Congressmen Smear Liberal Reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger as "So-Called Journalists," Pressure Them to Reveal Sources, Claim They Are Motivated Only by "Clicks" and Money (Unlike CNN and MSNBC!!!)

One of the main lines of inquiry by Democrats was, "how do we safeguard citizens' rights to speak freely, and limit the power of government agents to squelch free speech?"

LOL, just kidding you sillyheads.

Their main line of inquiry was pressuring Taibbi and Shellenberger to reveal their sources so that Biden can use the government to target them.

Meanwhile, they claim that this entire committee, about the "weaponization of government," is a farce.

NOW TELL US WHO YOUR SOURCES ARE SO WE CAN INVESTIGATE THEM!

Jonathan Turley
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I have to run to a speech, but I never thought I would come to see this day when Democrats trash journalists for seeking to disclose government censorship work and pressing them for their sources and confidential information...
...They have accused these two journalists as threatening the safety of others by disclosing government censorship efforts. It would all make Joe McCarthy blush.

You can watch just some of these relentless demands for journalists to reveal their sources in this video.

This is being done in combination with another government agency which has been weaponized, the FTC. The FTC is demanding that Musk name any journalists he has spoken with. The FTC claims they're not doing this to pressure and harass Musk until he agrees to sell Twitter to George Soros and Pierre Omidyar; oh dear, no.

For some reason the FTC needs to know what reporters Musk talks to in order to make sure Twitter is properly safeguarding users' personal information.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has told Twitter to provide internal communications, including those regarding CEO Elon Musk, as well as the names of journalists the company has provided internal records to as part of the agency's investigation into it, House Republicans said Tuesday.
The House Judiciary Committee and the select subcommittee probing the "Weaponization of the Federal Government" released an interim staff report on the FTC's interactions with Twitter, accusing the agency of "harassment" of the tech firm.
The report shows that the FTC has sent more than a dozen letters to Twitter since Musk completed his acquisition in October. It states that the agency has demanded Twitter provide internal communications "relating to Elon Musk" from any Twitter employee, information about the platform's Twitter Blue verification subscription service and the names of journalists who were granted access to Twitter records.
Musk has provided records to several journalists since he took over the company as part of the "Twitter Files," which have purportedly shown ways that Twitter and government employees worked to limit or censor certain content on the platform.
An FTC spokesperson told The Hill in a statement that it is conducting the investigation to protect consumers' privacy.

So obviously, there's no "Weaponization of Government" going on at all.

Why are they so determined to find out if Musk talked to Matt Taibbi? I'm not sure, but here's my guess: the SEC, I think, sued Musk a while ago, claiming that his twitter comments about Tesla constituted official corporate claims. Every corporation is regulated as far as what they say about the corporation. This is supposedly to protect investors from false claims, or protect average investors from larger investors having special access to information available only to them.

There was a settlement of that suit, in which Musk agreed to avoid some statements about his companies.

I think the Democrats and the FTC are trying to make a case that if Musk even talks to reporters, he's in violation of his agreement. Then they can bring more government action against him, including even criminal contempt charges maybe, and pressure him to sell Twitter to the Billionaires We Can Trust to Have a Monopoly Ownership on a Vital Means of Communication, George Soros and Pierre Omidyar.

And that, I think, is what all of this relentless bullying to reveal sources and who Musk talks to is about.

Just before he appeared before Congress, Matt Taibbi released one of his most important Twitter Files, this one about what he calls the "Industrial-Censorship Complex" which was born just after Trump's electoral win in 2016/

Glenn Greenwald describes this creation of an entire industry as the Corporate/Regime left (my words) being shocked by Trump's victory in 2016, and then scrambling to guarantee that no Regime candidates would ever lose an election again.

They settled on "Let's just ban all of their speech and keep them from communicating with the public" as their preferred strategy. They couldn't just announce that they were appointing themselves the nation's unelected censors who would rig every single election going forward -- that would be too "blunt," Greenwald says -- so they created the concepts of "disinformation" and "misinformation" to give a plausible justification for why some people's speech would just now have to be suppressed.

To save democracy, you understand.

Taibbi now lays out the main players in this Industrial-Censorship Complex. As usual, I've deleted most of the screenshots and links that serve as evidence for these claims.

[T]he bulk of censorship requests didn't come from government directly.
Asked if Twitter's marketing department could say the company detects "misinfo" with help of "outside experts," a Twitter executive replied:

We came to think of this grouping -- state agencies like DHS, FBI, or the Global Engagement Center (GEC), along with "NGOs that aren't academic" and an unexpectedly aggressive partner, commercial news media -- as the Censorship-Industrial Complex.
Who's in the Censorship-Industrial Complex? Twitter in 2020 helpfully compiled a list for a working group set up in 2020.
The National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council's DFRLab, and Hamilton 68's creator, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, are key[.]
Twitter execs weren't sure about Clemson's Media Forensics Lab ("too chummy with HPSCI"), and weren't keen on the Rand Corporation ("too close to USDOD"), but others were deemed just right.
NGOs ideally serve as a check on corporations and the government. Not long ago, most of these institutions viewed themselves that way. Now, intel officials, "researchers," and executives at firms like Twitter are effectively one team - or Signal group, as it were[.]
The Woodstock of the Censorship-Industrial Complex came when the Aspen Institute - which receives millions a year from both the State Department and USAID - held a star-studded confab in Aspen in August 2021 to release its final report on "Information Disorder."
The report was co-authored by Katie Couric and Chris Krebs, the founder of the DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Yoel Roth of Twitter and Nathaniel Gleicher of Facebook were technical advisors. Prince Harry joined Couric as a Commissioner.
Their taxpayer-backed conclusions: the state should have total access to data to make searching speech easier, speech offenders should be put in a "holding area," and government should probably restrict disinformation, "even if it means losing some freedom."
Note Aspen recommended the power to mandate data disclosure be given to the FTC, which this committee just caught in a clear abuse of office, demanding information from Twitter about communications with (and identities of) #TwitterFiles reporters.
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs

Isn't it odd that the Democrats on the weaponization of government panel spent almost all of their time attempting to advance the FTC's case against Musk! And fought so hard on behalf of the very agency they want to empower as the National Censorship Enforcement Board1

Naturally Twitter's main concern regarding the Aspen report was making sure Facebook got hit harder by any resulting regulatory changes[.]
The same agencies (FBI, DHS/CISA, GEC) invite the same "experts" (Thomas Rid, Alex Stamos), funded by the same foundations (Newmark, Omidyar, Knight) trailed by the same reporters (Margaret Sullivan, Molly McKew, Brandy Zadrozny) seemingly to every conference, every panel.
#TwitterFiles repeatedly show media acting as proxy for NGOs, with Twitter bracing for bad headlines if they don't nix accounts. Here, the Financial Times gives Twitter until end of day to provide a "steer" on whether RFK, Jr. and other vax offenders will be zapped.

We've seen this happen again and again: Twitter actually resists government/Censorship-Industrial Complex demands for censorship, and so the government or Censorship-Industrial Complex leaks to trusted Regime "journalists" to shriek about how irresponsible Twitter is being in not censoring, say, Joe Rogan.

This was Brian Stelter's main role at CNN, delivering the demands of the Censorship-Industrial Complex to the public, and attacking social media companies for not being compliant. It is that bug-eyed little jerk*ff's Oliver Darcy's only job at CNN, pretty much, and of course nasty Regime analinguist Ben Collins fills this role at MSNBC.

The algorithm was always the same:

10 Demand Twitter censor someone.

20 If Twitter does censor that person --> GO TO demanding Twitter censor the *next* person

30 If Twitter does NOT censor that person --> GO TO Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy to scream that Twitter is "aiding RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA OPERATIONS" by not censoring that person

40 If Twitter now censors that person --> GO TO demanding Twitter censor the *next* person

50 If Twitter still does not censor that person --> GO TO Mark Warner, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blumenthal, and Adam Schiff to make threats about regulating Twitter

The #TwitterFiles show the principals of this incestuous self-appointed truth squad moving from law enforcement/intelligence to the private sector and back, claiming a special right to do what they say is bad practice for everyone else: be fact-checked only by themselves.
While Twitter sometimes pushed back on technical analyses from NGOs about who is and isn't a "bot," on subject matter questions like vaccines or elections they instantly defer to sites like Politifact, funded by the same names that fund the NGOs: Koch, Newmark, Knight.

Important point he makes here: Twitter sometimes pushed back against claims which were of a technical nature, like "this account is a bot." If they could see the account was a real user and not a bot, they'd refuse the censorship demand.

But on subject-matter categories for censorship, they almost always deferred to the Censorship-Industrial Complex.

Including Koch.

I want to strip Koch of its right to speak.

Why shouldn't I? They are determined to take away mine.

Well, you say, so what? Why shouldn't civil society organizations and reporters work together to boycott "misinformation"? Isn't that not just an exercise of free speech, but a particularly enlightened form of it?
The difference is, these campaigns are taxpayer-funded. Though the state is supposed to stay out domestic propaganda, the Aspen Institute, Graphika, the Atlantic Council's DFRLab, New America, and other "anti-disinformation" labs are receiving huge public awards.
Some NGOs, like the GEC-funded Global Disinformation Index or the DOD-funded Newsguard, not only seek content moderation but apply subjective "risk" or "reliability" scores to media outlets, which can result in reduction in revenue. Do we want government in this role?

Taibbi notes that the government's first censorship agency, the CIS, is supposed to only monitor foreign propaganda efforts.

So that didn't allow the CIS to do what the Censorship-Industrial Complex wanted most to do: Stop Trump voters and conservatives and other non-compliant dissidents on the left from speaking.

So they began creating government-funded agencies to "fill in the gaps" and pressure tech companies to ban Wrongthinkers who agitated for election outcomes the Regime decided were non-optimal for their interests and therefore illegal.

The "gaps" meaning the appalling permission to speak afforded by the Constitution, which must be stopped by Regime Enforcement Squads.

One of these groups created "to fill in the gaps" between what government was allowed to do and what it was constitutionally forbidden from doing was Stanford's "Election Integrity Partnership," or EIP, which got tens of millions of tweets censored, and is a "government proxy organization."

It's crucial to reiterate: EIP was partnered with state entities like CISA and GEC while seeking elimination of millions of tweets. In the #TwitterFiles, Twitter execs did not distinguish between organizations, using phrases like "According to CIS[A], escalated via EIP."
After the 2020 election, when EIP was renamed the Virality Project, the Stanford lab was on-boarded to Twitter's JIRA ticketing system, absorbing this government proxy into Twitter infrastructure -- with a capability of taking in an incredible 50 million tweets a day.
In one remarkable email, the Virality Project recommends that multiple platforms take action even against "stories of true vaccine side effects" and "true posts which could fuel hesitancy."
None of the leaders of this effort to police Covid speech had health expertise.

They're Regime Agents -- they have all the expertise they need.

This is the Censorship-Industrial Complex at its essence: a bureaucracy willing to sacrifice factual truth in service of broader narrative objectives. It's the opposite of what a free press does.

He notes that the media has made a woman called Renee DiResta the face of "anti-disinformation crusading," endlessly praising her.

The media usually fails to note that... she's a former (?) CIA agent. She's a Regime employee posing as an independent third-party citizen.

This, ultimately, is the most serious problem with the Censorship-Industrial Complex.
Packaged as a bulwark against lies and falsehood, it is itself often a major source of disinformation, with American taxpayers funding their own estrangement from reality.

That's post 36, if you want to continue reading from there. There's more interesting stuff, like the fact that DiResta's CIA front group, I mean independent citizen company New Knowledge helped create the "Hamilton 68" dashboard, which branded thousands of normal patriotic Americans as Russian bots.

Now, for some clips from yesterday's contentious Weaponization of Government panel.

Taibbi explains the motivation of the Industrial-Censorship Complex.

Has he been reading the comments? Say, where did "conservative whose opinions need to be guided" go?

.@mtaibbi on the anti-disinformation complex:

"They believe that ordinary people can't handle difficult truths. And so they think that they need minders to separate out things that are controversial or difficult for them." pic.twitter.com/dHhj0Xvqwc
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 9, 2023

Shellenberger says he has never before worked on a story where he felt so many "chills going down [his] spine" while working on it.

Matt Taibbi informs the so-called congresswoman -- who represents DC, and so is a "non-voting member," and hence not really a congresswoman -- that he is an actual journalist and has the awards and bestsellers to prove it.

Reporter @mtaibbi calls out Ranking Member Plaskett for referring to him as a “so-called journalist”:

“I’ve won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I’ve written 10 books, including four New York Times bestsellers.” pic.twitter.com/6LNOr9HmlP
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 9, 2023

This stupid Fake Congresswoman accused Taibbi and Shellenberger of attempting Literal Violence on poor censors like Yoel Roth. Once again, the left, which is constantly attacking, demonizing, and doxxing the right, asserts that you can never report on any leftist's bad behavior because you will encourage trolls to make fun of them on Twitter and cause Actual Harm.

Michael Shellenberger: Twitter's secret blacklist of top, top epidemiologist Jay Battacharya -- keeping his posts from being shared or even seen, without alerting him to the fact that he had been shadowbanned -- is "Stasi-like" stuff.

.@ShellenbergerMD on Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and other doctors and scientists being blacklisted/censored for Covid "disinformation":

"This is East Germany, Stasi kind of behavior." pic.twitter.com/mAxbr0rHXD
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 9, 2023

Debbie Wasserman-Snaggletooth asserts that Matt Taibbi is lying about what he reported, just to get attention, attract clicks, and make money.

What, does she think he's CNN and MSNBC?!

.@ShellenbergerMD on Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and other doctors and scientists being blacklisted/censored for Covid "disinformation":

"This is East Germany, Stasi kind of behavior." pic.twitter.com/mAxbr0rHXD
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 9, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 03:23 PM

Comments

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1 These people rule you with an iron fist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 10, 2023 03:23 PM (LvTSG)

2 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 10, 2023 03:23 PM (h6/n7)

3 Did Jim Jordan demand, threaten, or have a fiery response?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 03:24 PM (E+05M)

4 Punch it, Chuy!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2023 03:24 PM (2hlEI)

5 Their main line of inquiry was pressuring Taibbi and Shellenberger to reveal their sources so that Biden can use the government to target them.

hold the line

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:25 PM (9qHsE)

6 So, again.

If they've been doing all this shit that we *know* about... WTF else have they been doing for so many years?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2023 03:26 PM (llON8)

7 Why are they suddenly willing to show their hand?

Posted by: Chillin the most at March 10, 2023 03:26 PM (0uQp2)

8 5 Their main line of inquiry was pressuring Taibbi and Shellenberger to reveal their sources so that Biden can use the government to target them.

hold the line
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:25 PM (9qHsE)

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Suggested addendum: Laugh at the fools and call them stupid, silly, unserious people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 10, 2023 03:27 PM (LvTSG)

9 Nick Pickles? Really?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:27 PM (EZaTx)

10 Weft's Bill of Governmental Communications to Social Media Platforms:

All communications from any Federal agency, politician, 3rd party contractor to any and all social media platforms must be delivered and responded to on said platforms viewable by all users at all times without charge, restriction, or hinderance.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2023 03:27 PM (jzzG8)

11 Oh they want Musk bad. He bought twitter and choked off a very large propaganda source. Where people can be tracked, shadow banned, turned in, silenced, etc.

He is dangerous to them. You always know who they fear the most.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:27 PM (9qHsE)

12 Accident on way home, I'm fine, truck's fine, other guy fine, Hyundai are plastic so needs some glue.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 03:28 PM (xhxe8)

13 I'm so old that I remember when journalists were heroes for "speaking truth to power" and whistle-blowers were heroes for exposing sinister doings.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

14 Col Mustard > Nick Pickles

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 10, 2023 03:28 PM (i0Kzs)

15 Nick Pickles. Snort.

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2023 03:29 PM (PCK5/)

16 To save democracy, you understand.
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Our Democracy demands censorship to guarantee its survival.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:29 PM (t0OGg)

17 At least Congressman and Senators are lining up with Marxists or Uniparty so easy to see who needs to go.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 03:29 PM (xhxe8)

18 12 Wow, Skip, glad you’re OK. Was it weather related?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:29 PM (EZaTx)

19 Taibbi has bigger balls than the GOP. For sure.

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2023 03:29 PM (PCK5/)

20 Accident on way home, I'm fine, truck's fine, other guy fine, Hyundai are plastic so needs some glue.
Posted by: Skip

Whoa! Skip - glad everyone is okay.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2023 03:29 PM (qoGsy)

21 When liberals say omg this is just like McCarthy are they unaware that McCarthy was correct?

Posted by: NCKate at March 10, 2023 03:30 PM (d5Qya)

22 Their taxpayer-backed conclusions: the state should have total access to data to make searching speech easier, speech offenders should be put in a "holding area," and government should probably restrict disinformation, "even if it means losing some freedom."
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And the fact that this is not just flatly unconstitutional but also deeply evil doesn't seem to occurred to them...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:30 PM (t0OGg)

23 "This is East Germany, Stasi kind of behavior."

Good stuff, Chuy. That is precisely what this is. It should scare the bejesus out of every sane American.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 10, 2023 03:30 PM (Xrfse)

24 This fascist dystopia sucks. I want a better one.

Posted by: This is just no fun at all at March 10, 2023 03:30 PM (La8Fd)

25 They are not Democrats, they are Socialists.

Posted by: runner at March 10, 2023 03:31 PM (EeVCB)

26 Col Mustard > Nick Pickles >>Teresa Heinz-Kerry

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 03:31 PM (E+05M)

27 They believe that ordinary people can't handle difficult truths. And so they think that they need minders to separate out things that are controversial or difficult for them."

People can't.

The median IQ may be necessarily 100.

But the mode IQ is retarded.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 10, 2023 03:31 PM (lCH0S)

28 Never in all my years have I seen such insipid, insidious, unconscionable, and unconstitutional behavior from Democrats. These people are not just dumb, they're dangerous. What they are doing in essence is to completely obliterate the First Amendment and advocate for the government being weaponized to do so. That is, they want to use your government to silence political dissention they don't agree with.

These Democrats should be run out of Congress as that undertaking violates the oath they took as a "representative" of the people. Yet here they are calling for illegal activity- all to protect the fact they were caught red handed using the government as a means for their unconstitutional schemes. Alea iacta est.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2023 03:31 PM (J47y1)

29 Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

Ferris was right. And I missed it. Should've stopped and looked around once on a while.

Posted by: Life passes you by in the blink of an eye at March 10, 2023 03:32 PM (La8Fd)

30 Stasi can learn a thing or two from them.

Posted by: runner at March 10, 2023 03:32 PM (EeVCB)

31 Damn Ace, CHONKY content

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at March 10, 2023 03:32 PM (xcxpd)

32 10 Demand Twitter censor someone.

20 If Twitter does censor that person --> GO TO demanding Twitter censor the *next* person

30 If Twitter does NOT censor that person --> GO TO Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy to scream that Twitter is "aiding RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA OPERATIONS" by not censoring that person

40 If Twitter now censors that person --> GO TO demanding Twitter censor the *next* person

50 If Twitter still does not censor that person --> GO TO Mark Warner, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blumenthal, and Adam Schiff to make threats about regulating Twitter

hehe, Ace Code

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:32 PM (9qHsE)

33 >But for the wokie woke parallel, Women declare another woman (or man) to join them in the powerlifting. Declare the other a "service" partner (like a service dog, or service pony on a plane), and psychologically, they cannot lift without her/him. Or just say the two of them are one. Put them on the spot to point out what clowns they are.

Nancy Kerrigan laughs at the quaintness of your plan.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2023 03:33 PM (44ww/)

34 19 Taibbi has bigger balls than the GOP. For sure.
Posted by: tubal

To be fair, Pee Wee Herman has larger balls than the GOP.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 03:33 PM (E+05M)

35 A person is smart. People are dumb, dangerous, panicky animals and you know it!

Posted by: Agent K at March 10, 2023 03:33 PM (La8Fd)

36 Accident on way home, I'm fine, truck's fine, other guy fine, Hyundai are plastic so needs some glue.
Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 03:28 PM (xhxe8 )

Glad you're okay, Skip! I'm not looking forward to driving home. It's been snowing for 5 straight hours.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (DRSnL)

37 Whoa! Skip - glad everyone is okay.
Posted by: Tonypete

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (T4tVD)

38 Who's the blonde little piggie?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (tiR3O)

39 So anonymous sources are no bueno now?

Huh.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (zRKru)

40 He is dangerous to them. You always know who they fear the most.
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:27 PM (9qHsE)

Plus you just KNOW these dickheads used DMs to coordinate their illegal behavior. I have no doubt Musk archived dirt on any number of people.

Posted by: trev006 at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (DTm0P)

41 NGOs ideally serve as a check on corporations and the government

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That's the funniest sentence I've read all day.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (wb1YC)

42 San Diego Teacher of the Year rearrested for three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and three counts of oral copulation with a child under 14.

https://tinyurl.com/bdnvas4x

When commenting for her teacher of the year award, she said she “considers the relationships she maintains with her students her greatest accomplishments.”

I bet.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (PyOKD)

43 Censorship is like Genital Warts. They smell, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2023 03:34 PM (tiR3O)

44 Glad you're okay, Skip! I'm not looking forward to driving home. It's been snowing for 5 straight hours.
Posted by: Jordan61

ew

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (T4tVD)

45 And who is that nasty flab-body ignoramus from the VI and why do they even have a representative. Shouldn't we just sink those islands?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (J47y1)

46 So women are being canceled, Christians are being canceled, Jews are being canceled…. who else, or what next???

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (PCK5/)

47 Nancy Kerrigan or Tonya Harding?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (EZaTx)

48
The algorithm was always the same:

10 Demand Twitter censor someone.

We were just recently commenting - on the AM/PM Tech Thread with Pixy - that anyone who still uses line numbers to illustrate code is really, really old.

Time for a Congressional investigation of 29 year old status.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (enJYY)

49 I want to strip Koch of its right to speak.

Why shouldn't I? They are determined to take away mine.
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Because that's "hypocritical".

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (zRKru)

50 41 NGOs ideally serve as a check on corporations and the government
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That's the funniest sentence I've read all day.
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Snort.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (tiR3O)

51 They are not Democrats, they are Socialists.

I'm not sure that they even fit that classic definition. They are hybrids indicative of new, uncharted territory. Sobering and disturbing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

52 #TwitterFiles repeatedly show media acting as proxy for NGOs, with Twitter bracing for bad headlines if they don't nix accounts. Here, the Financial Times gives Twitter until end of day to provide a "steer" on whether RFK, Jr. and other vax offenders will be zapped.
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I shant believe it. I shan not!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (t0OGg)

53 I know that's been a slippery process, so I;m not sure you want our public explanation to hang our hat on that. -Nick Pickles

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TRANSLATION: Let us slip our pickle in you, but just the tip.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 10, 2023 03:36 PM (ykeLU)

54 Did Jim Jordan demand, threaten, or have a fiery response?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 03:24 PM (E+05M)

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It would have been nice if he acted similarly to how Adam Schiff treated his Republican colleagues on his committee in the past.

But that's not who Jordan is.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 10, 2023 03:36 PM (TNyrE)

55 "They believe that ordinary people can't handle difficult truths. And so they think that they need minders to separate out things that are controversial or difficult for them."

nah, they did not want people to realize the extent of damage the poison was doing - this was about money

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (9qHsE)

56 Iffn you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (uNylN)

57 Important point he makes here: Twitter sometimes pushed back against claims which were of a technical nature, like "this account is a bot." If they could see the account was a real user and not a bot, they'd refuse the censorship demand.

But on subject-matter categories for censorship, they almost always deferred to the Censorship-Industrial Complex.
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This is right and proper. Twitter are experts on who is or is not a bot. They are not experts in the other subject matter areas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (t0OGg)

58
War and peace. The blog.

Posted by: Auspex at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (8sKSX)

59 Glad you're okay, Skip! I'm not looking forward to driving home. It's been snowing for 5 straight hours.
Posted by: Jordan61

Jordan671, drive safe. Skip, be well.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (PyOKD)

60 While the Left were supposedly promoting women nonstop in 2018ish, I was heard to often be warning that women were, in fact, their next victim.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (zRKru)

61 Outstanding post, Ace.

Howdy Hordelings! Last night in Ireland. Hositing pints in honor of the Horde!

Posted by: Doof at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (QZmS9)

62 "I want to strip Koch of its right to speak.

Why shouldn't I? They are determined to take away mine."

Yes, this is the necessary abandonment of pacifism as an approach.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 03:38 PM (eYoxG)

63 They're Regime Agents -- they have all the expertise they need.
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Which is also why it's flatly illegal. We're post-law now and so it doesn't matter, but *none* of this is even remotely legal. It doesn't matter how hard you squint at the words or how drunk you get before reading them, this is against the law.

It must be nice to be above that law, eh?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:38 PM (t0OGg)

64 Wouldn't doubt a high percentage of teachers are child groomers these days

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 03:38 PM (xhxe8)

65 Michael Shellenberger: Twitter's secret blacklist of top, top epidemiologist Jay Battacharya -- keeping his posts from being shared or even seen, without alerting him to the fact that he had been shadowbanned -- is "Stasi-like" stuff.

yep

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:38 PM (9qHsE)

66 -Did you make money reporting on this? DID YOU?!?!

-Well, I'm a reporter. That's what I get paid to do.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 10, 2023 03:39 PM (/qnK5)

67 Astounding and sickening ... they are happy to go full Stasi, they want blood. Mass hysteria is their friend.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2023 03:39 PM (Cus5s)

68 I've looked around at life. It's mostly overrated.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:39 PM (zRKru)

69 Well, I guess Nick Pickles is a better name than Dick Pyx.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:39 PM (EZaTx)

70 Pickels the firehouse cat > Col Mustard > Nick Pickles

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 10, 2023 03:40 PM (DbIL9)

71 The best and brightest doctors were silenced. The ones that knew more than all of the propogandists combined and covered for Fauxci

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:40 PM (9qHsE)

72 "They believe that ordinary people can't handle difficult truths. And so they think that they need minders to separate out things that are controversial or difficult for them."
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Taibbi is being far, far too generous with them. This is not the motivation. This may be what they tell each other - or even themselves - but this isn't it.

It isn't that "the people" "can't handle difficult truths" it's that these truths are difficult for the ruling elite. Nothing more or less. If people know this information, they might question their rulers. That's is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:40 PM (t0OGg)

73 Suggested addendum: Laugh at the fools and call them stupid, silly, unserious people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 10, 2023 03:27 PM (LvTSG)

agreed
mocking is the best medicine

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:40 PM (9qHsE)

74 Hey, Doof! What’d you get me?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (EZaTx)

75 ew
Posted by: JT at March 10, 2023 03:35 PM (T4tVD)

Ew, indeed.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (DRSnL)

76 Nick Pickles? Really?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:27 PM (EZaTx)

***

What's the big deal...

Posted by: Dick Trickle at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (flINI)

77 [iWell, I guess Nick Pickles is a better name than Dick Pyx.]

piker

Posted by: Heywood Jablome at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (Xrfse)

78 The Aspen Institute counts among its members- Katie Couric and Prince Harry.

The Aspen Institute calls for indefinite detention of anyone that voices views contrary to The Aspen Institute.

Posted by: Ktgreat at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (ei7q6)

79 Whatever.

Looking forward, my wife will be home in about 3 hours and there's a greater than even chance she'll give me the ole sucky fucky no bucky... Given that she's a smoking hot Zumba instructor with a taste for the Big O, I Must Not Fap....

Posted by: Just Sayin at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (f7coe)

80 Things are occurring that would normally bring down whole governments.

I'm talking a parade of shackled officials on television.

Yet, nothing will happen.

It's a very slow descent into totalitarianism.

You can see it. You can feel it. You know it will get worse. And you know no one will stop it.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (JkBOu)

81 Howdy Hordelings! Last night in Ireland. Hositing pints in honor of the Horde!
Posted by: Doof at March 10, 2023 03:37 PM (QZmS9)

Hey, one of my cousins is visiting Ireland. Say hi to her for me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (DRSnL)

82 Michael Shellenberger: Twitter's secret blacklist of top, top epidemiologist Jay Battacharya -- keeping his posts from being shared or even seen, without alerting him to the fact that he had been shadowbanned -- is "Stasi-like" stuff.
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It is. It's also Soviet-like stuff. It's also Red-China-Like stuff. Go on and on down the list.

Totalitarians are more alike than they are different. The comparisons to "Stasi" or "KGB" or "Gestapo" or "Red Guard" are useful shortcuts, but they can all be used interchangeably. The root cancer is totalitarianism, which is why totalitarians all look more or less alike.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

83 What happens if you say something positive about...oh, I dunno'...Trump?

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2023 03:42 PM (AwYPR)

84 Helena, the " you " in the previous post wasn't directed at you specifically . You are an ette of good quality, outstanding character and your moron credit score is probably much higher than mine . I would break bread with you any day and twice on Sundays.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 10, 2023 03:42 PM (DbIL9)

85 Jordan671, drive safe. Skip, be well.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2023 03:43 PM (T4tVD)

86 And that, I think, is what all of this relentless bullying to reveal sources and who Musk talks to is about.

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Good insight, Ace -- that makes sense; I thought the line of questioning was idiotic, and fully in line with the level of idiocy I expected from the members of the Totalitarian Death Cult.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at March 10, 2023 03:43 PM (ngTlu)

87 Ace, slinging some BASIC.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at March 10, 2023 03:43 PM (516e+)

88 What happens if you say something positive about...oh, I dunno'...Trump?
Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2023 03:42 PM (AwYPR)
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Insurrectiony.

Whitish supremo.

Off to the gallium arsenide mines.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2023 03:43 PM (2hlEI)

89 The San Diego Teacher of the year looks pretty hot.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 03:43 PM (E+05M)

90 JonathanTurley

I have to run to a speech, but I never thought I would come to see this day when Democrats trash journalists for seeking to disclose government censorship work and pressing them for their sources and confidential informatio

emph mine

Really Turley? It's something you should've foreseen a loooonnngg tiime ago.

So gang, are we still going with high IQ smart people are so much more competent than the rest?

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2023 03:44 PM (786Ro)

91 It isn't that "the people" "can't handle difficult truths" it's that these truths are difficult for the ruling elite. Nothing more or less. If people know this information, they might question their rulers. That's is.

They want to have an army of Winston Smiths - the kind at the start of the book not the end - and for the same reason Big Brother wanted them

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2023 03:44 PM (lc5cP)

92 Hey, Doof! What’d you get me?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (EZaTx)

Got you a leprechaun. Lil fooker better fit in my luggage!

Posted by: Doof at March 10, 2023 03:44 PM (QZmS9)

93 It's a very slow descent into totalitarianism.

You can see it. You can feel it. You know it will get worse. And you know no one will stop it.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (JkBOu)

This is where I was in 2008.

There is much more to see. Crazy as it sounds, most of this bad news is abject undeniable proof of the Good News.

In the meantime, my prediction? Pain.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (zRKru)

94 Buy stock in Victory Gin.

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (PCK5/)

95 your moron credit score is probably much higher than mine

I'm about ready to file for bankruptcy with the AoSHQ court. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (Xrfse)

96 It isn't that "the people" "can't handle difficult truths" it's that these truths are difficult for the ruling elite. Nothing more or less. If people know this information, they might question their rulers. That's is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:40 PM (t0OGg)

exactly, and they made $billions

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (9qHsE)

97 if you look and see life before it passes you by

then the present will certainly depress you

a lose lose

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (us2H3)

98 Hey, one of my cousins is visiting Ireland. Say hi to her for me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2023 03:41 PM (DRSnL)

I'll look for the bacon lass!

Posted by: Doof at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (QZmS9)

99 Nancy Kerrigan or Tonya Harding?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Tonya Harding.

Upon reflection, this choice explains many past experiences.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (qoGsy)

100 Joe Mannix Johnson is right. And just in general, these two guys, plus many others, are always understating the case by about 93%. But some of that is probably because of their lack of substantive heft.

Turley is an amusing/sad case. He clearly is bright and also clearly has a real understanding of the American constitutional system, the law, etc. But his ingenuous, almost pathetic observations of completely routine things - like Dems being clumsy brazen stupid totalitarians with no trace of an American mindset - are really something.

The mindless generally poorly informed tribal/social/emotional self-definition in political terms cripples the country, but it's striking to see it in a genuine intellectually serious expert. Well at least he's moving the correct direction, I guess.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (OTzUX)

101 63 They're Regime Agents -- they have all the expertise they need.
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Which is also why it's flatly illegal. We're post-law now and so it doesn't matter, but *none* of this is even remotely legal. It doesn't matter how hard you squint at the words or how drunk you get before reading them, this is against the law.

It must be nice to be above that law, eh?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 03:38 PM (t0OGg)

And the error in rules-based or delegated power-based thinking lead us here. Power is frequently seized and control over power must be actively contested. Just because the rules say they can't do something or they haven't been delegated the power to do what they're doing, means nothing so long as there isn't another power to press the issue.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 03:46 PM (eYoxG)

102 You can see it. You can feel it. You know it will get worse. And you know no one will stop it.

The first thing the Junta/left did was to destroy or co-opt every organization that might oppose them

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2023 03:46 PM (lc5cP)

103 In the meantime, my prediction? Pain.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM (zRKru)
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They will make you long for something as sweet as pain.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2023 03:46 PM (2hlEI)

104 Claim They Are Motivated Only by "Clicks" and Money (Unlike CNN and MSNBC!!!)

Money for nuthin'
And your clicks for free

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2023 03:46 PM (786Ro)

105 I must be really misguided on the Twitter Files thing.

How can there be any question "who" Taibbi got his stuff from? Didn't Musk give him (selective) keys to the Twitter internal document kingdom? Isn't that where this comes from?

Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2023 03:46 PM (OTzUX)

106 >>99 Nancy Kerrigan or Tonya Harding?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Harding has had every dick in the pron industry inside her so, neither.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 03:47 PM (E+05M)

107 So gang, are we still going with high IQ smart people are so much more competent than the rest?

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2023 03:44 PM (786Ro)

Independent thought is much more valuable than IQ. We have much to learn even from those with Downs Syndrome.

It's the 115 IQ self-proclaimed geniuses who have nothing to teach us except how to be less like them.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:47 PM (zRKru)

108 In the meantime, my prediction? Pain.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM

Rocky III > Picard

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2023 03:47 PM (786Ro)

109 Doof is bringing home gifts from Ireland?

I want a cable knit sweater please.
And a bottle of Irish.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2023 03:48 PM (W2Pud)

110 Taibbi was really impressive I thought

Skip I'm glad you're ok!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 10, 2023 03:48 PM (w0NJk)

111 My only time in Ireland was a plane stop over for a hour maybe.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 03:50 PM (xhxe8)

112 Ace, this is a thorough post. Better than any media.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 10, 2023 03:50 PM (DcKNO)

113 NGOs ideally serve as a check on corporations and the government.

lol

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2023 03:50 PM (786Ro)

114 Have any of the committee members (GOP, obviously) bothered to note along the way that in 100% of the cases, the *Regime Dogma was incorrect, disinformation*?? On every big subject: "mitigation" of an epidemic in all its forms, vaccines, "Russian" interference/involvement in anything Trump or Hunter Biden, everything. Everything.

I get that this about the law and constitution and principle of an open society vs. an authoritarian one, but it's nice seasoning to drive the point home that 100% of the censors' positions/viewpoints/official dogma was completely wrong, and those being persecuted were completely right.

As was obvious to most - and explicable by uncontested facts - in most cases, all along or from very early on.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2023 03:51 PM (OTzUX)

115 I have an outside partnership with my Shaman.

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2023 03:51 PM (786Ro)

116 Apparently Silicon Valley Bank had $161 billion in deposits, of which $152B was UNinsured.

Lots of Valley companies had their money in there. Even more were signed up with third-party payroll services that used SVB.

Those companies are not going to make payroll -- the $250K the FDIC will fork out to those with INSURED deposits isn't going to be nearly enough.

Ah, well. Learn to code! Oh, wait.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2023 03:51 PM (bW8dp)

117 Where are the self-appointed guardians of our liberties? You know, the courts. Where the fuck are they? What a worthless bunch they are.

Posted by: Republic Theatre, brought to you by Pfizer! at March 10, 2023 03:51 PM (V4vPN)

118 "How can there be any question "who" Taibbi got his stuff from? Didn't Musk give him (selective) keys to the Twitter internal document kingdom? Isn't that where this comes from?"

yeah, idk. Perhaps they are reading the comments provided by Musk, but not revealing whose emails those are?

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2023 03:51 PM (Cus5s)

119

...

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at March 10, 2023 03:51 PM (vwCZJ)

120 108 In the meantime, my prediction? Pain.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 03:45 PM

That is teh Hawt!

Posted by: Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam at March 10, 2023 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

121 Free Trump Take America Back 2024 hats, there will be emails daily for two years though, right?

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 03:52 PM (xhxe8)

122 Ace uses "Goto" in his code. Don't quit your day job.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 10, 2023 03:52 PM (fRfT8)

123 The winds blowing pretty good out thar, first drops of rain have begun to fall.

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2023 03:52 PM (T4tVD)

124 Great post.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 10, 2023 03:52 PM (8SBT0)

125 good people never believe people can be bad

until they feel the blood flow from their throats

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2023 03:53 PM (us2H3)

126 Doof is bringing home gifts from Ireland?

I want a cable knit sweater please.
And a bottle of Irish.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2023 03:48 PM (W2Pud)
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I'll take a pot of gold stolen from a leprechaun. Shifty bastards...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2023 03:53 PM (YIVH2)

127 In an earlier America/different universe, some NGOs in fact were checks on guvamint and corporations, they were independent sources of influence, information, etc.

Such NGOs probably still exist, but they tend to be small, narrowly focused. The larger ones have all long since succumbed to being co-opted by both guvamint and corporations, or much worse.

A truly pluralist society has lots of centers of information, influence, even power to some extent. Part of the basic design.

Oh well.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2023 03:53 PM (OTzUX)

128 Didn’t know that Tonya did pron.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 10, 2023 03:53 PM (ffbyg)

129 When are we going to find the source of Trump's BAD BREATH ????

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at March 10, 2023 03:55 PM (snpvX)

130 the left is on total war footing

the right aint even got their socks on

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2023 03:55 PM (us2H3)

131 Where has the ACLU been in all of this? If they aren't completely full of s*** (Narrator: they are) this is exactly what they were created to fight.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2023 03:55 PM (eOEVl)

132 I am still stunned from watching this yesterday, great post as usual

Posted by: Summer at March 10, 2023 03:55 PM (jsPCp)

133 I keep saying the left can't get any crazier but it looks like they just fucking don't care. they're not crazy, they're fucking soviet level morons bent on power.

this shit went down during trump's time because ... well he didn't put his people in charge. Mitch tried to stop him but trump could've done more.

IDK, moving to desantis cause at least desantis has like a dozen Florida men nicknamed Gator who are ride or die.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 10, 2023 03:56 PM (MLrvz)

134 116 Apparently Silicon Valley Bank had $161 billion in deposits, of which $152B was UNinsured.

Lots of Valley companies had their money in there. Even more were signed up with third-party payroll services that used SVB.

Those companies are not going to make payroll -- the $250K the FDIC will fork out to those with INSURED deposits isn't going to be nearly enough.

Ah, well. Learn to code! Oh, wait.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2023 03:51 PM (bW8dp)

It depends on how the bankruptcy court handles it and also how well set up The depositers are with other sources of credits. From the sound of things this looks mostly unwindable. Currently I'd expect the recovery rate to be decently high.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 03:56 PM (eYoxG)

135 I still think about an NPC complaining abotu MAGA republicans who are pro-censorship (ie. no kid sex stuff in grade schools)...like wow, you're completely blocked on new neural inputs, eh?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 10, 2023 03:57 PM (MLrvz)

136 You do want the government to work with the private sector to prevent foreign interference in our elections, DON'T YOU!!!!

Well, yes....

Ok, the government will do that and to be effective, it will continue to use the 6 degrees of separation test, or the Kevin Bacon test for short, to determine the connection to a foreign power, but only if the connection is for example Russian and not, say, Chinese, or Iranian or our other allies combined with analysis on how much the message deviates from official government proclamation, but mostly the latter and will be supervised by people like Nina Jankowicz, expert in disinformation to work closely with our private sector partners in patriotism.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2023 03:57 PM (fs1hN)

137 Joe Mannix, hence the second part of my catch-all term for this trend/mindset/group of people: racist-totalitarians.

Racist either explicitly, implicitly, or de facto.

Totalitarian, thoroughly.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2023 03:57 PM (OTzUX)

138 Back in the days of USENET, a kill file could "protect" you from the posts and comments from those you deemed as trolls.

Maybe Twitter could introduce something like that and each user could actually protect xerself. What a concept!

But I'm sure there are so many lazy users, they couldn't be bothered to click on a button, much less edit a file, and keep the trolls at bay.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (TNyrE)

139 Wait! Katie Couric and Prince harry are among the gatekeepers of information and speech? That adds a whole new level of stupidly to this. I wanted at least evil geniuses least lording over us.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (cUYo/)

140 130 the left is on total war footing

the right aint even got their socks on

////

uh, charlie's in the wire. we got zipperheads in HQ. just drop the napalm on my position.

yeah, we know our entire GOP leadership class is stone cold swamp. look how they attacked tucker.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (MLrvz)

141 What is Dorcus Blimeline's purpose and infatuation with Trump's breath ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (snpvX)

142 To save democracy, you understand.

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Out: Democracy Dies in Darkness.
In: Democracy Dies Because SHUT UP!

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (gSOJh)

143 ACLU?

Lol

Apart from scant, clearly pro forma exceptions, no effort on behalf of liberty in decades. Enormous efforts to undermine the rule of law, clearly driven by a racist-totalitarian (i.e. "progressive") mindset.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2023 03:59 PM (OTzUX)

144 hehe, Ace Code
Posted by: artisanal ette

The IDEs of March.

Posted by: DaveA at March 10, 2023 04:00 PM (FhXTo)

145 What is Dorcus Blimeline's purpose and infatuation with Trump's breath ????
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (snpvX)
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Must be "Paul" wearing a different sock...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2023 04:00 PM (YIVH2)

146 AOSHQ = Nurturing paradise

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2023 04:01 PM (786Ro)

147 Ah, well. Learn to code! Oh, wait.

Some execs are going to be coding soon. Hope their defibrillators are ready to go.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 10, 2023 04:01 PM (Bd6X8)

148 What is Dorcus Blimeline's purpose and infatuation with Trump's breath ????
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (snpvX)
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Pretty sure Dorcus is a Moron having some fun a la Mary Cloggenstien.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2023 04:01 PM (2hlEI)

149 good people never believe people can be bad

until they feel the blood flow from their throats

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2023 03:53 PM (us2H3)

I think you'll find Christians (for example) are well aware of man's capacity for evil and have been sounding the jingle bells about it for some time.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 04:02 PM (zRKru)

150 What is Dorcus Blimeline's purpose and infatuation with Trump's breath ????
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (snpvX)
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Pretty sure Dorcus is a Moron having some fun a la Mary Cloggenstien.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2023 04:01 PM (2hlEI)
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Weirdly, Dorcus and Ferd have the same hash (snpvX)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2023 04:02 PM (YIVH2)

151 >The depositers are with other sources of credits. From the sound of things this looks mostly unwindable. Currently I'd expect the recovery rate to be decently high.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 03:56 PM (eYoxG)

Reportedly 30% of Y Combinator-backed startups say they will NOT make payroll next week.

Yeah, everyone will probably get paid eventually, but their own bills aren't due "eventually".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2023 04:02 PM (bW8dp)

152 DiResta's CIA front group, I mean independent citizen company New Knowledge helped create the "Hamilton 68" dashboard, which branded thousands of normal patriotic Americans as Russian bots.
________

That seems to be a bad link.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 10, 2023 04:03 PM (TgBWG)

153 But I'm sure there are so many lazy users, they couldn't be bothered to click on a button, much less edit a file, and keep the trolls at bay.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (TNyrE)

Trolls = Clicks and Views

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 04:03 PM (zRKru)

154 Weirdly, Dorcus and Ferd have the same hash (snpvX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2023 04:02 PM (YIVH2)
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You astonish me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2023 04:03 PM (2hlEI)

155 Ok, I read the whole thing before commenting. Now I am claiming my time.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2023 04:04 PM (iayUP)

156 Democrats demand journalists reveal their sources but don't ask Adam Schiff to provide evidence of Trump's wrongdoing.

Weird, huh?

Posted by: dantesed at March 10, 2023 04:04 PM (193FS)

157 I keep saying the left can't get any crazier

sockamster
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You have literally discovered the Hold My Beer of political thought.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2023 04:05 PM (zRKru)

158 "Congressmen Smear Liberal Reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger as "So-Called Journalists," Pressure Them to Reveal Sources, Claim They Are Motivated Only by "Clicks" and Money"

Leaders of religions reserve their maximum hate for apostates who publicly denounce their former religion. The leaders of the new Leftist Religion are no different.

The Leftist Religion is much the same as Islam, IMHO. Both divide the world into the House of Submission and the House of War. Leftist Sharia Law is sternly enforced in the House of Submission. Constant assaults are made on the House of War - it is a holy duty.

One of the few differences between the Leftist Religion and Islam is that Leftism does not allow a person to pay a Jizya tax after his land is conquered and becomes part of the House of Submission. A person who does not submit is constantly harassed and punished.

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2023 04:05 PM (AMIL/)

159 NewNeo has a video up of a Congressman ( woman) asking Matt and going round and round, trying to get his source for the Twitter files.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 04:05 PM (xhxe8)

160 I wonder how long it'll be before FedGov just stops dealing with the MSM and goes straight to FedGov Newz. Take everything off the cable/air except for state sanctioned propaganda and cut out the middleman... Soviet style.

No uncomfortable questions, no unfounded rumors about government malfeasance, no drama queens sucking up the air, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2023 04:05 PM (Q4IgG)

161 Joe Mannix, hence the second part of my catch-all term for this trend/mindset/group of people: racist-totalitarians.

Racist either explicitly, implicitly, or de facto.

Totalitarian, thoroughly.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2023 03:57 PM (OTzUX)
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Yup. Different rationale, different official enemies from some prior forms of the game, but the game itself is what it has always been.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:06 PM (t0OGg)

162
Uh huh. If you're a company and Uncle Sam wants your data or access to your API, then 99.9% of the time they are going to get it, by one means or another.

I won't go into many details, but I worked for one of the rare-as-hen's-teeth software companies that successfully resisted the onslaught (until it went bankrupt for other reasons), so I've seen all the stages of government "pressure."

They do not - ever - let up.

But most software companies never see any of that stuff, because they drop to their knees and smile like a donut when their dirty Uncle whips it out.

Twitter is one of those.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2023 04:06 PM (oINRc)

163 Doof is bringing home gifts from Ireland?

I want a cable knit sweater please.
And a bottle of Irish.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2023 03:48 PM (W2Pud)
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I'll take a pot of gold stolen from a leprechaun. Shifty bastards...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2023 03:53 PM (YIVH2)

*Judge Smails voice on*
You'll get nothing and like it!

Posted by: Doof at March 10, 2023 04:06 PM (QZmS9)

164 151 >The depositers are with other sources of credits. From the sound of things this looks mostly unwindable. Currently I'd expect the recovery rate to be decently high.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 03:56 PM (eYoxG)

Reportedly 30% of Y Combinator-backed startups say they will NOT make payroll next week.

Yeah, everyone will probably get paid eventually, but their own bills aren't due "eventually".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2023 04:02 PM (bW8dp)

They don't regularly withdraw the whole amount and FDIC has said "The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week."

Normal cash reserves should tide them over for a bit(if paid out rapidly by the conservatorship) and reporting has the assets as being largely government debt, which is pretty liquid and won't take an enormous haircut to resell.

Again it does depend on how they handle it but it should be possible to do relatively smoothly in this particular case.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 04:06 PM (eYoxG)

165 But I'm sure there are so many lazy users, they couldn't be bothered to click on a button, much less edit a file, and keep the trolls at bay.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 10, 2023 03:58 PM (TNyrE)
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Twitter has a "mute" function to keep "muted" accounts' content from appearing on your timeline.

But this is only a partial answer. Those who don't log into Twitter or who don't have Twitter accounts can't use the "mute" function and so could be exposed to dangerous disinformation. Really, it's better to just censor...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:07 PM (t0OGg)

166 You know, learn to code is like Doc Holliday challenging you to a spelling bee.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 10, 2023 04:07 PM (likVb)

167 Yoel Roth of Twitter and Nathaniel Gleicher of Facebook were technical advisors. Prince Harry joined Couric as a Commissioner.

---------

BWAHAHAHA. Literal flaming-boner ClownWorld strikes again! A verified pedo and likely pedo-adjacent?

"Well, two out of four ain't bad ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at March 10, 2023 04:08 PM (gSOJh)

168 NewNeo has a video up of a Congressman ( woman) asking Matt and going round and round, trying to get his source for the Twitter files.

She's trying to get him to tell her who should be targeted next. They're interfering with the march towards totalitarianism and that bothers her.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 10, 2023 04:08 PM (Bd6X8)

169 Plaskett, Garcia, Wasserman Schultz. . . How much more cuntefaction is America going to bear?

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at March 10, 2023 04:08 PM (WusEB)

170 Ace, you've got the Town Hall Cammack clip up twice.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:09 PM (4VwiF)

171 Schiff never had to show the receipts because as was his go to constantly, the evidence is right there in plain sight.

Truth is the tree felled in the forest with no one around to see, hear, or notice it at all. Now just add the proper narrative, repeated enough and voila.

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2023 04:09 PM (3byMq)

172 The IDEs of March.
Posted by: DaveA at March 10, 2023 04:00 PM (FhXTo)
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That be rayciss..what master/slave.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 10, 2023 04:10 PM (2YtOq)

173 Not the Bee:
A 35-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested for shooting 9 CHILDREN at a Georgia gas station 10 days ago. Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2023 04:11 PM (fs1hN)

174 I would never have the presence of mind that Taibbi and Shellenberger have. They are heroes. And their primary talents are in print.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:11 PM (4VwiF)

175 Twitter file#18 censorship -industrial complex
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/
1633830002742657027.html

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 04:11 PM (xhxe8)

176 I yield back the balance of my time.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2023 04:12 PM (fs1hN)

177 "Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?
Posted by: Chuck Martel "

I have. According to they mommas, they was nice boys and they was just turning they life around.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2023 04:12 PM (iayUP)

178 Is Chuckles a lion of the Senate or is he just a lying, corrupt pos? I have a tough time telling the difference.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at March 10, 2023 04:13 PM (VdGjU)

179 really, there's a low barrier to be a journalist...(obviously)..so arguing a guy who is doing a journalism ins't a journalist is smooth brain.

The only non-journalist example I can think of are those anti-fa goons wearing press credentials during the moderate democrats' state sponsored rioting ... their job being to shield other antifa goons from being ID'd and from letting the normals know what fasch shit the moderate democrats normally do

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 10, 2023 04:13 PM (MLrvz)

180 "NewNeo has a video up of a Congressman ( woman) asking Matt and going round and round, trying to get his source for the Twitter files."

as rhomboid mentioned, don't they know it came from the Twitter files from Musk? Or is Matt saying he did some of his own investigatory reporting?

afaik, he got the info from Musk giving him access, BUT he did not reveal the names of the people that were (obviously?) exposed when he had access. But maybe Matt is being coy and saying that he maybe had others contact him, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2023 04:14 PM (Cus5s)

181 I heard the "so-called journalist" slur.
I was shocked, but later, not so shocked.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, back to bipedal status at March 10, 2023 04:15 PM (jTmQV)

182 > NewNeo has a video up of a Congressman ( woman) asking Matt and going round and round, trying to get his source for the Twitter files.

I don't know if you guys already discussed it, but the most chilling part to me wasn't the ham handed insistence that Matt tell them the source. The worst part was their attempts to nail down the dates and times he talked with sources.

Reading between the lines, they are going through everyone's emails and phone calls. They need Taibbi to tell them what days and times he contacted the source(s) so they can identify the source(s) through this process.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2023 04:15 PM (eyxn4)

183 Reportedly 30% of Y Combinator-backed startups say they will NOT make payroll next week.

Just received word from the CEO in today's meeting that the FDIC only covers less than half of payroll of the company's account in SVB.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 10, 2023 04:15 PM (YXHzG)

184 "Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?
Posted by: Chuck Martel "

I have. According to they mommas, they was nice boys and they was just turning they life around.

Rapper status:
[X] Aspiring
[ ] Not aspiring

Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2023 04:15 PM (eOEVl)

185 That's a hell of an article. Ever thought about becoming a writer?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2023 04:16 PM (ZLI7S)

186 182 > NewNeo has a video up of a Congressman ( woman) asking Matt and going round and round, trying to get his source for the Twitter files.

//////////////

she's a looker too.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 10, 2023 04:16 PM (MLrvz)

187 "Oh, you say you talked to the source on x day and y time, well, I see from your phone records on that day and time you were talking to Twitter employee z."

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2023 04:17 PM (eyxn4)

188 I am happily shocked Matt Taibby has dove into the Deep State like he has.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 04:17 PM (xhxe8)

189 so, ok, thanks Ace bc I didn't realize that the fasch dnc was asking for other sources because I was like, duh, he got the stuff from Elon (what Baker didn't ethically delete in an effort to ethically not go to jail).

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 10, 2023 04:17 PM (MLrvz)

190 meanwhile, the lefts' hyperparticulate criminal investigation into trump is now making being blackmailed a crime.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 10, 2023 04:18 PM (MLrvz)

191 173 Not the Bee:
A 35-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested for shooting 9 CHILDREN at a Georgia gas station 10 days ago. Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2023 04:11 PM (fs1hN)

I have. You should hang out here more?

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:18 PM (4VwiF)

192 really, there's a low barrier to be a journalist...(obviously)..so arguing a guy who is doing a journalism ins't a journalist is smooth brain.

Right. This isn't even a job like a doctor where you have to be certified, its not even as tough as being a NY Taxi driver where you have to pay a huge bribe to get a Medallion. If you report on events, you're a reporter. You might be a terrible one, or a biased one, but you're a reporter. The job is incredibly simple and straightforward.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2023 04:18 PM (0hOvj)

193 The left can't stand that their complete tech monopoly was broken and exposed by Elon Musk.

They are going to find away to throw him in jail.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2023 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

194 "Oh, you say you talked to the source on x day and y time, well, I see from your phone records on that day and time you were talking to Twitter employee z."
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2023 04:17 PM (eyxn4)
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Yep. It's a transparent attempt to nail down who he was talking to.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2023 04:19 PM (YIVH2)

195
I am happily shocked Matt Taibby has dove into the Deep State like he has.
Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 04:17 PM (xhxe

Times like these have a way of showing who's a piece of shit, and who isn't. It's pretty sad how few public people are in Column "B," but then, there never are.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2023 04:19 PM (oINRc)

196 "Clicks" and money? I got just the thing for you. Head on over to my OnlyFans page.

Posted by: Slash Aubergine at March 10, 2023 04:19 PM (Jg7EG)

197 A 35-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested for shooting 9 CHILDREN at a Georgia gas station 10 days ago. Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?

Thankfully all the children lived. And yes, we all know why we have not seen this as a huge national story. All the same organizations and institutions that used to be racist and oppressive toward a group for its ethnic background still are, they've just changed the ethnic group as the target.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2023 04:20 PM (0hOvj)

198 187 "Oh, you say you talked to the source on x day and y time, well, I see from your phone records on that day and time you were talking to Twitter employee z."
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2023 04:17 PM (eyxn4)

A real chill up the spine.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:20 PM (4VwiF)

199 Just checking in: are these the burning times?

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 10, 2023 04:22 PM (WmGrA)

200 200

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:22 PM (4VwiF)

201 If you want to understand the Democrat party, just assume they are a massive organized crime operation.
Everything comes in to focus.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, back to bipedal status at March 10, 2023 04:22 PM (jTmQV)

202 >I don't know if you guys already discussed it, but the most chilling part to me wasn't the ham handed insistence that Matt tell them the source. The worst part was their attempts to nail down the dates and times he talked with sources.

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It was ham-handed at best. I don't know if Rep. Plaskett is a lawyer, but if she is, she's not a very good one.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 10, 2023 04:23 PM (gryET)

203 In the burning time there will be no posting on the internet.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2023 04:23 PM (iayUP)

204 Just checking in: are these the burning times?

Posted by: Joe Mama

Not yet. Wait'll the EVT card system goes down for good.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2023 04:23 PM (G8h7g)

205 As wrote before , we are seeing who definitely is not on our side

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 04:24 PM (xhxe8)

206 By the way the "Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?" was part of the Not the Bee headline, not mine.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2023 04:24 PM (fs1hN)

207 202 >I don't know if you guys already discussed it, but the most chilling part to me wasn't the ham handed insistence that Matt tell them the source. The worst part was their attempts to nail down the dates and times he talked with sources.

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It was ham-handed at best. I don't know if Rep. Plaskett is a lawyer, but if she is, she's not a very good one.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 10, 2023 04:23 PM (gryET)

Ham-handed, but still, you're under oath and that would be confusing, I'd think, and might get you to let that answer slip.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:24 PM (4VwiF)

208 Yeah were I to write a story about how America is torn apart by riots, I'd have terrorists blow up the main internet hubs, and put a virus into the EBT system that destroys it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (0hOvj)

209 The left can't stand that their complete tech monopoly was broken and exposed by Elon Musk.

They are going to find away to throw him in jail.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2023 04:19 PM (NpAcC)
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Maybe.

What I find most amusing about the entire thing going back something like a year now is what precipitated it. Elon Musk bought Twitter and blew open the vast censorship and other criminal complexes involving Twitter, opened Twitter back up to some degree and did incalculable damage to the narrative engines that surround it. And for what? What made Musk do it?

Many things, of course, but there was a proximal cause. A "last straw." That last straw was the unlikeliest thing imaginable: the censorship and deplatforming of the Babylon Bee.

This has the been one of the weirdest and perhaps least-predictable sequences of events I have ever observed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (t0OGg)

210 203 In the burning time there will be no posting on the internet.
Posted by: fd at March 10, 2023 04:23 PM (iayUP)

Like the Before Times.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (4VwiF)

211 Be careful when you're manscaping. You wouldn't want to, you know...

Posted by: Nick Pickles at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (P06Xl)

212 "The FDIC said Silicon Valley Bank's main office and 17 branches in California and Massachusetts will reopen on Monday."

I think that means they believe they can keep a lot of its operations running fairly normally. Hard to get a good picture on what SVB's assets are really worth, especially if forced to sell a lot in a short time frame but they can make good on the deposits if they get 85 cents on the dollar for their 2022 year-end numbers.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (eYoxG)

213 > FDIC has said "The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week.

Yes. $250,000.

At typical Silicon Valley salaries, that's enough to pay 62 employees. For one week.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (bW8dp)

214 Just checking in: are these the burning times?
Posted by: Joe Mama at March 10, 2023 04:22 PM (WmGrA)
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:: touches own head ::

Well, my hair is on fire, so I am going with "yes."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (t0OGg)

215 "Oh, you say you talked to the source on x day and y time, well, I see from your phone records on that day and time you were talking to Twitter employee z."
___
Why would congress have their phone records? Or maybe they are working for the FBI/DOJ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (fs1hN)

216 ...of attempting Literal Violence...

Poopoo head! Ouch
Idiot! Ow!
Bust a cap on your ass! Eeeekkk!
You're a raycist, hater, MAGA loving, conservative! RRRRREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2023 04:26 PM (anj39)

217 ""Oh, you say you talked to the source on x day and y time, well, I see from your phone records on that day and time you were talking to Twitter employee z."

and NSA can provide the audio and and text or data ... they have it all. But that would be illegal ... so they provide it, but then work backwards to find a way to prosecute (or just murder the patriots in some back alley).

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2023 04:26 PM (Cus5s)

218 Many things, of course, but there was a proximal cause. A "last straw." That last straw was the unlikeliest thing imaginable: the censorship and deplatforming of the Babylon Bee.

This has the been one of the weirdest and perhaps least-predictable sequences of events I have ever observed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (t0OGg)

God has a sense of humor.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 04:26 PM (eYoxG)

219 The left did the same thing to Matt Walsh when he testified about the gender mangling. The left claimed he was doing it for clicks and that he had no medical background or authority to discuss "transitioning" or "affirming genders," both of which are ridiculous terms for the butchering that's going on. Matt's reply is that he's human and that he cares about what's happening.

Posted by: Coki at March 10, 2023 04:26 PM (0rQxu)

220 Right, Joe McCarthy wouldn't "blush", he'd say "I tried to warn you."

It is axiomatic on the left to never concede any narratives to facts or proof. Ergo, "McCarthyism" is always exactly as they described 70 years ago. Remember fantasy is their religion.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 10, 2023 04:26 PM (vt1Qg)

221 >It was ham-handed at best. I don't know if Rep. Plaskett is a lawyer, but if she is, she's not a very good one.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 10, 2023 04:23 PM (gryET)

Ham-handed, but still, you're under oath and that would be confusing, I'd think, and might get you to let that answer slip.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:24 PM (4VwiF)

Taibbi handled it well. He was very well prepared to testify.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 10, 2023 04:26 PM (gryET)

222 Glad you're OK, Skip!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, back to bipedal status at March 10, 2023 04:28 PM (jTmQV)

223 "A 35-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested for shooting 9 CHILDREN at a Georgia gas station 10 days ago. Why haven't you heard about this mass shooting?"

That is first I heard of it

'searches for image of arrested suspect 35 yo D'Anegelo Robinson Sr'

Oh, well that explains it.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2023 04:28 PM (cUYo/)

224 >>It was ham-handed at best. I don't know if Rep. Plaskett is a lawyer, but if she is, she's not a very good one.

Not only is she a lawyer she is also a former DOJ prosecutor and she worked on Comey's staff. The other staff.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2023 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

225 GO TO --> ???

(pssst, Ace. If we didn't know you were 29 it looks like you learned BASIC in 1982)

Posted by: Fatty McFattington at March 10, 2023 04:29 PM (ndxCt)

226 God has a sense of humor.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 04:26 PM (eYoxG)
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Unlike the Bee... (just kidding--they're hilarious!)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2023 04:29 PM (YIVH2)

227 Anyone know if Turtle is still in traction or has he been released from the hospital.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 04:30 PM (E+05M)

228 " if forced to sell a lot in a short time frame but they can make good on the deposits if they get 85 cents on the dollar for their 2022 year-end numbers."

and if BigGov needs to kick in a few billion to make everyone whole, so be it. Have to restore Faith in The System. The System Worked.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2023 04:30 PM (Cus5s)

229 This has the been one of the weirdest and perhaps least-predictable sequences of events I have ever observed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:25 PM (t0OGg)
*******
Yes.
God works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2023 04:31 PM (NpAcC)

230 Funny how the whole "loyal opposition" fig leaf has fallen away.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, back to bipedal status at March 10, 2023 04:32 PM (jTmQV)

231 Be careful when you're manscaping. You wouldn't want to, you know...
Posted by: Nick Pickles
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Another Razor to add to Buck Throckmorton's list.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 10, 2023 04:32 PM (aBJcM)

232 "GO TO --> (pssst, Ace. If we didn't know you were 29 it looks like you learned BASIC in 1982)"

ha, I had one hour of "Computer Math" in the 70's, I guess we learned basic. It looked like that. Then in the 90's I aced a class in Pascal, but could not see myself doing that all day every day. I don't think Pascal looked like that, not sure though.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2023 04:33 PM (Cus5s)

233 >>>GO TO --> ???

(pssst, Ace. If we didn't know you were 29 it looks like you learned BASIC in 1982)

Posted by: Fatty McFattington

>Did ace write that game where the two gorillas on the city skyline hurled explosive bananas at each other? I loved that game.

Posted by: Slash Aubergine at March 10, 2023 04:33 PM (Jg7EG)

234 Wouldn't it be refreshing if, by law, no one who held a college degree was allowed to hold elective office in this country?

Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (gmo/4)

235 >230 Funny how the whole "loyal opposition" fig leaf has fallen away.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, back to bipedal status at March 10, 2023 04:32 PM (jTmQV)

Beginning in 2012, I just assume my government hates me and prefers me dead. If not dead, imprisoned.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (gryET)

236 ..What I find most amusing about the entire thing going back something like a year now is what precipitated it. Elon Musk bought Twitter and blew open the vast censorship and other criminal complexes involving Twitter, opened Twitter back up to some degree and did incalculable damage to the narrative engines that surround it. And for what? What made Musk do it?

Do some reading on Musk's childhood. He was bullied and beaten to the point of being hospitalized and his home life wasn't all that stable. Consequently he became a huge advocate for free speech and he hates bullies.

And he has an assload of money.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (ZLI7S)

237 >>230 Funny how the whole "loyal opposition" fig leaf has fallen away.

It fell away on Nov. 3 2020.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (E+05M)

238 One of those guys in that first video clip could be John McEnroe's stunt double.

Posted by: Son of Dad at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (8JB5s)

239 The Turtle needs to go away

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 04:35 PM (xhxe8)

240 Rumor has it that ACE wrote Lady Pac Man

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2023 04:35 PM (0hOvj)

241 224 she worked on Comey's staff. The other staff.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2023 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

LOL

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:36 PM (4VwiF)

242 I took one FORTRAN class in college. I'll I can remember is being in the computer lab at O dark thirty a lot.

Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2023 04:36 PM (gmo/4)

243 :: touches own head ::

Well, my hair is on fire,
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Touches... hair.

Braggart.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2023 04:37 PM (Me9WP)

244 Nothing like going into a weekend with a large failed bank and another large bank having 'deposit balance' issues.
Monday morning may be interesting...

Wells Fargo Warns Customers Of 'Incorrect Balances Or Missing Transactions'

https://tinyurl.com/4fcw379w

Posted by: SMH at living in a Romans 1 world at March 10, 2023 04:37 PM (Tqu2U)

245 234 Wouldn't it be refreshing if, by law, no one who held a college degree was allowed to hold elective office in this country?

Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (gmo/4)

I would MUCH rather have Taibbi and Shellenberger in office than some of these senators we're seeing.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:37 PM (4VwiF)

246 185 That's a hell of an article. Ever thought about becoming a writer?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2023 04:16 PM (ZLI7S)

The Ace-apalooza?

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:39 PM (4VwiF)

247 All of the censorship, repression and lies have been done before. These arrogant bastards just don't think it's been done right before. I hope they get swallowed by the revolution

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2023 04:39 PM (PINQh)

248 I know my congressman, and both Senators are on the opposite side.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2023 04:40 PM (xhxe8)

249 244 Nothing like going into a weekend with a large failed bank and another large bank having 'deposit balance' issues.
Monday morning may be interesting...

Wells Fargo Warns Customers Of 'Incorrect Balances Or Missing Transactions'

https://tinyurl.com/4fcw379w
Posted by: SMH at living in a Romans 1 world at March 10, 2023 04:37 PM (Tqu2U)

Wonder if there's a ransomware problem. (I didn't go to the link.)

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:40 PM (4VwiF)

250 I took one FORTRAN class in college. I'll I can remember is being in the computer lab at O dark thirty a lot.

Posted by: Archer

And there was *still* a line for the punch machines.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2023 04:41 PM (Me9WP)

251 >>>I want to strip Koch of its right to speak.

Be very careful how you spell that.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:41 PM (4VwiF)

252 The only credential required to be a journalist is citizenship. I wish Taibbi had spoken on this point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 10, 2023 04:42 PM (W+Xdn)

253 234 Wouldn't it be refreshing if, by law, no one who held a college degree was allowed to hold elective office in this country?

Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (gmo/4)

That won't get you a random assortment of working class stiffs, it'd still be stooges and cutouts for various interests.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 04:42 PM (eYoxG)

254 Do some reading on Musk's childhood. He was bullied and beaten to the point of being hospitalized and his home life wasn't all that stable. Consequently he became a huge advocate for free speech and he hates bullies.

And he has an assload of money.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2023 04:34 PM (ZLI7S)
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I have a cursory knowledge of it. That he decided to go after a major tech censor and shake things up isn't the most surprising thing in the world. That the precipitating event would be the freakin' Babylon Bee was definitely not on my bingo card. It wasn't even in the bingo game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:42 PM (t0OGg)

255 https://downdetector.com/status/wells-fargo/

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A number of customers are still having issues.

Posted by: SMH at living in a Romans 1 world at March 10, 2023 04:42 PM (Tqu2U)

256 That won't get you a random assortment of working class stiffs, it'd still be stooges and cutouts for various interests.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2023 04:42 PM (eYoxG)
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So exactly like today, just with different accents.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)

257 ha, I had one hour of "Computer Math" in the 70's, I guess we learned basic. It looked like that. Then in the 90's I a class in Pascal, but could not see myself doing that all day every day. I don't think Pascal looked like that, not sure though.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2023 04:33 PM (Cus5s)

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Pascal was a JavaWorld 11.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at March 10, 2023 04:44 PM (+VgLM)

258 252 The only credential required to be a journalist is citizenship.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 10, 2023 04:42 PM (W+Xdn)

Not even.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:47 PM (4VwiF)

259 >>I have a cursory knowledge of it. That he decided to go after a major tech censor and shake things up isn't the most surprising thing in the world. That the precipitating event would be the freakin' Babylon Bee was definitely not on my bingo card. It wasn't even in the bingo game.

Musk clearly doesn't think small and he seems obsessive about what he believes. The guy out NASAed NASA. He's building his own internet. His souped up golf cart company has a larger market cap than the 5 biggest automakers combined. He's a pretty remarkable guy.

He's learned to make autism work for him.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2023 04:49 PM (ZLI7S)

260 nood gainzzz

Posted by: m at March 10, 2023 04:49 PM (4VwiF)

261 I'm not even sure citizenship is a requirement to be a journalist. Russell Brand is doing pretty good. So is Paul Joseph Watson.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, back to bipedal status at March 10, 2023 04:50 PM (jTmQV)

262 Ah, those heady days of introductory programming! I'm of the mind that all journalism and AI programming should be required to be composed in FORTH.

: NARRATIVE ( -- ) CR ." Bite me, Bitches!" ;

Posted by: Slash Aubergine at March 10, 2023 04:57 PM (Jg7EG)

263 informs the so-called congresswoman -- who represents DC, and so is a "non-voting member," and hence not really a congresswoman "
Achully...Holmes-Norton is the non-voting Delegate from DC, This non-voting "Participation Placeholder" is from the Virgin Islands, yet the Dems insist on calling her the "Ranking Member".

Posted by: birddog at March 10, 2023 04:59 PM (uAI4S)

264 I think congress should be nothing but plumbers, electricians and solid waste garbage men. Things would actually work. No bullshit allowed.

Posted by: free tibet at March 10, 2023 05:41 PM (+apjR)

265 So which of these agencies will be eliminated and which of these “employees” will be sent to jail?

Posted by: Tom at March 10, 2023 06:05 PM (EcD5Y)

266 Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
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I have to run to a speech, but I never thought I would come to see this day when Democrats trash journalists for seeking to disclose government censorship work and pressing them for their sources and confidential information
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Stupid, stupid piece of shit.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 10, 2023 11:50 PM (nGwGn)

267 wonder how much money musk had in svb

Posted by: ontoiran at March 12, 2023 08:34 AM (XyXp6)

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