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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️
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☀️ The most important thing to understand about politics is Head Monkey Good, Not Bad. Stop saying Head Monkey Bad. ☀️
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Mar 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
When you hear Elon Musk tell Joe Rogan "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy" you might think, huh, that sounds just like the Nazis. And you'd be right. Warnings that Germans are too sympathetic to others run throughout Nazi propaganda. Image Elon Musk's statement on Joe Rogan that "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit" is straight out of a 1942 Joseph Goebbel's column titled "Don't Be Too Fair!" Image
Dec 29, 2024 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Jimmy Carter is dead, and the U.S. has never reckoned with the "October Surprise" scandal — the fact that the 1980 Reagan campaign colluded with the Iranian government to make sure the American hostages weren't released before the election. This was genuine treason by the GOP. Image Last year Ben Barnes, a prominent Texas politicians, revealed that he'd participated in the Reagan campaign's efforts to keep the US hostages in Iran until after the election. Barnes said he wanted to tell the truth before Carter died. nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/…
Dec 7, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"A core goal of Mr. Musk and the Silicon Valley set has been to improve the efficiency of government services."

I don't believe the people who wrote this — @teddyschleifer @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT — are this stupid. Rather, they feel it's their job to lie to their readers. Image @DeanBaker13
Mar 27, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
RIP Joe Lieberman. Not only did he lie about Iraq and WMD in 2003, he was still lying about it eight years later in 2011, and for extra credit did it in an incredibly smarmy and sexist way.

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Image The (now late) Joe Lieberman was still lying about Iraq & WMD in 2011. When challenged by Arianna Huffington, he told her "Go read the Duelfer Report. I don't think you've read it, sweetheart." This is v funny because Lieberman had obviously not read it. tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/00…
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Mar 29, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
By me:

The Atlantic celebrates 20th anniversary of Iraq War with lavish falsehoods about Iraq War theintercept.com/2023/03/29/ira… The Atlantic let David Frum write a 20th anniversary piece about the Iraq War claiming Iraq had "an arsenal of chemical-warfare shells and warheads." I asked the Atlantic whether they'll correct this. They responded, Thomas Friedman-like: Suck. On. This. theintercept.com/2023/03/29/ira…
Mar 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
With Elon Musk now saying Twitter is worth $20 billion, recall just three months ago he tried to sell stock in the company at the same $44 billion valuation at which he bought it. Anybody who bit on that will be psyched to hear they've already lost 55% of their money. Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. He says it's now worth $20 billion. A rough analysis by Reuters makes the case that it's actually worth less than nothing. reuters.com/breakingviews/…
Mar 18, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A clandestine trip and a four-decade secret: An untold story behind Jimmy Carter’s defeat nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/… New York Times: "A Clandestine Trip and a Four-Decade Secret: An Untold Story Behind Jimmy Carter’s Defeat"

The Onion: "Hostages Released: Reagan Urges American People Not to Put Two and Two Together"
Dec 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote an article the day Elon Musk took over Twitter saying that it would inevitably be a hilarious nightmare for him. But I had no idea it could be this hilarious or this nightmarish. We need some journalists committed to free speech to investigate how this decision was made. It's an impossible dream, but imagine if Bari Weiss were in the Twitter building right now! She wouldn't rest until the truth was revealed.
Sep 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It seems like a bad sign that a show owned by the biggest radio company in America has a host talking about how it was understandable that Germans supported Hitler mediamatters.org/jesse-kelly/ci… Jesse Kelly is right that today's hate campaign against LGBTQ people spearheaded by Christopher Rufo & co. is identical to the hate campaign spearheaded by Joseph Goebbels in 1935. Where I would I disagree with him is whether this is understandable. mediamatters.org/jesse-kelly/ci…
Aug 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
As Biden cancels (some) student debt, remember why the debt exists. A key Reagan advisor warned in 1970 that free college was producing the dangerously explosive "dynamite" of an "educated proletariat," and "we have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education": Image For people asking, this is a screenshot from "Vietnam and Other American Fantasies" by H. Bruce Franklin. Freeman was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on October 30, 1970, p. 13. You can find it via the Chronicle archives.
Jul 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
By @kenklippenstein & me:

Leaked Bank of America memo: “We hope” conditions for American workers will get worse interc.pt/3vkVIsD You really should read this Bank of America memo to learn how the people who run the world discuss their plans for us in private. theintercept.com/2022/07/29/ban… by @kenklippenstein & me
Feb 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Now more than ever The American Blob is even more sociopathic than the Russian one
Feb 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We need to start bracing now for the moment tonight when SNL expresses its solidarity with the people of Ukraine Seriously though, SNL could do a good opening sketch with John Mulaney as president of the United States as we're invaded, with lots of other famous comedians as top government officials & then they wake up from what they all agree was a horrible nightmare
Nov 25, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
By me:

10 things for Americans to be grateful for this Thanksgiving interc.pt/3HOMmdn In addition to everything else on this list, I'm thankful to @nausjcaa & @eliseswain & other unidentified Intercept personnel for getting this out on Thanksgiving interc.pt/3HOMmdn
Nov 10, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
By me:

Inflation is good for you interc.pt/309WOL9 The media freak out about inflation is based on one thing: class conflict. The kind of inflation we're seeing now is bad for the 1 percent, but often good for the rest of us. theintercept.com/2021/11/10/inf…
Aug 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you're wondering how sincere politicians like this are, Locsin is a top member of the cabinet of Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte (famous for his death squads & rape jokes) and is himself famous for insisting "rape is not a heinous crime" Locsin's views may no longer be visible because he blocked me(?). I have to admit I'm flattered that just by stating basic facts I was able to make the Philippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs (the equivalent of the US Secretary of State) so mad.
Aug 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
For hundreds of years, capitalism has grappled with the problem that people resist doing horrible, degrading jobs for low pay in order enrich others. The solution it's come up with is always the same at its core: you must work or starve. I've always opposed eating the rich, especially because, measured on any rational international scale, I'm part of the rich. But I wish they would stop making themselves look so, so delicious.
Jul 19, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
In Tucker Carlson's book Ship of Fools, he says his worldview was shaped by growing up surrounded by liberals. "I lived in a liberal town," he writes. This liberal town was...SAN DIEGO. Ie, one of the most notoriously conservative places in America during the 1970s. I can't get over how weird it is Tucker Carlson says in his book that San Diego was "a liberal town" when he grew up there. It voted so heavily GOP that both Nixon and Reagan called it "Lucky Town." The editor of the paper took leaves of absence to work on Nixon's campaigns.
Jul 16, 2021 • 84 tweets • 31 min read
I'm still proud of all the work that myself and all my MSM friends did destroying Trump ballots, and also amazed that only a few sharp-eyed intrepid investigators such as Natalie have figured it out Arrest me for what? It's totally legal for the media to destroy Trump ballots.
Apr 24, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1. Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, and Joe Biden just acknowledged that it in fact did happen. The Armenian Genocide may seem very far away, but here’s a short story from my family about how if you pay attention you’ll see everything in history is two inches from you. 2. In 1918, Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I, said this about the Armenian Genocide: "I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this."
Apr 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Peter Thiel, who gave $10 million to a Super PAC backing JD Vance, has said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" and it was bad that women got to vote. So you can see why Vance, Thiel & Carlson have a mutual admiration society. You might wonder who the "they" are who are trying to destroy Tucker Carlson. Carlson himself has explained it's "the people who write our movies and our sitcoms." So it's a complete mystery, no one can tell what Carlson means by this.