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@emptywheel
Dec 17, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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I mean, telling people to vote on the wrong day has been charged as a crime elsewhere. But to #MattyDickPics it's a big har har har.
#MattyDIckPics is OUTRAGED that Twitter encouraged vulnerable users to upgrade their security.

This is part of his "proof" that Twitter is too close to the FBI.
#mattydickpics is also OUTRAGED that Twitter authenticated the OH's Republican Speaker of the House.

Truly scandalous stuff.
I'm visiting with family this weekend so will come back to this next week.

Suffice it to say #MattyDickPics still hasn't developed his journalistic skills beyond the average 18 year old College Freshman cherry picking for the "right" answers. All while Elmo does far worse.
Alright, one more for now.

#MattyDickPics, who ascribed to the Single Server Fallacy and admitted to "reverse chauvinism" when it came to Russian imperialism, here treats Russian interest in interfering as something that only happened in 2016.
BREAKING: people trying to protect democracy on Election Day work hard!!!

People who treat democracy as a joke don't even mention that it is Election Day!
#MattyDickPics OUTRAGED that CA was pissed that Trump was lying about democracy.

Once again, Matty sides with disinformation over democracy.
BREAKING: #MattyDickPics doesn't understand that FBI treated the attack on the Capitol as a terrorist attack.
#MattyDickPics: we found the FBI didn't have the central role we claimed. So rather than say that we'll label all of it the Deep State.

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May 17
Unsurprisingly, fabulist Alex Thompson makes some errors in his cherry pick of Biden recordings.

The thing to know is Hur treated the MEMO (as distinct from docs from garage) as a personal doc, akin to Reagan's (and Biden's diaries).

Biden couldn't have requisite intent. Image
There are other likely errors or unfaithful cherry picks. Those will have to wait for a version that is not obviously cherry picked.
Here's one of my more comprehensive posts on the report itself.

emptywheel.net/2024/02/11/rob…
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Mar 24
FWIW, it was "National Security Adviser" @MikeWaltz47 who added @JeffreyGoldberg to the Signal thread.

So if it was caused by a drunken bender, it wasn't Whiskey @PeteHegseth's bender.

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So @CIADirector exposed the ID of an active intelligence officer. Image
@CIADirector Then @CIADirector shared sources and methods with a journalist. Image
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Feb 13
In a declaration filed this week, Trump's top DOGE at Treasury cited a GAO report from last year. Lots of people On Here are taking that $2.7T out of context. (And ignoring that poor Tom miscited some quotes in this paragraph, but we expect shoddy work from DOGE.)

But let's look at the GAO Report he relies on, shall we?

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Here's the report.



FIRST humiliating thing DOGE Tom didn't tell anyone is that MANY of these improper payments--the reason there was a recent spike--pertain to Trump's own COVID programs.

DOGE Tom says we need to fix Treasury bc Trump encouraged fraud. gao.gov/assets/gao-24-…Image
Here's EVEN MORE humiliating thing DOGE Tom told us. To get fraud #s he lays out, he relies on this Congressional testimony.

Humiliation 1: It's abt fraud in Trump's own COVID programs again.

Humiliation 2: Mike Ware is one of IG's Trump fired on Day 4.

smallbusiness.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…Image
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Jan 31
Elon would like to remind you that Trump has installed HIS OWN BUREAUCRATS to access your $$, and thus far, his high school grads have fucked up at least 5 times.
Things @elonmusk's hand-selected bureaucrats have fucked up in 2 weeks on the job:

Forced out FAA head days b4 fatal accident
Screwed up Medicaid portal
Set up a way to spam entire agencies
Did shoddy research that led @karolineleavitt to lie abt Gaza
Offered unfunded buyouts
@elonmusk @karolineleavitt Why is Trump letting the richest man in the world fuck up YOUR OWN access to services the government owes you?
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Dec 18, 2024
Barry Loudermilk, page 18: Liz Cheney had too much authority.

@RepLoudermilk, page 12: @Liz_Cheney didn't have enough authority. Image
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Loudermilk relied on Trump's Truth Social posts, rather than sworn testimony. I guess @RepLoudermilk is so stupid he believes everything Trump says on Truth Social? Image
A big part of @RepLoudermilk's attack on Cheney amounts to insinuation that @realJodyHunt acted unethically, which seems like something he might want to avoid. Image
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Oct 29, 2024
Note that, contrary to common myths about the investigation into Trump, this subpoena PRECEDED Cassidy Hutchison's public testimony (and even Greg Jacob's, by a day).

The precedents were all set before Jack Smith was appointed.
Here's an interesting, almost entirely argument that bears on the immunity case. Trump was invoking Executive Privilege but (as Howell laid out) he was having such convos w/people outside of Exec, like Rudy.

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Howell ordered second batch of witnesses to testify on November 19. Trump asked for a stay on December 7. In the interim, witnesses testified. That almost certainly means they are 2 Pats & likely Eric Herschmann (which is consistent w/public timeline).

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