1) One note of caution. I will draw attention to a very similar framework now rolling out with the Twitter File releases that we saw in the John Durham investigation.
2) Notice how both Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi are drawing attention to the Twitter executives, but NOT drawing any attention to the government officials. This does not appear to be coincidental.
3) Bari Weiss could have easily identified the head of the Twitter head of the “Strategic Response Team” an intelligence official named Jeff Carlton. She didn’t.
4) Similarly, Matt Taibbi could have identified the official from the DNI office in contact with Twitter executive Yoel Roth, ODNI official Shelby Pierson. He didn’t.
5) Just as John Durham structured his public investigative releases to cast the unlawful shadow on only those people outside government, so too is Weiss and Taibbi structuring their public reviews of the Twitter files to draw attention only to the Twitter executives outside govt.
6) The officials from the U.S. government, who are transmitting through the DHS portal to Twitter, are not being named and identified, why not?
7) From Taibbi and Weiss and Taibbi again, we are getting an outline of actions taken by Twitter officials, but we are still blind to *how* the information, requests and demands come into Twitter from the U.S. government, and who specifically is sending them.
8) I hope I'm wrong, but currently to expand the metaphor, Musk is playing the role of Bill Barr and carefully selected journalists are playing the role of John Durham.
Musk is the Bondo applier.
Taibbi et al are the spray paint.
(1) OK. So let's take this at face value and talk about *REAL* structural reform of the RNC. Enough with the niceties, catch phrases and self indulgences.
I'll outline some thoughts, and you tell me if you agree/disagree, then ask @pnjaban or anyone else.
(2) Start with the standards to be a member of the Republican National Committee.
Structure the by-laws for RNC committee membership as you would a company with rules and regulations on the members.
(3) First, no RNC national committee member, can be a registered or unregistered lobbyist.
If you want to be a political lobbyist, you cannot be a Republican National Committee member.
The Supreme Court will not entertain a state level election certification lawsuit. (unless fed law violated) As previously ruled, the states run their elections, even corrupt states that purposefully manipulate election outcomes are allowed by Constitution framework.
In essence, cheating in an election is lawfully permitted, so long as none of the federally protected categories of personage is disenfranchised by the method.
States can choose to assign 1/2 value to every GOP vote, so long as it doesn't carry disparate impact.
This is one of the benefits of having two private corporations (RNC and DNC) in control of the candidates. The structure allows system processes to negatively target one corporation, which is a process that is totally lawful.
The Twitter Stages discussion with Elon Musk is at this link. Elon joins at 01:03:00 of the broadcast.
(2) Perhaps it's just because I have spent so much of the past 10+ years doing granular research on these issues, but based entirely on the broadcasted understanding AS expressed by the participants... WE ARE FUCKED !
(3) These are supposed to be the most dialed-in, high knowledge people in the "information space", yet they express limited understanding about how the U.S. surveillance state (that includes the social media strata) actually works.
🥴 eh, not funny story on that. But oddly it did happen before. 😬I even received a congressional subpoena based entirely on a Tweet that was discovered to have been attributed to an account set up by a Twitter employee to create me as a target. True story.
This was the (since deleted) Tweet I was replying to above. Apparently, some of the people in the Twitter Org. know of the process of creating malinformation to generate targeting for the FBI backside monitors.
I don't think current Twitter employees want people to know that ideological Twitter employees manipulated the platform to create real world outcomes. Kinda like Swatting by Twitter. Perhaps @elonmusk might want to ask around the lunchroom of remaining crew.