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9 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
There are no greater cheerleaders for extreme corporate censorship than journalists

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Discussing live momentarily, assuming the purge hasn't been completed yet:
People keep screaming at me, "THIS ISN'T CENSORSHIP!" Ok, instead if you want you can call it "a coordinated political purge simultaneously executed by the internet's primary communications platforms." That's fine too
There was a time when corporate censorship greatly concerned "The Left" -- but no more, apparently, because they now wield enough cultural influence over certain corporations to cajole them into doing their political bidding
Only took about a day for AOC to get exactly what she wanted here. That’s what “The Left” is now
I think it's fair to say that the past 48 hours has been the most rapid and dramatic acceleration yet that we've seen of this trend. And they won't even be taking control of the government for another 11 days

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Michael Tracey Profile picture
11 Jan
It absolutely is absurd melodrama to claim, as AOC did, that half of Congress barely avoided being executed en masse
And @ryangrim apparently doesn't understand that this kind of wild exaggeration about the events of Wednesday is exactly what's going to be cited to justify the new domestic War on Terror
Should be obvious: if you tell the public through dramatized propagandistic repetition that something extreme happened which did not in fact happen, the public is going to be more willing to accept whatever extreme remedial counter-measures are proposed
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30 Dec 20
Senate Dems on Barbara Boxer's objection, Jan. 2005

Hillary: "I commend the senator from California for raising the objection"
Ted Kennedy: "I commend and thank our friend for giving us this opportunity"
Harry Reid: "I applaud my friend"
Dick Durbin: "I thank her for doing it"
Perhaps Amy Klobuchar should ask her Dem colleagues why they participated in a "coup attempt" in 2005 🙄

FYI: Obama, just three days after he'd assumed office, also used the opportunity to lament that so many American voters have doubts as to "whether our processes are fair and just"
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
30 Dec 20
Read Hawley's statement carefully -- he's not saying he'll ultimately vote against certification of any state's results, just that he'll support a motion to object in order to initiate debate over "critical issues." It's procedurally possible to object, and still vote to certify
It looks like what he's signaling is that he'll object to the results of PA (enabling him to rail entirely against Dems, as opposed to GA or AZ) which will then initiate an hour of debate. Would have to separately object to multiple states in order to affect the final outcome
So just to be clear. Supporting a motion to object to one state simply initiates an hour of debate related to the certification of results for that state. Hawley doesn't say he won't vote to certify any state. Just that he wants to "raise critical issues" before certification
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
16 Dec 20
If Trump does forge a role as some kind of "shadow president" after leaving office, it will be a natural extension of his basic worldview: he has never subscribed to cliched, bipartisan "American Exceptionalism" dogma. Which drives a lot of people crazy
unherd.com/2020/12/enter-…
"Obama is the real shadow president!" some commenters proclaim. The way I define "shadow president" here is a former president who overtly makes a competing claim to the presidency. Which Trump is likely to do. Obama wields power, but Trump's situation would be unique in history
Trump's lack of fidelity to dogmatic "American Exceptionalism" is in some ways the prime mover of his presidency. Explains his popularity, because this dogma has long been used as a justification for unpopular policies. Also explains the rage he provokes from "institutionalists"
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
6 Dec 20
The “spread” in today’s print edition of the NY Daily News is a highly thoughtful consideration by me of Trump’s key election fraud claim nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
I would hope that my track record over the past four years establishes that I'm not interested in performatively "debunking" Trump for its own sake. That's not the point. I had the same posture post-2016 when legions of Dems also lost their minds. See: nydailynews.com/opinion/anti-t…
Additional facts:

- Biden "netted" a grand total of 858 more votes than Clinton out Detroit

- 3,001 more votes out of Milwaukee

- And 4,227 *fewer* votes out of Philadelphia

And yet fraud theorists obsess with these cities as if they were integral to Biden's win. They weren't
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6 Dec 20
It's totally false by every conceivable metric that Biden only over-performed Hillary in swing states -- which is supposed to be a very suspicious "statistic." Trump just repeated this phony claim once again, because his "coup" plan is going nowhere
A giveaway about the futility of these "fraud" claims is that a central theme of them is so trivially easy to disprove, as long as your brain isn't melted by rage-infused confirmation bias
Everyone who wants to live in a perpetual election fraud dreamworld is welcome to do so, but ultimately you're only damaging yourself
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