This is a Joe Biden surrogate and delegate. The US corporate media has permanently broken the brains of an entire generation of US liberals. They are more obsessed with Russian infiltration of the US than Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover combined were. Look at this derangement:
Here's a @ProjectLincoln operative pushing the Madison-Cawthorn-as-groomed-Kremlin-asset sickness. The union of neocons and authoritarian liberals -- based in some crusty resuscitated 1950s CIA script about Russian treachery -- is proof that Satan exists:
All the ways to criticize Madison Cawthorn and you settle on some demented CIA fairy tale about about he's a Putin pawn because his wife is a clandestine Kremlin asset, making yourself far more unhinged and twisted than he could ever hope to be. This is American liberalism.
There's a non-trivial portion of #Resistance and @ProjectLincoln Twitter who now genuinely believe Madison Cawthorn is a Kremlin asset trapped into a life of servitude to Putin through a Russian honeypot wife. Only question is whether Maddow or Joy Reid will cover it first.🇷🇺🇷🇺
Tell me this isn't classic paranoid delusion and mass pathology:
The New Yorker and The Atlantic were the two mainstream magazines that did the most to help convince Americans that Saddam had WMDs. They're the two that were the most fanatical about Russiagate conspiracies. Now they'll lead on Iran and the bomb (Jeffrey Goldberg has for years):
Whenever there's an insane, unhinged, deranged conspiracy pushed by the CIA and the other US security services, you can be sure that The Atlantic and the New Yorker will be in the lead endorsing and ratifying it. That's one of their primary functions.
So revealing: the same CNN writer who wrote yesterday's predictable @NewYorker attack on Dan Bongino -- @eosnos -- which accused Bongino of profiting by spreading unhinged conspiracy theories, was the lead writer of the @NewYorker cover story depicting Putin in control of the WH.
I'm well-aware of, and often discuss, the difference between "liberals" and "the left." I'm also well-aware of their convergences: far greater than ever after they organized around AOC and Bernie, who went from Revolution Against Both Parties! (2016) to All In With Dems! (2020).
Thus, the bulk of left media is about corralling disgruntled leftists into Party captivity. As long as they do, funding and profit pours in. They're key to DNC success. #Resistance liberals don't need cajoling to vote Dem. Pseudo-radicals do, and that's what left media is for.
That this Vote-Dem-Always! wing of left media -- the dominant branch -- bashes Dems on the way to loyally voting for them is what makes them so valuable. That's their vital role: they let leftists feel edgier than their Pelosi-loving moms who drive them to vote together for Dems.
The @NewYorker profile of Dan Bongino by CNN's @eosnos is so predictable you could write it yourself without reading it. It *laments* that the new online/media ecosystem Bongino uses is built to prevent censors like Media Matters from banning ideas -- as if that's a bad thing.
Whatever you think of Bongino or anyone else whose views you hate, it's incomparably dangerous to allow groups created by supreme DC scumbag David Brock to police our discourse, and it's good and healthy that new independent platforms deny them that power
The reason we created @FreedomofPress was Joe Lieberman and other neocons had pressured and threatened Paypal, Visa, MasterCard, Amazon and banks to cut off WikiLeaks' fundraising. That's the new tactic to crush dissent. Anything that subverts it is good.
This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic's history:
For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave - even to go to a deserted beach - are reckless sociopaths.
It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked:
That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they'd politicize their expertise when convenient.
Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then -- overnight! -- cheered densely packed street protests.
In June, I was drafting an article on this flagrantly politicized reversal of COVID messaging. When @theintercept editors learned this, they commissioned an article -- for the same day -- to argue racism, not COVID, was the greatest health crisis, so everyone *should* go protest.
I don't classify myself as a Bitcoin advocate, but the refusal to confront the power of global institutions to control currency, spy on everyone, wage Endless War, and police speech is unsustainable. Reflexively rejecting proposed solutions is irrational.
(The segment we did on Bitcoin and the environment will be published later today as a separate segment. I wanted this segment to focus on the geo-political, economic and cultural consequences of Bitcoin. Whatever your views, they are significant and inevitable).
Bitcoin unites Trump and Hillary in opposition, both warning that it threatens the hegemony of the dollar and is a "dangerous" weapon to undermine status quo power:
I just interviewed @gladstein about Bitcoin: will be up on Rumble shortly. It continues to baffle how much intense, reflexive left-wing hostility there is to Bitcoin given its potential. I highly recommend his essay on bitcoin and undermining Endless War:
For those who haven't seen it: a few weeks ago, I interviewed the leftist crypto advocate, @TBSocialist, who explained the unique ability of bitcoin to weaken the ability of centralized corporate power centers to surveil, censor and control.