-maker's purpose as well as his or her 'subjective beliefs' play important roles too. The more complex the situation, the bigger the challenge of confronting uncertainty.
Economists and other scholars have created theoretical foundations for uncertainty. For instance, both John Maynard Keynes (1921) and Frank Knight (1921) wrote on the subject, but mostly in literary ways that are challenging to interpret and to make operational so that they can be applied in quantitative work. The eminent statistician Abraham Wald (1950) introduced a theoretic framework for making decisions under uncertainty. Leonard J. Savage (1954) constructed a complete axiomatic approach to Bayesian decision theory by including subjective probabilities that are entirely in the mind of a decision maker. Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler (1989) extended this approach in ways that acknowledged that a decision maker might not have a unique subjective probability distribution. Recent research in control theory and in dynamic decision theory provides useful practical tools for assessing and coping with various sources of uncertainty. We have worked on these topics for a number of years. Along with others, we have used mathematics and statistics to construct operational quantitative tools that shed light on how financial markets and the macroeconomy work and how alternative fiscal and monetary policies affect them.
In a recent paper (Hansen and Sargent 2019), we propose ways to categorise and respond to the multiple forms of uncertainty that confront decision makers and model builders. Thus, we distinguish among (1) uncertainty within a model; (2) uncertainty across a set of available known models; and (3) uncertainty about each model. We refer to (1) as risk – uncertainty about future outcomes that is described by a single known probability distribution. (This is the type of uncertainty assumed up until now in most work in theoretical and applied finance and macroeconomics.) We call uncertainty of type (2) ambiguity and represent it as being unsure about what weights or probabilities to attach to the available models. We call (3) model misspecification and represent it by surrounding each available model with a vast cloud statistical models with unknown forms that nevertheless fit the available data nearly as well as does an available model.
The models that we economists build and use are highly stylised
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[These guys both need a new stylist.
Just how certain can they be about uncertainty? If uncertainty were quantifiable then how uncertain would it be? Uncertainty is a lot more than just confidence intervals on statistical data sets. Operators and relationships among interdependent variables are often uncertain while data is just distributed within variance. The past may not be a reliable indicator of the future. I will take Keynes on uncertainty and stay out of the deep end of the pool.]
[Aug 02, 2019] It is quite intriguing that so many of these cases involve the sort of criminal or sexual misbehavior that would be ideally suited for blackmailing powerful individuals who are less likely to be vulnerable to other influences
Aug 02, 2019 | www.unz.com
Hail , says: Website July 30, 2019 at 5:20 am GMT
it is quite intriguing that so many of these cases involve the sort of criminal or sexual misbehavior that would be ideally suited for blackmailing powerful individuals who are less likely to be vulnerable to other influences. So perhaps many of the elected officials situated at the top of our democratic system merely reign as political puppets, dancing to invisible strings.
I would invite Ron Unz and readers to look up the recent case of a Mark W. Levin (b.1944 or '45). He has a murky background, but by the 2000s was apparently involved closely with some outer-tier DC organizations and by the 2010s at a small DC graduate school aimed at aspiring intelligence agents.
Levin pressured young men for sex, used blackmail and threats, though the stick was mixed in with carrots. In a word, he appeared to be part of an operation with some striking similarities to the kinds of political blackmail operations (or the gaining of 'compromised' people) alleged/proposed in this article.
The Mark W. Levin story was reported in mainstream media (see some excerpts, below; Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo for much more), but there are some questions have deserved asking since the scandal broke in spring 2017, such as: What was the source of Levin's money, with which he paid for some students' tuition? Do we know for sure that Levin was "acting alone"? Did he have any political objectives? The story was fairly extensively reported on, but I don't think any of these questions were answered.
It's possible Mark W. Levin was just a lone, sick con-artist acting alone for homosexual-gratification and power, which is what the media depicted him as. It is also possible that he really was (at least at one time) part of a blackmail operation, and that after years of service he finally went down or was discarded, messily (a lawsuit against him was made public in spring 2017).
This is really a small-time case compared to Epstein, but it may be useful for comparative purposes.
Excerpts from some press reports in the case:
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In the late 1990s, Levin began attending the institute's public lectures. Then he started handing over checks to pay for the tuitions of certain students, though the source of the money was a mystery
By late 2012, the alleged victim said, Levin told him that if he wanted to remain a candidate for Levin's covert group, he needed to avoid marriage, children, sexually transmitted diseases and relationships with Muslim women. Levin warned him, he said, that his "guys" would constantly watch him and that if he didn't follow instructions, he would be blacklisted from government jobs.
Levin began inviting his protege back to his Arlington apartment building to practice drawing a weapon – shirtless. Soon, the man said, Levin began fondling him and giving him prostate exams, telling him the inspections were key to his recruitment. Levin also bathed him in the shower under the pretext of helping him with his hygiene, according to the alleged victims' lawsuit [ ]
Although Levin told him that he was free to refuse, the Arlington man said he did not want to imperil his candidacy for the clandestine organization or risk losing out on government jobs.
When the Falls Church man applied for his internship in July 2016, Levin told him "The Watchers" or "my guys" had been surveilling him.
"Then, Mark told me: 'I've killed 38 people. We have people killed all the time. And we cover our tracks,' " he said. "I was intimidated."
John Doe recalls following Levin's instructions him to masturbate and ejaculate on his own stomach.
"Levin proceeded to play with the semen on Mr. Doe's stomach, and then informed Mr. Doe that his semen output was insufficient and could have damaging effects on Mr. Doe's 'candidacy,' and this exercise would therefore need to be repeated in the future," the complaint states.
Though the men say they found such treatment degrading, they say they trusted Levin's credentials and believed his threats, some veiled and some explicit, about his ability to harm them.
[Aug 02, 2019] Well-placed contemporary sources have claimed that Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy Jewish lawyer, purchased the secret correspondence between Woodrow Wilson and his longtime mistress
Aug 02, 2019 | www.unz.com
jokelly says: July 30, 2019 at 3:31 am GMT 300 Words
Similar rumors swirl around events much farther back in history as well, sometimes with enormous consequences. Well-placed contemporary sources have claimed that Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy Jewish lawyer, purchased the secret correspondence between Woodrow Wilson and his longtime mistress, and that the existence of that powerful leverage may have been an important factor behind Wilson's astonishingly rapid rise from president of Princeton in 1910 to governor of New Jersey in 1911 to president of the United States in 1912. Once in office, Wilson signed the controversial legislation establishing the Federal Reserve system in 1913 and also named Louis Brandeis as the first Jewish member of the U.S. Supreme Court despite the public opposition of nearly our entire legal establishment. Wilson's swiftly changing views on American involvement in the First World War may also have influenced by such personal pressures rather than solely determined by his perceptions of the national interest
When writing of the Protocols in the "International Jew" Henry Ford discussed the blackmail issue, referring anonymously to three political figures, one of whom was clearly Wilson, that were then under control of the hidden hand. Don't know who the other two were.
Re Wilson and Untermyer, my understanding was that Unternyer simultaneously represented Mrs. Peck, the wife of one of Wilson's fellow professors with who Wilson had an affair, in a (potential) alienation of affections claim against Wilson, and represented Wilson in the same matter, and supplied the money to Wilson to settle the claim, thereby cementing control over him. (Don't remember where I read this.)
Re the pedophilia issue, don't rule out that there is an element of Evil involved in this.
[Aug 01, 2019] Tulsi Big Donor Gains--Now at 120,228>
Aug 01, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Tulsi Big Donor Gains--Now at 120,228
apenultimate on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 7:31pm Well, Tulsi for the past couple months had been averaging around 500 new unique donors per day. Early in the day before her 2nd debate performance, her campaign announced she had reached 110,000 unique donors. In 1.5 days, she gained more than 10,000 more.
During the first debate, in the week after the debate Tulsi gained 8,500 donors above her usual donor gains. Tulsi managed to do 9,500 more than average in less than 2 days this time around. This time around seems much better.
She needed a debate boost from the second debate of 8,000 donors above her typical daily donor gain to be ensured to reach the 130,000 unique donor minimum. She has already surpassed that gain.
But, the polling requirements still need to be met . . .
Tulsi is going on an annual 2-week National Guard training pretty much now. She will not be able to personally campaign during this time. That's one reason this debate was so crucial. Let's see if it can elevate her in the coming polls.
A national Economist/YouGov poll had her at 2% through July 30. That one is not qualifying, but it's a good trend.
I have *heard* (but not confirmed) that only one qualifying poll from each of the first 4 states are allowed for qualifying (but all qualifying national polls count). Tulsi has 1 qualifying poll from New Hampshire. If what I heard above is true, this means no other polls from New Hampshire count towards the debate requirements. They must be qualifying polls from Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina, or national polls from here on out.
Centaurea on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 7:54pm
I posted this comment
on Snoopydawg's thread about Tulsi confronting Kamala, but I'd like to repost it here. I think the American people are responding not just to what Tulsi is saying, but how she is presenting herself.
Tulsi is a warrior. That's one of the main things she's accomplishing here: letting the voters see that about her.
She's directly confronting and exposing the old guard and their heirs presumptive. She's taking on the "powers that be", right to their faces, with strength and confidence.
And she's demonstrating to the American people that she is fully willing and capable of doing so.
[Aug 01, 2019] Tulsi's Last Stand? The most interesting Democrat running for president could be felled by a party that cares more about wokeness than war by W. James Antle III
Notable quotes:
"... Gabbard has been perhaps the most interesting Democrat running for president and Wednesday night could be her last stand. She gets to share the stage with frontrunner Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton a vote for the Iraq war. There is no guarantee she will get another opportunity: the eligibility criteria for subsequent debates is more stringent and she has yet to qualify. ..."
"... represent our military veterans' sharp turn against forever war, arguably the most important public opinion trend of our time. ..."
"... Tulsi is more experienced and articulate on foreign AND domestic policy than any other Democrat up there (Bernie being an independent). She's also more genuine. ..."
"... being 'woke', as the author failed to point out, is code for having the backing of the still extant Clinton/Obama cartel and hence the idiot US media. ..."
Jul 31, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
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Screenshot It was already one of the most memorable moments of the Democratic presidential debates in this young election cycle. "Leaders as disparate as President Obama and President Trump have both said they want to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan but it isn't over for America," observed moderator Rachel Maddow. "Why isn't it over? Why can't presidents of very different parties and very different temperaments get us out of there? And how could you?"
Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio responded with talking points that could have been ripped out of a George W. Bush speech circa 2004. "[T]he lesson that I've learned over the years is that you have to stay engaged in these situations," he said, later adding, "Whether we're talking about Central America, whether we're talking about Iran, whether we're talking about Afghanistan, we have got to be completely engaged."
Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was having none of it. "Is that what you will tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan? Well, we just have to be engaged?" she asked a sputtering Ryan. "As a soldier, I will tell you that answer is unacceptable. We have to bring our troops home from Afghanistan." Gabbard noted that she had joined the military to fight those who attacked us on 9/11, not to nation-build indefinitely in Afghanistan, and pointed out the perfidy of Saudi Arabia.
Some likened Gabbard's rebuke of Ryan to the famous 2007 exchange between Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani . Except Paul, then a relatively unknown congressman from Texas, was speaking truth to power against "America's Mayor" and the national GOP frontrunner. Gabbard is polling at 0.8 percent in the national RealClearPolitics average, and was challenging someone at 0.3 percent.
Ryan's asterisk candidacy is unsurprising. But Gabbard has been perhaps the most interesting Democrat running for president and Wednesday night could be her last stand. She gets to share the stage with frontrunner Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton a vote for the Iraq war. There is no guarantee she will get another opportunity: the eligibility criteria for subsequent debates is more stringent and she has yet to qualify.
The huge Democratic field has been a bust. Of the more than 20 declared presidential candidates, only seven are polling at 2 percent or more in the national averages. Two more -- Senators Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar -- are polling at least that well in Iowa. Only four candidates are consistently polling in the double digits: Biden, who recovered from his early debate stumbles and remains comfortably in the lead; Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has nevertheless mostly failed to recapture his 2016 magic; Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who seems ascendant; and Senator Kamala Harris of California, potentially the main threat to Biden's rock-solid black support.
Low-polling candidates have still managed to have an impact. Some, like former secretary of housing and urban development Julian Castro, have helped coax contenders likelier to win the nomination to the left on immigration. We've thus seen Democrats raise their hands in support of decriminalizing illegal border crossings in the midst of a migrant crisis not entirely of the Trump administration's making, expanding Medicare to cover everyone even at the expense of private health insurance, and ensuring that "everyone" includes illegal immigrants. Transgender abortions, also at taxpayer expense, have come up too.
Gabbard has so far been unable to penetrate this madness despite being young (she's 38), attractive, telegenic, a military veteran, a woman of color, and an articulate, passionate opponent of the regime change wars that have brought our country so much pain. While reliably progressive, she has occasionally reached across the political divide on issues like religious liberty and Big Tech censorship, a potent combination that could prove more responsive to Trump voters' concerns than what we've heard from her neocon lite interlocutor from Youngstown.
The Tulsi Effect: Forcing War Onto the Democratic Agenda Memo to Trump: Trade Bolton for Tulsi
"None of this seems to matter in a Democratic Party that cares more about wokeness than war. In fact, Gabbard's conservative fans -- The View brought up Ann Coulter -- are often held against her, as is her failure to go all in on Trump-Russia. Ninety-five Democrats stand ready to impeach Trump over mean tweets with nary a peep over the near-bombing of Iran or the active thwarting of Congress's will on Yemen.
That's not to say that no one else running is sound on foreign policy -- Bernie has realist advisers and it took real courage for Warren to back Trump's abortive withdrawals from Afghanistan and Syria -- and it required a Democratic House to advance the bipartisan Yemen resolution. But none of them are basing their campaigns on it in the same way Gabbard has. Nor do any of them better represent our military veterans' sharp turn against forever war, arguably the most important public opinion trend of our time.
Liberals remain skeptical of Gabbard's turn away from social conservatism (which admittedly went far beyond sincerely opposing gay marriage while Barack Obama was merely pretending to do so), which she attributes to "aloha." In meeting with Bashar al-Assad, she hurt her credibility as a foe of the Syria intervention, failing to realize that doves are held to a higher standard on these matters than hawks .
A saner Democratic Party might realize the chances are far greater that their nominee will be a covert hawk rather than a secret right-winger. Only time will tell if vestiges of that party still exist.
W. James Antle III is the editor of .
Gyre a spencer • 3 hours ago
Tulsi is more experienced and articulate on foreign AND domestic policy than any other Democrat up there (Bernie being an independent). She's also more genuine.
But being 'woke', as the author failed to point out, is code for having the backing of the still extant Clinton/Obama cartel and hence the idiot US media. And that she does not have
interguru • 2 days ago
Unfortunately foreign policy and the forever war are not an issue that resonates with voters on either side. Here is an excerpt from NPR .
"That is one finding from the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, which shows that Americans have limited confidence in its public schools, courts, organized labor and banks -- and even less confidence in big business, the presidency, the political parties and the media.
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The only institution that Americans have overwhelming faith in is the military -- 87 percent say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military. That is a striking change from the 1970s during and after the Vietnam War."
A military that has been a consistent loser for decades. How depressing
Bill In Montgomey interguru • a day ago
"Patriotism" now = "Support for military" (and for wars).
Sigh.
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For me, a candidates stance on war will be one of the deciding factors as to their earning my vote -- So far Tulsi's position has my interest.
Vance Shogun Downing bbkingfish • a day ago
Given that this magazine was partially founded as a reaction to the Iraq War, why does an article about Tulsi Gabbard, one of the only presidential candidates who takes a mostly non-interventionist foreign policy stance, surprise you? She is a progressive, yes, and a Democrat, but her stance on war is very conservative.
You don't have to be a Republican to be conservative or to hold some conservative views.
James OGallagher bbkingfish • 20 hours ago • edited
No one with a brain ever believed that Twerp was anti interventionist. Many dopes convinced themselves of that because they wanted to believe
HerrinSchadenfreude fuow • a day ago
Warren is a corporate kiss a** and a perfect example of precisely why the person you're talking to might as well be listening to a Chipmunks song for all the ridiculous partisan deflection going on. Literally nothing of value in any of that and the implication that Dumbocraps are any different than Republicans in talking a lot and saying and doing nothing is frankly one of the insults to the intelligence that convinced me very early to reject both "sides" of this Candyland based majik partisan aisle
Brian • 2 days ago
I was ready to replace Mike Pompeo with Tulsi Gabbard the day after the first debate. It would be very unfortunate if she got bumped out. I live in California (an open primary state), which means I would have voted for her in the primary
Zaphod Braden • a day ago
Tulsi is the only Democrat that could beat Trump . ...makes me wonder is this all a dog & pony show?
Tulsi is a combat vet who could shame Trump.
=marco01= Zaphod Braden • a day ago
Trump is incapable of shame
christiansmiller Zaphod Braden • a day ago
Very true. She could get enough votes from Independents, Republicans and Ron Paul Libertarians to put her over the top.
Reid Dalton • a day ago • edited
It doesn't "hurt" Tulsi's "credibility" that she met with Assad. It's been clear from the beginning of the Syrian civil war that he was the sole viable protector of Christian and other religious minorities in the region after the fall of Saddam. The U.S. should never have armed and trained the country's rebels. But it's again apparent that Democrats have no interest in saving Christians from Islamic killers.
cka2nd Reid Dalton • 15 hours ago
Have the Republicans been any better at saving Christians from Islamic killers in either Iraq or Syria (or Egypt)?
Sid Finster cka2nd • 3 hours ago
Neither Team D nor Team R cares in the slightest about Christians in the Middle East, or, for that matter, in Israel.
Sid Finster • a day ago
Team D would rather lose to Trump than reform.
This is entirely consistent with The Iron Law of Oligarchy and especially The Iron Law of Institutions.
FL_Cottonmouth Sid Finster • a day ago
To whom do the Democrats/CNN think this appeals? There are large majorities of Americans with zero emotional/ideological attachment to "free-market capitalism" who would eagerly vote for a Bernie Sanders who stuck to economic-populist issues - like me, for example - but who are repelled by cultural/social controversies over "isms" and "phobias." Seriously, "40 acres and a mule" Play Hide
Mark Thomason • a day ago
Foreign policy does not elect American presidents.
I like her, and support her, and think she's made valuable points. I hope it is heard. However, there was never any chance that her course would lead to the White House.
Maybe she can get a senior post and shape policy on our endless wars. Or maybe she'll have a louder voice in Congress. However, the best she could do with this is influence.
Bakka ja nai • a day ago
I will vote for her in the California primaries, even if I have to write her in as a candidate.
FL_Cottonmouth • a day ago
How fitting, because I gave up on Tulsi yesterday - before the debate - when I found out that she voted in favor of that anti-BDS resolution. Play Hide
James OGallagher FL_Cottonmouth • 20 hours ago
They all support Israel w/o condition. Unfortunately. None of them are any better than her on this issue, and they are much worse than her on most FP and military issues.
christiansmiller • a day ago
I am fully supporting Gabbard's campaign, but few people are concerned about our senseless wars. The issue does not make the top ten voter concerns in recent polls.
James OGallagher christiansmiller • 20 hours ago
Sad.
Collin Reid • a day ago
For whatever reason the President Primary debates tend to avoid most foreign policy issues. Democrats love getting the gory details of healthcare that sort prove Reagan's joke "They know too much" but there are few question on Foreign Policy. I think it reasonable to ask "What would your administration do with Venezuela?" (And Yes I like really basic Open End questions at debates.)
And yes there are good parts of Tulsi but she does need to campaign things outside of No Wars as that usually does not win Primaries.
cka2nd Collin Reid • 14 hours ago • edited
The last time it really mattered was 2008, when Hilary's support for the invasion of Iraq really came back to bite her on the butt against Obama.
Zsuzsi Kruska • a day ago
Forever wars are driven by Wash. through campaign funds coming from the war industry, foreign states and those in the USA who support other countries over their own. How could an anti-war candidate get those funds necessary for campaigning? And, as I said before, Obama and Trump both campaigned to end the wars but didn't. What makes anyone think the next president, when in office, will do anything different? Plus, one has to take into consideration the DNC's choice, and all the intrigues surrounding that process. Tulsi hasn't paid all those dues necessary for a shot at the presidency.
Alex (the one that likes Ike) Steve Naidamast • a day ago • edited
Some people were as stupid as to think that Trump would lose by a landslide in 2016. Some people were as stupid as to think that Candidate Five-Year-Old-Girl-in-a-Grown-Up-Woman's-Body, who managed to hijack (or, rather, joyride) Obama's foreign policy and to start two (or, rather, three, given that Yemen is also her legacy) foreign wars yet, knowing about the "nice" legacy of Afghanistan and Iraq, would be any appealing. So I wonder how anyone with both hemispheres functional can believe that discarding Gabbard and Sanders, while picking any of the political reincarnations of the ingnorant, arrogant and, first of all, almost childishly self-righteous moron who managed to wreck the country's entire foreign policy without even being the president can win against the man who cleaned up that child's (despite her physically being his age-mate) mess in Syria and, judging by what the Italian press says, is letting others to clean an even greater mess of hers in Libya.
JPH • a day ago
Looks that on foreign policy Tulsi is the only sane option.
That's exactly why the bipartisan establishment, the corrupt corporate media and the MIC hate her vehemently.
Eric • a day ago
I am a registered Republican so I can't vote for Tulsi in the MD primaries, but I will consider donating to her campaign to help her get into the third debate.
I can forgive a Democrat for supporting universal healthcare so long as they
don't buy into the identity politics garbage.
Although I'm fairly conservative, I will take a Democrat with character over who we have in the White House today.
Hellprin_fan Eric • 20 hours ago
It's not like you have a choice in a Republican primary; why not change your registration to Democratic for the presidential primary?
christiansmiller Eric • 19 hours ago
I have never voted for a Democrat in my very long life, but I am a donating heavily to Tulsi because of her stand on foreign policy
blimbax Eric • 3 hours ago
Eric, you can change your registration for long enough to vote for someone you obviously think is worth voting for.
I was a registered Democrat for all of my voting life, although I often voted for Republicans. As a result of Bush Jr.'s war against Iraq, I swore never to vote for a Republican again.
But when Ron Paul was on the ballot in the Republican primary, I re-registered, as a Republican, just so I could vote for him. (In California, the party determines whether its primary is open or closed.) After 6 weeks, following the primary, I re-registered again, this time as a no-party-preference voter.
It's not that I liked everything Ron Paul believed in (but I did like the fact that he was genuine and truthful). But I agreed with him on the really important issues involving foreign policy.
So you have options, Eric. It won't soil you to change party registration temporarily if it allows you to vote for someone you might vote for in the general election. In fact, you might feel good about it. I know I did. Voting for Ron Paul was the first time in a long time that I felt good about my vote. And this time, I'll vote for Tulsi Gabbard in the primary even if I have to write her name in.
Salt Lick • 19 hours ago
Tulsi is not running for President. She's running for running mate for either Bernie or Warren. Both need her foreign policy chops and military cred.
She will bring voters to the ticket, unlike most V.P. picks.
Given Bernie age, should he pick her, she could end up President after all.
Works for me.
cka2nd • 14 hours ago
The Democratic Party uber alles types over at Daily Kos are supporting Gabbard's primary challenger for her Congressional seat, attacking her for her previous stands on abortion and same sex marriage, and really laying into her for playing footsies with a dictator like Assad. And while Bernie has some support over there, especially among the readers who take their polls, there are others who still won't forgive him for not actually joining the Dems officially (and who buy all of the "he cost Clinton the election" stupidity).
Alex (the one that likes Ike) cka2nd • 3 hours ago
The most tragic thing is not that they simply buy that stupidity. It is that they still buy it. After almost three years. Bernie didn't cost Clinton the election. Clinton cost Democrats the election. Much like any of her political reincarnations they are about to pick will.
Jonathan Dillard Lester • 14 hours ago
I thought she did just fine in the debate tonight, and there is the matter of her lawsuit against Google, so I wouldn't count her out just yet.
CJL_1976 • 9 hours ago
As a non-interventionist lefty, why am I aligned with paleoconservatives on so many issues?
[Aug 01, 2019] Liberal Media Is Freaking Out Over Gabbard's Destruction Of Harris by Caitlin Johnstone
Notable quotes:
"... Attacking the authoritarian prosecutorial record of Senator Kamala Harris to thunderous applause from the audience, Gabbard criticized the way her opponent "put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana," "blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the court's forced her to do so," "kept people in prisons beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California," and "fought to keep the cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way." ..."
"... That was all it took. Harris' press secretary Ian Sams unleashed a string of tweets about Gabbard being an "Assad apologist", which was followed by a deluge of establishment narrative managers who sent the word "Assad" trending on Twitter, at times when Gabbard's name somehow failed to trend despite being the top-searched candidate on Google after the debate. As of this writing, "Assad" is showing on the #5 trending list on the side bar of Twitter's new layout, while Gabbard's name is nowhere to be seen. This discrepancy has drawn criticism from numerous Gabbard defenders on the platform . ..."
"... It really is interesting how aggressively the narrative managers thrust this line into mainstream consciousness all at the same time. ..."
"... "Beware the Russian bots and their promotion of Tulsi Gabbard and sowing racial dischord [sic], especially around Kamala Harris," tweeted New York Times and CNN contributor Wajahat Ali. ..."
"... All the usual war cheerleaders from Lindsey Graham to Caroline Orr to Jennifer Rubin piled on, because this feeding frenzy had nothing to do with concern that Gabbard adores Bashar al-Assad and everything to do with wanting more war. Add that to the fact that Gabbard just publicly eviscerated a charming, ambitious and completely amoral centrist who would excel at putting a friendly humanitarian face on future wars if elected, and it's easy to understand why the narrative managers are flipping out so hard right now. ..."
"... War is the glue that holds the empire together . A politician can get away with opposing some aspects of the status quo when it comes to healthcare or education, but war as a strategy for maintaining global dominance is strictly off limits. This is how you tell the difference between someone who actually wants to change things and someone who's just going through the motions for show; the real rebels forcefully oppose the actual pillars of empire by calling for an end to military bloodshed, while the performers just stick to the safe subjects. ..."
"... The shrill, hysterical pushback that Gabbard received last night was very encouraging, because it means she's forcing them to fight back. In a media environment where the war propaganda machine normally coasts along almost entirely unhindered in mainstream attention, the fact that someone has positioned themselves to move the needle like this says good things for our future. If our society is to have any chance of ever throwing off the omnicidal, ecocidal power establishment which keeps us in a state of endless war and soul-crushing oppression, the first step is punching a hole in the narrative matrix which keeps us hypnotized into believing that this is all normal and acceptable. ..."
Aug 01, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via CaitlinJohnstone.com,
In the race to determine who will serve as Commander in Chief of the most powerful military force in the history of civilization, night two of the CNN Democratic presidential debates saw less than six minutes dedicated to discussing US military policy during the 180-minute event.
That's six, as in the number before seven. Not sixty. Not sixteen. Six. From the moment Jake Tapper said "I want to turn to foreign policy" to the moment Don Lemon interrupted Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard just as she was preparing to correctly explain how President Trump is supporting Al-Qaeda in Idlib , approximately five minutes and fifty seconds had elapsed. The questions then turned toward the Mueller report and impeachment proceedings.
Night one of the CNN debates saw almost twice as much time, with a whole eleven minutes by my count dedicated to questions of war and peace for the leadership of the most warlike nation on the planet. This discrepancy could very well be due to the fact that night two was the slot allotted to Gabbard, whose campaign largely revolves around the platform of ending US warmongering. CNN is a virulent establishment propaganda firm with an extensive history of promoting lies and brazen psyops in facilitation of US imperialism , so it would make sense that they would try to avoid a subject which would inevitably lead to unauthorized truth-telling on the matter.
But the near-absence of foreign policy discussion didn't stop the Hawaii congresswoman from getting in some unauthorized truth-telling anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cfp_IIdVnXs
Attacking the authoritarian prosecutorial record of Senator Kamala Harris to thunderous applause from the audience, Gabbard criticized the way her opponent "put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana," "blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the court's forced her to do so," "kept people in prisons beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California," and "fought to keep the cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way."
Harris, who it turns out fights very well when advancing but folds under pressure, had no answer for Gabbard's attack, preferring to focus on attacking Joe Biden instead . Later, when she was a nice safe distance out of Gabbard's earshot, she uncorked a long-debunked but still effective smear which establishment narrative managers have been dying for an excuse to run wild with.
"This, coming from someone who has been an apologist for an individual, Assad, who has murdered the people of his country like cockroaches," Harris told Anderson Cooper after the debate.
"She who has embraced and been an apologist for him in a way that she refuses to call him a war criminal. I can only take what she says and her opinion so seriously and so I'm prepared to move on."
That was all it took. Harris' press secretary Ian Sams unleashed a string of tweets about Gabbard being an "Assad apologist", which was followed by a deluge of establishment narrative managers who sent the word "Assad" trending on Twitter, at times when Gabbard's name somehow failed to trend despite being the top-searched candidate on Google after the debate. As of this writing, "Assad" is showing on the #5 trending list on the side bar of Twitter's new layout, while Gabbard's name is nowhere to be seen. This discrepancy has drawn criticism from numerous Gabbard defenders on the platform .
"Somehow I have a hard time believing that 'Assad' is the top trending item in the United States but 'Tulsi' is nowhere to be found," tweeted journalist Michael Tracey.
It really is interesting how aggressively the narrative managers thrust this line into mainstream consciousness all at the same time.
The Washington Post 's Josh Rogin went on a frantic, lie-filled Twitter storm as soon as he saw an opportunity, claiming with no evidence whatsoever that Gabbard lied when she said she met with Assad for purposes of diplomacy and that she "helped Assad whitewash a mass atrocity", and falsely claiming that " she praised Russian bombing of Syrian civilians ".
In reality all Gabbard did was meet with Assad to discuss the possibility of peace, and, more importantly, she said the US shouldn't be involved in regime change interventionism in Syria. This latter bit of business is the real reason professional war propagandists like Rogin are targeting her; not because they honestly believe that a longtime US service member and sitting House Representative is an "Assad apologist", but because she commits the unforgivable heresy of resisting the mechanics of America's forever war .
MSNBC's Joy Reid gleefully leapt into the smearing frenzy, falsely claiming that "Gabbard will not criticize Assad, no matter what." Gabbard has publicly and unequivocally both decried Assad as a "brutal dictator" and claimed he's guilty of war crimes, much to the irritation of anti-imperialists like myself who hold a far more skeptical eye to the war propaganda narratives about what's going on in Syria. At no time has Gabbard ever claimed that Assad is a nice person or that he isn't a brutal leader; all she's done is say the US shouldn't get involved in another regime change war there because US regime change interventionism is consistently and predictably disastrous. That's not being an "Assad apologist", that's having basic common sense.
"Beware the Russian bots and their promotion of Tulsi Gabbard and sowing racial dischord [sic], especially around Kamala Harris," tweeted New York Times and CNN contributor Wajahat Ali.
All the usual war cheerleaders from Lindsey Graham to Caroline Orr to Jennifer Rubin piled on, because this feeding frenzy had nothing to do with concern that Gabbard adores Bashar al-Assad and everything to do with wanting more war. Add that to the fact that Gabbard just publicly eviscerated a charming, ambitious and completely amoral centrist who would excel at putting a friendly humanitarian face on future wars if elected, and it's easy to understand why the narrative managers are flipping out so hard right now.
War is the glue that holds the empire together . A politician can get away with opposing some aspects of the status quo when it comes to healthcare or education, but war as a strategy for maintaining global dominance is strictly off limits. This is how you tell the difference between someone who actually wants to change things and someone who's just going through the motions for show; the real rebels forcefully oppose the actual pillars of empire by calling for an end to military bloodshed, while the performers just stick to the safe subjects.
The shrill, hysterical pushback that Gabbard received last night was very encouraging, because it means she's forcing them to fight back. In a media environment where the war propaganda machine normally coasts along almost entirely unhindered in mainstream attention, the fact that someone has positioned themselves to move the needle like this says good things for our future. If our society is to have any chance of ever throwing off the omnicidal, ecocidal power establishment which keeps us in a state of endless war and soul-crushing oppression, the first step is punching a hole in the narrative matrix which keeps us hypnotized into believing that this is all normal and acceptable.
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Whoever disrupts that narrative control is doing the real work.
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John Law Lives , 4 minutes ago link
"It really is interesting how aggressively the narrative managers thrust this line into mainstream consciousness all at the same time." - C.J.
I think we see evidence of this sort of thing all the time. "Russian collusion" was thrust upon MSM consumers in coordinated fashion for many months. Now that it has largely fizzled out, "racism" has taken its place. "Racism". "Racism". "Racism". It seems as if MSM drones plug into the Mothership to get their talking points. This sort of behavior was featured in the 1939 film, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", when the Establishment decided Mr. Smith needed to be crushed.
Harris's deflection of Gabbard's attacks are right in line with the Establishment's treatment of people who don't tow the line. Harris is trying to dismiss Gabbard as if her opinion has no weight. Harris is probably wishing hard that Gabbard won't make the next round of debates.
throw the bum out , 10 minutes ago link
Horrible Harris got her *** handed to her by Tulsi.
I would love to see someone say to Kamala, "your panties came down for Willie Brown"...that's how you got your first break.
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vienna_proxy , 18 minutes ago link
if Tulsi is nominee, i'll vote for her and vote republican for house/senate etc. her anti-war policy is what i was hoping Trump would do. in reality if the republicans hold a chamber in congress then any anti-gun and healthcare bills won't get through. but on day one Tulsi can start removing our troops from Ukraine, Syria, Afghan, Iraq, Saudi, Turkey, and wherever the hell else they are
Terminaldude , 19 minutes ago link
Tulsi Gabbard is the real thing. She has seen the results of WAR and the pain that comes with it through lost limbs, PTSD, etc..
The rest of them are shills for the MIC as well as NWO... .I wonder how many of them know a certain J. Epstein?
Ignorance is bliss , 16 minutes ago link
Tulsi Gabbard is no cankles. She is a veteran, she's female, and she has some good policies. Buyer beware her site mentions nothing about gun control. Liberals always make me nervous.
As president I'll end the failed war on drugs, legalize marijuana, end cash bail, and ban private prisons and bring about real criminal justice reform. ( link )
Everyone talks a big game..but Trump's actually delivered on a few good policies. Example he ended Trans-Pacific partnership. He is renegotiating bad deals with NAFTA and China. He's able to take the heat form the deep state and criminals all around him. He's kept the stock market up. I suspect the stock market is the tide lifting all boats. So far Trump's been pretty good.
But Gabbard has a lot of appeal.
Someone Else , 17 minutes ago link
The only thing I have against Tulsi Gabbard is that she recently voted for the ridiculous Democrat sponsored Defense budget that was even more than the Pentagon requested.
Till then I supported her 100%.
Now, more like 90%.
eleventwelve , 23 minutes ago link
Tulsi Gabbard should be the Democratic Nominee. I support Trump, voted for him, but he is too distracted, too much of an overactive schmoe. He made all of these promises and yes the attacks have been relentless, but nothing is being accomplished. Trump has deep state clowns all around him including Bolton and Pompeo. The deficit is going through the roof, the artificial, superficial manipulated stock market is going to eventually hurt a lot of people.
I don't agree with many of her policies but Tulsi Gabbard is a sane and a thoughtful thinker. She will think before reacting. Her Ron Paul approach to our overreach in the world is absolutely appropriate. Think about this, we spend $850 Billion Dollars on defense so we can feed the war industry. That is more than all the countries of the world combined literally!!! If we brought all the troops home, closed up most bases outside the US, and protected our borders, our deficit would plummet, we could rebuild the infrastructure, we could figure out the health care B.S. We would get along with the rest of the world instead of being looked at as an enemy.
Everybody is coming out of the woodwork because she knows, like most, that Assad did not pepper spray his own people. Cripes, when does this insanity end?
Publicus_Reanimated , 2 minutes ago link
Drawing down the US military to the point you describe will put 1 million American men and women between the ages of 18 and 40 out of work. Do you not realize in addition to feeding the MIC the military is one giant jobs program? Those young men and women, the vast majority of whom do not want to learn to code, would find themselves competing against foreigners and teenagers for $15 minimum wage jobs.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world would openly laugh at us and secretly plot how to take advantage of the power vacuum. Evil does not rest when unopposed, it becomes stronger.
When half the world's population (= all Chinese plus all Muslims) wants to destroy your country, "insanity" is defined as beating your swords into ploughshares.
giovanni_f , 25 minutes ago link
The enemies of Tulsi Gabbard are not the Zionazis who helped Trump win the elections or MAGA hat wearing hillbillies who have no clue whats the difference between Hong Kong and King Kong. It is the liberals who voted for Hillary and went berserk after their beloved mafia bitch lost who hate Tulsi Gabbard. Because she makes them look like what they are, i.e. scum. Sure, conservatives will never vote for a intelligent woman. But they are not the problem.
kudocast , 21 minutes ago link
"Liberals who voted for Hillary" is a false premise. The Democratic National Committee forced Hillary Clinton on liberals, they fixed the primaries so she would win. Liberals and progressives wanted Bernie Sanders who would have kicked Trump's ***.
[Aug 01, 2019] A suggested explanation off Tulsi's strategy: Why go after Biden? He's already imploding; she would only look cruel, beating up on a senile old man
Notable quotes:
"... On top of the cake Kamala Not-The-Wrestler responded as expected, with a neoMcCarthyite slander, which will only work with Tulsi's haters and make Harris look like a tool to everyone else. ..."
"... @doh1304 ..."
"... Harris' record was both fair game and easy pickings because no one had gone there yet. It gained Tulsi the maximum impact because those who don't follow politics had not heard about any of these issues. ..."
"... Joe is so far down in the actual REAL polls, (not the land line polls as has been exposed), that the oligarchy has given up on him. Tulsi senses Joe is low hanging fruit. The DNC is going to cheat Bernie with either Kamala or Liz. Tulsi just took out Kamala. ..."
"... @k9disc ..."
Aug 01, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Why go after Biden? He's already imploding; she would only look cruel, beating up on a senile old man for her own aggrandizement. Harris, OTOH, is a clear enemy, perpetrator of obvious crimes. Exposing her could only make her look like a paladin.
On top of the cake Kamala Not-The-Wrestler responded as expected, with a neoMcCarthyite slander, which will only work with Tulsi's haters and make Harris look like a tool to everyone else.
Harris is sort of right, it is a strategy only used by someone trying to come from behind, but that's because people with Tulsi's integrity are not allowed to start at the "Top-tier". up 14 users have voted. --
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gjohnsit on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 3:29pm
One thing is for certain
@doh1304
Harris' record was both fair game and easy pickings because no one had gone there yet. It gained Tulsi the maximum impact because those who don't follow politics had not heard about any of these issues.
Battle of Blair... on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 6:31pm
Joe is so far down in the
Joe is so far down in the actual REAL polls, (not the land line polls as has been exposed), that the oligarchy has given up on him. Tulsi senses Joe is low hanging fruit. The DNC is going to cheat Bernie with either Kamala or Liz. Tulsi just took out Kamala.
Don't be surprised if she goes after Pocahontas in the next debates.
k9disc on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 7:58pm
I Saw the Set Up for Warren as Shepherd. Delaney's "Can't Do"
attitude certainly was smacked down in righteous fashion. Hollywood level righteous.
Having those extras on stage feature so prominently in the debates certainly was interesting.
snoopydawg on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 8:33pm
I'm seeing the same thing
@k9disc
The crisis actors are just there to say what the democrats can't do or to derail anyone who thinks they are going to change the system. Delaney, Bullock, DeBlasio and everyone else who doesn't stand a chance have all been negative on Warren and Bernie pushing their MFA. Did Delaney set himself up for Warren to smack him down? The silly ass smile on his face made me think that. Then he was all over Twitter the next day saying how good he did in the debate. And after 24 hours he finally had a comeback to Warren's response.
The other reason for so many candidates of course is to split the votes during the first part so that the super delegates can come in and play.
attitude certainly was smacked down in righteous fashion. Hollywood level righteous.
Having those extras on stage feature so prominently in the debates certainly was interesting.
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[Aug 01, 2019] Harris's spokesman explains Tulsi's takedown of Kamala It was Russia! caucus99percent
Aug 01, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Harris's spokesman explains Tulsi's takedown of Kamala: It was Russia!
gjohnsit on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 11:47am Snoopydawg has got the takedown covered , so I won't duplicate it.
Instead I'd like to show you how TOP has gone into a full-throated whine party over it.
On Wednesday night, that meant that Gabbard got to go after Kamala Harris on her actions as attorney general, using loaded phrases and selected statements to paint Harris as someone who was ready to throw pot-smokers behind bars for eternity and personally throw the execution switch for death row inmates after hiding evidence of their innocence.
There's no doubt that Harris will face more kicks about her AG role during this campaign, and she certainly expected to receive some blows. But Gabbard knew she could square off with Harris in the certainty that no one, but no one, came into the Wednesday night debate thinking, "I need to prepare some talking points against Tulsi Gabbard." And even if she had, CNN gave Harris little time to muster her thoughts before calling in more witnesses to bolster Gabbard's attacks.
It wasn't just the tools on GOS that Tulsi knocked off balance, it was Harris herself . Even CNN noticed.
Worse than that -- for Harris -- is the fact that it became crystal clear in the aftermath of the debate that Gabbard had gotten under her skin. In a post-debate interview, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Harris about the moment with Gabbard.
"This is going to sound immodest, but obviously I'm a top-tier candidate and so I did expect that I'd be on the stage and take some hits tonight," Harris said. "When people are at 0 or 1% or whatever she might be at, so I did expect to take some hits tonight."
Woof.
First of all, if you are running for president and you hear the words, "This is going to sound immodest" come out of your mouth, it may be best to recalibrate what you are going to say.
Second, what Harris is actually saying is, basically, this: The dork took a shot at the most popular kid in school. Big whoop.
That is not a good look. For any candidate. Ever. (And, yes, politics is a LOT like high school.)
That's gonna leave a mark.
But never fear, because there is a reason for Harris getting taken down by Gabbard - Russia .
The #KamalaHarrisDestroyed hashtag had disappeared from the list of trending U.S. terms by 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
Harris's sp