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Paula Chertok🗽
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😨One day you're watching Putin's insane war, propaganda, smears, kompromat, blackmail. And seemingly overnight, you wonder what country you're in. Civilization's veneer is thin, folks. Thx to GOP, dicks like Pecker, Trump feel on top of the world & turning ours to💩😒
@JeffBezos
Blackmail by AMI-National Enquirer-David Pecker of @JeffBezos is a big deal b/c
1/ evidence of new crimes violates SDNY immunity agreement re Trump’s hush payments, 2/ extortion may be BOTH for Trump AND Saudis over relentless WaPo coverage, incl of Khashoggi murder. #Maddow
@JeffBezos 💯THREAD: It's Democracy vs Autocracy. Bezos-National Enquirer/AMI story is the autocratic alliance at work to silence critics, co-opt journalism, torpedo truth, break rule of law & democracy. Trump/GOP align w/ Saudi & Kremlin autocrats, use fascist tools & propaganda for power.
Teri's right. It's hard to wrap our heads around that AMERICANS would gut democracy for autocracy. But Trump is the clearest sign GOP's done it. For power & money, Republicans have propped up a corrupt fascist POTUS who got to the WH w/ foreign tyrants' help. Help that is repaid.
Putin & MBS weren't high-five-ing ecstatically for nothing. This happy slap was just weeks before the National Enquirer published the Bezos hit job. With its post Trump adm "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan & reporting, @washingtonpost is prime attack target for these autocrats
@washingtonpost Pull on this THREAD >> Bezos-WashingtonPost-Khashoggi-Saudi regime-National Enquirer-AMI-Pecker-Trump. A whistleblower told @iyad_elbaghdadi in Oct (Putin hi5 in Nov) of MBS plans to target WaPo w/ blackmail—a classic tool of control & menace by autocrats, welcomed by this POTUS.
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Paula Chertok🗽
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Wow indeed! Bamford's piece on Butina echoes top Kremlin talking points—anti-Russia hysteria (Russophobia), mere private idealistic Russian citizen (Putin called GRU hackers private patriots). He also mirrors Trump/GOP anti-media & anti-govt line. Mindsets are stubborn things😕
Bamford's Butina piece has more Kremlin propaganda than RT! She's "naive, idealistic." Torshin's a "passionate pro-gun enthusiast." FBI has no case, coerced her guilty plea; following govt marching orders, like Iraq or Joe McCarthyism. Pathetic. newrepublic.com/article/153036… #Maddow
Bamford's piece on Butina exemplifies an inability to see Russia as a bad actor—despite reams of evidence around the globe—for Americans stuck in self-flagellation abt our past. Russia pulls on that heartstring aLOT—to get away w/ too much, as I've written stopfake.org/en/russophobia…
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Paula Chertok🗽
@PaulaChertok
“It’s completely exhausting to try to keep up w/ so much of his ignorance & racism for Native people…He needs to be ignored”—@RepDebHaaland just succinctly explained BOTH how propaganda works to flood our info space AND what to do—ignore it. Don’t engage. Floodgates closed!👍🙏
@RepDebHaaland Reminder on how propaganda works and the threat posed by propagandists essentially weaponizing free speech—deliberately—to drown us in a flood of false, unnerving, disorienting, distracting information. Trump uses Russia's "firehose of falsehood" tactics. rand.org/pubs/perspecti…
@RepDebHaaland 🚨Putin guru Surkov gloats about propaganda's power: "Foreign politicians ascribe to Russia interference in elections and referendums across the globe. In fact, it's even more serious—Russia interferes in their brains, alters their consciousness"—IE, helpless to Russia's choices!
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Paula Chertok🗽
@PaulaChertok
THIS is scandalous: People in their 60s are getting their Social Security benefits garnished bc they can’t pay their student loans. Up 161% since 2010—44% in 2017‼️Instead of the latest manipulated spectacle & scandal, media could address critical issues most Americans care about
Case in point: @CNNSotu took Trump's racist framing of Elizabeth Warren which Liz Cheney repeated & added "laughingstock." @ewarren is taking on harmful GOP policies. MEDIA, PLEASE DON'T let Trump frame the debate AWAY from issues. He attacks to distract.
We could literally spend every waking moment on GOP hypocrisy. It's absurd that Liz Cheney condemns Elizabeth Warren but not Trump. But more harmful is CNN allowing Trump's racist barbs frame debate about Warren, whose policies seriously threaten Trump+GOP
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1/ The #Saudi kidnapping of #Khashoggi reminds me of the kidnapping of #Hariri. It is meant to embarrass the other party, this time the gov of #Turkey, and provoke a diplomatic crisis. This is drug Cartel methods. It has no other goal than to assert power over the other.
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