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Jun 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For the next person who insists that, despite all evidence to the contrary, the liberal-left isn't venerating and creating a cult of adoration around the torture-supporting, warmongering, civil-liberties-hating Liz Cheney: aka Mother Jones' Hero of 2021.

robertreich.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-f…
LOL, Holy Shit. Nothing is more lost and craven than the fake US "left." Just read this shit:
The same liberals who drool with reverence for Liz Cheney, whose favorite pundits are Frum and Kristol, who cheer the union of state and corporate power to censor the internet, who want unlimited billions sent to a war zone against Russia -- keep asking me:

#WhatHappenedToYou?
After reading Robert Reich's gushing essay insisting Liz Cheney should be president and comparing her to Paul Wellstone, and now seeing this, I'm starting to get concerned about the bizarre parasocial love liberal men are nurturing for Liz Cheney:😬

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Jun 15
Good article on the genuine, vibrant, spirited debate occurring on the right about militarism, imperialism and interventionism: think tanks and key media/political figures pushing an anti-war/anti-intervention agenda.

Meanwhile: no debate to be found among Dems, only unanimity.
When is the last time there was a meaningful foreign policy debate among Dems and the liberal-left? Every last Squad member and Bernie joined all Dems in voting for Biden's $40b war package. The only dissent was on the right: a minority, but substantial. Recommended: Image
(Note that @newrepublic's article and above tweet contains one error: Tom Cotton voted YES, not NO, on Biden's $40b war package for Ukraine.

These were the 11 GOP Senators who, along with 57 GOP House members, voted NO): Image
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Jun 15
This result - Dems lose an overwhelmingly Latino district in TX that was +16 for Hillary, to a GOP nurse who will be the first-ever Mexico-born Congresswoman - is obviously humiliating.

That it happened during the Liz Cheney spectacle is hilarious. Doubtful it changed one vote.
As with Russiagate, elite media endlessly fixates on sideshows people ignore.

And if Latino/Asian/Black votes keep migrating to GOP, and it's GOP with pioneers like @MayraFlores2022, the media soon must reconcile these facts with its view that GOP is a "white nationalist" party.
Elite liberals in media and politics look around and see most large corporate media outlets vigorously echoing their ideology. They curate their social media feeds and cable outlets to exclude dissent so, for them, it disappears.

This causes them to live in complete delusion.
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Jun 13
First 3 images: what @TheAtlantic said when Trump announced that the US/Saudi partnership must continue despite the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Last image: what @TheAtlantic said when Biden announced that the US/Saudi partnership must continue despite the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
As I wrote yesterday, the close US/Saudi partnership shows that the US does not care -- at all -- if other countries are democratic or despotic. It only cares that other countries' regimes serve US interests. Trump's only sin was he was honest about this.

greenwald.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-s…
The excuses Biden officials are making - for why Biden vowed during the campaign to turn Saudis into "pariahs", only to now embrace them - is the same rationale Trump offered for the same decision (which caused pundits to declare the Death of US Values):

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Jun 13
Incredibly sad - and infuriating - news. The bodies of the British journalist @domphillips, and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, have reportedly been found. They were reporting in a remote Amazon region on illegal invasions by mining/logging interests.

Dom was one of those journalists who began working in Brazil, fell in love with the country, married a Brazilian woman, then devoted himself to dangerous, intrepid reporting on illegal exploitation of the Amazon: a stark reminder of the value and danger of real journalism. #RIP
There will be indignation and demands for justice, but it's hard to be hopeful. If someone had told me in 2018 that Marielle Franco's assassination would remain largely unsolved 4 years later, I wouldn't have believed it. And yet. Read about Dom here:

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Jun 12
Put the heroic and iconic Liz Cheney on the TV more to talk about a 3-hour riot that happened 18 months ago -- which resulted in the deaths of 4 Trump supporters and nobody else -- and everyone will forget about the misery this is causing in their lives.
Even CNN -- despite their best efforts at heralding the success of the 1/6 hearing -- can only muster the word "respectable" for its audience size, given that it barely attracted half of the audience that watched Biden's sleepy State of the Union address.

edition.cnn.com/2022/06/10/med…
Meanwhile, there's a group of DNC freaks who obsessively monitor my Twitter activity, and if I don't post for a day or 2 -- due to travel, family, health -- they concoct some theory that I'm hiding from whatever HUGE liberal scandal nobody cares about.

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Jun 12
LOL. They're still doing the thing about "President Juan Guaido."

When they traveled to Caracas to beg the Venezuelans to sell more oil despite the suffocating US sanctions, they for some reason pleaded with someone named "Nicolas Maduro" rather than President Guaido.
The power of the US to impose "presidents" on other countries who have never received a single vote isn't necessarily fully over, but it's rapidly waning. The "interim President of Bolivia" cheered by Mike Pompeo after the 2019 coup is now here:

dw.com/en/bolivia-for…
In case you missed it, here was Venezuela's "Interim President Juan Guaido" being greeted by his peoples who adore him, at a restaurant in San Carlos yesterday (Guaido claims these were loyalists to Chavez/Maduro).

Maybe this isn't for the US to decide?

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