Note to people-watchers - folks interested in human behavioral traits, tells and trends:
From the moment Trump was accused of colluding with - and being a traitorous agent of - Putin and Russia, Trump shouted from the mountain tops not only his innocence but his disdain for...
...any and everyone making the allegations, reporting the allegations, investigating the allegations or supporting the allegations. His denials were loud, pointed and pervasive. Because he was innocent and that's how innocent people react to coordinated, baseless attacks.
Aug 9 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
We all know that the liberal, anti-Trump bias in legacy media presents itself every day in broadcast and print media, but we sometimes forget that said bias includes legitimate news stories they choose NOT to present to us every day - stories that reflect positively on...
...Trump, his administration or conservatives in general. The media's guidepost on Trump reporting is simple: He can never be the victor nor victim. Any story that brushes against that third rail is quashed, hidden or begrudgingly caveated with nitpicking and selective...
Aug 6 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Dems and the media characterizing the DNI/DOJ investigation into the actions of Comey and McCabe's FBI as old news unworthy of coverage often cite the Durham Report as the final word on the subject.
Two things: 1) They mischaracterize the Durham Report conclusions by...
...repeating over and over that "Durham made no recommendations for FBI policy or regulation reforms" while studiously ignoring his far more damning conclusion and recommendation that all the FBI had to do was stop breaking the rules already in place and follow their creed...
Aug 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Why was it so important to Brennan, Comey, McCabe, et al. to bust through layer upon layer of standard investigative and analysis protocol to convince the public that "Putin had a clear preference for Trump and aspired to help him win"?
Why not keep the assessment within...
...the lines of vetted, verified or verifiable evidence and simply report that Russia was attempting to sew doubt and discord into our election process through hacks and fake Facebook-centric influence operations?
If their goal, as they often state, was to alert the country...
Aug 3 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Memo to @charlie_savage and everyone else scrambling to minimize/discredit the hacked emails showing that Hillary approved the Russian hoax, the FBI knew it, and AG Lynch was reassuring the Hillary campaign that she was riding herd on the investigation and wouldn't let it...
...hurt Hillary: @Comey has publicly acknowledged that the reason he chose to usurp the DOJ and hold his infamous press conference laying out Hillary's email crimes but declining to prosecute (not his call) was the existence of the latter hacked email showing Lynch's...
Aug 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Here's another little teeth-grinder to add to the mix.
Remember when Comey, Clapper and Brennan set the hook for the media to publicize the Steele dossier they'd been sitting on by including it in the ICA and briefing it to Trump on January 6th, 2017?
And, in order to...
...set the plan in motion one or more "national intelligence officials with knowledge" of that meeting had to alert their preferred media contacts the deed had been done? (NB: Brennan and Clapper's NYT Oped carefully parsed their refrain from leaking PRIOR to the election.)
Jul 31 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
So am I correct in my understanding - after reading both of the releases from DNI - that the SINGLE SOURCE of the ICA's analysis that Putin: 1) ordered an operation to interfere in the election; 2) preferred Trump; and 3) ordered the hacking of DNC and transmittal of hacked...
...data to WikiLeaks was twice-removed hearsay information verbally relayed by Oleg Smolenkov to none other than John O. Brennan hisownself, the reporting, substance, reliability and sourcing of which did not meet the standard for publication as an intelligence product, only...
Jul 17 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
If someone would've suggested a month ago that Donald Trump would solve the raging debate and dissension over financial/material support to Ukraine with a deal that makes both sides happy, how loudly would that person have been mocked?
It should be the leading story on every...
...broadcast, in every newspaper and on every news website. Half the country was dead set against continued support, the other half (and all of NATO/Europe) 100% vested in the criticality of that support.
Trump's deal ensured that the support would continue to flow, American...
Jun 28 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Pretty safe to say by any measure and by anyone doing the measuring - love him or hate him, @realDonaldTrump has engineered a series of actions, policies and initiatives which have resulted in a remarkable number of positive results for the U.S. and the world in a very short...
...period of time. Conservatives see it and appreciate it, while Dems/media do everything they can to downplay or distract from it, but it is nonetheless remarkable.
Not discussed nearly enough - the energy and vigor of this Biden-aged man. Not a word or story from mainstream...
Jun 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This perverse construct being narrated by the media and Dem politicians - that people have no agency and simply can't help themselves but become violent and feel the necessity to loot convenience stores at the sight of the National Guard - is precisely the messaging that...
...created the permissive environment in which these rioters willfully and enthusiastically break laws, destroy property and obstruct the normal course of life for the law-abiding citizenry going about their daily business.
It is truly maddening to watch a squad of cable...
Jul 6, 2024 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
The radio host who interviewed Biden two days ago - Andrea Lawful-Sanders - just told @CNN that the White House sent her 8 questions in advance and she picked four of the 8 WH questions to ask Biden during the interview.
Note that in response to one of the questions advanced by the WH Biden said that a 90-minute debate doesn't define "3.5 years" of performance. Not "3 and a half years" as he and others have said when running through talking points. "3.5" - like it's written on the answer card.
Jun 30, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One would be forgiven for assuming 100 reporters had a live-feed to Trump's Oval Office, personified through "sources close" and "sources with knowledge" - real or imagined (@Acosta) - dishing daily scoops.
3.5 years of Biden's WH under a seemingly impenetrable blanket and...
...suddenly we find journalists journalizing. What could possibly have prompted such a serendipitous influx of "sources close" to the Biden WH? And - imagine this - these brand new, never-before-reporting, out-of-the-woodwork insiders are astonished at Biden's decline.
Apr 27, 2024 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Folks - asking your indulgence for a personal matter. I spent the weekend in New Jersey attending the funeral of the 20-year-old son of one of my dearest friends on earth, Jim Beale - no relation, but I appropriated his last name for my pseudonym as an homage to our 30 or so...
...years of friendship. Jim's son, Sam Beale, died in a tragic one-car accident on a NJ highway Sunday, April 16. Sam's mother, Nicole Jesmer, is also a dear friend of 30+ years. We all met while stationed at the 513th Military Intelligence Brigade at Ft. Gordon, Georgia...
Feb 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Did he say that the Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House rejected Rick Scott's plan and similar statements by a handful of Republicans? Nope - that's not "what Biden said tonight." What Biden said was what his administration and Dems have been saying for months,...
...that "Republicans want to take away your Social Security and Medicare and we won't allow it." Despite the Herculean efforts of Dems and media to spin it as a brilliant display of negotiation by Biden, what actually occurred was the Republicans in the chamber rose up against...
Feb 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This, my friends, is what we call a lie of omission. It's of a piece with "I created 11 million jobs." Both statements are attempts to spread disinformation - the same disinformation Biden and his party claim to be the biggest threat to Democracy and ascribe exclusively to...
..."far-right ultra-MAGA Republicans." Every time Biden or anyone in the Dem party say he created 11 million jobs but fail to acknowledge that 90 or more percent of those jobs were simply re-filling the jobs temporarily lost during the pandemic shutdown and reclaimed once...
Dec 30, 2022 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Halfway through the Ray Epps interview transcript and holy shit @RepKinzinger and @RepAdamSchiff need to explain what motivated them and staff to question him like defense lawyers questioning their client. If the reason ISN'T that he was working for a government agency then...
...whatever the other reason is must be a fucking doozy, because they repeatedly lead him away from danger and into the most implausible excuses and explanations of his actions. Once they lead him to the answer they need on the record to keep him out of trouble, they...
Dec 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
You said that about $190 billion ago, @rweingarten. Give me and 10 of my colleagues the $190B and I guarantee you we would have resolved your imaginary testing, mask, ventilation, vaccine and booster excuses and had every school in America open in 3 months. With real teachers.
It's like saying, "Woe is me - I can't get to work because I don't make enough money to fix my car - I need the government to help me" and the government gives you 30 cars and two years later you still haven't made it into work.
