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22 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Does anyone else find it interesting that the left-liberal establishment completed its alleged defeat of “fascism” with a military occupation of the capital city unherd.com/2021/01/the-ca…
If nothing else this episode perfectly illustrates that 9 times out of 10, people who complain about the deployment of coercive state force don’t care about the principle of the matter, but rather about whether the force is being deployed against their perceived political enemies
“Defensive” against what threat exactly? No threat has been established to have existed, except hysterical rumors that predictably collapsed. The goofball MAGA mob was not an enduring threat beyond the several hours of embarrassing clown-show antics on Jan 6
So the rationalization occupation defenders have settled on is: “trust the government, they are very smart and competent” and/or “it was probably a ridiculous overreaction, but that’s fine”
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15 Jan
From an unprecedented corporate censorship purge, to a "snap" impeachment that effectively criminalizes ordinary political speech, this past week has been a 9/11-style frenzy. And if you raise any objections, you are denounced as "with the terrorists"

unherd.com/2021/01/impeac…
Discussing momentarily 👇

One theme of the past week. Trump is obviously neutered, defeated, humiliated. His enemies are still determined to hold him up as an "imminent threat," however, to inure the public to the civil liberties-undermining radicalism of what they are doing
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
14 Jan
This is the one quote cited in the impeachment article to demonstrate Trump's "incitement" of the mob. It's an unremarkable line that he could've used in about a thousand different contexts over the past five years
Trump also said in the speech, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." I've said for months that Trump's fraud theories were garbage, but so is this newly-invented "incitement" doctrine
Of course not a word from the @ACLU about the speech-chilling ramifications of this impeachment -- nor would you expect any, given their full transformation into an anti-Trump left/liberal advocacy org. Still six days left to squeeze that for all it's worth
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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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Michael Tracey Profile picture
9 Jan
There are no greater cheerleaders for extreme corporate censorship than journalists

mtracey.medium.com/journalists-lo…
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
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
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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