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@capitolhunters
Apr 25, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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As Israel's Netanyahu hysterically calls US campuses "horrific..German[y] in the 1930s", remember who took him to power: the divisive US operative Arthur Finkelstein, who also gave us autocrat Viktor Orban, antisemitic conspiracy theories, and indirectly, Donald Trump. 1/ Image
From 1970, Finkelstein changed politics in the US and around the world with virulently negative campaigns that pushed fear & division ("rejectionist voting"), microtargeted messaging, 3rd party spoilers, and a complete disregard for truth and values. 2/
nytimes.com/2017/08/19/us/…
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Finkelstein, who was both Jewish and gay, won races for homophobic candidates with antisemitic messaging. It's beyond twisted. He got Bibi elected in 1996; Bibi referred him to Viktor Orban - and to help Orban win he created the George Soros conspiracy. 2/
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It was Finkelstein who pushed Trump to hire Paul Manafort, deep in Ukraine fuckery in 2016 and formerly in business with Finkelstein protege Roger Stone. Trump's campaign used Finkelstein's tactics: polarize the electorate, make people fear each other. As Bibi is doing now. 3/ Image
Manafort had learned in Ukraine how to create violent, astroturfed protests, whose players looked enough like normal folks they stymied law enforcement. In 2006, he shut down the US Marines and NATO. On Jan 6 the Capitol attack used the same gameplan. 4/
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For 5 decades Finkelstein's proteges ("Arthur's Boys", including Roger Stone, Terry Dolan, Frank Luntz) have helped make US politics divisive and deeply twisted. Dolan, secretly gay, co-founded the Moral Majority and helped elect anti-gay candidates. 5/
archive.harpers.org/1987/08/pdf/Ha…
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Finkelstein and his gay proteges fanned anti-gay hate. He and his Jewish proteges built anti-Jewish conspiracies. What Netanyahu is doing tonight is straight from Finkelstein's playbook: stoke fear and division, no matter who it hurts. US reporters must call him on it. 6/ Image
This account focuses on Jan 6 - but J6 is Finkelstein's legacy too. Roger Stone's Proud Boys led the attack. ESI, who'd worked with Paul Manafort, ran the rallies. And the QAnon conspiracies that inflamed the rioters were pushed by a staffer of Ron Paul - Terry Dolan's client. 7/ Image
Today saw three red flags: Bibi's speech, and visits to Columbia by Mike Johnson (J6 organizer) and Gavin McInnes (Proud Boys founder). As in 2020, protests can be used to stoke fear and violence. The only way to fight back is with sanity and calm. 8/

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Jan 4
What's happening in Venezuela is not war but deal-making (and back-stabbing). As VP Delcy Rodriguez assumes power, remember that she was negotiating with Trump in 2025 for this outcome: new boss, same regime. And that she's alleged to be involved in drug trafficking herself. 1/ Image
It's not war when the only people killed are a few civilians and the president's bodyguards - and Russia barely reacts. The Miami Herald says Rodriguez' reached out in early 2025, less than a year after Maduro stole the election - with Maduro's OK. 2/
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Jan 3
The best take on today's attack on Venezuela is likely the most cynical: that it is staged and transactional. Trump wouldn't attack Russia's ally without permission - but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. @davetroy as usual called it. 2/ Image
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Dec 26, 2025
Since this ominous video about Trump and his pageants is going viral, might as well note that Erika (Frantzve) Kirk competed in at least 5 of those pageants: Miss Colorado 2009 and 2010, Miss Arizona 2011 and 2012, and then, after she finally won at state level, Miss USA 2012. 1/
The contestants for the 2012 Miss USA contest spent the 2 weeks beforehand at the Trump Tower Las Vegas, "touring, filming, rehearsing, and making new friends". 2/
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Dec 26, 2025
Steven Pinker, buddy of Jeffrey Epstein and prominent in the latest Epstein files release, is now awfully concerned about "academics cancelling each other". (Here he's reposting an op-ed by eugenicist nobleman Baron Young, himself 'canceled' for racism, sexism and homophobia). 1/
The Harvard Crimson has been going hard after Harvard professor Pinker, highlighting his creepy appearances in the Epstein files. In this clip Pinker poses with Epstein on his plane while a plaintive little-girl's voice asks "where are you taking us?" 2/
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Dec 21, 2025
@MeidasTouch is wrong here. These images are two different filings in Giuffre v Maxwell, with different dates. In 2024, she re-filed material with Trump's name unredacted. Media covered it; it was a scandal! But, both versions remain up on the DOJ website. No one deleted. 1/
Giuffre's 2024 filing, with Trump's name unredacted, was newsworthy - @JayShah found that Trump had been hidden as "Doe 174" in Giuffre's suit. The documents here were reported on. 2/
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People should have remembered - you don't forget a sentence like this. But, both documents 1296-17 (from 2022) and 1332-16 (from 2024) remain up. The key point isn't that DOJ is making new redactions. It's that they're releasing little new material. This stuff is old. 3/ Image
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Dec 18, 2025
To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/ Image
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The Edge founder John Brockman was lauded for his "discerning taste in the choice of participants." Funny how the photos he posted - the same as in the Epstein files - highlight so many luminaries but leave out convicted felon & registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 2/ Image
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