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15 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
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.
The DOJ was always going to act on these criminal referrals, because policy requires it to act on any legitimate criminal referrals from Congress, and Garland is a policy kind of guy. The pundits knew this, when they pretended Bannon wouldn't be indicted.
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17 Nov
Unemployment is on track to reach a fifty year low next year. Inflation will settle. Shortages will end. People will see tangible benefits from infrastructure. Biden’s approval rating will absolutely bounce back before the midterms. That’s an easy one to predict.
A lot of variables. But is it realistic for him to be up to, say, 50% by the midterms? Yes. He’s liked and his policies are popular. His current numbers are only the result of the mainstream media manipulating audiences for effect. They run out of breath, his numbers go back up.
And at some point in 2022 the media will be more interested in getting its ratings by focusing on Trump’s worsening scandals (1/6 committee public hearings, NY indictments), than in trying to get ratings by hyping phony Biden scandals – which its finding out doesn’t work anyway.
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16 Nov
You like to think of your favorite cable news hosts as your friends. In reality they’re all ambitious career-oriented people who get paid big money to drive ratings by convincing you that they’re your friend. Some of them are far better than others. None of them are your friend.
Cable news hosts have a nearly impossible job: repackage the day’s news into a reality show format with just the right mix of indignation, outrage, and friendliness to keep millions of people’s blood pumping do they stay tuned in for the full hour. Then do it again the next day.
Some cable news hosts try to keep their blood pumping narratives as true to the underlying stories as possible, and try to offer as much insight as they can. Others say screw it and just put together whatever narrative will drive ratings, accurate or not. Many are in between.
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16 Nov
Chris Christie is doing all of this – media blitz, attacking Trump, etc – to sell copies of his new book. It’s worth MILLIONS to him. TV hosts putting him on the air are playing along with it, instead of calling out the charade, because they also make big money from book deals.
“No, he’s doing this to position himself for 2024!”

Christie can read the polls. He knows he has virtually no chance in 2024. But yeah, he’ll run – so he can use his failed campaign as a publicity tour for his NEXT book before dropping out. These things are always about money.
“But such and such TV host held his feet to the fire!”

Did that host call out Christie for putting on all this performance art just to cash in on a book deal? No. Because no one in the industry wants to admit that controversy to drive book deals is how they ALL cash in.
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16 Nov
One thing that Merrick Garland's DOJ gets no credit for but definitely should: after it began probing the people running the phony Arizona election "audit," they quickly started backing down, and no other phony audits have gained traction in any other states.
This was a legally proper move by the DOJ, because based on major media reports alone, the people running the audit very much appeared to be violating the law. But it was done subtly enough so as not to be seen as partisan retribution by the DOJ.
Will the DOJ end up bringing criminal charges against the people running the phony audit? No idea. With Garland's DOJ, that'll come down to whether there's enough evidence to secure a conviction. But the point is, the DOJ got them to back off.
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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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15 Nov
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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