Lately I've been trying to just ignore all of the so called "in-fighting", keep my head in the research, and focus on what's important: the work.
But my patience has worn out.
If you come at me or my colleagues with bad faith attacks or outright lies, I will expose you.
It's so easy to sit around and creep @nikoCSFB or @Fiorella_im's timeline and disparage their work.
It's much more difficult to do some work of your own.
"Those who can't talk about those who can".
Challenge my reporting if you want but I don't report without receipts. I pride myself on it.
I don't need an entire team of researchers to write a "breaking" story about something that's been known for years, and I don't take credit for scoops that I didn't report first.
IYKYK
My team were some of the first to tell you TYT were moving right (they did)
We told you Bernie would cave to Biden (he did)
We told you AOC wouldn't challenge Pelosi in any meaningful way (she hasn't).
That may make you mad. You know what it makes us?
Right.
Hate us for it.
We told you this at a time where 99% of progressive media would *never dare* say those things on a livestream for fear of losing their audience.
To this day, those same people who got clout from Bernie refuse to hold him accountable.
They don't get to talk about credibility.
So I guess I should thank alot of you hacks who spent all of your time focused on the Right while ignoring the rank hypocrisy on the so-called "Progressive" left.
You created the void. We just filled it.
Don't get salty at us—you killed your own credibility.
Not to mention we've done all this without a cent of corporate, billionaire, or 501c money.
@McscNetwork is funded 100% from viewer donations via Patreon and YouTube monetization (before they censored my colleagues).
Credit to @nikocsfb for building this the right way.
I'll close by saying this to you hacks (and if you think I'm talking about you, I probably am):
Here's a difference between us: We break stories, you just talk about them.
We don't see you as competition. While you're busy sweating us, we're racing the NY Times for scoops.
That's going to sound narcissistic, but it is what it is.
The reason I say that is to illustrate how lazy these so called "Progressive" talking heads can be.
They just want to talk about it. They don't want to be about it.
And they tell on themselves every damn day. /endrant
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The mainstream media is going to keep Trump in the spotlight as long as they can—because he made them stars pulling record ratings.
You wont see the same veracity of reporting on Biden, because criticism of Democratic politicians in those circles will get you blacklisted.
Eventually, they'll have no choice but to put Biden in the spotlight. When that happens, much like with Obama, it will be milquetoast puff pieces full of softball questions.
Then their ratings will bottom out. Why? Because it's boring.
Then they'll invent their next boogeyman.
Don't forget the media's hubris helped push Trump to the forefront of politics, though their coverage was overwhelmingly negative—"Any press is good press".
Plus, he was good for business!
They'll repeat the cycle when they soon become attention starved from his absence.
This will be a catalog of the incoming Biden administration's financial disclosures and relevant data/stories—several of which were first reported by us here @McscNetwork.
Blinken also started a venture capital firm focused primarily on defense contractors—Pine Island Capital Partners—with Michéle Flournoy (future Defense Sec. Austin sat on the board).
BREAKING: Recent tax filings show @theintercept parent company, Pierre Omidyar’s @firstlookmedia, pulled in $28M+ in 2019.
$25M (over 88%) came from Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which receives funds from tech billionaires like Dustin Moskovitz and Jeff Skoll.
This total is slightly lower than 2018, where @firstlookmedia took $31M+ from Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which I reported on earlier this year.
SVCF's 2 yr total is $51M+, making up practically all of First Look's funding during that span.
A 2019 report on Dominion Voting Systems' "Democracy Suite" by Texas SOS determined numerous vulnerabilities and issues in the software and hardware—such as convoluted setup, lost adjudication results, incorrect prompts, and power failures.
Certification was recommended denied.
After the examination ended in the recommendation of not certifying Dominion Voting's "Democracy Suite", further reports by Texas State Dept. questioned whether it was "suitable for its intended purpose" and if it "operated efficiently and accurately".
Certification was denied.
Texas officials reviewed Dominion's "Democracy Suite" on at least 6 separate occasions, all of them resulting in recommendations of not certifying it for use.
In the interest of objectivity, I should point out that Mr. Paul seems to have a few things confused.
1. Feinstein's husband Richard Blum actually had ownership in Avid Technologies, a media company whose program intercepted vote tally wire data for news broadcasts.
2. Dominion Voting Systems is actually owned by Staple Street Capital, themselves and offshoot of mega investment firm The Carlyle Group, with ex-Obama officials sitting on the board of SSC, such as William Kennard.
3. Dominion Voting does have a relationship with Nancy Pelosi's ex-Chief of Staff Nadeam Elshami, but only in a lobbying capacity, being part of the Brownstein, Farber et. al. Team hired by Dominion last year. about.bgov.com/news/voting-ma…
Buying Time LLC, ranked #2 of top political vendors, has had $222M pass through them this cycle ($430M+ since 2016), with $186M coming from Tom Steyer's Presidential committee.
They received a PPP loan worth up to $350,000
Rising Tide Interactive was another beneficiary of Steyer's run, with $77M of their $86M this cycle came from services related to his digital campaign.
Rising Tide was approved for a PPP loan for up to $1M, as was DSPolitical—another firm founded by RTI partner Eli Kaplan.