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19 May, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Biden, Reversing Trump, Permits a Key Putin Goal: a New Russian Natural Gas Pipeline to Germany

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That Trump was controlled by Putin and served his agenda was the opposite of reality. First Obama, and now Biden, have accommodated Moscow far more.
Obama’s “meekness” when it came to Putin was a common line of attack from both parties and the foreign policy pundit class.

Meanwhile, Trump reversed almost every one of those accommodations toward Moscow, yet the demented conspiracy theory of Trump as Kremlin asset remained.
As Obama warned, sending lethal arms to Ukraine was the most harmful thing the US could do to Russian vital interests. He refused to do it. Trump sent them.

Trump also tried to sabotage the Nord Stream 2 pipeline -- exactly what Biden just handed to Putin.
It's genuinely impossible to imagine the media hysteria and if Trump - rather than Biden - just handed this huge gift to Putin days after accusing Russian hackers of causing a major gas shortage in the US.

Instead, reporters giggled and swooned with Biden as he played with a car
The unhinged but dangerous Cold War conspiracy theory that the Kremlin had taken over control of the US Government produced great profit for the disinformation agents who spread it and harm to everyone else.

Yesterday's events yet again expose the fraud:

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One of many media low points.

The people who claim to be most disturbed by the spread of disinformation are the ones who do the most to spread it.
Yesterday -- just days after US Govt claims Russian hackers caused the US major gas shortages -- Biden handed Putin a victory vastly larger than anything Trump ever did. The media doesn't care because they know their Russia conspiracy theory was bullshit.

greenwald.substack.com/p/biden-revers…
In the first 4 months of Biden's term:

1) US Govt says Russian hackers caused a major gas shortage in the US.

2) Biden gives go-ahead for Russian gas pipeline to EU: the top Kremlin priority.

3) Biden agrees to meet Putin.

4) Blinken urges cooperation with the Kremlin.🇺🇸🇷🇺

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21 May
The Squad Enables Pelosi's Massive Capitol Police Spending Bill While Cynically Feigning Opposition

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Three Squad members -- all of whom recently chanted "Defund the Police" -- all had the power to kill a $1.9 billion increase in Capitol Police and security spending.

Instead, @AOC, @JamaalBowmanNY and @RashidaTlaib ensured its passage.
Three other Squad members -- @IlhanMN, @CoriBush and @RepPressley -- joined all GOP members in voting "no." But all Squad members previously said they opposed this.

So just enough of them voted "no" to create an appearance of radical resistance while achieving nothing.
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20 May
The Intercept's editors went to the media reporters at both WashPost and The Daily Beast to voice all sorts of accusations against me. Their smear campaign never ends.

These are the emails I get when The Intercept and their well-funded staff attack me. Thanks for the harassment. Image
When will The Intercept stop endangering journalists and subjecting us to harassment campaigns by inciting this sort of hatred among their small but vicious readership?

They already have Antifa followers vowing to target the journalists attacked by them:

Also, I cannot wait for either one of these articles The Intercept tried to plant against me -- in the WashPost or The Daily Beast -- to be published so that I can publish my full responses to their questions about the Intercept and their top editors. 🙏
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20 May
Less than a year after Democrats and liberals led a nationwide anti-police protest movement, they unite to vote to spend $2 billion more to boost security at the Capitol (6 Squad members, to their credit, voted no or abstained).

This is what Insurrection hysteria is spawning:
No matter what is done to the police, those who control power and money will always have ample armed security to protect themselves, as House Democrats just demonstrated.
See this thread on why the Democrats' bill which just passed by one vote -- that, among other things, spends $2 billion more on Capitol police and otherwise increases security state measures at the Capitol -- is so dangerous:

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18 May
For the last year, anyone questioning let alone rejecting CDC/WHO guidance on COVID was vilified as an anti-science crank, to the point of being censored off the internet.

Yet it's now totally common for liberals with no scientific training to go on TV & reject new CDC guidance:
All "consensus" should be subject to questioning and dispute. There's nothing wrong with doing it.

But for most of the COVID pandemic, it wasn't allowed - certainly not culturally, and often at all. It's only allowed now that liberals don't like the new CDC guidance on masks.
If someone like @morningmika or @maddow or whoever wants to keep wearing masks, that is their right. I have no interest in critiquing that choice.

But if you go on TV and keep defending that choice, it is 100% an anti-vax message: you don't believe the vaccine really works.
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17 May
Since the Intercept is *still* whining about how journalists objected to their abuse of a huge archive of private data on Gab users they got -- claiming we (and me) "lied" -- here's their own description, when begging for donations, of their intentions to target private people:
I'm not on the Intercept's email list (sadly). I learned of this horrific email when an ex-Intercept editor forwarded it to me, furious they were acting like the NSA/FBI: violating privacy, not protecting it.

And here's @mtaibbi on what they're doing:

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It's an ongoing pathology in liberal journalism. They think they can do whatever they want to people: make 20-minute films of their faces, baselessly accuse them of grave crimes, dig through their personal data.

But nobody can criticize *them* because doing so "endangers" them.
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17 May
It's hard to overstate how severely the audience for MSNBC has collapsed with Trump gone. For the key demographic of 25-54, they barely can get 150,000 to watch even their prime time shows (outside of Maddow). More people watch a YouTube show.

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CNN's problems are a little different but just as bad. For their prime-time shows, they can barely get 1 million people *total* to watch, including all the old people who make up the vast bulk of cable news watchers for the two liberal networks. Look at this:
Liberal media outlets were dying before Trump came along. He was like some artificial 5-year sugar high that saved all their jobs. But now that he's gone, they're doing as badly as digital liberal media, with *zero* self-critique or attempt to figure out why.
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