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14 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The only good thing about various Beltway journos making mountains of the molehill of Biden's lack of press conference availability is that it makes it really easy to spot the bad actors. Like, for example, this guy:
1/ Does anyone outside of the incestuous WH press corps feel a lack of communication from the Biden Administration? Jen Psaki is like a real-life CJ Cregg. We're in good hands.
2/ And it's not like said WH press corps exactly distinguished itself these last four years. Why would Biden want to waste his time answering what will largely be stupid questions?
3/ It seems to me that Biden has been kind of busy saving the republic from the brink of disaster. From all metrics, he's been doing a remarkable job.
4/ Finally, if you're a journo who is making an issue of him going to nearby Delaware for the weekend, as he's done most weekends for his adult life, maybe just go into PR. You'll make more money and embarrass yourself less.

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Greg Olear Profile picture
13 Feb
Just watched House Managers presser:

>>Raskin says they only needed Beutler's statement about the McCarthy/Trump call, as that was new. They got it into the record. They got what they wanted.
>> Raskin says if there were witnesses, Trump's lawyers would have called hundreds, turning it into a circus. He says they didn't want that.

"This was my call," he says, of the no witnesses. "If you don't like it, blame me."
>> Cicilline points out that the presentation included witness testimony, via video and statements. It's not like there were NO witnesses. All they needed was Beutler call because it was new.
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13 Feb
Let’s talk about hope & despair.

[THREAD]

Crank this up for the discussion:
open.spotify.com/track/77XzsYwT…
1/ One of the more memorable—and frightening—lines from “Nineteen Eighty-Four” reads: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.” In Orwell’s dystopia, resistance is futile. Big Brother wins, inevitably.
2/ I refuse to believe this applies to the USA in 2021. I won’t have it. I don’t care how much dirty money mobster spy psy-op disinformation data manipulation corporate MAGA Christofascist QAnon Fox News weapons these fuckers have in their arsenal. WE shall prevail. Not them.
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28 Jan
On @narativ_live right now: former KGB officer Yuri Shvetz says that the KGB began recruiting Trump in earnest in 1983, three years after identifying him as a potential asset.
@craigunger @LincolnsBible
"If you had told anyone at the KGB that Donald Trump [back then] would one day be president, they would not even laugh, because it was too ridiculous."
Shvetz says he believes the FSB didn't think Trump could be president until Feb/March of 2016. That's when the various meetings were set up w/Dimitri Simes, he says.
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12 Jan
“Donald Trump is nothing less than a threat to the American way of life. His term in office comprises an existential threat to the republic, the gravest since the Civil War. Not since 1860 has the future of the Union itself been in such doubt.”

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1/ I wrote that in DIRTY RUBLES the spring of 2018. This—right here, right now—is what I was worried about—although I will confess that things have gotten scarier and uglier than I could ever have imagined.
2/ On 1/6, we came within a hair’s breadth of a full-on overthrow of our federal government. This is not hyperbole. Trump & his disciples organized, instigated, and carried out a coordinated attack on the Capitol, for the purpose of subverting democracy. People died.
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7 Jan
My friend’s father went to the Virginia Military Institute, which is as hardcore as the name implies. He tells a story that has always stuck with me:

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1/ The school had a rivalry with another school, I can’t remember which. My friend’s father was one of three cadets guarding the school’s canon during the big football game. The rival school thought it would be a funny prank to steal and/or deface the canon.
2/ A dozen or so drunken students came upon the three of them, guarding the canon. My friend’s father was a bit scared, because they were badly outnumbered. But the cadet in charge was not scared. At all. He stood there with his rifle, holding it as if to bludgeon.
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7 Jan
Every smirking cosplay insurrectionist who set foot in the Capitol yesterday needs to spend a minimum of 10 years in prison, per Trump's own "protecting monuments" EO.

And every politician who egged them on should face sedition charges.

Demand justice.

I hope that what happened on January 6 convinces anyone still on the fence that Trump & his odious accomplices must pay for their crimes.

Fullest extent of the law.

gregolear.substack.com/p/trump-and-pu…
As a practical matter, the insurrectionists have to be arrested in the next 13 days. It is a threat to the security of the President-Elect and the VP-Elect to have any of these goons not behind bars during inauguration.
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