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Nov 4 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Joy Reid's understanding of history really does begin in 2017. As sketchy as that understanding is, she has no idea that history existed before Trump. The ignorance is stunning. How can someone like this be on TV every night talking about politics, even to a tiny audience?
Someone please look at this and justify Joy Reid. Leave aside the fact that she got caught inventing an elaborate lie in public about a time-traveling hacker who wrote her bigoted blog posts. Just look at this:
These were the *first three paragraphs* of the nationally televised speech Jimmy Carter delivered in 1978 because Americans regarded inflation as a grave national crisis. Joy Reid thinks the GOP invented this term this year and nobody used it before.🤯

pbs.org/wgbh/americane…
In 1974, "President Ford plunged headfirst into the crisis. His first and most public move was to combat inflation. He declared inflation 'public enemy number one.'"

Ford's brand was "WIN: Whip Inflation Now."

How the fuck does Joy Reid know nothing about everything???

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Nov 4
I spoke last night on Fox about a woefully under-covered story:

The EU made it *illegal* for any platform to air RT or other Russian media. Now France is demanding US platforms, such as Rumble, obey this and remove RT. Rumble refused, defending its right to air what it wants:
Here's a despotic French minister, @jnbarrot, *boasting* of how he's trying to force Rumble to remove outlets which EU has banned.

Why would a French citizen want their leaders empowered to decide what news they can and can't hear? Either way, keep that repression in the EU:
Remember the liberal view on censorship from the 1980s? "If you don't like it, turn the channel?"

If you don't like RT, you don't have to watch. Why would you want states to have the power to force sites to remove news outlets disliked by those leaders?

reuters.com/world/europe/e…
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Nov 2
This to me has almost nothing to do with Paul Pelosi. The key point is this:

Americans are being conditioned -- by "journalists" of all people -- to believe it's immoral or mentally ill not to immediately and uncritically accept whatever institutions of authorities claim. WATCH:
Just as a reminder: before anyone of prominence was talking about "bio labs in Ukraine," here's what Victoria Nuland -- the neocon official in charge of Ukraine for the Biden State Dept -- said to the Senate when questioned by a very friendly Marco Rubio:

Any "journalist" should have immediately demanded answers about what Nuland meant: what bio labs in Ukraine were so dangerous they couldn't fall into Russian hands?

Instead, most did the opposite: demonized as mentally ill anyone who didn't instantly accept Pentagon denials.
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Nov 1
Think how important this story is. France, like all EU states, *legally barred* any platform from airing RT or other Russian outlets even if those platforms with to. It's legally required to censor it.

France demanded Rumble obey, if though Rumble isn't a French company....
If Rumble obeyed France's censorship order - like Big Tech firms often do - it'd mean Americans could only access voices and views which foreign governments (EU, China, Iran, etc.) permitted to be aired. Thankfully, Rumble told France to fuck itself:

When Big Tech began censoring, liberals suddenly adopted libertarian theories to insist that private companies could do whatever they want, and it's not censorship.

But this is *pure censorship*: EU *legally banning* anyone from airing what they dislike:

reuters.com/world/europe/e…
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Nov 1
As Bolsonaro remains silent and publicly invisible for the second full day following his defeat, pro-Bolsonaro protests have erupted throughout the country, blocking key roads, airports and bridges.

The Supreme Court has ordered police to began removing the protesters.
Brazil's media outlets continue to report Bolsonaro does not intend to contest the outcome. Key allies have already recognized Lula's victory.

But anyone in WhatsApp groups of police and similar groups know there is intense anger and support for serious resistance to Lula's win.
It seems clear that Bolsonaro has little institutional support for any attempt to defy the election outcome. Most key pro-Bolsonaro political figures are already saying Lula is president.

But the potential for real strife remains, especially as long as Bolsonaro stays silent.
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Nov 1
Because he broke a major story revealing it is the Biden Admin -- specifically the US Security State -- which directs Big Tech's censorship program to serve its own interests. Obviously, CNN or MSNBC wouldn't touch this story while people like Aaron are too dumb to understand it.
I'm glad that there are a handful of TV shows willing to critically report on the US Security State, and how it is the real director of Big Tech's banning of online dissent.

Fortunately, the only shows that cover it are the only ones with an audience:

The story Lee, along with @kenklippenstein broke, is one of the top 10 most important acts of reporting this year. I highly encourage you to read their article. See Lee's amazing thread here.

DNCAaron is actually upset and confused it's being covered.

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Oct 31
Great work by @lhfang to expose crucial evidence on the most-overlooked point about Big Tech censorship:

This censorship is not done at the sole or even primary initiative of Big Tech. It is so often done in conjunction with the US Govt and US Security State, which demands it:
The reporting we just published on the new "consortium" building this regime of censorship - online but increasingly offline (eg exclusion from the financial system as punishment for dissent) - emphasized this crucial collaboration:

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-consorti…
I really encourage you to read this new reporting by Lee and @kenklippenstein on the vital role played by the US Govt in pressuring Big Tech to censor for them.

Some of the docs show that it was FBI that pressured FB to block the NY Post's pre-election story on the Biden family. Image
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