They did the same thing during the entire Trump presidency, only then it was all about Russia and the Kremlin and how Trump was being controlled by Putin through clandestine blackmail (remember all that? lol).
If you have no governing program, fear is the only thing to use.
It happens all around the world. A party in power that feels it can't persuade voters to support them and win elections based on policy instead tries to convert their opposition into criminals rather than adversaries, and then censor and prosecute them in lieu of winning.
The #TreasonSummit when Trump went to Helsinki may have been the single dumbest thing I've ever seen in politics: huge numbers of Dems in media and politics working themselves up into a hysterical frenzy, led by their former CIA Director, now at NBC News:
Dem spent 5 years being told Mueller was coming to round up, arrest and jail all their political enemies. Then, what that didn't happen over Russia, they were told: Garland will do it over 1/6!
It's like an apocalyptic cult: Doomsday never comes but the flock keeps believing.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
The CIA
The FBI
Big Tech Censorship
David Frum
Bill Kristol
Liz Cheney
Bush/Cheney spokesperson Nicolle Wallace
Neocons generally (Max Boot & Jen Rubin)
The Lincoln Project Scumbags
DOJ Prosecutors
NSA operatives
Australian officials have been flamboyantly insisting they will bar tennis players from their country unless they are vaccinated or have a medical excuse.
Magically, the steadfastly unvaccinated Novak Djokovic - one of the planet's fittest athletes - qualifies for an exemption!
Several unvaccinated players who aren't as valuable economically to Australia and the Australian Open as Djokovic were forced to withdraw from the tournament.
What great luck that the world #1 has some grave medical condition as he wins Grand Slams!
It's almost like these rules are bullshit theater unrelated to the public health and therefore can be manipulated or ignored whenever it suits one with money or power: like the team of masked servants AOC had as she was groomed, unmasked, for the Met Gala
A journalist who worked at @CBC quits after 8 years, citing the repressive environment where liberal-left ideology and woke pieties dictate "reporting"and bar all dissent. She's going to Substack to do journalism without those constraints. When will people realize the crisis?
This isn't some right-wing journalist. She was long among the most left-wing. But the climate changed overnight.
This happened in newsrooms across the West. It's easy to dismiss and mock it if your ideology (liberalism) is the dominant one, but it's a major threat to journalism.
When corporate outlets tout the rigors of their "editorial process," all they mean is they scrub articles for anything that contravene establishment liberalism. Some manage to do good reporting there, but most outlets are just activist machines for Western left-liberal ideology.
I'll be on Fox tonight, 8 pm ET, near the top of the hour, discussing the ongoing craving for more state power and even more repressive life restrictions in the name of fighting COVID, long after the COVID vaccine has been universally available in the US.
Two of the world's most influential leftist leaders meet:
- One emphatically opposes vaccine mandates and passports on the ground of bodily autonomy and worker rights.
- The other vehemently denounced Big Tech's banning of Trump as a threat to democracy
This was one of the saddest and most pathetic displays from a Trump-era liberal -- also courtesy of The Vox Explainer (he worked for @NeeraTanden at the time at CAP) -- but the Drama Queen Week we're in store for this week will make this look like sober and grounded reflection.