Dean Baquet says that after the NY Times was caught "flat-footed" by the dramatic implosion of the Russia collusion hoax they peddled, the team must do a better job with their new narrative: that their political opponents, including Trump, are racist. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Me reading this transcript:
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I sort of assumed they weren't so stupid as to actually believe the Russia collusion hoax as much as running a journalistic resistance operation pretending they did. But saying they were caught "flat-footed" by implosion of Russia collusion story intrigues me ...
They were chief peddlers of a dangerously false Russia collusion narrative for years. It blew up in their faces. It was a humiliating failure. Baquet's introspection: "We won two Pulitzer Prizes covering that story. And I think we covered that story better than anybody else."
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"Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes."
I like that "women" and "adult entertainment" are SEPARATE expenses and that one is $683,212 and the other is $188,960. For a total of $872,172.
"Notably, in 2020, well after he had regained his sobriety, and when he finally filed his outstanding 2016, 2017, and 2018 Forms 1040, the Defendant did not direct any payments toward his tax liabilities for each of those years."
Just received an email from "VineSight," which claims to be a leading company targeting "disinformation and toxic narratives on social media." They have bragged previously they play a major role in suppressing free speech around environmental and election integrity debates ...
The free speech they're targeting in the "election" section is terrifying. They highlight for their suppression efforts, for example, a @TulsiGabbard TikTok that says of the coordinated Dem strategy to remove Trump from the ballot: "Biden is trying to get Trump off the ballot."
@TulsiGabbard They highlight for speech suppression multiple examples of Americans complaining on Facebook about the coordinated Democrat campaign strategy to politically prosecute Republicans that "Trump's indictment is election interference."
A friend sent the front page of Gannett's Knoxville News Sentinel. Setting aside the anti-gun rights lead story, look at how it runs propaganda for one of the most brazen grifts in modern politics -- the Democrat-run and operated dark money operation "Republicans for Ukraine."
Activists Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol -- who support Democrat policies and candidates every day -- set up a dark money operation to make money by falsely claiming to be "conservative" and "Republican." The paper uncritically regurgitates their lies and propaganda.
For example, the activists falsely claim most Republicans want to continue funding Ukraine. In fact, not only do most Republicans NOT want that, most AMERICANS don't want that. To take a left-wing media company's example: cnn.com/2023/08/04/pol…
Checking out the scene at Trump Tower. Sidewalks blocked off and police/media presence.
Immigrant Trump fan says he’s sick about political prosecution of Trump
Two older white ladies are very upset with Trump 2016 opponents (Cruz/Graham) for saying mean things about Trump before supporting him after he won primary. Wouldn’t say who they’re with.
I'm reading this NYT piece on Durham by three Russia collusion hoaxers (Charlie Savage, Adam Goldman and Katie Benner) and it reads like a continuation of their previous conspiracy theorizing -- anonymous sources, junior-high-schoolish attacks on their political opponents, etc.
It's just this long, weird alternate reality where the Russia collusion hoax still must be bitterly clung to and anyone who doesn't join them in this fever dream (or otherwise pretends to believe it) is weird and inexplicable.
Now, I do like to read the NYT propagandists if only because they try to get out ahead of stories that are damaging to their Russia collusion hoax. And it certainly is interesting how corrupt intel officials continue to use these discredited reporters to spread their info ops ...
Wow did I get a ton of feedback to my article and tweets on McConnell (like, literally more than 10K responses to one tweet). Some criticism was that I was way too kind to him... 1/X acecomments.mu.nu/?post=402424
Nat'l Review and other McConnell defenders emphasized that he included China WITH add'l Ukraine funding as GOP's biggest budget concern and that we should be comforted that his (undeniable) support of the $1.7T Omni wasn't as effusive as it seemed.
(FWIW, while China is a far bigger concern for Republicans than add'l funding for UKR, I've yet to see any evidence that this monstrosity will deal with that problem in any meaningful or improved way and even if it did, it would not justify his support for this disaster.)