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14 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Numerous 1/6 witnesses from the Trump regime now face the no-win decision of going to prison for contempt, or testifying and incriminating themselves. Some may now seek immunity cooperation deals from the DOJ. Often just the specter of a hearing can prompt movement on that front.
Most of the media isn't talking about this, because it interferes with its current ratings-friendly "Trump and his people are getting away with it all and taking over in 2024" narrative.

But back in the real world, in a criminal conspiracy this large, SOMEONE always cuts a deal.
There are at least a dozen key Trump people who were criminally involved in 1/6 or related election crimes, any one of whom can provide testimony and evidence to take the others down. You only need ONE of them to flip. And they're all afraid someone else will flip on them first.
This is 100% different than the previous four years, where Trump's people were holding out for pardons, Trump's DOJ was sabotaging the criminal cases against them, etc. None of that exists now. There are no magic wands. Only cooperation deals or prison sentences.
And no, Trump's people can't magically get off the hook by stalling.

Even if the GOP wins the midterms, the DOJ criminal cases against them won't go away or be sabotaged.

And they're not willing to rot in prison until 2024 in the faint hope Trump wins and pardons them.

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16 Nov
President Biden just enacted the most important infrastructure bill in our lifetime. But liberal pundits are using it as an opportunity to lament about how it's not big enough, so they can paint themselves as superior. And then they wonder why we lose elections we should win.
When a Republican President scores a victory of any size, you don't see conservative pundits and activists whining about how it's not good enough. They take the win. They beat their chest. They make it sound like a bigger win than it is. They build momentum on it.
Conservative pundits are pieces of filth, but they understand winning. They won't care about trying to position themselves as morally superior to their own party. They understand they're at war, and they want to win, so they take every win as a win.
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When politicians want a phony story out there to make themselves look good, they leak it to the media, under the condition that it be credited to “a source familiar with the situation.” The media goes along with it. The person who’s made to look good in the story, is the source.
That way it gives the story phony credibility, because the audience presumes that some unknown third party witnessed these events and felt compelled to go to the media about it.

If audiences knew that the politician in the story was the source, they might not fall for it.
The media goes along with these games because it gives them a “scoop” (even if it’s made up). It makes them look well connected, and it racks up huge page views. And now that politician, who got the phony headline he wanted, owes that reporter an editorial favor later.
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15 Nov
The pundits have gone from "There will be no 1/6 committee" to "The committee will not make any criminal referrals" to "The DOJ will not act on any criminal referrals." Wrong at every step of the way. You see that they're just making up doomsday scenarios for attention, right?
There was always a 100% chance there would be a 1/6 committee, because Pelosi had the power to appoint one, and given her nature she was always going to do this if a bipartisan commission didn't come together. The pundits knew this when they said there would be no 1/66 committee
The 1/6 committee was always going to refer people for criminal contempt. Chair Benny Thompson's tone made this clear from day one. The pundits knew this, when they tried to convince you the committee wouldn't make any criminal referrals.
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15 Nov
Biden's approval rating has dropped significantly, as happens to nearly all new Presidents in their first year. But keep in mind that the media is mostly just quoting Biden's worst poll numbers and ignoring his best poll numbers. It's the usual trick for painting a narrative.
If the media decides next month that it can't milk any more ratings out of portraying Biden as unpopular, it'll start quoting his best poll numbers instead, and then (falsely) claim that Biden has gone up five points. When in reality his averages will have remained the same.
This isn't anything new, or unique to Biden. The media – particularly MSNBC and CNN – love to take a politician's best or worst poll number and quote it as if it were representative of that politician's overall numbers, for shock value.
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Reminder: if Steve Bannon gets out on bail or house arrest, that's just fine and dandy. Feds can then monitor his communications and hope to catch him committing witness tampering etc. Then they hit him with additional charges, and pressure him to flip. It's just how it works.
To that end, the Feds don't always ask the judge for pretrial incarceration, because they WANT someone like Bannon free to get caught committing more serious crimes. If this happens, the doomsday pundits will label the DOJ "weak." But that's total ignorance about the process.
Put another way: do you want Bannon to just face the two current felony counts, or do you want him to pick another three or four felony counts for tampering, obstruction, seeking dirty foreign money to pay his lawyers, and so on? The latter is so much better for us.
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What you must understand is that ratings have collapsed so badly post-Trump, reporters at major news outlets are all now worried about layoffs. They’re so desperate, they’re willing to manufacture phony controversy and ratings, for fear they won’t be able to pay their rent.
This is nothing new. This is the same American media that spent every day of the 2016 election hyping an email scandal that it knew was imaginary.

But this is different in 2021. Ratings grew during the Trump era. The media added people. Now, with ratings drop, people have to go.
In 2021 there have already been layoffs, consolidations, buyouts. Highly paid people not getting their contracts renewed. And so the product you’re seeing from the media each day is a result of a desperate desire to get more of you to tune in, even at the expense of credibility.
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