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Dec 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
HUNTER BIDEN: FOLLOW THE MONEY 🧵

I'm writing this thread as a former Democratic insider who is sick of double standards.

The #HunterBiden story is REAL.

He leveraged his father's high rank in the duopoly to rake in millions. Pure corruption.

Same goes for the Trump kids...
HUNTER BIDEN 🧵

Hunter used his proximity to Joe Biden's power to secure millions in foreign $. It defies logic his father was unaware.

And how about the Trump family grift:

"Donald Trump exploited loopholes to build a White House rife with nepotism."

apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphi…
HUNTER BIDEN 🧵

This kind of brazen dirty dealing is everywhere in politics.

Look at Nancy Pelosi, who along with her husband Paul, used insider trading to amass an obscene 9-figure fortune.

Pelosi is well compensated for protecting oligarchs.

directleft.com/p/nancy-pelosi…
HUNTER BIDEN 🧵

Republicans do it. Democrats do it. Why do you think more than HALF OF CONGRESS ARE MILLIONAIRES?

At the highest levels of power, money and corruption go hand in hand.

Is #HunterBidensLaptop the biggest scandal ever? Of course not. But don't dismiss it either.

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Peter Daou Profile picture
Dec 2
Hey Elon -

Extremists on far right:

"KILL BLACK PEOPLE, GAY PEOPLE AND JEWS!"

'Extremists' on far left:

"GIVE EVERYONE HEALTH CARE AND A HOME!"
To elaborate.

Musk is repeating the tired corporate media trope, "If I'm pissing both sides off, I'm doing something right."

Here's why that's a moral cop-out:

The extreme right in U.S. politics controls the GOP and has significant influence. It is violent and racist.
The overwhelming majority of domestic terrorism/violence is committed by rightwing extremists.

When people like Musk allude to the "extreme left," they're typically talking about people who oppose fascism, oligarchy, obscene inequality, etc.

They lump them all under 'ANTIFA'
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Peter Daou Profile picture
Nov 8
THE DIRTY SECRET 🧵

As a former adviser in the belly of the establishment, I can tell you that Democratic leaders prefer a Republican Congress.

Allow me to explain...

#ElectionDay #Election2022
Dem party leaders have one overarching job:

Uphold the current system -- which keeps them funded and reelected.

That involves enriching and protecting their big donors.

But they have to maintain the appearance of "fighting" the GOP to appease their voters...
What better way for corporate Dems to maintain the appearance of fighting for the people (while actually preserving the status quo) than for the GOP to hold more power?

That way, Dem leaders can blame Republicans for gridlock, while keeping their donor class happy.
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Mar 5
PLEASE NOTE: I've renamed my newsletter Direct Daou from Direct Left.

In all honesty, the Ukraine situation has made me realize I just don't know enough to understand/define leftism.

Going forward, I'll identify as 'independent' so that I don't contribute to leftist divisions.
I welcome your feedback.

With all sincerity, I thought I could get a handle on defining leftism enough to self-identify as a leftist.

But I realize I'm just adding to the confusion rather than helping.

As I've said recently, I'm probably closest to anarchism in my views...
Anarchism in this sense:

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Feb 28
How would the world react if the U.S. whipped #Ukrainian refugees from horses and locked their children in cages?
Spare me the bullshit "they weren't whips, they were reins" retort.

I know exactly what I'm looking at.

Do this to a blond, blue-eyed asylum seeker and see how the world reacts.
Rightwingers in my mentions telling me this isn't exactly what it looks like.

Haitian migrants have been abused and deported by the thousands, treated like animals.

Do this to a #Ukrainian refugee and see the outcry. NOBODY should be treated like this.
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Feb 26
FOR THE CHILDREN OF #UKRAINE

I just wrote and played this as a prayer for peace and healing.

thesanctuary.substack.com/p/innocence
MUSIC HEALS

Playing piano is what helped me recover from the emotional scars of a childhood in war. (And the Yamaha piano I learned to play on doubled as a barricade during the war.)

Here's another piano meditation I wrote and played for you...

thesanctuary.substack.com/p/illumination
A piano prayer for every child across the globe from Yemen to Syria to Afghanistan, suffering in violence and conflict.

thesanctuary.substack.com/p/reflection-7
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Feb 24
I was Jake Sullivan's colleague at the Clinton campaign. And I know half the senior people around Biden and Harris.

And I'm concerned as fuck tonight.

Interpret that as you will.

#Ukraine #RussianInvasion
I'm not trying to be cagey. I don't trust these people to handle a crisis like this.
And let me be crystal clear.

I'M A LEFTIST.

I OPPOSE PUTIN'S IMPERIALISM.

I OPPOSE HIS AGGRESSION AND WARMONGERING.

But I'll also speak the truth about Democrats and Republicans.

I'm loyal to the truth.
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