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@magi_jay
Dec 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Per Politico, Mark Meadows sent an email on Jan 5th about having National Guard on standby to protect "pro-Trump" people. Per previous reporting by the WAPO, some Pentagon leaders feared Trump would misuse the National Guard. Others feared the Guard would be baited into violence
Per the WAPO report, Top Brass even changed the chain of command for ordering deployment of the National Guard, which, reportedly, may have led to a delay on January 6th. washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
Also per the WAPO, on 1/3, the Capitol Police Chief requested National Guard be stationed at the Capitol. He was rebuffed. Mayor Bowser was also worried about the Guard abandoning their posts on Jan 6 (being pro-Trump). Others, in military & in Congress, cited optics concerns
So what's going on here? Why did Meadows feel he had the Guard on standby to protect pro-Trumpers? Had he actually gotten assurances from the military? Or were military leaders, as they've intimated, hesitant about a preemptive guard presence?
The "keep general peace" excuse doesn't work in terms of Meadows' email. 1st of all, he specified Pro-Trump Protection. Also, Mayor Bowser was having different convos about the Guard: fearing they would turn on the gov't. Finally, the Cap Police requested the Guard & were denied
It's important to know what was going on w/ the military. Military involvement is what turns a soft-coup hard. If the military was at odds w/ each other, that's also a dangerous situation. If some military were at odds w/ the POTUS & others aligned w/ him, that's also dangerous
No matter what, if this Meadows email is real, that's a huge scandal. The President's CoS said the Guard was on standby to protect a specific group of "protesters" who were intent on overthrowing the results of an election, all while the CoS himself plotted to delay certification

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Jun 21
Pitting Jews against Black people & vice versa is a PsychOp w/ roots in Russian propaganda. The strongest non-Jewish voices against antisemitism on this site have been Black Center-Leftists. As a white gentile, I am forever grateful for their logic, receipts, & moral backbone.
I vaguely remember hearing of inter-community conflicts in NYC. If such conflicts existed, they were locally-determined. Not national or at a group level. Nowadays, I see not only allyship w/ Jews from Black communities but real "Leadership" on the issue of antisemitism.
It's been incredible to witness. First, all this old Soviet propaganda popping up in modern formulations. Then, bots pretending to be Black people talking about oppression by Jews. Then bots pretending to be Jews who are racist. Etc. Many fell for it. Not Black Center-Leftists.
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Jun 4
The scientific consensus is that COVID19 is of zoonotic origin. We should ask why the @nytimes presents us w/ non-scientific arguments that run against this consensus, just as Fauci testifies in front of a clan of Republican witch-hunters in Congress. Image
The false equivalency of the press has gone on for so long that we seem to have almost exhausted our ability to respond to it. Whether it's the Republican party vs. The Democratic Party or, in this case, The Scientific Consensus vs. The Unfounded Conspiracy Theory.
Why are Republicans in Congress witch-hunting Fauci? Why do Republicans even care about the origins of COVID? What are their goals, here? Those are questions we should answer. We should then move on to ask questions about how the American press advances these Republican goals.
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May 23
I have been frequently mistaken for being Jewish—or even *accused* of being Jewish—throughout my life. This suggests that gentiles most certainly do have a 1)“Looks like a Jewish person” category in their brains & that 2) This category matters enough for them to comment on it.
I always hesitate to talk about these experiences b/c I fear claiming Jewish trauma as my own. I hope my Jewish friends will correct me if I unintentionally do this. I am not claiming trauma. My only aim here is to offer testimony, as a witness, to the totality of the evidence.
France: I was constantly asked if I was Jewish. I don't remember much overt antisemitism, but I was also pretty unaware, as well as confused by the constant focus on the "oddity" of my physical appearance. I was told I looked Jewish; Also that I looked uncategorizable/different.
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May 12
This is pretty key. Even if you supported Israeli's "right to war" on 10/7, that's different than supporting *this specific war* or a specific action w/in this war, such as the Rafah operation. In terms of this specific war, it's been strategically terrible w/ a high cost of life
It should have chilled everyone to their core when we learned that the Israeli military had abandoned strategic points, allowing Hamas to pop right back up again. I haven't seen any compelling arguments that Hamas can now be destroyed. Or that Netanyahu has a strategic end goal.
If you have heard compelling arguments, I'd love to hear them. Part of the awful part of this current discourse is that we can't have conversations about the costs/proposed benefits of a given military operation w/out being accused of being moral monsters.
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May 7
@agraybee Gentile here. Have done a lot of reflection since 10/7. "It's not antisemitism it's antizionism" is officially a dead argument to me, coming from gentiles. Come back to me when you've stopped acting out your rage thru Protocol-of-Zion-level scapegoating.
@agraybee I am so done with this bullshit. How the fuck did fucking *Jews* become the scapegoats--yes the scapegoats--for the sins of the West? Like all the sins. Colonialism. Racism. All the rage: Direct it at Jews. Oopsie I mean ~Zionists.~ Or only ~Israeli Jews~. It's fucking bullshit.
@agraybee Oh, & while I'm here: Yes the Holocaust is fucking unique b/c it is in part the entirety of the history of Europe & the Middle East just culminating in the worst kind of thing a human could possibly contemplate. Oh, but if you bring THAT up. . . ~manipulation~. AHEM.
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May 6
I was reading @TimothyDSnyder's "Road to Unfreedom" a few weeks ago & came across this passage. His description of Russian Active Measures' influence on Western audiences in 2014 felt eerily familiar to many online conversations happening now. Ukraine in one case; I/P in another.
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Western Media in 2014: "Those who spoke so freely of conspiracies, coups, juntas, camps, & genocides shied from contact w/ the real world. From a distance, they used their talents to drown a country in unreality; in so doing, they submerged their own countries & themselves . . ." Image
This really struck me: "Enormous amounts of time were wasted in Britain, the United States, and Europe in 2014 and 2015 on discussions about whether Ukraine existed and whether Russia had invaded it. That triumph of informational warfare was instructive for Russian leaders." Image
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