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6 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
LOL. The Squad are experts at voting NO against Pelosi only when they know their votes won't matter, so they get praise from the world's most gullible idiots.

The only two times they could have used their power - Pelosi's re-election & $2b more in Police spending - they obeyed.
In May, when Pelosi was desperate to get $2b more for Capitol Police, all 6 Squad members vowed to vote NO, because they thought it would pass. When they realized all GOP would vote NO, 3 of them - including AOC - voted PRESENT, so it passed by one vote:

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-squad-en…
These meaningless and performative displays of defiance from the Squad -- voting NO only when they know it doesn't matter -- are *legislatively* inconsequential but *politically* crucial: it keeps the left enthralled to the Dem Party, deluded that true dissidents stay DNC loyal.
Obviously, nobody can say with certainty how the Squad would've voted in the counterfactual world -- where Pelosi actually needed their votes to get this passed -- but what we do know is that all of their prior conduct points to the same answer. Choose to believe what feels good.

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7 Nov
Good morning. I'd like to make 3 points:

1) The vast majority of disinformation, propaganda and lies that flooded the country over the last 5 years did not come from MAGA boomers on Facebook or 4Chan teenagers but the largest and most influential liberal corporate media outlets.
2) These are not cases where media outlets erred. They deliberately lied. The way to know that is they refuse to acknowledge evidence proving they lied.

Remember they just *ignored* @SchreckReports' book proving the Biden emails were real. Now this:

3) By far the best and most accurate reporting on all matters relating to Russiagate came not from the liberal corporate outlets that want to censor the internet in the name of disinformation or which shower themselves with Pulitzers for lies, but from the right-wing press.
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6 Nov
Amazing: teacher union president @rweingarten -- who demands kids stay in masks all day at school including while outside -- got caught partying with NY politicos in an *indoor* "packed room" all night in a Puerto Rico ballroom with no mask, and justifies it this way:
Read the replies -- from parents, teachers, doctors -- to @rweingarten's amazing justification for why it's fine for her to go mask-free at galas in packed indoor party halls, while you kids must remain masked all day, even when outdoors:

Meanwhile, look at the enraged reaction from an EU health official and an epidemiologist -- @teija_korhonen and @Finnpal -- to the outright lie from @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky about the efficacy of cloth masks.
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6 Nov
These last two DOJ indictments -- first of Hillary's lawyer, then of Christopher Steele's main source -- show that the Clinton campaign funded and fed to the FBI a gigantic batch of lies in the 2016 election, which the vast bulk of the media spent 3 years ratifying and spreading:
The employees of these media corporations know, deep down, what they did. They did the worst thing you can possibly do while calling yourself a "journalist": they drowned US politics for years in a fake conspiracy theory funded and concocted by criminals for partisan gain.
But we have heard so little about these indictments from these media figures. Why? Because they know that as long as they stay united in silence, the only people who will point out what they did are those they have frozen out of their circle and trained their audience not to hear
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The most important source for Christopher Steele and his Dossier fraud -- not one of his sources, but *the* most important -- was just indicated for lying to the FBI. What we are seeing, again, is that the real crimes were in the origins of Russiagate, spread mindlessly by media.
This latest indictment of Steele's main source is finally provoking some self-examination and self-critique from key media outlets behind the Russiagate fraud, including this tentative but still significant concession from the @washingtonpost:

NYT & WashPost showered themselves with Pulitzers for their monomaniacal obsession with Russiagate. Even after Mueller admitted he could find no evidence to establish the conspiracy and indicted *nobody* for it, they persisted. We'll see what they do now:

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Fascinating thread where CNN stars slowly admit that their rhetorical posture -- everyone who dissents in any way from our decrees is racist and/or stupid -- is alienating and ugly, but they didn't realize this because they live in an "echo chamber" of like-minded liberals:
This is a major plague in modern journalism. The don't hear dissent. When is the last time Anderson Cooper or Chris Hayes or a NYT op-ed writer dialogued with someone saying they're full of shit? They only talk to and for each other and thus think everyone loves them & agrees.
But even with that painful acknowledgement on CNN -- our insistence on smearing anyone who sees the world differently than we do as racist, fascist and/or stupid makes people hate us -- they can't stop doing it. They're doing it this morning. It's all they know how to do now.
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To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations

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For five years, the Post heralded the group when they were denouncing experimentations under Trump. But now that their work is a threat to Fauci, the Post suddenly demanded vast financial docs and, when it turned up nothing, demanded they pledge not to take "pro-Trump" donations.
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